FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 





sembled chocolate with too much cream 

 mixed with it. The size was normal and 

 fully developed. The bird has been mounted 

 and placed on exhibition in the Maryland 

 Academy of Sciences. 



Two Medicine lake, St. Mary's lake, Flat- 

 head river and lake, Kootenai river, Lake 

 McDonald, and the intermediate Rocky 

 mountain region of northwestern Montana, 

 offer the finest hunting in America. The game 

 in this vast territory is unsurpassed in va- 

 riety and quantity, including bear, deer and 

 every sort of furry, finny and feathery life. 



Many lovers of out door sports have 

 visited this bountiful country, and have writ- 

 ten entertainingly of it. Guides can be had 

 at Blackfoot, Belton, Columbia Falls, Kali- 

 spell, and other Montana points along the 

 Great Northern Railway. For publications 

 and further information, address F. I. Whit- 

 ney, G. P. & T. A., Great Northern Railway, 

 St. Paul, Minn. 



The fourth annual meeting and banquet 

 of the Chesterfield Fish and Game League 

 was held at Pine Grove Springs, Spofford 

 lake, in August; about 50 members and in- 

 vited guests being present. The following 

 officers were elected for the ensuing year: 

 Charles A. Harris, of Brattleboro, president; 

 J. H.Stearns, first vice-president; Warren H. 

 Butler, second vice-president; Frank G. 

 Dort, secretary and treasurer; Charles G. 

 Street, E. Whitney, A. T. Cobb, Geo. A. 

 Nims, Charles Blandy, and D. W. Slade, 

 executive committee. 



The work of the league in protecting the 

 fishing at Spofford lake during the close 

 season has been eminently successful, and 

 the members are gratified with the result, 

 which has been accomplished with a mini- 

 mum outlay and with but few prosecutions 

 for infractions of the law. Ample evidence 

 of the beneficial nature of the league's work 

 is offered in the fact that more and larger 

 fish are being taken this year than ever 

 before. 



Enclosed find $1, for which please renew 

 my subscription to Recreation. 



I have been up here for a week — the para- 

 dise of the sportsman for fishing, prairie 

 chickens, etc. Our largest bass was 4 

 pounds, pike 3^ and pickerel 9^ pounds. 

 The weather is bracing, ducks are coming in 

 to the several lakes and large bags are re- 

 ported. Within a radius of 10 miles there 

 are 10 or 15 lakes of various sizes. 



John S. Sargent, Detroit, Minn. 



Officer Petty, of the New York police 

 force, for years a champion pistol shot, may 

 be called upon to instruct the police in 

 marksmanship. Commissioner Andrews has 

 learned that some of the men do not even 

 know how to load a revolver, and is consid- 

 ering the necessity for pistol instruction. 



Claud Victor, a boy 15 years old, mail 



carrier over the '1 etc n range, killed a I; 

 brown bear on his last trip, two days 

 He saw the bear on a steep hill-side above 

 him, and killed it with the first shot; but, in 

 true hunter style, gave it another to make 

 sure. There are not many hunters who kill 

 their first bear at the first shot. 



S. X. LEEK, Mar wale, \\ j 



( mtario, Cali. 



A party of Ontario sportsmen recently 

 returned from Ventura county, where they 

 made a three weeks' hunt. We killed two 

 bucks and numerous doves and squin 

 We also found a bee tree from which \\« 

 took about 12 gallons of honey. I saw full) 

 1,000 valley quails, in less than an hour, in 

 a canyon near the Santa Clara river, where 1 

 was looking for deer. 



A. G. Allen. 



Warrens, Idaho. 

 Stanton came in Sunday and said he sa« 

 two big silver tips last week. Had no gun, He 

 says the trout on South Fork average 01 

 foot long, and salmon trout up to 27 pounds 

 each. Sheep are also reported fairly plenty. 

 Billy says he's going to get a silver-tip hiae 

 and wear it to New York with me next 

 spring. M. \\ . M. 



D. R. C. Brown, Harry Brown, Jack Wil- 

 liams, Jack Atkinson and two friends from 

 the East, left Aspen, Col., recently for a hunt 

 in the northwestern portion of the State. 



Mr. Brown carried a Manlicher ritle, the 

 only weapon of the kind known to be in 

 the mountain region of Colorado State, out- 

 side of army posts. 



H. W. Heffener, of York, and J. K. 

 Painter, of Philadelphia, Pa., will he mem- 

 bers of a party going to Montana, north of 

 the Yellowstone Park, for a hunting trip. 

 They will go to Red Lodge by rail, tin 

 north on horseback. 



Governor Richards of Wyomii 

 orders to have the Princeton student- 

 rested for killing big game illegally, but the 

 young men left the State before papers 

 could be served on them. They escaped the 

 penalty of their crime, but cannot 1 the 



odium of it. 



A moose came out the woods, at ( takfield, 

 last Sunday evening, says the Bangor, Me.. 

 Commercial, ran through the village to the 

 Bangor & Aroostook railroad depot, jumped 

 on the platform, and then Struck into the 

 woods again. 



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