The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-11-30
Hunting Notes.


years.
The Middleburgh hunting party
left for Little Valley on Monday for
a ten days deer hunt.
M. l.. Kreeger of Middleburgh,
and lawyer Il. Nj. Beale of Lewis
burg are hunting quail at Liverpool
this week.
Pheasants are growing more
scarce every year in this county
and some of our sportsmen talk Of
making trip to Sullivan county in
quest Of the birds.
The hunters report very few signs
OF bear. 1t appears they hibernat-
ed early in the season, which is O
sign OF a hard winter.
Sixteen bear were shot and trap
ped by the inhabitants of Treaster
and Little Valleys during the fall OF
'92 and spring of '93.
It is said that four hundred hun
ters were encamped in the noun
tains north of Milroy last week.
On the Centre county side they use
dogs,sbut on the Mifilin county side
they shot and poison them like flies.
The Millersburg parry, which took
five deer and three bear from Slate
Ridge, near Reedsville, last year,
returned on Friday with one small
four-prong buck. They had dog
with them which they used to hunt
wounded deer"
A party of six boys from Potter's
Bank, Centre county, camped at
Slate Ridge last week. They were
unable to capture deer and were
quite Respondent, when, one eve
ming their dogs started fuss in
s'fQns Qfrss ROCKY 2 cavern al ,,oassiou
yards from their camp. They inves-
tigated the cause of the disttp tprbance
and discovered the den to be inhab-
tied by bears. After shooting two
cubs that dressed 3S pounds each
and an old she bear that dressed
over 100 they went home with heads
up.
Little Valley was last week well
represented by Snyder county hun
ters. The Kratzerville and Beaver
town parties camped at Peters, the
Trox elville party at Muthersbaughs',
and the Mcclure party south of
Jacks Mountain near the Belletown
path. Neither party had brought
down deer up to Friday morning,
except the Troxelville party, an nc
count of whose capture Of u four
prong buck was given in last weeks
PosT. Everybody in Little Valley
carries gun. The teamsters, wood
choppers, schools teachers, doctors
and even some of the women are
trained to the use of firearms, and
stray buck has about as little chance
to get across the valley with whole
skin rs bat has to fly across the
sea.
LATER. We learn that the Kratz-
erville party shot two deer on Fri
day-the one, spike-buck, was
brought down by Commissioner
elect Phares Herman, and the other,
a doe, by DIR. Frank Wagenseller, of
Selinsgrove.
John Davy Shook last week shot
a wild turkey in Little Valley that
had a tail ls inches long, which had
u spread of two feet. He gave tho
tail to his son, Will, of Lewistown,
who in turn gave it to the editor of
the PosT, and it will not be long be-
fore it will occupy a prominent po-
sition in cur curiosity shop"
Will Meyer shot fine specimen
of sea loon back of Middleburgh
last week, which we sent to our tax
idermist, w. l.. Weaver, of Millers-
burg, to have it mounted for him.
Persons having birds, buck, heads
or any kind of animals they wish
mounted can address the PosT and
we will give them terms.
The man who loves gun most
fears it most. Accidents will hap
pen, but in nearly every case it is
through the carelessness of the one
handling the gun. To hold gun
with the muzzle towards any one
invites death, and to draw it to-
ward you through the brush is worse
than carelessness, and it ID only n
question to the man who does it
who he shoots frst-himself OF COM
panion. j.