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RECREATION. 



Grouse and chickens are scarce this fall, 

 for the pot hunters' cleaned them out in 

 previous seasons. Duck shooting is al- 

 ways good in spring and fall. 



Major Clapp, Indian Agent at Pine 

 Ridge Agency, did a good thing by stop- 

 ping spring shooting on Pine Ridge reser- 

 vation, and should have the commendation 

 of every true sportsman. 



J. P., Valentine, Neb. 



Enclosed you will find a clipping from 

 one of our morning papers, which I think 

 will interest all true sportsmen. In my es- 

 timation Recreation is the best magazine 

 in that line of business, and my wife and I 

 anxiously await its arrival, for we both are 

 devotees to the rod and gun and are nat- 

 urally fond of such reading matter. 



A. L. G., Denver, Col. 



The clipping reads as follows: 



J. T. McLean, assistant commisioner offish, forestry, and 

 game, while at Sapinero, caused the arrest of the hotel pro- 

 prietor there, on a charge of serving game to his guests. 

 The hotel man was convicted and fined $50 and costs. 



" Fishing was never better than it is in the Gunnison 

 country just now," said Mr. McLean. "A few days ago a 

 party of 3 went out on the Gunnison river not more than a 

 mde from Gunnison City, and came back with 3 rainbow 

 trout, weighing respectively 8, 8^, and 9% pounds. On 

 the same day Dr. Sanford, 'of Gunnison, landed a iojtj- 

 pound rainbow. All the fishermen report an abundance of 

 big rainbows in the Gunnison this season, and general trout 

 fishing is good all over the State." 



We have just organized the Grayson 

 County Pheasant and Game Protective 

 Association, at this place, with 40 charter 

 members; and hereafter we intend to see 

 that our game laws are not violated. We 

 have ordered 68 Mongolian pheasants, 

 which, with those we have on hand, will 

 give us 75 to start with. We shall divide 

 these up into coops of 5 or 6 each, and dis- 

 tribute them among the sportsmen and 

 others. The eggs will be hatched by do- 

 mestic hens, and we shall not turn out any 

 pheasants until about March, '99. We think 

 by that time we will have enough to stock 

 the Northern part of the county and a por- 

 tion of the Indian Territory. Pheasants 

 are protected, in Texas, for 5 years from 

 last August. 



Levi Lingo, Denison, Tex. 



Enclosed find $1 for Recreation, for 

 one year. Have been reading it for several 

 years. Like it better than any sportsman's 

 journal I ever saw, and I have read them 

 all. 



Kansas is blessed with an abundant quail 

 crop, which is not the least of our blessings, 

 this year, thanks to the protection law for 

 past 5 years. Ducks are coming in fast, on 

 the swamps and lakes in McPherson Co., 

 40 miles North of here, and I shall have 

 some fun with them in about 2 weeks. Rab- 

 bits have become so numerous in this vicin- 



ity they are a nuisance. Two country boys 

 killed 300 in two days, last spring. I sup- 

 pose this sounds fishy, to Eastern people, 

 but it is a fact. Newton is reached by the 

 A. T. & S. F. Railway. 



F. R. Swartz, Newton, Kans. 



I have 4 guns, 2 good rods and a lot of 

 sport while travelling. My favorite is hunt- 

 ing gray squirrels, with a 22 calibre Win- 

 chester. 



I admire your work on the hog shooters, 

 and pot-hunters. Keep it up; nothing is 

 bad enough for them. 



Sea trout and blue-fishing is good here, 

 at present, and any number of small fish 

 may be caught, even from the docks. 



May some day write you a few little 

 sporting episodes, which I think would 

 prove interesting. 



Chas. Cooper, Old Point, Va. 



Should be glad to have them. — Editor. 



The quail law opened in Arkansas Oc- 

 tober 1st and quails are there by the hun- 

 dreds. They have never been known so 

 plentiful before. Squirrels are also abun- 

 dant. It is just 156 miles from here to 

 Tulsa, I. T., where there are plenty of deer 

 and where wild turkeys are found by the 

 hundreds. Sportsmen wanting to visit 

 these points can get rates from Mr. G. T. 

 Nicholas, General Ticket Agent of the St. 

 Louis and San Francisco R. R., at St. 

 Louis. Dogs and tents carried free. 



We have some crack shots here and Rec- 

 reation is read by almost all of the boys. 

 They all think it is O. K. 



Lou Jewett, Monett, Mo. 



Rev. Evan P. Hughes, pastor of the First 

 Congregationalist church of Hillsboro, 

 Ore., was arrested for shooting game, out 

 of season, in violation of law. He was ar- 

 raigned before the justice and convicted. 

 In his defence he pleaded the biblical in- 

 junction, " Rise Peter, kill and eat: " but 

 the justice did not recognize that kind of 

 law and fined the minister $50. 



This is tough on the cloth. Brother 

 Hughes, but hereafter you must keep your 

 gun corked up until the legal season opens. 

 Game laws are made for saints, as well as 

 for sinners. 



The slaughter of deer has begun, the law 

 having ceased to protect them, from Oc- 

 tober 1st to November 1st. This seems al- 

 most cruel, for the deer have become very 

 tame, in this 'part of the state. Recently a 

 doe and 2 fawns were seen on the campus 

 of the University, of this place, wandering 

 off at their leisure. On the hills about here 

 deer are often seen, manifesting no fear at 

 the close approach of the farmers. 



