Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-05
HUNTING NOTES

Tho game receipts at the Bangor
station are rapidly falling off, al
though up to the close of Thursday 10
deer and one moose had passed
through.
Two partly grown bears brought to
Rumford were shot, one by Perley Ma
son and Freeland Abbott on Tumble
down mountain, in Weld, and the 9TH
er by Vernon and Asaph, sons of
Stephen Taylor. The lads crossed the
trail of a bear on Old West mountain
in Byron. They followed this to the
den and shot the bear, far inside. They
returned several miles to their home
and brought ropes with which the an
imal was dragged from the den.
On Saturday afternoon Will New
bert shot moose in the swamp near
Mr.. Whitney's at Appleton. 1t has
been on exhibition since Saturday at
Mr.. Newbert's home. AS 1t hangs in
the stable 1t measures from the tip
of the heels to tip of nose, IA feet,
From Saturday to Monday over 300
have viewed the moose.
A Bald Head resident threatens to
poison all the foxes in his vicinity be-
cause they have been killing his
sheep. He won't have hunters around
because he claims the foxhounds are
as bad on the sheep as the foxes. he
is informed that poisoning foxes is
against the law.-Bath Times.
In Woolwich this season Il deer
have been shot and killed. One buck
over there escaped, as he has for two
years past. He has been named Greas-
ed Lightning The other day he was
pressed so hard that he jumped into
the river and swan to Days Island
A wild animal jumped upon the roof
of the Stevens log cabin on the island
in Morse's river Sunday night, awake
ming Fred Humphreys and II. I. Stew
ems of Bath, who were passing the
week end there They think 1t may
have been the wild cat.
Tracks of that Phippsburg bobcat
were seen last week at Sabine and
were measured. They were four inches
wide.
One day last week John Belanger,
of Bath. aged IS, shot fox in nearby
woods and his brother William, aged
Is, trapped near the Diamond Spring
large mink weighing five pounds.
A couple of lumbermen were in the
Wednesday afternoon and at almost
every stey they took, a partridge jumped
up, until they had counted Is birds. so
it would appear that Bath and Phipps-
burg hunters did not shoot all the bid
dies during the open season.
A flock of nine wild geese with all the
birds asleep, heads under their wings
and we'll punched together, on the bay,
was the pretty picture that George Rock
of North Bath saw while out duck shoot
ing Thank sgiving day He sculled up
within 80 yards of the geese which were
still asleep and let go both barrels of his
10-gauge gun, when to his amazement,
all the birds flew away. apparently un-
harmed. Hunter Rocks believes that he
had picked up and put in some blank
cartridges for live shells or else the black
powder did not work. Years ago Bath
man was cut on the bay and found
flock of grey ducks in Reeds Cove, like
wise fast asleep, and the late William
Freeman of East Brunswick, who was
sculling, prevailed on the Bath man in
the bow to try his cannon big muz-
zle loader. The Bath man fired the cam
non and the birds flew away. On scruti-
nizing the surface of the water in the
cove. the tip of ducks wing was seen
peeping above the surface. and on being
drawn into the boat, the wing was bleed
ing 1t had been cut from the duck s
body as though with the blow of a clever.
the explanation being that the shot had
remained long in the gun barrel that
they had rusted and punched and when
fired went out of the barrel like ball.
The ball had cut off the ducks wing. 1t
may have been that Rocks shot in his
shells had similarly punched and struck
with rust