Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-19

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standing offer of $l09 for him.
John fitzpatrick, the famous bear
hunter Of Clifton. says that he is earn
ing lS3 4 day killing wildcats fer the
stat bounty.
sept. Simeon ELLIS of the i;ridcton
Leather Works and his friend NJ 4.
Waite Of Canton. in the past few days
haMe killed rs eoons.
Gray squirrels are thick tnis year.
andathe hunter who canilat bring in a
baggfull in an afternoon is considered
only half a sportsman.
a well known Bath gunner who has
shot more than 80 wuodeoek shs sea
son, says that in all his tramping his
dogs has rspt, discovered a single
partridge.
The smokers at Cutler Will soon haze
30.60o boxes Of first class herring ready
for the market. Conditions have been
unusually. favora BILE for smoking and
the fish are fat. asa
4 ground shark measuring six AMI
ore-haF feet was caught in a net near
Sherman's Point, Camden, recently py
Mel Herrick. 1t was entangled IN the
net and was drowned when found.
The fish and game association at
Weld is doins good work This year
they turned out 100000 young trout;
next year they propose 10 give Lake
Webb 10000 trout and loo,ooo salmon.
Mr.. +. II. Freese Of Deering Center.
has lust received four ar five thousand
small fry trout from the State fish
commissioners. and has placed them in
the brooks and streams entering Duck
pond.
a. II. Carlisle. one of the employees a.
the Green Lake fish hatchery. has been
sent TO the State hatchery at En-
field to make a collection of eggs for
the government hatchery at Green
lake. Mr. Carlisle Will be gone about
four weeks.
The first golden eagle that has been
seen IN Bangor or vicinity for Gears.
was shot recently at Floods pond. by
Abraham Warren As these birds are
usually found in the Rocky mountains.
this enc has naturally attracted Il good
deal of attention.
d. Merrill of BrownNille. has lieef
losing sheep and. lambs, latsiN-erl
IDENTITY the work of bears. Hal Wilder
and Robert Mason So! q trap and
caught the supposed thief one Gay LAST
week 1T was about as large as q good
sized Newfoundland dog and was good
eating.
Partrjdges We're never SO scare as
they are this season. writes a Caribou
correspondent. THE cold and wei
spring is doubtless responsible for this
condition of affairs. One farmer re-
ports having found, early in the sea-
sen. Is young cartridges dead around
the nest wherein they We're Matched.
When Frank Rogers of Orrngton.
went to visit trap he had set a few
days ago for most any king of game
that walked into it, he found a large
wild cat as a victim. 1t was an ugly
brlte and had dragged the trap some
distance into the woods and showed
considerable fight when Mr.. Rogers
went near him. He did not have his
gun with him and he was obliged 10
despatch the animal with a large club.
Lyman Thurlow of Hanover. recently
saw large buck deer under an apple
tree eating, apples, near the school
house in the upper part of the town.
He had Il gauge shotgun. loaded
with buck shot. He fired at the deer
and put one buck shot through his
heart. The deer dressed $50 pounds.
He had fine set of antlers. which Mr.
Thurlow sold for s. in Rumford Falls
He got about $lS for his charge Of buck
shot.
George Schoppe of Spragues Falls.
made a pretty shot the other day.
While working around his team. about
200 yards from the river. he saw an
object in the water and went for his
rifle. sighting it to $50 yards. and fired,
shooting what proved to be Il heron.
The bird measured five feet long. the
wings were six feet when stretche i
out. The bullet hit the bird through
the joint Of the wings. George Eaton
is stufIiing the bird which will made a
handsome stand.
\ gentleman who was stopping at
the Upper Dam House al the foot ot
Observation-Disclosures lake, Rangeley
during the latter part of September.
happened to look under the pen stock
below the dam. and there he saw what
was To a true fisherman and an adj
mirer of the big square tails. horrible
sight. There were 80 big trout, dead
from the effect of being penned up in a
place that nobody ever knew was
there. a big pile of bones was found
there. indicating that the destruction
had been going on for years.
At the Portland wharVes where the
fishing sniacks lie quite a business is
done in fishes livers. They are tried
ont for Oil. says the Portland Express,
and all prices are paid. according t.
the market and the kind Of livei
offered. one on-looker said 'Tnero
goes three kinds of livefs to be made
into 'eodliver oil and not one of them
ever saw the inside. Of a Goldfish.
There is more truth than poetry in this
observation and it is really a difficult
matter to get absolutely pure cud-|iye,
oil unless You get some fisherman
whom you can depend upon and have
him try the lvers from he Goldfish
only. IF you are willing to pay for this
you get pure oil.
One of the very progressive and success
ful farmers of this place is j. y. Phnney
Although II resident of this village. hi
farm is located mile out and is within
the limits of Palmyra. The place wa