The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-03
HUN T.
inn Behind Last Thursdayl-
Law OFF on Deer Hereaboutsl
no beers Shot as yet but some
Folks NearIy!- Full Particklers as
por Follers:

Last Thursday morning at one MN
nit past midnight the open season for
hunting begin in Bingville & vicinity
and this is somethink which has been
tizens who likes to take part in the
chase.
For the past two wks several of our
most respecleted citizens has been
cleaning and oiling up their guns so as
to be ready to start out, bright and airly
last Thursday morning in the hope that
they would shoot a big buck deer big
enuff to keep EN- in meat for several
wks.
That there is quite a good menny
deers in and about Bingville there amt
no doubt. All summer long they have
been saw here and there by various
parties. In some instances the dog
goned deers have ct up gardens during
the night and been = regular noosants
as you might say.
that no odds how plenty deer be all
through the summer when the law is
on and there is fine for shootin EN-,
they're al1us as skeerce as hens teeth
soon as the law goes off on October l,
and this yr amt no excepshion to the
rule
Yves Woodruff, our expert hunter
and trapper, has been looking forrerd
to last Thursday for quite a spell be-
ing as Yves told about town that he had
big IL point buck 1ockated within two
miles of Bingville where he could go
soon as the law was off and shoot easy
Yves has Dragged about KNOWN where
this buck was down to Hen Weathers-
bys store recent. Several of the boys
tried to pump outen Yves where it was
but he was as mum as a oyster. Lem
Brown thort the matter over and he
desided that when Thursday morning
come instid of going deer hunting on
his own acct he would jest wait till Yves
started out and sneak along after him
being as then he might git shot at the
big buck which Yves has been talking
so much about.
Wei, long afore daylight Lem was
dawn broke Yves snuk outen his house
the back way, looked all around, then
started for the woods with his gun over
shoulder. Lem with a rifle follerd
along behint Yves who went down along
Snake Crick for a ways, then started
up the hardwood ridge over into Moose
Valley. Lem judged that Yves must be
gittin purity clost to the deer from
the way he snuk along so soft and
stopped to crane his neck and look
ahead 50 often, so Lem got up as clost
to Yves as he could and follerd in his
footsteps as you might say.
Jest as they got to the top of the
ridge Yves stopped all of suddint and
scrooched down and started to bring
his rifle up to his shoulder. Lem
lookt ahead and blamed if there was
sent the biggest buck deer he ever seen
in his life. Lem brung his rifle up to
his shoulder quicken scat, TUX a quick
aim. and fired so as to kill the buck be-
fore Yves did.
LENS bullet whizzed past Wesses ear
only few inches away and missed the
buck clean & clear. The next instant
the buck had whisked outen sight and
is probably runnin yet. Yves was so
scairt that he diddent shoot at the buck
tall, but as soon as he got his eye on
Lem and realized what he had did, he
laid to and called Lem everything he
could think of Lem said Yves called
him some bitter names and it was all
he could do to take em & at the same
time retain his self respeckt. Lem
and IVES then separated and amt spoke
to each ether sinst. Yves says that for