Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-09-26
STATE HOUSE.
Annual Sale of Wild Lands
Takes Place At Capitol.
Lands Of Delinquent Taxpayers Dis
posed Of BY State Treasurer.
Amount Sold Reaches 10000 Acres. Other
State House Gossip.

Inc annual Wlid land sale took p.2c +
at the office of the State treasurer
Tuesday. the lands on which taxes for
1899 and previous were unpaid, bein :
rut up at auction. There We're a num-
ber of Boston men at the sale and the
treasurer disposed of 10000 acres aC-
cording to the papers of the wild lanl
clerk, Melvin W. Wiswell.
The advertised sale caused many
owners to pay their back taxes and the
record is better than during past
years. especially in Somerset county.
.Aroostook. naturally on account of the
vast area of wild lands, had the great
er amount of land to offer the buyers,
Tue sday. it being chiefly that of set
tiers and in toNr ships where they are
now organized.
This sale comes off every Septembsr
and is a great factor in bringing de-
linquent taxpayers to the mark. For
each year the taxes remain unpaid %
per cent. interest is charged. The
owners have one year in which to re-
deem the lands which have been soil
being obliged to pay the cost and -
per cent. interest from the time of II e
sale ali such redemptions being
The sale with the lands to be dis
posed of have been advertised thor
oughly. and as the owners have been
| notified the fact that some of them no
longer own the land-is due either TO
| their negligence or misfortune.
Some of the lands We're valuable an
a great deal of interest was manifest
ed in the sale.
l.. 4. Carleton. chairman Of the fish
| and game commission. returned, yes
! rerday. from Il trip on the West
| Branch waters of the Penobscot. While
there he visited Hon. j. Manchester
Haynes at his new camp on the shore
OF Lake Chesuncook.t who is enjoying
| life as only the tr,ic-sffeftsman can II
the depths of the Maine woods.
| [. a. Game of West kennebunk.
| past grand chief templar and the pres
cnt electoral superintendent of the
| Maine Good TempIars, is a private pa :
! ticnt at Cottage hospital Portsmouth.
An operation for appendicitis was to
have been performed. yesterday, by
| Surgeon T. W. Luce. At the last seS-
| sion of the Legislature. Mr. Caine
came before the committee on tenn
perance. opposing the bill to re-submlt
| the prohibitory law to the people. The
wordy tits at that hearing between
| Mr. Caine and Representative ;. j.
Kelley of Lewiston. will long be re-
! membered.
| Friends of Secretary +. Walker Nc
! Keen Of the board of agriculture. are
extending theirsympa thy onaccount OF
| the death of his baby boy which oc-
Cured Monday night. the cause being
pneumonia. The child was about IL
| wears Of age.
| Col. ~ s. Purinton. private secretary
to Gov. Hill. and state Librarian l.. u.
Carver were at the Readheid lalr'
yesterday.
D. W. Emery Of the treasurer's Office
| is enjoying a few days rest.
The Kineo Moosehead Lake. CORE
spondent of the Bangor Commercial
writes the following interesting account
Of the capture of big salmon:
The fall fly fishermen are making the
| most Of the closing days of the fishing
season and with good results. "A. >
Jerome of Hartford, CT. stands at the
head of the list with five and quar-.
ter salmon to his credit. secured from
Table Rock at North Bay
The fight was without doubt the
nrettiest ever contested on the lake. as
half dozen witnesses testify. The
big fish jumped for the hand fly
missed it and was hooked foul by tins
last hy in the tough flesh just back OF
the throat. The hold did not interfere
with his fighting qualities in any way
and it was necessary in consequence
for the fisherman TO tire MN out pA
main force of strength.
Time and again the big fish took ou
su the line on the reel save few fee'
before he could be turned and it is es
t;mated that he left the water fully Y
times during the progress of the fight
going six or seven feet into the afr II
! long. graceful. curving leaps. At thu
end of an hour and rs minutes thu
fish was dipped by an onlooker Wit
!. came to the aid of the fisherman in ;
canoe.
Mr. Jeromes strength was we'll nigi
, gone and his thumb was blistered frcn
. continually using it as a drag on tn
/ reel. The fish was one of the handsom
est in build and color seen here th1
season.
} Other fishermen have been havin:
! Good luck A. c. Palmer of New York
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