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laJ passed through Bangor for the season. Moose are 
cry plenty in the near vicinity of Bangor. One passed 
li rough the University of Maine campus the other day. 
S'jinei of the students were quickly out with a rifle, but 
t proved to be a big cow nioofc. and they dared not 
-hoot. A moose was sliot Friday at Clifton, only a few 
iiiles from Bangor. Game Warden Ncal seized a moose 
Ltn Friday consigned to a Boston tirm, and shipped by a 
L^uide under a special tag. The shipment was illegal 
under the fact that it was being shipped to parties who 
lad not killed the animal. A deer passed through the 
streets of Bangor about 2 o'clock Friday morning, and 
nas seen by policemen and others. The animal was 
y;uing towards Veazic at a high rate of speed. 
The Harry B. Moore party came out of the Holeb 
woods Saturday. They have been camped at Birch Island 
and have had great sport and remarkable success. They 
1/rought out their full quota of deer, two each, including 
-c\cral good bucks. Mr. C. M. Howell had the most 
■< markable success, shooting the largest bear killed in 
iliat section for years. In the party were H, B. Moore, 
R. H. W. Dwight, C. M. Howell and Leroy S. Brown. 
Their camp is near to the Canadian border. They found 
partridges plentiful. The weather was simply delight- 
!ui. They attribute their success to having the best of 
^Mjides, and have had some experience in the same 
section. 
The htint of the Ohio party, in the Maine woods, has 
ended in a terrible disaster. ' W. C. Tuckey, of Collin- 
wood, O., has been accidentally shot and killed by J. G. 
Hostatler,. of Toledo, O. It appeared in the evidence 
at the coroner's inquest, at Bangor, that Mr. Hostatler 
!iad actually seen a deer, which he shot and killed, the 
bullet killing his fellow hunter after it had passed 
through the deer. One of the hunters states that the 
shooting was purely accidental, and nothing but what 
any most careful hunter might have done. But the en- 
tire party of 32 is grief-stricken over the accident, and 
the hunt w-ill be abandoned. 
High winds have made a <iull week with the oflf shore 
gunners. Several Boston parties have been down to 
Chatham, and other points along the Cape, but high winds 
have prevented shooting. J. A. Phipps and party have 
been in camp at Monomoy. but their success was poor, 
getting only a few coot and a duck or two. Mr. Augustus 
Nickerson and a party 01 shooting friends were at Chat- 
' ham early in the week, but gave up the hunt, owing to 
high winds and few birds. 
I Kinglield deer hunters made a rather small record 
last week, although 12 deer came out over the Franklin 
and Megantic in one day early in the week. It seems 
that the game was mostly taken tlie week before. Dry 
weather and fallen leaves have made it slow finding big 
game. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Robinson are out from the 
Megantic Club preserve, and Mr. R. E. Traiscr comes 
out with them. Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Pierce are still in 
camp and Mr. Harry Sanborn, Mr. and Mrs. Robinson 
bring out a couple of nice bucks, and Mr. Traiser a buck 
and a doe. Special. 
Deer io CumberlaQd Countr, Me. 
The close season comes on to-morrow, Nov. i, in Cum- 
berland county. Me. The hunters were given the month 
of October to shoot deer for the season of '91, and they 
improved it. There had gathered a bunch of deer in the 
northern towns which had thrived by protection to quite 
a respectable number, but they have been scattered and 
shot out during the month. Here are the numbers up to 
date as far as I know: Leon ISIoody, one buck; Clyde 
Rand and Lewis Harmon, one between the two, all of 
Standish; Mr. Johnson, of Gorham, one; Carlton Marten, 
of East Sebago, one; Will IMarten, of East Sebago. one; 
Geo. Shaw, of East Sebago, one ; Loney Burnell, of East 
Sebago, two; Wilson Burnell, of East Sebago, one; Will 
Cole, of Standish, one : Geo. Seaton, of Standish, one ; 
.Mr. Tripp, of Standish, one; Charlie Shaw, of East 
Sebago, one; Edwin Spencer, of West Baldwin, one; 
Daniel Sanborn, of East Bakhvin, one ; Gilbert Emery, of 
Standish, one; Horatio Nason, of Baldwin, and Mr. Wee- 
man, of Portland one; Harry Huntress, of Hii'am, one; 
Gustine Thompson, of East Madison, N. H., one. I am 
sorry to say that they failed to follow up four of these 
- deer at different times, and did not find them until spoiled. 
