Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1904 — Squire Bussell And His Big Wolf [ARTICLE]

Squire Bussell And His Big Wolf

1 J w mt 11 Miafff 11 ‘ Squire Charley Bussell brought vto town Friday the big bad old wolf, he killed one day last week, and after filing his claim for the bounty of $lO, and having hia ears punched, (that is the wolf’s ears, not Charley’s) by County Auditor Leatherman, so that no one oould eulleot another bounty on him, he '.shipped him to State Geologist ' Blatohley, at Indianapolis, He will pay Charley $5 for him, and will have him mounted and placed in the state museum, in the Oapi* tol building. The sls which he gets out of the wolf Charley says ’ will only pay him about a cent apiece on the poultry this wolf has killed for him during the seven or eight years of hie aoquain- • tanoe. His specialty was turkeys, and be scrupled no more to take a mother turk off her brood than to slay the proud gobbler while he strutted. The people of the whole neighborhood have had a regular week’s celebration since this wolf was killed. Charley had the dead wolf’s picture taken Friday, with '-Charley in it with his avenging shot gun. Ho also had the wolf weighed and he pulled down 42 pounds, which is pretty dprge ■ tor a common prairie Wolf. -w—. —, Austin A Hopkins can make loans on farm and city property ■nicker than any firm in Jasper