Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1920 — WOLVERINE AN UGLY FIGHTER [ARTICLE]

WOLVERINE AN UGLY FIGHTER

Animal That Looks Like a Small Bear Has Been Described as ‘<Crazy as a Bat." Ugliest, of all the animals encountered in that wonderful game area (Mt. Whitney) is the wolverine, closely resembling a small bear, but much more powerful. This beast is credited with the ability to vanquish a grizzly, but there is no record of a witnessed combat and the possible result must remain a matter of conjecture. The wolverine Is aptly described as “crazy as a bat." —On occasion make a mad, blind rush regardless of obstacles or consequences. Recently a power company drove a long tunnel under the Sierra Nevada to carry a stream for hydroelectric development. One morning a party of miners entering the bore saw a pair of blazing eyes in the darkness ahead reflecting the glare of their lanterns. They expected the owner to turn and run away. Instead it came dashing toward them, knocked one man off his feet and sent him sprawling, frightened the others almost speechless, and kept going. It was a big wolverine and its action was characteristic. .

This creature’s hide brings only sls and nobody’s looking for it. Dogs find it uncompanionable —It “breaks ’em all up” to come in contact —John L. Von Bion in Scientific American.