Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-05

long and eventful career received a
telegram. He was duly and properly
excited. Saddling his mustang and
loading enough grub on mules to last
for two months he started in pursuit
of that wolf" The chase became
desperate. The wolf was just as foxy
as the hunter. Now and then Will
liams would spot Mr.. Wolf on dis
tant hillside. but it seems that at that
particular second the wolf was also
doing little spotting, and by the
time his twolegged foe reached the hill
side he was miles away. Six weeks of
well nigh continuous trailing took
place before the hunter was able to
outwit the. hunted. Williams is re-
ported to have lost so much flesh dur
ing the long chase that his clothes
hung to his body like gunnysack
to bean pole. But the wolf was in
far worse condition. Despite the fact
that it measured five feet in length, it
only weighed ninety-eight pounds
when killed. 1t should have weighed
at least twice that much.
A lone wolf that is different" from
all others is causing much speculation
in Arizona. A hunter in that state
writes about him as follows:
1.-THE wolf works alone, as there are
no other wolves for many miles The
work of the wolf is very different from
that Of any other wolf / have ever seen.
1t will attack calf by the throat. kill
the calf and leave it without eating any
of it. In examining carcasses Of calves
killed by this wolf I found his tusk
marks on the throat and the Calls
tongue hung out. showing that it had
IN aof In
have l ever found where the VOLTS
teeth penetrated the skin of a calf The
hair was torn off in strips about three
eighths of an inch wide, showing that
the wolf has no canine teeth left This
wolf will also come into farmyards and
travel the main roads. 1 am not sure
but that We will find this animal to be
a cross from some dog 1t has been
known. according to ranchers, to have
used this range for the past twelve
years"
hunter in Idaho quietly turned the
corner of a hill and found himself face
to face with a monster wolf dining on
a calf. 1t is difficult to say which was
more surprised. the man with the gun
or the wolf with the meal. A bullet
was soon sent whizZing through the ami
mails brain. The hunter then back
tracked the wolf through the snow until
he found her den, which contained seven
young pups.
Especially good work was done by
Hunter Bert Allen. in taking four lions
in Utah. These. lions had been making
raids on herds of sheep. In a single
night they killed sixty-two sheep. Al
len set traps for them near the kill. and
on the next morning had one old fe-
male. Two days later he had a year
ling female and within a week trapped
another old female and shot yearling
male that had stayed near the trapped
animal.
The above are fair examples of the
type of work that is being done by
Uncle Sans hundreds of hunters
When America was first coloniZed by
white men wolves were numerous every
where in proportion to the great abund-
ance of game animals. With the in
creased occupation of the continent and
the destruction Of most Of it's large
game, wolves have entirely disappeared
They still occur in varying numbers
in the forest along our northern bor-
der, from michigan westward, and
south along the Rocky Mountains and
the Sierra Madre to Durango, Mexico,
and also in all the Gulf states.
Gray wolves appear to mate per-
manently, and in spring their young
are born in natural dens among great
rocks. or in a burrow dug for the
purpose in hillside. There both
parents exercise the greatest vigil
ance for the protection of the young.
The male kills and brings in game
and stands guard in the neighborhood,
while the mother devotes most OF
her time to the pups while they are
very small. At other times of the
year packs made up of one or more
pairs and their young hunt together
with a mutual helpfulness in pur-
suing and bringing down their prey
1T
gence. Wolves are, in fact, first
cousins of the dog. whose mental
ability is recognized by ALL
The mountain lion, next to the
jaguar. is the largest of the cat tribe
native to America. In Various parts
of it's range it is also known as the
panther, cougar and puma. 1t is a
slender bodied animal with a small
head and long round tail, with a total
length varying from seven to nine
feet and a weight from about $50
| to 200 pounds. 1t has from two to
hve young, which are paler brown
| than the adult and plainly marked
with large dusky spots on the body
and with dark bars on the tail These
special markings of the young, as
| in other animals, are ancestral. and
here appear to indicate that in the
remote past our plain brown panther
was spotted cat somewhat like the
leopard.
No other American mammal has
a range equal to that Of the mountain
lion. IT. originally inhabited both
North and South America from south
ern Quebec and Vancouver Island To
Patagonia and from the Atlantic to
the Pacific coasts. Within this enorm-
Gus territory 1t appears to be equally
at home in an extraordinary variety
| of conditions. Formerly it was rather
common in the Adirondacks of north
ern New York and still lives in the
high Rocky mountains of the west
where it endures. the rigors of the
generally distributed, where large
game occurs, in the treeless ranges
of the most arid parts of the south
western deserts. and is also well
known in the most humid tropical