QUEEN Of THE WOLVES;
Indian Girl Dwells Alone In Midst
of Howling Horde.
SHE CATCHES THEM ALIVE.
Sails Thair Skin* at a Good Profit.
Stranga Caraar of Mary Qiaalar,
Beautiful Half Braad Chippaway,
Child of tha Forest.
?
Mary Glssler. "queen of the wolf |
ranch." are the name and title of a girl
who runs probubly the most peculiar
aud the most dangerous business In the
United Stales, or In the world, per
haps.
Miss (Jlssler's ranch la on the river,
about half way lietween International
Kails. Minn., aud Mine Center. On
tario. She Is the daughter of John !
Glssler, a hertult hunter and trapper, |
and his wife, a full blooded Chlppeway
Indian woiuan. both of whom died
a few years ago.
?That Klrl has more genuine courage
thau any tuan I ever met," says Daniel
Kutledge. a fur buyer of St. Paul, who
"discovered" her.
"The scene that opened before me
when 1 came u|H>n the ranch was the
strangest a man ever beheld." says
Rutledge. who recently returned from
a loug trip In the woods. "The girl
herself Is a marvel. Tall aud straight,
with her Jet black hair closely colled
under a cap of wolfskin, aud dressed
In garmeuts of fur. she certainly was
a sight for au artist."
"1 was coming down the river when
I heard wolves howling." says Uut
ledge. "Naturally I supposed a pack
was running a deer or moose, or was
possibly on my trail, so It was me
for a tree to await developments. Fi
nally. as the howling continued with
out coming closer, I descended and
made an Investigation.
"Nearer and nearer 1 slipped to the
howling, snapping, snarllug brutes,
and at last reached a high fence of
long tamarack poles, tirmly fastened
to pine trees.
"Inside were a hundred or more i
wolves savagely snapping over big
bits of meat which this girl, standing
on a platform built from a window of
the cabin at the upper end of the
stockade, was throwing out to them.
"As I looked through the fence a
skulking wolf of gigantic size crept
up behiud me and. without a warning
growl, fastened Its teeth In one of my
legs. I shouted and the animal leaped
to one side. I kicked at It.
"Almost instantly there came a cry
?sharp and piercing? from the girl on
the platform, and the ahlin&l that had
bltteu me skulked away, his tail be
tween his legs.
"The animal was a wolf dog? a cross
l>etween a timber wolf and the com
mon house dog? and I must say that
more vicious animals never lived. As
I stood rubbing iny leg and wonder
"WHAT IK) TOC WANT Y"
lug what sort of a place I had reached,
the icirl caaie toward the carrying a
rifle aud followed' by three or four
wolf dogs.
" 'What do you want? Who are you.
aud what are you doing here? she
asked, before I recovered from my
surprise.
"1 explained to her that I had heard
the wolves howling aud had been curi
ous to see them? after I fouud they
were not after me? and In trying to
approach theui had been seized by her
dog.
"The girl, with a half apologetic
manner, said that she kept the wolf
dogs as pets In her cabin, they being
her companions and protectors.
" They are not like the wolves In
there.' she added with a laugh, point
ing to the brutes In the pen.
"The stockade, or corral. In which
the wolves are kept In a deep ravine,
is faced on one side by an almost i>er
pendlcular wall of rock which no aul
mal can scale. The ledge on the other
side is less precipitous, and Is sur
mounted by a high fence of tamarack
poles, over which the animals cannot
leap or through which they cannot I
crawl. The ravine is about 800 feet
in width, at one side of which la a
large spring. Extending back from the
river for a mile or more, it gradually
narrows until the entrance to a swamp
beyond is not more than lOO feet
across.
"At this end has been built a high
fence of small pine logs, being fas
tened to trees, until a barrier has been
erected through which nothing larger
than a rabbit can creep. .
"I asked her. after she had explained
to me that she was In the fur raising
business, bow 8 bo managed to trap
the animals in the first place.
" 'I'll ihow you,' she replied, as she
ted the Way to the Cubiii, where sh?
laid down her rltle and whipped the
wolf dogs Into n small shed adjoining
tie cabin.
