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Wolves On The Rampage.

  Lumber Men in Northern Minnesota Terrorized by Them.      The Minnesota Legislature will be asked to increase the bounty for wolves and to provide an ample sum to defray the payments incident to the great slaughter which is expected to follow the unusual inducements. There is little doubt that the Legislature will respond, for […]

Damage Done By Wolves.

  Ranchmen Suffer Heavily From Depredations of Wolves.      Vernon Bailey, of the forest reserve bureau at Washington, who has been making an investigation of the ravages of wolves on the ranches of the southwest, reports that in a certain part of New Mexico he learned that a moderate estimate of the stock killed by […]

Beats Raising Hogs.

  Nebraska Farmers Find that Raising Wolves Pays.      The large number of claims coming into the Nebraska State Auditor’s office for bounties on wolves and coyotes had led to the discovery that some farmers and ranchers in the western part of the state have gone into the business of breeding those animals for the […]

When Wolves Were Plenty.

       Warren Scott, aged fourteen years, was torn to pieces by wolves in Newburg, N. Y., in March, 1806.

Almost A Victim Of Wolves.

  Employee of Lumber Company Attacked by Nine Vicious Beasts.      One of the Edward Hines’ Lumber Company’s cruisers, M. L. Hudson, of Ashland, Wis., had a narrow escape from death by wolves north of Ely, Minn., a few days ago. He was crossing a lake toward evening when nine of the beasts surrounded him. […]

Trapper Devoured By Wolves.

  Minnesota Man’s Head Found-His Two Horses Also Eaten.      The remains of Andrew Sands, a Minnesota trapper, and his two horses have been found near Dodds, Minn. The bodies of the man and his horses had been devoured by wolves and just enough remained of Sands’ head to make identification possible. Wolves are so […]

A Grand Hunt.

  Reading [Pa.] Eagle.      Bradford is now one of the largest and most populous counties in Pennsylvania. The Bucks are a ruling family here. When the Buck’s, the grandfathers of the present generation, came here the place was literally a howling wilderness. Wolves in great droves hunted almost every other living thing.      About […]

Worried By A Wolf.

Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune on 12/29/1880. A Wild Animal Afflicted With Hydrophobia Creates Consternation in Christian County. Correspondence St. Louis Globe-Democrat.      Reed’s Springs, Christian Co., Mo., Dec. 24.- On the evening of the 20th, while Mr. Carroll was walking home along the highway, about three miles below this place, on Bear Creek, […]

The Dog-Wolf.

  “Wolf-Hunting in Lower Brittany.”      I was fortunate enough that night to sit next to the Count de Kergoorlas at dinner, and, hearing he was a master of wolf-hounds in Upper Brittany. I gleaned from him some interesting information with respect to the style of a hound he considered best adapted for his particular […]

Casualties.

  Two Poor Little Red Riding Hoods. Special Dispatch to the Chicago Tribune.      Madison, Wis., Jan. 14.-A horrible story of two children in the county being devoured by wolves reached this city today. On the 12th, about 20 miles northwest of this city, and about a mile from Dane Station, in a rough country, on […]