The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-10-11

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| into the season when tits tina - start To
| Maine again. W S''1-
Every IRA n going eastward now carries
Its little band of huntsmen Thnse who
go from Portland are sometimes as oraen
as their fellows from Boston or the char
rom New 1ork pue wherever they 90 or
wherever they come from all have the
hunting" fever and it lasts sverv rear
thereafter until the blood gets thin and
rheumatism and old age make the 1r,h he
stiff and the eyesight dim. ''
| A large number of deer and even laroor
game are shipped through Portland every
week during the season and almost 49,,
day you may find several pairs of hand.
some specimens of deer, moose or carl
bou in the baggage or express cars bound
westward.
GAME NOTES.
| W. Fl. Hatch, Frank L, Shaw and
family and Frank Perry and wife left
| Portland Wednesday night for Mr.. Sbaw's
camp on the Upper Branch, near Moose
head, where they will try to bag good
number of deer before they come home.
The party will remain at this camp
| camp with 200 acres of timber land and
this is said to be alive with big game of
all kinds.
j. W. Young and J. H. Donovan of
his city, were on a hunting trip at Malta
wamkeag last week aand brought home
| two deer.
G. B. Day of Richmond few days ago
shot Lesser snow goose in the river near
that place. The bird is a very rare speci-
men, none ever having been captured be-
fore in that vicinity. 1t is occasionally
seen far out at sea- while flying back
and forth from the north and south, and
now and then one is shot in some inland
body of water, where it has alighted dur
ing migratory period, as in the case
noted.
| A few days ago the people Of North
Anson were a good deal surprised to see
big she bear and three cubs rolling
along one OF the principal streets. The
| old bear went lame and close observation
showed that she had but three feet, the
other having been taken off in trap
probably. A gang of boys set out in
chase took the direction of the trotting
park. The boys got close to the bears
but being armed with shotguns only, they
did not dare to fire and the bears got
safely away.
| One day recently three Waterville
sportsmen at Great pond bagged 38 snipe,
seven woodcock and two ducks, which
was not at all bad for one days sport.
| E. o. Collins, who was shot through
| the lung a year ago by Chas. Morris, the
Moosehead Lake guide. hasyremoved from
Fort Kent to Bridgewater. He says he
suffers no inconvenience on account of
| the wound
Last Saturday night six Bath young
men passed, wading knee deep in water
and mud and through bushes and under
| bush in New Meadows swamp, with
lighted lanters and cooked guns, chasing
a dog that thought he knew where coon
| was-but didn't.
A large lot of game was shipped
through Portland Thursday The True
Blue Hunting club composed of Boston
men, including f. II. Barton, f. H.
Baxter. J. O'Brien, B. Mealey, Ralph
Lord, j. Morse and T. Coughlin came
down from Schoodic lake where they
have been for week. They were accom-
panied byS Tony McAloon of Bangor,
and they mad fine time. They killed
six deer.
There were nine deer on the train fro m
over the B. &. A. Wednesday night.
They belonged to A. G. Hencken. of
New York, M. M. Snyder, r. S. Snyder,
G. E. Smith, of Boston; E. E. Boynton,
of Camden; Prof. B. W. Theme, o.
Togus; and D. Hayes, of Bangor.
/ Some New Hampshire sportsmen were
boro, Wednesday night. They came from
Pistola lake and had nine deer. In the
party were DIR. S. G.. Blaisdell, of Bos-.
ton; Harry E. Boyntop, W. A. Walton,
S. L. Kingsbury, F. II. Ward, of Ports
mouth; W. A. Curtis, of Boston, and
F. G. Blaisdell, of Concord.
DIR. J. W. Whidden accompanied by Mr.
Horace Gates, has gone into the woods
near Mt. Katahdin and will journey
through the great lake region by canoe.
It is expected that these gentlemen will
bag a good many deer.
Mr.. Charles Summer Cook of this city,
has gone to Moosehead lake on a hunting
St. John river. This trip can be made
almost entirely by water and through a
country teeming with game.
Game warden Hodgkins and aGams
Commissioner Carleton arrived in Ban
gor on the morning train from Malta
wamkeag Thursday. Warden Hodgkins
brought Fred McDougall of Lincoln to
that city, to answer to the charge of dog,
ging deer at Mattamiscontis. McDougall
engaged Hugh r. Chaplin, ESQ.,. as coun-
sci and later in the forenoon the matter
was brought before Judge Vose. Nc
Dougall, through his counsel pleaded
guilty and was fined $40 and costs.
Sumner L. Crosby, the Exchange street
taxiderInist of Bangor, received "a moose
head Thursday from New Brunswick. 1t
was shot by 81. A. Rosengarten, the
famous football player, who was mem
her of the University of Pennsylvania,
eleven years ago. Mr.. Crosby also re-
ceived deer head from General Manager
Hall, of the New York. New Haven &
Hartford railroad. which was shot in
New Ha mpshire.
The largest deer of the season was
brought over the B. & A. on Thursday.
1t weighed over 200 pounds and was
owned by P. A. Houlihan of Portland,
1t is estimated that the daily killing of
deer in the vicinity of Northwest Garry
alone reaches above 100 deer day.
Thursday morning the receipts of deer
In Bangor amounted to CO. This num-
Der is near the record made Oct. IL, 1896
of 81 deer and five moose.
An authoritative announcement was
made in New York, Saturday, to the
effect that DR.. Thomas W. Evans, the
famous American dentist Of Paris, whose