The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-02-20
MRS. TOWLA's ADVENTURE.
She Pluckily Rescues a Deer From
Pack of Angry Wolves.

0AS EIOSAhy EeScueS a Deer From q
Pack of Angry Wolves.
Saut Ste Marie Special to ST. Paul Pioneer
Press.
One Of the best known characters to the
lumbermen and sportsmen of Upper M!chi-
gan Is Mrs. John Towle, Of Strongville, a
small deserted village on the Pine river.
twelve miles below Rudyard, station on the
500 railway thirty miles from here. Her
| nome and name have become famous to the
| woodsneD and lumbermen on account of
MIS- Iowle keeping boarding house, where
the woodsmen engaged on the drive 10 the
| spring have always stopped for their meals,
1t being the only house on Pire rivtr for a
! distance OF ten miles on each side of Strong
| vile.
Mrs. Towle came to this country from
AaIborg, Denmark, twenty years ago, and
first settled down In NEWPORT, VT. She was
called TO attend her present husband, who
was confined with broken shoulder, after
the doctors had given him up. She mended
him in such good shape that Mr.. Towle de-
| cded that she was the woman of his des-
tiny, whereupon they were married aud
started for the wild upper peninsula of
| Michigan to make their home and fortune.
Taking homestead near the banks of the
Pine river. Mrs. Towle has occasion 10 come
to this city about once every two months
| with the produce of the farm and dairy. In
the winter she can drive in. but in tne sum-
| mer there is no other way but to take a
boat and row up the Pine river twelve
miles to Rudyard Station, where she can
take the train for this point
| SIT is with one of th 50 trips that this nar-
rative has TO deal. Mrs. Towle had left
home with boatload of produce as usual,
and came to town with good success. On
her return trip she was leisurely rowing
| home down the Pine river, with its high
and very thickly wooded banks in some
places, and sloping, moss-covered banks in
| others. She had not gone far when she
heard a rustling sound above her. On
| looking up she perceived a large deer stand
ing on the edge of the preclpIce about fifty
feet up, screaming, with a wolf hanging on
its front quarters. The deer immediately
jumped for the river, landing close to the
| shore, but the wolf still held It's grip. 1t
might be noted here that deer when at
tackled by wolves in this country will always
make tor the nearest river, as wolves
will go into the water unless they have a
hold on their prey. The deer had no sooner
left the ground to jump when two more
wolves jumped down after him, followed by
ten more. One of the wolves managed TO
secure a grip on the deer's hind quarters aud
took chunk out the size of a saucer.
The deer, now thoroughly frightened and
excited, on seeing Mrs. Towle in the boat
started for the boat. The water not being
very high, it managed to get its fore feet
into the craft, with the two wolves still
hanging on. Mrs. Towle, although half
scared to death, did not lose her presence of
mind, but, seizing her paddle, struck the
| two wolves such blows on the heads that
they released their hold and took to the
shore, while the boat continued to drift
down the river with the current. The
wolves, seeing this, gave up hope and re-
| turned into the woods.
Mrs. Towle, now that the wolves were
gone, found about enough of the sportsman
| left in her to have a desire to secure the
| deer. She raised her paddle and struck it a
blow between the horns, which was not a
| very light one, by the way as Mrs. Towle
has always been used to the harder working
side of life, and is of strong physique The
| blow stunned the deer for few moments.
and Mrs. Towle. thinking it was dead.
started her craft for shore, to place the deer
in position TO row the boat home with him.
| When she reached the shore and was about
| swinging the deer around by the TAIL the
deer came to and started up the high bank.
with Mrs. Towle hanging on to its tail The
deer succeeded in getting about half wav
up the bank, when the skin on its tail, which
Mrs. Towle was hanging on to gave way,
and precipitated Mrs. Towle down the blnk
/
The deer by this time had become so weak
from the loss of blood from the wolves at
tack that it slipped and fell down the bank,
landing on Mrs. Towle. She, thinking the
wolves were after it again, nearly went into
Mysteries. The deer, however, striking ter
| ra firma never moved again, and Mrs. Towle
proceeded to load him in her craft and get
| him home. She got him aboard and after
capsiZing a couple of times reached her
small dock, made of logs, in safety. Her
home is three miles back in the woods from
the river bank. She was obliged to leave
the deer on the bank all night, 1t now being
| dusk.
In the morning when Mr. Towle, her
husband, went down for the deer with his
pony and jumper, he was surprised to find a
bear there munching away at the deer. The
bear on seeing the man started for the
woods. Bears will only show fight in the
spring. Mr. Towle got the deer safely
| home. And it would be difficult to find a
mere interesting story to listen to than that
of Mrs Towle, sitting in her log cabin in
front of the old log fire, telling her story in
broken English Of how she captured the