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FROM THE GAME FIELDS 



OREGON NOTES. 

 M. W. Miner. 



I predict that the new 32-40 Winchester re- 

 peater will be a great favorite among the hun- 

 ters and cattle men in the west. That and the 

 38-55 will take the lead among men who make 

 a rifle a constant companion. Its great pene- 

 tration, with light weight of amunition, will make 

 it fill a long felt want among frontiersmen. 



A two days contest, recently, between the La 

 Grande and Baker City, Oregon gun clubs re- 

 sulted in a victory for the La Grandes. Clay 

 and live pigeons were used. 



Deer are plentiful near Wetherby, Oregon. 

 Ranchers are busy laying in a winter supply of 

 venison. — 



Bear recently raided the cabin of some Chinese 

 miners on North John Day creek, Oregon, and 

 ate and destroyed the entire winter's supply of 

 provisions that had just been laid in. The 

 Chinaman said, " bear he ketchum licee ; all ee 

 sam ee ketchum flour ; ketchum pork ; ketchum 

 duck. May be by and by come ketchum China 

 boy. May be no ketchum all ee China boy. Me 

 lun ee all sam ee like hoss. 



A cougar recently raided a corrall in Pine 

 Valley, Oregon, and killed two fine colts that the 

 rancher had yarded for the night. 



GAME NOTES. 



Pelan, Minn. 

 Editor Recreation : 



The shooting season has been a complete fail* 

 ure here. Drouth and fire have driven off nearl) 

 all the birds — sharp tails and pinnated grouse. 

 We have not had one-tenth as many as last year, 

 though the young birds were plentiful at the be- 

 ginning of the season. Ducks and geese unusu- 

 ally scarce. Moose have been practically driven 

 away, across the Roseau river into the great 

 swamps and pine lands. Elk almost extinct, 

 except about 100 miles east, where I have heard 

 of a band of about 60. Deer are also scarce ; 

 gone south to the rolling lands south of Red 

 Lake Reservation. Fur animals, completely 

 driven away such as foxes, wolves, martens, rab- 

 bits, etc. There are a few mink, and rats in the 

 main streams. Burton Harris. 



Editor Recreation : Pittston, Pa. 



I am circulating a petition to our legislature 

 in behalf of game protection. Have had it only 

 two days and now have over 200 names signed ; 

 so you see our people are alive to the subject. 



Mr. A. A. Hughes, of Williamsport, presi- 

 dent of the State Sportmen's Association, at- 

 tended the Bloomsburg two days' shoot. Over 

 4,000 inanimate targets were thrown. Wm. Van 

 Dyke, representing Winchester guns, W. R. 

 Hobart and W. F. Quimby, all of New York, 

 were prominent among visitors. Mr. Van Dyke 

 carried off the honors, missing only three in all 

 the events. W. F. C. 



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Uvalde, Texas. 

 Editor Recreation : 



I was out four days of last week, south of 

 town. We had partial success. Killed one 

 deer, two turkeys, seven ducks (mallards), eleven 

 quails (about equally divided between blue and 

 Bob whites) and five squirrels. Am thinking of 

 going again soon. Game is scarcer here than 

 ever before, on account of the protracted drouth 

 of the past two years. Quail were abundant 

 three years ago ; now you can seldom see one in 

 a half-day's travel. Hy. J. Bowles. 



Isaac B. Wilson, of West Milford, N. J., was 

 shooting with a friend, and when passing through 

 a bit of brush the friend shot at a rabbit, and a 

 large portion of the charge of shot struck Mr. 

 Wilson. Eighteen pellets went into one leg, 

 above the knee, and seven into the other, several 

 of them penetrating to the bone. They were 

 extracted, and though the wounds were exceed- 

 ingly painful for a few days, Mr. Wilson has 

 entirely recovered. , 



Captain A. C. Anson, Walter R. Wilmot and 

 James Duryea, of the Chicago base ball club ; 

 Wm. F. Bickel, vice-president of the Minnesota 

 savings bank, St. Paul ; Harry Bickel, his son, 

 and others, spent some weeks at the lakes in 

 Bottineau county, N. D., late in the season, and 

 killed- 562 geese and ducks, and 130 pinnated 

 grouse. Later on this party hunted deer for two 

 weeks and was fairly successful. "Old Ans' r 

 knows something of other kinds of game be- 

 sides base ball 



Montreal, Can. 

 Editor Recreation : 



We had a great many snipe and woodcock this 

 fall, but they left us rather earlier than usual. 

 Flight was dense, but didn't last long. Ducks 

 were plentiful. Partridges, or ruffed grouse 

 numerous, as the dry spring enabled them to 

 hatch. Improved game laws, forbidding export, 

 have proved beneficial. In our Montreal markets 

 grouse retail at 35 cents to 50 cents a brace. 



W. H. Drummond, M. D. 



Pittsburgh, Pa. 

 Editor Recreation : 



I have just returned from my hunt ; went to- 

 th northern part of the State, principally to hunt 

 ruffed grouse, and was completely snowed in, I 

 was there nearly a week and sat around a stove, 

 waiting for the snow to let up, but it didn't. I 

 got about six hours hunting on Friday, and in 

 that time got five grouse, three rabbits, one 

 woodcock and one grey squirrel. 



J. G. Messner. 



Biscotasing, Ont. 

 Editor Recreation : 



Next fall, 20th October, will again place 

 moose and caribou, in Ontario, at the disposal 

 of the white hunter, and it would be hard to find 

 a more promising country for either than that 

 around here. In the years that these deers have 

 been entirely protected they have multiplied 

 wonderfully, and ought to furnish good sport. 



T. C. Rae. 



