Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-03
STATE HOUSE.
Governor Cobb Announces
List Of Nominations.
Warden Ross Reports Game
Plenty in Washington County.
Deer Are Numerous and Moose Are
Killed Along Highways.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Next Meeting of Governor and Council,
Thursday, Nov. 9, at 10 A. M.

The following nominations were
made by Governor Cobb, yesterday:
Member of Board of Commissioners
of Pharmacy-Frank w. Bucknam,
Skowhegan.
Inspector Prisons and Jails-A. P.
Gordon, Fryeburg.
Trustee Maine Insane Hospitals
George f.. Macomber, Augusta.
Agent for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals-GeO. NJ. StinsOn, Wool
wich.
Disclosure Commissioner-Geo. NJ.
Chapman, Fairfield.
Commissioner to Administer Oaths,
SOlemniZe Marriages and Acknowledge
Deeds-Ethel a. Mann, Old Town.
Trial Justices-S. w. Butterfield, Will
ton, (E. Dixfield); Roscoe b. Leavitt,
Limestone; Gardner NJ. Parker, Cor
ham.
Notares Public-R. f. Atwood, Lew
istOn; II. P. Carver. Auburn; A. L.
Henderson, Farmington; Geo. A. Cor
ham, Houlton; Howard E. Hall,
Damariscotta; Chas. l.. Macurda, Wis
casset; Henry L. Mitchell, Bangor; W.
H. Monroe. Brownville; w. H. Powell
Justices of the Peace-Leon A.
Bailey. Medford; Royal H. Bodwell
Augusta; Leon G. C. Brown, Milo: A.
F. Burnham, Ellsworth; II. P. Carver
Auburn; John A. Fisher, Topsham;
Moses E. Goodwin, Eliot; Geo. A. Cor
ham, Houlton; Chas. H. Howard. Au-
susta; Simon Irish, Haynesville; Ar
thur E. Johnston, Washington; Mel
vile Johnson, kingman: 2. j. Jordan,
Brunswick; J. r. Jordan, Brunswick;
Fremont j. G. Little, Augusta: Frank
l.. Marston, Stockton Springs; Henry
l.. Mitchell, Bangor; J. Blaine Morri-
son, Phillips; w. H. Powell, Old Town;
Geo. II. Ryder, Augusta; Oscar Sands,
Sebec; Geo. l.. Sinclair, Columbia
Falls; Rufus G. Stone, Jay.
General Game Warden Geo. w. Ross
Of Vanceboro, who has charge of the
work of enforcing the fish and game
laws in Washington county, was at
the Capitol for a few hours, yesterday
forenoon, on matters connected with
the fish and game department.
In speaking of the hunting season,
which is now at it's height. Warden
Ross said that conditions in Washing
ton county were the same as in other
sections of the state where big game
ahounds, and that everything indi-
Gates that the season will be the most
successful on record.
The number of sportsmen in the
woods is a large one, and as for the
deer, there are lots of them, and no
hunter need go home empty handed
who selects Washington county as his
hunting ground. The moose are plen-
ty, also. SO plenty, in fact. that several
have been killed near the settlements.
Only few days ago, a man was out
on the road within a mile and half
of Princeton, where he ran across
bull moose and shot him, and he had
to go and get another man to help
him get the carcass out of the road, in
order that a team might pass. When
the bull was taken into town it was
found to weigh over 700 pounds.
Another noticeable feature in con-
nection with the hunting season i'm
Washington county, said the warden,
was that notwithstanding the great
number of hunters inthe woods. there
had not been a single shooting acct
dent, nor had there been any fires in
of hunting parties.
When asked about the number of
bobcats to be found in the woods,
he replied that there were plenty of
them. and that during the winter time
they did some damage in the way OF
killing a deer. Before the law provid
ed for a bounty on bobcats was re-
pealed, in 1901. these animals We're
;,,r ue-t, 10, nv-
tent, but now that there is no COM
mercial value attached to the heads of
the cats, which proved an inducement
for Indians and other hunters to bring
them from across the Canadian line
| and to dispose of them as the genuine
| State of Maine product, the cats have
been allowed to increase and multiply
to an extent that they can no longer
| be called rare. 1t is also said that
| there are some wolves on the Canadian
side of the st. Croix river, and that
their bowling has been heard in that
locality, but none have as yet made
their appearance in the Maine woods.
| One question under the law prohibit
Il ing the wearing or selling of bird
Il feathers. which is troubling many, is
whether or not those who had feathers
which they had owned before the law
was enacted, would be permitted to
wear them. 1t would not seem that
the State could constitutionally pro-
II hibit or make liable a person from SELL
ing or wearing feathers which had been
lawfully possessed before the law was
enacted. and the decision of the COM
II missioners of inland fisheries and
II game is that feathers owned before the
law went into effect could be legally
II sold or worn. The law was passed in
II 1899.
II Word was received from Commits
II sioner Gilman. of the department OF
II agriculture, yesterday, stating that he
had nearly recovered from his recent
II illness and that he should resume his