Moral — When you shoot at a deer follow until you know 
you have hit or not. Geo. Young, Freedom, N. H., one ; 
l\Ir. Ridlon, of Kegan Falls, Me., a large buck, shot in 
Sandwich, N. H. ; John Mitchell, of Naples. Ale., one. 
And I have heard of three being shot in the town of 
Bridgton, but do not know the names; and another gen- 
tleman, of Standish, shot two deer. 
Murray Watkins and Daniel Chaplin have just got 
home from the Moosehead region with four deer (one a 
noble buck that dressed 215 pounds) and a good bunch 
of ruffed grouse. 
The hunting about this region is mostlj' on small game, 
which is very wild and not very plenty; it consists of 
ruflfed grouse, gray squirrels. Northern hare, occasionally 
a fox, coon, a few ducks and once in a great while a 
deer. Trout fishing the same. Once in a while the 
sportsman gets a good one and a good string, but more 
often a slim string. This is speaking of Cornish and 
vicinity. Hunter. 
Cuftituck Mallatd Flisfht. 
Currituck, N. C, Nov. 4. — Never in my recollection 
were there so many mallards seen at Currituck as at pres- 
ent. They began to arrive about Oct. 15 in large flocks, 
and came from the southwest, until there are thousands 
upon thousands of them. There are hundreds of thou- 
sands of other kinds of ducks, too. but I never saw so 
many mallards before .anywhere. I cannot understand 
why they should come from the southwest, unless they 
have found it too' dry in Tennessee, Georgia or Texas. 
Blackheads are also here in great numbers ; we have had 
very few of them at Currituck before in four years. The 
little ruddy ducks came a month earlier than usual, and 
are also more plentiful than last season. Wigeon, sprig- 
tails, black ducks and teal literally cover the shoals. Our 
season opens Monday the iith, and if it is a gooxl day for 
duck shooting, there will be some of the largest bags made 
;ha1 were ever heard of at Currituck, 
KoRE Anon. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
Death of Buffalo Jones. 
Chicago, 111., Nov, 9.— That well-known, unique, and 
picturesque western character, C. J. Jones, better known 
as '"Buffalo Jones," died last Wednesday at Salina. 
Kansas. Thus there i)asses away one more of those 
large tigures of Western life who have been for some 
i'cars lingering on the stage of their early activities, sur- 
viving in a land which now contains few of the charac- 
leristics which once made it dear to them. 
Buffalo Jones is well known to readers of Forest and 
Stream, and also to a large audience who have read his 
book, "Forty Years of Adventure." To the writer, who 
knew this man familiarly and has shared with him the 
wilderness bed on the hard ground of the hunter's trail, 
this news comes with startling impressiveness and carries 
a deep regret. 
Buffalo Jones was born in Tazewell county, Illinois, in 
the year 184-:^. His father was Noah Nicholas Jones, a 
man who possessed .somewhat of the determination and 
resolution which made C. J. Jones famous in his later 
day. The elder Jones Avas once concerned in a lawsuit 
in which he was defended by no less a personage than 
Abraham Lincoln, who charged him $10 for his services 
as attorney. This part of Illinois was in these days wil- 
derness country, abounding in game. 
The youthful hunter had abundant opportunities for 
taking lessons m the chase and in the capture of wild 
animals. When, as was decreed in the stars for him, he 
set his face toward the western sun, he was already well 
equipped with the education most useful to him on the 
plains. He engaged in different lines of business in the 
.State of Kansas, being now nurseryman, n(pw real estate 
agent, now farmer, as occasion demanded, in the fashion 
of those swiftly moving western days. He was once a 
member of the Legislature of the State of Kansas, and 
later in life we findliim sergeant-at-arms in the Legisla- 
ture of Oklahoma. Successful in the boom days of 
Kansas, he at one time held title to no less than eighty 
sections of land, and was rated a wealthy man. All his 
ventures were large ones, and he took his fortune or 
misfortune in the philosophical fashion of those days. 
In the day of the buffalo it was almost perforce that he 
joined the skin hunting parties, and it was in these times 
that he gained his great reputation as a buffalo hunter. 
There was perhaps never in all the great army of 
plainsmen a better plainsuKui than C. J. Jones. His was 
the instinct by which he could travel by night scores of 
miles across the untracktd prairie, reaching infallibly 
the point for which he had set out. He had, beyond any 
man known to the writer the instinct of locality and 
direction. He w^as never lost under any circumstances 
Avhatever. Moreover, he had a natural instinct for long 
range rifle shooting which personally I have never seen 
surpassed. He never used the rear sight of his rifle, but 
shot with the fore sight, raising or lowering his aim 
as he saw the bullet strike too high or too low. An 
antelope at 400 yards he was pretty certain to get before 
it could escape, and I have seen him make shot after shot, 
before the days of the more modern Winchester rifles, 
which would seem matters of luck were the sequences 
not so lung. 
