Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1916 — BIG GAME IS SLAUGHTERED [ARTICLE]

BIG GAME IS SLAUGHTERED

Wolves Are Causing Great Havbc Among -Deer- In the- North? ern Woods. Duluth, Minn. Trappers arriving here with wolf hides for bounty report that hundreds of northern Minnesota deer are being slaughtered by wolves. The exceptionally deep snow and the alternate freezing and thawing have made a crust that will sustain the weight of the wolves, but the sharp hoofs of deer break through, and they fall an easy prey. The scarcity of rabbits, which have been wiped out, has made the deer the only food available for wolves, and even the small brush wolves have assembled in packs and become brave enough through hunger to attack young deer.