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FOREST AND STREAM, 
A WEEKLY JOURNAL, 
Devoted to Field and Aquatic Sports, Practical Natural 
History, Fish Culture, the Protection- op Game, Preserva¬ 
tion of forests, and the Inculcation inJMen and Women of 
a Healthy Interest in Out-Door Hecreatlon and Study ; 
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NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1879. 
To Correspondents. 
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Kukhsin.— A correspondent, who owns a stock ranch 
away up in the Blackfeet country, inthe v Northwest Ter¬ 
ritory—not the safest place in the world for his line of 
business, we should say—sends us a handful of what the 
Indians call Kukhsin. Ku kh sin is an ingredient which 
the Reds mix with tobacco, and smoke. It is almost uni¬ 
versal with the mountain Indians. Botanists call it Uva 
ursa, we believe. The leaf is ovate, small and shiny, and 
very much resembles the common box used for garden 
borders. It adds much pungency and flavor to the to¬ 
bacco, and is even more enjoyable than Kinnick-kinnick, 
which has been in use among the aborigineesfor so many 
centuries, not so much as a substitute for tobacco, as to 
give it piquancy. Kinnick-kinnick is the inner bark of 
the osier, or red willow. It is prepared by shaving up 
little laminals of bark all around a stick of the willow, 
and then drying them over a fire, and stripping off with 
the palm of the hand. 
A Disastrous Paragraph.— The Scientific American 
originated this paragraph :— 
The Pittsburgh Telegraph tells how a restaurant keeper 
got rid of the flies that infested his place. The doors and 
windows were closed and a train of very fine gunpowder 
was laid in narrow strips over the floor, and "the spaces 
between the strips were carefully painted with molasses. 
In an incredibly short time all the flies in the room 
seemed to be on the floor enjoying the luxurious repast 
bo temptingly placed before them. It was but the work 
of an instant, to fire the train. The result, when carefully 
weighed, was two pounds three ounces of dead flies. How- 
many ounces of gunpowder were used is not stated. 
Since the publication of the highly combustible item, 
about five hundred young gentlemen of a practical turn 
of mind have been experimenting to determine just how 
many ounces of gunpowder spread over the floor are re¬ 
quired to destroy the flies of five hundred parlors, dining¬ 
rooms and kitchens. It has also been discovered that the 
successful destruction of these insect pests had a m a r ked 
and uniform influence upon the rates of fire insurance, 
and that such advance in rates was confined to those sec¬ 
tions of the country where the aforesaid paper most does 
circulate. It is moreover a nice question for the courts 
to decide whether or not the owners of these five hun¬ 
dred burned bouses can recover damages from the pub¬ 
lishers of the incendiary item. We can see no escape for 
the gentlemen unless they can prove, as in libel suits, that 
the publication was in good faith and not malicious. 
—The joys of the present earth are but transitory ; but 
in the “ Happy Hunting Grounds " beyond the skies, the 
Indian summer, such as we have enjoyed for the past 
fortnight, is perpetual. The resplendent forest tints of 
our autumn are true photographs of the glories of the 
heaven beyond. “ The world is indeed beautiful, and He 
who made it must be beautiful.” 
THE UTE EMEUTE. 
L AST September the following reply to an inquirer 
was given in our correspondents' column:— 
Britisher.— “ Would hardly recommend the Rocky Mountains 
now for limiting:, as the Utcs are on the rampage, which renders 
hunting risky.” 
Recent developments indicate the significance of this 
caution. It may be well to say here that the editors of 
Forest and Stream are in constant communication with 
all the frontier army posts of the country. There is hardly 
one of these posts, if any, which our paper does not 
reach, and we are proud to claim many of the army 
officers as the most fruitful and entertaining among our 
correspondents, especially upon matters of physical 
geography and natural history. So also are we in con¬ 
stant rapport with sportsmen from abroad as well as at 
home, who ask us to designate guides and furnish letters 
of introduction to reliable parties among the Mountains. 
In sending our friends into the wilderness we volun¬ 
tarily assume a responsibility which we would not dare 
to do did we not place implicit confidence in our con¬ 
nections and our sources of information, as well as our 
personal acquaintance and knowledge of the hunting- 
grounds which have now become such, a popular resort 
for both English and American sportsmen. One of our 
editorial staff returned only a month ago from this very 
locality, where the “bucks” (both red and Indian-tanned) 
are now running, and we feel some satisfaction in know¬ 
ing that we were the humble means of dissauding sev¬ 
eral gentlemen from going there. 
