St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-16

pulled out, the hole filed with strych-
nine, and then the candle is cut up in
pieces two or three inches long and the
ends sealed or plugged up. This bait is
set by putting bit of stick in the
ground, splitting it at the top and put
ting the piece of candle between the
split portions of the stick. A wolf is
along ahe jerks the bait out of the
stick and, swallows it. When the can
die malts in his stomach, which it does
in few minutes, the released strych-
nine takes hold on the VOLTS vitals, and
then there is music. The wolf always
blames his trouble on his tail, and he
will spin round and round trying to
catch1shis tail in his mouth, as have
seen azdog do when at play. He will
next stand up on his hind legs and walk
about and dance, but it all does no good.
His shrieks and cries of pain are terrible
10 hear, and about the last thing he does
is to turn two or three sOmersaultS in
the airand fall dead. The Strychnine
kills them every time. Indians do not
like toikill wolves; they think it is ''bad
medicine" but never knew an Indian
yet to- object to helping to skin up"
and they will generally skin a wolf
wherever he is found dead and bring
the peit to the wolfers.
The wild-hOrse hunters are always
wOlfers, and when they do find plenty
of wild horses they always find plenty
of wolves and make a good thing out of
the bounty and pelts. l have boy out
with party of wolfers now, and he
says the three of them frequently kill
twenty and twenty-five wolves per day,
worth for their hides and scalps at least
$75. That's pretty good wages for three
mon or rather two men and how tO
make. Although the wOlfer has home
cabin where he keeps his pelts he is
seldom ''at home" He rides and walks
all over the country, often camping
under tree and sleeping in the snow
OF Oh the cold ground. His only care is
to have plenty of matches, keep near
timber and look out for "nOrthers."
When the wOlfer hunts wolves and
horses together he takes two swift
ponies, one of which he rides and the
other he leads, packed with his bedding,
grub and traps. He goes over vast
tracts of territory, and it is only by
hard riding and terrible exposure he
can hope to come up to the Wild horses.
When once upon them, he does not at
tempt to catch them, but kills them, a
wild Stalion'S scalp being worth S25
among the stOckmen of the region where
he ranges. Sometimes in the summer
time the cowboys make up large parties
and go out to hunt wild colts On such
occasions they take their lass0es, some
good riding horses and provisions, and
hunt for the band. A band sighted, they
creep up under cover as near as possible
and then, mounting, give chase. The
colts, being weak, soon fall behind the
band, and are laSSoed and chOked into
submission. The little fellows are not
from their wild companions dOmeSticate
easily, but can never be trusted. A
band Of cowboys had some colts in camp
and they became SO tame they turned
them loose with the other horses. They
stayed about for a day or two, but one
morning they were missing and were
never seen again. A farmer who had a
wild colt given to him by cowboy put
it i'll lot by his house and kept it there
a long time. 1t became so tame it would
eat sugar out of his hand and let him
fondle it. One day he left the bars down
by accident, and in the evening it was
missing. 1t was seen several miles from
home and pursued, but 1t escaped to the
mountains and never came back.
Hunting wild horses is a noble Sp Ort
and most rare one in this country. A
ranchman tells me he knows where
there is a band of Seventy-five head of
wild herses in little valley up among
the Big Horn mountains. This valley
is only ten miles long and from half to
one mile wide. 1t is approached by a
narrow canyon that cl oses in to fifty
and sixty feet at places, and the whole
valley inside is surrounded by wall Of
rock hundreds of feet high, over which
no animal can escape. Not only wild
horses, but deer and elk are very fond
of seeking such sheltered hooks to
winter in. 1t is proposed to go up early
in the spring, wall up the Mouth of the
valley at its naTrOWest point and then
gof0r the band. Old Steine. who killed
the black stallion mentioned In the first
part of this article, Says he knows the
band well, and that there are several
branded mares and horses with it,stolen
from the tame here's, and also ten or a
dozen tame unbranded two and three
year-OldS. He offers to be one of the
party to capture them. When this hunt
comes off will let you know the result
of it.