The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-01
TON COUNTY NEWS.
WOLVES IN DENVER.
ron Of That Town chases In a
suoey TWO Of the Beasts.

ron Of That Town chases In a
suaoy TWO Of the Beasts.
exciting and exceedingly novel
,unt was one of the incidents OF
Il ito ye8terday within the mu-
limits OF Denver. The hunter
a strange chase was Norris
editor OF Mecca, a weekly
aper published in this city. Two
and lively prairie wolves, which
shed on the car tracks near the
avenue Entrance to City Park,
Nimrod Sprigg's quarry.
Iee raaIdos on Park Hill, just be-
The oastcrnmost bounds of the
lie left home for his office
III 80 o'clock in the morning, In
lx 70 take a Colfax avenue car.
noarad the point on the track
a atop is made for the accom-
ion Of Visitors to the park, the
was startled by seeing two big,
wolves frotting between the rails
him
hrst he believed himself the vic.
a delusIon. It was too late in
tvs growth, he thought, to hear
offs lone howl in the streets of
m But Just then the pair of
s halted and howled as one wolf,
prigg concluded they were real.
an old Hunter, and office duties
|forEottcn as he looked about for
ne or other available weapon
which to attack the wolves. But
ho was engaged in the quest
lmo had taken to the park and
opine smoothly toward the more
8 open prairie to the east.
excited Sprigg, all his hunting
abcil, get after the escaping
Of prey. They hung together
rere headed in the direction of
20 r1Sldence, so the pursuer
to reach home in time to get
IN TOR ehot at one of them.
igg and The wolves had gone but
Il distance when a boy In light
e drove across the path of the
Z
boy. lump down for a second.
you something here" painted
NJ, as he caught the bit and stop.
he horse.
hout thought the boy allghted,
o q j!fy Sprigg had subsidized
,rsc and buggy and was in the
6 seat.
Dives" he yelled at the paralyzed
waving his hand wildly. you
ere. Be back in ten minutes"
then he cut by the shortest
toward his dwelling.
wolves were in sight all the
On the nearly level prairie, and
20 keen eyes were still on them
he reached home and shouted:
mme my guns, quick!"
Of the household handed him
ily loaded weapons on the prem.
q No, H. Parker's shotgun and a
lbre revolver.
IN Sprigg urged on his borrowed
litter the disappearing wolves.
ok no account of the numerous
tion ditches that crossed his
but drove pell-mell over every
,Ie, Fortunately for him and the
h the wolves avoided bitches ana
perpendicular barriers, keeping
level and open country. There
have been hunter strain in the
OF Sprlgg's steed, for it began
n on the wolves, and finally, af-
run OF Nobody knows how many
the editor concluded that he
yithin range.
opened IRE with the shotgun on
indino1t wolf, and delightedly
the beast stumble, rise again,
'len 50 on with the most percept-
b fnp. Ihe horse lifted to a spurt
SprigK made ready for another
ne was now sure of the wound.
if' 80 the second shot was aimed
mate Sprigg thinks he wound.
us wolf, too, but not serious
70 bag 1t, so he turned all his
ion to the other one. Upon get.
lose enough to the lame wolf he
"a from the buggy, dropped on
nee ano brought down the quar-
ID q pistol bullet.
sr finishing the wolf, the trium.
editor remembered the waiting
nd nls own neglected pastepot
hears He returned the rig to
py. r7Werded him for his unwit-
salalan0e in the mornings chase
after leaving the dead wolf at
caught this downtown car.
toL pprikg had the fresh pelt of
olr on exhibition. He prizes II
any sorvenir Of the chase chat
1911 to his lot, because of the
cifcupstances surrounding it's
u = spriggs opinion that the
wpivSs We're returning from a
poacning among the small
~ vAty Park when he ran across
Ho can think of no sufficient
e eooQpnt for their being driy.
tne Qlty for forage. There has
ts eoo nttle snow to drive them
q their usual haunts.
% enofper source 1t was learnad
ieWiy made wolf dens had been
g receptly a short distance he.
wy rark. 1t is possible that n
xpYes, driven from some
neiEnporhood by scalp hunters
tVI bounty money, has settled
ioca'lFy A regular roundup
or the pests is already discussed
Ver Ropubllcan.
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