Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-11-27

j. S. Stevens left Bangor Friday. for
the field of his numbering operations on
the Upper st. John. Mr.. Stevens has in
all a crew of 100 men and "a horses in
three different camps. and expects to cut
100000 feet of spruce. He estimates that
there will be about one-third less lumber
cut this season on the Upper ST. John.
A short time ago a Bangor man who
was in northern Maine started off on
horseback for a fishing trip. He soon
came to caribou. which did not run
when it saw him. He rode up to it and
it did not appear alarmed. He dismount-
ed and approached it and still it did not
run. With q blow of his knife he dis
patched the animal. Later he learned of
circumstances which would seem to eX-
plain the very unusual tameness of the
caribou 1t seems that a caribou had
been caught and kept alive AT Il camp in
that vicinity and had become very tame
FINALLY 1t had wandered off and it is sup
posed that this was the same caribou as
the one killed. When the Bangor man
heard the story he was sorry for what he
had done.
For the past few weeks the hunters
about Tuck pond have seen the tracks of
an immense bear in the neighborhood of
the Hon. Frank Jones' hunting camp.
One day last week Ben Havey shot at
and wounded deer in that vicinity. and
while following his tracks discovered
bruins headquarters, a cave in a ledge
collected party of hunters and they set
out to beard the bear in his den. A few
well directed shots stirred up the savage
animal and he rushed out to punish the
intruders. but they were too many for
him and his career ended suddenly and
fatally. 1t took six men to carry the
huge carcass into camp and the older
hunters declared he was the largest bear
seen in that section.
1t is claimed by some pretty good
judges that the better class of Aroostook
farmers are gradually building up rath-
er than depicting their herds of neat
stock. realizing the necessity of a more
diversified system of farm than has
been pursued heretofore. The cattle and
sheep that are being picked up it is
claimed are purchased of those whom
the pressure of old bills. in which phos-
phate figures largely, force to sell. With
the experience they have had in the past
and knowledge of what western compe-
tition means, even in a year of general
potato shortage. it ought to lead our far
merS to beware of too much reliance on
one crop produced by costly artificial ma
nures.-PresQue Isle Star-Herald
Says Speaker Reed in the Illustrated
American: Upon our own coasts and
all over the broad prairies is history
more wonderful than the gropings OF
the Israelites for the Promised Land
Roman empire by the great northern
hordes. Our shores first attracted men
by vague hope of gold, but most of
all by the longing of the English mind
for land of it's own. To be a tenant on
any tenure was not enough. The fee
simple of broad acres was the summit
of desire. II will be tenant to never a
man in New England" said a sturdy
first settler who was offered the land
he had titled if he would only acknowl-
edge himself an occupier and not an
owner. And SO in the self-reliant
fashion we have never lost, he aban-
doned the results of his toll and sought
elsewhere the land of which he meant
to be sovereign. From the seacoast WI,
have year by year spread further to
the west and soon will completely
bridge over the sparsely settled space