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RECREA TION. 



Publishing Company, New York ; D. 

 V. Pardee, of New York, secretary and 

 treasurer of the Lake Shore & Michigan 

 Southern Railroad Company, and Wil- 

 liam H. Hutchins, of Johnstown, N. Y. 

 The club expects to buy or lease a 

 large tract of land in the Adirondacks, 

 for a preserve, and to build a permanent 

 club house. 



A Lively Club. — The Columbia Rifle 

 and Pistol Club, of Rochester, though 

 less than one year old, has 169 members, 

 divided into six teams. Each team has 

 two gallery contests each month. Then 

 there are occasional contests between 

 the different teams, that afford good 

 sport and keep up a lively interest in 

 gallery work. There are many other 

 clubs that might well adopt this scheme. 



Illegal Slaughter of Deer. — A 

 press despatch dated at Escanaba, Mich., 

 Oct. 6, says : 



The annual slaughter of deer in the Upper 

 Peninsula has begun. Yesterday over 250 car- 

 casses were shipped through here for Chicago, 

 Detroit and other cities. This is in direct vio- 

 lation of the game laws of the state, because the 

 game is not hunted in a sportsmanlike way, but 

 chased with dogs and hunted at night with lan- 

 terns by pot hunters. These men come from 

 Illinois, Indiana and Michigan. The woods are 

 full of hunters at night, who shoot with sheer 

 recklessness. Half a dozen settlers have been 

 wounded by stray shots. 



It is hoped that some of Michigan's 

 clubs have, ere this, taken charge of these 

 pot hunters. 



William H. Burke, of Rochester, N. 

 Y., lately made a trip into the far north- 

 west of Quebec, where he killed four 

 moose. He brought out the heads, skins 

 and a goodly quantity of the meat. His 

 guide and packer were Algonquin Indi- 

 ans. It is claimed, by men who are in 

 a position to know, that one of the best 

 strips of moose country remaining on the 

 continent lies in Ontario and Quebec, 

 north of Mattawa, and on both sides of 

 the Mattawa river. Some caribou are 

 found in the same range. 



H. A. Shields, Johnstown, Pa., writes: 

 "I am going for turkeyson the 15th 

 inst. They are plentiful this fall. 

 There is also a pack of wolves about 

 twenty miles from here. How is that for 

 an old country like this ?" 



C. A. Cooper " Sybilline," who is well 

 known to all reading sportsmen in the 

 United States, has turned granger and 

 writes that he is now so busy tickling 

 mother earth that he has no time to play 

 with a quill. He says, however, that he 

 intends to have his annual outing before 

 the snow gets too deep ; that there is a 

 bear ranging in his school district which 

 requires attention and he expects to look 

 after him soon. 



E. A. Boosinger, of-Leadville, Colo- 

 rado, started early in October for a 

 month's hunt in the country near the 

 North Fork of the Gunnison river. 



A correspondent at New Whatcom, 

 Wash., writes : 



" I have just returned from a three 

 weeks' goat hunt, up in the mountains, 

 northeast of Mt. Baker. Got two nice 

 specimens, two others being killed by 

 the other members of our party. The 

 fur, though not long, is in good condi- 

 tion." 



C. C. Jones, Sandwich, 111., is watch- 

 ing deer trails in northern Wisconsin. It 

 is to be hoped he has had a shot ere this. 

 When he shoots he usually gets meat. 



John B. Nellegar, J. W. Brooks, E. 

 S. Kimball and W. B. Bogert, of Chicago, 

 and A. W. Miles, of Livingstone, Mon- 

 tana, had some great sport in the far 

 West. They killed several elk and ante- 

 lope. Bogy got his nose badly sunburned, 

 and killed a dog — a small yellow dog — 

 a prairie dog, in fact. 



R. W. Patton, a Chicago man, is show- 

 ing his friends the head of a mountain, 

 sheep which he lately killed in Montana. 



Mr George Herzberger, of Roches 

 ter, lately spent a day in the woods, 

 about fifty miles north of that city, and 

 returned with a bag of fifteen black and 

 gray squirrels and four ruffed grouse. 



A friend who has recently visited 

 Ten Mile lake, in Grant county, Minn., 

 reports good duck and chicken shoot- 

 ing, and a good hotel for those who 

 would enjoy comfortable living and good 

 shooting at the same time. Dalton is 

 the nearest railway station. 



