Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-09
csFyrisal isos, by The rrOs,r osmsl. Co. cns!pn.u

they kept to the bare spot--t was about half
an acre in eXtent--racing round the cattle
and fenting to attack them on every side,
but lodging away whenever a steer made
for them in earnest While four of them
kept the attention OF the other cattle, three
of the wolves, coming together as If at
signal, leaped upon another of the yearlings,
one sezing it by the throat and the other
two tearing at its gambrils The yearling
went down under the wolves, and then two
or three OF the steers charging as be-
fore, drove them off.
"rhe aim of the wolves plainly was to
disable the two weaker animals, knowing
that they would eventually fall to them
when the others moved away. But the cattle
were getting warmed to their work and
after five minutes of fighting there was lit
tie of the stiffness that they had at first dis
played. The wolves, keeping still to the
bare spot where there was clear running,
had all they wanted to do to avoid the ruehes
of the steers, who charged whenever any
Of them came to standstill. Then one OF
the wolves was driven out into the snow,
and as he foundered in a circuit trying to
get back to bare ground a long-legged
Texan, minding the snow no more than If 1t
had been feathers rushed and overlook him
and in a moment more had the wolf on his
horns. One shake Of the head and the wolf
went flying twenty feet and the eteer was
OF hand where he tumbled to gore and
trample him to death. This set the pace
for fighting and in ten minutes more four OF
the wolves were dead, two of them being
chased into the snow and killed as the first
had been and the other being hemmed in
among the cattle, where he went three or
four times into the air clear of their heads
before they quit tossing him. At this the
ether three wolves took to the snow and
made the best pace they could for the canon
white steer that already had done its
full share of the fighting charged after them,
tossed one of them to cne side and keeping
on to the next one gored him to death. The
third one had so much of a start that the
steer did not follow him, but came back to
the herd.
"It was two days later before the ranch
man could take time to come back to the
scene of the fight. One of the yearings was
lying dead on the spot OF bare ground; the
rest OF the cattle were gone. There were
five dead wolves in sight and sixth was
found Just within the canon, which was as
far as he managed to crawl. The pack were
practically wiped out-taken, so to speak,
in their own trap.
I'm another instance while riding with a
friend over an isolated part of his ranch in
wyoming we came upon the partly deyourel
body of steer with three dead wolves w.
ing about it, 1t was a struggle that no
human eye had witnessed and all that could
be told was the steer had at last been over
powered by numbers and had scld his life
dearly. But the usual spectacle where the
wolves have raided is the lone carcass. some,
times partly eaten, sometimes with only the
arteries torn open There is probably an
other carcass, perhaps several, in sight and
as you ride over the hill to left or right
more are discovered. Where the wolves are
that made the slaughter no man can tell;
they came and went and left no other signs
of their presence"