The sun., 1896-09-27
AGED MEN WHO KILL DEER.
Maine Has nm e1-yenr-oid Hunter, and
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Maine Has a1-yenr-Old Hunter, and
Peterson. n. d., Ono of DC Years.
MILNocKEr Me-. Sept. 26.-There is widely
circulated idea that nobody but able bodied
men should go after the big game OF Maine.
While this may be true in a majority of cases,
the fact remains that aged men. cripples and
semi -invalids who are able to get out of doors
and can go a mile or 80 from their boarding
camps in day stand a good chance OF getting
all the deer the law allows them to take. pro-
vided they go to the right places and stay long
enough to have the deer come their way. Sam
York. a rheumatic invalid Of this place. who
will be 81 years old next month. secured his
two deer last fall and got them back on the
track of the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad
during the full moon of October.
York was famous hunter in his dav. and
having killed deer for more than sixty years. he
knew their ways. He says that while deer are
very tmid, they are also carelessly curious and
inquisitive. thus making themselves an easy
prey for those who know their failings. Until
two years ago there was no railroad within fifty
miles OF here. AS soon Us the new road was
bored into the wilderness herds of deer began
to come out on the track and paw among the
fresh earth. as II trying to find ont what sort OF
creature 1t WAS that made such an
upheavaL While the roadbed WAS getting
graded the workmen shot many deer. and
after the rails were laid and the supply trains
here and Grindstone their avenue of travel when
going coming between the east branch and
west branch of the Penobscot River. BY and
by the passenger trains came on. and still the
deer used the railroad, preferring 1t to their old
paths through the woods. Two years ago four
or five deer were killed by passing engines and
last year two more got run over and were left
in fragments between the rails.
knowing of those peculiarities, York walked
| n. 80 I..a laat md IN.
five mornings he shot two big bucks He might
have killed more. but did not wish to overstep
the laws limit. After the first week or two OF
| general slaughter along the banks Of ponds and
streams tho deer strike off inland. where they
remain quiet during tho day and feed after sun
| down. Early in the morning or after the sun
has set they make journeys between their sleep
| ing and feeding grounds. 1t was York's prac-
tice to get up early and steal along the tracks
until he could conceal himself in a place com
manuing a wide view in both directions. Here
| he would lie until deer came along when his
| old muzzle-l load Ing rifle would do the rest. Ono
mo rning, when an early express train was hur-
ryinG down from Houlton. York saw three
| deer come dashing down the track. twenty rods
woods until they went out of sight behind
| curve. They kept about SO far ahead OF the on
gine all the way. and though they had plenty
| OF good chances to leap into the woods and gain
a oa hs not track Th
has got a now magazine rife and expects to Sc
Ano,ser ns .wa case whc IS that
| Irland. an aged citizen OF Patterson, N. -; VINO
came down TO La Grange last fall to visit his
spell In November Mr. lrland took train and
| went up to Schoodie to stop week In the
lumber camp OF his son.in law, Having nothing
| else to do he fixed up an old rifle that he found
he shot a deer. The rifle kicked SO badly that
he hardly knew whether he or the deer % was the
| worse hurt until after he bad applied IMMINENT
| Tn his shouders and eaten n lot OF fresh venison
| This treatment revived him so much that no
wShs wSsh oIs he 'G took home. Mr. risnd. who is es
years OF age. is coming to schoodle again this
| fall and OK poets to get two more deer.
| been hunted n month in any locality the sur
vivors emigrate 10 other fields and n SO doing
| they frequently come out In nelas and pastures
chased by dogs dashed down Hammond street
bangor, passed the City Hall. turned to the
Jumped from there into the stream. swimming
| In among the shipping on the Penobscot before
it was captured by men In boats. Charles
iieving he could find none at home. Though he
is a good marksman, and though no hunt"d
home he hired some men IN Bangor
and took them S s to MS we're s o1 70
and while Miller was waiting for his horse to
eat before returning home he strolled through
not gone a mile from his camp before no saw
two deer. and shot both OF them. A few days
later Charles Royal who Is Miller's 6rother-n-
law went to the same camp and shot large
buck. After this Millo.s camp became famous,
so that hunters from Bangor. Bncksport. Old
Town, Ellsworth. and other places went there
The previous June Miller and g crew of men
passed three weeks in the same woods pseling
bark and none OF them saw any signs OF deer.