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stick and had quietly left camp, in the 

 darkness. As soon as Miner awakened, 

 he called to his aid 2 trapners, who were 

 camped about half a mile away, and the 3 

 men searched the country, thoroughly. 

 The only trace they could get of the miss- 

 ing man was the wagon sheet, which they 

 found hanging on a bush near the creek, 

 and the walking stick, which lay near the 

 water's edge. They also found a few foot 

 marks. 



They dragged the creek and the river, 

 industriously, for long distances, but failed 

 to find the man, or any further trace of 

 him. 



Mr. Miner thinks Lyons undertook to 

 cross the creek, was drowned and washed 

 down into the Salmon river. Miner at 

 once went to Banner, Idaho, and reported 

 the case to the authorities. A further 

 search is being made, and ranchmen and 

 miners, living along the river, have been 

 notified. 



All the friends of the missing man, and 

 of Mr. Miner, will be deeply grieved at 

 this sad intelligence. Lyons was a big 

 hearted, genial, good natured man; an en- 

 thusiastic hunter and was liked by every 

 one with whom he came in contact. 



THE FRESH AIR FUND. 



New York, July 13, 1897. 



Treasurer, St. John's Guild, 

 501 Fifth Ave., City. 

 Dear Sir: I hand you herewith my check 

 for $60, being amount contributed by read- 

 ers of Recreation for the Sick Children's 

 Fresh Air Fund. I hoped to have had a 

 much larger sum for you by this time, but 

 it seems my readers, generally speaking, 

 have so much fresh air they cannot under- 

 stand how any one else can be in need of it. 

 Yours truly, 

 G. O. Shields, Edr. and Mgr. 



ANSWER. 



St. John's Guild, 



Office, No. 1 Madison Ave., New York. 



July 14th, 1897. 

 Mr. G. O. Shields, 



Edr. and Mgr. Recreation, 

 Dear Sir: Your valued favor of the 13th 

 inst, enclosing check for $60.00, has been 

 received, and I return you, herewith, the 

 Treasurer's receipt for the amount. 



On behalf of the Board of Trustees, I beg 

 to thank you cordially for your interest in 

 the work of the Society, and the very ma- 

 terial aid that the contribution of the read- 

 ers of your magazine has given. 



In the name of the many small sufferers, 



who will be benefited by the contribution 



sent, I also thank you, and through you, 



the readers of Recreation, most sincerely. 



Yours very respectfully. 



Duff G. Maynard, General Agent. 



Several of my readers have contributed 

 $1 each, so that the number who have sent 

 10 cents each, instead of reaching into the 

 thousands, as I had hoped, is less than 500. 

 I am sadly disappointed at this result; yet 

 I most earnestly thank the good people 

 who have responded. 



Recreation now has a circulation of 

 40,000 copies a month. I want to increase 

 this to 50,000 by the first day of November. 

 If 10,000 of my present subscribers will each 

 send in one additional subscription, this 

 will put the edition up to the 50,000 mark; 

 and it would be a simple matter for many 

 thousands of my readers to do this. Will 

 you be one of the number? 



In fact it would be easy for many read- 

 ers to pick up 4 or 5, or 10 subscriptions 

 each. There are hundreds of thousands 

 of sportsmen in the U. S. who do not yet 

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 too glad to pay $1 a year for it, if it were 

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As soon as my circulation reaches the 

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OFF FOR ALASKA. 



Mr. A. J. Stone, who is in charge of Rec- 

 reation's Alaskan Exploring and Collect- 

 ing Expedition, left his home in Missoula, 

 Mont., July 1st, en route for the field of his 

 future labors. He will go up the Stickeen 

 river to its head, cross the Rocky moun- 

 tains to Dease lake; then proceed down the 

 Dease river to the Mackenzie; down this 

 to its mouth; across the Rockies again to 

 the head of the Porcupine — which is one of 

 the tributaries of the Yukon — down this to 

 its mouth, and gradually work his way back 

 to Fort Wrangle. This trip, and the work 

 Mr. Stone will do en route, will occupy 3 

 years. 



He is completely outfitted with every- 

 thing necessary to the successful prosecu- 

 tion of his work, and, barring accidents, 

 will send out and bring out a large and 

 valuable collection of the natural history 

 specimens of the country, and many inter- 

 esting and beautiful photographs. The 

 record of his work will be published, from 

 time to time, in Recreation, during the 

 coming years. 



With this issue is begun the publication 

 of a symposium on the wolf question, which 

 will prove of deep interest to all cattlemen, 



