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Show A MI01ITY 1ILNTKR IS MAINE. lie II Klaln Hundred or Hear aud Other (num. KAMioit. July 2. Tho town of Wesley, Wes-ley, Washington county, K-cnis to bo a favorite resort for all kinds of game, being especially noted for tho great number of deer ami bears killed w ithin its borders, and so it is not slrango that its male population includes many mighty hunters. Chief among these is an old fellow known as Uncle Gideon, who has slain no fewer than 225 bears since ho tirst took up his residence near Wesley Corner, twenty-live year ago. Uncle Gideon keeps tally of all thn bears he kills now but says he has no account of lhoe ho slaughtered previous prev-ious to JHlia. This silting ho lias pith-ered pith-ered In three, an old she bear and her two cubs. Most, of (ho Wcslcyan go bear hunting when they have nothing else to do, nud as continued heavy rains gave fanning n great set back this spring, they have improved tlm opportunity oppor-tunity to scciiih lho furry crop that grows in all weathers. The low n treasurer treas-urer has paid a good many bounties on bears during the past, month, and several sev-eral of tlm hunter huvc made, quite a pot in lho business, for, beside the bounty of W, a bear skin is worth from $15 to'lW. |