Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1912 — Shot a Big Wolf on the Otis Ranch In Jasper County. [ARTICLE]

Shot a Big Wolf on the Otis Ranch In Jasper County.

Richard Peterson, son of the foreman of the big Otis ranch between s*air Oaks and Roselawn, in Jasper county, was in town today to claim the bounty on a big wolf scalp, which he shot Monday. Peterson was out duck hunting and not having any success in finding ducks he put three loads of buckshot in his gun to be prepared for bigger game should he meet it. At the edge of a woods he came across the wolf. When he saw It, it was about 35 steps away and started to run. Peterson biased away. The first two shots struck the wolf in the foreleg, but did not stop his flight, and he moved about twenty feet when the third load struck him in the head and brought him down. The county auditor punched the ears of the bide and gave It back to Peterson. He will get $lO bounty for killing the wolf and before he left town he sold the . hide to Charley Stephenson for $3, which paid* him well for his morning’s work. Peterson« thinks there are a number of these animals on the ranch, or near-by, as a number of young ones were seen last fall on the ranch.

E. L. Hollingsworth went to Elkhart a day or two ago and this morning D. S. Makeever and B. Forsythe, .the other members of t ehCommercial Club committee, accompanied by W. R. Meguire and Geo. H. Healey, the latter going at the solicitation of the match company officers, went to Elkhart, where they will be joined by W. W. Sterling and Mr. Hollingsworth and all together will go to North Baltimore, Ohio, to look over the match factory, which it is proposed to move to Rensselaer. . Rev. Peter Hines, a former resident of Jasper county, died at his home in Little Rock, Ark., February 13th, of pneumonia. Rev. Hines lived in this county in the early nineties. He was a minister of the Baptist church and had charge of a church In Milroy township during most of his residence here. He came,here from Shelby county and bought the former Cleveland farm north of town, which he disposed of later. He also lived in Rensselaer for a few months. From here he moved to Kansas, and about s year ago he moved to Little Rock. He leaves a wife and one grown son, Mablon, and one granddaughter. He