Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-16
In the Maine Big Game
Season Just Ended.
Estimated From $4,000 10
$1,000 Deer Were Killed.
Licenses 10 3o6 Non. Residents and
It'll After Oct. First.

The big game season winch closed
Saturday at midnight Oh 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 q
deer and further than that not one per-
son was wounded in this way. Last sea-
son there were three fatal accidents
where the victim was mistaken for a
deer and one where the party was mis-
taken for bear. There were three
fatal accidents this year due to the
hunting season while the sphrtsmen
were actually in the woods. They are
as follows:
On Oct 49, Herbert Mains Of North
Windham, a Sebago Lake guide. had
his leg terribly shattered by two
charges Of shot from double barrellcd
shotgun in the hands Of Boston
sportsman. who with Mr.. Mains and
another man. was hunting duck at Mud
pond. The leg was amputatcd and Mr..
Mains died on the following Monday,
evening. the death being. due. il is said.
to the fact that il was nearly two hours
after .he 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 Scbago
Lake regions but at times embraced
the Moosehcad lake. Rangeley and Dead
river regions.
On Nov 8. James Murray. aged 81.
Of Fairfield. died III Il Bangor hospital
from gunshot wounds inflicted the pre-
vious day by the accidental discharge
Of q rifle in tho hands OF Joshua Emery
Of Fairfield while the two men were
hunting near Grecnvillc. They were
crossing q brook. Emery ahead. when
the latter's rifle was accidentally dis
charged, the bullet entering Murray'.
abdomen and inilicting d terrible
wound. Murray was employed in Il
sawmiu at Shawmut. \ widow anu
several children survive.
On Nov. 1G. Robert Scekins, q son OF
Addison Seckins of South Windsor, was
shot aud killed by Charles f. Pinkham
of East Tassalboro while the two young
.nen were cunning in the woods about
six miles from Augusta. According to
tho story told ia the coroner the men
were shooting at n mark ard that while
Scekirs was in front of him Pinkham' =
gun Wd~ accidentally discharged, the
shot entering Scekins' back. Seckins
was 10 and Pinkham was 20 gears Of
a~e.
Thern were Ct course the usual num-
Der of minor accidents. but Is rule
they we're not as serious as in previous
years.
Hon l.. It. Carleton of Winthrop,
chairman of the Commissioners on IN
land Fisheries and Game, stated Satur-
day that there were killed the pas;
season. legally and illegally, from 1900
to 1900 deer. which is from one-half
to two-thirds of the number last sea-
son
Licenses were granted to $50 ;!on-res!-
dents to hunt prior to Oct. ! and Hi
dditional licenses were issued for hunt
ing after the first day Of October. 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 nom resident hunters in the
State this year than last wear
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
Moosehead Lake region kere as fol-
lows: October, 299: November. 1856; De-
| cember, 201.