{"1": {"fulltext": "fe\u00c2\u00bb^?et^\u00c2\u00ab*-!\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0.ii\u00c2\u00abr:;*fl? C|\\n?mmmm m.mWf.iio -f,-mfm it*m t^^\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0#i\\nW O L\\nUNTER\\nI SK 283\\nf .C79\\nCopy 1\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0K^ wti\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00bbr^a.\u00c2\u00ab*i\u00c2\u00abrr\\nlai T Hi rrrriTTTrrr\u00e2\u0080\u0094", "height": "3767", "width": "2088", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.\\n^P- Copyright No.\\nSlielf...C.1i,\\nliNITED STATES OF AMERICA.", "height": "3568", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3568", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3568", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "CORBIN B ADVICK\\nThe Wolf Hunter s Guide\\nTells Ho-w to Catch Em and\\nAll About the Science of Wolf Hunting\\nii^ BWuN, CORBIjS\\nBISMARCK, N. D.:\\nTHE TRIBUNE CO., PRINTERS.\\n1900", "height": "3568", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "I\\nTHE AUTHOR", "height": "3568", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "THE AUTHOR IN HIS EARLY DAYS", "height": "3568", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "G2G8\\nt.iv\u00c2\u00bbr *cy of Congjrose\\nTwo C( H\u00e2\u0082\u00acs Received\\nJUN 15 1900\\nCc^ /right entry\\n\u00c2\u00abo./2 ?L./^7\\nFIRST COPY.\\n2ti4 Copy Oeliv\u00c2\u00abre4 to\\nORDER DIVISION\\nJUN 16 1900\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2M0ND OOPY.\\n^3304\\nCopyrighted by\\nBEXJAMIN CORBIN\\n1900", "height": "3568", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "F\u00c2\u00bbRKKACK\\nBenjamin Corhin, the Boss IVolf Hunter; His Life\\nand Adventures.\\nA plain blunt man of little learning, except that education\\nreceived in the war for the union, as common soldier, and\\nin communion with nature in her fields and forests, and\\nalong her streams of sparkling water, or in her mountains\\nand valleys, and over her snows and ice, or under her blis-\\ntering suns, and in the presence of her wildest living\\ncreatures, m 3n and animals, I venture now to put my life\\non paper, as I have often put it on the cast of a die through\\nsights of a rifle before savage man and savage beast.\\nIt will not be a literary performance.\\nI have always loved nature and stuck close to her, and\\nI will try to do it in this book.\\nIf I have read my Bible correctly, Abraham was one of\\nthe first shepherds. In Genesis we read that he was rich\\nin cattle, in silver and in gold something like the ranch-\\nmen and stockmen of North Dakota. Indeed the pastoral\\nlife preceded every other profession. The Patriarchs were\\nall shepherds. Every prayer to the Lord was accompan-\\nied by a sacrifice from the flocks and herds. When Abra-\\nham dug a well, and there was a dispute about it, he set-\\ntled the whole thing with seven ewe lambs, and called the\\nplace An Oath. Those shepherds wandered from place to\\nplace wherever there was the best pasture, just as we do in\\nDakota, any more than the land of Canaan was nothing to\\nbe compared with Dakota for grazing. When Jacob went\\na courting, he hadn t a thing but a shepherd s crook, but\\nbefore he returned he had two wives, and flocks and herds\\nbeyond computation. Even in later times a young fellow,\\nwho was out tending a flock, was called to be King of Israel,\\nabout the only good king we ever had that was David.\\nHe was keeping sheep that very day. He had guarded the\\nflocks from the ravages of bear and wolf and lion, and\\nslain them with his own hands, and yet he made a good", "height": "3568", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "soldier, a peerless king, and the greatest poet that ever\\nlived. Later on, we should never forget that the Star of\\nBethlehem was first seen by the shepherds, tending their\\nflocks by night. Virgil first sang the praise of shepherd\\nlife in his bucolics, before he sang the praise of the arms\\nand the man. All sacred and classic history is replete with\\ndescriptions of Pastoral Life. All the world knows that\\nastronomy was first made a science by the shepherds, watch-\\ning the moving grandeurs of the skies.\\nIn the New Testament, the parable of the Good Shepherd\\nshines like a star. If Jesus did not disdain to call himself\\nthe Good Shepherd, why should any man in Dakota not\\nbe proud to be called by that name, or to be associated as\\nI am, with the men who are feeding their flocks on the\\nrich and abundant pastures of this great commonwealth?\\nLargely, my life has been spent in protecting these flocks\\nagainst the incursions of ravenous beasts of prey. I know\\nit is but a step and the first step, which counts in the\\nmarch of civilization. God made the country, but man\\nmade the town and some of these towns are pretty tough,\\nlike most of men s work. I can not believe that Providence\\nintended that these rich lands, broad, well watered, fertile\\nand waving with abundant pasturage, close by mountains\\nand valleys, filled with gold, and every metal and mineral,\\nshould be forever monopolized by wild beasts and savage\\nmen. I believe something in the survival of the fittest,\\nand hence I have fit for it all my life. Civilization is a\\nfine thing, and it may spreaa itself like a green bay tree in\\nthe cities, and lordly mansions of the millionaires, with\\nall their silks and broadcloths, but it has to have plenty\\nof beef and pork and mutton yes, yes, and wool too, and\\nplenty of it. But my lord and lady would go bare-footed,\\nand that would be bad form, and naked, and that would\\nbe worse, and empty, and that would be awful, if somebody,\\nsomewhere and somehow, would not send them leather,\\nand wool and beef and mutton. But the herds and flocks\\nmust be raised and protected here for my lord and lady,\\nif it takes the last man and the last dollar. The wolf don t\\nlike them, and I trust the wolf will never come near their\\ndoors, or that any of them will turn out wolves in sheep\\nclothing, but if he comes near mine I will take him in,\\nand it will be the saddest day of his life. That s why I am\\nhere. The wolf is the enemy of civilization, and I want to\\nexterminate him. If he eats up the flocks, where are your", "height": "3568", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "wool and mutton to come from, and what s the use of a\\ntariff on wool, and free trade in wolves? I would place the\\nduty higher on both.\\nBut I forget this is not the book this is but the preface\\nto my book, and I must cut the thing shor- as I would the\\nwhole wolf population of the west, if I could, and I guess I\\ncan, and before you read this book half through you sihall\\nknow that I can better than any man that ever walked the\\nearth. That is pretty big talk, but I have the record, as a\\nwolf-exterminator, and no man will dispute it. I hope to in-\\nterest you in this book, and in the lives of those gentle and\\nharmless creatures here, who furnish your abundant ward-\\nrobes, and cuisine, and labor, with all the comforts and\\nluxuries of fashion and necessity, far away from here in\\nyour homes of wealth and pride. I hope you will not only\\nbuy the book, but pay for it, and not lend or borrow it\\nand I know you would not steal it and then read it and\\nlearn something of what it costs to ward away the wolves,\\nwhich would destroy the flocks.\\nTHE AUTHOR.", "height": "3568", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3568", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER I.\\nBRIEF SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR. NECESSITY OP\\nPROTECTING THE GREAT STOCK INTERESTS\\nOF THE STATE.\\nPerhaps no name is more familiar to the stockmen and\\nwool growers of North Dakota than that of honest old\\nBen Corbin, the champion wolf hunter of the northwest.\\nMr. Corbin is no novice in the business of hunting, trap-\\nping and shooting the enemies of the flocks and herds.\\nAs the saying is, he served his time and learned his trade\\nby hard work and many years experience.\\nBorn in Virginia on April 26, 1835, he is now 65 years of\\nage; but his eye is not yet so dimmed or his physical force\\nso abated that he cannot bring down with his trusty\\nWinchester rifle a deer or wolf that, is 100 or 200 yards off\\nas well as he could twenty years ago. When a boy of 16\\nhe removed with his father s family to Coschocton county,\\nOhio, then quite a new country, and regarded as being\\nfar away in the west from the Old Dominion. It was\\nreally a bigger trip then than a voyage to Europe or a\\nrailroad ride across the continent would be now, and\\nOhio has shifted from the west until it is now regarded as\\nbeing pretty far in the east, if we look at it from the sun-\\nset land of the Rockies and the Cascades. After a stop\\nof four years in Ohio, Ben shifted his residence to Wayne\\ncounty, Iowa, where he hunted and trapped until the civil\\nwar broke out, when he enlisted in Company F, 34th\\nIowa infantry. He was a gallant soldier for three years,\\nand when the war closed he was honorably discharged,\\nreturning to his old home in Iowa and resuming his former\\noccupation of hunter and trapper. At that time north-\\nwestern Iowa was being rapidly settled, and was fllling up\\nwith flocks and herds, for sheep, wool and live stock\\ngenerally commanded splendid prices. Free trade had not\\nyet got in its deadly work on the American market, and in\\nthose days the golden age of the farmer the wool growers\\nand stock raisers were making money. Protected in-\\ndustry made good times everywhere and in every line of\\nbusiness, and Mr. Corbin was making hay while the sun\\nwas shining. Then, as now, he believed in high protection,\\nand, the country being full of wolves, he devoted his\\ntime and energies to their destruction. Iowa at that time\\nwas paying a bounty for every wolf destroyed, and soon,\\nfiguratively speaking, Corbin had eighty wolf scalps hang-\\ning to his belt, captured in the counties of Lyon, Sioux,\\nk", "height": "3568", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "10 Corhin s Advice Or,\\nWoodbury and Monon. It paid the flockmasters and the\\npeople to give this bounty, for otherwise, their flocks and\\nherds would have been at the mercy of the wolves, which\\nabounded in that region.\\nIn the year 1883 our champion wolf-scalper, moved by the\\nsame spirit of immigration which carried brigades and\\ndivisions of the union veterans farther west, picked up\\nhis rifle and his traps and removed to Stark county, in the\\nthen vast and wild territory of Dakota. Here he and his\\nson Peter since deceased in one season killed 132 deer\\nand antelope and 45 beaver. They found ample scope and\\nopportunity for the development of their skill as profes-\\nsional and expert hunters; and the business was quite re-\\nmunerative, too, for the deer and antelope brought them\\nfrom $3 to $13 per head and the beaver about $6 per pelt.\\nFor the past fifteen years our old hero has mainly plied\\nhis occupation in the county in which he now resides Em-\\nmons. North Dakota. This part of the great northwest\\nis remarkably well adapted to grazing, and abounds in\\nsheep and other live stock. Indeed, North Dakota is a\\nveritable paradise for sheep. Number in 1899, 2( j,94 2;\\nnumber of wolves in .1899, 343,000\u00e2\u0080\u0094 femalesi 171,500; in-\\ncrease, 857,500; total 1,200,400.\\nWith grass, grain and water abundant, and an atmos-\\nphere and climate remarkably well adapted to the success\\nof these industries, and with grain unprofitably low all\\nover the world, the raising of cattle and sheep is the main\\ndependence. The flockmasters of North Dakota and of\\nthe northwest generally are about to witness the dawning\\nof a brighter day, and are carefully watching their flocks\\nand herds, with the confident hope and expectation that a\\nprotective tariff will soon restore the old remunerative\\nprices, and consequently, their old-time prosperity. They\\nsee in the returns of the recnt elections the assurance that\\nthe tariff, which once made their flocks and herds a valu-\\nable investment, will soon be revived.\\nable investment, will soon be revived. Remember, the wolf\\nis cunning and sly and hard to catch. Novices and amateurs\\ncunning and sly and hard to catch. Novices and amateurs\\nhave no business with the wolf, unless they are first in-\\nstructed in the habits of the animals and the mode of their\\ncapture. The wily brute will laugh at them. It takes\\nan expert hunter to catch the wolf; and this, in plain Eng-\\nlish, he cannot be unless the state pays a bounty to reim-\\nburse and make a reasonable profit for the man who has\\npaid an expert to teach him the secrets of the business and\\nexplain to him the signs left by the animals, without a\\nknowledge of which wolf-hunting as an occupation would\\nbe unremuncrative.\\nThere is such a thing as being penny wise and pound\\nfoolish letting in at the spigot and out at the bung-hole.\\nThis is not economy. It is a waste of time and money to\\nreduce expenditures where the returns are as sure and as", "height": "3552", "width": "1982", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "The Wolf Hunter^s Guide. H\\nbeneficial as they are here. I repeat that, on grounds of\\npublic policy, hunters like Ben Corbin should be stimulated\\nand encouraged to perform the public function of assisting\\nin destroying an enemy as persistent and annoying and ex-\\npensive as the wolf. Were the state invaded by an armed\\nfoe, who would question the policy of offering a bounty to\\nvolunteers, as the igovernment did during the civil war, to\\ndrive out the common foe? One not less dangerous, not\\nless common, than such a hostile force, threatens to destroy\\none of the peaceful and most prolific and honorable indus-\\ntries of the state. Is it not the duty of the state\u00e2\u0080\u0094 that is,\\nof its citizens collectively\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the legislature\u00e2\u0080\u0094 to assist in the\\nexpulsion of the enemy? What is everybody s business\\nis nobody s business. It must be done by a system. It\\nmust be done for the common good. The state must take\\nthe matter into its own hands for the common weal.\\nI know that it is argued that every man owes it to him-\\nself to keep the w^olf from the door. The quotation is\\nnot applicable in this case. It is quite another thing from\\nkeeping him from a neighbor s door. It is the general\\nwelfare that states are organized to protect, and they can-\\nnot descend to private, particular concerns.\\nOn the other hand, the private individual is not obliged\\nto care for the interests of the whole state, beyond his part\\nand proportion of public duty, and his public duty is per-\\nformed when he shares his money or labor with the state\\nin the shape of taxes. His interests are bound up with the\\nstate, and, having received his money or labor in the shape\\nof taxes, the state is in duty bound to protect all his rights\\nin person and property, let the cost be what it may. What\\ngreater enemy can they have?\\nHE KNEW BETTER.\\nFrom Philadelphia comes a story of a hospital orderly\\npossessed of more brawn than brain. The man was an\\nIrishman, only recently employed, and one night the resi-\\ndent physician told him to be on hand by 11 o clock to take\\nto the deadhouse the body of a consumptive patient who\\ncould not live past that hour.\\nUpon the stroke of the clock Dennis was on hand. The\\nnight nurse was in another part of the ward, and the pa-\\ntient was, to all appearances, dead. Dennis and his asso-\\nciate tossed the body upon a stretcher and carried it out.\\nIn the hall the cold air revived the sufferer from the effects\\nof the hypodermic which had been administered.\\nWhere are you taking me? he asked.\\nTo the deadhouse, of course, replied Dennis; where\\nthe devil else d ye think I d be after takin you?\\nBut I m not dead, protested the patient, starting up.\\nLie down this minit! protested the orderly. It s\\ngreat cheek ye have! D ye think ye know more about it\\nthan the doctor?", "height": "3568", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "12 Corbiti s Advice Or,\\nCHAPTER II.\\nTHE WOLF AND THE DAMAGE HE DOES TO DO-\\nMESTIC AND WILD ANIMALS. HOW I BECAME\\nA HUNTER.\\nThe wolf is a four-legged animal, very cunning and sly\\nalways has plenty to eat for he don t have to buy it. He\\nis about the size of a shepherd dog and is a fast runner, a\\ngood fighter and is hard to catch and like some men, looks\\nvery sheepy. He is very fond of ham, especially the mutton\\nham. They outwit a man in one respect. When they want\\nto rest they lie down, while the men will lie standing up.\\nThe gray or the paririe wolf commonly called the coyote,\\nis very trouolesome in all western states, killing colts,\\ncalves, pigs and all kinds of poultry. They hunt mostly\\nin packs and destroy great numbers of deer in the stiff\\nsnows of winter, sometimes slaughtering whole herds in a\\nsingle night. The sheepfold of the frontier farmer also\\nsuffers from their depredations. They feed on almost all\\nthe smaller anim.als they can overpower. Troops of them\\nhave been known to pursue and attack men. When hunt-\\ning in packs and pressed with hunger, they are bold and\\nexceeding ferocious. At other times, when roaming\\nsingly, they are sneaking and cowardly. The grey wolf of\\nthis country, which may be taken as the standard of size,\\nis about four feet long from the point of the nose to the\\nroot of the tail; the length of tail being about seventeen\\ninches. In the far north they are very large, sometimes\\nmeasuring six and one-half feet in total length, and weigh-\\ning one hundred and fifty pounds.\\nIn the ranching districts of North America today it is\\nvariously estimated that each grey wolf costs the cattle\\nmen from fifty to five hundred dollars annually.\\nThe wolf-hunter has to cope with an animal of almost\\nhuman intelligence, an animal without superior in sagacity\\namong all the wild beasts of the chase, and one which will\\ntax his utmost ability to circumvent.\\nI am a. hunter by birth, a veritable nimrod from away\\nback. My father hunted redskins with Daniel Boone and\\ncounted the notches on his gunbarrel, a notch for every\\nscalp, fourteen in all. Our cattle got fat on huckleberries\\nin the mountains in those days, and father herded and", "height": "3568", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "The Wolf Hunter s Guide.\\n13\\nsalted them there. The wolf bounty was $20 on old wolves,\\nand $10 on pups under six months old. Father used to hear\\nthe wolves howl and it made him smile when he was camp-\\ning out; for he knew there were dollars for him in every\\nhowl. Every few days a calf was missing. The state of\\nVirginia paid $5, the county $5, and stockmen made it $20,\\nand put the money in bank, snug and safe, for any one who\\nkilled a wolf in Hampshire county.\\nIt was all gold, silver and poor paper notes those days.\\nA wolf den was worth $50 tO $150 if you got the male,\\nfemale and offspring. My father did not carry a shepherd s\\ncrook but a gun, while herding cattle; for deer, bear and\\nwolves abounded there. His gun had a flint lock, mind\\nyou. I learned to shoot with it. Many a time it snapped,\\nand I would lick the frisen and try again. But with that\\nold fusee he njade $125 one day at three shots. In the\\nmorning he shot a bear, and sold it to a big Jim Parsons\\nfor $5. At the second shot he killed the she wolf for which\\nhe got $25, and ripping her open, got her eight kids. That\\nbeats me for I never got but $5 at one shot. His third shot\\ntook the old male worth $20 more.\\nThere s money in wolf hunting if you only know how.\\nWhen I was a boy, I fairly lived in the woods, and had a\\nhankering after game. Hearing father tell about making\\nmoney catching wolf and bear, and crawling under rocks\\nafter them, and shooting them, and tying a hickory withe\\naround their necks, and have two men pull him out while\\nhe hauled the bear or wolf out, too, it encouraged me to go\\ninto the business. I did the same trick once, but will\\nnever try it again. At Long Lake Creek I shot the old\\nwolf fifteen times before I killed her with a 22 Winchester.\\nOn Apple Creek while I was setting the hook, the bank fell\\nOLD WOLF AND KIDS ON OUTSIDE OF DEN\\nin behind me, and it was all I could do to dig out, yet our\\ncounty commissioners want me to kill wolves for $1 or .$2\\na head and run the risk of being eaten alive. If they read\\nmy book through they will change their tune. The Savior\\npicked his twelve out of fishermen and the like, and yet got", "height": "3568", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "14\\nCorbin^s Advice Or,\\none devil if he had gone into any other class, I suspect\\nthe whole dozen would have been like Judas.\\nI sleep easy nights and am growing fat, while I watch the\\nincrease in Lhe wolf industry, that costs me no more than\\nthe grass that grows. If you are strong, have a clear head,\\na good liver and know how, you can make money catching\\nwolves all the year round, provided the state, the county\\nand the stockmen, who have their millions in live stock,\\npay a decent bounty on wolves.