Evening star., 1923-01-13
CANADIAN WOLVES
MENAC|NG BORDER
Invasion of Northern States
by Hunger-Mad Packs Fear
ed by Zoo Director.
WREAK HAVOC IN ONTARIO
Drop in Price for Pelts Results in
Alarming Increase in Number
of Ferocious Killers.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, January 13.-Northern
sections of the United States are
threatened with invasion by packs of
hunger-mad wolves from Canada, and
untold damage is likely as result of
attacks on sheep and cattle, Director
w. I. Hornaday of the Bronx Zoo de-
c!ares after an intensive study of the
alarming increase of gray timber
wolves within the last few years.
Scores of packs now are wreaking
tavoc among farm animals and arc
wipinS out furred game in ontario.
while recently two Ontario mail
carriers were attacked and killed
near Lake Nipissing. The remains
OF a trapper and two Indians, de-
Eoured by wolves. also were found d
rev days ago by hunters.
Inc rapid increase in the number
or gray, or timber, wolves, according
20 Director Hornaday. is due to pres
"nt low raw fur prices. Two years
ago, he said, wolf skins brought from
$50 to $50 in New York, while today
prices range from 50 to $l9.
No Canadian B0unties.
Cuts in fur prices have checked
mo activity of trapperS and Indian
hunters In wiping out the packs" he
Sdiu NO DOuntleS are OHcFGu IN
canada. to my knowledge, for wolf
Scatps and as 1t has not been pro-
ftable to hunt them for their pelts
ai2ne, their increase has been large.
In the United States it is different.
Practically every state has a bounty
on wolf Scalps, ranging from So to
Sl5, while in the west. cattle and
sheep associations offer additional re-
wards This has been an incentive in
Wlplng out, to great degree, the
wolves in western United States.
The federal government has been
assisting in recent years. through the
activity Of tho Department of Agri-
culture, in furnishing professional
wolf killers TO communities meuaCed
by the beasts. But faced by the
hordes now ravagins certain districts
in Canada, the menace of an invasion
iS imminent
Game animals are being rapidly
eXterminated by the wolves. his re
ports showed. In Alaska entire herds
or 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.
Director Hornaday declared there
had been many instances where hunt
ers and trappers were attacked and
in occasional Instances Killed by row.
ing wolf packs.
Hunters Attacked.
Several years ago Buffalo Jones. the
famous hunter and sportsman. and Il
partner went to northern canada. near
Great Slave lax capture musk OK
calves for museums ne said. They
captured five and while bringing the
animals back TO their base, were sur
rounded by an enormous Wolf pack. For
i've days and nights they fought con-
tjnually killing dozens of the animals,
hut finally won their way through, al
though the calves We're abandoned
Many IL missing hunter or Traveller
has been an unrecorded victim OF
wolves"
Director IIornaday said that of all
species of timber wolf. the largest and
most feroCiouS WAS to bc found in
Ma ska and in certain sections of Canada.
Scarcity OF game, he said. due to their
Iavages, would drive them south and
eventually across the border of the
United States.
Unless government agencies combine
efforts with cattle and sheep assccia-
tIons and game wardens in VARIOUS
states TO check the incoming hordes of
wolves, serious trouble will occur he
concluded. Lives are being enda ngered
AS we'll, as, having been undisturbed for
several years, the packs have become
more numerous and more ferocious. 1t
Is time for action