New-York tribune., 1900-11-04
4 GREAT MAINE MOOSE.
SAID TO BE FIFTEEN HANDS HIGH AND
TO WEIGH TWENTY-FIVE HUN
DRED POUNDS.
Bangor CORRESPONDENTS of The Boston Globe.

Bangor correspondence of The Boston Globe.
The king Of all Maine moose WHO has been feared red
Teen seen again this time at sherman, where he
came very near killing prominent lumbeTman OF
fact that the man succeeded ia climbing A tree
AFTER having failed two or three times on acc2nh{ 9
OF the branches breaking down and refusing 10 H"lu
The moose is we'll known to the big game hunters
who come 10 this State every year from Boston
and New-YorS. lie Is gray monster, and en- ac-
many hunters and guides the spectre moose. An
who have seen the brute say that he weighs fully
He was first seen IL 1881 BY an oldtown guide in
The guide declared at that time that the animal
stood fifteen feet hgh and had antlers @ measuring meas Ing
rearly every year since that time the animal has
but up last tall not one Of them ever succeeded
in getting shot at him ,,,,. r,.,, -,
t % w %no mas at K0acn HyeG %
got near enough to the animal to count the POINTS
on one OF the antlers. and found that there were
om IN or M fk sae than had ever been
Mr.. Brown claimed that he fred I'VE times al
when he got done firing the moose walked away
was dfteen feet high, weighed fully twenty Ave
hundred pounds had antlers spreading twelve feet
ana ma bell eighteen inches long .,,. bo.
!, Ihis monster moose Is a great traveller He has
been seen at Lobster Lake at Roach River and at
week he showed up Sherman, town fully one
by the oIdtown guide
George Kneeland, of Sherman, is the last man to
family, and he tells the following story OF the
citing experience which he had with him.
borrowed bicycle and started at p. m, over the
wood woods road & had gone gone but a. little way when
whoop. and they started on the run down the road
cred the distance OF eight miles TO Macwahoc in
quick time
Il did my business there and started on the re-
turn home; When reached the place where saw
the foxes 1 slowed down a bit. and looked around
Tag 10 long piece Of rising ground / dismounted
and walked. had got to the top and was just
horse in the road some distance before me. /
waited q moment to see what he was going to do,
Suddenly he lowered his head and came straight
which he made sounded like locomotive exhaust
ing steam ! dropped the bicycle and hustled for a
climb / tried another and limb broke, and /
landed on my back. The third one ! succeeded in
climbing. and soon reached place Of safety.
THE moose had lost no time in getting to where
think ha t' they @ had spread Of a least eleven feet
all sfopped
did o G he e eesSse of the ns8 Wind she wss
toward me. and thus carried the scent behind. /
tree and When Hn did mounted the bicycle and the
sH hg ghn nq If Sad
IN up ana s killed w % In wg te
i, the same big fellow which many hunters have
! E A Greenleaf, Of this city. says that, he saw
the monster one time in the Sourdnahunk region
and that the print OF his foot in the muck was
surely eight or ten inches wide.
w L. Miller, Harry A Chapman and Frank D.
also think that this is the moose which they
have been trying TO bring down at Sourdnahunk for
several years. Two years ago Mr.. Miller and Mr..
Jenkins followed on the trail OF the giant for four
days. and then obliged to put back on ac-
count of losing their supplies and tenting outfit by
fire
The biggest moose ever killed in Maine SO far as
s G Gt ee al aff this Sf a ,srs
moose that has had more hunters after him.
Some OF the French woodsmen who are sur
sttious declare that this moose s a devfsn n
monster. else he would be of the right color black
and would have been killed long ago
From all descriptions this moose is like those
found in British Columbia and some think that he
may have wa ndered into Maine from some dista nj
point over the border. Hunters are wondering II
they will zee him again this fall. -
He has arrived at Sherman and n is hut a
little distance from there to the New -Brunswic<
forests. and they fear that he may leave Maine