The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-01
DIANA OF THE NORTH WOODS.
A Young Woman who Surprises
Adirondack Guides.
From the New York Sun.

There is a young woman in the Adiron-
dacks who has been astonishing the
woodsmen. From Morehousevilie TO Moose
river her deeds are talked about at camp
fires and postoffice gatherings. If she was
pretty girl, she might not be so remark
able. But she isn't. She has freckles. her
hair is scraggly and not too thick, and
she's on The so so much that by fall her
shape is rather angular than otherwise.
She is 10 years old, and has a 2O-gauge
shotgun and SS.55-caliber rifle She is a
deer hunter by preference, though she is
death to rabbits and partridges as soon
as the season comes. Fishing she finds too
tame, and her angling trips are made with
a rife as well as a rod. Not for a farm
would game protector interfere with
her
1t is now nearly two years since she first
went hunting and camping alone. and
since that time she has made many trips
INTO the woods without a companion of
any sort Her mother is very indulgent
She Is kept in doors so much during the
winter at boarding school, her mother
says, that she really needs the freedom
and the relief afforded by the woods. and
she gets the freedom. Her first trim into
the woods alone was exceedingly success
tul. 1t was in October, 1896, one Wednes
day afternoon, that she asked her mother
TO let her go hunting TO the lake at thA
mead OF Mill creek, near Noblesborougb. ON
the West Canada creek. Her
nother consented, and she start
ed with a little fish basket as a
pack filled with provisions and her rife,
Ihat night at the hotel somebody asked
Where she was, and her mother explained
that she was hunting up at Mil Creek
Lake lake. Two guides overheard this bit of
information, and they said such things
TO the mother that she Law awake all thai
nlSht worrying The next morning John
La Bree, old Hank Antony, and Oliver
jackson, all noted guides went hunting
for the girl AS they came out of The
woods by the lakeside they saw smoke
at the little lean-to camp, and getting
around to it, they found the girl frying
vension tenderlon steak. The girl had
Killed 2-year-old buck the night before
dressed 1t herself, and was about TO gel
ready for the trip home when the men
arrived. The men carried the deer out
and whooped the girls reputation up all
the way down the valley to Prospect.
The girl had no further opportunity
that year to distinguish herself but the
next year she had scarcely got out of the
stage on arriving at Noblesborough when
she set the northern part of Herkimer
county talking about her. The creek was
pretty high after a heavy rainstorm that
lasted from June 80 to July 3, and then
cleared up, leaving the creek to drain
the spruce and hemlock slashings as best
it could. The brooks were too high to be
jumped or waded. and the roads were
muddy and hard to travel. On the night
of July 8 the girl cleaned her rife. the
east and west giving promise of a fine day
for the Fourth. She cleaned it well and
it shone inside and out
Immediately after breakfast she went
into the woods with a light luncheon, the
rifle, and a little pocket compass. She
had to follow the RIGGS as all the swamps
were overlooking. That course took her
northeast and to the north of Mill Creek
Lake. On the Balsam Knob Swamp trail
just over the Knob, she found the ground
all torn up by some animal. There she
sat down to see what would happen
She was eating her jerked venison and
bread when a bear came out of the bushes
thirty rods down the trail and ambled
toward her. 1t was big black and SHY
ery-looking creature. She felt of her rifle
and was a good deal scared. The bear
was only about seven or eight rods off
when she decided something must be
done. She raised her rifle, and when the
ivory sights conferred she pulled the trlg-
ser whereuDon the bear turned and ran
away at fun speed The girl had seen
too much of her front sight and had miss
ed.
OQe went over " lIlt NAIL creek Lake
camp stayed there all night without any
thing to eat, and went back to the ridge
the next day, hoping for another chance
at the bear. Luck was with her, and she
got a seventy-pound cub, which her father
had mounted Her father came all the
way from New York to see the bear.
That fail she went sdll-huntng with
three men over to Moose river. The party
was gone a week and when 1t came back
the girl was the only one who had seen
a deer She killed a small doe up In the
burning one day while resting after a
hard tramp.
She went alone to Mill Greek Lake once
after that aud to Locks Lake outlet once
The Locks lake trip involved an adven-
ture new 10 her. There were three men
from Utica there at the time. They were
using a camping trip as an excuse for
spree. The girl went up to the vacant
camp across the creek, threw off her pack
and began to build a fire. The three men
came over to her camp and began 10 make
tests. The girl grabbed her rife and sent
a bullet against the stone one Of the men
was sitting on so that the lead spattered
all around. The phen took to the woods
on the run and shke sat in their camp all
night with their rihes handy and her own
Al her hands. ThSre was good pile of