The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-11-19

A Few Items Of General Interest To An
Sportsmen.
B-The following is always opprop-

fiate AZ TINS season.
A man,
A dog,
\ loaded gun.
No man,
No dog,
Thy will be done.
Jay Clearance Shafer, son of Peter
Shafer, living at Brodheadsville, last
Wednesday evening accidently sent a
load of shot through his arm. He had
been cunning during the day aud was
returning home when in some manner
the gun was discharged making hole
as big as a walnut through his left arm
above the elbow.
tB-Laf Schoch never goes with his
"old reliable" unless he "bags" some
thing.
GH Stinson Hagerman is more than
three score and ten, but he still enjoys
day in the woods and generally
"bags" something for his trouble. Mr.
Hagerman lives here.
tB~This is the time of the year when
excited hunters mistake their fellow
hunters for deer and partridges with
fatal results; when they blowsnto the
gun barrel to see if its loadee, when
they march single file and the rear one
stumbles and falls and perforates his
companions; when they sit on an old
fence and the top rail breaks down and
one will do his hunting hereafter in
the "happy hunting grounds above"
and last but not least, when they go
hunting for pheasants and the next
day have chicken for dinner.
E8-Lines Groo, son-in-law to II. II.
Peters, the tailor, was here this week
from New York city, and was giving
his attention to the pleasure of gun
ming. Mr. Groo is an excellent shot
aud baRged goodly amount of game.
E#-A gun exploded for Charles Gal
lagher at Lewiston the other day and
he narrowly escaped death.
g8-S Saturday seemed to be quite a
successful day with the many south
side hunters who went off on a hunt
ing tour. Thomas and William Hamer
of Jeanesville, took home ten rabbits
fifteen pheasants and five quail from
Conyngham. David PETER, of Auden
ried, who spent the day near Ringtown
had six pheasants and four rab its
with him, while in addition to a variety
of other game, James Gallagher, oi
Jeanesville, downed large and hand
some red fox in Quakake. e.-HazletoI
Plain Speaker.
gZ- Francis Florence, a school teach
er of South Bethlehem, with a party
was cunning last Friday, on the Blue
Mountains, near Bowman's Station
The gun was accidentally discharged
and Mr.. Florence's foot was badly lac
Grated. A doctor was summoned anc
the injury dressed. On Saturday Mr.
Florence was able to proceed to his
home at South Bethlehem.
GB- Hunting or cunning upon tht
lands of another with the consent o.
the owner is provided for and punish
ed by the following section of an ac
of assembly. 1t should be notice tt
trespassers:-
Section 3-If any person or persons
shall presume to carry any gun, ol
hunt on any enclosed or improved
lands of any inhabitant of this pro
vince, other than his own, unless h,
shall have license or permission from
the owner of such lands, or shall pre-
sumo to fire gun on or near any o
the kings highways, and shall b.
thereof convicted, either upon view o
any justice of the peace with this pro
, vince, or by the oath or affirmation o
any one or more witnesses, before an,
justice of the peace, he shall, for ever.
, such offense, forfeit the sum of 4
shillings.
The law was enacted by the legisls
ture of Pennsylvania on April Q, 17G(
1t is still in force, and its operatioi
can be, and often is, invoked to protec
the owners of land, and to prevent an
! punish such trespasses as gunnin
: upon lands without the consent of tn
= owner or owners thereof, The gur
ming nuisance is now being infiicte
upon the farmers of the county, an
it is particularly opportune that tn
law be published.
G&-Pat Clark, David Kreamer an
II "Boss" Clauss hunted at Pine Run thi
week one day. They come home wit
II six rabbits, two pheasants and thre
u Quail,