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RECREATION. 



The theorj about the deer being bullet 

 proof is, of course, entirely imaginary. If 

 ever any good shot gets a proper line on 

 him, with a good cartridge in a good rifle, 

 and pulls the trigger, you may rest as- 

 sured your buck will quit, just as he would 

 if he were only half as big. 



ARRESTED EOR VIOLATING GAME LAW. 



Few deer have been killed here, as the 

 weather has not been favorable for still 

 hunting. I think there has been no hound- 

 ing by residents of this place. I have heard 

 several times of dogs coming through from 

 North Elba and of deer being driven into 

 the river here. It is noticeable that the 

 deer are getting tame, and are feeding near 

 the village. I think there are but 2 hounds 

 kept in the place. Two years ago there 

 may have been 100; so the anti-hounding 

 law has done some good, even if it is vio- 

 lated now and then. 



Game Protector Budi caused the arrest 

 of a lumberman for killing a deer out of 

 season. The case came to trial, the jury 

 failed to agree, and-a new trial took place. 

 The defendant was not the man who killed 

 the deer. It was killed by Kelly, the super- 

 intendent of the camp. One of the work- 

 men, named Field, was the first witness. 

 He testified that he shot the deer; that 

 Kelly had offered $5 to anyone who would 

 bring in a deer, and if they succeeded in 

 killing one their time spent in the hunt 

 would not be deducted. 



He testified that Kelly sent a man named 

 Parker to bring in the deer; that it was 

 brought to the camp in a bag; that the car- 

 case had been opened and the head re- 

 moved, but that the feet were on. A man 

 named Smith, whose wife cooked for the 

 camp, told of Kelly's asking him to dress 

 the deer; that he did help Kelly do so, and 

 that Kelly told his wife how to cook it. 

 The wife also testified that the deer was 

 cooked and served for dinner the same day 

 it was killed, the 29th of June, and that 

 Kelly ate of it. Kelly swore that Field 

 came to him in the woods and told him he 

 had a deer down at camp; that he told 

 Field if he had, to go and remove it from 

 there as he did not want it; that he ate 

 fresh meat that day, but did not know 

 what it was. There were several other wit- 

 nesses, but nothing of importance. The 

 jury brought in a verdict of guilty. Kelly 

 has appealed the case. It was shown that 

 he did not supply the food for the camp, or 

 hire or pay the men; that he gave them 

 orders on Orlando Beebe, and was there 

 merely as a superintendent. I am told that 

 Field, who killed the deer, could not pay 

 the fine, and was induced to plead guilty 

 with the promise that sentence should be 

 suspended and he permitted to go free if 

 he would testify against Kelly. 



I hii i iln case will have ^omc effect on 

 other lumber camps. 



M. D. H., Keenc Valley, N. Y. 



THE PASSING OF 3 DEER. 



I once went hunting with a friend named 

 Gillespie. He armed with a double bar- 

 reled gun loaded with buckshot and I with 

 a .44 Winchester. We came to a beaver 

 meadow about 200 yards wide, and I took 

 one side and he the other. A deer ran 

 out about 40 yards from Gillespie and 

 down the meadow. I fired and broke both 

 its hind legs near the gambrel joint and 

 the deer dropped. 



Gillespie ran up and hit it with his gun. 

 The deer jumped up and made for him, 

 and he started down the meadow as fast 

 as he could go, yelling to me to shoot, 

 with the deer about 4 feet behind him. I 

 lay on the ground and laughed, and could 

 not have shot if his life depended on it. 

 Gillespie ran about 200 yards and climbed 

 some rocks, where the deer could not fol- 

 low. Then he remembered his gun and 

 shot the animal. 



I had quite an experience when still 

 hunting a year or so ago. There was about 

 2 inches of snow on the ground. A 3- 

 prong buck started to run up a slope 100 

 yards from me. I fired and the deer fell. 

 When I got close to him I saw the bullet 

 had hit the left antler, near the head. The 

 shock, knocked the deer down; its right 

 horn slipped under a root, which held it 

 until I came up and used the knife. 



I was once crossing a burn with 5 

 other fellows, all armed with repeaters. A 

 deer jumped up about 150 yards off, and 

 we each fired at it 2 or 3 times. It ran 50 

 yards and dropped dead. We looked it 

 all over and could find no mark on it. I 

 skinned it and still could find no trace of a 

 wound. What killed it? 



Ahmic lake is on the Magnetawan river, 

 40 miles from Burks Falls, the nearest 

 railway point. Deer are still fairly plenti- 

 ful, and there is an occasional moose. 

 Wolves are getting scarce, though there 

 are still a considerable number farther in. 

 Geo. H. Ross, Ahmic Lake, Ont. 



REINDEER IN ALASKA. 



Dr. Sheldon Jackson, Commissioner of 

 Education for Alaska, has issued his an- 

 nual report for 1899, in which he gives 

 some valuable information regarding the 

 importation, distribution and breeding of 

 reindeer in that country. In all, 699 of the 

 animals have been brought from Siberia. 

 The first were imported in 1892. The herd 

 now numbers 1,850. 



There are 671 of these deer in Unalak- 

 lik, 120 miles above the mouth of the 

 Yukon. At Teller station, named after 



