The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1892-07-30
TEN BIG WILD CATS.
In Three Days by Nan Who Claims the
Title of Champion.

Title of Champion.
Jack Dodge of Melrose Penn. has
had some eXcee dinghy exciting exper-
fences with wild cats. anl as there is
bounty of s. Oh every wild cat
killed in Pennsylvan a. his recent eX-
per ences ha e been profitable rs we'll
us exciting. Dodge has, according TO
the New York Sun. long enjoyed the
reputation Of being the champion wild
cat hunter of this coni,ry. but he says
he is not content with that honor now.
He challenges al the wild Cat hunters
OF the stat 10 show a three days rec
ord better than his.
The first OF these three days he went
out in the morning TO look at some
traps he had lying III wait for Il coup e
of big catamoantS he had seen prowl-
number reviously captured by him in
those parts last winter-nn less than
fifteen was enough. he supposed t.
clean them all out He found none Of
his trap, sprung much to his sur
prise. nor was there any sign of any
Of the an mails having been fooling
about them. He left the traps ust as
they were and was Just turning away
from the last one lie had amined
oil TO 3 right
He looked around and saw big wild
cat that had spr..ny from some hiding
place and landed squarciy on Il ruled
grouse which had g evidently been hul
died up under Il bush. but in sight.
With the suspicion OF is k nd the
wild cat hal look ID around as sool as
it struck the bird and ecing Dodge.
seized the grouse IN its teeth and
bounded away toward u chestnut tree.
Before it reached the tree Dodge gave
it charge OF buckshot an the cat
sprawled about in the snow, yelling
with pain. and dropping the grouse.
which kicked and tut,crcl fecbly in
the snow.
While the cat was vel ing and roll
ing AMI tumbing about and befO.e
Dodge had made up his m nd what it
was best to do next another wild c@t
VIII CHI had been crouching unseen on
Ii branch OF the chestnut leape |
away with it. iouye hal ano: her
barrel Of his gun still charged. and he
stopped the flight Of the seson1 wild
cat us he had the first. and had two
catamounts yelling and doing ground
AMI lofty tumbliGg in the snow.
Reloading MS gun. he killed both
animals, and he had scarcely done SO
Wien sharp .click" behind him
caused him to turn. Another wild
cat had sprung the trap Dodge Lad
left but Il few minutes before. and
from the way it was held by bo!h fore
feet the trapper belle ed that the an
imai had Jumped into the trap while
bounding along in response 10 the
wild cries of the two cats that We're
wounded. Dodge shot the trapped
cat and. throwing the three on MS
back started for home.
He had gone bat a short distance
when he met Il man hurrying along il
an Old road leading to the man road
The man said that some kind of an
animal had been chasing him. While
he was ye. telling Dodge how the ami
NAL had started for Inn out of the
bushes. Il wild cat appeared around
the bend of the road a hundre feet
away and the man declared that it
was the amin II that had started after
him half IL mile down the road. The
wild cat stopped Wen it saw he two
men. and Dodge shot it, killing it with
II single charge.
Dodge went on home and encoun-
tered no more wild cats that day but
the next diT he fond that three OF
his traps had each wild cat in it.
trap. went back Over the round again
and found that Il fourth one had been
caught in the hou: or so since he had
been there.
The third day he could scare uo but
two i'll h traps. and as he has not
captured any at all since he is of the
op Mon that all OF the catalnounts in
the vicinity had "a hercl with Il the
limit where his traps are on these
three days; and that he has got them
all.