The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-11-17
A HUNTERS PARADISE.
WILD DEER m PENNSYLVANIA.
An Unusually Good Year for Sport--A Doe
and Fawn Killed by "a single Bull
let-SOme Achievements of
the Key stone Nimrods.

The past week has been lucky one
for deerhunters in the woods of Pike
and Sullivan counties, Pennsylvania.
Not less than fifteen deer were killed in
that time in that vicinity. j. Il. NJ
Hernz. of New York, and d. A. Avery,
of Monticello, killed two in one day
near Beach Lake, in Sullivan county.
A party of local hunters, under the lead
of Andrew Couch, a famous Sullivan
county guide, spent a day in the same
neighborhood. The dogs started doe
and tawn, and drove them to the run
way where Crouch was standing, He
killed both at one shot. Tie rifle
ball passing through the does body
and burying itself in the heart Of the
fawn as it was running by its mothers
side. Samuel LOveiOy and Leon Very,
of New York, brought down a buck and
two does in two days hunting in the
Beaverkill region. A local hunter laid
claim o the buck. lie said his dogs had
started it, and he had wounded it before
the New Workers had got shot at It,.
His claim was disputed, and he at
tempted to take the deer by force. One
of the New York hunters Knocked him
down with the butt of his gun. The
hunter was knocked senseless, and the
others feared he had been killed They
finally succeeded in restoring the man
to consciousness. To save any trouble
the man might make for them, the New
Workers offered him the bucks carcass.
Herefused to take 1t, ana saying, ~ aIn
satisfied that the deer amt mine,"
shouldered his gun and walked into the
woods. Benjamin Kindly shot and
killed doe ON Friday on the head
waters of Lebanon lake, in Sullivan
county. Three boys, John Quick,
Elmer Ryerson aud Frank Copley, were
hunting pheaSauts along tho Beaverkill
on Wednesday. 4 big doe jumped from
thicket Of sweet fern not thirty feet
ahead Of them. Every boy fired load
OF pheasant shot into tho deer, and the
distance was so short and their aim 50
good that theY brought IL to the ground
with broken shoulder Another
charge of shot entered the doors vitals
and the boys carried homo the prize
Three sportsmen from New Jersey
spent three days in the Mast Hone
woods, IN Pike county last week. They
report the killing of two deer
and go pheasauts. "Mat" Mcdaniel
local hunter OF wide reputation, sho,
two large bucks in the Blooming Grove
woods last Monday. Denis Smith shOi
buck and doe and a big she-bear in
GreentownShip region lust week. The
killing Of several deer and n number OF
bears is reported from tho vicinity o.
Porter's lake, in Pike county. Molanc
thon Brown, of Fremont, Sullivan
county, wont out coon hunting a few
nights ago. His dogs barked ono up ,
tree. Brown climbed the tree 10 cap
ture it.. When he crawled out ON til,
limb where tho animal was crouching, 4
came forward to meet him. He thoI
discovered that 3 was wildcat Of very
large size. Brown made haste dowi
the tree and the wildcat followed him
At the bottom of the tree tho wildca
tore the dog to pieces in Ffew seconds
and escaped 10 the woods before Brown
could get shot at it. Hunters hav,
been seeking the catamount over since
- Baltimore American.