WOLF DAYS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 15 



City, in ]\Iay, 1872. He commissioned the hunter to 

 catch him a male wolf, but j\Ir. Dickinson was unable 

 to locate one that season. Later in the year the Gen- 

 eral wrote that he wanted no male wolf, as the two 

 he had "played hob" about his premises, so much so 

 that they had to be killed. Harrison Lyman, of Potter 

 County, kept a live wolf nearly three years, but it killed 

 so much poultry that he slaughtered it. J. W. Stark 

 and LeRoy Lyman, of the same County, caught five 

 wolves in 1S67 which they kept for nearly three years, 

 finally executing them for killing poultry and sheep. 



The Bradford Star-Record has this to say concern- 

 ing the last wolf : 



"Charles Ives, of Lewis Run, an oil well pump- 

 er, while making no such claim himself, is be- 

 lieved to have been the last Pennsylvanian to have 

 shot a native timber wolf in this state. 



"A few days ago the Star-Record made known 

 the fact that so far as history records the last wolf 

 of that kind was killed on Kinzua Creek by two 

 Bradford boys in 1886, and we asked for infor- 

 mation which would lead to the identity of the 

 lads whose names were desired by Colonel Henry 

 W. Shoemaker, a noted author of Pennsylvania 

 mountain and forest tales and history. 



"A number of people directed us to Mr. Ives 

 as one of the two hunters who made the not- 

 able record. 



"A Star-Record reporter called Mr. Ives by tele- 

 phone last evening. He said that in 1888, two 

 years after Colonel Shoemaker names, he and 

 Theodore Pierce, of Lewis Run, started out in the 

 fall deer hunting. They passed over the hill to 



