150 MAMMALS OF PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW JERSEY. 



Bradford Co. — "I purchased a pair of unbroken colts in the fall of 1877 

 and put them to work at once. They were still quite wild when a wolf 

 crossed the road in front of them as I was returning from Fox Centre, Sulli- 

 van Co., to Canton, Bradford Co." — Cleveland. 



Bucks Co. — A wolf was captured in Bucks Co. by John Smith about 1800. 

 — Mercer, "Tools of the Nation Maker," 1897. 



Cameron Co. — " Practically exterminated ; one hunter saw wolf tracks a 

 year ago." — Larrabee, 1896. "I was told by 3 men that that they saw 2 

 wolves catch and kill a deer in Wyckof Run [Gibson Township] alongside of 

 the lumber railroad." — Nelson. No date of this occurrence was given, but it 

 was furnished among some notes of recent records. — Rhoads, Proc. A. N. 

 Sci., Phila., 1897, p. 221. 



Chester Co. — January ist, 181 6, a wolf was killed at West Nottingham. — 

 Watson's Annals, 1830. 



Clearfield Co. — "The last wolf was killed in Clearfield Co. with a club by 

 a man on horseback, the winter of i89i-'92. It was killed by William Bon- 

 sall of the same county." — Nelson; see Rhoads, P. A.N. S., 1897, p. 221. 

 "The last [Pa.] wolf I have knowledge of was killed by myself in 1858, near 

 Janesville. The circumstances were as follows : Mr. Joseph McCully and 

 wife were on their way to the grist mill near Janesville ; a colt was following 

 the sled and a wolf came in pursuit. It followed within a mile of the settle- 

 ment. Mr. McCully aroused me in the early morning and related the facts 

 in the case, and I took the track of the animal and in a few hours shot him." 

 — Abraham Nevehng in Warren's Poultry Book, p. 498. 



Clinto7i Co. — " I have been told by 2 hunters that they saw 2 wolves this 

 winter about 6 miles from my place [Round Island, 1893-94], but I have 

 been all through that woods and see no signs of anything but lynx, wild cats 

 and foxes." — Nelson in Proc. Acad. N. Sci., Phila., 1897, p. 221. 



Elk Co. — " Few, if any, left in Elk Co. None captured in the last de- 

 cade." — Luhr, 1900. "Last wolf was shot in Elk Co. in 1891." — Clay. "A 

 wolf was killed in Elk Co. by a deer hunter about the year 1887." — Stevens. 



Fo?'est Co. — The last known to me was killed in a big windfall on Hem- 

 lock Creek about 1855, but S. M. Henry, county treasurer, says the last one 

 killed in the county was taken by Emanuel Dobson in Jenks township in 

 1884." — Irwin. "A few lived in Forest Co. from 1850 to 1856." — Haslet. 



Franklifi Co. — To illustrate the kind of wolf stories invented in Pa. and 

 evidence produced to verify them and secure bounty for scalps, the notorious 

 instance of Joe Poole's "wolf " may be briefly given. My correspondent, 

 Mr. Strealy of Chambersburg, sent me the first newspaper accounts of this 

 capture, in which Poole, of North Mountain, an old, well-known trapper in 

 the Chambersburg region, produced the skin of a wolf which he declared he 

 trapped in Bear Valley, near Loudon, Peters township, in March, 1897. So 