\\nI have made $40 a day. My average last year was five\\nwolves per day, but the bounty was only $1.45 a head,\\nwith 50 per cent off for cash. I can catch wolves twelve\\nPULLING OUT OF DEN WHEN ABOUT ONE MONTH OLD\\nxiifferent ways, yes, and all sorts of game. I was in Iowa\\nwhen ths war broke out and if any of the 34th Iowa boys\\nread this, they will testify that the Wolves didn t eat all\\nthe sheep as we were marching through Georgia. We\\ngot twenty sheep when we drove the Johnnies back from\\nAlexandria on Red River. I think that was the best mut-\\nton I ever tasted. I can taste it yet and I suppose Uncle\\nSam is still paying thousands of dollars for those sheep.\\nA young wife remonstrated with her husband, a dissi-\\npated spendthrift, on his conduct. My love, said he, I\\nam like the prodigal son; I shall reform -by-and-by.\\nAnd I, too, will be like the prodigal son, cried she. I\\nwill arise and go to my father; and accordingly off she\\nwent.\\nMr. Jenkins playfully remarked to his wife that in her\\nhe possessed four fools. Who are they?. she asked.\\nBeauti-fool, duti-fool, youth-fool, and delight-fool, said\\nhe. You have the advantage of me, my dear, she replied,\\nI have but one fool.", "height": "3573", "width": "1966", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "The Wolf Hunter s Gtdde. 15\\nCHAPTER III.\\nTHE WOLx BOUNTY. REASONS WHY IT SHOULD.\\nNOT BE LESS THAN $5.\\nIn a careful search of the statutes enacted by several,\\nstates for the past half century or more, I have found that\\nless than $5 has seldom been offered for each wolf or coy-\\note killed. It would seem, from the testimony of the laws;\\non the subject and from the experience of old hunters,\\nthat $5 is about the least that the service can be done for.\\nIf there is a market price at which any labor can be per-\\nformed, why should not this business have its market\\nprice, also? The measure is this: What is the least\\nthat good service can be obtained for in any industry?\\nAscertain this and it becomes the wage rate for that kind\\nof labor its fixed average value by every canon of indus-\\ntrial economy.\\nIf the state will pay .$5 for each wolf killed, let the county\\nbounty go for it is fairer for the state than for the county\\nto pay it. But with a county interest in it, bringing it\\nnearer home to the hunters and there may be more urgent\\nreasons for prosecuting the business in some sections of the\\nstate than in others I would let the county bounty stand\\nat from $2 to $3 and the state bounty at from .$.5 to $10, and\\nthus insure a constant and unremitting warfare on these\\ndestructive pests. Sheep cannot increase in a ratio of\\nmore than two to one annually, while the wolf population\\nis augmented by from 600 to 800 per cent each year, and in\\na little while there will be overwhelming numbers of them\\nunless the work of destruction is vigorously encouraged\\nand prosecuted. It matters little to the hunters where\\nthe pay comes from, so that it comes sure; but, without It,\\ncertain ii is that the necessary work of extermination will\\nnot be done at all.\\nThus all the money hitherto paid in state bounties for\\nkilling wolves will be ultimately lost. Infested in most\\nparts with packs of wolves, the state will soon be overrun\\nwith them. No animal is more prolific or cares more for\\nits young. It is nothing strange for a female wolf to have\\nfrom six to nine cubs at a litter. Why, even now, people\\nhave to watch their flocks carefully in the daytime, even\\nto keep the wolves away from them.\\nNot only are they dangerous to sheep, but they destroy\\nmany colts and calves each year. They are now growing", "height": "3568", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "16 CorbiiVs Advice Or,\\nbolder, because of the fact that they are hunted no longer,\\nor, at least, very little, and they are quick to discover the\\nfact. There are instances where they have attacked\\nchildren going to and from school. There is nothing un-\\ncommon, also, for packs of howling wolves to enter the\\nbarnyards of the farmers and steal their poultry, which is\\nnow about the most vaiuable stock that they can raise on\\nthe farm. In these several items hundreds of thousands of\\ndollars are lost each year.\\nIt is not argued that the restoration of the state bounty,\\nor even $5 a head for old wolves and $3 for cubs, would\\nabsolutely protect all these interests. Certainly not.\\nEven with the exercise of the utmost care and caution,\\nmany depredations by wolves would still occur. But the\\nfact is patent that the restoration of the state bounty would\\nencourage the hunting and trapping of these destructive\\nbrutes, and go a long way toward securing at least a par-\\ntial protection to all domestic animals. With the fecund-\\nity of the wolf as great as it is, there is no other way to stop\\ntheir increase. It will not do to say that the stockmen\\nshould be left to do the necessary work themselves, and\\nthat if they do not protect their own sheep they should lose\\nthem. This is a narrow and selfish view of the matter.\\nA question of public policy, of justice and of fairness comes\\nin and requires the state to protect the general interests of\\nthe people and defend them from every public enemy; and\\nwhat greater enemy can the state have than one that is able\\nto wage war on the state s chief industry both day and\\nnight.\\nI am convinced that no appeal for a wolf bounty can be\\nput too strongly to every board of county commissioners\\nand to the legislature of our great and grov/ing state.\\nNorth Dakota is, as I have said, a paradise for stockmen.\\nIt has no peer on this continent. It is attracting capital\\nfrom the worn-out fields of Ohio, Pennsylvania and the\\neastern states. But it must not be forgotten that in at\\nleast two-thirds of the state the chief attraction to capital\\nis for investment in live stock, to be cared for and pasture\\nto perfection on our cheap and fertile lands. In a few\\nwords, in a great part of the state it is stock or nothing.\\nIf those of us who live in that greater part cannot have\\nthis interest protected, we might as well pack our traps\\nand leave. It is poor encouragement to eastern capital to\\ntake down the barriers which protect and defend our chief\\nindustry. New England protects and fosters her fisheries\\nand her factories; New York wisely guards her commerce,\\nfinance and trade; Pennsylvania devotes her tenderest care\\nto her mines and mills, and Ohio keeps one eye open to the\\nprotection and welfare of her great industry of making\\npresidential possibilities; Colorado and Montana look well\\nto their silver interests; Alabama and the cotton belt guard\\nthe throne of King Cotton; Iowa for corn; California for", "height": "3568", "width": "1966", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "The Wolf Hunter s Guide. 17\\ngold and fruits. But North Dakota the promised land of\\nthe shepherd and the herdsman proposes now to uncon-\\nditionally surrender her greatest industry to the wolves!\\nIf we prefer wolves to cattle and sheep and eastern capital\\nif we would destroy the flocks already here and keep\\nothers out, and give our state a bad name among its\\nfriends why, then, let us discourage the wolf bounty, and,\\nto save a few dollars, throw millions away,\\nI was much impressed with Mr. Corbin s quiet humor.\\nWhen I read this part to him and asked him how any\\nfriend of North Dakota could find fault with my logic, he\\nreplied: Oh! easy enough. There are only a few men\\nlike you and I that care a button about these things.\\nThey have no state pride care nothing for our live stock\\nor for my hunting business. Why, sir, some of these blasted\\nfools would rather see all the stock and half the children\\neaten up by the wolves than to see me make $5 yes, or\\neven $3 by my business. Jealousy is a mean thing. So\\nis envy. But if men, even in our legislature and in our\\ncounty commissioners offices, can keep me from making\\na dollar and at the same time gratify this mean envy and\\npalm off on the people for retrenchment, pretending that\\nthey take the bounty off for economy s sake why, confound\\nthem, they chuckle and laugh at you and me for fools.\\nI would about as soon let the wolves decide it as some men\\nwe send to the legislature, for you know the good book\\ntells us about wolves in sheep s clothing.\\nI was led into these reflections by a long talk I recently\\nhad with Mr. Corbin on the subject. Being an expert in\\nthis line, a friend of the flocks and an enemy of whatever\\nInjures them, be it man or beast, his conversation upon this\\nsubject interested me so deeply that I determined to make\\nhis views public through the columns of the Record, and at\\nthe same time incorporate with such views a somewhat\\nimperfect sketch of his life. I wish that an abler pen than\\nmine might do the old hero justice, but limited space here\\nforbids.\\nAn honest, modest gentleman of the old school; wise in\\nLincoln s sense of the word wisdom; a disciple of\\nnature, loving it in all its forms and studious of it in all\\nits moods; long a companion of its solitude in mountain,\\nplain and prairie, in the woods and along the streams; that\\nplain, practical common sense which comes from such\\ncommunion with nature lends a charm to all he has to say,\\nand the sketch here given does but scant justice to the\\ngrand old hero. Cor. Emmons County Record.", "height": "3568", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "i\u00c2\u00a7 Corbin s Advice; Or,\\nCHAPTER IV.\\nWOLF KILLING A SCIENCE AND WOLFOLOGY IS\\nTAUGHT ONLY BY THE WRITER HIMSELF.\\nLEAVING THE DEN FOR THE NEXT YEAR S CROP.\\nTEMPTING THE WOLF IN RANGE OF THE HUN-\\nTER S GUN BY TRAILING THE DOG CLOSE BE-\\nHIND THE BUGGY.\\nStarting on one of my expeditions in May or June, I\\nride in a buggy, with the Winchester and dog. That dog\\nwont pass any fresh sign without, a growl or bark to let\\nme know. I hunt against the wind, and let the dog go as\\nhe will, and I watch him. We understand each other, and\\nMr. Wolf knows us both. If the sign is a calf s leg, or\\nduck, or fresh egg shells, I know the wolf is not a mile off\\nand so does Shep, my dog. If you see the old wolves\\nsitting on high ground and looking, after April 2. 3th, be\\nsure the den is not a mile off every time. The time to\\nkill the old wolf is when you locate the den sure, for they\\nwill come closer to you now then ever again. There are\\nseveral ways to get and shoot the old ones. One or both\\nof them.\\nTie a small dog close to the den, and then hide. About\\nsunset the wolf will attack the dog then shoot quick. An-\\nother way is, tie a cub close to the den and let the old\\nwolf see it. Then tie your dog close by, and conceal your-\\nself\u00e2\u0080\u0094not long ^soon the dog will begin to howl and the old\\nwolf will go for him in defense of the cub then shoot.\\nNever kill the young one till you play this game to a\\nfinish. You may carry the young ones five miles at night,,\\nand the old ones will be with you next morning such is\\ntheir affection for their young. The old ones will outwit,\\nyou unless you consult me first by letter of otherwise. I\\ncould catch more old ones, but I wont as long as the bounty\\nis so slow. I can make more catching cubs.\\nIt is no fun. I have no salary like officers who get a big\\nsalary and mileage. Remember I board myself and two\\nteams and a hired man, and sleep in the open air. It so\\nhappens that I catch hundreds of young wolves where I\\nnever see hide or hair of the old ones, who are off looking\\nfor their grub, steak among your cattle, sheep and poultry,\\nsmiling at your pitiful $2 bounty.\\nIn warm or soft weather I trap them this way. I take-", "height": "3568", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "The WolfHimter s Guide 19\\nsome old horse or cow with the big jaw or some disease\\nthat renders them worthless and plant it in a shallow pond\\nor lake, and kill it, and cut it open, set my trap, and there\\nyou are, Mr. Wolf, early next morning. I catch scores that\\nway.\\nIt works like a charm I have caught ten wolves in one\\nnight this way with as many traps ^but everything depends\\non caution and sense in setting traps. I will not go into\\nfurther details for that would be endless. I have a hun-\\ndred tricks I would tell you about trapping if I had the\\nspace, but I am not writing a big book, and can only give\\nyou a hint and pass on.\\nOne of my best tricks is to locate the den at breeding\\ntime and pull the cubs out with my peculiar hooks and long\\nash or fishpole I haul them all out sometimes get ten and\\nleave the den for the next year s crop O. K. I have wire\\nand hooks for the purpose, and have applied for a patent.\\nSometimes I go to the path the wolves travel and set my\\ntraps there. In the thickest brush, I cut off the saplings\\nclose to the ground about eight inches wide, for about ten\\nfeet from the path, and remove the brush carefully to a dis-\\ntance. I then cut off anotner bush about four feet high,\\nat the erjd of the ten feet and slip the trap ring over the\\nbush. Now I take the best bait I have a deer s or a pig s\\nhead and slip it over the bush. Fresh meat is best. I\\nchop a hole in the ground about twelve inches from bait,\\nand carry the dirt away, and put in the trap and cover it\\nup with gunny sack or calico, and cover ic over with the\\nline dirt and leaves, and then go off and wait.\\nIn my lecture on Wolfology which I am delivering all\\nover the west, you will hear me tell the whole story how\\nI trap, shoot and hook wolves to your heart s content, for\\nI cannot particularize here. Always have a gentle team\\nthat will stand fire, or you will get left and have to walk\\nhome and carry your pets too.\\nI always darken the den always bait the fish hook on\\nthe end of my pole with fresh meat, and wait till morning\\nwith best results. Another plan I have is to tie my dog to\\na ten foot pole behind the buggy and drive by the den. The\\nold wolves think, of course, the dog is after their young,\\nand they rush at the dog, then I shoot.\\nI carry chains and collars for the purpose, and often\\npicket out the cubs and let the old one comes to them,\\nwhere I can get a shot. This works like a charm. I\\noften get both old ones. If I can draw the old ones to\\nfollow my dog tied to a ten foot pole behind my buggy I\\nshoot. If I can attract them to the dog and kid tied lo a\\nstake I shoot. I get the old ones so. If I fail I reach\\ninto the den and grapple the cubs out with hooks made on\\npurpose, so by hook or crook I manage to get them, old\\nor young, all one to me, for it is the bounty I am after all\\nthe time.", "height": "3568", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "20 Corbiri s Advice Or,\\nMy wolf code of honor bars poison. It is unsafe, unfair,\\nuncivilized. I draw the line at honest fresh bait, fish pole\\nand hooks for the purpose, and my trusty dog and gun, and\\nI put up my hunter wisdom, experience and cunning\\nagainst that of the wolf, and I find him sometimes more\\nthan a m^atch at my best, for a fact, for anyone who takes\\nthe wolf for a fool gets left every time.\\nThe howl of the wolf causes his capture, for it locates\\nhis den.\\nWOLF HUNTING A SCIENCE.\\nWolf-killing is a science, and only educated men edu-\\ncated, I mean, in Wolfology can successfully combat and\\ndestroy these varmints. This science is not taught in any\\nof the schools of the state, but it is a science nevertheless.\\nA man would not pretend to practice medicine, or preach,\\nor practice law without an education especially for his line\\nof work; the same is true of wolf killing. Sports will\\nhave a good time for a day and kill a wolf, or possibly two\\nwolves, and will be satisfied, but the professional wolf-\\nkiller studies his subject until he understands the nature\\nof the animal he is after so thoroughly that he can locate\\nhim and destroy more in one week than all the sports in\\nthe county, and those who kill accidentally, will destroy in\\na year. This being true and the fact that the western\\npart of the state is over-run with wolves that do thousands\\nof dollars worth of damage every year, it behooves the\\nstockmen of North Dakota to make it an object for those\\nwho can slay wolves to devote their time to this important\\nindustry.\\nThe damage they do is trifling to any one flock or herd\\nperhaps, but in the aggregate they do many thousand dol-\\nlars worth of damage every year. Wolves increase -vith.\\nwonderful rapidity and are so cunning that it is practically\\nimpossible to poison them. Only experts can make any\\nheadway toward the destruction of these pests. Unless\\nthe different counties and the state offer a premium of\\nsufficient importance to make it an object to diminish the\\nnumber of wolves, they will increase until the damage done\\nwill be many hundred times greater than the amount neces-\\nsary to keep the numbers down or exterminate.\\nSAFETY IN SHEEP.\\nThe farmer finds the sheep industry his safest invest-\\nment. When all other farm products fail to yield their\\naverage revenues he seeks solace in the fact that in all\\nemergencies the flock can be depended upon. The farmer\\nnever fails to shear his sheep, and his bank account, as a\\nresult, shows a comfortable balance in his favor.", "height": "3568", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "The Wolf mmter s Guide.\\n21\\nThe farmer looks to his sheep to pay off mortgages.\\nWhen his crops fail, he feels sure that his clip will rind\\na ready cash market.\\nHe rests assured that wool will not deteriorate l)y stor-\\nage, should he desire to hold it for better prices.\\nHe has nothing to fear, everything to gain, and nothing\\nto lose.\\nHe feels confident that a decline in the sheep ijidiistjy is\\nalmost impossible.\\nHe does not worry about finding a ready market for bis\\nmutton.\\nSheep while yielding a comfortable income, improve the\\nsoil.\\nAs a general rule farmers who stock their farms with\\nsheep find after a brief experience that their money couid\\nnot have been more safely invested had they placed it in\\nthe strong vaults of a bank.\\n4^ f\\nL*i*i\u00c2\u00ab^^\\nCUES CAUGHT WHEN ABOUT TWO MONTHS OLD", "height": "3568", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "^2 Corbiri S Advice Or,\\nCHAPTER V,\\nA SERMON ON WOLVES, AND DESCRIPTION OF MY\\nWOLF FARM AND NUMBER OF WOLVES CAUGHT.\\nYou will find my text in the one-eyed chapter of the iw.\\n\u00e2\u0082\u00acyed John, which reads as follows: Let no man escape,\\nand to give every man his poison in due season. This text\\nis far reachirig and will take in both the four and two-\\nlegged. Cut this out and paste in your scrap baok and\\nyou will know how to vote this fall. No man can be suc-\\ncessful who neglects his business.\\nNUMBER OF CATTLE, SHEEP AND WOLVES IN\\nEIGHT STATES OF THE UNION.\\nCows Other Cattle Sheep Wolves\\nNebraska 628,750 1,395,825 296,779 275,000\\nSouth Dakota 372,321 449,362 363,697 275,000\\nNorth Dakota 175,073 252,640 359,721 343,000\\nMontana 43,994 952,598 3,.377,547 300,000\\nWyoming 18,140 694,973 2.328,025 340,000\\nColorado 91,666 973,259 1,655,557 200,000\\nNew Mexico 19,317 701,967 3,128,692 350,000\\nArizona 18,404 381,812 1,014,287 175,000\\nFigure this 2,140,000\\nLIST OF WOLVES AND INCREASE.\\nNow, here is a list of five wolves and the .imount of\\nbounty that has been paid for their increase in nine years:\\nWolf No. 1 has five pups a year for nine years,\\n45 at $3 S 135,00\\nWolf No. 2 has six pups a year for nine years,\\n54 at ^3 1G2.00\\nWolf No, 3 has seven pups a year for nine years,\\n03 at $3 189 .00\\nWolf No. 4 has eight pups a year for nine years,\\n72 at $3 210 .00\\nWolf No. 5 has nine pups a year for nine years,\\n81 at $3 243. jO\\nTotal 945.00\\nThis is the amount the county and state has paid for the\\nincrease of those five wolves in the last nine years. Does", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "The Wolf Hunter s Guide. 2$\\nnot this show that it would pay the county to put a higher\\nbounty on the old wolves? Those same five wolves will\\npresent their check in the shape of young wolves for about\\n$40 00 by the 10th of May. Which is the worst, free trade\\nor free wolves? Both are bad. The place to catch the\\ntwo-legged wolves is at the ballot box this fall.\\nWolves out here? Well I should smile! North Dakota\\nhas 340,000 today, ravaging the flocks and herds, and annu-\\nally destroying more stock than I dare publish in dollars,\\nand yet they offer me a miserable $1 and $2 a head for ex-\\nterminating them, and saving the cattle and sheep.\\nMinnesota pays $5 to $15, so does Wyoming substantially,,\\nwhile Nebraska, South Dakota, Montana, Colorado and\\nWashington pay $3 state bounty to say nothing of the\\ncounty and other special bounties. In these eight states\\nare nearly three million wolves, and say, $1,300,000 of these\\nfemales eacn annually multiplying the stock of wolves by\\nfive, and if yoa will figure for yourself you will see the total\\nfor the eight states may run to nearly 10,000,000 in one\\nyear to come.\\nIn many sections the little children dare not go to school\\nbecause of these prowling and ferocious beasts. I should\\nthink it a very poor child not worth $3 to $5 a head.\\nOur lawgivers seem to think otherwise. If there are mil-\\nlions of wolves out west and no one disputes it, at the\\npresent rate of increase and destruction, the millenium will\\nbe here long before the total is reduced a single wolf. The\\nproblem is too easy and I drop it right here.