The Utes have been the friends of the white man for 
thirty years. We have taken Chiefs Ou-ra and Billy by 
the hand, and have heard their friendly converse, We 
know their grievances, and that they are hard to bear. 
That these grievances will be abated soon, but never 
removed, we feel certain. There is no use of fighting 
against fate; and we trust that the head men of the 
tribe will make up their minds that this is the fact, and 
counsel their young men to be discreet, and, if neces¬ 
sary, to suffer and endure. For long years the Utes 
and whites have made common cause against the preda¬ 
tory Indians. Trappers have wintered in the Ute camps, 
and they and the whites have divided their last ear of 
com between themselves. These are old compagneros, 
whom circumstances have so recently made foes; who 
have lifted hair together for many a year, and saved 
for each other many a goodly scalp. Their boys have 
grown up together, and learned to call each other by 
name. It is a misfortune that, these old friends of the 
cache, the camp, and the corral, axe now pitted against 
each other. There axe extraneous causes for the situa¬ 
tion, but the direct cause is shown by the recent letters of 
our staff correspondent in Colorado, in one of which he 
says: — 
“ The rapidity with which our western country is set¬ 
tling up, impresses me more and more each year. Just 
as soon as any section becomes safe, the Indiana having 
been driven off, the cattle-men begin to drive their herds 
into it. and before long one hears "complaints that there 
are too many cattle there. The older settlers complain 
that the newer comas are “ crowding” them, and soon 
the most energetic commence to move off in quest of 
fresh fields and pastures new.” 
If these things are done in the green tree, what shall 
be done in the dry ? If the white usurpers are restive for 
elbow room, wbat shall we say of the temper of the na¬ 
tive occupants of the land? The New York Herald of 
last Sunday stated the case perhaps even more succinctly, 
when it said of these Indian wars 
“They are, in simple fact, the consequence of the growth 
of the country. There was peace west of the Mississippi 
a generation since, because then the white man and the 
Indian were not in each other’s way. Since then the 
white man has swarmed out that way ; he has built cities 
and railroads, he runs stages, hunts the buffalo, raises 
com and distils whiskey, and there is contact and friction 
between the races. The country west of the Mississippi 
Valley is in the same condition in this respect that the 
Atlantic coast region was in two hundred years ago.” 
We trust the wise men of the Utes will determine that 
it is the best policy to bury the hatchet. They are not 
savages : they are sensible men. When at trading posts, 
and not on the hunt, they dress in the garb of civilization, 
just as the whites do: in buckskin and leggings when they 
take to the timber and the plains. But whatever the de¬ 
termination of the issue may be, of one thing we are pos¬ 
itive, and that is, that the lives of the best Utes that ever 
lived, no matter how often they have tramped by our 
side, and taken meat at our camp fire, are not worth, man 
for man, the lives of our gallant soldiers who are so often 
sacrificed to the disturbances which the logic of events 
force to the surface. Moreover, the army posts are so 
scattered, and the soldiers of the frontier army numer¬ 
ically so very few, that the few companies and detach¬ 
ments we have are kept constantly at forced marches and 
short rations ; compelled to fight big odds of superiorfor- 
ces, and altogether suffer an extreme of arduous duty, 
really pitiable to consider. There should be soldiers 
enough in the field to afford full protection to settlers. One 
of these days the people out there will take care of them- 
Belves, but for ten or twenty years to come the government 
must protect them. The standing force should be large 
enough to quell at once any disturbance, and ensure 
against its repetition in any part of the Indian country. 
GAME PROTECTION. 
—We have received from the Michigan State Sports¬ 
men’s Association the Transactions of the Fourth Annual 
Session. This publication is unique, and, we may believe, 
serves a very useful purpose. It contains among other 
things the game laws of the State. 
