Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1906 — Charley Bussell Starts a Deer Park. [ARTICLE]

Charley Bussell Starts a Deer Park.

Squire C. W. Bussell, wolf and deer slayer aud rounder up of reluctant and unauthorized prospec tivt paternal progenitors, was out on a deer hunt Friday, and it was right herein Jasper county that he got his deer, too. and came through Rensselaer with it in the evening. It was a beautiful spotted buck fawn, and he had it in a crate in the front of his buggy. He got it of his cousin Robert Parker from the latter’s deer park, over at Fountain Park, and was taking it back to his place in Hanging Grove, to become the stai ter of a deer herd in a park of six acres he has fenced off there. The fawn looked like the picture of gentleness in the crate but when they first tried to catch and handle it, it kicked and struggled so that Charley and the park keeper were scarcely able to handle it, and its sharp flying hoofs gave Charley some big cuts on his -hands. Mr. Searight, of Cass county, was with Mr. Bussell on the trip and he also secured one of the fawns, but sent it directly home, by express, r” Mr. Bussell has quite a collection of birds in his park, including a large flock of common wild geese, which breed well in captivity, and several kinds of brants, and especially a pair of very rare white-head-ed brants.