"She pointed out a gate hung on
pulleys iu the center of the fence at
the lower eud of the ravine, which
could be easily raised, leaving an
opening thirty feet across. The gate
fastened by a huge padlock to a
pine tree which serves as a post. The
key to the padlock is worn as a locket
by the 'wolf queen.'
"Her cabin Is a two story affair, and
from a window on the upper floor ex
tends a small platform, the outer end
resting on the fence closing the ra
vine.
"It was ou this platform that I first
saw the 'wolf queen' throwing meat to
the wolves below.
"As I stood with her on this platform,
watching the animals tightlug for food,
the wolf dog which had attacked me
TUEY LEAFED LON<? BSFOliE THE DOO
STRUCK THE (IKOC.VD.
came up beside me snarling. I turued
anil kicked at it again, and it Jumped
so far tliat it slipped off the platform
and fell among the wolves. Before It
touched the ground the wolves leaped
ut It, and in a moment It was toru to
bits. 1 shuddered as I thought what
a man's fate would be if he were at
the mercy of that howling horde."
"The gute at the lower end of the
stockade does uot open directly into
the malu yard, but into a smaller pen,
connected with the larger one by a
gate somewhat similar to the one at
the river end of the ravine, only
smaller.
Natural Home For Varmints.
"The rocks and brush lu the ravine
furnish au excellent retreat for the
wolves, and In the numerous gloomy
dens lu the ledge hundreds of young
wolves have first seen the light of day.
" "But I don't depend altogether on
raising wolves,' said the girl. 'That's
too slow.'
"Then, with the enthusiasm that a
young society bud would display In de
scribing her first ball dress, she told
how she led into the stockade large
packs of the most cowardly, yet most
daring and desperate? wheu hungry
denizens of the pine woods? the 'hell
dogs" of the north.
"The end of the raviue farthest from
the river opens into a big tamarack
swamp, so dark and thick ns to be al
most impenetrable, and is au excellent
stronghold for wolves. This fact has
shrewdly been taken advantage of by
the "wolf queen.' who two or three
times a year throws out a big dragnet
and captures lots of the animals.
"Her method is to make a tour of the
swamp, dragging behind her on the
snow or pine needles the carcass of a
newly killed deer, now and then leav
ing a piece of the meat. She carries
this trail into the first pen of the
stockade.
"The trap is set by opening the gate
leadinc Into the swauip. The carcass
of the deer is the bait. Then the 'wolf
queen' conceals herself to await the
comlug of the pack.
Strike tho Trail.
" 'When the wolves strike the trail
and get the scent of the fresh meat,'
the girl said, 'they follow It directly
Into the outer pen, for they never have
been kuown to leave the trail until
they have overtaken, pulled down and
torn to pieces the animal they are
after or until they have been shot and
killed.'
"Ou the ledge, holding the ropes con
trolling the Kate, the jjirl watches.
"The long drawn, mournful howl an
nounces the start, and soon the pack is
In full cry. tearing through '.he uuder
brusli, their blood thirst aroused to
the highest pitch.
"Nearer and nearer they come, and,
eruwdiug and snapping at each other,
they press through the gate. A pull
at the rope releases tho gate, shutting
iu the wolves.
"I don't know what hades, filled
with maddened animals, would look
like, but I do know that the sceue
when a pack of timber wolves Is
trapped by this girl must l>e the sight
of a lifetime and one well calculated
to strike terror to the heart of the
strongest man, let alone a young half
blood Indian girl.
"Her method of slaughtering the
wolves when she wishes to market the
skins Is effective, safe and i>ossibly as
humane as any that could be devised.
"Twenty-five or thirty animals are
lured into the smaller pen from the
main stockade and the gate closed.
"Miss Glssler takes her position on
the ledge and with her rifle picks off
the animals one by one until all have
been killed. One bullet for each wolf
Is all she needs. The wolves are skin
ned and the carcasses used as food for
the rest of the captives.
"The skins are allowed to lreezo.
after which they are tied iu big bun
dies ready to l>e taken to Port Fran
cis. on the Canadian side of the river,
where a buyer Is always to be found."
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