The sun., 1896-08-23
Always remember.
Coon or bear meat
10 not tt TO ent
Until September.

As soon the Coon Club OF Bucksport heard
about the game suppers that had been held at
the farmhouses. Rregarious delegation was
sent oct here 10 get coons enough for great
joilifcation which is to occur the night after the
September election. They hunted most of one
night and did not get a coon. Toward morning
a dog treed animal In a forked yellow birch
near Long Pond Tho privilege of climbing the
tree with n lantern and shooting the coon was
put mp at auction and sold for S2.25 TO Chris
Gray. He spent laborious half hour in find-
ing the right limb. and had the satisfaction OF
putting two bullets into tho animal before 1t
dropped. When he reached the ground a few
minutes later the boys offered to say nothing
about tho affair il he would furnish 4 supper
for the crowd. Gray objected with vigor until
he saw what he had shot. Then he said that 4
man who would pay. s2.25 and work all night
for the privilege OF killing big tomcat ought to
have u guardian.
on their way nome in the gray of tho morning
they met two boys who had been out and killed
three coons. which they offered to sell. The
lads. who had put on n at!tf price with 10 idea
Of getting what they asked. nearly lost their
breLths when the money was produced without
pleted Gray threatened to reveal the actual
hunters would cancel his promised supper.
which was due for killing the cat To this they
were forced to agree. and now there are three
coons in Bucksport that will remain on ice until
the second Monday In September.
Commissioner Carleton Is enforcing the game
laws with q vlgor that surprises and almost
scares the wealthy offenders, who have had
things their own way for years. Within tho last
two weeks nve or six prominent residents OF
eastern Maine have been fined Sl00 and costs
for killing moose ont OF season. Evidence has
tourists that will startle them considerably and
cost them dear when they come out OF the woods.
1t is reported that two Connecticut men who
have been canoiag on the Alegash, hearing
the wartiens were after them. left their canoes
III the woods and made a forced march over the
line into New Brunswick. They will return
home BY the way or Montreal.
Trustworthy reports say that large bull moose
-tho.e great fellows with spreading antlers
which the hunters look for-arr not at all COM
mon this year. There are plenty Of two-year-
old males. however. so the hunter who comea to
Maine this fall will have no rouble In getting a
are alive with deer A lumberman rho walked
from Lobster La Ike TO Northeast Cory last week
counted 100. and thinks ne would have found
more II he had been looking for deer At pres
avoid the flies. After few sharp frOsts they
will go to the woods and get fat for the
hunt, which opens in October. Jack Darling
the best-infOrmed hunter in Maine says he has
ming wild In tho Maine woods. but this year he
has been forced to change his opinion. II there
are not 10000 deer in Maine this season. he
says. he will never go hunting again. Jack says
there were $4,000 deer killed In the season OF
1898. and this year the Maine hunters ought to
get from &c. 600 to 25.OOO
Little has bF-n heard about caribou. A few
have been seen by the lumbermen, though not
enough to demand comment. They are not at
all common, and are harder to get every year.
There are more bear stories going in Name Just
now than there have heen for the past ten
years. They are much alike. The hunter soes
a bear. and either shoots him or catches him In
trap. II the bears could talk. perhaps they
would tell something worth reading.