The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1886-04-29

had been at work at SclOtO Furnace,
cutting cord wood. We had given up
our wood, got our pay, and in the
evening started home. There were
some half dozen of US. Night over
took us when near the head of Hales
Creek, near where Monroe Furnace is
now located. When on the high hill
between Hales Creek and Cub Run,
we heard wolves bowling away up the
Black Fork some three or four miles
distant. 1t was an awful. fearful
sound
Sixty years ago we lived just across
the Black Fork bottom, a quarter OF
mile east of Jefferson Furnace. Our
nearest neighbors on the west were
John Whites, three miles distant, at
the mouth of Hewitt's Fork, and Jack
Canters, on Little Scioto, six or seven
miles distant. sThe woods came with
in twenty steps of the cabin. In this
edge of woods our cattle lay at night.
Often the wolves came and carried off
some of the young cattle. The wolves
made no noise on such an occasion,
but the young cattle made fearful
bawling when seized, and the bell on
the COW told that she was running.
Great, fierce backwoods dogs were so
much afraid of wolves that they would
whine piteously, and get under the
bed
So destructive were the wolves that
the Ohio Legislature, nearly sixty five
years ago, enacted the following Stat
ute:
AN ACT TO ENCOURAGE RHE KILLING
OF WOLVES.
Sec. 1. BE 1T enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Ohio, That
any person who shall kill any wolf or
wolves, within this state, shall receive
the following compensation, that is to
say:-for each wolf above six months
old the sum Of three dollars, and for
each wolf under the age Of six
months, one dollar and fifty cents.
Sec. 2. That any person claiming
such reward shall produce the scalp
of the wolf or wolves so killed with
the ears entire, within twenty days
after such wolf or wolves have been
killed, to the clerk Of the court of
common pleas of the county within
which such wolf or wolves were
killed, which clerk shall administer to
the person producing the scalp or
scalps as aforesaid the following oath
or affirmation: (as the case may be,)
"Y ou A B. do solemnly swear or af-
finn, las the case may be) that the
scalp or scalps now produced by you
is the scalp or sealps of wolf or
wolves (as the case may be) that were
taken and killed within this county
by youwithin twenty days last past
and you verify believe the same to
| have been over or under the age OF
!, six months, las the case may be) and
that you have not spared the life Of
any she wolf within your power te
kill, with a design to increase the
breed" which oath or Affirmation shall
be by the clerk taken in writing an6
. subscribed by the person presenting
the scalp or scalps aforesaid.
Sec. g. That the clerk before whom
such oath or affirmation was mad,
after causing the scalp or scalps to b
j. destroyed in his presence, shall fill
the deposition so taken, in bis office
and under the seal thereof grant t.
the person an order on the treasure
of State for the amount of none,
e that may be due such person by th
e provisions of the first section Of thi
h act, and the person receiving such or
der shall pay to the clerk granting th
same twenty-five cents, which orde
shall be received by any collector o
S the taxes on land in discharge thereof
a Sec. f. That the county commissi
o oners Of any county within this Stat
may increase the bounty for vol
: scalps to six dollars, which additiona
a bounty shall be paid out Of the count,
f treasury On the order of the count,
i auditor
JOHN BIGGER,
Speaker of House Of Representatives
ALLEN TRIMBLE,
Speaker of the Senate.
i, December %, 1921.