The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-08-05
LYON LOVES WOLF MEAT
IF THE APPLICATIONS FOR STATE
BoUNTIES ARE ANY
CRITERION
MAY BE FATTEN1NG CUBS
1t Is Suspected I'm Some Quarters
That the WOLF Industry
Is Being In
nated.

No more wolf bounties will be paid by
the state auditor until the next session of
me legislature Applicable for rewards
amounting to over twice the amount OF the
appropriation that became available the
hrst OF the month are now on file in the
auditors office. In the past the annual
appropriation of 5000 has been adequate
TO pay all, or nearly all, applications.
This year. however, one county alone
makes application for nearly one half the
appropriations. State Auditor Dunn has
his suspicious OF the large number of ap-
piications this year, and he believes that
ne detects an Ethiopian In the fuel pile.
At any rate Mr.. Dunn can only pay half
the claims, and he could not make a dis
tr1bution impartially, and instead he will
hold all applications, and If the legislature
sets aside enough to pay all claims he will
audit vouchers for the amounts due every
county.
In Lyon county ,061 wolves were killed
within few months. That is, applica-
tons for that number of rewards have
come in within fortnight, and as nine
tenths Of the wolves were cubs Mr.. Dunn
is inclined ito regard with suspicion the
large number of applications coming from
that county. Lyon county has not been
noted for its wolf-producing qualities,
and 1t may be that Capt. Whitney has
added a wolf ranch to his newspaper Of
flee Lyon county applies for $2,4l2.75 of
the $1,000 appropriation as rewards for
1,O6l wolf scalps returned to the county
auditor
Polk county is also suspected of having
a "wolfery'' somewhere within its con-
fines, as returns made to the state auditor
claim reward for the destruction of Gil
wolves for which 1t asks in return
$l,5l5.33 in bounty from the state. Coun-
ties where real wild wolves are most
prevalent such as st. Louis Lake, Cook
and Beltrami counties, but few rewards
are asked for In the case of the two last
named no applications We're made.
Last years wolf bounty appropriation
was exhausted sometime during the
spring, and the applications now on file
are the accumulation of several months
Applications have been held pending
August when the new appropriation be-
came available. Since snow left the
ground 1856 wolves have been killed in
Minnesota. and the total amount in re-
wards claimed is $11 ,241.35, over twice
much as the current appropriation.
The applications for a share in the wolf
bounty appropriation of $1,000 are as fol-
lows:
Attkin. %: Anoka. %; Rocker. "a; Ben
t'II, As; Big Stone. 8; Blue Earth, Z;
Carver. 2; cass, 43; Chippewa. 4; Chi,
-; Fillmore, %; Goodhue, So; Grant, !!
Hcnnepin, %; Hubbard 80: Isanu. 3;
Itasca, 54 Kandiyohi, -; INttson, ID;
Lac qui Parie /; Lake 4; lie Sueur. 3;
+! LINCOLN, 10; Lyon. 1,06l: Mcleod, II; Mar
shall 200: Meeker. q; Morrison, 10l; Muir
ray, 1856: Otter Tail. IS; Pine, u; Pipe
stone, Sc; Polk. Gil; Red Lake. IA: Red
wood. 50; Renvillc. 6; Rice, %; Rock 2;
Roseua. 80; St. Louis. .: Scott, 40: Sher-
burne, 30; Sib!ey, s. Stearns. 126; Steele.
l; Todd. SO; Wabasha As; Wadepa. Is;
Washington, i; Watonwan, II; Will5in, 2;
total. 1855. Total amount. S11,241.35.
The state pays two-thrds of the
bounty and the county one third The
above represents the states share of the
reward