Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 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 $75. The state pays a bount of S2O each and the county pays $5 additional, " ■ ■ : . ■ i ■ ' The pelts were received at the office of the state fish and game commission and showed the wolves to have been of unusual siz'O. One was fully seven feet from tip of nose to tail and the two others were .not more than six inches shorter. Carl D. Shoemaker, state game warden, estimates that the death of the wolves saved 525 deer. He says that one wolf would kill an average of 176 deer a year