II. THE LAST WOLF— WHO GETS THE 

 CREDIT? 



FROi\I the mass of data and the number of claim- 

 ants it is indeed difficult to award the palm for 

 the slayer of the last wolf in Pennsylvania. In 

 the first place, in order to eliminate a few of the 

 strivers for tlie coveted title, slayers of wolves which 

 have wandered in from other states must be counted 

 out. This will rule out the celebrated "Beaver Dam 

 Wolf" which was killed in Portage Township, near 

 the borders of Blair and Cambria Counties, by Jacob 

 Royer and Samuel Long, farmers of Turkey \'alley, 

 in May, 1907. This animal, which weighed, according 

 to a correspondent in the Altoona Tribune, nearly 

 eighty-five pounds and measured almost six feet from 

 tip to tip, was evidently a stray. Its carcass was pur- 

 chased by Mr. W. E. C. Todd, Assistant Curator of 

 ]\Iammals of the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburg. This 

 will also rule out a huge grey wolf killed by that vet- 

 eran hunter, "Old John" Queer, in Somerset County, in 

 1897; four wolves, evidently escaped from some trav- 

 eling circus, slain in Lackawanna County in 1896 ; ^ 

 New York State wolf, also probably escaped from 

 some zoo, killed by Daniel Rutan in Wayne County in 

 1887, and a wolf killed by Levi Kissinger in Tioga 

 County in 1885. With these doubtful cases out of the 

 way, the field is clear for an impartial judgment. Seth 



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