Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-20
STATE HOUSE.
Plenty Of Game and An Army
Of NONRESIDENT Hunters.
Significant Increase Of Late in the
Sale Of Hunting Licenses.
State Board of Health Considers Small
pox Situation.

Livery indication points to the fact
that there were never so many nom
residents hunters in the State as there
are this season. Just for illustration,
the fish and game commission received
nearly $500 in yesterday morn
ing's mail from the sale of hunting
licenses by agents and by the office of
the department itself. Two hundred
and ten dollars was received from one
agent. alone, and $3.50 from another.
The second man wanted % more Ii
censes, and stated that it was 1mpera-
tive that they reach him by last night.
This looks like big sum of money, but
the agents are only just beginning to
be heard from, and it must be re-
lnembered that the season has only just
opened. Chairman Carleton believes
that more than 1000 licenses will be
sold, this year, and that licenses will
be sold to more people from out of the
State than hunted in the Maine woods,
last year. The kineO correspondent re-
ports that there were never anywhere
near so many spOrtsmen in the vicinity
at this time of year as there are now,
and about everybody is satisfied with
the game laws, too. There is no rea-
son why they should not be. apparently,
for every dollar that comes from the
sale of licenses goes right back into
the Maine wods to protect the game for
the next seasons shooting. A very
conservative estimate for this year
would set the number of licenses sold
at 1000 which means Il revenue Of
$4,000 to be expended in the preserva-
ton of game and the improvement of
facilities for hunting. The meaning of
all this is to be read in the annual re-
port of the big game killed in the State
of Maine. and it reads in bigger tyre
every year. The fish and game COM
mission is hoping that the type will
become large enough in time to attract
the attention of tie fault-fnders from
out of the State who are trying to UNI
dermine the work of the commission.
Several illustrations of the effective
ness of the warden system may be in
point at this time. Morris Ward and
F. NJ. Small of Mayfield, have been
prosecuted by Game Warden Pollard,
for killing deer in close time. and fined
$40 each and costs. Warden Neal of
Bangor took a partridge which was be-
ing Illegally transported from the grip
of William Eaton Eastman of New
York, and fined him $40. He also took
moose meat from the grip of w. w.
Fiske of Providence, r. I. Mr. Shaw
of the Business College was voucher
for the gentleman, and testified that
he had a very sick wife. He was,
therefore, not detained, as Mr.. Shaw
asserted that the fine would be paid as
soon as the gentleman arrived home
The fine is not less than $25 nor more
than 500. Word has been received
from Warden Perkins of Bradley that
he has made a seizure of white perch
ut the market of c. c. Porter. he hav~
ing more than the legal 25 pounds in
his possession. 1t cost Mr.. Porter $50
to settle the damage
There are fish stories to be told
about this same commission, too. The
hatchery at Rangeley has now 10000
eggs and will have 100000, proba bly,
by the end of the season. In the trout
pen, there, is one of the largest trout
ever reported. 1t is beautiful female.
and will be stripped of its eggs, later.
Wallace Berry, superintendent of the
hatcheries and DR.. Kendall of the
United States fish commission, state
that it must weigh over IL pounds, as
1t is larger than one fish which was
weighed and tipped the scales at that
number. This trout will probably be
mounted, later. and placed on exhibi-
ton in the department room. here.
Chairman Carleton went out to Cob
bossee, yesterday. to begin operations
on the fish pond which he intends to
build there. He has discovered a spring
which makes the plan entirely feasible.
The pond will be about 30x12 feet and
will contain about 10000 fry which will
be released in the spring. Fry kept in
this way. and fed about once a week,
10 much better than those liberated in
the fall.
The department is very busy, Just
now. and Miss Alice p. Craig is assist
ing in the clerical work, in order to re-
'ieve Miss Hodgdon and Miss Rich
mond someWh hat.