WOLF DAYS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 11 



black wolves in Treaster A'alley. In 1884 Emmanuel 

 Dobson killed the last wolf in Forest County. In that 

 year Seth Iredell Nelson killed five brown wolves in 

 Clearfield County. Andy Long killed the last two 

 wolves in Jefferson County in 1881. Jake Hamersley, 

 of North Point, killed the last wolf in Clinton County 

 about 1877. In February, 1913, there was a "wolf 

 scare" in Horse A'alley, not far from Chambersburg, 

 which resulted in the killing of two peculiar looking 

 dogs, which had evidently adapted themselves to 

 forest life and running deer. The hide of the male 

 hangs in the study of the writer of this article. It is 

 a pasty grey in color. The hide of the bitch, which is 

 now in the possession of M. W. Straley, Chambers- 

 burg, is said to be darker. A wolf was reported as seen 

 at ]\Iackeyville, Clinton County, in "deer season," 



1914. An escaped coyote killed by A. B. ^^'^inchester 

 in Clinton County in December, 1915; another shot by 

 Amos Saxton in the same county in November, 1916, 

 gave rise to many sensational "wolf" stories which 

 went the rounds of the newspapers. Judge Harvey W. 

 Wliitehead, of Williamsport, reported that two wolves 

 or coyotes were tracked in his game preserve on Larry's 

 Creek, Lycoming County, in Februair, 191G. Game 

 wardens reported to the redoubtable D(r. Kalbfus 

 that "large grey foxes" or wolves were running deer 

 on certain mountains in Centre County in the fall of 



1915. A coyote was reported killed near Farrands- 

 ville, Clinton County, in January, 1916. Centre County 

 newspapers in April, 1916. told of a wolf which fright- 



