Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1915 — WALKER TOWNSHIP CITIZEN SAW WOLF [ARTICLE]

WALKER TOWNSHIP CITIZEN SAW WOLF

Reported It and Hasty Hunt Took Place But Crafty Coyote Gave Pursuers the Slip. An impromptu wolf hunt was organized in Walker township this Tuesday morning and several saw the wolf aJid one or two got shots at it from some distance away ibut the wise wolf gave them the slip. For some time game has been disappearing in the neighborhood of the Guy Barnard farm in Walker township and indications pointed to a wolf as the culprit. Recently a turkey hen and" fourteen young turkeys were killed by the wolf at the Charles Tomlinson farm. Men and women alike declared war against the wolf but he managed to slip about without being seen. This Tuesday morning as Link Braddock was driving to Wheatfield he saw the wolf on the Guy Barnard farrfi and hastened .to give the alarm and a dozen men with guns surrounded the place where the wolf was seen ins what is known as the Mannon marsh. The men, however, did not retain their places but bunched up too closely and Brer Wolf slipped through and made his escape, although he was shot at by one or two of the hunters. It is possible that a chase may be organized to get him, as the loss of poultry is proving quite serious.