
FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 
Have acted as game warden since August 
25, 1898, and have done a deal of good. We 
have the worst lot-to contend with here 
that man ever saw. About 4-5 of the 
shooters (you would not call them sports- 
men) violate the law whenever they get 
a chance and by enforcing the law when- 
ever I can get evidence [ have incurred 
the ill willofthe whole outfit. Your inform- 
ant was probably one of the men I have 
pinched, hence his desire to do me injury. 
I have had dire threats made against me 
of burning out and shooting. If they burn 
me out I shall rebuild if- possible; but 
shooting is a 2-handed game. 
Will Humphreys, Sheffield, Ill. 
Go ahead, Mr. Humphreys, and do your 
duty, regardless of threats or attempted 
intimidation, and rest assured you have the 
endorsement and sympathy of RECREA- 
CION and the League of American Sports- 
men in your work. 
-If you have any threatening letters, or if 
you receive any hereafter, kindly send 
them to me and I will have them photo- 
graphed for publication and return them 
to you promptly. By printing a few of 
these letters we may be able to detect 
the writers of them. 
D. McCullough, whom Game Commissioner Johnson 
describes as ‘‘one of the pillars of the First Congrega- 
tional church at Creede,’’ is among the first to be ar- 
rested for violation of the new game law. McCullough 
was taken into custody on Saturday for dynamiting 
fish. The evidence against him is very strong, as one 
of the game wardens who workec the case up ascer- 
tained that McCullough bought the dynamite expressly 
for the purpose of killing fish. 
Witnesses have been found who were informed by 
him of his intentions. Not only that, but they saw him 
in the act of killing thousands of trout. 
W. Stanley, J. Morse and John Doe were tried at 
Lake City on Saturday afternoon on a charge of sein- 
ing fish in violation of law. They caught several 
thousand trout in the Rio Grande river before they 
were apprehended. Each was fined $100 and costs.— 
Denver Fost. 
Warden Majors, of Creede, Colo., 
recently arrested 2 men for dynamiting 
trout in Sunnyside creek, near Creede. 
These 2 pigs now languish in jail as a re- 
ward for their contempt of law. One is 
Harry McCullough, who poses as a pious 
man, a Sunday school superintendent,and a 
lady killer. Doubtless some of his fair 
admirers are now in deep trouble. The 
dynamiting had been going on for some 
time but the scoundrels had evaded detec- 
tion. The pitcher went once too often 
.to the fountain. What penalty the courts 
may impose on the Sunday school super- 
intendent will be learned when the case 
comes up. Colorado needs a few sharp 
examples. I trust Warden Majors will 
be sustained. 
W. H. Nelson, Moffatt, Colo. 
last June. 
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J. P. Capell writes from Huey, IIl., that 
years ago he and another hog killed 
315 snipe in one day. Then he gvues on 
to say: 
“Of late years I seldom bag more 
than 50 a day. I regret to say the luscious 
little bird with the corkscrew flight is sel- 
dom seen. I only wish I could offer the 
present generation some of the fine shoot- 
ing we had in the good old days.” 
This was printed without editorial com- 
ment in the A. D. G. H., a paper that also 
has a lot to say about game protection. 
Was it innocence or stupidity which 
prompted the man to. give _ himself 
away so completely? In the _ early 
days he and his friends killed 315 
snipe in one day, and later, when he 
h done his best to thin them out, he still 
brings in 50 a day. He evidently shot all 
he could and never thought of sparing 
some of the birds for other people. Then, 
after doing his best to exterminate the 
snipe, he laments that he cannot offer his 
friends good shooting! 
First he makes desolation, and then 
weeps over it! Such_a man must have a 
queer head on him! 
Eo Ne k.,.-Chicagzo- Li 

At Milton, Queen’s county, Nova Scotia, 
during September and October there is 
good trout and salmon fishing and duck, 
moose, and _ grouse — shooting. The 
place is reached by a most comfortable and 
pleasant sea voyage by the Yarmouth S. S. 
line which has express steamers leaving 
Boston 4 times a week, at 2 in the after- 
noon. You can land at Liverpool, have 
your guides meet you at the steamer and 
go with you at once to the happy hunting 
ground, from which you may, unlike the 
Indian and his dog, return at any time you 
wish. I was there with a party of 7 men 
We saw a moose, lots of 
ducks and grouse, and left them all for the 
fall shooting. We had all the trout we 
could eat and about 100 to bring home and 
divide up between us. There will be grand 
hunting and fishing there this fall. A num- 
ber of my friends are already making plans 
to enjoy it, 
A. T. Kempton, Fitchburg, Mass. 

I have been told that fishermen are 
bringing in ducks that get caught in their 
nets and drowned. Yesterday they 
brought in 2, and last week during the 
high wind which prevailed over ll 
the lake region they brought in 74 
blue-bills in one day. This would 
not surprise me so much _ but for 
the fact that these nets are set on the 
bottom of the lake, at a depth of 8 or 10 
