I5O 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 1 800. 

 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 VVyckof 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, 1816, 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 Neveling in Warren's Poultry Book, p. 498. 



Clinton 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. 



Forest 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. 



Franklin 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 



