GAME NOTES. 



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My certified check will remain in the 

 hands of Mr. Raymond for a reasonable 

 time, awaiting your deposit of an equal 

 amount. Yours truly, 



G. O. Shields, Edr. and Mgr. 



OUTING PEREMPTORILY DECLINES TO MAKE 

 PROOF. 



Chicago, 111., July 20, '97. 

 Dear Mr. Shields: I have again called at 

 Mr. Raymond's office, where I learned that 

 Mr. Wilson has decided not to put up his 

 money, because Outing writes him they will 

 not stand by him, and will not furnish 

 proof of circulation, even on your second 

 proposition. Mr. Raymond will therefore 

 return your check. Yours truly, 



Lynn S. Abbott. 



AND MR. RAYMOND DOES SO. 



Office of 

 J. WALTER THOMPSON CO. 



NEWSPAPER AND MAGAZINE ADVERTISING, 

 452 Rookery. 



Chicago, July 20, '97. 

 Mr. G. O. Shields, 



19 West 24th St., New York. 

 My Dear Sir: Enclosed I return your 

 certified check of $100, which your Mr. 

 Lynn S. Abbott deposited with me, on a bet 

 as to Outing's circulation. 



Mr. F. C. Wilson, who first proposed to 

 make this bet, failed to put up his mone,y. 



Please acknowledge receipt of this check, 

 and greatly oblige, 



Yours very truly, 



H. M. Raymond. 



FINALE. 



And thus ends this remarkable incident. 

 The publisher of Outing has recently 

 printed a full page ad in Rowell's News- 

 paper Directory, and a quarter page ad in 

 " The Fourth Estate," in both of which he 

 claims a circulation of 83,000. Yet he de- 

 clines to stand by an assertion, made by 

 one of his advertisers, that Outing has 

 more circulation than Recreation has; 

 and Recreation claims only 40,000. Then 

 he declines to stand by this advertiser on a 

 proposition that Recreation has twice as 

 much circulation as Outing has; and still 

 Recreation claims only 40,000. 



The Outing man had a chance to win 

 $100 on either proposition, and to prove his 

 claim to this 83,000; but he declines to show- 

 up. 



Why? Because he dare not. 



My offer to bet $100 on this latter propo- 

 sition still holds good, and will during the 

 remainder of this year. Any man may ac- 

 cept, no matter who, or where he lives. 



Advertisers will draw their own infer- 

 ences. G. O. Shields, 



Edr. and Mgr. Recreation. 



GAME NOTES. 



I caught one small black bear, awhile 

 ago, and got part ot a foot of a monster 

 silver tip — the one who used to kill cattle, 

 last summer. Now I will never get him 

 in the same place. Those old monsters are 

 very shy about a bait. He either twisted 

 the most of his foot off, or ate it off. The 

 bones of his foot were fast in the jaws of 

 the trap, but what was on the under side of 

 the jaws of the trap was gone, claws and 

 all. I know he twisted some of the upper 

 part off because he had the trap chain twist- 

 ed till the trap was fast, and he hit the 

 head of the bait and knocked it 10 or 12 

 feet away from the body. He had knocked 

 and hit every thing within reach, before he 

 wound himself up close. I have 12 feet of 

 light log chain to each trap. Where I 

 missed it was when I only had one bait. 

 I should have put down both traps. Then 

 when he was flying around he would have 

 got another foot in. 



I have had bear with a forefoot in one 

 trap and a hind foot in another; but it was 

 5 miles from the ranch, where I was trap- 

 ping, and of course when I went both ways 

 it doubled the distance. The traps are 42 

 pound Newhouse. . Ralph Anderson. 



I send you an extract from a letter re- 

 ceived from my brother, who lives on the 

 Similikameen river, at the foot of Mt. Cho- 

 paca. He writes: 



" You should come up and bring your 

 gun. Game is very plentiful and some of it 

 getting extremely handy. This morning, 

 when I went into the old cabin we use as 

 a kitchen, I was confronted by a big wild 

 cat. When he saw me he began to scam- 

 per over tables and stoves, upsetting tin- 

 ware, tearing old clothes off the wall and 

 making fire fly from everything his claws 

 touched. I got a revolver, and after a 

 short battle finished the cat. 



" I see mountain sheep every day, on the 

 mountain above the house. White-tail deer 

 are numerous in the brush, along the river. 

 Prairie chickens by the thousand and lots 

 of ducks. You should bring your camera 

 too." J. B. L., Clover, Wash. 



While in Maine, in the summer of '93, 

 I visited a place called Brooklin. It is 

 near Mt. Desert Island, and is in the midst 

 of a game region. I saw deer, red foxes 

 and some bears, within 10 days, and we 

 were barely out of the village. To get 

 there you take steamer from Boston to 

 Rockland; from there bv small steamboat 

 to Brooklin, passing all the islands along 

 the coast. L. M. Taylor, N. Y. City. 



Please send me the names and addresses 

 of all your friends who are sportsmen, in 

 order that I may send them sample copies 

 of Recreation. 



