The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1919-11-20
YOUNG ARMY IS
HUNTING DEER in
NORTHERN WOODS
Every Camp Is Taxed to Capacity
Weather Would BE Better
With Snow
DEER ALREADY BEING SHIPPED
Rumley Farmer. Mistaken For
Deer. and Seriously Wound
ed Bv Hunter

st. Ienace, Nov. 15-No Mans
Land had nothing-or very little
ON the Upper Peninsula today.
Across the Straits from the
peaceful Southern Peninsula is
pouring daily a motley aggre-
CATION armed to the teeth, the an
maui incursion of deer hunters
only it is more than an incursion
this year; it is a migration. Every
one is coming.
Loaded down with every con-
ceivable accoutrement from anti
camouhage clothing to ammuni-
tion-in jugs-they are arriving
at the ferry. Everything is being
checked as baggage from cook
stoves to deer hounds. Trunks
more than once have been halt
ed and viewed suspiciously when
found to leak.
Up to noon last Tuesday 4,700
hunters had crossed the Straits
and it was estimated that the
total from Lower Michigan for
the season would exceed 5000.
Last year only 1904 crossed.
1t is no. only in small groups
that the hunters are coming, but
in young armies. Thus the Gals
ter Davis party from Petoskey of
so members passed the Straits
for Hubbell Junction in a charter
ed sleeping car; the Montrose Gun
club with AZ members from Mum
ising went north in special car
with a baggage car of parapher-
MALTA; the Flint Gun Club of 122
members came in state and two
sleeping cars with duffie jamming
a third car, all bound for Kenton.
Other destinations of. large parties
have been Nestoria and Rubicon,
from where the hunters marched
into the brush EN- masse and more
or less enraptured.
The Michigan Central, Pere Mar
quette and G.. X. & /. have all
been running two section trains
with extra coaches. And besides
these have come automobiles, all
loaded down.
At Newberry, Mich, the station
agent reported collecting 5000 in
two days on excess hunters bag
gage, part of which added weight,
it was estimated was certain pack
ages of raisins and malt and cer-
tain copper kettles and tubes.
The purser of the car ferry
Chief Wawatam reports more than
600 hunters were transferred
across the Straits of Mackinaw
Sunday and that there were eight
more railway coaches of the G.. R..
& |. to be taken over.
Nearly every camp has twice
it's usual quota. and accommoda-
tions are at a premium. A conser-
vative estimate of the number of
game hunters in the Upper Penin-
sula is said to be 10000, which in
cludes natives. If even a majority
bag their deer fears that there will
be no hunting next year are not un
likely to be realized. There won't
be any deer.
AT that it isn't much more per-
ilous for the deer than for the
hunters while the present wood
land fusilade continues. Many
have been wounded. Near Rum
J ley farmer was this week shot
, and seriously hurt by hunter
who mistook him for a deer.
: A majority of the hunters are
veterans of the woods. Men 20
, years old are commonly seen. Geo.
Ackles, Jonesville, Mich, 83 years
old is probably the dean of the
throng of hunters. Besides the
veterans are many young men,
some on their first hunting trip
of this kind. They are more or
less familiar with firearms, how
ever though they see little similar
, ity between the Argonne and the
Luce county forests, All too
many of them made The tactical
mistake of appearing in service
uniforms, excellent in character
but bad-very, very bad--in color
for this parlous hinterland.
The hunters are not all men,
either, as will be protested by the
women who have come. Three