Muscatine County, Iowa COMMUNITY NEWS

Source of article: "The Muscatine Journal", Muscatine, Iowa July 13, 1871

POISONING A WOLF

For some time past Mr. A. Miller, who lives a few miles west of the city, has lost several young lambs and poultry by depredations of wolves. Tuesday evening he saturated a lambs head in blood and dragged it in a circle a mile round, leaving it at the starting point, well impregnated with strychnine. It was not long after til he heard the yelping of a wolf on the trail, answered by feebler yelps of younger wolves some distance off. Next morning the old wolf was found cold in death near the place he had taken his last savory feast of mutton, the poison having done it's work. Mr. Miller hopes yet to capture or kill the young whelps, and their mother, who have been living so luxuriously on his turkeys and Mr. Hershey's Southdown lambs. These wolves are of the gray prairie species. Mr. Miller brought the dead wolf to the city this forenoon, and it was a novel sight to many.

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