Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 136, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1904 — BUSSELL THE MIGHTY HUNTER [ARTICLE]

BUSSELL THE MIGHTY HUNTER

Squire Charley Bussell of Hang-, ing Grovb and neighboring townships recently, got tired of depending on the slow and uncertain returns from fees frem marriage ceremonies and convictions in assault and battery oases to k oep the family larder supplied with fresh m°at, and therefore be went forth into the wilds of Wisconsin, to look for dear st?ak and bear pork, in the Little Deer Kill river r gion Ho ai rived home last Saturday and brought two fine bucks as the product or his rifl-*. One was a specially fine specimen, dressing 184 pounds and havingaapendid pair of antlers whioh the Squire will have mounted as a trophy of his hunt. The other buck weighed 110 pounds. One of the party saw a bear, hot none of them got a shot at him. The Squire saw panther tracks also, hat does not say whether he followed the tracks the way the toes pointed, or the heels. He also shw bob-oats traoks lying around loose. It was a pretty wild region they were in, and they drove 20 miles and s*w only three small huts on the way. Deers weje thick and so were the hunters and the green fellows from the oities peppered each other abrot as often as they bit the deers One man was thus shot right olose to where Charley was staying.