Show I 1 H y 4 C cz V I 1 i lv 5 a y 7 10 W q vs I 1 7 I 1 A si I 1 i i i I 1 FA TP OP OF MAINE I 1 bekel I 1 A SINGLE LOCAL LOCALITY ITY SHOWS A TERRIBLE STORY I 1 MM leep snow brings 90 ratI wilu weak from MIP doc destray th clr Be ReMU foI crnac la in a N bomben b A man arrived in lewiston from swift the other forenoon who says t that hat the deep snow anew and crust a ost of tse latter part of the winter have cost coat the lives of thousands of doer deer in the northern part of maine this na Is mr joseph vincent of lewiston wha has passed the winter with his bis team and a few men logging at swift river as bays the lewiston journal he told a ato tetory ry of butchery that almost equaled the story of senator proctor in its pie of woe in the region at rf our camp at swift river were perhaps a dozen yards of deer containing tonta ining from eight to fifteen deer when the winter closed down and the snow enow came they were all as tat at and rugged look lag ing as butter balls we used to see them about the woods in the fall and they yarded in the thick trees where they could get plenty of tree branches to eat the snow came down heavy and shut them in they ther could not got get out of their yard paths without floundering in the snow ordinarily they can wade out and make new paths and tracks but this year the snow was so 80 deep that when they tried to get out they merely stuck in the snow and had to struggle back into the yard as best they could the result was that they ate at up all the green stuff that there was to be had and then starved some of chwe that I 1 found within a few weeks back were so poor that their bones stuck stack out of their hides almost we hare had to haul ha esy into me camp the last of the season and tor for that purpose have built roads through the snow the hay of course would fall off and be torn off by the branches of the trees and scattered along the wood road well after the first crust came on which the deer could walk in the early mornings they came out of their yards on it and scattered all through the woods eating everything ravenously they came to the wood road where our hay bay was scattered along the way and they just camped down there they stayed till late in the forenoon and when the crust melted the they y could not walk back to their yards on it then they continued to follow along the road till they came to the camp where we sometimes took pity on the poor half starved things and gave them food but our greatest surprise was when we were hauling in hay one morning the first time that the crust on the snow would hold and saw a lot of the deer ahead of us in the snowy road we had seen them in the tall fall risking frisking through the woods like shadows and we supposed that they would tee flee from us now but they did not they waited till we came up and one only caily tried to get out of the path he go avig into the snow to the hips and wallowing there helpless the rest stood hlll jamming out of the way and letting ting us ns pass so near that they were touched by our hands when we passed A little distance ahead of us they pre rented a beautiful picture and were apparently patently ly well but when we came up to them it was revealed why they so patiently waited to 0 let us come up they were starving they bit eagerly at the hay as we passed them ty by and one or two followed us and ate off oi of the rear of the load lead but such pathetic sights you never have seen in your life they were as poor as poor could be their eyes stuck out at the appearance pe arance of the hay and while they exhibited every appearance of extreme terror at our appearance they nevertheless let us approach they had come out of their yards in the early morning while the snow was frozen hard and had bad found the trail when they tried to go back the crust was melted and they could not go but I 1 do not think that that Is the worst feature of this winters deep snow I 1 found that the dogs were anft making havoc with the deer all over that region and from reports that I 1 have of the region farther east and north I 1 should say that the same Is true of the entire upper part of the state one morning I 1 found four dead deer beside the he road where they had been killed by the dogs they were bitten abo about u t the neck and torn tam tin till they tell fell down from loss of blood and were then destroyed but they are not eaten wholly in fact act the dogs devoured only the harn hams of their hind legs they then left them and went after more deer to kill in adne place I 1 found three deer alive but so hopelessly torn and lacerated that they died before my eyes the dogs had bad thrown them down and eaten their hams while they we estUl living and then gone away and left them there these dogs could chase deer on the crust when the poor deer would slump through the snow in one place near our camp I 1 found a yard where the deer had been happy and tat fat in the fall when I 1 visited it in the spring only a week ago III all the deer were dead killed by the dogs in their ya yards ads it was a sight to make the blood of a sportsman boll in 1 my estimation and I 1 have figured it out carefully careful 17 there are in the region ot of swift river the carcasses of over deer which have been killed by dogs and which have starved starve io death the dogs are let out about the house of the 0 owner er in ili the settlements and ancl they disappear wore before I 1 A couple of af dogs though they aaben may af denoth ben ath ing toot but cam wm 0 o W tte woods together on aa the rust crust and bax e lb for days and in that time no one knows how I 1 assay deer they mayA av billed we found maaz any partially eaten licar ii ar the iw wooda since 1 V i this lat last c crust M SL fixa formed ea 1 I 1 dont w C 68 X t I 1 le xa zu I 1 thin thing 9 baay I 1 a 1 ve f 1 I 1 A 7 llewlyn Z rn iolj iii nav suit isu I 1 mi et i 7 1 I 1 1 bixl ixl 61 cl 4 1 1 ill 1 I 1 11 I 1 SS jq S v N i I 1 I 1 r I 1 bvm v 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