The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-12-03

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bear in an apple tree. when it was 50
dark that he shot by guess. He said
the bear was as big as an OK. He hit
him hard and brought him ont Of the
tree, but in the darkness the bear got
awaS. g
Frank Carleton, who lives up at Cold
River, also shot bear.
Perley Head, with whose father /
stopped when in Chatham, went out in
an orchard, one-haIf mile from the
house, late in the afternoon after a
bear. He stayed until it was quite
darkish. Sitting on a rock by the side
of path, he saw what he thought was
big black cow coming up the path.
When the cow got up within three rods
of him he saw 1t was a bear. 1t was too
dark to use sights. He brought his
Winchester to his shoulder and pointed
it at the bear and 'unhitched." He
shot the bear through the back and
made him cry like baby. The bear
kept coming in the path and passed so
near Perley that he could have punched
the bear with his rifle. Meantime Head
was frantically trying to work the ac-
tion Of his rifle to extract the shell fired
that had damned in the extractor;
cause, an unclean gun used in the rain
a day or two before.
When the gun was in working order
the bear was just distingulshable in the
darkness and still crying. Periey sent
two more shot after him without effect
and the bear went off, probably to die
in the woods. Perley said he was as
much as five feet high and would weigh
more than five hundred pounds. But
for the defective action of his rifle he
would have had the biggest bear on re.
cord to his credit. He shot bear last
fall and gets his two deer each season.
Deer have been very scarce thre this
fall. Hunters think the bear have
caused them to leave the openings and
go way back behind the mountains.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dana Hill, of South
Chatham, recently going over Hurrd-
cane mountain, saw a big cow moose a
short distance from the road. Stopping
their horse they looked her over for ten
minutes before she went into the woods.
Some fifteen bear have been killed in
Jackson and nearly that number in
Bartlett, and ten or twelve in Chatham.
/ Winnie Wentworth shot a bear in
Jackson that weighed over three hum
bred pounds. The meat, pelt and boun-
ty Melted him an even fifty dollars. He
is only sixteen years old. Pretty good
! days work for a boy. -.' -. ~ .,. ~
| Jonathan Meserve set two traps in an
orchard on Glen Ellis river in Jackson.
The third day after he. went to them.
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near the cub in an apple tree. He shot
the bear and found it was the mother
bear, and a big one. She had been
caught in the other trap and had taken
it UP in the tree with the chain and
grapple attached to it. The trap
weighed twentyeight pounds. Meserve
said she was up there to get the Crap
pie hitched on limb and then jump out
of the three, thinking her weight would
pull her feet out OF the trap. He told
| OF an instance where one took trap up
big maple tree, got the grappie
hitched to limb and jumped. They
! found the bear suspended by one fore
leg nearly dead. Meserve is aniold bear
hunter and has twenty odd to his cred
it. He says they are knowing crit
ter" and will resort to expedients al
most human to get rid Of q trap.
A short time ago the proprietor OF the
Chocorus House, in Tamworth, took a
party Of lady guests to Ledge Pond.
Coming back he saw. a bear In q tree by
the side Of the road. The ladies, with
more courage than most women pos
sess, got out of the carriage, and with a
camera shot the bear number of
times. Not having any other gun along
the party drove on and left bruin in
possession of the tree.
| Late in the summer Mrs George
Hayes, of Jackson, was out picking ber-
ries with her daughter. She kept hear
| Ing a peculiar noise in the bushes and
finally went to investigate Its cause.
Going into them a few rods she saw a
| big woodchuck with his head in sal
! mon can up to his shoulders The