\\nI have caught over 1,100 wolves the last nine years, on\\nwhat I call my wolf farm, in the north half of Emmons\\ncounty, N. D., the garden spot of the west. I know every\\ninch of this beautiful and fertile region, and notnmg pleases\\nme more than to take a stranger in my buggy and (\\\\Yiv\\nhim over my farm and point out a nice home for him.\\nI live on my own land near Glencoe, N. D., and my\\nlatchstring is always out for any decent man who is hunt-\\ning for a home. I am a republican, a member of the\\nchurch, a temperance man, and believe in all things that\\nare good, and no joy comes to me like that of extending a\\nrough but friendly hand to any fellow man who comes to\\nmy door, or writes to me for information. My wife is\\nstill with me to cheer my old age, my five children grown\\nand settled close tO me, industrious and decent, and what\\nmore does any man desire in this world except a pension,\\nand I have that too.\\nI helped to put McKinley in but not to cut and slash pen-\\nsions, and if he don t oust that man Evans and redeem his\\npromises of four years ago, he will lose three-fourths of the\\nsoldier vote.\\nI took a long-handled shovel when I moved here, and\\ndug out forty-two wolf dens, put the dirt at a distance so\\nthe wolves would suspect nothing, and these dens have", "height": "3568", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "24\\nCorbin s Advice Or\\nbeen little gold mines to me for the wolves went there and\\nI too, in due time when the pups began to bark, as you will\\nsee further along in my book.\\nI know where to find them and hook the cubs out in the\\nbreeding season you see. I catch them witn pole and hook\\nand do not disturb the den, but leave it for the next year s\\ncrop. I know every sign and track of the wolf, his habits,\\nhis modes of thought and his cunning to a finish, and\\nwaste no time scouring tlie country over, for in that way\\nhe knows more than I do how to keep out of my way.\\nIn certain cases I get a nice fee for killing some special\\npair of wolves that have committed depredations on some\\nrich man s poultry, sheep or cattle. I knew one pair to\\nkill fifteen head of sheep, and the owner offered me $10 to\\nkill them.\\nWith sheep at $3 to $5 and wool at 20 cents, how long\\ndoes it take a wolf to destroy more than the pitiful $1 or\\n^2 I get for killing him? This is the practical question\\nUNCLE ben s home AT GLENCOE\\naddressed to our legislature, our county commissioners and\\nthe farmers of North Dakota, most of all. If this stingy\\npolicy does not change, it will not be long until the wolves\\nwill take the Red River Valley, and make it a howling\\ndesert again; for deprive the farmer and stockmen of their\\nprofits in stock, they must resort to raising and selling\\ngrain, and shipping it east at the ruinous rates charged by\\nthe railroads, and at that business they cannot live, and\\nwill soon return east, and let tue wolves have North Da-\\nl^ota.", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "The Wolf Huntet s Ginde. 25\\nWOLVES DECIDEDLY BOLD.\\nWolves are reported bolder in the northern part of the\\nstate than ever before. Joseph Augur of Bathgate, while\\ndriving with a team Avas chased by a band of seven,\\nand it was only with the utmost exertions of his team that\\nhe managed to make his escape. It is seldom that wolves\\nwill attack individuals, particularly the kind that infest\\nthe prairies and woods of this state.\\nPRIVATE DALZELL S BUREAU OF ORATORY, 2311 PA.\\nAVE., WASHINGTON, D. C.\\nWrites speeches, books, pamphlets, etc., for any purpose\\nmentioned, confldentally to order, cash in advance. For\\nparticulars enclose stamp and address as above. References\\nfurnished to yoti before sending your money, and satisfac-\\ntion guaranteed.\\nCHAPTEK VI.\\nNUMBER OF WOLVES KILLED IN EACH COUNTY ANjl\\nRATE OF INCREASE. ONE ACRE OF HENS EQUAL\\nTO 200 ACRES OF WHEAT. WHY WE ARE SHORT\\nOF CATTLE.\\nWhere s the use of me and the president trying to protect\\nwool and sheep with the democrats and wolves in cahoot\\nagainst both? If the legislattire can fix the annual in-\\ncrease of wolves at 5, instead of 7 as nature and I fix it,\\nwhy can t they require the cows to have two calves and so\\nkeep the ntiiaber of live stock even with the number of\\nwolves, for as it is there are about as many of one as of\\nthe other a, wolf at every stable door, and sheep-fold? The\\nwolves must be fed, and yoti must raise the cattle, colts,\\nsheep poultry and eggs to feed them or pay me and other\\nhunters to kill the wolves. Choose ye which.\\nI have done more to protect wool than all the wind jam-\\nmers in congress.\\nI append a table here giving the ntimber of wolves in", "height": "3568", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "26 Corhin s Advice; Or,\\neach county and the rate of increase for the information\\nx f the legislature, county commissioners and stockmen:\\nBarnes 1,130\\nBenson 1,156\\nBillings 12,848\\nBottineau 904\\nBurleigh 2,704\\nCass 82\\nCavalier 1,480\\nDickey 1,788\\nEddy 484\\nEmmons 2,208\\nFoster 320\\nGrand Forks 292\\nGriggs 480\\nKidder 804\\nLaMoure 968\\nLogan 424\\nMcHenry 2,144\\nMcintosh 588\\nMcLean 8i58\\nMercer 1,380\\nMorton 4,040\\nNelson 824\\nOliver 232\\nPembina 2,020\\nPierce 428\\nRamsey 544\\nRansom 540\\nRichland 440\\nRolette 484\\nSargent 900\\nStark 6,000\\nSteele 212\\nStutsman 2,148\\nTowner 124\\nTraill 8\\nWalsh 164\\nWard 2,800\\nWells 2,084\\nWilliams 4,044\\nTotal wolves in North Dakota. 60,000\\nThe above figures is for 1899; for 1900 there is 345,000,\\nfemales 172,500; total 1,207,500; increase, 862,500. One\\nof the proudest days of my life was when I was invited\\nto speak before our state legislature on behalf of the wolf\\nindustry. If I had had $100,000 to pay for the vote for the\\nsenate, they could not have shown me more respect, because\\nI suppose it was the first time they had ever heard an\\nhonest man there.", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "The Wolf Hxmter^s Guide.\\nAgain when lately I drove with my hunting outfit through\\nthe city of Esimarck, and showed the staring denizens of\\nthat metropolis the fruits of my industry, I received such\\nmarked attention as a politician with a bag of gold in one\\nhand and the constitution in the other might have been\\nproud of.\\nI count a poor day if I don t average four to seven. Last\\nyear I was on the road with my horse, buggy, dog and gun\\ntwenty-three days, killed eighty-five wolves; in 1898, 104\\nin twenty-eight days, and in 1897, 148 in thirty-five days,\\nduring my hunting season, which is May and June. I used\\nto hunt them with steel traps, but that is too slow, for this\\ncunning animal is very wary of a trap. And as for hunting\\nwith gun alone, that is still slower, for it is almost im-\\npossible to get a shot at a wolf the first time, and if you\\nshoot one^ you are done then for sure.\\nA gray wolf here means a timoer wolf, and twice as\\nlarge as a prairie wolf or cayote. The cayote or prairie\\nwolf is the one that does the devilment, catching calves,\\nsheep and all kinds of poultry, while the timber wolves or\\nlong gray wolves kill horses, colts, 2-year-old steers. There\\nare few of them east of the Missouri river, except in some\\nof the northwestern counties of North Dakota. The stock-\\nmen there offer as high as .$5 a head for every wolf killed\\naround their ranches. The wolf opens his eyes in nine\\ndays, but it has taken our people nine years to get their\\neyes open to this matter. The worst wolves I ever met\\nyet are the two legged wolves in sheep s clothing.\\n.Our legislature cut the bounty on old wolves from $3\\ndown to $2, and on kids $1, requiring the hunter to skin\\nand bring in the skm and skull, and in case of a female, the\\nwhole carcass. It is pleasant company in my buggy in\\nMay and June, and if I could only have the commissioners\\nand legislature in witn me a couple of hours they would\\ndispense with these useless and oppressive requirements\\nand ask me to bring in the scaip and ears only to get my\\nbounty. Our county commissioners should go with me on\\nmy excursions and see a calf leg here, a sheep s leg there,\\nwings of ducks, turkeys or chickens, etc., lying around at\\nthe mouth of every den.\\nThey often forget that the poultry and eggs of North\\nDakota are worth as much as any other crop, even wheat\\nitself, and should take some measures to protect it and not\\nwaste all their sympathy on the Cubans and Philippines.\\nCharity begins at home, here in North Dakota.\\nIf they would protect not only the game but domestic\\nfowl, why not charge a license of $5 or $10 for hunting.\\nHundreds who never fired a gun would take out hunter s\\nlicense to protect their poultry, etc., and the sums thus\\ngathered could be applied to the bounty at large, and raise\\nit to an amount that would pay us old hunters to extermi-\\nnate these pests.", "height": "3568", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "28 Cor bin s Advice Or,\\nOur legislature passed a law to make five a liter but the\\nwolf gives no heed to it, and persists in multiplying the\\nstock of wolves by seven. Pour hundred wolves in one of\\nmy adjoining counties, (county of Burleigh) were females\\nand last year increased the crop to 3,000, i. e., 800 old ones,\\nand 2,800 cubs, while the total number killed was only 150,\\nand this year is a fair sample of how the work goes on all\\nover the state. I could multiply examples but this is\\nenough to set stockmen and farmers thinking until they\\nbegin to know that the only way to exterminate or even\\ndiminish this growing army of wolves is to offer a decent\\nbounty.\\nOne thing is sure, the people pay the tax any way, if not\\nto me, then to the wolves, the only difference being that I\\nask money but Mr. Wolf asks fresh mutton and beef, eggs,\\nchickens and ducks for his pay.\\nIt must be paid one way or the other, only I ask not one\\ntenth of what Mr. Wolf demands, and he don t need any\\nlaw of the legislature nor neea he fetch in both ears and\\nskull and carcass to get his pay.\\nStatisticians are figuring on why we are short 2,000,000\\ncattle. Why, the wolves got the calves. North Dakota\\nwith 345,000 wolves, of which 172,500 are females, produc-\\ning seven more annually, increasing the wolf population\\nto 1, 212,000 by 1900 will soon settle all these problems for\\nthe farmers and stockmen oi this state. Why they\\nhaven t sense enough to know which end of the wolf the\\ntail is on, or would they compel me to bring in the whole\\nskin, and skull with both ears and tail on, and then fetch\\ntwo respectable taxpayers to vouch for me that I killed\\nthe wolf in their county? By and by I expect them to\\ndemand the affidavits of a couple of old grey wolves them-\\nselves, or some other equally folish impossibility. Some-\\ntimes I fear there is a lobby of wolves in our legislature\\nwith wool on over their eyes sure. If they had to have\\nthis loud smelling carcass around as I have for ten days\\nto get it to the county seat for my bounty, they would\\nsmell something about as bad as their den does when it\\nis selling a seat in the senate.\\nI watch my own place so well that within five years\\npast I have caught 400 wolves within seven miles of my\\nhouse. They shant take my stock, no sir, if the court\\nknows herself, and she thinks she do.\\nIn my buggy with my faithful shephard dog beside me,\\nmy gun in hand, and a gay cayote in a box uhder my seat,\\nI drive out with a horse as steady as a clock whO never\\nminds the cock of a gun, and if I come home again you will\\nsee and smell something that will do your soul good, and\\nthat bad as it smells means fewer wolves but more live\\nstock for North Dakota.\\nNo man can be successful who neglects his business,\\ntherefore I must raise the wolf bounty to $5 and $10, $5\\nfor sheep and $20 for calves.", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "The Wolf Hunter^s Guide.\\n29\\nSHE PRODUCES OVER $500,000,000 EVERY YEAR\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ONE\\nACRE OP HENS EQUALS 200 ACRES OF WHEAT.\\nThe latest government statistics prove that the poultry\\nand eggs of the country are worth more every year than\\nthe combined value of corn, oats and hay. The egg pro-\\nduct alone is worth three hundred million dollars per year.\\nAt the same time the American people have to import mil-\\nlionp of dozens of eggs yearly to supply the demand. There\\nis always a large profit in the poultry business and you\\nshould give it thoughtful consideration.\\nONE ACRE OP POULTRY CLEARS $1,000.\\nA flock of thirteen hens will thrive in a yard twenty feet\\nwide by fifty feet deep. In this way 500 hens can be suc-\\ncessfully managed on one acre of ground. According to\\nthe management they will pay from $1 to $2 clear profit\\nfor each hen per year. This will give $500 to $1,000 clear\\nprofit from one acre of hens.\\nONE ACRE OP WHEAT CLEARS $5.00.\\nThe farmer who makes a clear profit of $5 per acre from\\nwheat is extremely successful, as most of farmers do not\\nmake that. But allowing a profit of $5 per acre for wheat,\\nyou will find one acre of hens to give as much profit as\\n200 acres of wheat. This is equally true of corn, with\\nslight variations.\\nTHE PRIDE OF THE BARNYARD\\nNote We are indebted for this fine picture of a pair of\\nRose Combed White Leghorns to Mr. Peter P. Pormoe of\\nBismarck, who raises this breed and the Silver Laced Wy-\\nandottes.", "height": "3568", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "30 Corhiii s Advice Or,\\nCHAPTER VII.\\nTHE GREAT SHEEP AND CATTLE RANGES OF THE\\nWEST. SOMETHING ABOUT THE CHEAP LANDS\\nFOR WHICH I AM AGENT.\\nThe great sheep ranges and cattle ranches of the mighty-\\nwest have no enemy so dangerous and costly as the wolf.\\nHe is to the flocks and herds what the Indian once was to\\nthe lonely scattered settlers, and that brute instinct, cun-\\nning intelligence or whatever it may be is of a very high\\norder, much more cunning and wise than man s wisdom\\nin many respects. If it requires years in college to learn\\nsomething of the human mind, it requires even longer and\\ncloser study in the college of the parirle and mountain to\\nlearn the ways of the wolf, the most cunning animal, except\\nthe fox, and his equal altogether. A tenderfoot might hunt\\nwolves till the cows come home, and never catch one, and\\ngo back east feeling mighty lucky if they did not catch,\\nhim. The busy farmer and stockman have no time or\\npatience to hunt wolves. That is a business of itself, and\\nrequires half a life time to acquire it.\\nI have devoted my life to it, have studied it, practiced it,\\ntill I have it down fine^ and believe I should be paid for\\ntelling others what it took me so long to learn. That is\\none of the objects of this book. The doctor charges you\\nfor his presciptions, and the lawyer for advice, and the\\nclergyman for counsel, even if you are nO better off when\\nthey are done you pay all the same. And so if I, an old\\nhunter, known through the entire west as the Boss Wolf\\nKiller, teach you something of my craft, you will not com-\\nplain ii I ask you to shell out! That is plain talk with the\\nbark on, and I mean every word, for I assure you I don t\\nprint the book for fun, nor for my health, for I am as merry\\nas a lark and have health out here to burn.\\nI wish I could get a lot of you pale faced eastern boys\\nout here on these plains and prairies and mountains. I d\\nput roses in your cheeks and money in your pockets, with-\\nout the aid of any doctor but good old Mother Nature, with\\nher sweet breath and glorious exercise. Throw physic to\\nthe dogs and come here, and let your life have a chance to\\ndevelop and throw off disease and laziness.\\nHere in the west it is root hog or die, and you must work\\nor starve, and once I showed you one of these free lovely\\nhomesteads over which I have hunted for years, you will", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "The Wolf Hunter s Guide 31\\npitch your tent to stay, and bless the day you first met\\nplain, bluff old Ben Corbin. Send me a letter and I will\\ntell you all you wish to know.\\nFREE HOMES IN NORTH DAKOTA.\\nGOVERNMENT LAND FREE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 There are 20,385,293 acres\\nof unoccupied government land in North Dakota open for\\nentry, free under the homestead laws. Of these 11,960,433\\nacres are unsurveyed, and 9,424,860 unsurveyed, according\\nto the government land commissioner s report August 1,\\n1897.\\nRAILROAD LANDS\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Northern Pacific Railway\\nCompany has 6,700,000 acres of desirable grazing and agri-\\ncultural lands in North Dakota for sale at prices ranging\\nfrom $1.00 to $5.00 per acre, and on five and ten years\\ntime at 6 per cent, if desired.\\nA WORD TO SETTLERS\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Remember that North Dakota\\nhas one great and paramount advantage, viz: That it con-\\ntains immense areas of easily tilled soil ready for the plow.\\nNo clearing of trees or removing of stumps is necessary.\\nThe land lies open in broad fertile expanses awaiting culti-\\nvation. Crops can be raised as soon as the first sod is\\nturned. The settler can^ the first year, raise potatoes,\\noats, wheat, corn and vegetables enough for his own home\\nconsumption.\\nDON T WAIT Now is the time to buy a good home in\\nthe west, as good western lands will never be as cheap\\nagain as they are now. Homeseekers will not find our\\ncountry as settlers did fifty years ago. They won t have\\nto travel for months in covered wagons to find a house.\\nThey will have the best of railroad facilities to carry them\\nright through the finest farming country in the United\\nStates.\\nCORBIN S HOTEL is delightfully situated on the banks\\nof the Missouri River near Glencoe, Emmons county, N. D.,\\nand is twenty miles south of Bismarck. Headquarters for\\nsportsmen and v/olf hunters. Catfish, taken fresh from\\nthe historic Missouri River served every day;\\nRENTERS, LOOK INTO OUR WESTERN LANDS.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The\\namount of rent you pay to eastern landlords would buy\\nyou a home within the limits of our land. Don t remain\\nin an old settled country, where you are always paying\\nrent, frequently for exhausted lands, and scarcely make a\\nliving. Come west where your time and labor will pay\\nfor a farm. We should not spend our time and money to\\nshow you homes if we did not know we have what you\\nwant. We can raise the very best of wheat, corn, oats,\\nhay, potatoes and produce of all kinds on these lands.\\nOur lands are situated in the healthiest portion of the\\nUnited States. I have lived in Emmons county for fifteen\\nyears. Remember if you get a claim with hay and water\\non it, you then have the world by the tail; and you can\\nthen get the rest without trouble. I can settle ten families", "height": "3568", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "32 Co) bin s Advice Or,\\na day from now till next September, on government and\\nrailroad lands. For parLiculars address Benj. Cor bin,\\nGlencoe, N. D.\\nSTATISTICAL MAP.\\nH. U. Thomas, commissioner of agriculture and labor,\\nhas issued a statistical map of North Dakota from a study\\nof which much valuable information may be obtained.\\nThe area of North Dakota is given as 73,312 square miles;\\npopulation estimated, 300,000; miles of railroads, 2,979;\\nnumber of post offices, 590; newspapers published, 150; ex-\\npended for support of public schools, 1898, $1,131,530; num-\\nber of schools, 2,333; value of school property, $2,132,739;\\nassessed valuation of real and personal property, 1899,\\n$114,334,428; capital invested in banking, $16,599,110.\\nStark county shows up on the map in good snape. The\\ncounty is credited with having in vacant government lands\\n2,486,800 acres; land under cultivation, 41,765 acres. In\\n1898 there were raised in the county 379,309 bushels of\\nwheat, 2,890 of flax, 53,2()0 of oats, 5,134 of barley, 1,274 of\\nrye, 7,480 of corn, 14,820 of poitatoes. Live stock sold dur-\\ning 1898 1,111,575. Assessed valuation of real and personal\\nproperty, 1899, $2,296,838.\\nLINCOLN AS A HORSE TRADER.\\nThe preceding incident leads to another, in which Mr.\\nLincoln himeslf figures as a horse trader. The scene is a\\nvery humerous one, and, as usual in an encounter of wit,\\nMr. Lincoln came out ahead. He and a certain judge once\\ngot to bantering one another about trading horses; and it\\nwas agreed that the next morning at 9 o clock they should\\nmake a tiade^ the horses to be unseen up to that hour\\nand no back out, under a forfeit of $25. At the hour\\nappointed, the judge came up, leading the sorriest-looking\\nspecimen of a nag ever seen in those parts. In a few\\nminutes Mr. Lincoln was seen approaching with a wooden\\nsaw-horse upon his shoulders. Great were the shouts and\\nthe laughter of the crowd; and these increased, when Mr.\\nLincoln, surveying the judge s animal, set down his saw-\\nhorse, and exclaimed: Weil, Judge, this is the first time\\nI ever got the worst of it in a horse trade!\\nPATENTS APPLIED FOR.\\nI have applied for patents on two dinguses that I have\\ninvented. One is a double- oack-action wolf exterminator,\\na description of which I will give at some future time. The\\nother invention is a flubdub for opening the eyes of editors", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "The Wolf Hunter s Guide. 33\\nand county officials to the necessity of paying a good\\nbounty and getting the wolves killed off. There will be\\na machine of extra strength for the county board, whose\\neyes are now closed tighter than ever.