Arizona republican., 1903-06-14

! sufficiently deep to bother them. But after January 15 the autumn fat of the deer has almost disappeared from lack of food, the animals become weak and stringy, and a crust forms upon the
 two-foot snow which is strong enough to bear wolves but lets the sharp hoofs
 of the deer break through and they travel at great disadvantage, their trails being often marked with blood
 dripping from legs cut by the broken crust, and they fall d comparatively easy prey.
 There are many hunters in the North woods in season. but it may be said that the wolves kill three deer to their
 one It falls to the lot of every man
 who spends his day cutting timber to
 find deer carcasses nearly wholly de- voured by wolves. Some of the lurber- jacks report having seen eight and ten such carcasses each and the total of deer so slain is not short of enormous. In February. Henry Hanson, a trap per on the north fork of the Flambeau. poisoned a wolf-a gray male of great size. The animal measured eight feet from nose tip to the end of the tail,
 stood more than two feet high at the shoulder and weighed 156 pounds. This was a DIE VOL, anu que, II IldhG utS-
 perate by hunger. to kill an unarmed
 man with ease, but not comparable in
 size to the one reported from the Flam
 beau reservation of Chippewa Indians.
 It is said that one of the Chippewas shot and killed a dog wolf. nearly white which actually measured twelve feet from nose tip to tatil tip. stood
 more than a var. high and must have
 gone considerably above 2C0 pounds in weight.
 These figures have not been verified, however. and are pretty likely to be exaggerated. The Indian is very gen erous estimator of the size and worth of his own game. It seems, certain, however, that the wolf was of extra ordinary size. Its color and great bulk lead to the supposition that it was an estray or wanderer from the northern part of Canada, where wolves are of a dirty gray color. The old Hudson Bay trail runs within five miles of the eastern edge of the Flambeau reserva- tion.
 The great Jumbo wolf. an animal previously mentioned in the Sun, was seen again this winter, this time in the district of the Manittowish waters. Jumbo" has ben seen at intervals dur ing the past five winters and his range
 runs for 100 miles or more from Saw yer county, Wis. over to the northeast ern edge of Villas county. He has
 been shot at but so far as is known has never been injured, and attempts to trap him or poison him have becn fruitless. The men who have seen him estimate his size variously, according i to the distance, the state of their
 nerves and the vigOr of their several | imaginations.
 Woodsmen agree that no gray wolf | approXimating him in height and | length has ever been seen in Wiscon- sin. One man says he stands as high as yearling calf another swears tthat he is as big as a small horse; another
 says that he is a wolf noticeably larger l than other wolves, but not mira aculous- l Iy so. Others who have struck his trail | believe from the size and intervals of
 the tracks that he will measure as
 much as nine feet long and will stand
 higher than a great Dane dog. Jun
 bo" was full grown when first seen and
 is now certainly seven years old. or
 older.