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The Scranton Tribune of March 11, 1S*)7, contains 

 tiie follovving concerni))*;- a "Wolf"' on which bounty 

 was recently paid in Lackawanna county: 



"John R. JoliMSon stalked into the commissioners' ofliue yes- 

 teiday and flourishing- an affidavit to the effect that he had 

 Itilled a Wolf at Waverly January 1, 1897, asked for the ten 

 dollars, which bounty the State allows for the slaughter of the 

 most detested and feared of farm pests. 



"The commissioners didn't like to cast any reflections on the 

 powers of the justice of the peace of Waverly to differentiate 

 between the pelt of a Wolf and that of an overgrown dog but 

 they did not hesitate to say that they were at least loth to 

 believe that it would be generally accepted that Wolves are 

 to be found in this region. Commissioner Giles Roberts, who 

 hails from up Waverlyway, vowed that he had never heard of 

 a Wolf being seen in those parts, although there might be 

 some roaming about in raiment other than that which would 

 naturally cover a wolf. 



"These misgivings, however, could not hold out against the 

 Johnson's aflidavit that he shot a Wolf; Squire Smith's alTirma- 

 tion that it was a Wolf and that its ears had been cut from the 

 pelt, that the ears: were cuti off and burned in his presence and 

 that it was unmistalcably the pelt of a Wolf. 



"Johnson got his ten dollars and went forth to shoot more 

 Wolves." 



FEATHERED HE^ADS. 



While much deception, through both ignorance and 

 fraud, was practiced by substituting the remains of 

 wild and domesticated animals for the heads and ears 

 of mammals on which bounties were paid, this kind of 

 work was carried to the greatest extent in the way of 

 feathered animals. Owls and Hawks, from which the 

 heads were cut off, were, in some instances, so manij) 

 ulated by skillful and ingenions scalp hunters, who 

 possessed some knownledge of the art of taxidermy, 

 that in one instance which came to my notice a single 

 Long-eared Owl, was so "Nvorked ii])" that it netted the 

 hunter one and a half dollars. The neck was cut off 