\\nThe Corbin house is now open for stoppers. Terms $1\\nper day.\\nStop at the Corbin Hotel and hear the catfisn ring the\\ndinner bill. No whisky, no beer. When I want anything\\nfresh I kill a deer.\\nNo blind pig to squeal in the night and wake you up in\\na terrible fright.\\nThe farmer who neglects sheep stands in his own light.\\nThey are so peaceable and we^l-disposed, and so easy to\\nkeep that the money they make is only a secondary matter.\\nWool and mutton are always in demand, and never yet has\\nthe price been too low to leave a profit, although a good\\nmany sheep breeders got scared and sold their flocks a few\\nyears ago, thinking that unprofitable prices were coming.\\nSheep are better than mining stock to the farmer with a\\nweedy farm, and to the good farmer they are as good as\\nmoney in the pocket.\\nMETHOD IN THE SHEEP BUSINESS.\\nIt is said that representatives of tue American-English,\\nsyndicate have been in western North Dakota and Montana\\naii summer and fall, traveling over the large sheep raising\\nsections, securing options on the best sheep ranches and\\nbest watered land for the purpose of consolidating them\\ninto one large company. Already options on nearly 500-,\\n000 head of sheep and 500,000 acres of the finest and most\\nfertile sheep raising land in Montana have been obtained.\\nThe representatives of the syndicate in Montana are both\\nold, experienced and successful sheep men. The company\\nwill be known as the Montana Consolidated Sheep and\\nLand company, with a capital of .$10,0(XJ,000.\\nThe company will seek to improve the sheep industry\\nof the northwest. Experienced sorters, graders and pack-\\ners will be in charge at the various shearing plants, so\\nas to have the wool in shape on tae market, commanding\\nready sales and high prices. Instead of sending sheep to\\nother states to be fattened, the company will get them in\\nproper condition for the market and begin feeding upon\\nalfalfa, which is grown in large quantities upon many of\\ntheir splendid properties, which is acknowledged to be the\\nfinest sheep food grown. Scouring plants, woolen mill, etc.,\\nare among the possibilities with the company, and the busi-\\nness is to be handled in such a way as to attain the best\\nresults based upon years of experience of others, as well\\nas those interested in the company.\\nk", "height": "3568", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "34 Corbiti s Advice Or,\\nCHAPTER VIII.\\nNUMBER OF WOLVES IN EACH COUNTY AND\\nAMOUNT OF TAXES PAID. WHAT ONE MILL ON\\nTHE DOLLAR WOULD RAISE. NECESSITY OF\\nGREATER LEVY.\\nThe following are the number of wolves killed in this\\nstate, by counties, together with bounty fund taxes from\\neach county here represented, as shown by the State\\nBounty Register, from January, 1897, to November 30,\\n1898:\\nCounties No. Wolves Amount\\nBarnes 282 $292.63\\nBenson 289 85.50\\nBillings 3,212 40.85\\nBottineau 496 59.20\\nBurleigh 551 quw qu\\nCass 23 829.55\\nCavalier 370 132.79\\nDickey 447 165.08\\nEddy 1-J 49.18\\nEmmons 507 32.64\\nFoster 80 76.54\\nGrand Forks 73 574. 80\\nGriggs 120 100.39\\nKidder 201 42.43\\nLaMoure 242 172.25\\nLogan 106 29.61\\nMcHenry 536 17.92\\nMcintosh 147 51.25\\nMcLean 217 40.77\\nMercer 345 23.38\\nMorton 1,010 154.13\\nNelson 206 135.87\\nOliver 58 23.51\\nPembina 255 302.59\\nPierce 107 25.23\\nRamsey 136 125.58\\nRansom 135 133.60\\nRichland 121 440.62", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "The Wolf Hunter^s Guide. 35\\nCounties No. Wolves Amount\\nRolette 475 46.26\\nSargent 142 114.71\\nStark 1,500 127.24\\nSteele 53 191.24\\nStutsman 537 251 .40\\nTowner 31 56.28\\nTraill 2 406.66\\nWalsh 41 413.30\\nWard 575 96.70\\nWells 546 107.42\\nWilliams 911 35.89\\nTotal 15,211 $6,207.31\\nSince the above table was obtained written orders for\\nabout 1,000 wolf scalps have been received by the state\\nauditor from various counties listed above.\\nNow there is another feature of this matter that deserves\\na little attention and that is the size of the bounty. It is\\nno trick to catch young wolves, for a hunter who has made\\na life study of the subject as I have done. I have made\\nit my business since I have been in the country, and I\\nknow just how to do it. But neitner is it any trick for a\\ndoctor to make a professional call and charge .$2 for it, or\\nfor a lawyer to give a bit of advice and charge $10 for\\nfive minutes talk. And in a good many cases the doctor s\\nadvice does no good and the lawyer s talk only gets you\\ninto more trouble. But it is different with the wolf hunter.\\nEvery time he catches a wolf he saves you money. He\\nsaves you a calf or a sheep, or a turkey or something that.\\nis a direct benefit. He never fails to do you some good.\\nAnd he does not get paid unless he does catch a wolf. He\\nhas to do some good to the stockmen before he gets any\\nmoney. The doctor and the lawyer have made a study of\\ntheir business and they get paid for what they know. Why\\nshould not the wolf hunter who has made a life study of\\nhis business get paid for what he knows and does. He\\nknows how to catch wolves and he goes out and catches\\nthem. He is just as important to the stock grower as the\\ndoctor or the lawyer or any other man who does nothing\\nand gets a big fee. The ditrerence is that he does a great\\ndeal and gets a small fee. He saves thousands of dollars\\nto the stockmen, and gets a small bounty. And yet he is\\nthe most important member of tne community, for if he\\ndoes not do his work, the wolves eat up the cattle and\\nsheep and the stockmen have to go out of business. A\\nsmall bounty will do no good. An experienced wolf hunter\\nwill not go out and work hard for a measly little fee, and\\nthen discout his warrants to get money. The small\\nbounty is all right for the young wolves, for an experienced\\nwolf hunter will catch a whole litter of them at once and", "height": "3568", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "36 Carbines Advice Or\\nmake something out of it, but if you want the old wolves\\nkilled off, something that takes hard work and does more\\ngood than killing off 100 young ones, put a higher bounty\\non them. Put a bounty of $5 or even $10 on old wolves,\\nand shut off the wolf supply factory. No hunter will work\\nto kill an old wolf for $2 when he can in the same time\\nkill half a dozen young ones and get $1 apiece for them.\\nBut if you make it an object for him to kill the old ones,\\nhe will clean them out, and then there will be no young\\nones, at $1 apiece. Handle this question in a business-like\\nfashion. Every stockman in the county is just as much\\ninterested in this mater as I am. i make a bare living\\nat the business, and yet I keep the woives cleaned out so\\nthat you can make a fortune in the stock business in a few\\nyears. It is to get scientific wolf hunters to make a busi-\\nness of destroying them. It should be the aim of the\\nstockmen to pay enough bounty to make the object of ex-\\nperienced hunters to devote their time to killing off wolves.\\nOther states pay big bounties. In many places the stock-\\nmen pay a side bounty for all wolves killed on their range.\\nNebraska has been trying to get some man who will de-\\nvote his time to this wolf business and clean the wolves\\nout, but they can t get anyone, for the reason that wolf\\nkilling is a science and there are only a few of us who\\nknow how to kill them. The stockmen of Emmons county\\nhave all the benefit of my long experience in killing\\nwolves, the very thing the Nebraska stockmen would like\\nto have, and yet they, or rather some of them, do not\\nwant to pay a small amount for my work. In Nebraska\\nthe big cattlemen make all the cowboys ride the range to\\nshoot the wolves. I kill off whole families of them before\\nthey get big enough to kill off stock. If this is not a good\\nthing for the stockmen here, they do not know what is\\nbest for them.\\nCIRCULAR ON THE WOLF INDUSTRY.\\nBenjamin Corbin, the boss wolf hunter of North Dakota,\\nwho has caught more wolves than any other man in the\\nnorthwest, if not in the United States, says that now is\\nthe time his crop is being cultivated. Corbin figures every\\nfemale wolf as a farmer figures an acre of ground to be\\nsowed for a yield of grain. When the wolf bounty is taken\\noff for a time the female wolves increase in numbers, and\\nthat, according to his calculations, gives him so many\\nmore acres to count upon. The female wolves produce\\nannually seven young ones. When the bounty is placed\\non the wolves again, when they become so numerous that\\nthey threaten the existence of the stock industry, Corbin\\nlocates all these families of young ones and in many cases\\ncatches the entire family in one night without putting out\\nan ounce of poison or firing a shot. How he does it is\\nI", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "The Wolf Hunter s Guide. 37\\nsecret which it would pay any wolf hunter well to find\\nout, and which may be done if proper arrangements are\\nmade with Mr. Corbin, whose address is Glencoe, N. D.\\nCounting every female wolf as an acre of land would be\\ncounted by a farmer, seven young ones at $3 bounty each\\nproduces a revenue to Mr. Corbin of $21 an acre a far\\nmore profitable business than farming when the bounty is\\ntaken off the old wolves through false economy, and the\\nyoung ones are allowed to grow until they become so\\nnumerous that catching them is easy.\\nI have hunted wolves in this state for nine years, and\\nhave caught and killed more of them than any other man\\nin the northwest. I know all their habits and the amount\\nof damage they do, and I know that if the bounty is taken\\noff them they will over run the state and ruin the stock\\nindustry. Every time the bounty .s taken off the wolves\\nincrease and when it is placed back on them it takes so\\nmuch longer to cut the number down to what it was before.\\nThe best thing for the interests of the state and of the\\nstock raisers, in my opinion, would be to put an increased\\nbounty on the female wolves in the breeding season say\\nfrom the first of February to the first of June. That is\\nthe time the killing of the females will do the greatest\\ngood, for the females have an average of seven pups each,\\nand if the old wolf is killed it prevents the bearing of that\\nadditional number of young ones. As soon as these young\\nones are born they are trapped and killed and $3 each is\\npaid for them in loounty, making a total of $21 in bounty\\nthat has to be paid, where it could be avoided by the pay-\\nment of $10 on the old wolf in the breeding season.\\nOut of the breeding season put a bounty ot $5 on the\\nold w.olf. This will be an inducement to kill the old wolves\\nat all times and will result in cutting down the number\\nthat are born annually. If the burden is too heavy for the\\nstate let the state pay half the bounty and the county pay\\nhalf, each county to pay the proportion of the bounty for\\nthe wolves killed within its borders.\\nPut a bounty of $10 on the female wolves in the breeding\\nseason and $5 the year round. Let each county pay half\\nthe bounty and the state pay the other half.\\no\\nTHE FAMILY COW.\\nShe s broad in her hips and long in her rump,\\nA straight and flat back without even a hump.\\nShe s wide in her lips and calm in her eyes,\\nShe s fine in her shoulders and thin in her thighs,\\nShe s sleight in her neck and small in her tail.\\nShe s wide in her breast and good at the pail:\\nShe s fine in her Done and silky of skin,\\nShe s a grazier without and a butcher within.", "height": "3568", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "38 Corhiyi s Advice Or,\\nCHAPTER IX.\\nLOCATING THE WOLF. DEN. THE BENEFIT OF THE\\nWOLF BOUNTY. A CORRESPONDENT S DESCRIP-\\nTION OF MY WOLF FARM.\\nThe wolves howl every evening when they leave the den.\\nThey ao the same thing in the morning. That howl is\\nmusic to my ears, and death to theirs. I go to the ranch-\\nman, and ask, Have you any wolves here? Back\\ncomes the reply of ignorance No sir, plenty of cayotes\\nbut no wolves. A cayote is a wolf, and I now know what\\nnext to ask. How often do you see them? Every\\nmorning and evening. Do they do any damage? O\\nyes, they caught three turkeys here one on her nest al-\\nmost ready to hatch they suck eggs, and they even caught\\nthe old rooster and four hens, just over there west of the\\nhill.\\nI am almos-t sure, now I will ask a question or two more,\\nand clinch it like a Philadelphia lawyer. Where do you\\nfirst hear them in the morning? Over there, pointing\\nwith the finger. Where is the roughest, rockiest, hilly\\nground? It is pointed out to me. This information\\nwhich seems so simple to you gives me all the clue I need,\\nso off I go. Why, I know the den is not half a mile off, and\\njust at what point of the compass. I drive right there as\\nstraight as a bee files to its hive, with my dog tied to the\\nend of my ten-foot pole. The wolves come out to look at\\nthe dog, and if they follow me, I locate the den at once.\\nof meat, and the plant is then left over nighi.\\nI take a shot the first chance and get one or both of the\\nwolves. If, however, the wolves are shy and keep at a dis-\\ntace, I wait for night, and set my dog after the old ones,\\nand then drive past the den. This will fetch the old one\\nto the den, if the cubs are too young to come out, otherwise\\nshe will stay away. The surest time to shoot the old ones\\nand hook or spear the young ones in the den is when they\\nare too small to leave the den. I have referred to this\\nelsewhere and need not repeat. I fool away no time on\\nthe old ones however, for I get .$1 for each cub, and only\\n$2 for the adults, and so I take the old ones if I can\\neasily, otherwise I gather in the cubs and pass on.\\nOut of 1,500 wolves I have killed the past nine years,\\nnot more than sixty-one were grown up.", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "The Wolf Hunter s Guide. 39\\nI have twenty old females on my farm of twenty-five\\nmiles square that have cost the people from $150 to $200\\neach in the last nine years, when they could have got rid\\nof the whole twenty for $100 or even less money, by offer-\\ning an inducement for their capture. In 1807, I caught\\ntwenty-one litters of wolves, averaging seven to the litter.\\nI kill about one old wolf for every twenty young ones. I\\nspot the same old pair every year, get the increase and let\\nthe old ones go free. I particularize five old wolves whose\\noffspring I have caught every year. These five wolves\\nhave cost on bounty $945 and are still alive and well.\\nDon t this demonstrate that it would be economy to pay\\na bounty of $10? You must kill more than 1,000 a day to\\nexterminate the 343,000 in North Dakota within one year,\\nas it is done now the wolves are on the increase in a ratio\\nthat must startle any thinking man concerned in the\\nhonorable business of raising wool, mutton, beef, poultry,\\nbutter and eggs for the market, for the wolves get the\\nmost of it now. It costs you half a million dollars a year\\nto starve out the poor hunter with niggardly bounty, and\\nhamper and feed the wolves with the finest and best of\\nyour flocks and herds.\\nAny one interested can easily prepare himself for the\\nbusiness of wolf hunting for $25 under my personal in-\\nstruction in a thousand matters I can put in no books, and\\nthat no book can teach. A ride with Uncle Ben, a few\\nweeks at my fireside will cost you nothing, and before you\\nleave my college you will drop me a $25 and get your\\ndiploma as W. H. L. L., which means doctor of wolf hun-\\nters. No other college can confer the degree no other uni-\\nversity than my open prairies, grand woods, and crystal\\nstreams, where the air is pure, the sunlight clear, and\\nnature s open book before us teaches all you need to know\\nfor wolf hunters.\\nBENEFITS OF THE WOLF BOUNTY.\\nThe wolf bounty question is a serious one for the stock-\\nmen of the western part of this state. It is serious be-\\ncause wolves increase rapidly, and if they are not kept\\nthinned out by experienced wolf hunters, the time will\\nhave to come when the stockmen will be forced to leave\\nthe business or conduct it at a loss. At present the free\\nrange and free grass afford the stockmen the greatest\\nnatural opportunities in the world. The wolf is their\\nprincipal enemy, and it would seem to be the part of wis-\\ndom for them to kill the enemy or make it an object for\\nother men to do so.\\nWolves increase much faster than people suppose who\\ndo not know the animals. They multiply at the rate of\\n600 to 800 per cent a year. An old she wolf in one year\\nwill bear half a dozen or more young ones, and in another", "height": "3568", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "40 Corbin^s Advice Or,\\nyear every one of these will be large enougJi to do as much\\ndamage as the old one. If these young wolves are trapped\\nor shot, and put out of the way, the stockmen are safe,\\nexcept from the old one. But if they are allowed to run\\nat large if no bounty is paid and they are not killed in\\na year or two they will be breeding and raising young\\nand the first thing you know the prairie is overrun with\\nwolves and the stockmen and farmers find their calves\\ndead on the range, and their profits eaten up by the pests.\\nJust to show how wolves multiply, I will state that in\\nthe past nine years I have caught 300 pups from five old\\nwolves. Suppose those pups had not been caught sup-\\npose there had been no bounty and they had been allowed\\nto grow unmolested. Half of them would have been\\nfemales and at the rate of increase there would have been\\nthousands of wolves from the five old ones, where I kept\\nthe number down to the original five.\\nNow the one thousand wolves^ put the increase at that\\nnumber will do as much damage as the profits of several\\nbig stockmen will amount to in a year. If I had killed\\noff what would have produced that number I have saved\\nthe farmers and stockmen thousands of dollars. At $3\\na head, I got $000 for those 300 wolves. Does it look as\\nthough I was giving the stockmen the worth of their\\nmoney or not?\\nNow these wolves were killed .on a little piece of land\\ntwenty-four miles square. Last year I caught 148 wolves\\nin thirty-five days on the same land. Suppose the same\\nratio of wolves were found all over the prairies in the\\nstate.\\nThere are 50,000 square miles of lana in the western part\\nof the state and wolves are found- on a large number of\\nmiles of it. Let them increase at the rate I have shown\\nand the stockmen will have to increase the bounty or quit\\nthe stock business. But if enough bounty is paid right\\nalong to encourage a few experienced wolf hunters to\\nstay in the business and clean out the increase, with as\\nmany of the old wolves as can be killed, the wolf question\\nwill eventually settle itself, for a race of animals must\\neither increase or die out altogether it cannot stand still,\\nI believe the stockmen of this country are in favor of kill-\\ning off the wolf tribe altogether. But they will never\\nsucceed by offering a bounty one year and taking it off the\\nnext. For the wolves will increase enough in one year,\\nif they are not killed off, to make up for several years\\nwhen they have been killed for the bounty. Pay a bounty\\nright along until the wolves are killed off.\\nIn the past nine years I have caught some 1.100 wolves.\\nOn an average I have received Jj^S a head for them. That\\nis a total of $3,300. I have aiscounted the warrants from\\ntime to time, so my actual receipts are much less than\\nthis. But surely these wolves would have done $10 damage", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "The Wolf Hunter s Guide. 41\\napiece it they had lived, not counting what damage would\\nhave been done by their increase, and that alone is $10,000,\\nall of which would have come out of the farmers and stock-\\nmen. I have received a little over $3,000, and I have saved\\nthe stockmen $10,000. Does that look as though I were\\nbeating anybody on the wolf bounty? Does it not rather\\nshow that an experienced wolf hunter is a man whom the\\nstockmen should pay well to keep in the stock country.\\nCORBIN S WOLF BARM.\\nOne of the most picturesque and interesting characters\\nin the western part of this state is Ben Corbin of Glencoe,\\nEmmons county, known all over the state as the boss wolf\\nhunter. Corbin has made a life study of wolf trapping\\nand as a result has caught more wolves than possibly any\\nother hunter in the northwest. He is accustomed to com-\\npute his season s catch by hundreds, and as the bounty\\non the animals ranges from $3 to $5 a head, according to\\nthe county in which they are caught, he makes a good liv-\\ning at wolf trapping alone.\\nCorbin is a Virginian by birth and has been a hunter\\nand trapper all his life. Every season, when the wolves\\ngive birth to their young, he is early on the trail of the\\nanimals, and in the territory of twenty-five square miles\\nhe manages to keep the young ones pretty well cleaned\\nout. The old ones he does not often touch. His reason for\\nsparing them is a selfish one, and yet natural. He says:\\nI have practically all the wolf dens in my locality spotted\\nand knew where to find them every year. The litter of a\\nfemale wolf ranges from five to nine wolves, and as I catch\\nthe whole litter every year each female wolf is worth $15\\nto $30 a year to me, as I get $3 each for the young wolves.