Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-17
Dogs Aroused the wolves.


I'm about a minute the dogs were turned
loose and they took up the scent with a
chorus that would have made any hunts
mans heart beat faster. The way the lead
ers covered the ground was a caution and
it seemed to me as if the three wolves.
handicapped as they were by lameness, would
be oyertaken in less than five minutes. The
reason we thought that was because we
had not been looking at the wolves. The
minute they heard the baying of the hounds
they seemed to have forgotten all about steel
traps and captivity. They had an awkward
gait, but the way they got over the ground
made us fear that there would be no brushes
to distribute.
THE old she-wolf was going on three legs,
but she led the trio A number of cow
punchers from Stockwell's ranch started out
to flank them in order to keep them from
getting into the foothills around Big Goose
creek. They fired their revolvers and howled
themselves hoarse. riding at top speed, and
finally got them to going in the direction
they wanted them. But there were only two
dogs who gained on the wolves. These were
two staghounds with keen noses and speed
that / never saw surpassed Such leaps you
never saw, and the rest of the pack had to
class with the rest. Gradually the stag
hounds closed in on the wolves.
80 far they had been running by scent,
but soon they caught sight of the fugltives.
Then the chase assumed different aspect
and the wolves might as we'll have tried to
race with an express train.
But, after all, it was nothing more than
a race. The speed was with the staghounds,
but the courage and fighting quality was
with the bloodhound stock in the rear. The
leaders knew the temper of the foes they had
to deal with The old Shewolf was still
leading and her smaller male companions
were slightly behind. With an instructive
generalship the staghounds bowled over the
she-wolf and left her struggling on the
ground. They had stopped her for a second.
Then they set out after the others and pretty
soon had them sprawing ON the prairie.
The wolves got up and showed fight. but the
staghounds stood off, and the wolves started
on again. The same tactics were repeated
and their progress was so impeded that the
pack gained rapidly. The staghounds seemed
to devote mcst Of their time to the two
male wolves and the old female began to
get away. But the pack was now. in strilk-
Ing distance and the fight commenced
Wolves Killed Five Dogs.
The tSo male wolves were soon sur
and there WAS a mx-uD equal to
a serimmage on foot ball field. The wolves
were game and disposed OF hye dogs. before
they we're killed.
"'rhe old she-wolf had not gone far en1
her Injuries were beginning to tell on her.
The staghounds Oyerhauled her, and then the
rest Of the pack came up, followed by The
crowd. A circle wes formed around
The dogs. with the old she-wolf in their
center. She had laid down, painting and
tired, with q long dripping tongue prorrul-
Ing from her mouth. Her dull green eyes
were half closed. and she appeared to be
HE ncst unconcerned @: all pre3ens, The
hounds came up and snapped at her but
she paid little attention. None OF the dogs
seemed willing to attack her Finally dog
with more OF the bloodhound than the
Jthers led the assault The old wolf woka