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Monthly Archives: May 2010

Breath Of A Wolf.

  Here’s a Persian Remedy if a Bone Sticks in Your Throat.      A new and ingenious remedy for a bone in the throat will be found in an account of a Persian pilgrimage published under the title of “The Glory of the Shia World.” The doctor was Mirza Sadik Khan, chief physician of the […]

Wolves Terrorize Farmers.

  By International News Service      Warsaw, Ind., Oct. 23-The countryside six miles northwest of Leesburg was terrorized today by a pack of wolves driven from the swamps by marsh fires. A large dog belonging to Ray teeple was killed. The bog district is one of the largest in the state extending with few interruptions […]

Wolves

       Our Lake County wolves appear to be emigrating northward, if we may judge from the reports which we receive from the vicinity of Racine. Last winter there were quite a number of sheep killed in several of our northern and western towns, but so far as we have heard no depredations have been committed […]

Wolves

     A farmer in Walworth County, Wis., has lost over 100 sheep by the ravages of wolves this winter.

Wolves

       At the Janesville, Wis., fair, recently held, a sewing machine was presented to the lady receiving the most ballots as the “boss” girl. The prize was the gift of George W. Peck, of the Sun, and was awarded to Miss Maggie Inman. The lady is probably entitled to the prize as she once […]

A Wolf Story.

  ‘Court of Lucknow, Hindostan, India.      “I must now tell you about a poor boy who was found in a wolf’s den, with a wolf and three whelps. When dug into by some of my troopers, they all fled together, and the boy ran so fast on all fours that he outstripped the whelps, […]

Coyotes And Cattle.

Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 01/17/1896.      A novel scheme for saving his cattle from the droves of coyotes that infest the region has been hit upon by a rancher of Glen Rock, Wash. He has placed bells on the necks of a great number of cattle in his herds, and […]

Two Men Treed By Wolves.

       Sitting all night in a tree, tired, hungry and almost benumbed from the cold, with a pack of Wolves under them, is the experience which befell Frank and Robert Anderson of Wausau, Wis., in the woods south of Sidnaw, Mich. They were engaged in looking over the land.      Their camp was a […]

Pelts Paid For Theft.

Published in The Lake County Independent on 10/01/1912.      A turkey which Edward Richardson had been fattening disappeared. Fox tracks led to a cave and Richardson set a charge of dynamite, which blew up the cave. In the ruins he found the carcasses of six foxes. Their pelts were worth $60, far more than a […]

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 […]