\\nIf I kill the old one I deprive myself of this revenue.\\nThis is the argument that Corbin makes to the county com-\\nmissioners and the state for a larger bounty on old female\\nwolves. He says if a bounty of $10 each were offered for\\nthe old female wolves they would be killed, where at\\npresent they are spared by wolf hunters out of considera-\\ntion for the revenue they bring in the shape of young ones.\\nIn the past nine years Corbin has kept an account of five\\nold wolves in the territory over which he has hunted and\\nhe says he has received nearly $1,000 in the shape of\\nbounty on the young they have produced. This he calls\\nreducing the wolf bounty business to a science.\\nCorbin s methods of catching young wolves is one which\\nhe devised himself, and which, so far as known, is em-\\nployed by no other wolf hunter in the state. The ordinary\\nmethods of killing the animals are by shooting them, by\\npoisoning them and by hunting them with dogs. But all\\nof these methods are open to objection. Poison is no\\nlonger a favorite method, for the reason that the wolves", "height": "3568", "width": "1923", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "42 Corbin s Advice Or\\nafter a time become suspicious and refuse to touch the\\npoison that is set for them. There is also the ODjection\\nthat the poison becomes scattered over the grass by the\\nrain and wind and cattle eat of the poisoned grass and\\ndie. Shooting the wolves is difficult, for the reason that\\nthe animals are wary. Hunting them with dogs is ex-\\ncellent sport, but unprofitable occupation for the profes-\\nsional wolf hunter, for the reason that the catches average\\nat best only one or two wolves a day. Corbin s method\\novercomes all these difficulties and objections, and is as\\nsim^ple as ABC, He catches the young wolves with\\nfishhooks and a steel line, and has been known to land\\neight young wolves on the same line in one night.\\nThe wolves live in dens in the earth, after the manner\\nof badgers, except that the dens are larger. When Corbin\\nlocates the den, he waits until night and then brings his\\nfishing line and hooks into play. The steel line is fastened\\nto a stout stake driven into the ground and is then carried\\nbeneath the soil through the region immediately about\\nthe den. From the main wire are numerous smaller wires\\nprojecting in all directions, to the end of each of which is\\na spring fishhook. These hooks are baited with good-\\nsized pieces of chicken breast or other tempting morsels\\nWhen the young wolves leave the den at night to prowl\\nabout in search of food the first thing they encounter is\\nthese scattered bits of meat. The wolf is a ravenous an-\\nimal, and bolts small bits of meat whole. The young ones\\nattack these bits of meat and swallow them, snap goes the\\nbolted spring hook, and the wolf is fast. Every effort\\nmade by the wolf to get away adds tO the pain inflicted by\\nthe hook, which has found lodgment in his stomach or\\nthroat, and he soon learns that absolute quiet is the best\\nmethod under the circumstances. Not infrequently Cor-\\nbin returns to the den in the morning to find every one\\nof the young wolves caught on the spring hooks. The\\nsteel wire prevents their biting it in two and escaping in\\nthis fashion, and as the animals are all securely fastened,\\nit is no difficult task to knock them in the head with a\\nclub, take their scalps and leave the bodies for the buzz-\\nards.\\nThis process is repeated at every den which may be\\ndiscovered by the hunter, and seldom without success.\\nHundreds of young wolves are caught every season, and\\ntheir scalps brought in for the bounty. The same ground\\nis gone over every season, with the same results, and\\nCorbin pockets annually hundreds of dollars as the result\\nof his ingenuity. He has endeavored to have the fishhook\\nand line patented as a means of catching wolves but the\\npatent office does not consider an old device patentable\\nas applied to a new end, and he has been unable to secure\\na patent.\\nCorbin makes some calculations of the number of wolves", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "The Wolf Hunter s Guide. 43\\nin the western part of the state which are startling to\\nstockmen. He claims that from tne number of wolves\\nhe has caught on twenty-five square miles of territory,\\nif the same number exists on every other equal section\\nof territory, and it is reasonable to suppose there is, there\\nare 300,000 wolves in the western part of the state, and the\\nannual damage they do to cattle and all stock interests\\nis enormous. But so long as the bounty is the same on\\nold wolves as young, he says the wolf hunters will\\ncontent themselves with killing as many young wolves\\nas they can, without harming the old ones, and there will\\nbe no perceptible advance made in the diminution of the\\noriginal number of wolves.\\nFIXING THE TAX LEVY.\\nMr. Carlblom moved that the state tax levy to defray\\nthe general expenses of the state for the current year be\\nfixed at the specific sum of four hundred and thirty-one\\nthousand eight hundred and eighteen dollars, ($431,-\\n818.00) being at the rate of three and eight-tenths (3.8)\\nmills on the dollar of the assessed valuation of all taxable\\nproperty in the state as equalized by the state board of\\nequalization for the year 1899.\\nThat the state tax levy to pay interest on the state debt\\nfor the current year be fixed at the sum of fifty-six\\nthousand eight hundred and eighteen dollars ($56,818.00)\\nbeing at the rate of five-tenths (.5) of one mill on the\\ndollar of the assessed valuation of all taxable property\\nin the state as equalized by the state board of equaliza-\\ntion for the year 1899; and,\\nThat the special tax levy for the payment of wolf\\nbounties be fixed at the specific sum of twenty-two thou-\\nsand seven hundred and twenty-seven dollars (.$22,7:27.00)\\nbeing at the rate of two-tenths (.2) of one mill on the\\ndollar of the assessed valuation of all taxable property\\nin the state as equalized by the state board of equalization\\nfor the year 1899.\\nValuation of all property within the state of North Da-\\nkota as fixed by the state board of equalization:\\nReal property 72,110,0o9\\nPersonal property 25,209,411\\nRailroad Property 17, oi4, 908\\nTotal valuation of state 114,334,428\\nLEVY.\\nMills\\nGeneral 3.8\\nBond interest .5\\nWolf bounty ,2\\nTotal 4,5", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "44 Corbin s Advice Or,\\nCHAPTER X.\\nSIGNS IN WOLF HUNTING. HOW IT CAN BE MADE\\nMORE PROFITABLE THAN STOCK RAISING. MY\\nTREATMENT BY THE LEGISLATURE OF 1898.\\nLETTER FROM A STOCK RAISER.\\nUncle Ben Corbin nas a book in press and strange\\nas it may appear to those who know the trouble that it is\\nto get the renowned author to converse on the subject\\nof wolves the book is devoted entirely to that branch of\\nnatural history. In a recent letter to the Record Col.\\nCorbin says:\\nEver since word got out that I was writing a book\\non Wolfology I have been receiving many letters wanting\\nto know what I would take to tell them how I catch so\\nmany wolves, and for that reason I have issued a circular\\nstating that the book will be out about April 20 in time\\nto help move the 1900 crop. I have given notice that\\nBenjamin Corbin, general manager of the state of North\\nDakota and superintendent oi the wolf industry of the\\nwest, has called a convention to be known as The Wolf\\nConvention, to try to work up some plan to destroy the\\n8G2,.500 young wolves which will be the increase for the\\npresent year, and also to get away with as many old wolves\\nas possible. Everybody that eats meat or wears woolen\\nclothes or leather shoes is interested.\\nThere has nothing turned up around Glencoe more than\\nhas happened heretofore. The river is still rising and is\\nfull of (Here the writer s pen sort o slipped, and we\\ncannot exactly say whether the colonel intended to write\\nice or geese. Ed. Record.)\\nI have stalk to to let on shears. These stalk is all\\nclimated, and their ancestors settled in this country be-\\nfore Gen. Lounsberry or Cox. Jewell. The stalk was raised\\nhere and is healthy and in good order. They never die\\nwith black leg or game leg or any other kind of a leg. Yon\\ndon t have to feed em any ihay. If you have a chicken or\\na turkey or a lam or a caf, my stalk will take care of it\\nfor you. The dry weather doesn t affect my crop, and a\\nwet season is all the better. All you need to start with is\\nabout twenty head, and in a couple of years you can dig\\nabout twenty dens each year. Twenty miles square is\\nenough for one man to manage. It is easy work as all", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "The Wolf Hunter s Guide. 45\\nyou have to do is to gather the increase when it is ripe\\nin May or June. It doesn t make any difference which\\none you kill, for it is a well-known scientific fact that wolves\\nare different from other insects, and that either sex can\\nhave pups.\\nI furnish all the stalk and teach all you want to know;\\nbut you will have to stay with me two weeks to learn all\\nthe science, and for the two weeks board I charge you $15,\\nand at the end of your time you git your diplomy as a\\nwolfologist.\\nSigned BUJN CORBIN,\\nSuperintendent of the Wolf Industry of the State of North\\nDakota.\\nCORBIN BEFORE THE LEGISLATURE.\\nImmediately after the committee of the whole of the\\nhouse had risen yesterday, Mr. Stevens moved that the\\nprivileges of the floor be extended to Ben Corbin, the boss\\nwolf hunter of North Dakota, in order to give him an\\nopportunity to explain the wolf question from a practical\\nstandpoint. The motion prevailed and Mr. Stevens was\\nappointed to escort the famous wolf scalper to the speaker s\\nstand. The committee was not long in finding the eccen-\\ntric slayer of wolves and wnen he was piloted through the\\nswing doors of the house he was greeted with cheers loud\\nand long. In his left hand he carried a valise of uncertain\\nage while a three-months beard protected his face from the\\nslope s winter breezelet.\\nOnce landed upon the speaker s stand the wolf hunter\\nbegan his remarks by saying that it was probably the first\\ntime in the history of the state, when an honest man had\\naddressed the members from the stand. (Laughter.)\\nThere are three kinds of wolves, ladies and gentlemen\\nin this state, the gray wolf, the coyote and the two-legged\\nwolf. The two-legged wolves are the county cimmission-\\ners who knock off bounty. (Laughter.)\\nI have hunted wolves forty years and nine years in Da-\\nkota. I know their habits and know the great damage\\nthey do to the stock interests of the state.\\nThe speaker closed as follows:\\nNow the whole matter in a nutshell is simply this:\\nDoes it pay the stockmen better to save .$3 or $4 in extra\\ntaxes each year for a wolf bounty and lose $20 or $30 worth\\nof stock from the wolves? Does it pay the merchant to\\nsave the price of a safe to keep his money in and lose all\\nof it the first time a burglar enters his store at night?\\nHj The principle is the same. For instance, Emmons county\\nhas GOO wolves and if it takes a pound of beef a day to\\nfeed each one it costs the stockmen $15 a day at 2% cents\\na pound. Burleigh county has 800 wolves and it would\\ncost $20 a day at the same figures. Morton county has", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "46- Corbin^s Advice Or,\\n1,500 wolves, or an expense to the stockmen of $37.50 a\\nday. North Dakota with 100,000 wolves would contribute\\nevery day beef to the value of .$2,500 to feed them. There\\nare 290,000 sheep and 890,000 cattle in North Dakota. How\\nlong will they last?\\nThe number of 2-year-old steers necessary to feed the\\nwolves for one year is 81,111 head. Thanking you, ladies\\nand gentlemen, for your close attention and your bad be-\\nhavior, I am yours as ever, Ben Corbin, the wolf hunter.\\nRemember, the wolf is cunning and sly and hard to catch.\\nNovices and amateurs have no business with the wolf, un-\\nless they are first instructed in the habits of the animals\\nand the mode of their capture. The wily brute will\\nlaugh at them. It takes an expert hunter to catch the\\nwolf, and this, in plain English, he cannot be unless the\\nstate pays a bounty to reimburse and make a reasonable\\nprofit for the man who has paid an expert to teach him\\nthe secrets of the business and explain to him the signs\\nleft by the animals, without a knowledge of which wolf\\nhunting as an occupation would be unremunerative.\\nSheep cannot increase in a ratio of more than 2 to 1 an-\\nnually, while the wolf population is augmented by from\\n600 to 800 per cent each year, and in a little while there\\nwill be overwhelming numbers of them unless the work of\\ndestruction is vigorously encouraged and prosecuted. It\\nmatters little to the hunters where the pay comes from,\\nso that ic comes sure; but without it, certain it is, that\\nthe necessary work of destruction will not be done at all.\\nEven now people have to watch their flocks in the day\\ntime even, to keep the wolves away from them.\\nSo you see, I kill about one old wolf for every twenty\\nyoung ones that I catch. While I am trying to kill the\\nold wolf I kill 20 cubs and geit .$60, and for the old one I\\nget only $.3. So there is nO inducement to kill the old\\nwolf, for she is not worth any more to me than a young\\none. It would be better to pay $10 for the old one than\\nit is to pay for the increase. It has already gone too far,\\nand, without a larger bounty, the wolves will be here by\\nthousands, and you can t help it.\\nDOES IT PAY?\\nGlencoe, Emmons County, Jan. 8. To The Forum: Does\\nit pay to raise Russian thistle in place of Hungarian Brome\\ngrass? Or wild mustard in place of No. 1 hard? Or blind\\npigs in place of Poland and Berkshire? The question\\nanswers itself.\\nDoes it pay to quarantine for scarlet fevers, smallpox, or\\ndiphtheria, to disinfect house and garments, to stay the", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "The Wolf Hunter s Guide. 47\\nbubonic plague, to check and stamp out infectious diseases?\\nOnly a criminal carelessness will allow these to run riot,\\nand become a menace^ curse and death.\\nDoes it pay to be penny-wise and pound-foolish? To\\nsave at spigot and waste at bung-hole?\\nDoes it pay to let thousands of sheep and cattle be killed\\nby wolves and have state and county take little or no steps,\\nto stop? Stockmen give these bloodthirsty, unsatisfiable\\nbrutes, every year, from cattle and sheep, from calves and\\nlambs, more than the wolf bounty would amount to.\\nEvery year the demand and supply of blood becomes\\ngreater. No man will work for no wages. Let the state\\nand county pay enough bounty to make it an object to\\nkill wolves, and within five years, this never-satisfied and\\never-increasing appetite and loss will be, largely, a thing\\nof the past.\\nDoes it pay? It will pay. And the longer it is put off,\\nthe more it will cost. BEN CORBIN.\\nTHIS IS OUR UNCLE BEN.\\nUncle Ben Oorbin wants $112 from Burleigh county for\\nwolf scalps. The commissioners won t pay it and Uncle\\nBen is now after the scalps of the commissioners. And\\nUncle Ben is quite a successful trapper. Fargo Call.\\no^\\nThe gavel which the state of Iowa will present to Gen.\\nD. B. Henderson^ in honor of his being the first speaker\\nfrom west of the Mississippi, will be a gorgeous affair. The\\nwood came from Admiral Montojo s flagship, Reina Maria\\nChristina, which Admiral Dewey sank. There will be\\nthree solid gold plates on the gavel, one bearing Mr. Hen-\\nderson s monogram, another the seal of Iowa, and another\\nthe seal of the United States. There are also plates bear-\\ning the wild rose, Iowa s flower, and a row of ears of com\\nwill run around the ferrule. Other flgures will appear\\nalso. All work is tO be engraved on solid gold.\\nI am from Iowa. I lived in Wayne county twenty-five\\nyears. I caught my first wolves in Wayne county. The\\nbounty was 75 cents per scalp. I hunted all over Iowa.\\nI made $112 off of one wolf in Sioux county; my dog pulled\\nher tail off and she had from nine to twelve pups a year.\\nThe bounty was $2.50 and I got twelve pups and $30, and\\nshe lived seven miles west of Orange City, and far as I\\nknow is alive yet.\\nAn hour of triumph comes at last to those who watch\\nand wait, and the sign is getting fresher. It has been a long\\ntime between drinks.", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "48 Corbin^s Advice Or,\\nCHAPTER XI.\\nIMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR THE FARMER.\\nWOLF BOUNTY.\\nI desire to call your especial attention to the results of\\nthe present bounty law enacted during the closing days of\\nthe last legislature. Since that law went into effect, up to\\nthe 15th day of December, 18!)G, bounty claims have been\\nfiled for ihe killing of wolves amounting, in the aggregate,\\nto the sum of $47,123, and warrants have been issued in\\nthe sum of $G, 816. There is now on file claims for bounty\\nfor killing above named animals for which no warrants\\nhave been issued, amounting to $40,307. The revenues\\navailable under the law are not sufficient to meet more\\nthan one-fourth of the claims filed annually for bounty.\\nThe result is that payment is deferred so long that the\\nbounty claims and certificates are discounted to such a\\nlarge extent that they are almost worthless in the hands\\nof the holders and for this reason those who engage in\\nkilling these animals secure only a small per cent of the\\namount allowed by the state for each animal thus killed.\\nI am reliably informed that the principal damage to stock\\nfrom wild animals is caused by the grey wolf, and would\\ntherefore recommend that all bounty laws be repealed ex-\\ncept the bounty on grey wolves and the law be framed\\nso as to prevent, as far as possible, frauds or the imposi-\\ntion upon the public officials of the hides or scalps of\\ncoyotes for those of the grey wolves. By confining the\\nbounty to these animals alone the revenue will, in a meas-\\nure, meet the demands and the hunters will receive cash\\nfor their claims and the incentive to hunt and kill these\\ndestructive pests will be multiplied by the increased cash\\nvalue of their certificates.\\nThe following from the Bismarck Tribune gives the his-\\ntory of the passage of the wolf bounty law in the North\\nDakota legislature:\\nHouse Bill 57, special tax of one-third mill for payment\\nof wolf bounty was considered. Mr. Stevens moved to\\namend by striking out the amendment confining the tax\\nto the years 1800 and 1000. He stated the deficiency in the\\ntax of one-tenth mill for the state wolf bounty. The state\\nwas in honor bound to pay the bounty it had authorized.\\nIt had no right to repudiate the obligation it had incurred.\\nThe provision for payment of bounties was insufficient.", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "The Wolf Hunter s Guide. 49\\nThe state was morally bound to pay them, as any other de-\\nficiency.\\nMr. Lynch said he did not think the valley counties\\nshould pay increased tax to the slope counties, when they\\ngot no benefit.\\nMr. Bacon, thought the stockmen on the slope should\\nhire a few men to kill the wolves. It was a rank injustice\\nto appropriate nearly as much for wolf killing as to main-\\ntain the largest educational institution in the state.\\nMr. Chacey did noit propose to support any measure that\\nproposed to legislate in the interests of tne stockmen as\\nagainst the farmers.\\nThe motion to amend was lost.\\nMr. Dougherty wanted to amend the bill by a levy on\\npersonal property, but withdrew the amendment.\\nMr. Lynch moved to indefinitely postpone the bill.\\nMr. Hale said he did not believe the state could afford\\nto go forth as a repudiator. The state should pay the obli-\\ngations on file in the auditor s office. Repeal the bounty\\nlaw if desired, but the state must pay its honest debts.\\nMr. Sargent said the law was passed in good faith. The\\nstate could not afford to repudiate the debt.\\nMr. Bacon did not want to repudiate he wanted the\\npayment of the debt to extend over several years he did\\nnot believe in attempting to pay the debt all at once. He\\nmoved to place the levy at two-tenths mill, which was all\\nhe thought the state could afford.\\nMr. Chacey said he was in favor of paying for the dead\\nones no more live ones.\\nMr. Dougherty wanted to know what guarantee the state\\nwould have that it would not be as badly off two years from\\nnow.\\nMr, Wolbert said it was a more lionest debt than the\\nlegislature had voted when it recently passed a bill making\\nappropriations for an expense which the state had forbid-\\nden. He thought the debt should be paid and make the\\nbounty big enough so that the man who killed the wolves\\nshould get the bojinty not have to discount to the specu-\\nlator for a fraction of what the law provided.\\nMr. Hare said the part of the state west of the river re-\\nceived not a cent from the state in the way of an appropria-\\ntion except what was paid out for wolf bounty. Take off\\nthe wolf bounty ^allow them to increase and the Red\\nRiver valley would be crying for bounty. The valley\\nshould help to build up the western part of the state\\nprotect the stock industry the second in the state.