Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-08-05
STATE HOUSE.
Assessors Find Prosper
iy Through the State.
Even the Cats Go Fishing at
the Range|ey Lakes.
Baby SheIIdrake Arrives at the STATE
House Museum.

Baby SheIIdrake Arrives al the STATE
House Museum.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Next meeting Of Governor and Council,
| Wednesday, August 9, at 10 A. M.
| lanes plummer clerk of the State
| board of assessors, who had been
| absent from the department for the
| mast few DAYS, on a trip through Waldo
and Knox counties, has returned to
| This city. and was at the rooms of the
hoard. Yesterday morning. In speaking
ar the trip, Mr. Plummer said that the
hoard had held meetings with the as
| scssorS of many of the towns, and
found there. as elsewhere in the state,
| a healthy degree of prosperity. There
has not only not been a large increase
| in valuation in the State, but less COM
plaint on account of generalization
| with Il feeling on the part of the asses
sorS that times are better ali over
Maine. Business conditions in the
counties visited during the week APP
peared good. At Camden I. number OF
vessels are being built in the shipyards.
at Rockland the lime business is good,
and the same indications of prosperity
ire in evidence, everywhere.
A new specimen for the museum has
been received at the department of in
IInd fisheries and game in the shape of
IL young Shelldrake, which is not only 4
valuable addition to the collection OF
Maine birds. but also constitutes a
memento of the late excursion of the
Maine Sportsmen's Fish and Game
Association, to Rangeley. The bird
was found dead, on the shore of the
lake, by Col. E. c. harrington. and by
him presented to Chairman Carleton,
| of the fish and game commission. who
had it mounted by Kinds, the Portland
| taxidermist. The bird was received at
| the department, yesterday. He is Il
| little fellow, only n few weeks old, and
is covered with the soft down of chick
enhood. The head and t.:rOat are dark
brown and tan color, and the throat
| and under parts Whit and creamy.
| He is we'll mounted, md is by far the
| ,uteSt little specimen in the collection.
/ Hon. f. T.. Timboriako, the STATE
bank examiner. was at his Office in the
| banking department, yesterday, afte:
| an absence of several days. Mr.. Tim
| berlakc always has fund Of stories
| for the entertainment of his friends.
| and the latest is one about some kittens
that are owned at one of the camps in
the Rangeley region. Kittens ara a
bit of an innovation IN a camp in the
/ Maine woods, but ut the camp in ques-
ton there are several Of them, and like
other campers, they are fond OF the fish
of the lake. They don't get trout. how
ever, like the other campers, but are
content to put up with minnows, taken
from the trap. The fish were first fed
to the kits alive, and they StraightWay
conceived n liking for live minnOwS
THAT was something remarkable. Now,
however, the owners Of the camp let the
kittens do q little fishing On their own
account, and in a way that affords the
campers not little sport. Some water
is placed in a shall1w basin, and then
the mnnOWs are placed in the water,
after which the kittens are made to
lcatch their own fish. A cats antipathy
to water is We'll known. hut the way
that those kittens get ate" the fish in
the basin, and make the water fly, is a
caution. And what is noe. they catch
the fish.
Adjutant General Farnham, who had
been ut his home ut Bangor FOR the
first part of the week. was at his Office
in the department, yesterday, and Will
relhain i'll the city during the encamp-
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! Capt. Harry NJ. Smith Of Bangor,
commanding Co G. % Infantry, who is
lalso clerk in the Office of the State
commissioner of highways. was at
Brunswick yesterday, in attendance at
the rcSimental rifle match.
The following corporations have filed
their certificates of organization at the
Office of the secretary Of State:
Kelsey Gold and Silver Mining and
Milling Co, organized at Portland for
the purpose of conducting a general
mining and milling business with $780,
600 capital stock Of which nothing is
paid in. The officers are: President
VIM. NJ. PaysOn of Boston, Mass;
treasurer, VIM. NJ. Payson of Boston
Mass Certificate approved, Aug. ..
1895.
The Portsmouth Observation Co.
organized at Kittery for the purpose Of
conducting a genuine legitimate the
atTiCdl and amusement business in all
its branches with $4,000 capital stock
of which nothing is paid in. The Off
GERS are: President. Horace Mitchell of
kittery; treasurer, S. j. Morrison of
Portsmouth, n. II. Certificate ap-
proved, Aug. 2, 1905.
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