Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1913 — KILLED OLD WOLF AND SIX YOUNG ONES [ARTICLE]

KILLED OLD WOLF AND SIX YOUNG ONES

Rensselaer Frog Hunter Turns Wolf Hunter With Satisfactory • Results. Wm. Bowsher, the noted frog hunter who recently moved here from Monon, has turned wolf hunter and seems to be as successful at that occupation as he is in catch-. Ing frogs for the market. Hanging Grove township and vicinity has been overrun with wolves the past winter and owing to their depredations it has been found almost impossible to raise poultry. Squire Bussell, who is usually so successful in killing off the pests, had given up irf despair, and has even offered rewards out of his own pocket to have the wolves killed. Yesterday Bowsher took a hand and on the Dodd farm, in White county, near Lee, he found a den, and after digging fourteen feet, he came across an old wolf and six young ones. The old one he killed with a spade, and the young ones he dispatched more leisurely. Bowsher has been quite successful in the past in finding young wolves, but it is reported that heretofore he never attempted to kill the old ones, for a reason that may be surmised. He will be entitled to quite a nice sum in the way of bounties for his latest captures if White county follows the practice of Jasper in paying bounties.