The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-02-11
SOMERSET PICK-UPS.

/ The farm buildings of lothian Will
! liams in what is known as Arson valley,
were destroyed by fire Thursday, and
the farming implen ents, hay, grain and
most of the furniture was lost. Loss,
5000; no insurance.
A contract was signed and delivered
Friday, between the Fairfield Textile
Mill Co. of Fairfield, and Thomas
Sampson of Winslow, for lease of the
mill to Sampson for a term of six years.
/ Machinery will be put in at once and tho
mill will be running in few weeks,
with 30 persons employed.
/ 1t does not happen very often that a
/ man is willing to take cold drive Of
/ twenty-five or thirty miles and work all
I day for nothing and yet that is what
seven men did, Tuesday, and they are
we'll satisfied with the job too Messrs.
/ H. Flood, q. Flood, Watson, Perkins,
/ Plummer, Rowell and Gilman started at
about o'clock on Tuesday morning
and drove to Smithtield to give a days
work on the new church which is being
erected there mainly through the efforts
of Evangelist John Hatch of Fairfield.
The crew got back home about o'clock
in the evening, tired, cold and hungry,
| but perfectedly content.
Moses Bunker, a well-known and
highly respected citizen of Mercer,
died Thursday, in his oath year of a
complication of diseases. lie retained
the full possession of his faculties,
being able to be up and about until the
last. He was born in Vienna, Me-, in
1e04, his father being Elijah Bunker of
Barnstead, n. H., of a family promi-
nently identified with the colonial and
revolutionary wars of this country.
His wife, whose maiden name was
Polly Williams, died six years ago. OF
their children, three survive, John
Bunker of Mercer, Marcellus and Mrs.
Abbie w. Gray of Arson. Mr.. Bunker
was the last survivor of family of /.
County Attorney c. O. Small believes
he has murder trial on his hands in
the mysterious death of Herbert Burn
ham, Moosehead guide. AS a matter
of fact the facts in the case were re-
ported to County Attorney B. S. Collins
of the last term, but there did not seem
to be evidence sufficient to warrant an
Indictment. Now County Attorney
Small feels that there is sufficient
ground for complaint and the grand
Jury of the March term of the Somerset
supreme court will be asked to indict
the man who went out into the lake
with Burnham, and who returned with
the story of assault by moose when
they were in a canoe and that Durham
was drowned. Burnham was good
swimmer, and even blow from the
antlers of a moose could only stun him
and then he would not sink to the bot
tom of the lake. There was more than
one bruise on Burnham's head when his
body was recovered from the bottom of
the lake, and it was impossible for the
moose to have inflicted the injury done
to the head of the deceased. William
Peters and John Stetson are the ones
who are pushing the matter and who
have laid the matter before County
Attorney Small. 1t is alleged that
there was jealousy between the man
and Burnham, as the wife of the former
was said to be intimate with the latter
at the camp of Carl Bloodgood, and
there is evidence beyond doubt that
Burnham was intoxicated when he
went out into the lake with the sus-
pected party.