The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-11-23
.SPORTSMEN RETURN
They Bring With Them Sixteen Fat
Deer Aggregating in Weight
Over 1900 Pounds.
Two of the Party Mistaken for Deer
and Escape Slaughter by
Very Narrow Margin.

Soule and Charley Murray arrived in
Princeton on Wednesday morning,
Fred Keith and Andrew Umbehocker,
who left here with the party of ten on
November 6, having returned on Mon
day last. This aggregation of sports
men had been on big game hunt
some thirty miles north of Duluth and
brought back with them sixteen deer
OF various sizes, the consignment tip
ping the scales at 1900 pounds. Con-
sidering the fact that there was no
snow on the ground in the northern
woods the number of deer secured was
all that could be expected. F.
The boys had good time generally.
Some of them saw moose which they
did not succeed in capturing, some saw
bears, and some imagined they saw
reptiles which sent the chills coursing
rapidly up and down their vertebrae.
The movements of the young fellows
in the party were particularly spas
modic. They hunted by jerks and
bounds, the jerks being especially
noticeable when deer appeared upon
the scene. The sight Of the animal
jerked the guns from their hands and
they stood speeches.. terrified,
aghast, unable even to recover their
weapons from the ground. This con-
dition is known in hunting parlance
as "buck fever.' The bounds we're
resorted to when they heard in the
distance the voice of a bull moose or
the bowling of timber wolf. Twas
then they bounded away for the camp
or up the trunk of a pine tree.
Charley Murray, so goes the story,
one of the veteran members of the
party, while stalking a deer near a
small lake, slipped and fell into the
water. He thoughtlessly permitted
his clothing to dry upon his person
and rheumatism resulted therefrom,
which compelled him to remain in the
shanty for a day or two. A neigh
borly old Indian trapper was called
into consultation and he gave Char
ley good rub down with snake oil.
This effected a cure and the Indian
departed to be seen no more. He
took leave sometime during a dark
night and also took several jugs of
Lithia water which it is supposed he
toted off upon his pony. Had it not
been for this peculiar circumstance it
is likely that the boys would have re-
manned away another week.
An incident which somewhat married
the pleasures of the trip, and which
has been verified by the boys since
their return, is reported by the Du-
luth News Tribune as follows:
M. Sjoblom and P. Johnson of
Princeton, Minn,. of a party of ten
hunters who have been on big hunt
near Otter and Boulder lakes, in St.
Louis county, were fired on few days
ago by a hunter who mistook them for
deer. The first bullet passed through
Sjoblom's bootleg, and a second bull
let which was fired quickly afterward
passed between Sjoblom and johnson.
They were about three feet apart at
the time.
The firing ceased with the second
shot. The hunter who did the shoot
ing had by this time discovered, prob
ably as result of the shooting which
the Princeton men did, that he was
firing on hunters and not deer. Sjo-
blom and Johnson charged down the
hill in the direction whence the bullets
came, and they had little difficulty in
locating the man responsible for the
shooting.
They took him to task severely for
his mistake, and the guilty man could
only stammer that he had seen a deer
in the same vicinity short time be-
fore and thought that the animal had
reappeared. He declared he would
never bear a gun again on a hunting
trip and was profuse in his apologies.
The Princeton hunters told him he
had better get out of the woods,
proposition to which he readily
agreed.
The Princeton men got sixteen deer,
and it made a load for a four-horse
team, including the hunters and their
camp outfit.
The deer were hauled to Duluth and
delivered at the union depot. The
party did not get any moose.
i The men have been out since the
opening of the season, and have not
only had good luck with their guns
but have had pleasant experience.
OBLIGATORY EXERCISES.
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