\\nMr. Stanford agreed no one part of the state should be\\nselfish ^the eastern part of the state should aid the west\\nthe latter paid tax for institutions in the east there should\\nbe mutual interest and assistance.\\nMr. Wallace was not in favor of repudiation or anything\\nthat looked like it. Last week the state voted $420,000", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "50 CorbiTVs Advice Or,\\nfor institutions east of the river ^this morning the legisla-\\nture had voted the single $1,250 that remained away from\\nthe west side. The legislature should pass the bill as it\\nstood follow the golden rule.\\nMr. McHarg said the bill should pass as it is pay the\\nbounty and protect the stock, but do not put a perpetual\\ntax on the state.\\nMr. Bacon s amendment was adopted, providing for a\\nlevy of two-tenths mill.\\nMr. Hale offered an amendemnt providing for the levy\\nof the tax by the state board of equalization which was\\nadopted.\\nThe bill was reported to pass as amended. The bill as\\nfinally amended provides for a levy of two-tenths mill\\nduring the years 1899 to 1900.\\nLOOKING FOR SOME NICE $5-MUTTON.\\nWEIGHTS AND MEASURES.\\nThe following table of the number of pounas of various\\narticles to a bushel, may be of interest to our readers:\\nOf wheat, sixty pounds.\\nOf shelled corn, fifty-six pounds.\\nOf corn on the cob^ seventy pounds.\\nOf rye, fifty-six pounds.\\nOf oats, thirty-six pounds.\\nOf barley, forty-six pounds.\\nOf potatoes, sixty pounds.\\nOf beans, sixty pounds.\\nOf bran, twenty pounds.\\nOf clover seed, sixty pounds.\\nOf timothy seed, forty-five pounds.\\nOf flax seed, forty-five pounds.\\nOf hemp seed, forty-four pounds.\\nOf buckwheat, fifty-two pounds.\\nOf blue grass seed, fourteen pounds.\\nOf castor ])eans, forty-six pounds.\\nOf dried peaches, thirty-three pounds.\\nOf dried apples, twenty-four pounds.\\nOf onions, fifty-seven pounds.\\nOf salt, fifty pounds.", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "The Wolf Hunter s Guide. 51\\nTABLE OF DISTANCES.\\nThe following table may be useful to the gardener, in\\nshowing the number of plants, or trees, that may be raised\\non an acre of ground, when planted at .any of the under-\\nmentioned distances:\\nDistance Apart No. Plants\\n1 foot 43,560\\nIV, foot 19,360\\n2 feet 10,890\\n2yo feet 6,869\\n3 teet 4,840\\n4 feet 2,7^:2\\n5 feet 1,742\\n6 feet 1,210\\n9 feet 537\\n12 feet 362\\n15 feet 193\\n18 feet 134\\n21 feet 98\\n24 feet 75\\n27 feet 59\\n30 feet 48\\no\\nThe American Agriculturist says, to illustrate what the\\nweekly saving, or the extra production will amount to in\\na single year, we select the following common items:\\nOne egg a week, at 37c. per doz 1.60\\nTwo eggs a week, at I8V2C. per doz 1.60\\n0ns quart wheat a week, at 96c. per bushel 1.60\\nOne and a half quarts corn a week, at 66c. per\\nbushel 1 61\\nThree quarts corn a week, at 33c. per bushel 1 61\\nTwo quarts potatoes a week, at 50c. per buShel. 1,62\\nFour quarts potatoes a week, at 25c. per bushel. 1.62\\nOne cabbage a week, at 3c. per head 1.56\\nOne and one-quarter quarts milk a week, at 2c. per\\nquart 1 56\\nOne and three-quarter oz. butter a week, at 32c. per\\npound 1 56\\nOne-quarter lb. sugar a week, at 12c. per pound 1 56\\nOne-half oz. tea a week, at 96c. per pound 1.56\\nOne and one-half oz. coffee a week, at 32c. per\\npound 1 56\\nOne postage stamp a week, at 3 oents 1.56\\nOne poor cigar a week, at 3 cents 1 56\\nTotal 28.66\\nA practical suggestion is, that any one of the above items\\nsaved, or produced extra, will pay for the American Agri-\\nculturist a whole year, postage included.", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "52 Corbhi s Advice Or,\\nDEMAND OUT-GROWING SUPPLY.\\nIn speaking on this subject, the national provisioner,\\nwhich is authority, says: The cattle shortage exists.\\nThere is an effort among our ranchmen to stock up and to\\nbreed up, but the increase of population at a greater rate\\nthan the increase of the beef and swine herds, backed by\\nthe increased demand abroad for our food stuffs\\nwidens the deficiency between supply and demand.\\nHow long this condition will last is uncertain^\\nbut all efforts in this direction will hardly meet the grow-\\ning deficiency in the range supply. The northwest, because\\nof the extension of agriculture and encroachment of the\\nsheep herds will continue to diminish its cattle ranges.\\nThe time when the territories can be used for the exten-\\nsive cattle production that has for years made them so\\nimportant an element of the industry can last but little\\nlonger. The area of range production must, In tne natural\\norder of things, continue to diminish, while the require-\\nments of home and foreign consumption grow steadily\\nlarger.\\nBeside these, which may be considered the normal\\nelements of the situation, there are what may be called\\nemergency requirements that have become of considerable\\nimportance. These are the wars of our own country and\\nof England in distant fields where troops must be supplied\\nlargely witn the products of the packing houses, which\\ngovernments are learning to depend upon more and more\\nin time of war. To this class of requirements also belongs\\nthe demand of Cuba, whose ranges and farms must have\\nmany thousands of cattle. It has been suggested that the\\nhigh price of cattle would cause a development of the mut-\\nton growing industry that would lead to a considerable\\nsubstitution of mutton tor beef, and that pork production\\nwould be greatly increased. The fact is that there is a\\nshort supply of both sheep and hogs in tne country as of\\ncattle. The sheepmen are holding on to their herds, and\\nthere is reason to believe that not more than half as many\\nlambs are being put on feed as went into the feed lots a\\nyear ago.\\nOf course such a situation must in time develop a very\\nmuch larger stock farming industry in the portions of the\\ncountry adapted to it, but this, for reasons not necessary\\nto recite, must be a gradual development and it will be\\nsome years before it can materially affect the market. In\\nthe meantime cows are going to market from some sections,\\nand in the feed pens, which are lightly supplied this sea-\\nson, there are more 2-year-olds in proportion to the num-\\nber on feed than ever before, and quite a large number\\nof yearlings. Everything in tne situation indicates that\\ncattle prices are far more likely to advance than to decline,\\nand that for many years the producer of cattle of good\\nquality win be master of the situation.", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "The Wolf Hunter s Guide. 53\\nAN OLD-TIME WOLF HUNTER.\\nThe following is a characteristic circular published years\\nago by Ben Corbin, when he lived down in Iowa. The ter-\\nritory or county, or both, gave a big bonus for wolf scalps,\\nand made no difference as to age. An Emmons county\\nman who knew Mr. C. in those days once told us that,,\\nafter many payments for cub-woxf scalps, an official said:\\nMr. Corbin, how is it? Your wolves are all pups. Pon t\\nyou ever kill and old ones? Ben replied with a twink.e\\nin his eye, Did you ever know a man to succeed in the\\nstock business who killed all his cows? But the follow-\\ning is Ben s unique advertisement:\\nHonesty and Fair Dealing.\\nBen Corbin, of Grant Center, Iowa, is\\nthe Only Man in the Business.\\nFish, Wine, Wolves, or Land.\\nI have the finest location in Iowa for hunting, fishing,\\nor drinking wine. I sell fish at 10 cents per pound and\\nfine pure wine at $1.50 per gallon, put up in good style\\nand sweetened to the taste. Duck hunters, sporting men\\nand trappers will be charged 25 cents per meal at my\\nhouse; but I will give you a good, square meal.\\nI can, and do, catch more wolves in a month than any\\nman living; but the money must be in sight first.\\nFor more particulars address\\nBEN CORBIN,\\nGrant Center, Iowa.\\nThat Benjamin was a mighty hunter in those days is\\nshown by the annexed newspaper clippings:\\nBen Corbin of Monona county, is the boss wolf hunter,\\nand is well known in this county. In the last three weeks\\nhe has caught thirty-eight wolves in Lyon county, thirty-\\nsix in Sioux, and five in Monona. He has hunted over\\nthis county for four years. I ne first year he caught in\\nLyon county, three; the second, twenty-five; the third,\\nseventeen; and this year, as stated above, thirty-eight. If\\nanybody can beat that let him come forward. Rock\\nRapids Review.\\nBen Corbin of Grant township, the wolf hunter, was in\\ntown on Monday last. In conversatioR with the Press re-\\nporter he informed the latter that he had closed his hunt\\nfor the season, having captured eighty-four wolves and two\\nfoxes. Of that number thirty-eight were killed in Lyon\\ncounty, thirty-four in Sioux county, four in Woodbury, and\\nfive in Monona. While on the hunt in Lyon county he suc-\\nceeded, after a sharp chase, in capturing a couple of foxes.\\nBen feels especially proud of his success this season, hav-\\ning the good luck to number among his trophies of the\\nhunt the scalps of six old wolves, the latter number of old\\nones being ahead of any former season s work. Mapleton\\nPress.", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "54 Corbin^s Advice Or,\\nWHEN PAPA WAS A BOY.\\nWhen papa was a little boy\\nYou really couldn t find\\nIn all the state of Washington\\nA child so quick to mind.\\nHis mother never called but once.\\nAnd pa was always there;\\nHe never made the baby cry,\\nOr pulled his sister s hair.\\nHe never slid down banisters.\\nOr made the slightest noise;\\nAnd never in his life was known\\nTo fight with other boys.\\nHe always studied hard at school,\\nAnd got his lessons right;\\nAnd chopping wood and milking cows\\nWere papa s chief delight.\\nHe always rose at 6 o clock\\nAnd went to bed at 8.\\nAnd never lay abed till noon\\nAnd never sat up late.\\nHe finished Latin, French and Greek\\nWhen he was 10 years old,\\nAnd knew the Spanish alphabet\\nAs soon as he was told.\\nHe never grumbled when he had\\nTo do all the evening cnores.\\nAnd ne er in all his life forget\\nTo shut the stable doors.\\nHe never, never thought of play\\nUntil his work was done.\\nHe labored hard from break of day\\nUntil the set of sun.\\nHe never scraped his muddy shoes\\nUpon the parlor floor.\\nAnd never answered back his ma,\\nAnd never banged the door.\\nBut truly I could never see,\\nSaid little Dick Malloy,\\nHow he could never do these things,\\nAnd really be a boy.\\nSelected.\\nWhen growing stock you have something all the time\\nturning into money. When crops are the sole dependence,\\nthere are seasons when everything is at a standstill, and\\nthere is no source of income. In the winter the earth is\\nasleep while we watch the cattle contentedly feeding. If\\nthere is a sudden need of money some one of them is\\nalways ready to bring it.", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "The Wolf Hiinter s Guide. 55\\nTHE MORTGAGE.\\nI am the finishing touch to the home;\\nI am the last requirement on the farm;\\nYou may build ever so grandly,\\nYou may furnish ever so richly,\\nYou may construct ever so homely,\\nYou may live ever so poorly,\\nI abide with like composure with each.\\nWealth does not embarrass me;\\nPoverty does not discourage me,\\nI get into correspondence\\nWith my environments,\\nAnd composedly put in my time.\\nPatience is my principal virtue;\\nWaiting creates my wages.\\nI am the invisible man\\nPut into the house to collect.\\nThose who wine and dine as guests\\nDo not suspect my presence;\\nBut I chalk my daily balance all the same,\\nI am great on the farm.\\nAbundant crops do not excite me\\nNor poor ones discourage me.\\nI am more industrious than the farmer.\\nThough he rises at dawn\\nAnd labors until night,\\nFor I neither slumber nor sleep.\\nNo matter how poorly the farmer fares,\\nI always farm at a profit.\\nIf harvests are good, I have my share;\\nIf crops fail, I live on the land.\\nI go deeper than drouth;\\nHot winds do not blow me away;\\nCyclones cannot uproot me;\\nGrasshoppers ao not eat my substance\\nOr chinch bugs suck out my vitality.\\nI lay in the bank and laugh at the farmer s\\nCalamity,\\nAnd when the appointed time comes\\nI arouse myself and go forth.\\nArmed with the power of tne law.\\nAnd swipe from the farmer his\\nHouse, his land, his hope.\\nAN OBLIGING SON-IN-LAW.\\nOh, Tom, exclaimed the bride of six months, what do\\nyou think! Mother says she wants her body cremated.\\nShe does, eh? said the husband. Well, tell her to get\\nready and I ll take her over to the crematory the first thing\\nin the morning.", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": ".56 Corbin^s Advice; Or,\\nGROWTH AND LIFE OF ANIMALS.\\nMan grows for 20 years, and lives 90 or 100 years.\\nThe horse grows for 5 years, and lives 30 years.\\nThe ass grows for 5 years, and lives 3(\u00c2\u00bb years.\\nThe ox grows for 4 years, and lives 15 to 20 years.\\nThe cow grows for 4 years, and lives 20 years.\\nThe hog lives 12 to 15 years.\\nThe sheep lives 10 years.\\nThe camel grows for 8 years, and lives 40 years.\\nThe lion grows for 4 years, and lives 40 years.\\nThe dog grows for 2 years, and lives 12 to 14 years.\\nThe cat grows for ly^ years, and lives 9 or 10 years.\\nThe hare grows for jl year and lives S years.\\nThe guinea pig grows 7 months, and lives or 7 years.\\nThe beaver liveis 30 years.\\nThe deer and wolf live 20 years.\\nThe fox lives 14 to ItJ years.\\nThe squirrel lives 7 years.\\nThe rabbit lives 7 years.\\nThe eagle lives 100 years.\\nGeese live 20 years.\\nHens and pigeons live 10 to 15 years.\\nThe elephant, 100 years; codfish, 14 to 17 years; eels, 10\\nyears; crocodile, 100 years; queen bees, 4 years; drones, 4\\nmonths; worker bees, Q months.\\nPeriods of gestation are the same in the horse and ass,\\n11 months each; camel, 12 months; elephant, 2 years; lion,\\n5 months; buffalo, 12 months; cow, 9 months; sheep, 5\\nmonths; reindeer, 8 months; monkey, 7 months; bear, 6\\nmonths; sow, 4 months; dog, nine weeks; cat. 8 weeks; rab-\\nbit, 4 weeks; guinea pig, 3 weeks; she wolf, 90 to 95 days;\\nthe goose sits 3() days; swans, 42; hens. 21; ducks, 30; pea\\nhens and turkeys, 28; canaries, 1^; pigeons, 14; parrots, 40.\\no\\nBOUGHT WITH ONE CROP.\\nHenry Bonde of Stutsman county last summer cleared\\nup a tidy farm with a single crop. He already owns several\\nquarter sections but he wanted one more quarter which he\\nwas fortunate in getting by promising to pay .$800 for the\\nland. Part of the land was broken up previously and all\\nwas put under the plow this season and the land seeded\\nto flax and wheat. Seed flax was bought at $1.10 a bushel\\nand the place rented on shares. From the land was\\nrealized 1,800 bushels of flax and 500 bushels of wheat.\\nSome of the flax was sold at .$1.19 and some for .$1.10. Out\\nof his share of the crop and after paying half of the thresh\\nbill and for half of the seed Mr. Bonde not only paid for\\nthe land but had $25 or $30 beside.", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "The Wolf Hu7iter^s Guide. 57\\nTHE BEST SPEECH EVER MADE.\\nThe Westminister Review pronounces Lincoln s Gettys-\\nburg speech as the finest that ever fell from human lips.\\nIn view of this fact, and that it is even more pertinent\\nthan it ever was, we need make no appology for republish-\\ning it. We give it below:\\nFour score and seven years ago our fathers brouglit forth\\nupon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and\\ndedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.\\nNow we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether\\nthat nation^ or any nation so conceived or dedicated,\\ncan long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of\\nthat war. We are met to dedicate a portion of it as the\\nfinal resting-place of those who here gave their lives that\\nthe nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper\\nthat we should do this.\\nBut in a large sense we cannot consecrate, we cannot\\nhallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead,\\nwho struggled here, have consecrated it far above our\\npower to add or detract. The world will little note nor\\nremember long what we say here, but it can never forget\\nwhat they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be\\ndedicated to the unfinished work tnat they have thus far\\nso nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedi-\\ncated to the great task remaining before us that from\\nthese honored dead we take increased devotion to the cause\\nfor which they here gave the last full measure of devotion\\nthat we here highly resolve that the dead shall not have\\ndied in vain that the nation shall, under God, have a new\\nbirth of freedom, and that the government of the people\\nby the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the\\nearth.\\no\\nA SHEEP MAN S PROFIT.\\nSays the Dickinson Press: There are few sheepmen in\\nthe country who can make a better showing for the capital\\ninvested than H. J. Schultz of this place. May 2, 1897, Mr,\\nSchultz bought 1,930 sheep at $2.22 per head, or .$4,284 as\\nfirst cost. The same year he sold .+11,600 worth of wool\\nfrom the band and $936 worth of mutton, making $2,530 as\\nthe first year s proceeds. In 1898 he sold $2,100 worth of\\nwool and $1,353 worth of mutton, a total of $3,553. This\\nyear his wool clip amounts to $2,375. Mr. Schultz has not\\nsold his 99 mutton and has on hand 2,830 sheep. Taking\\nout the originyl numbers purchased, he would still have 900\\non hand. His total sales of wool and mutton for the two\\nyears and throe months that he has had the band amount\\nto $8,358, and the 2,830 sheep that he has on hand are\\neasily worth as much more.", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "58 Corbiyi s Advice; Or,\\nTHE HERO S RETURN.\\nHe comes from distant ocean; to his native land again,\\nThe hero of Manila who humbled haughty Spain,\\nThe man whose wondrous prowess will brighten history s\\npage\\nWhile honor shall honor valor till time s remotest age.\\nWelcome, this son of Neptune, from far Manila s wave,\\nOld Glory waving o er him; the banner of the brave,\\nColumbia, greet your hero in joyous accents tell\\nHow you delight to honor the men who faught so well.\\nHe comes but not as heroes returned from ancient wars,\\nWho fought for spoil, or glory beneath the flag of Mars;\\nThe pathway of those triumphs was marked by ruined\\nhomes.\\nBy servile chains by wasted plains by fallen spires\\nand domes.\\nNo thought of spoil or conquest e er swayed this hero s\\nmind\\nSave the spoiling of the spoilers, enslavers of mankind;\\nMuch cause had those for sorrow well might they rue\\nthe day.\\nWhen first the Starry Banner waved above Bay,\\nBay,\\nFor never in former ages, on distant sea or shore.\\nDid history s truthful pages record such deeds before.\\nAs those of the dauntless Dewey, when on Manila tide\\nHis guns awakened the echoes, heard around the world\\nwide.\\nThe achievement of that morning made Spanish tyrants\\nsad.\\nTo those it was a warning and patriots hearts were\\nglad;\\nThe men of Porto Rico, and those of Cuba s shore.\\nShould hold the name of Dewey in honor ever more.\\nHe is coming from the Orient, to- his own beloved shore,\\nAnd nevermore may walk the bridge when cannons flash\\nand roar;\\nTis meet that in life s evening, serenely he should rest.\\nThe victor s laurel on his brow, and peace within his\\nbreast.\\nM. C. W.\\nEmmons county is becoming a stock shipping region.\\nSeventy-three carloads of cattle have been shipped from\\nBraddock on the Soo, and the total shipments for the year\\nfrom there will reach over 100 cars. So far, $75,100 has\\nbeen received by ranchers for cattle shipped from that\\npoint.", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "The Wolf Hunter^ s Guide 59\\nCHAPTER XII.\\nSKETCH OP MY WAR RECORD DURING THE CLOSING\\nDAYS OF THE REBELLION. INTERESTING EX-\\nPERIENCES.\\nThey used to say of Gough, the temperance leader, no mat-\\nter what his subject was he took water before he got done.\\nSo if you follow me, no matter where I go in this narrative,\\nyou will find me fetch up on wolves. They are my chorus\\nand song every time.\\nI was on my army record the last chapter. I forgot tO say\\nthat my younger brother, Isaac, served in the 9th Iowa\\ncavalry, and was wounded and served ten months in Ander-\\nEonville and other prisons. Three of my brothers-in-law\\nalso served bravely. My father was in the war of 1812, and\\nenlisted for the Mexican war. Five out of his six son^\\nserved with the union army.\\nMy brother Abner, a soldier, was presiaing eider in the\\nU. B. church. My oldest brother, David, was in the army\\nof the Potomac. My brother John was in the 4th Iowa\\ncavalry, captured, escaped and died in the ambulance near\\nJackson, Miss. I served in Co. F, 34th Iowa three years\\nand was discharged at Houston, Texas.\\nSo I am not ashamed of my record or that of my family,\\nalthough we were Virginians, true blue, with hlood as blue\\nas any that ever dared fire on the flag, and 1 think a little\\nbluer, and true blue at that.\\nTen thousand men under General Steele left the old his-\\ntoric town of Pennesecola on the 20th day of March, 1865.