The evening times., 1898-09-07
DEER IN PLENTY.
Both Deer and Moose Time in the
MA ne Villages

A letter from Bangor 10 the Ne'- York
Sun SAYS reports from all the northern
and eastern counties of Maine show that
deer and moose are rather more plentiful
than last year, while caribou seem to
have disappeared altogether. Ii is un-
usual 10 see many deer close TO settle
ments at this season, but from all along
the line of the railroad east and north of
Bangor come reports of deer and even
moose being encountered in the highways,
on the railroad track. and in some cases
in the streets of villages. In O!dtOwn,
which is only twelve miles from Bangor
a young woman who was out photo
graphing the scenery the other day got
three good pictures of a-big moose which
had swum Sunkhaze stream and was leis
urely climbing up the bank. This moose
had no antlers, but suspended to its neck
by a strap was a cowbell tnat jangied
mournfully a little further up the stream
the same young woman got d snapsho,
at a cow moose, evidently the mate Of the
bull
Henry Jewell, of Hartford. Conn, who
|. has been camping a; MusquacGox Lake.
reports that he saw while there about 800
twenty-five deer and two moose in one
day last week. and al Seeboomook Fails,
| where they do some farming for the Ium-
Der camps deer are so common that they
constitute a decided nuisance, eating up
the crops faster than they grow. The
deer are now wearing their midsummer
red coats. and they show a tamenesS and
fearlessness in contrast with their tim.di-
| ty later in the season
up Skowhegan way they report as a
sign of unusual drought that woodchucks
| are taking to the water. Last Sunday. at
Hayden Lake, woodchuck was captured
| while just about to plunge overheard
and on the same day party out fishing
saw another woodchuck swimming across
| the lake. The animal gave signs of eX-
haustion, and when an oar was put out
| it quickly crawled into the boat. The
| man who tells this says that he has seen
| a red squirrel swim from the mouth of
| Moose River to Kineo Mountain-across
one of the widest parts of Moosehead
| I-ake-but that he never before saw a
| woodchuck in the water.
"A strange sort of eagle is to be sent
! to the First Maine Regiment at Chicka-
| manga. The eagle. young one, was cap
| tured last week by Frenchman, who
| lives 20 miles north of Caribou. and was
purchased for s. by Game Commissioner
u H.
| up on the parade of the artillery at Au-
| gusta, and is to be sent TO the First
| Maine in day or two. 1t has jet black
| head something heretofore unheard of
| in these parts. and the naturalists are
| mystified over it.
Josiah H Williams, of Durham. has
| added to his numerous collection OF pets
| two fuli-grown coons and a couple of big
! owls The coons live happily together In
| a cage. while the owls have comfortable
| home in a hogshead covered with wire
| netting One of the owls is so tame that
| it will eat from the hand. while the otn-
er. which seems to have suffered a per-
manent injury from stray shot, walks In
| circles, in a dazed manner. and then
tumbling over its back, kicks and scratch
| es viciously at whoever tries to right IT.
"a fishing party just returned from
"a fishing party just returned TO Ban
gor from Loon Lake reports having made
a strange and welcome discovery there
a deep cavern near the shore. at the bot
tom of which is a bed of clear ice 20 feet
thick. They had plenty of cold lemonade
while there, as well as a refrigerator Tor
their food.