Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-10-26


not feared but that the auction sales will
be better attended and that the great
number of townships of the State EN-
bracing as they do hundreds Of thousands
Of acres of land in all parts of the un
settled portions Of Maine. This fact If
the doubt of the titles has kept many
from purchasing who otherwise would
and the new law VIII doubtless be the
mode Of removing all the land from the
list Of the State treasurer's unpaid tax
list.
The season for the registration of
guides for 1899 is closed and the number
who have been registered exceeds any
thing that has yet been on record in the
few years of guide registration The
number will reach very nearly 1860 and
! tn +! Dro-inate estimate that
..ti.~ ~ Carleton makes Of them. With
these there ale 49, camp owners who have
taken out a license for the running of a
sporting camp. Twenty non resident
guides have been registered, while 81
trappers and hunters have taken out Ii !.
censes for the pursuance of their bust
ness in the Maine woods the coming sea
son.
W III biItSt camp Wv iItiS anu all lItSc
guides circulating advertising matter in
the United States and with all the other
advertising we are getting" remarks Mr.
| Carleton, is it any wonder that Maine
is well ratronzed and is pronounced
| the greatest available hunting ground in
| the State?"
| And speaking of this greatest hunt
| ing ground. the introduction of the GaZ .
| ctteer that Mr. Carleton is getting out Is
| one of the most interesting things that
| has been seen in a long time. 1t tells
| many things about the State of Maine
| that few of the inhabitants know. He
| gives general introduction to the State
| at the START and then takes it up by
| counties. He recites the number Of
| square miles and the comparisons of the
land and water. together with the for
! cstS. There is not a ferocious animal. a
| poisonous reptile or Il venomous insect
| within its borders he says, and any man
can fearlessiy lay under his blanket over
night without fear OF being harmed by
any" He evidently forgot the mosquito.
In his review of the counties he tells
of every body of water in which fish can
be caught as well as the law tnat covers
every particular body of water. lie will
have gained a great knowledge Of the
State when he has finished his researches
into the State history.
| The returns for the express agents and
others who have been selling the fish
shipping licenses throughout the summe:
are being received. They do not amount
to any great sum of money as the prac
tice of shipping fish was not followed u
any great extent. In some cases the fish
crmen awaited themselves to send home
a few fish and paid for transportation
license. but in the greater number they
were not shipped in this manner.
The law breakers in the Northern Maine
woods are in Il state Of panic. They dc
| not know where the next blow will fall.
Esnqcially is this true Of the section re
Gently brought to the front by the arrest
of the Brooklyn restauranter who had in
| his possession a moose killed IN close
| time. The law breakers in that vicinity
are panicky and they would not be the
least surprised to have a warden tell
them Of every deed they have done in the
past ten years that has been in violation
Of the Maine laws.
state Treasurer F. NJ Simpson is plan
! ming upon a little outing in the Maine
woods, hoping to bring home two deer L.
a very few days though he will not shoot
the first ones. until ne has selected the
sort he wants. The confining of the
Il sportsmen to only two animals makes
such sportsmen as MIR Simpson careful
of the kind they shoot and they VIII le
dozens of the animals pass unnoticed un
| fill the large ones appear.
Miss Gertrude Kelley of Pittston, is a
work in the fish and game department fol-
I a few days.
9 There has Just been issued from tn
press of the Kennebec Journal, Augusta
, | Maine. neatly printed and bound vol
. ume Of As pages. with the title, earle
| toms Digest of the Fish and Game Law
of Maine" compiled by Chairman Car
Teton of the fish and game commission.
The edition of the laws ordered printed
| by the LEGISLATURE is entirely exhausted
and the call for copies of these laws i
so great Mr.. Carleton has written thi
book which contains all the laws an
rules and regulations Of the commission
| ers to date with explanations as
!. what the law is. what it means. with
!, | quotation of all of the decisions of tn
!. courts relating to fish and game, an
$ many forms for making complaints
! forms for petitions. &c
$ Il is sold at a price to barely cover TN
{ cost. l2c in paper and zoe. in teXibl
+. cloth. and will be sent on receipt of price