Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-20

| Ine DlSSesl Hsn story of the season
comes from Newfoundland. and it is to
the effect that the steam whaler Hum
Der was towed, rails under for miles
with engines reversed, by a whale over
a hundred feet long. 1t is added that
the fish was captured but the steamer
was badly damaged" as the result of
it's twenty-hours' battle, and had to
put in for repairs. Nor is it any Won
der that the vessel was damaged. but
the story should be accompanied by
photographs. not necessarily for pubi-
cation but as a guarantee of good faith.
| Facts About Maine Game.
Bangor News).
| Now and then a writer in one of the
| Boston or New York papers makes the
discovery or fancies he does, which is
| the same thing to him-that there are
| no deer in the Maine woods, that the
big game Of Maine is all in the placards
of the hotels and railroads and that our
guides, camp-owners and residents gen-
| orally are a set of sharks who take de-
light in honeyfogling their patrons and
then laughing in their sleeves over the
sharp tricks they have played upon the
unsophisticated visitors. These tales
are not so plentiful as they were a few,
years ago, but they are too common for
the reputation Of the State and far too
| common for those who know the actual
| facts to believe. In addition to the
writer's who take delight in beittling
| Maine as a hunting resort there is an
other variety of pseudo-sportsmen who
claim the fish and game of the State
are going to the pow-wows on account
of the unfair way in which the game
laws are administered by the commits
| sioners. If it were not for Mr.. Garlic
| ton and his associates, say these
croakers, there would be fairly good
shooting all over Maine. But the COM
| missioners have pets and favorites,
| who can do as they please, while the
| average run of hunters must take abuse
and neglect and most anything they
| can get and feel thankful,
1t is needless to say that both classes
of tales are lies with more Or less liter
airy adornment. They are begotten in
| untruth and reared in deception, nour-
| ished in dishonor and launched on the
dark of the moon for the use of pessi-
miSts and croakers who do not care
| now the matter stands, in fact, but
who banker and yearn to- have some
body roasted" no matteraf the roast
is deserved or otherwisaIf Meantime,
there is no state and no province upon
| the American continent where a hunter
can secure so much large game in so
short a time and for so small an outlay
as he can by coming to Maine in open
season and complying with our very
nd mild CT We
game laws. This fact is so we'll known
| that every citizen of Maine who has
been to other places for game, and
every visitor to Maine who is familiar
with the hunting in othef sections,
knows that what we have said is Il
| fact, which can be proved and which is
proved every year by the carloads of
| big game which are brought out of the
Maine woods. There is no other state
| or principality on the face of Gods
earth where deer can be had so cheap
| ly and in so short a time as right here
| in the Maine woods, and right up north
along the lines of the Bangor & ArOos-
took and the Maine Central railroads.
Why, the engines which are hitched to
the trains on these railroads kill more
| deer by running into them and over
them every season than are shot in the
AdirOndacks in whole year, while the
| moose slain by Maine trains will count
up more in a season than have been
seen in the Adirondacks for the past
half century.
AS to the stories circulated about the
usage received at the hands of the
commissioners, we have heard them,
investigated them and can say that
most of them are deliberate lies, while
the rest are gross eXaggerations made
up for effect in certain quarters. When
Mr.. Carleton received his appointment
there was nc pretense made at enforce
ing the game laws. Up at Nicatous
lake hounds were kept for running deer
and the fact was advertised by cards
| sent around to men who We're interest
| ed in hunting. No further away from
Bangor than out at Lake Chemo two
| families kept hounds for running deer
and made a practice of calling upon the
breeders of fox hounds and buying or
| begging the female pups which We're OF
small value and were to be killed, in
order to have dogs ready for their pat
| rons who should wish to capture deer
| without effort. Up in Milford was
man who sent word to his patrons that
| he would run deer into the water for
| S. or less-'no deer, no pay Right
here in Bangor we have seen song birds
| and bright woodpeckers hanging out
above the sidewalk among punches of
cartridges, and when we demonstrated
| with a dealer for buying yellow ham,
| mers and told him there was fine Tor
| having them in possession, he said the
law did not amount to anything, and
advised LIS to go about our business.
Mr.. Carleton has his faults, but he is
| earnest and honest and lion when ne
| is aroused. The benefit which he mas
done for the game interests of Maine IS
beyond computation. No one can pass
fair estimate upon his usefulness at
this early date, but SO long as single
deer remains to run wild in the Name
woods, just so long should the Iapors
of Leroy T. Carleton be remembered
with gratitude by every true Sports
| man.
Pointed Paragraphs.
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