Jan. 25, 1908.] 
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WOLVES IN THE BARNYARD. 
‘‘For some unknown reason wolves are coming 
back into our section of the State,” said Frank 
' Metzel. stockman and ranchman of the upper 
Ruby Valley for many years, ‘‘and they are 
creating considerable havoc. They think noth- 
1 ing nowadays of coming into a barnyard and 
' making a kill, and a number of valuable animals 
have recently been destroyed by the varmints. 
“Only a few days ago a pack invaded one of 
the pastures near the C. X. Larabie Brook Nook 
ranch and killed two finely bred colts while their 
dams were powerless to prevent it, and with 
ranch hands less than a half mile away. There 
are a number of other incidents in the valley 
where they invaded the corrals and killed calves, 
and it is nothing infrequent for a killing to be 
made in a pasture. 
“Until within the last few years our section 
of the country has been free from this curse 
of the range, and it is only in isolated cases 
that a gray wolf was ever reported. Now they 
go in packs and hunt systematically. I can re¬ 
member the older men of the valley telling of 
seeing wolf packs in the early seventies, but those 
I old time hunters were so relentless in their hunt 
of the animals that few escaped, and it was be¬ 
lieved the entire wolf tribe of that part of Mon¬ 
tana was practically exterminated. It is only 
l during the last few years, since the establish- 
; ment of the forest reserve system, that the wolves 
have become particularly pernicious. There is 
some talk of the forestry bureau putting a trapper 
to hunt the wolves in the Madison reserve this 
winter. 
“The situation regarding the wolves in the 
upper part of the Ruby Valley is really a serious 
one, and the stockmen of the county are feeling 
| the loss keenly, for a wolf is almost as big as 
a St. Bernard dog and has an appetite in pro¬ 
portion. It takes a lot to feed him and he gen¬ 
erally likes to feed on warm flesh and do the 
' killing himself or else be in on it. He is not 
a coyote to play the jackal and feed off carrion. 
“For a while I scouted at the idea of wolves 
being in the valley in numbers, but I had occas¬ 
ion to change my mind a few weeks ago. I was 
above the upper canon looking after some stock 
and camped out near the Carruthers’ cabins. Be¬ 
fore daylight I got up and found that the horses 
had moved out of the little valley and I started 
after them. Before I had gone more than a mile 
it began to get light, and in the sage brush, not 
over 200 yards away, I could make out thirty 
or forty objects moving about, which I mistook 
for deer. Thinking it queer that deer should be 
in such a locality, I went a little nearer to in¬ 
vestigate. Then my hair stood on end, for I 
could see that they were wolves, all big, gaunt, 
hungry looking chaps. 
“Seeing me, they sidled slowlv away, trotting 
| on a hilltop, where they came against the sky- 
' line and I could distinguish them clearly. I 
i counted eighteen in the bunch, and fully that 
, many more went below the skvline, so that they 
1 were lost in the shadows. That was my first 
I sight of wolves, but I can assure you I do not 
, want to see any more of the critters, especially 
' when I am on foot and unarmed.” 
— 
A MUSCULAR SENORA. 
1 
Catching an unusually large and fierce chicken 
hawk and killing it with her own hands was 
the feat of a Spanish lady who resides on Seventh 
avenue, Tampa Heights, recently. However, she 
received a severe bite from the bird, and several 
painful scratches. For several days chickens had 
been missed from the yard and this led to a 
sharp watch being kept up for possible thieves. 
At length it was found that the hawk was the 
guilty party. But the hawk’s own prowess was 
the cause of his downfall. Not contenting him¬ 
self with chickens the hawk attacked five canaries 
caged on a porch, and it was their frightened 
chirps that attracted the attention of the lady 
of the house. The hawk was just about to pull 
: one of the canaries through the bars of the cage 
when the lady seized it and wrung its neck.— 
Tampa Tribune. 
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