The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-03-16
WOLF RACES AUTOMOBILE
WILLIAM kRoTTER OF STUART
ouTsTRlPs THE COYOTE.
sur WOLF MADE PLuckY RUN

Keeping Just a Few Feet Behind the
Machine, the Grey Creature OF the
Plains Kept In Sight Of the Racing
Car for Miles and Miles.
william Krotter, lumberman and
telephone magnate at Stuart, while
n the city yesterday enroute to Bone
steel, told story Of fearless wolf
near Stuart. Mr.. Krotter was driving
MS automobile along the country
'oads recently when great, gray
wolf started to- follow It, II kept Just
few feet behind the machine as he
travelled along the country road at
steady pace. At the bottom Of hill
The machine broke down and the wolf
sat down a few feet away from It,
while Mr.. Krotter got out Of the ma
chine and tinkered it back into work
ng order. Then he started out again
with the wolf keeping right behind
BY putting the machine to it's highest
speed eventually he managed to shake
he wolf off, although he was still
steadily following when last seen far
n the rear.
With the annual settlement OF coun-
~ bills the western part of Nebraska
md the Rosebud country Is discover
ng what It costs to fight the coyote.
It Is one of the fixed charges" of
prairie development, and many fam.
ly finds funds for unwonted luxuries
n the checks given by the county Of.
ticers for coyote scalps.
During recent years the coyote has
increased upon the plains of western
Nebraska and the Rosebud. The dep
relations have become so numerous
md extensive as to warrant counties
Inscriptions beings. Many western
counties have until recently offered
So each for these wolf scalps, but the
arge number brought in for payment
made it necessary to change the fig
Ire, and now few offer more than 81
for scalps amounted to more than
$1,000 year, and the people could not
ford it.
A Peculiar Creature.
The habits of the coyote are pecu-
lar. No region is too desolate or too
lonesome for him to make a home
| he lives on good terms with the owl
and the rattle snake. He is always
| can, and his hide looks like a faded
out and dlapidated wagon robe
| y, ,I,
chief pleasure is in an unearthly mid
light howl in which numbers join
n order to terrify some hapless flock
n belated traveller. Many a settler
irving his prairie schooner over the
prairie has been kept in trembling
'ear by the shrll howl of the coyotes
hat followed his wagon. During the
summer they are less bold, but as
winter comes on the barn yards suf
fer, and, once banded together, they
have no hesitancy in making attacks
IN lonesome cabins and frightened
yayfarers, In all attacks, however
here is never any bravery shown, bu
'or hours the besiegers will sit OF
heir launches at distance and how
n painful cadence, longing for some
weak victim to appear.
With the return of cold weather The
annual attempt of the settlers to xii
IF the coyotes is resumed. 1t is ;
lever-ending struggle, yet one which
IAN not be relinquished, for the pestf
erous creatures are the bane of tn,
farmers life. The coyote is born with
>ut honor, and never acquires it. HI
sinking coward by nature, ant
seems rather proud of this character
site of his being. He is hanger-on
skirmisher, and is always, as Marl
Twain puts it, "out of luck and friend
ess."
Can't Harm Man.
The average Drairip settler has M