\\nGeneral C. C. Andrews commanded the second division of\\nthese troops. Colonel G. W. Clark, the 34th Iowa infantry,\\none of the best regiments in the division. The 34th was\\ncalled The Star Regiment, not because it had the wolf\\nliunter in it, but because its number was the same as the\\nstars which filled the field of our flag, and represented the\\nnumber of states in our union at that time. For eleven\\ndays we marched through Florida swamps, corduroying\\nmany miles of road, slept in damp clothes at night, was on\\nhalf rations the last five days. Our men gathered and ate\\ncorn which had been left on the ground by the enemy s\\npickets, and had been slobbered over by their horses. Dur-\\ning this time we had a number of skirmishes with the\\nrebel cavalry. The first day of April found us opposite\\nBlakely, Ala., at one time a town of 3,000 people, now one", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a060 CorbUVs Advice Or,\\nof the main defenses at Mobile. The fortifications around\\nBlakely were circular in form, three miles long and in-\\ncluded nine well built redoubts, armed with forty pieces of\\nartillery and surrounded by ditches four to five feet deep.\\nAll the trees six to eight hundred yards in their front had\\nbeen felled. Fifty yards out from the works were a line\\nof aDattis, and opposite some of the redoubts a second line,\\nthen 300 yards out to the front parallel with those works\\nwas another line of abattis, and behind the latter detached\\nrifle pits. The works were manned by 3,500 of the enemy.\\nThe 2d of April was occupied in investingthese works,\\nduring which operation we lost sixty or seventy killed and\\nwounded. Hawkins division which was composed of\\ncolored troops was on the right, Andrew s division in the\\ncenter and Girard s on the left. It is supposed that ten\\nmen well protected by earth works can successfully resist\\nthree or four times their number. So instead of throwing\\nour troops against the enemy s fortifications with great\\nloss of life and possible repulse. General Steele determined\\nto work up as near his lines as possible with pick and\\nshovel, with which we were well supplied; in fact when the\\ncampaign at Mobile was commenced, General Canby in\\ngeneral orders, provided that one pick and shovel and one\\naxe be carried by every twelve men. Our first intrench-\\nments were dug a thousand yards from the enemy s works.\\nFor the benefit of our posterity, a few words, as to tempor-\\nary intrenchments, may be inserted here. They are usu-\\nally called rifle pits, and are two or three feet deep, the dirt\\nbeing thrown on the side toward the enemy. Occassionally\\non top of this dirt will be placed the trunk of a tree six\\nor seven inches in diameter. By scraping away earth from\\nunder the trunk, the enemy could be observed without ex-\\nposing the heads of our men.\\nThese trenches were always dug at night, no talking\\nabove a whisper being permiuced, and no sound but that\\nwhich came from digging with picks and shovels. Owing\\nto the scarcity of these it took three nights work to com-\\nplete our flrst line. The fourth night tne supply of in-\\ntrenching tools having been increased, more rapid progress\\nwas made, so that by the eighth night we had finished a\\nsecond and a third line of Intrenchments, the last being\\nsix feet wide and capable of holdiing troops in three ranks,\\nand was GOO yards from the rebel works. The skirmishers\\nin front of our division intrenched themselves within\\neighty yards of the enemy s outer line of pickets. In the\\nmeantime small forts for our artillery had been constructed\\nalong our first and second lines, and the guns oi our light\\nbatteries placed in them. The enemy was not quiet while\\nthis was going on, as any exposure of our men drew his\\nfire both of musketry and artillery, killing and wounding\\neach day from twenty to forty. Spanish Fort, eight miles\\nsouth of which had been invested March 27th by the 16th", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "The Wolf Hunter s Guide. 61\\narmy corps, surrendered to General A. J. Smith on the 8th\\nand some of the guns used in its seige were immediately\\nsent to General Steele, who had them placed in position\\nduring the night of the 8th and the morning of the i)th day\\nof April. Five o clock the evening of ^ae 9th day of April\\nwas fixed as the hour for a general assault of the enemy s\\nworks. At that hour the firing of all the cannon on the\\nlines or the second division was to be the signal for the\\ncharge. Owing to an unforseen delay, this signal was not\\ngiven until 5:30 p. m. At thai hour our troops had all been\\nformed in line of battle in the lines ^of intrenchements\\nnearest the enemy, with bayonets fixed one regiment of\\neach brigade being deployed as skirmishers. Along the front\\nof its brigade intrenchments, breathlessly they waited the\\nsignal to move forward. The silence was interrupted only\\nby an occasional shot from a rebel picket. The waiting\\nand suspense was a sore test of courage. Some tried to\\nconceal their anxiety by an effort to appear reckless, care-\\nless and whispering jokes and puns, pretending they enjoyed\\nit immonsely; others, more serious, gave their comrades\\nmessages to be delivered to loved ones at home in case they\\nfell. The countenance of none indicated that he feared\\nthe approaching contest. While all dreaded it, they were\\nimpatient for the battle. With the crashing of the signal\\nguns our first line of skirmishers -eaped from the trenches\\nand with yells rushed forward 150 yards, while the second\\nline with loud cheering soon joined them, and all rushec for-\\nward together. Now every cannon the enemy had on his\\nline, and every rifle, poured forth their deadly missels on our\\nmen. A tempest of bullets, pieces of bursting shells, canis-\\nter and grape whistle about their ears. They were met by\\ndeadly, unseen and unknown dangers in sunken torpedoes,\\nwhich, when trod upon, exploded, stripping the flesh from\\ntheir legs and wounding terribly. Fallen trees, abattis,\\nand wire stretched along the ground impeded their way\\nand exposed them longer to the enemy s fire. No reply was\\nmade except by our artillery, which pounded away over\\nour heads. In fifteen minutes we had surmounted all the\\nobstructions, climbed their works and given them the\\nbayonet. They fell backward, and dropping their guns,\\nthrew up their hands in token of surrender, and our work\\nwas done. We were victorious, but 654 of our men, who an\\nhour before were joking and laughing with each other had\\nbeen laid low. In these fifteen minutes our losses were\\ngreater than those on our side in the four revolutionary\\nbattles at Lexington, Bunker Hill, Trenton and Bennington.\\n*We captured 3,423 prisoners, forty pieces of artillery, be-\\nsides small arms. The enemy s loss in killed was prob-\\nably a third as much as ours. General Steele reached the\\nworks soon after the capture, and in his squeaky voice ex-\\nclaimed: I knowed you d do it! I knowed you d do it!\\nThose were glorious moments. There are few such in a", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "(i2 Corhhi s Advice; Or,\\nlife time; victory had crowned our efforts, the end for\\nwhich days of toil and nights of wakings had been passed\\nwas quickly and gloriously accomplished. At half past\\nthree this same afternoon, Lee, at Appomattox had sur-\\nrendered to General G-rant and the war was virtually over\\ntwo hours before our charge. On the 14th of April our\\nregiment entered triumphantly into tue city of Mobile;\\nlOU guns were fired in honor of this event and glorious\\nvictories reported from all quarters. The war was over\\nthe union saved; and all, all, by the boys in blue and the\\nboys in blue alone.\\nMobile, city of 25,000 before the war, was reduced at\\nthis time to about 12,000. While the regiment was still\\nrejoicing over the great victories, and as we were steaming\\nup the Alabama river, we received a signal announcing\\nthe assassination, on the 14th of President Lincoln and Sec-\\nretary Seward, causing a great revulsion of feeling from\\nthe highest exultation to deepest sorrow. On the 24th we\\nlanded at Selma, Ala., where we remained in camp a few\\ndays only. We returned to Mobile where we remained,\\nperforming light guard duty, awaiting developments until\\nJune, when the division nuder command Gen. C. C. Andrews\\nsailed for Galveston, Texas. Feeling that the war was\\nclosed and our contract filled, the movement was very pro-\\nvoking and gave rise to much complaining from the boys.\\nWe arrived at Galveston and soon after proceeded to\\nHouston, Texas. Our regiment marched through the\\nstreets of the old historic town, the first army of free\\nYankee soldiers who had ever trod the soil of that region.\\nThe dwellings were closed, curtains drawn, the women of\\nthat city having sworn never tO look upon the Yankee.\\nThey closed and barred their doors and windows. But it\\nis historically true and should be so recorded, that before\\nthe 34th left Houston, many of these ladies smiled sweetly\\nupon the boys in blue, and the leading spirit of them all\\nmarried a Yankee soldier, and now lives happily with him\\nin Chicago; others became the wives of many union sol-\\ndiers. Our stay in Houston was in many respects comfort-\\nable and pleasant, but all were eager, and anxious to re-\\nturn to their homes. We did no t leave Houston, however,\\nuntil the 17th of August, 1SG5, when the regiment was\\nmustered out of service, and returned to Iowa to peace,\\nrest and home. I would like to tell more but have not the\\nspace, and here ends my military history and my twelfth\\nchapter.\\nSoak your corn in a solution of saltpetre. It destroys\\nthe worms, is not relished by crows or squirrels, and\\nyields much more abundantly than when planted without.", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "The Wolf Hunter s Guide. 63\\nCHAPTER XIII.\\nMY NINE YEARS EXPERIENCE IN WOLF HUNTING\\nON THE MISSOURI SLOPE. TESTING THE\\nBOUNTY LAW IN THE COURTS. MY FIGHT WITH\\nCOUNTY COMMISSIONERS.\\nPart of the minutes of the board of county commission-\\ners of Burleigh county, N. D., held March 0, 1S96.\\nOn motion the petition of W. H. Bratton and thirty-one\\nothers, and C. A. Burton and twenty-three others for\\nbounty on wolf scalps be granted and the bounty fixed at\\n$2 per head.\\nPart of the minutes of the board of county commission-\\ners of Burleigh county, N. D., held April G, 1897.\\nOn motion it was resolved that from and after this\\ndate the county will not pay any bounty on wolf scalps.\\nI, W. S. Moorhouse, hereby certify that the above is a\\ntrue copy of the proceedings of the board of county com-\\nmissioners of Burleigh county, N. D., from April, 1891, to\\nNovember, 1898, as far as they relate to wolf bounties.\\nWitness my hand and official seal this 19th day of Novem-\\nber, 1898. W. S. MOORHOUSE,\\nCounty Auditor.\\nIt will be remembered that this bounty was put on ac-\\ncording to law and was taken off contrary to law, for the\\nlaw said when a petition signed by twenty-five stocic\\nraisers and taxpayers was presented they shall put on a\\nbounty not less than $1 nor more than .$3, and they owe\\nme $112. I need the money for the reason that they took\\noff the bounty illegaly and against the will of the tax-\\npayers. At the time they took off the bounty. April 6,\\n1897, there was not over 300 wolves in a% county. Today\\nthere are 2,704 females, 1,352 and with five to the litter,\\nmakes 6^760. Then add the old wolves and we have\\n9,464. So you see at $2 bounty for old wolves, $5,408, and\\nthe increase at $1 each, $6,760, makes a tota,l of $12,168.\\nSo you see in order to beat me out of $112 they have beat\\nthe taxpayers out of $12,168 and still have the wolves left.\\nTwo-legged wolves help these farmers out and feed them\\non beef and mutton at 18 cents per pound.", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "(;4 Corbhi s Advice; Or,\\n6,339\\n17.00\\n65,691\\n26.00\\n1,350\\n150.00\\n24,100\\n10.00\\n20,636\\n14.00\\n55,576\\n17.00\\n50\\n25.00\\n4,925\\n25.00\\n306\\n18.00\\n440\\n40.00\\n15,485\\n1.75\\n1,478\\n3.00\\nSTATISTICS IN BURLEIGH COUNTY.\\nNo. Value Average\\nHorses 1-year-old 557 5,570 10.00\\nHorses 2-year-old 367\\nHorses 3-year-old 2,502\\nStallions 9\\nCattle 1-year-old 2,410\\nCattle 2-year-old 1 ,474\\nCattle 3-year-old 3,268\\nWork oxen 2\\nAll other cattle 197\\nMules and asses 1-year-old 17\\nMules and asses 3-year-old 11\\nSheep 8,847\\nHogs 516\\nNumber of old wolves, 2,704; increase, 6,760; total, 9,464.\\nNumber of females, five to the litter,l,352. Wolf tax levy,\\n$432.93. Number of wolves killed in 1899,150.\\nReal property, .$2,164,632; personal, 513,376; railroad,\\n.$257,981; total valuation, .$2,935,989. State appropriation\\nfor wolf bounty, $587.19. Square miles,l,662. Wolves in\\ncounty, 9,464. Wolves to each section, five and a half.\\nNow hear the tone of the Mandan Pioneer. Morton\\ncounty is the home of the wolf. They are raised in Mor-\\nton county and the county never pays any bounty, and she\\nis overrun with wolves. The damage done to stock and\\npoultry in Morton county alone would pay .$10 per head\\nfor every old wolf in the county. There is no way that you\\ncan help yourself, for you have let Ike matter run too long.\\nI told everybody four years ago that without a larger\\nbounty they would be there by the thousands and you\\ncan t help it. I can catch hundreds of young wolves, but\\nI can t shoot and trap but a few old ones. Gray hounds\\nare the best thing, but I am too old for that. Have your\\ngray hounds and stag hounds and have an extra team and\\na swing door to let the hounds out at the right time and\\nput on a decent bounty for the hunter.\\nProm the Mandan Pioneer: The stockmen of this com-\\nmunity are confronted with a serious problem concerning\\nthe means to be employed in getting rid of the large grey\\nwolves which are playing such havoc with young stock.\\nThese wolves have increased during the past year in such\\nnumbers as to cause serious losses to many of the ranch-\\nmen. Such a vigorous hunt is being made for them in\\nSouth Dakota and eastern Montana that they are driven\\nto this section of the country where owing to the small\\nbounty offered for their hides it does not pay hunters to\\nmake a business of shooting them. In some instances\\nthese wolves have been so bold in their search for young\\nmeat as to drive the cattle intO the ranchmen s correls.\\nThey prefer to kill their own meat and like it best when", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "The Wolf Hunter s Guide. 65\\nwarm and will devour the hind quarters of a colt and leave\\nthe rest to rot on the prairie. They seem to single out\\nstock less than a year old but in some cases have been\\nknown to kill 2-year-old colts and cattle. One ranchman\\nliving on the Cannon Ball lost six head in one night. They\\nwill travel twenty miles in order to secure a particularly\\nchoice meal. The question of how to exterminate these\\nbeasts is quite a serious one with the ranchmen and one\\nthat is being discussed with a view of taking the best pos-\\nsible action.\\no\\nSTATISTICS OP MORTON COUNTY.\\nNo. Value Average\\nHorses 1-year-old 1,115 $11,150 $10.00\\nHorses 2-year-old 1,395 32,715 17.00\\nHorses 3-year-old 4,030 124,824 26.00\\nStallions 20 3,000 150.00\\nCattle 1-vear-old 7,202 72,020 10.00\\nCattle 2-year-old 6.036 85,252 14.00\\nCattle 3-year-old 3,703 148,307 17.00\\nWork oxen 2 50 25.00\\nAll other cattle 1,383 34,575 25.00\\nMules and asses. 9 360 40.00\\nSheep 25,800 45,150 1.75\\nHogs 1,849 3,147 3.00\\nNumber of sections In Morton county, 2,916. Number of\\nold wolves, 4,040; increase, 10,100; total, 14,140. Wolves\\nto the section seven. Wolf tax levy, $579.44. More two-\\nlegged wolves. This time five in place of three. Morton\\ncounty has five county commissioners. On the 6th day\\nof April, 1897, Burleigh county took off the county bounty\\nand then I had to extend my wolf farm farther south to\\nBeaver creek and give up the south half of Burleigh county.\\nI told my son, Charley if he would go to Morton county\\nand get signers enough I would pay all expenses, so he did\\nand got thirty-six of the bigest stockmen in the county\\nsigners. I sent in the petition and the board would not\\nallow the bounty. Notwithstanding the law says they shall\\nput on a bounty (it don t say they may but says posiitively\\nthey shall put on a bounty) not less than .$1 nor more\\nthan $3. So you see what the two-legged wolves know.\\nThe county commissioners narbor the wolves at, the ex-\\npense of your pocket, while they fill their own pockets.\\no\\nComplaints come from Wyoming that wolves are more\\nthan usually destructive to cattlt there; and from several\\nother western states, even Minnesota, that wolves are more\\nprone to attack young cattle thac formerly; or in other\\nwords that they seem disposed to vary their diet of mutton\\nwith occasional morsels of beef.", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "66 Corhhi s Advice; Or,\\nFROM THE RECORDS OF THE OFFICIAL PROCEED-\\nINGS OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSION-\\nERS OF EMMONS COUNTY.\\nIn Book No. 1, on page 290: Meeting of the board of\\ncounty commissioners held July 6, 1S91. Present, Hy\\nVan Beek, chairman; Greorge H. McLain and Dugald Camp-\\nbell, commissioners. Benj. Cor bin handed in a petition\\nsigned by over twenty-five stock raisers of Emmons\\ncounty, praying that the board offer a bounty on wolves\\nkilled within said county, and in accordance with an\\nact approved March 11, 1891, the board allowed a bounty\\nof .$1 on all wolves or coyotes killed in the county.\\nThe above petition was handed in to the county commis-\\nsioners on April 1, 1891 and not allowed until July the 6th.\\nBy this time the cub wolves were big as old wolves, and\\nnow state bounty and county bounty certificates were 60\\ncents on the dollar and the law says the bounty shall not\\nbe less than $1 nor over $3. Here the county board\\nshould bide faith at a low ebb. Nevertheless I never\\ncaught a wox. that year, but went right on hoeing in my\\ngarden, and catching catfish at .5 cents per pound. Cat-\\nfish is great brain frood and I had to do this to cope with\\nthe county board, and being the first of April, third day\\n(on page 396, Book No. 1) of meeting of the board of\\ncounty commissioners of Emmons county. All members\\nof the board present. Benj. Corbin presented a petition\\nwith thirty-four signatures asking the board to increase\\nthe bounty on wolves froim .$1 to .$2. On motion the peti-\\ntion was granted and on all wolves killed on or ar^er\\nApril 1, 1892. This time I called for $2 and got it. I\\nsoon learned that I had to do the work and knew better\\nwhat it was worth, and at this time I caught eighty-one\\nwolves in thiity-five days, over three a day. The bounty\\nwas $4, $2 county and $2 state, discount, 25 per cent.\\nIn Book No. 1, page 4.57: Meeting of board of county\\ncommissioners of Emmons county held April 28, 1894.\\nAll members of the board present. A petition signed by\\nthe requisite number of stock raisers, praying the board\\nto grant a bounty of $2 on each wolf scalp was presented.\\nOn motion the board fixed the bounty to be paid for wolf\\nscalps at $1 each.\\nOn notice being given througn the county record that\\nhereafter the county won t pay any wolf bounty still\\nthe wolf record showed that the wolf bounty never had\\nbeen recorded as talked of, and on the face of the above\\npetition the board fixed the bounty at $1.\\nLittle did they think that a copy of wolf record would\\never be called for and they could levy this for their own", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "The Wolf Hiinter^s Guide. 67\\nuse. The peifcition was for $2 and got $1; called for bread\\nand was given a stone. Now here s the tone of the next\\nmeeting, April 2, 1S95. This is the first time on record\\nshows where the bounty ever was taken off.\\nIn Book No. 1, on page 517: Meeting of board of\\ncounty commissioners held April 2, 1895. All members\\npresent. On motion it was resolved by the board that\\nthe bounty of $1 heretofore paid for wolf scalps be dis-\\ncontinued from and after this date. In Book No. 1, on\\npage 521: Meeting of board of countv commissioneirs\\nof Emmons county held April 2, 18f)5. All members\\npresent. On motion the county auditor was authorized\\nto refuse to issue a certificate of indebtedness to Edward\\nAbbott for bounty claimed for wolf scalps and allowed\\nMarch 2, 1895, for the reason that said aflldavit is believed\\nto be fraudulent.\\nIt will be remembered thaJt this Edward Abbott was the\\nman that shipped the wolf scalps in from Chicago and was\\nputting them off on several counties and was caught and\\nsent to the pen for three years.\\nIn Book No. 1, page 545: Meeting of board of county\\ncommissioners of Emmons county. N. D., held September\\n2 189o Present, Geo. H. McLain, chairman; William\\n^nnf ^K ^commissioners. B^n CoS\\nappeared before the board, claiming that the county\\nbounty on wolves was illegally taken off, and asked that\\nhis taxes for 1893 and 1894 be abated on account of the\\n^leZ.l7t^ l taken off\\nT^l uf ^^Z request. In Book i page\\n508: Meeting of the board of county commissioners of\\nEmmons county, N. D., held Januari- 6, 1^96 PreseM\\nWilliam Margach, Franz Wolf and A^ex. MacDonrid the\\nlatter having duly qualified. William Margach was\\nWd with rt -PP^--^ be -e Th^\\nDoard with a written opinion from the Hon Attorn^^v\\nwXf kilfed bv T ^--ty ofToS\\nwolves killed by him during the year 1895 tne attornpv\\nf^f:^:^Z7t\\\\ the com^i^fS\\nseel on 1 Phi. ^^V i^ accordance with\\nac?ian XTT. l J^^ not rescind their\\nCnvhf^ \u00c2\u00b0h conformity thereto, allowed Mr.