Skip to content

Tag Archives: Unusual

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]