Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1915 — WOLF DRIVE RESULTS IN ONE DEATH [ARTICLE]

WOLF DRIVE RESULTS IN ONE DEATH

Squire C. W. Bussell Kills She Wolf Where Fifty Others Failed To Bit It. The wolf drive held in Wjiite and Jasper counties yesterday was participated in by 500 people and was a grand success. The drive started at 10:30 in the morhing in Hanging Grove township, near Lee, and ended at the Monon Marsh, near Lfee. The circle was about four miles around at the beginning and narrowed as the crowd came together. Three wolves were rounded up and as the circle narrowed the three wolves broke through and got away, As one of the wolves, a large she one, broke through the ring, 500 shots were fired at it, some of the gunners not being over 10 feet away, but it remained for that veteran wolf hunter, Squire C. W. Bussell, of Hanging Grove township, to bring the wolf down with a shot from his trusty rifle. He was 410 steps away, but brought the wolf down at the first shot. By previous agreement the pelt was auctioned off for the benefit of charity and was sold to Bert Lowe, of Monon, for $7.75. The scalp bounty of $5 will be. claimed from Whitt county if the county allows a bounty and this will be added to Thi? is the seventieth wolf that <9quie; Bussel has killed, 69 of them being killed in Jasper county.