Posted Lands in California.— The land proprietors in 
the quail country of California have taken a good stand 
against the pot-hunters. According to the Pacific Life, 
“‘no shooting allowed on these premises’ stares the 
the. hunter in the face on every side, and even on remote 
hillsides, where, he hopes to blaze away to his heart’s con¬ 
tent, that same grim warning confronts him. So, if he 
does not want to be ‘ prosecuted according to law,’ as the 
legend expresses it, he turns sadly homeward, or better 
still, endeavors to negotiate with the proprietors of the 
forbidden grounds. Marin, Contra Costa. Alameda and 
Napa Counties, all excellent quail grounds, are strictly 
preserved, and posted according to the Legislative Act of 
March, 1872, which forbids persons entering enclosed 
lands without the permission of the owners. The shoot¬ 
ing in those counties, Marin especially, is very fine, but 
at the same time jealously guarded. To those who aTe 
not ‘ on the inside ’ with the owners Of the quail grounds, 
the southern counties offer the strongest inducements 
and the best possibilities for making a big bag. In San 
Benito. San Bernardino, San Buenaventura and Los An¬ 
geles Counties the birds are numerous and early, and the 
‘ no-Bhooting-allowed ’ notices infrequent. The country, 
or a great portion of it, is so open that the sportsman 
may shoot away all day and never have his right to 
wholesale slaughter questioned. But the ‘no-shooting’ 
notices in the first-named counties are intended for the 
market-hunters, those ruthless destroyers, who will mas¬ 
sacre a whole bevy of quail at a single shot, if they can 
stalk them, and depopulate a good cover in a day. Gentle¬ 
men, as a rule, can obtain permission from the owners or 
lessees of the lands to shoot, but the pot-hunters are in¬ 
vited to stand off. In fact, the farmers, their sons and 
employees like to keep the sport to themselves. 
Moose Butchery in Maine. — Boston, Mass., Sept, 
26th—Editor Forest and Stream : —The article on New 
Brunswick Game Laws prompts me to write you of the 
butchery of moose last spring at the head-waters of the 
Aroostook in Maine. Andrew Taylor, of the Interna¬ 
tional Steamship Line, told me last spring on my way to 
New Brunswick that he knew a man who had seen thir' 
teen dead moose left as they were shot in “ crust time,” 
and the man said he had no doubt a hundred were so 
butchered last spring; and I have a correspondent in 
Rockahema, Aroostook County, who writes me he knew 
of fifteen being thus killed. Now it is well known that 
the law prohibits killing at all till Oct. 1st, 1880, and only 
in season then. Now. if you consider these statements 
of Taylor and James H. Swett reliable, would it not just 
suit you to ventilate the matter by at least calling on those 
in authority to state what they have heard about it. 
Perhaps we cannot better bring this to the attention of 
the proper authorities than by simply publishing our in¬ 
formant’s letter without comment. 
Sportsmen at Loggerheads.— The Toledo Commer¬ 
cial, of late date, contains a long account of some se¬ 
rious altercations which have occurred between gen¬ 
tlemen sportsmen of Toledo, who have been in the habit 
of ducking on the Bay Point Marshes, and an Asso¬ 
ciation known as the Bay Point Shooting Association, 
who claim exclusive right to the marshes. These shoot¬ 
ing grounds consist of several thousand acres of sub¬ 
merged bottom, in the State of Michigan, about eight 
miles from Toledo, and are really a part of Lake Erie. 
According to the published reports, the Toledo men have 
been handled with brutal violence by the assumed pro¬ 
prietors. The difficulties have got into the Courts, where, 
we hope, with the Commercial, the question of the pro¬ 
prietorship of the Bay Point Marshes will be definitely 
decided._ _ 
Tayloe — Not Taylor. —In the sketch of Colonel WiL 
liam Washington, printed in Forest and Stream of 
September 18th, the name of Colonel John Tayloe, of Mt. 
Airy, was spelt Taylor. Also, Dr. Valentine Peyton’s 
celebrated place, Tosculnm, which was the grandest es¬ 
tate of its day in Virginia, was printed Inselum. But 
what do printers of the present generation know of these 
time-honored names? 
—Mr. James F. Fulton, jr., the proprietor of the Inter¬ 
national Hotel at Niagara Falls, who died last week, after 
returning from a health-seeking trip to Minnesota, was 
well known to the sportsmen of the country. It was at 
the International Hotel that the National Sportsmen’s 
Association was organized. 
—As a light, mild beverage, agreeable to the most deli¬ 
cate digestive organs, the Cocoa preparations of Walter 
Baker & Co. are recommended to invalids and convales¬ 
cents as well as to those in full health.— Adv. 
”—Health is often impaired by the excessive use of tea 
or coffee. The strengthening qualities of Broma or Cocoa 
are known to the Btudent, the invalid, and to the hard 
worker, the world over. To secure such in its greatest 
f iurity, ask your grocer for Walter Baker & Co.’s. This 
louse has the highest reputationfor its goods, dating back 
to 1780.— Adv. 
—Georga C. Henning, Washington, D. O., has an im¬ 
mense variety of corduroys, beaverteens and velveteens, 
samples of which he will mail to any one enclosing a let¬ 
ter stamp.— Adv, 
