New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-12-07
GREAT SPORT FOR HUNTERS
QUEER ADVENTURES WITH BIG AND LITTLE
GAME II PFNNSYLNANIA.

Scranton Penn. Dec. 6 (>pccian.-Scrnton sports
men have been active and lucky Of late. pr. l. =
Everhau Of Frankn-ayc.. shot six parirdScS q
rabbit and a coon over near IoadlcyS one day last
week His setter Ben pointed the coon. but w'lldnt
bulge when he ordered 70 90 ahead IhhhIh'
that the dog had scented a wildcat the doctor sP
preached cautiously and just then coon jumped ont
of The brush and the doctor shot II. TWO days a'cr
he killed six partridgcS in the same locality IN or"
day aicld the spring Brook Highlands I'D ul'
county Colonel \. i. Blair the banker Nh'' c'''
rltcd grouse about a week ago. Health officer A'l
and w. :. Sackhousc, of the scranton siNihF' u 49,
brought home four English pheasauts from tn" neigh
borhood Of Mr. RuiherfOri's game preserve I'm Ne"
Jersey not long since. They have had the handsome
birds stuffed and mounted. John Learn shot $50
pound bear in Clifton Township, th, county, week
ago Yesterday lie got go for the skin and ol' Tor
the meat. While hunting birds last saturday along
the base Of shiny Mountain, I'm spring Brook Town
shin Daniel Udell was surprised ny bear that
popped up from behind a los a few feet IN front ~
him. Tho bear faced him, and Mr. CdcL pulled botIi
triggers simultaneously and bored bis hole IN it,
head killing 1t in It, tracks. The bear weighed III
pounds Last week John solomon trapped a twenty
three pound male wildcat short distance south Of
Moscow He pounded ii b death. got ~ bounty from
the county aud sold the skin mr ~. Attorney Milo
j. Wilson and Nicholas f.. Rice Of this city, recently
returned from hunting big game In the mountains Of
Colorado. They brought home two bearskiEs, the
antIers two blackallcd bucks, bull elk's head
and lot Of vcnison. one morning they counted 100
deer from where they standing.
Young Harry starkwcathcr drove rabbit into
A stnnewall on his fathers place in Gov
ington last Monday. The rabbit began 10
squea It ont Of sight and the boJ
pulled the away and found Tint the rabbit had
been killed by being bitten I'm the neck. He yaukcd
stones. and In a little cavity he uncovered
very lively mink and dead pig. not nor than
,id ,t,,t- hod fin MIC. and tri.t ..
drag it another hole, and Harry crushed the mink
head. 1t was the mink that had killed the rabbit
and presumably the little pig.
Orlando CASTER Of ths city, while hunting M
oak Run in Madison Town-l Up. few day. ago, saw
u pair Of maze weasel, fighting another like
bulldog,. They squcJcd and scratched and BIT one
another, and IT nip and tuck between them lol
.everal minutes. While they il female
wildcat bounced upon them from the bushes, and
M easier killed the wildcat win charge 81 buck
shot and brought IL e. scranton. David Idllinad g.,
o. Price Township, wa attacked by = Wildcat az
the base OF L"visis Mountain lat Mondnv evening
lie in wagon, and his dog spot rushed INTO the
bu-hc, the road and camc ont Nclplns. VI.
Iallmadgc fired twice into the brush aud wildcat
that he slightly wounded leapcd and sprinf int
the The hunter killed The beast with II
wrench.
one day last month. \ ;. Bu-on shot at foI
on Red Ridge, in chiffon Township. The FOX WIS
hunting partiidgcs his dog on il a. D.
Lad fired. The doS caught up to Tie fox and The
fox whipped the dog ran Il few ymds and died
Felix Dunn, while hunting IN tie spring Brook
woods not long ago owl fitting past with
d rat In ifs claw. II entered hollow tree" and the
nc,t day Mr.. Dunn cut the tree down and ct i've
owls out Of II.
A Scranton sportsman shot buck on Mchoopany
Creek at shutdown one dhy laot week. Halt milo
up the stream TIE buck tell and died, and when the
hunter reached the spDt he found Wild at tearing
at the bleeding wound In the buck ION. WITH a
charge OF bucluhot lie killed the wildcat
on West Mountain between laid Mount and
Campbels Ledge and les than ten mile, from this
city. fock 81 Wild TURKEYS have cluded several
hunters this fail. Horace r.. thuSo hunted them
diligently, and few days ago he Wa, rewarded BY
eceing the fiery head OF s"bbl"r sucking above a
log within easy gunsbOt. He >plit the goh6icrS head
in two with rife ball, aud got the finest bird that
has been I'm scranton this wear rlc turkey
weighed nineteen and Il half pounds dressed.