FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 



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elder, and the poachers got wind of the 

 wardens about the same time. A hot chase 

 ensued, the wardens overtaking the outfit 

 within 4 miles of the Utah line. There 

 were 3 in the party, George Bennett, Jos. 

 Marshall and George Reynolds. They had 

 29 deer in their possession. They were 

 brought to Meeker and tried before Jus- 

 tice Mow. Each was fined $40 and costs, 

 amounting to $156, 



Thirty-one deer carcasses were taken to 

 town ; a few were sold here, and the others 

 were shipped to Denver, where they will be 

 sold and the proceeds turned into the game 

 fund. The money thus obtained, together 

 with the fines collected, will more than 

 pay the cost of the expedition. 



The arrests were made in Chief Warden 

 Jay's district, so Mr. Jay was the complain- 

 ing witness in each case. — Meeker, Col., 

 Herald. 



OTHER EDITORS FALL IN LINE. 



I am glad to see that some of our best 

 newspapers are falling in line with you in 

 regard to game protection. I enclose you 

 an editorial from the North American, of 

 Philadelphia, entitled "After the Game 

 Hogs," which may interest some of your 

 readers : 



The Blooming Grove Park game law cases were 

 not ended, it appears, by the action of the Federal 

 Court in sustaining technical objection to the 

 enforcement of the Lacey act. Secretary Kalb- 

 fus, of the State Game Commission, reports that 

 he has evidence on which he expects to_ convict 

 in the State courts 36 members' of what is known 

 as the Blooming Grove Park Association, of Pike 

 county, for hunting in this State contrary to the* 

 act of Assembly requiring non-residents to pay a 

 license before shooting in this State; 30 of these 

 gentlemen for hunting on Sunday, many of them 

 repeatedly; and 46 for carrying game out of the 

 State. Of the 5 members indicted under the 

 Lacey act, the secretary says, the evidence against 

 them is straight, but they "prefer to quibble and 

 fight over technical flaws rather than meet the 

 facts as they exist." 



Under the protection of law, enforced faith- 

 fully by Secretary Kalbfus, with the co-operation 

 of* the League of American Sportsmen, game is 

 increasing in Pennsylvania, and but for the be- 

 havior of such swine as the members of the 

 Blooming Grove Park Association of Game Hogs 

 it would soon be as plentiful as*it was 50 years 

 ago. 



Recreation has converted a great many 

 in our neighborhood, who were formerly 

 game or fish hogs, into decent sportsmen. 



Rabbits are more plentiful than for 

 years. One morning recently a man count- 

 ed 41 between Glossboro and Williams- 

 town, a distance of 6 miles. Quails are 

 also abundant, owing, no doubt, to their 

 being fed and looked after during the 

 severe weather last winter by the farmers 

 and sportsmen. Let this grand good work 

 of Recreation go on, and let every sports- 

 man in the country support it. 



A. Beckett, Glassboro, N,. J. 



IT IS ODELL'S FAULT. 

 I like Recreation, but have wondered 

 much since I commenced to read it why 

 there is no agitation in this enlightened 

 State of New York against the marketing 

 of game. I learn from Recreation that it 

 is forbidden in other States and should 

 imagine that this great and intelligent Em- 

 pire State would set an example for all 

 the other States. It seems to do nothing 

 of the kind and I am sorry for. it, as I am 

 convinced we shall never again have much 

 game until the market hunter is knocked 

 out entirely. 



M. I. Mitchell, Ithaca, N. Y, 



You have not read Recreation carefully 

 or you would have seen in almost every 

 issue of it, for several years past, some 

 declaration, either by the editor or by con- 

 tributors, against the sale of game and 

 against market hunters. 



The League of American Sportsmen, 

 aided by a few other good sportsmen in 

 the State, who are not yet members there- 

 of, secured the passage of a bill through 

 our Legislature last winter prohibiting the 

 sale of ruffed grouse, but Governor Odell 

 saw fit to veto the measure. For this he 

 will be held accountable in his coming 

 campaign for re-election. This measure, as 

 originally drafted and introduced, also 

 aimed to prohibit the sale of quails and 

 woodcock, but certain weakkneed members 

 of the Legislature, who were afraid to an- 

 tagonize the game dealers, had the names of 

 these birds stricken from the bill. The time 

 will come when New York will enact a law 

 prohibiting the sale of all kinds of game at 

 all times, but the friends of the birds must 

 do a large amount of educational work be- 

 fore this can be accomplished. — Editor. 



THROUGH NORTH PARK. 



Last August, in company with Samuel 

 Wright and 2 others, I started for the 

 North Platte, in North park, Colo. On 

 the way we fished in the Little Piney, the 

 Laramie river and the Canadian, with suc- 

 cess except in the Canadian. We finally ar- 

 rived at Ten Mile, a point on the North 

 Platte. We camped there and caught a 

 number of rainbow trout. In the stomach 

 of one I found a dead mouse, and in an- 

 other a small water snake. I was told that 

 a mouse makes a good bait for rainbow 

 trout. 



One morning the curiosity of a 2 year 

 old buck led him within 50 yards of our 

 tent. We all fired at him, but none of us 

 hit him, as far as we know. 



The Little Piney is a small stream ; over- 

 hanging willows and buck bushes make 

 fishing difficult, and the fish are small. The 

 Laramie is a wide stream, deep and swift, 

 and easily fished with hip boots. It con- 

 tains the most beautifully colored trout in 



