Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-30
Presence Of Young Caribou Re-
ported at Fort Fairfield.
State House About Ready for Com
Ing Of Legislators.
Next Meeting Of Governor and Council
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Friday, Dec. 80, at 10 A. M.

1t will be remembered by people who
are interested in the wild game of Maine
that a paragraph was published in the
State House column Of the Journal Of
Dec. Is which stated that Chairman
Brackett of the Commission of Inland
Fisheries and Game had just received a
telegram from. Game Warden Jorgenson
which stated that yearling COW moose
had just died at Ashland from some dis
ease and asking the chairman if he
should get Il veterinary to make an ex-
animation Of the remains to see if the
cause Of death could be determined.
To this Chairman Bracket readily as
sented, being eager to ascertain If pos
among moose and which has been given
more or less credence as a reason for
the death of 4 considerable number of
these animals, which have from time to
time been reported to the department.
Warden JorgenSon secured the services
Of Dr.. II. e. +. Jcrvis of Houlton, n
wel-knoWn veterinarian of that section
Of Aroostook county. and the report of
that gentleman on the matter has just
been received at the department. In his
letter to Chairman Bracket DIR. Jervis
states that acting under Instructions
ron Warden JorScnSon he went to Ash
land Dec. Il and held an autopsy on the
remains of the COW moose referred to,
and that While the result gained may
not prove of much real value it is salts
factory inaSmuch as he found no signs
Of any known infectious disease common
to the domestic ruminant. Owing to ad-
yanced putrcfaction on his arrival mi
crOscopical examination of smears of
blood, from organs and faces was not
at all satisfactory. The direct cause of
death, summed up from clinical and post
norton findings. was dysentary and ac-
campaigning exhaustion.
Another matter of interest to hunters
Is brought to the surface by letter
which has been received at the depart
ment from Game Warden D. s Cum
mlngs of Houlton. and tells of the re-
ported presence of Il young caribou at
Fort Fairfield. The authority for the re-
port is a well-known farmer of that
Town. and as reported to the warden it
stated that on Wednesday,. Dec. 81 dogs
chased a young caribou into the barn
yard of the gentleman in question. and
me animal was evidently tired out
through being worried by the dogs. The
animal was taken into the barn and fed,
but he would not cat. and died that
night. Warden Cummings was notified
and IN reply to a request from the gem
ueman as to wlat to do. told him to skin
tAe animal and bury the remains.
Il. a.f ,,.,.ttt ton 10 1iG
warden asking to get the skin and il it
IS caribou TO forward it to Augusta i'll
oioer That 1t may be mounted for the
museum. As no caribou have been seen
IN Maine for quite a period of years, 1t
may be possible. If the animal in ques-
uon proves to have been caribou, that
'nese animals may be coming back into
Inc State. 1t is thought by those who
Haw the animal at Fort Fairfield that 1t
must have been driven over the Cana
uian border by dogs. There is a close
.nhe on caribou in Maine for six years
from Oct. Is, 1906
The last meeting Of the Governor and
council will be held today, beginning at
~ clock in the forenoon the meeting to
me thlrd floor of the new south wing.
me nominations announced by Governor
Aei'aid a week ago will come up for
.onlirmaton and thu remainder of the
"He VIII be mainly devoted to closing
up 'iie states business for the month
ano that of the present administration
me meeting will continue without adj
'ourhment Mntl the end Of the year.
win the exception Of a general clean
,ns up the new State House is ready
.or the coming of the new year and its
accompanying changes. Quite i bit of
"ofk Is i'll progress about the building
out everything will = in readiness when
-, ,..o new Legislature assemblies next
", mr,euhesday. Jan. 4. Men were at work
thursday laying carpets in the rooms
a''naerly occupied by the State library,
~" nu another crew was busy getting the
- ,iuo into readiness for the newspaper
az LACKS who will tell the story of the
,oihss OF the Legislature. This room is
a'ed on the north side Of the fourth
+S' IN the room formerly occupied by
sion.
no annual meeting of the Maine
soitsmens Fish and Game Association.
"nch comes next Tuesday, JAN 8, will
70 he'o in the museum Of the fish and
os.ie department. One Of the features