The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-12-01
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. successful Excursions OF wheeling Sports.
men, and some Tall Stories Others
Tell Knocking Over Tabbi,s.

For several weeks great stories have
been going round about the abundance OF
game in the rural districts Of this vicinity.
Hunters 20 over the river. up the Pewiky,
down the River road, out the Hempaeld
or out the Baltimore ( Ohio and come
home with tho furred aud feathered deni.
zen Of the forest. Scarcely a day passes
that some lucky party Is not seen entering
the city from one Of these directions, tired
and tootsore, dirty md hungry, but never.
theless in angelic temper and with all the
game they can carry. A few weeks ago
hundreds OF squirrels were brought In
every week. Now rabbits are still more
plentiful.
Atwo days hunt near Haneytown, by
Jacob Dillon, Samuel Fleming and Frank
Ieebout, resulted in the slaughter OF
ninety.seyen rabbits, two pheasants, two
squirrels and one quail. Saturday Adam
Schaaer, Richard Donovan, Eddie Laugh.
lin and Ben LeoiIler, returned from a two
days hunt near Cold Springs, Marshall
county. They brought back 80 rabbits,
- quails and s'possums. officer Junkins
and Peter: Welty got home from a short
trip In Ohio, with q similarly large load.
Among their game was u fine large pos
sum, which was servedin style foir il small
dinner party at the Officers residence
yesterday. Similar successes 10 these re.
ierred to here are reported every day, and
L anybody ever eoes hunting and comes
Home ehlpty.handcd, he ,sneaks in the
back;;way and SAYS nothing.
The stories told above are youched ior
by good authority. Saturday evening n
reporter heard u man telling one which
may be received with a grainof allowance.
He said he and a friend were out the
National road hunting one day recently,
when a squirrel ran up n tree standing
close by a lofty rock, tho surface OF which
was covered with bushes. lie fired at the
squirrel, and killed II %tofcourse, as he was
telling tile story himself simultaneously
there was ilutter in a clulnp OF bushes
against the rock, and a pheasant tumbled
down. He had unwittingly ended tive
lives with one shot,
A reporter was talking Saturday to q
gentleman who was probably never oui
hunting in his lie. Said lie: slave YOU
oSSla uo"h liz AiNeT Fuau eCeNLly
The reporter said NO"
~ was down this week; went hunting
i"What luck p"
"Good got : carload Of game"
"a carload'''"
eyes, .ir; q car load. Why, down there
you can sit on the hind platform Of the
train and shoot; rabbits faster than YOU
can load. That's the way we did. we
shot all the, way down 10 81. Mary's, ant
then came up on a hand car and gathered
them up. When We got a load We heaped
them beside the track and started again.
Our rabbits filled the baggage CIR"
The reporter did not say . word,
"Down there;'A the hluters continued,
"you "a go in the woods and sit on d
fence and knock rabbits over with.a club
They are IS tame az kittens, and the woods
are SO full Of them you can hardly walk a
rod without tramping on one."
No doubt this accounts for the unusual
success OF amateur hunters lately. They
Just sit still and bill their game with q
club. However, Q policeman told the re.
porter later this Nimrod went out one
day last week and only got two tame
pigeons which he killed on Seventeenth
street. "a warrant, was sworn out for
him" said the cop, "ior shooting in the
city limits, but he proved he had no, fired
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