The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-12-02
.ARASCAL R0BS THEM
ScoundreI Steals Deer From Princeton
Boys and Sells Them to City
Chaps for Good Sum.
Interesting Excerpts From Diary Kept
While in Camp by Chief Cook
and TumbIer Rinser.

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Il there is anyone in the north
country who deserves to be shot for a
deer it is the INSCRIPTIONS rascal who
stole three bucks belonging to c. A.
J ack, Andrew Bulls and Ben Soule.
1t appears that these bucks, together
with doe belonging to Charley Muir
ray, had been hung in a tree near the
logging road and that a fellow pur-
Joined them. He sold the carcasses
for good round sum and decamped
to parts unknown. To this fact is
probably due the downcast appear
ance of three of the gentlemen named
when they arrived home on Tuesday
OF last week with but one scraggy
little doe. Mr.. Jack reached here
several days ahead of them but left
his deer in their care. The remainder
did not reach their homes until
Thanksgiving day and among them
had six deer. There we're in this
party VIM. Cordiner, Magnus Sjo-
blom. August Jaenicke, Kitchen
Mechanic Hulett, Senator Swanson
and son and L. Paulle. The latter
three went through to Minneapolis.
The boys say they enjoyed their
sojourn in the woods, but had it not
been for Mr.. Hulett we would in all
probability have remained ignorant
of their experiences. Hulett kept a
diary and from it we extract the fol-
lowing interesting data:
Senator Swanson shot the largest
buck but had narrow escape from
death while securing it. he had
drilled the deer through the back with
soft-nosed bullet and ran up to dis
patch it with his hunting knife when
the animal hooked him in the slack of
his trousers and threw him against a
tree. Undaunted, the senator re-
turned to the fray and, after several
attempts, succeeded in cutting the
bucks throat. That night Hulett re-
soled the senator's pants with the
crown Of red hunting cap, which
made very picturesque combina-
ton.
Hulett tells, in his diary, of at
tempting to pick the lock of the medi-
cine chest while in camp alone, but it
proved dismal failure. Whether he
intended this for publication or not
we do not know.
There was one night in camp which
was very restless and uncomforta BILE
one for the boys, and it seems that
Hulett suspected trouble, for instead
of sleeping in bunk he made up a
bed for himself on the floor. "By the
jumping jacks of predition!" ejacu-
lated Andy Bulls, as he scratched his
back 6ercely, IT believe I'm infested.
What on earth is eating me?" And
the other hunters answered, "Me
too," or words to that effect, as they
out of their hunks. A
hurried investigation disclosed the
fact that parasitical slumber dis
turbers, which had probably been left
in camp by peregrinating lumber
jacks, we're responsible for the trouble
in other words greybacks we're
roaming about in large number.
The boys we're, however, prepared for
the emergency and, after pouring
large quantities of insect powder in
side their shirts, managed to acquire
some sleep. The next day Hulett
cleansed the hunks and
every man washed his undershirt and
hung it on a bush.
We also gather from the diary that
when the advance contingent, Magnus
Sjoblom, VIM. Cordiner, Charley
and Cook Hulett, arrived at
the shack they discovered that their
big box stove had been appropriated
by some unknown person, and, in
consequence, they could light no fire
in the building. Verify, a tough pro-
position confronted them. They held
a council of war and decided that
Murray and Hulett should go off in
one direction and Sjoblom and
Cordiner in another to search for the
missing heater. They tramped and
and eventually, at a distance
Of seven miles from camp, Sjoblom
and Cordiner discovered the stove in
q claim shanty. The man who stole it
admitted his guilt and reluctantly
gave up the property. AS no team
was. available Magnus and Bill
shouldered the heavy box stove and
started back with it, not reaching the
shanty until after midnight. The next
lay they were too stiff to 60 forth on
,he hunt. Hulett and Murray arrived
at camp earlier and when the boys
brought the stove we're engaged in
picking the bones of two cartridges
and trying to deplete the medicine