Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-12-09
FINE BIG GAME SEASON
Deer Hunters In Maine Met With.
Excellent Success.
HUNTING CONDITIONS IDEAL


Moose Shipped by One Railroad
AIone-Loss Of Life SmaII-Humor
Gus Experiences With Moose and
Deer-Women Enjoyed the Sport.
In many respects this has been the
most remarkable big game hunting
season in Maine, tine maritime prov
inces and Newfoundland for a humble:
of years. Even in Vermont. where IL
open season on deer has been compai
atively short, the hunters have haC
unusually good luck, about 800 deer
having been killed during the first twc
days.
All the returning Nimrods who have
gone through Boston EN- route TO theii
homes in New York, Pennsylvania. the
west and the south have been agreed.
says a Boston. correspondent of the
New York Post, that they have seldom
seen more deer in the Maine wilder
ness or been able to hunt under more
enjoyable conditions.
In the caller part of the season
down in Maine the warm weather and
the absence of snow on the ground
were considerable of handicap to the
hunters, the dry leaves rendering it
difficult to get within range of the
acute cared quarry, but latterly con-
ditions have improved a great deal.
While bull moose and bears have been
somewhat less plentiful than last sea-
son, the woods have been swarming
with deer, and few visiting sportsmen
have had any difficulty in securing
their quota. cartridges also have been
unusually plentiful as a result of the
early arrival of summer.
During the first six weeks of the
hunting season more than LOGO deer
and about seventy moose were shipped
over the Bangor and Aroostook rail
road alone, a considerable increase
over the 1907 figures for the same per
riod. Taking it altogether, the big
game hunting season has turned out
much better than was generally eX-
pected. The open season for moose
closed Dec L. and for deer it will close
Dec. ID.
As uG:1al, the wilderness has fur
nished its tragedies and its comedies.
but fortunately the loss of human life
has been small. One of the amusing
cases of mistaken Identity is that il
which a Houlton (Ie.) hunter figured
as reported to the writer by a Boston
friend who was there at the time. This
lucklesS sportsman, who was by nc
means new to the business, fired al
and killed a valuable colt in a clear
ing, thinking it was a young moose
The affair happened in the dusk, and
he didn't discover his mistake until
after he had cut the throat of the sup
posed moose
Greatly disturbed and being con
scientiOus man, he took all the money
he had in his pOcketbook. $40, and
tied it to the front door of the farm
house where he supposed the colts
owner resided, scrawling a brief note
of explanation at the same time. Here
he made another little mistake, how
ever, for the owner of the slain animal
lived in an entirely different house.
and it was some time before things got
entirely Strengthened out
= Another man, a Vermont farmer thi.
time, has every reason to believe that
the hunting joke of the season in the
Green Mountain State is on him. He
had managed to entice a deer into his
barnyard the day before the hunting
season opened, intending to shoot him
with neatneSs and dispatch early next
morning. He was on hand, with his
rifle at daybreak, and the patient deer
was still there, waiting for slaughter
The farmers aim was a tribe too high
however, and the rife ball wen
through the side of the barn and killeG
valuable horse.
Several hunters in Maine have bee
freed by ~ angry moose, and FARM
er was actually chased indoors by enc
\ particularly aggravating case wa
that of two spCrtsmen who were pur
sued by a big wounded bear while CU.
partridge shooting While they W.T.,
up in a tree waiting for brGin to recoi.
lect 4 more important engagement
they saw two large buck deer and
Gee not far away and distinctly heard
the below of a moose. The sequel t.
this incident was that they went back
next day and secured a buck and
dee. while the bear was captured
little later.
While following deer tracks two
hunters from Lynn, Mass. went astray
in the woods and for more than TWEEN
ty-fOur hours were without shelter or
food. They had to walk around a fire
all night TO keep from freezing Next
day they were found by guides. The
hunting story most nearly approaching
no -
that which comes from Rangeley to
the effect that the fireman OF a train
on the Sandy River and Rangeley
Lakes railway, E. F. Vose, shot a deer
from the cab of his engine. and it was
a good sized one ut that.
Women are needing 'the call of the
wild" in larger numbers every year.
and n rnndIr confinonnt have hnnn in