The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-02-13
HUNGRY GRAY WOLVES
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PERIL FARMERS FLOCKs
HORDES OF THEM INVADE
NORTHERN SECTIONS OF
THE UNITED STATES.
ATTACK AND KILL FIVE MEN
Packs Work Havoc Among Live
Stock and Are Wiping Out Furred
Game in Ontario. Hordes of Carl
bou Are Killed in Alaska.


NEW YORK, N. Y.-Northern
sections of the United States are
threatened with invasion by packs of
hunger mad wolves from Canada, and
| untold damage is likely as a result of
attacks on sheep and cattle, Director
w. 7. Hornady, of the Bronx zoo,
said today after an intensive study of
the alarming increase of gray timber
wolves within the last few years.
Scores Of packs are now wreaking
havoc among farm animals and are
wiping out furred game in Ontario,
i while recently two Ontario mail car
riers were attacked and killed near
Lake Nipissing. The remains of a
trapper and two Indians, devoured by
wolves, also were found a few days
ago by hunters.
/ The rapid increase in the number
of gray wolves, according to Director
Hornady, is due to present low raw
| fur prices. Two years ago, he said,
wolve skins brought from $50 to 500
in New York, while today prices range
from SIS to SO.
Price Cuts Check Trappers.
Cuts in fur prices have checked
the activity of trappers and Indian
hunters in Wiping out the packs, he
said No bounties are offered in Cana
da to my knowledge for wolf scalps.
an the United States it is different.
Practically every state has bounty
on wolf scalps, ranging from SIS to SIS,
while in the west cattle and sheep as
sociations offer additional rewards.
IN, 1cy
out, TO a great degree, the wolves in
western United States.
"The federal government has been
assisting i'll recent years, through the
activity of the department of agricul-
ture, in furnishing professional wolf
| killers to communities menaced by the
beasts. But faced by the hordes now
ravaging certain districts in Canada
the menace of an invasion is immi-
nent." Game animals are being rapid
" exterminated by the wolves, his re-
ports show In Alaska entire herds Of
caribou have been annihilated and
Wright Wenrich, game warden, has
appealed to the department of agri-
culture to send trained killers to check
the activities of the animals
Attack Hunters and Trappers.
Director Hornady declared there
had been many instances where hun
tiers and trappers were attacked and
in occasional instances killed by row.
ing wolf packs.
Several years ago Buffalo Jones,
the famous hunter and sportsman, and
partner went to northern Canada,
near Great Slave lake, to capture musk
OK calves for museums" he said.
They captured five and while bring
ing the animals back to their base
were surrounded by an enormous wolf
pack. For five days and nights they
fought continually, killing dozens OF
the animals, and finally won their way
through, although the calves were
abandoned
MANY a missing hunter or travel
er has been an unrecorded victim OF
wolves"
Director Hornady said that of all
species OF timber wolves the largest
and most ferocious was to be found
in Alaska and in certain sections OF
| Canada. Scarcity of game, he said,
due to their ravages, would drive them
south and eventually across the Dor
der of the United States.
"Unless government agencies COM
bine efforts with cattle and sheep as
sociations and game Wardens in va
rious states to check the incoming
hordes of wolves serious trouble VIII
| occur" he concluded.