Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1916 — KILLS THREE BIG WOLVES [ARTICLE]

KILLS THREE BIG WOLVES

Lives of 525 Deer Estimated to Have Been Saved by Work of Oregon Hunter. Portland, Ore. —Three gray wolves killed by Jake Dumont of Tiller, Ore., will net him 375. The state pays a bount of 320 each and the county pays 35 additional. ..I The pelts were received at the office of the state fish and game conlhilSßion and showed the wolves to have been of unusual size. One was fully seven feet from tip of nose to tall and the two others were not more thaa jig. Inches shorter. Carl D. Shoemaker, state game warden, estimates that the death of the woMfos saved 525 deer. Be says that oneHvolf would kill an average of 175 deer a year