Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-04-11

certain oeeOeuon, the ingredients
which are a profound secret. and o
which each trapper is very proud, cor
sidering that bis recipe, and his alone
is the correct one to attract the wolve.
This stuff, it may be said, however
contains various Ingredients, the prinei
pal parts Of which are vaIerian and ra
musk. Wolves. like dogs. are fond O
this odor, which, by the way, Is yer!
offensive TO the n0strils Of mankind
but the wolves will come some dis
tauee to smell around the bushes wber,
this drug has been sprinkled, and in 9,
doing they are often caught in tn,
traps.
The old lobO and his mate mentioned
above, were too wise to be eaught in
this manner, but went on in their de
struetive way. Last summer, Seaton
Keith states, they killed 40 two-yeal
steers, representing value of about
$500, besides COWS and other stock, 50
that in their lifetime these wolves de
stroyed thousands Of dollars Of valua
ble stock, and the stockmen spent
many hundreds of dollars in the en-
deavor to kill them.
Last fall the old female wolf was
killed at last. BY a lucky chance a
glimpse was caught of her in daytime
and well aimed shot from trapper 8
winchester rife 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
trappcr, succeeded in trapping Brer
Wolf. After being caught in the trap
by but two of the toes on one fore leg,
the old wolf tore loose the trap from
its fastenings and was chased 20 miles
by pack of wolf hounds before he
was overtaken and shot and killed
He Was a Big One.
The hide measures feet and inches
in length and the wolf when alive was
as large as a yearling steer. The trap
per in killing this wolf received $50
for reward from l.. H. Farr, s. from
the state as a bounty and sold the hide
for a large sum.
In Crockett county the depredations
Of lobo wolves have been so bad Of late
that the ranchmen have gone into an
agreement to pay John Martin, well
known trapper, certain sum for each
wolf killed in Crockett county. The
ranchmen signed list with the agree
ment at its head, and each agreed to
pay from 81 to a. each for each wolf
killed in Crockett county, no matter on
whose land or whose ranch. AS there
are many lobo wolves in that county
and number of ranehmen signed the
agreement, the trapper has quite a tidy
sum coming to him. But his part of
the agreement is equally binding. He
agrees TO clean out the lobo wolves from
Crockett county and not leave one re-
This will prove a hard task
when it gets down to one or-two old,
smart wolves
To aid in the work of exterminating
the wolves from western Texas, Claude
b. Hudspeth, known as the cowboy
who is the representative
in the state legislature and passed a
bin providing for AN appropriation of
100000 by the state 10 pay bounties on
wolf and other varmints scalps.
Lobo a Man-Kiner.
Lobo wolves are the only wolves
which will attack mankind, speaking.
# course, Of the wolves in Texas and
he southwest. The timber wolves come
,eross 20 west Texas in certain sea
ions in packs, and are very destructive
o stock, as they hunt in packs, and
hese wolves will attack a man when
,aek Of them runs across a man ON foot,
'ut the lobo is said 10 be the only wolf
which will attack lone man without
he aid Of other wolves. This is only
lone, however, when the wolf is very