Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-19
STATE HOUSE.
lettings PenciIled in Various Depart.
ments Of the Capitol.
important Questions That viii Be Decided
Under the Gilded Dome.

The annual meeting of the Maine
oportsmen's Fish and Game Association
VIII De held at the rooms of the judiciary
committee, State House, at 2 O'Clock P.
NJ, Jan. 1. The directors will meet a,
1ne same time. Important matters will
come before the association.
Among the matters that will be con-
sldered before this important meeting will
DC whether or not sportsmen shall be al
lowed to send the head of any big game to
licensed taxidermist for mounting with
out going with it, as is the law at the pre-
sent time. Generally speaking, the chief
OBJECT of the hunter is the trophy, and
good opinion has been expressed that it
Will be perfectly justifiable and in accor-
dance with good reason to allow the
sportsman to send the deer head to the
embalmer, rather than inconvenience him
by travelling several miles. One reason
advanced in favor of establishing this
recommendation is that bucks will be shot
-.
There is no question but that the Legis-
lature will be urgently implored by the
Fish and Game Association members to
institute some plan for the hindrance of
hunting deer, moose and caribou with
dogs, which practice is carried to the ex-
treme and even made profitable by hound
N,I>x
being done in the wildwoods, dozens of
miles away from any clearing. When
the guide or hunter has good dog and
gets on the trail of a deer the law is for
gotten, as is the home and companions,
and all that fills his mind is the probable
capture of the beast which he has come
into the woods to seek for. 1t has been
stated by persons who profess to know
that dogs have been employed quite extern
sively this fall in running down big
game. Every hunter will soon tell you
how very difficult it is to creep up near
a deer or caribou so that a good shot can
be procured More than one of the wealthy
sportsmen who have come into Maine the
past fall have paid fines for violation of
the fish and game laws. The meeting on
the date mentioned will be full of fish and
game.
At the meeting of the Governor and
Council, Thursday, the petition for the
pardon of Clarence Whitney, one of the
accomplices in the Peter Bennett robbery
at Newport, will have a hearing General
matters of routine business will come up,
such as settling the years business, ETC.
Tomorrow is the day on which the board
of State assessors will hold the meeting
in regard to the taxation on vessel prop
erty. An act passed at the last session
of the Legislature reads as follows:
"On or before the first day of April in
every other year succeeding the year 1898
and in the year 1898, it shall be the duty
of said board of State assessors to inquire
and determine the per cent. of net IN
come, not charging cost of insurance and
depreciation, earned by the average of
such vessels during the two years preced-
ing such valuation, and wherever such
net income shall be determind by said
board to be not less than 20 per cent. on
q valuation of new vessels of greater age
at So per ton less for each additional year
of age. the valuation of said vessels shall
be fixed at $50 per ton for new vessels and
80 less per ton for each additional year OF
age until the limit of 10 years of age for
such vessels shall be reached, below which
limit no vessel shall be subject to taxa
ton"
Bank Examiner Whtten is in Manches-
ter, n. H., on business.
Secretary Mckeen is in Bangor attend
ing the State Grange meeting.
Hon. A. NJ Spear of Gardiner, was at
the State House, yesterday. He, in COM
many with Sec. McKeen, is waging war
against the oleomargarine dealers and says
that the men who handle this material
must take steps to protect themselves or
they will continue to be prosecuted.
For the 40 farmers institutes that have
been held this year. from 70 to 2Co letters
have been sent to the towns where held,
besides large posters, in order that the at
tendance might be as large as possible
A personal letter will be forwarded to
the people at South Hope and Thomas
ton and vicinity in few days, giving a
snecial invitation to the institutes that Will
he held there the first of January. Many
letters have recently been received in the
agricultural department, speaking Oh the
,,ost benefits derived from the bulletins
issued during the summer
Railroad Commissioners Chadoourne
and Danforth left here, yesterday, for the
northern part of Aroostook county, TO IN
spect the Bangor & Aroostook railroad
from presque Isle to Caribou which re-
sult in the opening of this road for trains
over the whole line.
Hon u. A. Gilbert, representative eject
eron, Greene, and formerly secretary oil
+hestate board of agriculture, was at the
State House. yesterday.
Potato TRANSFERS.