In 1885 Buffalo Jones got four buffalo calves, the be- 
ginning of his once famous buffalo herd. The writer 
and a friend joined him in 1886 on his next buffalo 
hunt in the Panhandle of Texas and New Mexico. There 
were 13 calves captured on this hunt. Then Jones met 
with such success that he bought the Warder Bedson 
herd, of Stony Mountain, Manitoba. For a time Jones 
lield these buffalo in Nebraska, where he managed to 
become involved in a heavy irrigation deal which prac- 
tically cost him all he had, including his prized herd of 
buffalo. He sold some of the buffalo to real estate 
dealers in Salt Lake. Others went to parties in Eng- 
land, and three head were sold to the Czar of Russia, 
all these exported buffalo bringing very large prices. 
Jones himself crossed the Atlantic twice on these trips, 
and he is perhaps the only man who ever declined an 
invitation of the Prince of Wales to nieet hifn. " The 
Kansas hunter sent word that he had bought his ticket 
home and could not afford to wait for the convenience' 
of the Prince. ' ' 
The swiftly passing years of the last decade made many 
changes in the West and the old plainsman saw much 
of his earl}^ vocation gone. Still eager in his ambition, 
we find liim now building a railroad from Galveston to 
Beaumont, across that very country now so fabulously 
rich in oil. Then in 1898 we find him returning from 
his wildest trip, that in which he undertook to bring 
out. alive, musk oxen from the Barren Grounds of 
British .Vmerica, This trip of 18 montlis from Edmon- 
ton to the Great Slave country, thence down the McKen- 
zie River and back to Seattle did more to age Jones 
than any ten years of his life. He came back wrinkled 
and broken. 
There have been several parties who have gone into 
the Barren Grounds after musk ox, but the stox-y of most 
of these is tame compared with the experiences of Jones 
and his sturdy partner, John Rea. These men were 
absolutely alone, without any native guide, on a journey 
of 39 days to the northeast of the Fish River and the 
Doobaunt River, taking their fuel with them most of the 
time, handling a pack of half savage sledge dogs, and 
running entirely by the compass. They returned over 
their trail across this frozen and unknown region, and 
only missed home by a couple of miles, surel}!- proof 
enough of the wonderful resources of this born explorer 
and adventurer. The story of their hunt for musk oxen, 
of the capture of their musk ox calves and their continual 
battle with the wolves, has been printed in Forest and 
Stream and is given in full in Jones's story of his own 
life. He writes thus regarding his experience after they 
had the five musk ox calves tied out on the long anchor 
line, precisely as we used to tie the buffalo calves in the 
Panhandle: 
"No sooner had the king of day passed beyond our 
vision. than we heard a pack of wolves just over the 
ridge. It appeared as if they had not found the carcasses 
of the animals we had. killed, but drew, nearer and nearer 
our little live ones. Our dogs were loosened on the sup- 
position they would be in danger as long as we remained 
ovitside with them, but little 'Scrapper,' one of our best 
shepherd heelers, anxious to measure his strength with 
them, dashed over the divide after one, and that was the 
last we ever saw of him. Doubtless he was devoured 
in a minute by the pack. It was warm and pleasant that 
evening compared with others we had experienced; so I 
took mv stand at the end of the rope farthest from the 
tepee; Mr. Rea at the other. We both had our guns 
and plenty of cartridges, and one by one we rolled the 
white monsters over as they appeared. We never pre- 
tended to shoot when they were more than forty yards 
aw^ay. Sometimes they would come singly, then in howl- 
ing groups, two to' a dozen in a pack. All night long — 
about nine hours of darkness — the crazy fools would trot 
up to be slaughtered; most of them running as soon as 
shot, unless we put a ball in the head or breast. Those 
wounded would drag themselves away, to be instantly 
devoured by the others. When morning came they were 
just as numerotis as during the night, and the sun was 
high in the heavens before they commenced to skulk- 
away or attempt to get under cover. x\bout noon we 
determined to try to get out of the horrid place." . 
Jones told me that during the attack of ^ these great 
wolves he was scared for the first time in his life. This 
expedition came nearly being fatal, for they ran out of 
aninuinition and food and barely got through safely. 
The expedition failed of its original purpose, but gave 
a grand proof of the daring and vigor of this man's 
nature. 
