Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-01-10
WOLF HUNTING IN IDAHO.
Running Down LuPine frOwlers
 with Horses and Hounds.

lSnake River Cor Cincinnati Enquirer.l
 When an hour out of camp the laying of the hounds in a cOppice to the right Oi us told that something was started, and the next minute q lauk. gray wOlI, with six cubs streaming after her, dashed out into the open ground. and ran past us SO close tLat We might have kill"1 her with a revolver. but something like pity stayed every mans hand, and we let her go by us without a shot The cubs were evidently four or five months old, and kept well up with the mother, who moved over the prairie like gray streak When the dogs finally broke cover she had disappeared around the face of a hillOck, 10 the top of which We spurred our horses in Onlcr iO see the re- mainder of the chase. In the course of a few minut it was plain 10 sec that the cubs were losing their wind; one of them falling behind sO rapidly that he was al- most in the jaws Of inc foremost hound, and the others. while keeping ahead, giy- ing every evidence of distress.
 The mother wolf was not moving at her best by any means. and if she would abandon her cubs Q the dogs might easily escape: but instead of doing that she sud denly wheeled around. while the cubs kept on forward. and doubling square on her track closed with the hound who was in the led and not more than ten plces from the exhausted young one. Before the dog could recover from his surprise she had him by the throat. her long. white teeth cutting through skin and muscles, then closing and tearing out wind-pipe, iugular vein and gullet lt was only a single bite: but the spread and strength of sN sNn .N NasaHs teeth. 1T de fatal. Then sh bumped up her back, and in ten bounds had re- gained the lost ground. and was again in full retreat in the center of her family.
 In the nature Of things. however. the cubs couid not stand the killingpa pace. they fell bel ind in ones and twoS. and the re- suit was foresone couClusion-at least it was so until the mother adopted a new set of tacticS. She started of ai right angie with the line pursued by the cuhs. Swcrv- inc in he- course so as tO bring herself very near to the hounds. par~ntly with the purpose of attracting the chase 10 her self Three of the dogs accepted the in- vitation. and presently were out of sight in the rough country to which she led them. while the remaining two busted themselves with the cubs now left 10 their own devices.
 At a rattlinC pace we set of across the country m the direction taken hy the old wolf. and presently from an elevation dis covered the chase not far ahead The dogs were rapidly gaining on the prey. and We spurrcd on in order be in al the death. The run was but a short one. and before one drew near enough for the ef- fectiye use of our shot guns the dogs had dragged the tired animal 10 'h ground and were tearing ai her throat Wolf skins in the frontier market bring from $l. 90 to S3 each. and as every peli We captured during the hunt was 10 fall to the share of Jim. our cook. he " probably the most eager member of the chase. He rode into the thick of the fight. and kick ing the dogs to right and left hal the skin stripped from the animal before the blood had doun flowing from is throat.