Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 195, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1913 — BULLET PROOF WOLF KILLED [ARTICLE]

BULLET PROOF WOLF KILLED

Old Whitey’s Depredations Cost Rancher $50,000 In Past" Five Years. Wheatland, Wyo.—Old Whitey, an unusually large gray wolf whose depredations have cost the stockmen of this section $50,000 during the past five years, was slain by George Koons on the Mertz ranch on the Laramie plains. Old Whitey was probably the most cunning wild animal that ever operated in southeast Wyoming. He sidestepped poisoned food and traps set out to catch him, while his fleetness of ifoot carried him out of reach of Russian etaghounds. He seemed bullet proof, for on many occasions ranchmen have heard the thud of their bullets as they struck his hide, but he always got away until this time. His hide is scarred by many bullet wounds and his feet and legs are knots of broken cords and muscles. Koons will obtain rewards of over SIOO for the capture of Old Whitey.