The Republican journal., 1897-05-13
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| ton of the fish were placed in Phillips
lake, but Holbrook's pond got a liberal
share. Residents of East Holden and
Dedham gave willing assistance in the
distribution of the fish. These trout
were Matched at the United States station
at Craigs brook, East Orland, and are
yearling fish, averaging upward of three
inches in length, some being six
| inches. They attain large size. Col.
A. c. Hamlin of Bangor has seen them
81 inches long in their native waters. The
eggs at the Caribou fish hatchery are
nearly all Matched out. There were 25O,-
600 trout, $50, 900 Pennbscot river salmon
and so, 600 land locked salmon eggs. The
young fish will be transferred to the fish
feeding station about the first of June.....
Walter Hines of Portland caught four
pound trout in Lake Maranacook, April
2Sth. w. G. Bailey and Others reported
good catches. AT Brand Pond April
Goth. Samuel A. Maxfield of Bangor aud
a friend caught four salmon and fine lot
of trout. The king of them all was a sal
mon weighing Is IA pounds. The fish
was 80 - inches long and II inches in
girth, and fought for an hour and half
before Mr.. Maxtield succeed, in bringing
him to gait. The other three salmon
weighed 6, 6 4 and 5 pounds, very
good size for these fish. The big fish was
the largest and-locked salmon ever taken
in Maine save one, the trophy recently
secured at Sebago lake by a Portland man.
$50. Trout fishing in lake Maranacook is
all the rage with people in Winthrop just
now, and nearly every one who has tried
his luck has been rewarded by landing at
least one rousing trout to say nothing of
the bass and pickerel which are brought in.
..... Many parties of Massachusetts and
New York sportsmen passed through
Bangor, May LIST, on their way to their
favorite streams. The old fishermen of
that section are predicting good season.
The open season for on-residents is now
on. $50. The Portland sch. Lizzie Maud
arrived at New York May LIST with $50
barrels of mackerel, which was almost
twice as many fish as any other vessel in
the southern mackerel fleet brought in.
There were four other arrivals as follows:
Schooner Marguerite Hastings, Capt.
Harty, with so barrels; the Agnes E.
Downes, Capt. Chris Carrigan, with 100
barrels, and the schooner Hustler, Capt.
Charles keene, with so barrels. These
mackerel catchers report having met with
unusually good luck for this time of year.
They say that the fish seem to be more
plentiful than ever this season and Capt.
Squirting predicts fine mackerel season.
In BRIEF. Advices from London state
that the United Kingdom Alliance of
Great Britain will give reception to Mrs.
L. NJ. n. Stevens of Portland, Me-, vice
president at-large of the National W. c.
I. u, in London, on June 9th. Sir Will
fred Lawson, Mr., James H. Raper and
leading members of Parliament and friends
of the temperance movement will parti-
cipate in the welcome to Mrs. Stevens. ....
Howard c. Hackett, sporting editor of
the New York World, died suddenly
April 30th. Hackett was 80 years of
age and one of the best known newspaper
men in the United States .. Col. John
Hay, the newly appointed United States
ambassador to the court of st. James,
visited the Marquis of Salisbury April
30th......A big find of gold has just
oeen made at Gays river road, near Mil
ford, n. S. The lead is one hundred feet
wide and the mineral in which the gold is
intermixed assays S24 per tons. 1t is the
richest strike on record in the province....
Considerable snow fell at Cincinnati and
throughout southern Ohio May I'd. At
several points the boys We're reported as
enjoying the unusual sport of playing
snow ball in May