The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-07-26
FROM GAME WARDEN IN
CAMP KAGLE
TWO LIARS IN CAMP
One of Them Is a Pair of
Fish Scales.

Editor Morning News:-We all had
scare this morning. Il rather wild
looking citizen came out of The brush
about an hour ago wearing a star as
big as that on the uniforms Of the Can
ton policemen. He bad gun and a
wolflsh looking dog with him. Some
how he came parading into camp like
fellow who thought he was the whole
cheese. He gazed around for minute
Or two looking for the daddy of the
camp and finally picked on Harry HILL
"Hev youens lincenses?" said the
Michigander.
License for what?' trembling ask
ed 1iill.
Fer huntin'," replied the visitor.
fFellers from other states has to pay
$25 In Michigan to hunt"
Were not hunting; we're only
fishing" said Maurer.
Eyer can't fool me. hern about
you" replied the native.
Ellis Lewis showed the fellow But
tnsky" license. The game warden, for
20 he proved to be, looked at 1t rather
dazed like for little while, shook
his head and said.
"Haint got no wild goats in Michi-
gan. Better whack up"
"But we aint hunting" chimed in
Burnheimer.
Farmers tell me different" said the
warden. They say youns are huntini
all the deer in the hull country"
Burnheimer snorted and the whole
bunch laughed. The native flushed up
and then got kind of white around the
lips. He did not like to be laughed
at. He cooked both barrels Of that
blamed old shotgun and said:
"Youens take me for afool, hey?"
Splitter came forward and said: my
friend, you are a little off in your or
biography"
"Off my base, dye mean. I'll show
you"
"No, off in your spelling The kind
Of deer this gang is hunting is spelled
DEAR, and they are found around
at the farm houses. Country girls.
"0h."
"Come and have something" said
Burnheimer. "Just little mistake"
and the native was allowed to sample
something that brought tears to his
eyes. But before he went he borrowed
some buckshot that the boys use for
sinkers. He wanted them to reload
the gun for the farmer boys who had
put UP the Job on him.
This 10 q private letter, so don't pub
lish Il, for lot of US fellows have
wives and sweethearts at home. Not
both at home, you understand. There
q just one in the whole crowd that
has admitted up here that he is mar
He'd. I'll not tell which one it Is, for
We don't want any one to know that
there is such q greeny In the party.
We are having q good time. Long lake
% an ideal place for fishing The mos
auitoes are not any worse than they
iro IN Jersey. Billy Schultz worried
{everal days over the fact that we had
no music. He finally hit on a scheme.
He caught lot Of mosquitoes and test
ed their voices. He got enough that
he arranged them in the order Of a
ehromatic scale. All you have to do is
TO stir UP one and he gives forth a
musical c note. The next one Is G
sharp, etc. Billy can play "Hiawatha"
will. all the variations and several 9TH
or tunes. The living notes are fed out
Of a bottle with predigested blood cor
puscles.
But the fishing. I must mention
that. The lake was made, "long" to
accommodate the fish. They swim one
way Of the lake and are 80 long that
they have to jump out in the air and
turn fip-fop when they want to head
the other law. Once in a while one Of
The big fellows gets caught by the gills
in the tree tops and is cut up by the
natives for food. They cut off as much
rs they can reach from the ground
and then choL down the tree to get the
rest. We have seen several stumps
where the trees have been cut down,
80 there is no doubt about the truth
of the story.
Harry Hill has been successful in
catching fish at night. The law does
not allow gigging by torch light, but it
says nothing about glaring their eyes
with diamonds. While the fish are
dazed the spear is thrust into them and
q windlass on shore hauls them to the
hank.
There is only one liar in camp and
he comes from Greentownl He said the
other day that he had caught fish IA
inches long that weighed pounds or
a little less. By the measurement of
an honest man It should have been
over two feet long and 18 of twenty
pounds in weight. The 'Dr." in en-
tirely too modest. His eyes must make
things look little. That was the only
small fish caught since we came here.
BY the way, there is one more liar.
Some fellow brought pair of scales
with him. but after the first day they
have not been used. The blamed things