The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-15

in great numbers. All through the James
River valley hunters have been out taking
had fairly good success. The lakes in
the north are freezing over and the birds
will soon be gone for the winter. The
season just closing has only been fairly
good and the ducks have escaped remark
ably we'll considering the great number
there were distributed among lakes and
ponds throughout the Jim River valley.
The sportsmen Of Sioux Falls had one Of
the oldest experiences in the history of
that portion of South Dakota as the re-
suit Of the cold wave. Many thousands
Of wild ducks and geese, driven south
ward by the fierce northwest wind which
accompanied the cold wave, took refuge
in the Sioux river and other streams and
bodies Of water near Sioux Falls. Hun
dreds of the birds were shot and killed
within the city limits. One man shot and
killed seventeen ducks between the Sixth
street bridge and the Queen Bee mill, only
a short distance from the heart of the
business district in Sioux Falls.
Carter Harrison After Deer.
Mayor Carter B. Harrison Of Chicago
will hunt deer in Marquette county, Mich,
this fall. He went into camp this week
thirty-five miles south Of Ishpeming. The
others of his party settled there late last
week. They number Oscar F. Meyer,
millionaire brewer; Emil DONNIE, hotel
proprietor, and Emil Eitel.
1t cost the party $25 each for their
hunting licenses, each Of which entities
the holder to kill three deer, but not to
ship them out Of the state or to dispose
| of them for a consideration in any man
ner. Tossetti is crack shot and has
killed game in almost every part OF the
world. His father owns large game pre-
serves in Europe. and he has hunted In
India. Africa, South America and the
| Rocky mountains.
1t is variously estimated that In Grow
Wing and Cass counties alone there were
| 1000 men out In the woods ready or the
| fray when the deer season opened, Mon
day Deer and moose are more plentiful
this year than for many years, and 1t is
thought it will be a great season.
Vincin Warrick and Wallace R1tchie
were gathered in Saturday at Brainerd
by Deputy Game Warden Saunders,
charged with killing moose out Of season
They were taken to Walker and on hear
ing were held to the grand jury.
Mrs. E. II. Radel, prominent in society
at New Brunswick, N. j., wife OF the sec
rotary of the Middlesex & Somerset Rail
road company, is receiving the congratu'
lations Of her friends upon her success az
a. huntswoman in the Adirondacks. She
brought down the biggest buck shot by
any Of the hunting party.
Deer Plentiful In Maine.
Game Wardens Captain w. T. POLAND
and Hermann o. Templeton, Of Hines
Maine, made an extended trip Of 1nves'
tigation through the Allegash region re-
Gently. They covered 100 miles in al
and during the entire journey kept 6
sharp lookout for evidences Of summer
killing. In the vicinity Of Eagle lake {
dead moose was found, but the caml
grounds Of summer campers, all Of which
were carefully examined, failed to give
any evidence whatever Of illegal killing
The wardens say that they have neve
seen the camp grounds SO "clean," tina
is free from the evidences Of Illegal kill
ing. During the trip about 400 deer AM
go moose were seen. Ten moose wer,
seen in one day. going through seven
teen miles Of river, and at the foot o
Churchill lake five moose were in sigh
at one time. 49,. .e~- 49, .-
The wardens were watching three GOV
moose that were feeding in the stream
and on its, banks, some distance away
when crashing in bushes on the lax
shore, barely a hundred yards away, at
tracted their attention. A moment late
!, the bushes parted and the largest bul
moose the wardens had ever seen Wake
into sight. They estimate his weight owe
!, 200 pounds and his spread of antlers a
sixty inches. He worked down the shor
! slowly towards the cows and few min
, utes later another moose made its ap
pearance at the same point the other ha
come out. He was evidently followin
the big moose and worked down the shor
of the lake in his direction. This moos