Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-11-09
CLEVELAND TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER g. 1858


woods one morning, about one hundred rods
from his house, when all at once he was sur
rounded by ten or dozen wolves. He picked
up club and gave them battle, rushing upon
those that were nearest whilst those behind fol-
lowed him up, and when those behind came too
close he turned upon them He fought them
in this manner for some time, when they sat
down around him to rest and hearing another
wolf howl at a distance, they left him, and he
ran for home at the best of his speed.
! at another time Robinson and his brother in
law set trap for wolves Robinson went 10
the trap one morning and found large black
wolf in it He took club and knocked the
wolf down, and suPposing that he was dead, he
took of the trap, and seizing the wolf by the
hind legs, he slung him over hiB shoulder and
started for home. His wOlfship revived and gave
quite howl while Robinson had him on his
shoulder. Robinson soon had him on the
ground and gave him another killing.
BEARS.
Some of The early settlers concluded to have a
hunt and kill a bear. So when it had been very
cold for several days, and the snow was six or
eight inches deep, five of them started out -
Each one took blanket and three days provis-
IONS resolved to kill bear before they returned.
They had not been out long before they dscov-
cred track The bear had been gone day
or two, but they concluded to follow him. So
they went on, crossing the river several times,
and going through gullies and swamps, when
lust at night they found his bearship in a large
stub, about fifty feet high. They commenced
chopping it down, when the bear made his ap-
pearance, coming out at the top of the stub
They shot him, and he fell back. They cut
down the stub, put withe in Bruins jaws, and
fittedtwo sticks into the withe, so that four of
them could draw him on the snow, and one car
ried the axes and guns; in this way they start
ed for home. They had eight or ten miles to
90, and got home the next day about 10 o'clock
The bear weighed $40 lbs when dressed. They
sold the skin for S3,75, and each of them had
seventy-fiye cents in cash once more, and they
feasted on roasted bears meat and cakes fried in
bears grease.
At another time Henry Peak shot bear and
wounded it, and came into the Settlement to
get help to kill it. Four or five men started off
with their guns and two dogs, went to the place,
started the bear, and gave him chase for about
half mile. They SHOT him three times on the
run f; the last shot brought him 70 the ground,
when they all rushed around him, each one eager
to kill bear, and shot four or five balls into his
his head in about as many seconds, while his
bearship laid dying.
AT another time Benjamin Robinson and John
Kidney killed four bears on one tree at one
time.
Deer were very plenty, and 4 good hunter
could kill one at almost any time, and those
who were not good hunters might spend week
or two and not kill one.
RAcooNs
The 'coons were very plenty. Dyer Nichols,
Benjamin Robinson and Henry Alger, at time
when it was thawing in the winter, went into
the woods, tracked the 'coons into trees, cut
down the trees and killed forty of the "varmints''
in two and half days.
RATTLEsNAKEs.
The rattlesnakes were so plenty that if man
did not kill half dozen in day, he did not
claim to have done but a small days work in
killing snakes.
George Peak killed the largest and fattest rat
tlesnake ever killed in the township. His snake
ship measured over ten inches in the girth, and
W was S.R between ..! five and six feet Long He was
ty-four rattles on his tail He was supposed to
be one of the first settlers.
Z Joseph Peak and Henry Peak, in one Pissbad
battle with the snakes around the roots of a
hollow tree, killed twenty rattlcsnakes and four
copperheads, and the same day destroyed eight
or ten more rattlesnakes.
One of the old settlers, when he was IN the
woods hunting for his cows, stepped over a
rattlesnake. The snake made pass at his heel,
and struck his fangs into the bottom of his buck
skin pants. The man gave bound, and find
ing the snake hanging on, he went at the best
of his speed for fifteen OF twenty rods, when the
snake broke his hold to the great satisfaction of
both parties-the man that he was not bitten,
and the snake that he was no longer whiTling in
the air but tho man in his wrath turned upon
| the snake and slew him.
If this story is doubted by any one, it is a
very easy thing to prove it, for the man himself
is still living.
| FISH.
| The fish wero also very abundant in Rocky