Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-28
HUNTING NOTES

George Gray of Five Islands who
has been working at the Texas yard
and who is now hunting in Five Is
lands and adjacent territory We'd
nesday with his mink dog captured
six Of the animals which are valued
at $50. Gray thinks this good enough
pay for one days work.
Two Maine hunters have lost their
lives the past week, one being taken
for deer and the other for a bear.
1t Is very unfortunate that the big
game season in our Maine woods is al.
most certain to be accompanied by
long list of fatalities. The list has
been somewhat decreased in recent
years owing to the great efforts made
! to bring about greater caution on the
part of sportsmen but further de-
crease should be made.-Bangor Com
mercial.
There has been some deer excite
ment in Phippsburg since the Virginia
sighted the deer swimming across
the kennebec near Bluff Head. The
animal landed on Arrowsic and Wal
ter McCourt tracked it. finally sight
ing it, but too far away to get a shot.
After that it was seen on Lees Is
land, according to reports, then its
tracks were discovered by town clerk
Walter Small between the F'risbee
and Dickinson houses. At last
George Sprague and Maurice Pye
saw tracks in the woods back of
George McIntyre's. After stalking it
for many hours they finally sighted
it and companion and shot ended
the career of the albino fawn as well
n &c, yho
fawn said it was handsome, only the
tips of it's ears being like the mother,
brown. Many deer have been re-
ported in town this fall, though, one
would hardly think there was woods
shelter enough left for a rabbit, let
alone larger animal. Mr.. Pye got
the white fawn while George Spragues
shot brought down the mother.
The rcsourcefulness of the expert.
enced hunter was well illustrated
one day this week when Henry A.
Titcomb. without weapon or trap
caught and killed big, fat raccoon.
Mr.. Titcomh was taking q short cut
across lots on foot when his keen
eyes spied coon tracks in the snow.
The animal had ventured from its
winter quarters in tall hollow
stump, but had found the crust too
soft and the snow too deep for easy
travelling and had returned to it's
den after going a short distance
Climbing the stump Mr.. Titcomb
could see the coon inside about three
feet below: the opening through
which it had entered. Without any
weapon, not even an axe, Mr. Coon
would usually have been safe, but
Mr.. Titcomb cut a stout club with
his pocket knife and endeavored to
poke the coon SO as to drive it out.
The coon realized the security of it's
den and refused to bulge. The
hunter then removed the lacing
from one shoe, tied it to stick and
made a moose in one end of the lac
ing. All efforts to snare the coon
around the neck were futile, but
after much patient fishing he sue
ceeded in getting the loop over one
of the coons' legs. The animal was
pulled from it's nest and despatched
with a well directed blow of the
club. The coon was a male and of
large size, it's skin measuring 81
inches from tip to tip. Joe knowles
appears to have nothing on the Farm
ington hunter in securing game with
out weapons.-Farmington Journal.
Nov. "a.
One afternoon recently Eleanor
and Gilbert Hathorne, a lassie and
lad of 10 and s, residing in WOOL
witch, were taking a walk in their
fathers pasture. High UP in an old
pine tree they saw three young coons
asleep in the crotch. They were de-
termined to capture them. The
coons fought like troopers, as did
the children, but the latter came off
victorious. The little animals were
fat, and their combined weight was
26s pounds. requiring help to carry
them to the home. This will give the
children some extra spending money,
if they do not add it to their bank ac-
count, for they are thrifty little souls
all of the name.
One hundred and twenty-one deer were
received on Saturday at the Bangor in
spection station, bringing the total for
+b;s CON I'm IN 1870 1ear with 16 hears