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and libi'iak'd to lie piiisui'd In luumds, trom wliicli it 

 escaped, to be subsequently taken as a lieniiinc exam 

 I)le of a renr.svlvauia Wolf. 



WOLVES IN TIOGA COUNTY. 



V]) in Tio5>a county, the section which for several 

 years has S'O well and faithfully been represented in 

 our State Legislature by Hon. \V. T. Merrick, three 

 Wolves were killed iu the autumn of 1891). 



In support of such an important record the folhiw 

 h\g paragraph is clijMH'd from the Athens (I'a.) \e\\s. 

 January 29th, lS9(i: 



"Last tall Charles Lee s circus and menagerie was sold oui 

 at Canton by the SheritT, and among other animals three 

 coyotes or prairie wolves were sold for fifty cents each to 

 Charles Kerby. He kept them tied up In his dooryaid for a 

 couple of months and then took them over into Tioga county in 

 a box, and a wolf 'hunt" was held. Kerby made allldavit to 

 the killing of the wolves and collected the bounty of $30 from 

 the county commissioners, telling them a 'fairy tale,' about 

 his exploits in the mountains of Union, where he alleged the 

 dogs ran the wolves and he shot them." 



SHOULD SUCH rR.VCTICF..S EXIST? 



This kind of work is "legal," that is. if I aau correctly 

 iufoi-uied about the bounty law, which allows a pre- 

 inium of ten dolars each, with additional fees to the 

 local otlieials before whom the atHdavit of killing is 

 made. It was also considered to be in acconlauee 

 with the letter of the law, when, under the provisions 

 of the "Scalp Act of 188,5," Hawks, which were caught 

 alive in traps in neighboring states and brought over 

 the line into Pennsylvania and killed, to pay for their 

 "heads." The eggs of several kinds of birds of prey 

 wcie. it is said, also collected in Ohio, and other ad 

 joining stales, carried into dilVerciU rounties of this 



