The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-15

The king of the lobo wolves in west ern Texas is dead at last. Right truly did he deserve his title. although many ranchmen persisted in calling him in- stead "the daddy of the lOboes," for he successfully eluded all attempts to kill or capture him for over five years, dur ing which time he was diligently and systematically hunted in every manner known to man. The efforts of the ranchmen and trappers were all in vain until last week, when the tireless unre- mitting attempts of John Glaze, the mo- ted western wolf trapper, proved at last too much for the willy old lobo, and he came to his death.
 A little over five years ago mon- strous lobo wolf took up his habitation in the pastures of the Berrendo Live Stock company, St. Louis corporation, which is managed by Louis L. Farr, of San Angelo, and the ranch fleadquar- ters of which are located on Kickapoo and Pecan creeks, some twenty-five miles from San Angelo. The old lobo, or 'loafer," as the common name goes, soon acquired himself a mate from parts unknown, and the happily mated pair set about the business of life in earnest. A family of healthy lobo pups was soon brought into the world, and 1t was then that the serious depreda- tions of this family began to attract the attention of the stockmen in several counties, for the family ranged thirty to forty miles a day in their maraud- ing expeditions.
 Glimpses caught of the wolf proved him to be the largest wolf ever seen by any of the old-time cattlemen, but, for that matter, a year-old lobo wolf is able to kill a big steer single-handed. The stock killed by these wolves soon became a. valuable item in the ranch men's account, and after attempts by the ranchmen to kill or capture the wolves by means of packs of dogs and attempts by the cowpunchers to ride down and rope them, trappers were brought in and offered large sums to clean out this destructive family of big gray wolves.
 For five years different trappers came and went and gave out that the big old lobo, which, in the last year or two, had moved his habitat with his family from the Berrendo Live Stock compa- ny's pastures to those of Seaton Keith, a Scotch ranch owner, on Lipan Creek, was too cute to be caught in a trap or ! killed The trappers, however, were able every year to kill the wolf puppies which the pair brought into the world, but the old ones they could not touch or even get a sight of.
 In trapping loboes the utmost care must be observed on the part of the trappers not to touch the traps with their hands. No bait can be used, for the lobo wolf eats only live, fresh meat, aad 1t is this habit of his which makes him So expensve to the ranchman, for after making one meal out of big steer the rest of the carcass, probably three fourths, Is left untouched and wasted.
 The trappers place their traps along side the cattle trials, as the wolves travel beide the trails at night, remain ing through the day in brush thickets or canons, their marauding and stock killing expeditions being confined who'll ly to the nght-tinle. The big trap is covered loosely with earth and leaves { or RTdSS IO Slfc IL tilS oL the ground surrounding, while the trap is anchored with huge chain to a, near by tree. Over bushes and shrubs close to the trap the trapper sprinkles a cer- tain decoction, the ingredients of which are a profound secret and of which each rtapper is very proud, considering that his recipe, and his alone, is the correct one to attract the wolves. This stuff. 1t may be said however, contains various ingredients, the principal parts of which are valerian and rat musk. Wolves, Ike dogs, are fond of this odor, which, by the way, is very offensive to the nostrils of mankind; but the wolves will come some distance to smell around the bushes where this drug has been sprinkled, and In so doing they are often caught in the traps.
 The old loboi and his mate mentioned above were too wise to be caught in this manner, but went on in their de- structiye way. Last summer, Seaton Keith states, they killed forty two- year-old steers, representing a value Of about five hundred dollars. besides cows and other stock, so that in their lifetime those wolves destroyed thou ands of dollars worth of valuable stock, and the stockmen spent many hundreds of dollars in the endeavor to kill them.
 Last fall the old female wolf was killed at last. By lucky chance a glimpse was caught of her in daytime, and well aimed shot from 8 trapper's Winchester rifle ended her life. Since { then unremitting efforts have been put { forth and large reward offered to in- sure the death of the famous old lobo. Last week John Glaze, the famous wolf trapper, succeeded in trapping Brer Wolf. After being caught in the trap by but two of the toes on one foreleg, the old wolf tore loose the trap from it's fastenings and was chased twenty miles by pack of wolf hounds before he was overtaksn and shot and killed.
 The hide measures six feet six inches In length and the wolf when alive was as large as a yearling steer. The trap psr in killing this wolf received fifty dollars for a reward from L. L. Farr, five dollars from the state as bounty and sold the hide for a large sum.
 Tn Crockett county the depredations of lobo wolves have been so bal of late that the ranchmen have gone into an agreement to pay John Martin, a we'll known trapper, a certain sum for each