New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-11
STORIES TOLD BY HUNTERS.
SHOOTING DEER AND BEARS IN PENNSYL-
WANNA MOUNTAINS.

! Canadensis Penn, Nov. 10.-Many OF the back
woodsmen who come 60 ais village do their trading
tell Interesting experiences Of life in the wilds OF Monro
County. James Leason, who lives near the head "
! Goose Pond Run told a story the other day Whi'
| he and young hunter from the city were getnit
ready 10 GO still hunt for deer late In octouer
his Young son ran into the house with the news tina
he had Just seen fine buck grazing with the cat'f'
I'D on the sde-hlll. Mr. Leason told the amateur
sror,sman TO 20 toward tho pasture In certain ul
recton saving that he himself would approach u
from another point. If the buck Is SUN thcro ~
will run between the big rock and the haystach' ah'
YOU can get shot at him. he told his VISITOR ih'
buck was there, and he dashed away Just aS vi
Iasson had predicted. As he bounded between the
haysack and the big rock, the city sportsman oans
away at him with his Winchester, and the Dncl
iumned eight feet high This movement conVlIceu
| the city amateur that he was going TO 1850 ui'
| buck and so he blazcd away seven times more d!
| that time the noble game was pretty we'll 'luuico
and as dead stone. -,
slas Briggs who lives in the northern Par' "
Darrott Township, told the following snort s'oi!' "
owns n tame doe named Flossy, and one oay III
octobcr Flossy staycd into the woods on 'nc
- tds NJ | cvis,s Mountain. Toward nightfaIi she
! ,.ored In the clearing In company with me largo
buck The buck followed Fossy through inc Nous
until it was nearly dusk. Then flossy iou hi,H ~
trouqb IN which salt had been placed lor ca''i'' w
uhuo he fingered there in the twilight MI pssS SUI
ont his rifle and shot him. The fahiy hau -
Cor week he said, and he was In hopes tnat iio,s'
,ord lead another buck into the lot before lha''A'
giving Day. J., ho,rl
israel Hallock Of Dark Hollow said that ne near
some one fooling around his bee-hivcs al'er hiDs "
last month. some one Lad stolen money liol nv"
a few nights before and imagining tha' '"o w. -
a man Mr. IIallock made up his NINA 10 sI'o Wv,
Torov, GOOD whipping with blecksnake whip ana iet
rbo1 QUIT
hn N lash the thief in the dim moonlight he soon
soyy that The nocturnal prOwler was large Dea'
iostead Of man. His merciless application 81 inc
,vbin made the beast and then no began 10 NAV"
the bear with the butt OF tie WHIP ue'ainln7 NM
untn Mrs Hallock ran out with the axe. Inc" 10
crushed the bears skull and brought inc hno u u'''
village. -, A.,
Mo r,,ler came into Canadensis the other day
, tho beadwaters of Buckhil Creek with this story
On November he was hunting rabbits on The barrehs
with a beagle hound The beagle routed up me hulo
animals for Mr.. Fuller to shoot and was OUT oi hi'
sight good deal of the time. All at once nc hediu
the dog yeping over the knoll as thoueh nc was :"
main lie hurried to the spot ana iouhu tha' tn'
beagle had been tackled by large eagle IN MS
oot 20 escape from the savage birds huge claws be
h ed crawled under the top of fallen tree where ne
was struggling hand and yelping at the top OIL MS
lungs. The limbs kept the eagle from rising aloi'
with the little dog and Mr. Fuller cap,nrea ~ ~, NJ
asI"E n wooden coop he SAID and wanted to sell IT,
Manson Delone who lives over near me ile 'o1mS
line told this lie and a parry OF louI wen. o.
hunrng in October Among the NUMBER was d
enthusiastic young city chap who hM nevfr en
a horn and double barreled rne loaded win Dio"
shot The old hunters placed him on ruhWaS a.
the foot of bluff telling him TO keep hrs eye pefleu
tnr deer After he had stood there for several hours
he got cold and numb and he built up fire and soon
feu into doze from which he was aroused by, Iol
Of dirt and stones that slid down on him from lar up
the steep bluff Looking up he saw bear pichlilE
It's way along the rocks lie iled o3t I Ssr U
buctshot at the bear in ihy and me bear cam
rolling down toward him like mighty o0'uner' ii9
imagined that the bear going 10 XII hilI anu
throwing away his rife, lie ran through the woods
elled murder and blew on his horn Gne II .o
hunters stopped him. and all out OF breath he told me
oId woodsu1an that q monster boar was chasing MN
Then they the base OF the bllii ana lolnu ne
bear lying dead with two charges OF bucKsho' III hS
heart and lungs. -, ,, , ,,i,
is the story he told While still-hunting for deer Two
weeks ago he saw big she bear breaking luD' rom
a hcmIOcR tree lie was behind large log ana nc
fred at her she stood on her nina legs. IN an
Instant size tore through the brush directly toward
him and he banged away at her SIX times. us
Winchester rifle had twelve cartridges in lis msgHue
when he started and when he fired the eighth snOl
the bear within ten feet OF him. Ihe La, ouicI
struck her in the mouth and killed her. Then he
said he asceraned that the first shot had JUST graze
the tip of her heart. while tho other six had ganc6
or her forehead. 1t the closest call ever had
with bear" Mr. Martin added
Nicholas Humme of Cromwelfs Hill. said he saw
stOne-maren chasing fine gray squirrel near me
middle branch Of BrOdheads Creek not long ago
The squirrel skipped up a tree, with the ndrteh IN
hot pursuit, and ran out on limb. Mr. liuInneH
ready to shoot IT, when Il dropped deal, and he
sent bullet through the marten instead. On eN-
aiming the squirrel be said. he found that tho marten
had stuck its teeth through the squirrels neck