Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-15
STATE HOUSE.
Illegal Game Slaughter Re.
ported from the Woods.
Game Warden FrankJ. Durgin Writes
Letter About Poaching.
Maine School for the Deaf BEGINS Term
for the Year.
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NJ Chairman Carleton of the fish and
sSame commission has received letter
from Game Warden Frank J. Duryin.
| who, in company with Game Warden
III. O. Templeton, has been on trim
along the st. John river in search of
poachers. This letter, Mr.. Carleton
feels, proves as clearly as possible the
necessity of a license law for hunters.
in order that the State NAV have
money to pay for the warden service
that is very evidently needed in that
section of the State. Mr.. Durgin says:
The Forks, Me-, Sept. u, 1902.
L. T. Carleton, Augusta, Me.
Dear Sir:-I got home, Yesterday.
from my St. John trip. We had a
pretty hard trip, take it all around. The
water was so low we had to carry and
drag our canoe a good deal. We didn't
see very much signs of poaching on the
trip until we struck the Big Black
river, and that was the worst I ever
saw. The first camping ground we
found was at the foot of the dead
water, or seven miles up the Big
Black from the st. John river There
We're, l think, two sports and four
guides, if we can call them by that
name. There was a notice nailed to a
tree, which 1 will mail you, today, and
under the notice we found part of a
moses nose, two of his legs and one
of his ears. We also found parts of
deer and poles where they dried the
hides We could find no names nor
anything of the kind. On one cover of
a box was Quebec" We followed up
the river to the portage where they
left their boats, and where the team
met them we found another leg of
moose.
We We're about two days late We
would have followed them into Canada
but We We're out of supplies or nearly
out. The party 1 think camped for
week or more and then hauled into
Canada. 1t is not great distant from
the head of the dead water to Canada,
and by the looks of the road it has
been used a good deal for the same
purpose.
At the Seven Islands a man has a
small CALI moose alive. 1t is very poor
and he said he caught it at his gate,
but some. of his neighbors said he
caught it with his dogs. An Indian
also caught calf moose and took it to
Canada, but they told us he had not
disposed of it yet.
There is a bad set of people in that
section of the State, l think. We
found one dead deer at the Hunter
farm, and the fellow who said he shot
it is going to meet Templeton and set
tie. That was the best we could do,
as we couldn't take him along with US.
NNa fnI1nl dead in Pound
pond, killed in June l should think ne
was taken off Round pond on the
Allagash river Also one dead moose
at Seeboomook falls, and one dead
denr in Moosehorn dead water. We
only saw seven live moose and 241
deer on the whole trip. We saw near
ly all Of them on the Allagash and
lakes. We saw the most game where
the most spots and guides are. Tenn
pleton and | came down the river from
Moosehead with canoe. We got
swamped and lost the canoe and had
quite a hard time to get ashore our
selves. Very truly yours,
FRANK J. DURGIN.
The notice referred to by Mr.. Durgin
is written with pencil on sheet OF
birch bark about foot square. 1t
reads as follows:
NOTICE. All persons guilty Of
shooting MOOSE, CARIBOU or RED
DEER in this State of Maine will be
prosecuted according to law.
Per order,
Commissioner of Game.
Washington, ID. c., L. S. A.
Aug 20, 1902.