Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-02

more Oh THESE anl0laiS on Il limited ter
ritory than can be found here, the
number of deer that roam the Maine
woods exceeds the total deed popula-
ton of the British Isles by more than
100 per cent. More than 10000 deer, 800
moose, 500 caribou, 600 bears and nearly
1000 wildcats were slain by legal meth
DDS in Maine last year. To procure this
game and to fish the unrivalled waters
of this section, thousands of sportsmen
visited the State, passing from week
to two months in the woods, and leav-
ing behind more than 100000 to pay
for railroad fares, hotel bills, camp
supplies, guide hire and other needful
expenses. Nearly 500 hotels and sport
ing camps have been erected for the
purpose of affording entertainment to
the visiting hunters, and around these
starting points are 1900 skilled and IL
censed guides, who make their living
by conducting sportsmen through the
woods. The annual revenue that is
brought into Maine by means of its
hunting and fishing privileges exceeds
the total receipts of the Maine summer
resorts by more than a million dollars.
These cash earnings are gained from
an investment in camps and hotels that
have not cost one years interest on the
money that was required to construct
the summer hotels and cottages that
have been built in Maine.
A Steuben woman who has been
greatly troubled with mice, recently set
trap in her pantry in order to thin
out the rodents. but, it seems that in
stead of catching the mice. the mice
have caught the trap and carried it off
to parts unknown. At any rate the
trap has suddenly disappeared, and the
woman has searched the house from
cellar to garnet, but has thus far failed
to find it. This is the second trap she
has lost lately The case is as much of
a mystery as the Bucksport murder
case.
Gardiner Reporter-Journal: Mrs.
Rose Carson White will bid good bye to
Kennebec county, which in the few
years past she has cost an expenditure
of thousands of dollars, next Monday
or Tuesday, for her four years vaca-
ton at Thomaston. 1t is hoped that
Rose will be wiser if not better when
are inmates of the Augusta Jail for a
protracted term. But Carson, Sr., is
keeping the Togus ranch moving
during the enforced absence of the
wimmin folks.
The proposed construction of the
walk to Bald Porcupine island on top
of the breakwater will bring within
easy walking distance the celebrated
cave discovered on Bald Porcupine
island a few years ago and it is likely
that Bar Harbor society will add cave
stunning to it's already long list of
ennui-relieving amusements next sum-
mer.
There is no doubt about the pop
ularity of the new steamer Lincoln
Last winter, it will be remembered
parties tried hard to hire her for the
Boston, Rockland and Machias route.
Now she is to go South and do duty
between Miami and Havana. Miami is
the southern terminus of the Florida
East Coast Railroad the most direct
route to Havana. Travellers by this
| route have the shortest sea voyage.
May the Lincoln continue to advertise
Bath built vessels as successfully as
| she evidently has in the North.
| They have revived a Castine story
| about u good old lady of that town
who sold some sausage to the British
| invaders in 1872, and incidentally sold
| the British as well as the sausage. A
British admiral came up the bay with
his ships and lay in the harbor off
| Castine. This woman learned that the
| fleet was short of provisions, and she
| saw chance to get few dollars. and
also to show the British what the
Yankees thought of them. She and
her daughters made up 400 pounds of
| sausage of turnip, red flannel and sage;
| and one day she put them in boat and
padded to the side of the British flag
ship. She was hailed at distance and
| asked what she wanted. She informed
them of the nice fat sausage she had
in the boat and they invited her on
board. She sold the whole lot at a
good price and after pocketing the cash
started for shore in her boat. The
hungry British soon sampled the sau-
sage and found out how they had been
deceived before she was out of sight
The guns were aimed at her. but the
| admiral said that they should not fire
at SO brave and daring a woman. Her
! posterity still live in that section.