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Show A fAVOUa Oil) H U T t it D.-.AO. I'nrmlv Hlltr.l aoon ller r, 4011 ll.ors anil j .Mm ll llllii-i- lot Ill III I.,...? i.ie.T. l-iiac tin inly, the last of n gr nip i f ' fatuous hlillicM, trnppcln and w Is null of Noithcru l'ciilisylvania who seltlcl In that ri chill w hile It wal yet an loi.iiiikeu wllileincss. died al Hr-isv Mn, ,1 i 1 1 1 v ng, .1 ninety He wnnn ll I Hi I IT while elk. Holven and patllhi is were yd pleiillful In I he I'cunsylvimln feicsts. in n stalemciit innilc by him n few yi-nrs ago he said he had killed foriy-sei en elk, thirty-two panth.-ra. inoic wolves than he could remember, it si beiiia nml more lion :iihi deer, nil en the watersheds of the Allegheny nud Siisiiuchaiuia. Among the adventures In Hie woods that he wan fond of relating wan a regular reg-ular Israel riitiiaui experience With wolves. He stlrprinid two wolves one day lienor, ui,- n deer he hi; killed, pursued them Into n cave, sho, one nnd killed the oiher Willi n kulfe nttir n d. npernlo ll-:lll. At one period In the cnrly career of rnrniiy ns a Ininicr wohen wire such ll pest o Hie sellli inciiln that the Com. lllissioliol-n or Mi'lvivill Coillily, l'n nlaeed ii boiiiny of VJ.', u sculp on lie in. rariuly. Hie Nelsons, coon Cowl.. v. the I'nrkcr,.. I.Yoi Hue and olhern or Hie pioneer liliilieis nml trappers re-(uiiimI re-(uiiimI so ninny weir scalps to the treasury In tl. Hist year that pay. inonin on tin-in cvliaiisicd the fun. in, nnd the next year the county bad to Is. sue scrip to meet the il ti-ands nf the Wolf slnyera. The lummy wan then reduced re-duced to fS to save the county's credit, and for yniia wolf scrip was pari of Hie rceo-inizcd cum my of that region or the Slate. I'nrinly was In nt Hie death, forty years ngo. o? (he last ilk In lViinsyi-vnnla, lViinsyi-vnnla, which wan followed from Flag Swamp, lu Mil; County, to the head waters nf the Clarion lilver, nnd killed there by I'lirnily, Indian ,11m Jacobs, Scth Nelson and Ceorge I'urker. I'nrmly lenves many itencembiuts In S'euhen nnd other soul her ii tier counties. coun-ties. New York Sun. |