Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-20
HUNTING NOTES

The game receipts Tuesday at Ban
gor included so deer, one moose ana
one bear, making a total for this sea-
son of 1854 deer, 60 bear and 70
moose, compared with a total for the
same 1913 date of 1916 deer. 80 moose
and Ii bear.
Warden George w. Ross Of Vance
boro was in Bangor Tuesday on bust
ness connected with the State Inland
Fish and Game Commission. On
Wednesday he distributed IL cans of
trout for Chipuniticook lake near
Vanceboro from the Monmouth hatcn-
cry, and on Thursday, II cans of land
locked salmon from Belgrade hatchery
for Ezra n. Williams, Ellsworth.
A large bear passed through the
Bangor inspection station Tuesday. 1t
was killed by L. jenkins of Peckville,
Pa, and was a monster In size. he
measured eight feet from tip to tip
and weighed in proportion.
A communication has been received
from a boy of IL years named Shell
don Brown in which he relates
hunting experience in the woods OF
Northern Maine. He says: las l was
out deer hunting with one of the men
from the farm by the name of Gard
ner we came upon a large bear track.
We followed it up and found that the
bear had come across a wounded deer
and was feeding upon it. We shot
the bear and he weighed 500 lbs. and
measured feet from tip to tip. We
came home and got team of horses
and went into the woods and hauled
him home"
James X. Hackett, the actor, who
shot buck and two does, with sever
al partridges, at Jackman recently,
lost his does to the New York games
warden because he neglected to obtain
a shipping tag. Does may be shot in
Maine but not in New York.
C. l. Staples. of Ellsworth, is in the
market for q tame rabbit. He was
driving his automobile over the Nc
Farland's hill road one afternoon re-
Gently, looking for a "budder." when
a rabbit dashed across the road and
into the brush Mr.. Staples stopped his
car, got out his gun and blazed away
at the rabbit, then some distance away.
The rabbit promptly died. Mr.. Staples
was examining it's pretty pink eyes and
white coat when he heard wall be-
hind him. and a distressed small boy
appeared, crying, you've shot my pet
rabbit" Mr. Staples couldn't supply
another live rabbit on the spot, and he
rendered the only balm available, in
cidentally telling the boy to say moth
ing about it. But the boy came into
Ellsworth to spend some of the
balm" and the story was out.
Main street at Newport was the
scene of great excitement Tuesday
morning A tame deer belonging to
c. r. Weymouth was walking up and
down the street very leisurely. He
went up as far as Charles Osborn's
barn where an attempt was made TO
take the animal into the building with
grain as bait. But the deer, whose
name is Dodo was wise. He went over
in the orchard and ate apples. About
this time Mr.. Weymouth came on the
scene but Dodo had no idea of being
caught. He walked over to Hon. Chas.
Smiths house where a small crowd
had collected. BY a ruse he was cap
tursd in the Smith stable and taken
home on a truck wagon. Dodo lives
each winter in a boXstall in the Wey
mouth barn with another smaller deer
named Kipling. To make his escape
he had to go upstairs and jump out
of the window. In summer the deer
live in the beautiful woods near Mr..
Weymouth's camps at the lake. They
are very tame and will eat from ones
hand and are the pets of the family.
Galen c. Ward Saturday afternoon,
while walking through the Five Mile
Swamp hunting partridges, saw upon
the limb of a tree striped owl de-
vouring partridge that the bird had
captured. He had with him only a
light 2S-guage bird gun, and had to
fire three times at the owl before the
bird fell from the tree. He agrees
that the legend "As tough as boiled
OWL is correct. This owl was tough
without beirg boiled. He hit the bird
every time he shot
Men of the crew engaged in work.
ing on the State road near Mareen's
at the Basin in Phippsburg Saturday
last, saw that bobcat and decided that
it was an ordinary house cat gone