\\nCorbm uhe amount of $80.\\nIn book 1, page 572: Meeting of the board of countv\\ncommissioners of Emmons county, North Dakota, held\\nJanuary 6, 1S9G.\\nThe question as to whether there is at present any county\\nbounty on wolves was referred to the states attorney for\\nhis opinion.\\nYou will see by the above that on January 6, 1896, the\\ncounty board got so badly mixed that they could not tell\\nwhether they had any wolf bounty or not, and then applied", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "68 Corbin^s Advice Or,\\nto the btate s attorney to know if they had any county\\nbounty. Attorney never answered. Great set of officers.\\nIn book 1, pages 584, 5S5, 580 and 587: Meeting of the\\nboard cf county commissioners of Emmons county, North\\nDakota, held February 28, 180(5.\\nPetition signed by twenty-five stockraisers of Emmons\\ncounty praying for a bounty on wolves, was presented.\\nOn motion the board placed a bounty of one dollar on all\\nwolves Inlled in Emmons county from March 1, 189G.\\nMeeting held evening session. The question of bounty\\nMr. Benjamin Corbin appeared before the board with a\\npetition signed by forty-six signers, praying for a bounty of\\n$2 on young wolves, and i on old ones. Mr. Dugald\\nCampbell addressed the board \u00c2\u00a9n the subject, also Mr. H,\\nA. Armstrong.\\nMoved by Commissioner MacDonald that a bounty of\\n$2 on young wolves and .$3 on old wolves be paid by Em-\\nmons county. Not seconded.\\nMoved by Commissioner Wolf that a bounty of .$2 on all\\nwolves killed in Emmons county be allowed. Not sec-\\nonded.\\nMeeting held evening session. The question of bounty\\non wolves was further considered.\\nOn motion of Commissioner Wolf, the following resolu-\\ntion was moved and carried:\\nResolved, That an additional bounty of one dollar on all\\nwolves or coyotes killed within the county of Emmons by\\nresidents thereof, between April 0, ISIX), and January 1,\\n1807, be and hereby is added to the county bounty already\\nexisting.\\nResolved, That a further bounty of one dollar on all full\\ngrown wolves or coyotes killed as aforesaid prior to the\\nFourth of July, 180(5, be added to the $2 bounty above pro-\\nvided for.\\nIn book 2, page 100: Meeting of board of county com-\\nmissioners of Emmons county. North Dakota, held April 5,^\\n1808. All members present.\\nBenjamin Corbin presented a petition to the board signed\\nby twenty-five citizens of the county, asking that the county\\ncommissioners place a bounty on wolves in conformity to\\nsection 15(50 of the Revised Codes of North Dakota.\\nOn motion the following resolution was adopted:\\nThat whereas, Benjamin Corbin appeared before the\\nboard with a petition signed by the requisite number of\\nstockraisers of the county, praying that the present bounty\\nof one dollar on wolves ba increased to the sum of two\\ndollars.\\nResol^ved, That after due consideration of said petition,,\\nconsidering the financial condition of the county, it is\\ndeemed inadvisable to further increase the drafts upon the\\ntreasury by an increase of the bounty on wolves, said pe-\\ntition is hereby rejected.", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "The Wolf Hunter s Guide. 69\\nI then laid my bill before the county board for .$195 just\\ndenied me on account of the wolf bounty which had been\\nillegally taken off. The county board then refused to pay\\nthe same for the following reason: As following bill oi\\nBenjamin Corbin for .$19.5 bounty on wolves was rejected\\nfor the reason that during the period covered by this bill\\na county bounty of only one dollar was allowed on each\\nscalp presented to the auditor. As I had gone according\\nto law, and the county commissioners hadn t got a word of\\nlaw by which they had any show to cut the bounty down.\\nThe county commissioners, or rather Emmons county, to\\ntest the law whether the county commissioners had the\\nright to cut off the bounty agents, the will of the taxpayer\\nand the stockman. I have paid all of the costs, about\\n$25, and it is a test case and was all turned over to Judge\\nWinchester last November and the county commissioners\\nwere to have thirty days. It has been over a hundred\\ndays and they haven t sent in their briefs yet. I have paid\\nall the costs, so their share is all in, and I can whistle.\\nThey will hear the whistle, however, and that soon. The\\nelection comes off this fall and their name is Dennis.\\nI have now shown by the wolf record that the county\\nboard could not tell whether they had any county bounty\\nor not, and as word had gotten out again that the county\\nboard had taken off the bounty again, so the stockmen\\nrustled 25 signers for a bounty, and so the board at their\\nmeeting February 28, 1896, placed on a bounty of one\\ndollar. I had sent a large petition calling for ,$2 bounty\\nand the county board knew that I had a petition so they\\nslapped on one dollar bounty to- head me off. And lo and\\nbehold my man S. A. Hawks had not delivered my petition.\\nI then waited until their regular meeting held April 0, 1896.\\nI then rustled forty-six of the heaviest taxpayers to my\\npetition, calling for .$2 on young wolves, and $3 on old\\nwolves. It is over twenty miles from Glencoe to Williams-\\nport, and on the appointed day I hitched to a two-horse\\nbi-iggy ind laid up my petition. This only lacked four\\nsigners of being twice as many as I needed. I buckled on\\nthe breast plate of righteousness and was shod with the\\nwhole armor of God, and when the board met and I spoke to\\none of the board that I had a little matter that I wished\\nto call their attention to in the shape of a decent wolf\\nbounty. So they said they would listen to me. So i\\npulled out my petition and like the old women in the army\\nI told them that it came from heaven s authority. So I\\nhanded my petition, signed by forty six of the biggest tax-\\npayers in the county, and stock raisers, and told them if\\nI was down in Iowa I could borrow money on that petition.\\nI only had to talk about one hour. I told the board the\\namount of damage they had done in the la-st year, how my\\nsheep and calves were destroyed, and the families along", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "70 Corbin s Advice; Or,\\nthe river had all their chickens and turkeys all killed, and\\npacked off by the wolves until there wasn t a chicken left\\nto make broth when one of the family was sick, and that\\nthe women did not have a dozen eggs to sell to get a\\ncalico dress to wear for her or the children, and were\\nobliged to stay at home on account of not a decent dress\\nto wear to church. And without a larger bounty the\\nwolves would eat up all the stock until there would not be\\nany left to levy a tax on to raise the money to pay the\\ncounty officers their salary, and we would not be bothered\\nwith county officers, for if there was no stock to levy a tax\\non to pay the county officers now none would want a county\\noffice, for it was the money that they were after and that\\nis the reason they want the wolf hunter to catch the wolves\\nand board himself\u00e2\u0080\u0094 for that reason they wanted all the\\nmoiney themselves, and how none would want an office only\\nfor the money. About this time they thought I was right\\nand Mr. Dougald Campbell, Emmons county, biggest stock-\\nman in the county, addressed the board in my favor and\\nalso Mr. H. A. Armstrong addressed the board in my favor,\\nwho was the county attorney at that time. I then told\\nthem if they did not give me $2 for young wolves, and $3\\non old wolves, I would not pick up my Winchester. They\\nmight keep their wolves, it would only be a few years\\nuntil it would cost the county $10,000 to kill all the wolves\\nin the county. So they finally allowed me the above\\nbounty, $2 for kids and $3 for old ones, and at the present\\nthere are 2,208 and the increase is over 0,000 and at $2\\nbounty. Eight thousand three hundred and twenty-eight\\nwolves at $2 per head makes a total of $16,056. Now not\\nonly Emmons county, but the whole state is in the same\\nboat.\\n^o^\\nSTATISTICS OP EMMONS COUNTY.\\nNo. Value Average\\nHorses 1-year-old 906 $9,060 $10.00\\nHorses 2-year-old 1,487 25,279 17.00\\nHorses 3-year-old 2,205 57,840 2(] oO\\nStallions 18 2,900 150.00\\nCattle 1-year-old 3,953 39,629 10.00\\nCattle 2-year-old 3,157 4,198 14.00\\nCattle 3-year-old 4,232 71,944 17.00\\nAll other cattle 569 14,225 25 00\\nMules and asses 22 592\\nSheep 20,160 25,280 1.75\\nHogs 1,078 3,210\\nNumber of wolves, 2,208; females, 1,104; increase, 5,520;\\ntotal, 7,728. Number tO section, five; killed in 1899, 350.\\nAmount paid in wolf tax, $225.", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "The Wolf Hunter s Guide. 71\\nCHAPTER XIII,\\nWOLVES WILL SOON OUTNUMBER ALL OTHER\\nANIMALS COMBINED IN THE STATE.\\nThere being 1,207,500 wolves in Nor^a Dakota, and allow-\\ning two pounds of beef per day at 5 cents per pound (less\\nthan market price) to feed them it will take to feed them\\nfor one year 881,475 steers of 1,000 pounds each, worth\\n$44,070,750, The wolves will outnumber all other stock\\nafter July 4, 1900.\\nIf there should be no future increase of wolves in three\\nyears they would eat meals at the above figures, to the\\nvalue of $132,212,250, considerable more than the total\\nval^iation ($114,334,428.) of the state.\\nIf each man kills 100 wolves it would take 12,075 men\\nto kill the present wolf crop in one year. During the three\\nmonths after May 1, 1900, 862,500 young wolves are born\u00c2\u00bb\\nor 9,583 per day.\\nIf 50,000 wolves are killed this summer, next year (1901)\\nat their rate of increases, there will be 5,208,750 wolves at\\nlarge in North Dakota.\\nThere was in North Dakota in 1899, 233,547 horses; 306,-\\n784 cattle; 3,907 mules and asses: 205,247 sheep; 58,657\\nhogs; grand total of 868,142 animals.\\nThere is a time for all things; a time to catch the young\\nwolves, and let the old ones go because you can t help it.\\nCorbin s system is the best for killing more tnan all the\\nrest. The shortest way to trap a wolf is to decoy the wolf\\nwith a scent, and not with a bait and at the same time\\nhave your poison and trap where the wolf as any other\\nanimal will find both. While he is hunting for the scent, for\\nthis secret alone a charge of $1, and will not tell it for less;\\nit is worth $50 to a wolf hunter.\\nIn the year 1898 the wolf crop was 100,000; 50,000\\nwere females, five to the litter, was 250,000; 7,000 was\\nkilled, which left 843,000 for 1899. Now we have this\\n343,000 to start on for the banner year, 1900, one-half of\\nthis number are females, which is 171,500 increase, and five\\nto the litter makes 87r,500; old ones, 343,000; total, 1,220,-\\n500.", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "Corbin s Advice Or,\\nAN INTERESTING TRIP.\\nThe story of my trip is this: John Yegen told me that\\nhe would pay me $5 if I should kill a female woif that had\\nbeen raising her young on his turkeys, etc. So I went\\nthere, camped out, as usual, found her den, but failed to\\ncatch her that time. So I dug out her cubs; looked them\\nover with a hunter s eye, and figuring accurately as astron-\\nomers do on an eclipse, I saw that she would return to that\\nden and replenish it again on the Gth day of May following.\\nSo promptly at that time next season I was there.\\nAt a glance I saw the dog woif sneaking off, and I knew\\nthe mate was not far away. So I grasped my Winchester,\\nand at the same moment the female ran out of the den\\nand I shot her. Performing the Caesarian operation, I soon\\nhad the cubs, as yet unborn. There were four of them\\nalive and kicking, and using the appliance used for deli-\\ncate babies, I soon had four likely little pets and I then\\nwent to the den, dug it out and found two more pups, six\\nin all. I laid them down beside their dead mother for\\ntheir first meals and this is according to Scripture, although\\nyou may be dead you yet shan live. I then loaded them\\nin the wagon, as the county commissioners had just taken\\nthe county bounty off. I saw my chance to place it back\\non again. I drove to the capital city, Bismarck of course,\\nbought a rubber tit, and a pint of sweet milk and kept\\nthem on the bottle for three days, drove around the town\\nwith the outfit in the wagon, showed it up in good shape,\\ngot about thirty men to sign my petition to place the bounty\\nback on; thirty men such as Judge Winchester, I. P. Baker,\\nJoseph Hare, Mr. Patterson and many others, and I also\\nhad a decision of the attorney general that they could not\\nrescind the order when once put on by petition signed by\\ntwenty-five stock raisers. Still they didn t restore the\\nbounty.\\nWhenever the wolves are seen as near after the 20th of\\nApril in certain localities, or often heard howling nights\\nand mornings for ten days or more, it is a sure thing that\\nthey are living close by, and that is the place to go to look\\nfor the den, or their nest as some folks call it, and although\\nyou may not be able to find it, it is on that quarter section\\nall the same. If it is rough land and water they probably\\nfiled on a reservoir claim. If it is a valley it is a hay\\nclaim, and they have taken it to hide their cubs in when\\nthey leave the den about the 1st of July. If it is a rough\\nand stony piece of land they have taken it for a pre-emp-\\ntion and are only holding it for breeding purposes, and\\nwhen you go to look for the den go on horse back, or in a\\nbuggy. Never go in a wagon, the rattle of the wagon\\nscares them away and they will go off on some high hill\\nand lay down and watch you and you wont never see them\\nbut they are watching all the same.", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "The Wolf Hunter s Guide. 73\\nIn looking for the den when you know by the sign that\\nthe den is close by this kind of sign, first new den dug\\nand wolf tracks on the den, fresh tracks in bare places,\\nand fresh beds in high grass, a fresh bed in a little brush\\nthicket, and the birds nests just broken up and the eggs\\nsucked, and where they have a calf leg or sheep legs, or\\nwhere they have just dug out a piece of meat that they\\nhave had buried. These are sure signs that the den is\\nclose by and you ought to see one or both of the old wolves\\nby this time; but it may be that they have seen you all the\\ntime. But the best sign is to see one or both of the old\\nwolves sneaking around and ir they bark at you that is\\na sure sign that the den is close. Now if you can t find\\nthem go back in the evening or early in the morning with\\na ten-foot pole in your buggy, and your dog tied to the end\\nof the pole, and drive in a circle and the closer you get\\nto the den the closer to the wolf, as wolves will come to\\nyou. But don t shoot until you find the den for this is\\nthe way I make the old wolf teii me where her kids are, but\\nif she jumps your dog shoot her or him as the case may\\nbe, for the den is close, and you can then find it an5n\\\\ ay.\\nSometimes the den is on nice level ground. Sometimes\\nthey go in a washout. Sometimes in the rock, or if you\\nare in a timber country they have them in a hollow log,\\nor a hollow tree#. or hollow stump. They have them in\\na tree-lap on the ground. Sometimes in a small brush\\nthicket. Sometimes on tne highest hill they can geL.\\nOther times down in the hollow.\\nI would ten tiroies rather go in and show you how I find\\nthem than to attempt to describe it on paper.\\nThe true sign is this, after May lOch, in North Dakota,\\nyou will find fresh dens cleaned out; one wolf will have as\\nmany as fifteen or twenty aens cleaned out for two weeks\\nbefore they have their pups. I commence to hunt about\\nthe 10th of May, but about the 1st of June is the best time\\nto find them with lictle work, because the cubs by that\\ntime has played probably fifty yards from the den and\\ntheir path is easy to see, and very often the cubs are\\naround the den, when you might get your eye on them; but\\nas a general thing they never come out of the den until\\njust about sun down, and when they are a month old the\\ngrass is all trampled down and worn off smooth around\\nthe den. There will be a lot chicken wings, and duck\\nwings lying around the den, and a calf leg here and a\\nsheep leg there, and swing them on the corners. The\\nwolf breeds once a year and lives to be 20 years old.", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "74 Corhiri s Advice Or,\\nPSALM OF DAVID.\\n1. The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want.\\n2. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he\\nleadeth me beside the still waters.\\n3. He restoreth my soul; he leadeth me in -the paths\\nof righteousness for his name s sake.\\n4. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the\\nshadow of death I will fear no evil for thou art with me,\\nthy rod and thy staff they comfort me.\\n5. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence\\nof mine enemies; thou anointest my head with oil; my cup\\nrunneth over.\\n0. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the\\ndays of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord-\\nforever.\\nBIRTHS AND DEATHS IN 1900.\\nThe 1900 census show that the population of our coun-\\ntry will not be found tO exceed 75,000,000.\\nThe fact that a baby will be born every twelve seconds\\nduring 1900, shows that 2,475,000 fresh citizens will be\\nadded to the country in 1900. At the same time of course,,\\npeople will continue to die. To keep up their departure\\nthe passing bell must toll every twenty-three seconds,\\nushering 1,350,000 Americans out of the world during the\\ntwelve months.\\nEvery twenty-four seconds, however, a marriage will\\noccur, and it is a comfort to know that five cradles will\\nbe supplied with occupants every minute in the twenty-\\nfour hours throughout the last year of the nineteenth\\ncentury.\\nFROM CATTLE TO SHEEP.\\nWyoming is fast becoming tne sheepmen s country, and\\nit is only a question of a few years When they will possess\\nthe state. Only five firms in the western portion still range\\ncattle there. All the country south of Rawlings has been\\ngiven up to the sheepmen, and firms that formerly ranged\\ncattle have been forced to change their holdings into sheep.\\nOne cattleman says he is surrounded by sheep, but, having\\npurchased a large tract of country from the Union Pacific,\\nhe has succeeded in holding his range. The business is\\nbeing overdone in that section, ana there is a disposition on\\nthe part of some of the sheepmen to sell and get out, and\\nit is probable that a large number of sheep will be thrown\\nupon the market this season. National Stockmen.", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "The Wolf Hunter^s Guide,\\n75\\nA BRIEF SKETCH OF MY LIFE.\\nI was born in the state of ignorance; immigrated to the\\nstate of starvation, and have made a gooa living since,\\nlearned to read, buying newspapers while in the army;\\nlearned to count, counting wolf scalps since I have been\\nin the business; and learned to write signing mortgages.\\nBENJAMIN COxiBIN, Glencoe, N. D.\\nCOYOTE. A carnivorous animal (canis latrans), allied\\nto the dog, found in the western part of North America\\ncalled also prairie wolf. Its voice is a snapping bark, fol-\\nlowed by prolonged, shrill howl.\\nGRAY WOLVES.\\nThe stockmt.n of western Nebraska, South Dakota, Colo-\\nrado and Wyoming are having a vast amount of trouble\\nwith gray wolves, which are very numerous and so destruc-\\ntive to cattle that they intend to have a convention to talk\\nthe matter over and see if some plan cannot be devised for\\nridding the country of the pests. Irrigation Age tells that\\nin western Nebraska these pests are particularly numerous.\\nThe losses are increasing yearly, and the stockmen say\\nthat the gray wolf is becoming as great a curse to north-\\nwestern Nebraska as the jack rabbit is to Australia.\\nMr. Bryan has developed other strong qualities which\\ntend to add lo the detestation in which he is held by the\\nrepublican press. In Texas recently he went with a party\\n01 Texas rangers on a hunt and lassoed a panther. And\\nnow the venal republican press insinuates that the panther\\nwas the pet of a citizen of Austin, and that Mr. Bryan was\\nimposed upon. Nevertheless, in tackling the brute Mr.\\nBryan showed his courage. There are plenty of pet var-\\nmints in Washington who will have to hunt their holes or\\nbe strangled when Mr. Bryan becomes president and starts:\\nout with his lasso.", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "76\\nCorbirVs Advice Or,\\nTo make yoiiv hens lay perpetually. Give your hens\\nhalf an ounce of fresh meat, chopped fine, once a day, while\\nthe ground is frozen, and they cannot get worms or insects;\\nallow no males to run with them, and they will lay per-\\npetually. Try it.\\nThey also require plenty of grain, water, gravel, and\\nJime.", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "k", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "UN 15 1900", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3578", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "wmtm\\nmmmmmmmm\\nLIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\n002 903 992 6\\ni .iij iii| Miw ii n i \u00c2\u00bbifliW mtmiM Uii i |imn", "height": "3773", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "corbinsadviceorw00corb_0088.jp2"}}