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RECREATION. 



that the birds did not belong to him, but 

 that they had been placed there by Maison 

 Barberis, a restaurant keeper, and F. D. 

 Black, a hardware man. The manager of 

 the storage plant was, however, placed un- 

 der arrest, as were 2 other men, and the 

 birds will be produced in court as evidence 

 in the prosecution. It will be interesting 

 to know the result of this case and to find 

 out whether the Governor of Washington 

 will next winter advise the Legislature to 

 pass a law allowing the storage of game 

 in close season in order that it may be sold 

 when the open season comes. That is what 

 Governor Odell did in New York. He not 

 only recommended but secured the passage 

 of such a law, and this caused an action 

 against a cold storage house in this city, 

 in which 55,000 head of illicit game had 

 been found, to be discontinued.. 



doubtless see it illustrated in all of them 

 in the near future; or at least in as many 

 of them as can get the order. 



EGGS MAY BE IMPORTED. 



The Hon. John F. Lacey has done still 

 another great service in the cause of game 

 protection and propagation in securing the 

 passage through Congress of a bill author- 

 izing the importation of the eggs of game 

 birds for purposes of propagation. The bill 

 provides that the Secretary of Agriculture 

 shall have full control of such importations, 

 and in accordance therewith Dr. T. S. 

 Palmer has prepared, and the Secretary has 

 issued a circular (No. 37) giving full in- 

 formation as to what steps are necessary 

 in order to secure authority to import such 

 eggs. 



The eggs of the following species of 

 birds may be imported under these regula- 

 tions : 



Wild turkeys, grouse, capercailzie, pheas- 

 ants, partridges, quails, bustards, rail crakes, 

 swans, geese and ducks. 



Anyone interested in this subject can get 

 a copy of the circular by writing Dr. T. S. 

 Palmer, Agricultural Department, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



NO JACKL1GHTS IN RECREATION. 



Here is a copy of a letter which I recent- 

 ly wrote a Western sporting goods dealer 

 and which explains itself : 



I can not accept your order for advertis- 

 ing. The search lamp you make is purely 

 and simply an aid to the fish hog and the 

 game hog, 2 species of vermin I am trying 

 to exterminate. The use of such devices 

 as this is prohibited by law in many of 

 the States, and should be in all of them. 



I need all the advertising business I can 

 get, but I will not advertise any article that 

 would so materially aid in the wholesale 

 and unsportsmanlike destruction of game 

 and fish as this machine of yours would. 



Now let us see if any of the other sports- 

 men's journals decline this ad. You will 



Dr. T. S. Palmer, Assistant Chief of the 

 Biological Survey, Agricultural Depart- 

 ment, has issued Circular No. 35 contain- 

 ing a revised list for 1902 of State officials 

 arid organizations concerned with the pro- 

 tection of birds and game. This circular 

 gives the names and addresses of practically 

 all the State fish and game officers of all 

 the States and the Canadian Provinces ; 

 also a list of the game and bird protective 

 associations, such as the League of Amer- 

 ican Sportsmen, the Audubon societies, the 

 A. O. U., etc. Persons interested in the 

 subject can get copies of this circular by 

 writing Dr. Palmer, and it is not neces- 

 sary to enclose postage. 



The New York Sun, which ought to 

 know better, recently printed a long arti- 

 cle, laudiag the alleged sport of dove shoot- 

 ing as practised in Kansas, Texas and the 

 Indian Territory, and, in fact, nearly all 

 over the South. As IIecreation has fre- 

 quently said, the dove is a beautiful and 

 harmless bird and in the judgment of the 

 best sportsmen of the country is in no 

 sense a game bird. It should not, there- 

 fore, be killed at any time. I trust the 

 day will come when all Southern sports- 

 men will realize this and will ask for and 

 secure the enactment of laws protecting 

 doves at all times. 



A dispatch from Madison, Wis., dated 

 August 9, and printed in a Chicago paper, 

 said that Mr. and Mrs. C.. D. Moon, of 

 Chicago, who were camping at Spider lake, 

 Sawyer county, Wis., each killed a deer in 

 the early part of August. Deputy War- 

 dens Carpenter and Bowman happened in 

 at the camp, learned the facts, and took 

 Mr. and Mrs. Moon to Hayward, where 

 they were fined $25 and costs each. These 

 people have, no doubt, learned by this ex- 

 perience that it does not pay to violate the 

 game laws. 



If the correspondent who signs himself 

 "A Constant Reader," Cincinnati, Ohio, 

 will give me his name and full address I 

 will reply to him direct. — Editor. 



Will Mr. C. N. Truman, formerly of 

 Ouray, Colo., please send his present post- 

 office address to Mr. W. C. Cortright, Box 

 62, Wyoming, Pa. 



Will Mr. M. F. Tatman, who wrote me 

 some weeks ago about "A Fishing Picnic," 

 please write again and give me his address? 



