The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-12-19
The Maine Big Game Season Ended.

The big game season which closed
Saturday at midnight on account OF
Sunday being general close time any
way disclosed the fact that for the
first time in IL years not person was
shot and killed being mistaken for a
deer and further than that, not one
person was wounded in this way.
Last season there were three fatal
accidents where the victim was mis-
taken for a deer and one where the
party was mistaken for a bear. There
were three fatal accidents this year
due to the hunting season while the
sportsmen were actually in the woods.
They are as follows:
On Oct. 10, Herbert Mains Of North
Windham, a Sebago Lake guide, had
his leg terribly shattered by two
charges of shot from a double barrell-
ed shotgun in the hands of Boston
sportsma an, who with Mr.. Mains and
another man, was hunting duck at
Mud pond. The leg was amputated
and Mr.. Mains died on the following
Monday, evening, the death being,
due, it is said, to the fact that it was
nearly two hours after the wound was
inflicted before surgical aid could
reach the sufferer. Mr.. Mains was 40
years of age and his guiding was not
confined to the Sebago Lake regions
but at times embraced the Moosehead
lake, Rangeley and Dead river re-
gions.
On Nov. s, James Murray, aged 81,
of Fairfield, died in a Bangor hospital
from gunshot wounds inflicted the
previous day by the accidental dis
charge of rifle in the hands of Joshua
Emery of Fairfield while the two men
were hunting near Greenville. They
were crossing a brook, Emery ahead,
when the latter's rife was accidentally
discharged, the bullet entering Muir
RAYS abdom and inflicting terrible
wound. Murray was employed in
sawmilI at Shawmut. A widow and
several children survive.
On Nov. Is, Robert Seekins, son
of Addison Seekins of South Windsor,
was shot and killed by Charles Z.
Pinkham of East Vassalboro while
the two young men were cunning In
the woods about six miles from Au-
gusta. According to the story told
to the coroner, the men were shoot
ing at mark and that while Seekins
was in front of him Pinkham's gun
was accidentally discharged, the shot
entering Seekins' back. Seekins was
10 and Pinkham was 20 years of age.
There were of course the usual
number of minor accidents, but as
rule they were not as serious as ID
previous years.
Hon. L. T. Carleton of Winthrop,
chairman of the Commissioners on
Inland Fishe ries and Game, stated
Saturday that there were killed the
past season, legally and illegally,
from $4,000 to $4,000 deer, which is
from one half to two thirds of the
number last season.
Licenses were granted to 1856 non
residents to hunt prior to Oct. | and
1771 additional licenses were issued
for hunting after the first day Of DC
tober, a falling off of 400 from last
year. The recent furry in the money
market is supposed to be the reason
why there were less non resident
hunters in the State this year than
last year.
Reports from guides and hunters
show that the game has been quite
plentiful, but that the conditions for
hunting have not been very good.
The shipments of deer from the ex-
tension of the Somerset Railway IN
the Moose head Lake region here ar
follows October, 299; November,
1866; December, 20l