Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-03-12
GREAT SPORT
Afforded BY ihe Game in Our
Maine Woods.
4 Sketch Of BatkXqods Life That xak,s
Tho Blood TInela
And Shows What Rich Field fol sport
We Have.

hide.
This 10 not the fxtent Of the slaughter
for 80 sets OF sntlers from these animal
have been received from out CT town b
one tsxidermisr. Faliy 500 deer, 10 mocs
and 20 carbon ~ere~ the result OF fou
weeks shooting IN the State, ending Nov.
In the getting Of This game nothing
| needed save rifi9 and combination o
good luck and quick shooting. The goo
| lccz consists in fndirg the game and then
generally speaking any fair shot, not strica
en- vi'h buck sgge, who can shoot wit
! reasonable quickness, an secure the game
| But sometimes IL is all luck, for the gam
c 1mes to the hunter.
The deer here often herd with the domes
| { C animals when in bs Z fields and pasture
In new settlements; they raid the oats an
turnp fields in the burnt lands, and hsv
| deem known TO seek safety 10 barpyarc
when riOseiy pressed by dogs.
Carbon ard moose "bsnge' in the wilde
lards rs mote from civilization, yet there ar
many cases known where school boys hsv
secured them. Last year atvelve-hundred
pound moose was shot by boy who had bu
a revolver and four cartridges.
Mr.. John Towre of the Berlin Iror
Bridge Company is the father Of this gres
huatipg cBuntry. Ten years ago he dis
covered, fifty miles from Bangor, terr'
tory we'll stocked with deer. and he slst
| found there q guide, John Haines, WIN
knew every inch Of the country. In tn
district was fine pond and in the pond
small island.
The guide was farmer and al-roun,
back-wood.msn, and an arrangement wa
| xirb 1bia "
a crude sffair, but it served the purpose o
/ the few who went there in the earlier year
to fish and shoot but as the number grew
a set of can pc, much larger and Wsfme
| than the old one, was erected, and is 80 fur
nishej 81. to make it the best "hunter'
home" 10 the State.
In answer TO petition the United State
| Fish Commission in 1883 but into The pont
| 20, 600 land 2ked ssim on each one an incl
long June 1891. some of these wers
taken with fl ', being in length 2l Ia inchei
and in weight five and three-quarter.
pounds. They were then three years ant
three days old. ...-.-
The bunters visit the camps in psrtiei
| Of ten in June and in the three last montht
| of the year.
| The camps are upon the edge Of wilder
ness which stretches to the north and ess
fully lG0 miles and beyond the Cansdisr
| line. As all the hunters who come herr
are more than amateur woodsmeD, theI
| employ but one guide, who dresses the ssm'
and cares for the canoes.
One dog is an esteemed member Of th'
party, an Eogiish pointer, over which NOR,
| than two thousand birds have been shot il
the pat six years. Zip" is hero, for h'
| snd Hsines once got the largest bear eve
| taken. Jip furthermore distinguished him
| self By saving the life Of the guide.
Bears are plentiful in all the forest regior
Of Maine, but are considered hsrmle SIS
except when wounc Il or their young are il
danger. This season, while some of tbs
psriy from Union Camp went fishing, th'
guide went iato the woods to LOOK at beal
trap. He took his gun and the dog.
| While passing through some low land
covered with tall marsh grass Haines saw
fifty pound cub digging. He shot low
| cuting the muscles Of the young bear
forward leg. At orcs the cub set up yel
and .Jip Joined in with & vigorous bark.
| Haines knew the mother must be near =
| hand, and quickly selected tree as plact
| If refuge in csse Of necessity-s tree to-
small for the besr TO climb. At this tins
| the dog was worrying the cub. when sue
denly, with q crushing Of undefbush, thi
| old bear pushed her way into the open. A
soon as she took in the situation she mad
| for the dog.
| Three hundred dollars worth of dog tlssf
was in Jeopardy, and Hsines put bsll owe,
the dog and into the bear. She turned
upon the hunter ard got smother ball il
the throst. Yet she kept on for the guide
| Another shot broke her fore-leg just as sh
s.ept the rife from the guides hands.
The bear dropped to the ground, bitins
ssysgely a! the wound. while ffsines mad
| fov the tree. Before he was bey oud reach
oruin dashed at him and succeeded in Akin,
| the claw Of her unir 1red fore foot into th.
| ROD Of the stout boots of the guide, ant
| would have RULED him bsck to his dealt
had not the gallant dog made vigorous a.
| tack upon the enemy il the rear.
The bear sgain dropped to the groun'
and made for the dog The latter set ou
for camp and eft Hsines to slide down 4
| the ground, sc ire his life snd load it 70
bruins return. The bear was still nesr ard
seeing the man upon the ground, injured q
liz was, attacked him sgsiD. The guild
waited until the bear was vithiDg few fee
o, him and then drove ball inte her head
Even this did not kill the big beast, tn
bullet merely plcsghed upwsrd and owe
the tkull. IL seemed, however. to crsz
the animal, snd she s'ruck into he woods
seipg down srsvine. Spsttered with blocd
the guide sos back to The camp. where h
related his story. At once party stsrtet
on the t:sil They found the besr one mil
srsy stone sd. The cub wss taken siive
| On smother occasion Hsines and = man
soing to The spricg for water, eneouusereC
two pears. They msde for the guide, 8
they vers with you. snd ugly, ,snd knocks
him do.n. His compspi)n had an sxe an
with this be beat eff the s1imsls. The hide
Of these snd the one that sent Haines up
,rea now sdorn q house in Springfield.
The bill Of fare prepared for the cit
sporu mea in the Msi 10 camps Is as wild .
the region. 10 the close season for b
ssme il i. easy to have perch cho sder, frie
0erch. baked and fried trout, bear steak
partridge ard duck, With liberal doses o
vese,sb ss incluiins Onions
| Ia October lhsre is venison, partridge
duck. woodcock, RABBIT, coou, bes', -ooc
cauek. wild bets houey, cfSnberrles grow
about the pond, Iadisn c5rn. hoe cake. Wit
maple syrup gather il the sprir 9 en- III
isla- 4. and land locked salmon.
ghsre are three methods u'ed in Msin
Of tsklpg deer-stsising, running with deg
and uapping. TIE first is simply ~oIkin
up the wind through the woods AID steslil
unaxxr,s upon the gsme. The hight Of
man does not as cree send deer If upon
bound, .nd there is sl.sys fair chance t
shoot, providing he hunrer sights the gam
ss soon s. the latter observes him.
Blu. If the novic. sfsveis dcwn The via
never . deer will be see, for tie scsns of
human being or the yep OF & dog send
them jumping into the heart OF the b uss
The sec nd method is to pus ou. dog
These. geing into the woods, ret up . bar
as soon IS they scent deer track. ard .
orc. svery deer within sound sirikes f.
ths uearss: body of water. Instirc; sent
them there, trough they may nSver hAs
heard dog. Deer are good swimmers
the fall Of the year, having on 3 coat Of Il
and tn ck, lopg hsir. bu. in the spring tim,
when thin snd with q ne and shors hsi
they sink ubea shot in water.
The hunter. when pursuing this metho'
which 10 not legsl. simply 5 . in canoe c
boat awsitiag the game. Waea II tsppesl
or ooutds into the water he has but to pa
die mp to IL and shoot ss his leisure. Som
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