The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-10-22


of Dempseys brother Joe. his
trainer Jerry Luvadis better known
~ Jerry the Greek" Walter Kinds
and Doctor Pierce Of Portland.
Maine. and Al Curricr OF Maine.
After visiting Kinds camp in
the Maine woods we took train for
New Brunswick, TO st. Johns and
HaveloCk. after which n 20-mile
auto ride and four-mile walk
brought us to an old log cabin in
heart OF the woods. owned by Sheriff
Blakely OF Havelock. the waiting for
us with the best cook in the lum-
Der camps.
There. two New Brunswick guides.
Len and Ainsley keirstead, Joined
the forces. And that night we we're
all out In the woods, by moonlight,
Listening while the guides initiated
the call OF the COW moose. Next
morning tracks were found. estah-
fishing the fact that there were
moose around somewhere. hut an
other day passed without stirring up
anything bigger than partridge.
Here Walter Hinds came back TO
camp after long days reconnais-
ance through woods and barrens, to
/ report moose signs in plenty. six or
eight miles away. Early in the morn
ing Dempsey, Kinds. Currier, and
one OF the Keirsteads started out
through the wilderness, carrying
blankets, grub and rifles The rest
OF us had been lying out In the rain.
rolled IN our blankets, through the
night beside swamp only Two miles
away. We stayed In camp for "A
day OF rest.
Jerry the Greek. Tells the Story.
Dempsey and his party were gone
two DAYS, while we hunted In an
other direction without stirring up
even a deer. On the second day we
we're in camp again, eating lunch,
when Keiratead and Jerry the Greek
came tramping in through the
woods. The guide carried a sack on
one shoulder. Coming up to the
cabin he turned the sack over and
dumped out something big and
round that thudded on the floor.
/ Blakley fell out OF his chair with 81
shout
He's got III That's a moose
Jerry the Greek, grinnlng Ike a
| cat, explained at length.
Sure" said Jerry. Jack shoot
| the moose. He shoot him right
through the head-bang-like that
| one shot. Tho moose he geev one
/ becg jump and fall down In the
/ trees. Me, | make big run from be-
| hind Jack. | jump on that moose for
/ grab one Nelson on heem
| keep heem down when | jump on
/ his head the moose give one toss
| and throw me on my head In the
bushes--then he flop back and die
| Look at my pants where the moose
| hook me and tear them wide open.
! My pants gone, my gosh! | pay $40
for thai anti pnlV fpur yagra
| now | got 10 throw heem away for
/ that the moose to hook me. | no
/ carel suppose Jack run up and
! jump on the mOnse-maybe that
moose hook him wide open. That's
| lucky. heh IT'S only my pants? I
pretty tough fellow, my gosh, by
| golly!"
OF course after that we all hiked
| for another camp, two hours hard
| tramp through heavy second growth
/ woods and over bogs whore 40 feet
OF soft ooze is covered with elastic
/ skin OF moss that gives shoe-top
| depth under every step, They call
| them barrens up In the New Bruns-
| wick country.
Dempsey Gets Rid of Cold.
| In camp we found Dempsey I'm a
[ high fever brought on by exposure
/ and cold ana wet clothes. for rain in
/ the daytime ana near zero weather
/ at night aren't exactly healthtul for
| anyone but a native. Those birds
| don't even put on sweater unless
/ Il goes 70 90 below
Someone had brought out a bot
| tie OF whisky. and urged Dempsey
/ 20 take a drink to break the fever,
| but Jack flatly refused,
II wouldn't touch that stuff II I
/ was dying" he said. I'm get some
/ sleep tonight and go out after deer
| tomorrow and sweat II OUT
lncidently, the cure worked
By moonlight we haunted the bar
/ rens until midnight, for another
moose, but without result. At In
| tho morning. daylight. we started
| again, after a few hours under frost
! covered blankets. We were out
/ until 10 o'clock without seeing as
much as a partridge, although the
/ guides discovered moose and deer
/ tracks, By that time we were con-
vinced that Dempsey had shot the
only moose in that part OF the
/ woods.
The next Job was to get Jacks
moose, a l4-pointer with 4S-inch
spread, out to civilization. a team