Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-17
HUNTING NOTES

A correspondent of Maine Woods at
OK Bow has the following in his last
letter:
Mark Twain once wrote from Ber-
muda TO some friends: You may die
and go to Heaven if you want to but
iTG rattle stay here In summer
'them's' our sentiments about grand
Old OK Bow"
Speaking of the fishing restrictions
III Maine and other places, a fisherman
from Grand Conroy River, Newfound-
land, was in New Brunswick and an
sWering a question told a native. who
vas lamenting the New Brunswick re-
strictions, that Newfoundland had no
restrictions on the number of salmon
TO he caught, because the salmon
themselves attended to that. You'd be
'llcky if you manage TO land three a
week"
And here is how a Maine bear treat
ed a hunter, for which he trapped and
shot her. telling the yarn in the same
Maine Woods;
J.. 5. Just to show how nasty and
mean a Dear can be, | am adding these
few lines also adding up to see how
- IVA "a L 49, " lila sc IlidI
bear. Such extravaganza I never saw.
She ate a whole pound of nice pas
tourized Golden Rod Creamery butter.
and three biscuits, that We're almost
warm too. then she ate up two quarts
OF molasses and threw the can in the
river. That butter cost So cents per
pound and molasses so cents per gall
Ion. She used two cans of Libby's dew
lied meat, then she upset the table and
went away without washing the dishes.
Cuss a bear anyway. She stood 6 feet
4 from tip to tip, that is with nothing
on but her stockings, and she looked
u me II feet when she stood up be-
hind those logs and winkod at me with
her left eye.
Ihlrty-fve deer were received at the
Bangor game inspection station on Mon
DAY. bringing the total for this season II,
10 lo Geer, compared with lis deer on the
same Cate of 1916. The number Of boar RS.
seven, is just the same as last wear.
Warden Perkins, the inspection official
at Bangor, has been given an assistant.
owing to the busy season being on. DR..
george +. Hawthorne of Bangor now
looks after the late trains and is on duty
when Warden Perkins is obliged to be
away.
Bangor Commercially H. Mcnamara.
ana julius ~Schwing, two Bangor men.
nave Just returned from a hunting trim
10 Russell Mountain without anything
1or their trouble except fr~eshened ener-
gles and memories of a good time in the
woods. But they are undeterred hv their
failure to get a couple of deer. and sav
that they will surely get their quota the
next time the. go III. later in the season.
If Maine wants to save its partridge and
other game BIRDS said Mr.. Mcnamara
Saturday. the legislature will either
have TO put a bounty on foxes. which de-
stroy young partridge or institute a close
season on the birds themselves. They are
disappearing at an alarming rate, the cold
and rainy weather having worked havoc
with them. Deer are very plentiful up
there but the foliage is so abundant that
it is hard to shoot them. That will NOT
trouble US later in the season. We saw
deer tracks wherever we went near the
mountain"
Commercial-Harry B.. Austin, State
game and fish commissioner, was in Ban
gor Saturday morning and with Game In
spector Perkins. went to Veazie in the
forenoon to inspect the new fshway
which is nearing completion. 1t is ex-
pected that the work will be completed
in four or five weeks. Mr.. Austin SAYS
that the woods In the eastern part ~ the
state is full Of game. there being more
deer than ever before. Hunters are few
and far between said Mr.. Austin.