Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-09
STATE HOUSE.
Great Slaughter Of Moose
Along the Boundary
Bones So Thick It Was Impossible
To Count Them.
New Corporations File Certificate With
Secretary of State.

carleton, Of the fish and game commas
sion, from the two Wardens, Benjamin
j. Woodward and A. H. Bartlett, whom
he sent up to patrol the Canadian Dor
der and St. Johns river waters, SHOWS
the ACCESSIBILITY of keeping Wardens IN
that section. 1t tells Of the work which
the men have done in detail and OF the
discoveries of moose slaughteflhS
which they have made. Not only does
it give the details of the killing OF q
great number of moose, but it tells of
beaver and deer which have been slain.
In one place, alone, these wardens
found where at least 26 moose had been
killed. Most of these moose We're Kill
ed, last year, but one at least, had
fallen during the present summer
In the opening of the letter the ward
ems state, with detail. how and where
they have travelled, which occupies a
considerable abount OF space, and
which is not very interesting to the
average reader. From st. CAMEL. they
went to Seven Islands, to Corners and
down the st. John passed the middle
branch, without seeing any moose
signs. They then took the stream lead
ing up to Depot lake. This trip occu-
pied two days and was hard work.
They saw many moose tracks and
signs, and found the remains of four
large moose. OF these, two were killed
this summer, the others last year,
probably.
Along this stream they also found a
lot of beaver houses and dams, but the
beaver had all been killed.
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body of water, about three miles long,
they found more moose bones scatter
ed along the shore. At one point they
found the head and antlers of Il very
large moose. These indicated that the
had been killed when about half
grown, but the antlers had spread of
five feet.
Onsa small point at the head of the
lake they found where there had been
a fearful slaughter of moose. The
bonesS<Were so scattered about that it
was almost impossible to count the
number of animals which had been
killedssfhere. They counted 20 under
jaws. Many of the parts of these
moose had been carried away by bears,
for they found a large set of antlers
which had been carried back into the
woods for a distance of half q mile
From this point, as they went along
the lake. they found the remains Of 26
'moose, one and two in a place. and but
one of these looked as though it had
been killed this year. At one place the
head and antlers of the moose, only,
had been taken away. u.
At the end of the second dn&dWater
below Depot lake, they We're Very close
to the boundary line and found where
Canadian hunters camp on that side
of the boundary, steal across into
Maine. STAY a moose and get back
before the officers can reach them.
From Depot lake they went UP the
Northwest branch of the st. John river.
There they found the carcasses Of four
moose, from which only the hides had
been removed.
At the head of Little Mosquito brook,
which is in Maine, they found a party
eacamped, having with them a Cana
dian guide. The members of the party,
as well as the guide, claimed that they
supposed that they We're on Canadian
territory They found that this party
had killed a deer and so collected the
usual lln' ol H1o ana coStS (WHICH the!
forwarded to Augusta, with the letter.
and drove the party across the border
From the talk they had with these
people they are inclined to think that
the four moose seen on the northwest
branch were killed by the notorious
Pete Fountain, as he was in that region
about the time the moose were killed.
In closing their letters the Wardens
say that near English lake. they found
two camps where deer poachers come
in the winter and stay. stealing into
Maine and killing deer by the whole
sale. Around these camps they found
much evidence of illegal killing in the
shane of deer feet.