The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1905-05-05
INDIAN CHlLDR en-
Dey0ured By fercCiOuS Wolves
In the Wilds of North
ern Canada.
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corning 10 tne reports WHICH are De-
ing brought in to the headquarters
of the Hudson Bay Company. One
of the most serious of these reports
has reference to the destruction
wrought by wolves among the sur
viving bands of the wood buffalo,
and has been sent by mail from TT.
Resolution, which is a Hudson Bay
Company post on the southern shore
of the Great Slave Lake, in the vast,
UNEMPLOYED district of Mackenzie.
The winter there was marked by a
constantly low temperature of some
80 degrees below zero for months at
time, which made the wolves
alarmingly bold, so that it became
necessary for the Indians TO CONSOLE
date their camps for purposes of
protection.
The magnificent herd of wood buff
falo which are still at large in this
wild country were attacked by the
wolves in the absence of other food.
with unprecedented ferocity, and
hundreds of them are said to have
been slaughtered. At FIT. Smith it
was noticed that even old bulls
which were fully grown had
been attacked and devoured.
The trappers and others in the
north are now memoralizing the Do
minion Government TO organize
some effectual campaign against the
wolves. In view of their rapid in
crease and ferocity of late it will
otherwise be simply impossible to
nrotect the buffalo against them,
they say.
From the Peace River country
comes the tale of two Indian chill
dren having been devoured by
wolves. The mother had died, leav-
ing the two little ones to the care Of
the father, a hunter, who, running
short of food. had left them in
small hut while he went out hunt
ing.
Returning at night, he found their
bones outside the hut II is not
known whether the beasts, whose
scent of very young children is
known to be exceedingly keen, had
torn open the hut to get at their
prey. or whether the children had
found their own way out only to fall
a prey to the wolves. The story as
first told was TO the effect that the
father had purposely left the little
ones where they would become the
prey of wolves, so as to be rid of
the trouble of caring for them; but
there is no evidence to warrant his
indictment.
John Macdonald, hunter of Cape
Breton, had an exciting experience
only few days ago with pack of
wolves which followed and attacked
him as he was returning from hunt
near Cape North. 1t was growing
dark at the time, and this no doubt
gave additional courage to the
brutes.
The faster the hunter ran the
faster the pursuing animals APP
preached him. When the foremost
one was close upon him Macdonald,
TUNED sharply around and fired so
well directed shot at it that it fell
dead in its tracks. Another was so
close behind that the hunter found
it necessary to fire the remaining
barrel of his gun, which brought
down the second wolf, though with
out killing it.
The foremost of the others fell
upon the wounded animal, which
was bowling in rage and agony, and
the hunter had just time to load one
barrel of his gun before another
beast was ready to spring upon him.
He had scarcely fired his third
charge, and had no opportunity to
reload, when two other wolves
sprang at him."
Just as he was striking right and
left with his gun at the savage
beasts and fearing that his last hour
had come, assistance arrived in the
shape of a neighbor, who had heard
his cries for help and who happened
to be taking short cut through the
woods for a neighboring parish.
True to their cowardly nature, the
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