The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-30
7-rs roo Willy TO BE SEEN.
,bermen Never Set Eyes Upon
Them.


,,;rreanolis (dinn.) Journal.
avnerience of r. G. Brooks IN the
~" county forest country seems likely
5.-,orrage the enthusiastic posse OF
- s,..,,.srs for whose benefit Brooks
W. r.ss TO some extent undertaken.
u. Dds agreed to find the most prom
,a,,o hunting ground for wolf drive ana
49,, is no doubt that the territory he
'Ie..orsed is literally oveWun with gray
tIa.,-.ints intent on the capture ana demo-
Naii ~ ,I,vihing good to eat. Mr.. BROOKS
mon ~ a. a rADort to the thirty-five or
mas ,,o,,,e who wanted to trail the willy
10Y - his lair. and the report is that the
VOL ,o,Intv wolf is toOclever to be Sc
na5ei,, disturbed by the advent OF any
Mr. of hunters. To begin with, the
hul Iltr,, l. difficult to traverse in winter;
Cou.-, is NJ present insufficient snow on
.he sround to make tracking feasible, ana
- ton Of everything else the wolf is sew
oraI t,mes as smart as his pursuers can
ever hope TO pc. o,,,. :, .bo
.o,,,tr,. have Just traversed," said Mr..
T.aal,s This morning, but the most extra
-linar,- thing TO me is that one seldom or
.aror secs a wolf. If a man is caught
ant at night he will hear them bowling all
Ground his retreat, and If he stays away
~ enough without making a move of so
much a finger he may be rewared by
sight of their wild eyes giaring under the
frelight If he is wounded or in trouble
tbat prevents him from defending himself,
the extraordinary instinct of these brutes
teaches them that this is the case, and
tbev will pick his bones clean before
morning Let a man be in full possession
If his faculties though, and | would al
most be willing to bet that he might walk
the woods for years in daylight and never
see wolf He would see their tracks
millions of tracks-but the wolf has way
Of concealing himself that no white man
wots for He is the hardest creature to
find that inhabits the forests of the North.
Il talked with a number of cruisers
men who have been tramping the timber
for years and years and are as familiar
with the widest part of the forest as you
are with Ncoliet avenue. One of the old
est Of these cruisers told me that he had
seen but one wolf in ten years, though he
knew by the tracks he was continually
crossing that there were thousands of
them about. At night he would hear them
bowling in the neighborhood of his camp,
and understand that he was the center of
attraction for a big pack, but the most he
ever could see of his would-be assailants
Another man who has been in the cruis-
ing business for fifteen years told me that
he had seen only one wolf in all his expe-
Renee He, too, knew that the wolves
were there, but he regarded them as pos
sessed Of ability to render themselves in
visible. He had even seen the cloud of
light snow kicked up by gray wolf as he
got out of the way, but, despite the close
quarters on this occasion, he had seen
neither hide or hair of the wolf
The more look into the matter" said
Mr.. Brooks, "the less feasible 1 consider
the scheme Of a wolf drive. 1t is the cas-
lest country in the world to get lost in
and. while the hunter is wandering round
Ike a blind man through tamarac and
poplar sWamps, the wolves, acquainted
with every turn and twist of the under
growth, are having merry time of it at
MS expense. l can conceive how a hunt.
organized and carried out by men who
are familiar with the lay of the country.
might result in the death of few wolves;
Out my belief is that, with a lot of stran-
gers trying II, there would be nothing but
trouble"
Several gentlemen who were enthusiast
w over khe wolf-hunting plan a week or
Two ago expressed themselves as convinc
u 'ndl such hunt might afford an out
Jug ior those who participated. but that 1t
"Oulu result in humiliation no less mark
t u man that which followed the widely
netaiued onsiaughts on Anoka county
"ol'es' Mr.. Brooks is an experienced
tIhoou"lah' and his opinion, reinforced by
e H1Se Vi oid woods residents, has put an
winter, at least -o4 'iiiS