The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-02
WOLVES IF CANADA
 ON 4 MAN HUNT Are More Numerous and Daring
 Than Ever DEER HUNTERS ATTACKED Were Reused From Sleep to Find Themselves In Grip of Raven ous Beasts-Another Hunter
 Reported Missing.

Special Correspondence of the Washing
 ton Post.
 Hull. Canada.--Wolves have increased to an alarming extent in the hunting dis tricts. Hitherto it has been considered safe In the early autumn to lie down and sleep wherever the night might over- take one. But two young fellows who wanted to shirl a long walk 10 camp and went to sleep beside a well defined deer path have learned different lesson. It was a dark and windy but warm night and they did not start q fire. They were awakened early in the night by the onset of at least three wolves, which seized one by the leg and the other by the shoulder with sufficient force to bring the blood.
 Their shouts and struggles seemed to shock the brutes, whose grip relaxed so that they were able to make themselves free. The cooler of the two was able to secure hls rifle, and this he fired from his hip, In the direction of the assailants. From the fact that what looked like spots of blood were discovered on flat rock near by next morning the young men judge that the nasty shot reached one of the wolves. But at the time they were amazed at the stiffness which sue ceeded the report. Not a rustic or the snap of a twig could they hear. yet when a white birch was touched with match and shaft of fire shot up the trunk there was not sign of wolf
 Fears for Missing Man.
 It is feared that the same good fortune has not attended young chap supposed to have come from the western states somewhere who went to the woods with Ell Baudette last month. He was a tai, well set up fellow of about twenty or twenty-one, was well supplied with money and gave the guide only his Chrlstian name, Frank.
 It was his first visit to the Canadian woods. Baudette refused to do any jack ing or night hunting of any description for the first week of the trip, but one morning when Eli sat up he found him. self alone In the little leanto. His charge had taken his rife and cartridges and set out alone probably hours before. He has not been seen since.
 The young man had compass and knew how to use it. Old Baudette had put him up to all the plans to be adopted In case he should lose himself. Game is plentiful, and the cartridge vest he carried was well filled. There arc no dangerous streams to cross, nor bad bog holes.
 The wolves are numerous in that part of the country some of the men who join ed the search for the missing man realized when they were crouching under cover beside a lake waiting for a swimming deer to land. As she came near 1t was noticed that A fine. strong young one was swimming alongside, It's little head some times resting upon it's mothers neck. Gaining rapidly upon them as they plung- ed forward were five wolves, two Of them only half grown.
 A little whine near by drew the atten- ton of the watchers to another aack of wolves waiting in the bushes near the natural landing for which the deer was heading. Deer and fawn would have had a poor chance of escape had 1t not been for the Interpretation of the men, who at once fired upon the waiting wolves, l killing one and driving away the others. | The deer came on bravey, quite heed less of the guns and made a safe land l ing. The hunters, taking pot shots mean while at the heads of their followers, con l trived to stop the two youngsters and to send the others back again toward the ] other shore.
 Seen in Broad Daylight. l As a general thing. the wolf is a cow ard at this time of the year, and is not | easily seen by men, But, growing bolder as their numbers increase, 1t is not un- | usual this year for the animals to make l their presence known in broad daylight. Not long ago farmer heard his cattle making an unusual noise in the bush and, hastenlng toward them, found them standing in a circle, with q pair of calves in the center. and believing loudly for assistance. Three or four wolves sat upon their launches. facing them, and waiting until they should become tired of hos tiities and allow the calves to fall vic- tims.
 Not far away from this little farm lives q settler, who. while smoking his pipe at his door on Sunday, saw a deer and two lawns burst out of the bush and spring across his fields to the barn and through the open door of his stable where the COWS were tied. Five wolves followed un- til the man gave loud shout, when they slunk back into the woods. The doe and her progeny were at last Accounts still sharing the hospitality of the barn.