Personally, C J. Jones was an example of the most 
tireless energy. There was never a mari more utterly 
confident of Iiimself nor more absolutely independent of 
the aid or counsel of others. He never asked advice, 
and rarely gave it. On the hunt he was disposed to be 
.silent, apparently sullen or morose, always intensely pre- 
occupied. He was nowhere daunted except in the great 
cities. He admitted that when he came to publish his 
book the city men were too much for him. Then it was 
for the first time that liis supreme self-confidence re- 
ceived check. 
' Some would have called Jones egotisticak Indeed, so 
are we all egotistical. Jones was frankly and ruggedly 
interested in himself, and he surely had basis enough 
for his confidence in himself. Underneath his somewhat 
cold exterior there was the warm and generous heart of 
the frontiersman. He was the type of the daring, fear- 
less, resourceful settler of the western wilderness, nor 
shall we soon find another his equal in these days of 
swift and startling changes. The old breed is dying out. 
Buffalo Jones made fortunes and lost them, carried out 
big enterprises and failed to execute them, was success- 
fuf and was cast down. In all likelihood he died a dis- 
appointed man. Yet after all that man cannot be called 
a failure who prevails ov^er the suiToundings in which 
he finds himself. Hard, cheerless and rugged were those 
surroundings by choice of his own. In a day of heroes, 
he was a hero.' One may be pardoned the wish to lay 
upon his burial place the tribute of a personal regard. 
Fall Shooting Season. 
To-morrow opens the deer season in Wisconsin and 
the bird season in Indiana. As to the latter State, Chi- 
cago seems, not to take very much interest in the open- 
ing of the season. At the gun stores the clerks are busy 
advising the outfitters in regard to the conditions in 
Indiana, and hardy indeed is the shooter who can stand 
the statement of a $25 license, no hunting on Sunday, and 
only 24 birds a dav to the gun. Indiana ought to be 
chuckling to herself and noting in the fat luxury of 
abundant game this year. So far as can be learned from 
the infrequent shooters who are back from portions of 
the State this fall, the bird crop is a good one, as indeed 
it is generally good all over this part of the West. 
As to the deer hunting in Wisconsin and Michigan, 
it is much the old story. There have been parties of deer 
hunters from Ohio camped out in the Fifield Lake coun- 
try of Wisconsin, on the Wisconsin Central railway, for 
more than a week. This I learn from Mr. Randall, who 
is just back from that part of tlie country. He say,s. 
that if these gentlemen are doing any early shooting he 
has at least heard of no detection in the act. Non- 
resident hunters say that they intend to observe the 
laws, , and w-ill. not do any shooting until the loth of the 
month. It is to be presumed they just went in there a 
week ahead of the opcnin.g date in order to be on hand 
plenty early. 
Yet it is not a bad ))lan to go into camp on a deer hunt 
enough ahead of time to learn the range of the deer, 
the runways, etc. The same informant states that there 
has been some use of hounds in Wisconsin this fall, but 
mostly by residents. We shall hardly see the time when 
the running of hounds will be entirely abolished in Wis- 
consin or Upper Michigan. Mr. Randall says that the 
reports indicate abundance of deer, but he says that all 
agree that the "deer are going." They are going gradual- 
ly to-day, but presently they will go^ all at once, jusi 
as the pigeons and the buffalo went. Then we will ask 
what became of them. 
There are probably, according to Mr. Randall's esti- 
niate, over 100 shooters noAv in the Fifield country. I 
have seen in southtrn Illinois the agents of these 
northern railroads employed in the deliberate rounding 
•up of parties of hunters in Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, etc. 
When these excursions get fully under way one may 
believe that the woods will be literally full of hunters. 
Mr. Randall says that he talked with a guide who had 
arranged to take out a number of parties from Fifield. 
The guide said he intended to get these parties headed 
right and then hunt out a hollow made by some falleii 
tree trunk, or place back of some exceedingly thick 
tree. 
Presently we shall begin to hear of the casualties 
among the deer hunters. It does not serve to appeal 
to the reason of those who have not reason. If we could 
lynch a few of these people who accidentally shoot their 
fellow men, we might perhaps jar the anatomy of this 
sort of person to the extent of rendering their ilk mor§ 
careful tor at least a short time on the next deer hunt 
which they take. As to writing about them, cautioning 
them and advising them— it comes to nothing. A great 
many of these people never saw the inside of a sporting 
oaper. The best way to reason with them is by means 
of a dub, or better still, a rope. 
The state of affairs at Fifield is duplicated, or will be. 
at everyone of a do^en or a score of the roost popular 
