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RECREATION. 



antee no trouble. I could go with you 

 from the ist of July to the 20th of August, 

 and possibly longer. 



Stephen L. Adams, 



Jackson, Wyom. 



Adams was a game warden 3 years, and 

 now that he is out of a job he turns around 

 and offers to aid others in violating the 

 laws he was paid to enforce. His neigh- 

 bors should give him about 24 hours in 

 which to get out of the State. — Editor. 



WERE THEY JACKING? 

 In the newspaper accounts of the killing 

 of Major Smylie by Judge Storrs, at Blue 

 Mountain lake last summer, I saw no allu- 

 sion to the apparently undeniable fact that 

 those gentlemen, one a major in the 1 United 

 States army and the other a judge of the 

 United States courts, were breaking the 

 laws of this State and thus the laws of the 

 United States, which they above all others 

 were pledged to observe. There can be no 

 doubt, in view of the facts brought out at 

 the coroner's inquest, that the whole party 

 were engaged in floating, or jacking, for deer. 

 If men holding positions of trust and horor 

 under the government of the ^country can 

 not be relied on to observe the laws which 

 they have helped to make, can it be won- 

 dered at that a class of men such as the 

 natives of the North woods, lawless by 

 nature and ignorant as many of them are, 

 do not observe them? Undoubtedly 75 per 

 cent, of the game taken there during a year 

 is taken illegally. Hundreds of deer are 

 killed every year out of season, while the 

 majority of those taken in season are shot 

 under a jack ; yet I can not recall a single 

 case in which an offender was brought to 

 justice last year. Can not something be 

 done to awaken the people of this State to 

 the fact that we have too few game war- 

 dens and that the few we have are appar- 

 ently not doing their duty? 



C. B. W.., Utica, N. Y. 



This communication relates to the kill- 

 ing of Major Charles A. Smylie, of New 

 York City, by Judge C. B. Storrs, of New 

 Jersey. While the sympathies of all good 

 men go out to Major Smylie's family, if 

 he had one, no one can fail to realize that 

 the Major got what he deserved. It is to 

 be hoped the New York State Fish and 

 Game Commission will get a requisition for 

 Judge Storrs, bring him to this State and 

 have him punished as he deserves. — Editor. 



IF YOU GO BE CAREFUL. 

 Perhaps some of your readers would 

 like to know where there is good caribou 

 hunting. Alaska is the place, and Pavloff 

 Coal Harbor, about 40 miles from Hugo 

 island, is the particular locality. Am just 

 returning from a prospecting trip there. 



Yesterday and the day before I saw sev- 

 eral bands of caribou feeding, all close to 

 the beach and within a mile or 2 of this 

 stream's regular run. Any sportsman 

 would be sure of getting what caribou he 

 might wish, also brown bear. Take steam- 

 er Excelsior from Seattle to Juneau, then 

 steamer Newport from Juneau to Pavloff 

 Coal Harbor, where Captain Moore will 

 land anyone. Sportsmen should bring a 

 small stove to burn coal, as there is no 

 wood in the country, but plenty of coal. 

 Paul Buckley, on board Newport. 



Sportsmen who may be prompted to visit 

 the Alaskan peninsula to hunt caribou 

 there should remember that the Lacey bill 

 for the protection of game in Alaska has 

 passed both houses of Congress, has been 

 signed by the President and is now a law. 

 Under the provisions of this act, no man 

 is allowed to kill more than 4 caribou, 2 

 moose, 2 walrus, sea lions, sheep, goats or 

 large brown bears, or more than 8 deer, 

 in any one year. No females or yearlings 

 of moose, caribou, deer or sheep may. be 

 killed at any time. The sale and shipment 

 of skins or heads of big game animals is 

 prohibited at all times, under heavy penal- 

 ties, and it is the duty of all marshals and 

 deputy marshals, collectors, and deputy col- 

 lectors of customs in Alaska, and all offi- 

 cers of revenue cutters, to assist in the en- 

 forcement of this law. Alaska is a big 

 country, but these various officers reach all 

 habitable portions of it, and it will not be 

 safe hereafter for any man to attempt to 

 violate any provision of the new game 

 law. — Editor. 



A CALIFORNIAN HERD. 

 There was a duck hunt last Tuesday that 

 will be remembered for some time by the 

 members of the Salt River and Island gun 

 clubs. The day was fine and in some places 

 ducks were plentiful. E, Larsen, of the 

 Island, lead with 37 ducks. H. Bouchard 

 was second with 36. In the Salt River team 

 Bert Matthews had 29; Wm. Clark 27. The 

 Island had 18 men and Salt River 17, and 

 the official count was Salt River 293, Island 

 257. As this was the first time these 2 

 clubs met in a friendly shoot, and as there 

 has been some boasting on both sides, Salt 

 river is highly elated over the victory. The 

 following score was made : Salt River — 

 Bert Matthews 29, C. H, Matthews 12, T. 

 Boyd 22, W. Boyd, 22, X. L. Boyd 21, G. 

 Haywood 19, Bert Leighton 23, D. Reas 12, 

 G. Clark, 16, W. Clark 27, Floyd Fuller 17, 

 B. Haywood 16, C. Peyton 13, W. Damon 

 17, A.. Morrison 4, E. Havwood 12, H. 

 Briggs, 13. Island — R. H. Flowers 19, W. 

 Bouchard 16. H. Dillon 9, E. Larsen 37, 

 H. Bouchard 36. E. West 10, A. Rasmussen 

 6, L. Hicks 6, T. Rasmussen 4, A, Halley 



