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RECREATION. 



course I carried a camera with me and made 

 many valuable pictures. While I have not 

 written any detailed account of the trip, I 

 have written several special articles. One 

 of these deals with my experiences in pho- 

 tographing, another contains observations 

 on the habits of certain wild animals and 

 birds I found there, another treats of the 

 personnel of our pack trains, etc. Some 

 people who claim to be good friends 

 of mine, and who profess a deep in- 

 terest in the success of Recreation, are ad- 

 vising me to print these stories in Recrea- 

 tion, and unless I get a good many pro- 

 tests in the near future, I may venture to 

 publish a few of them. I could sell all 

 these stories readily, to other magazines, 

 and at good prices ; but, as the politicians 

 say, I am in the hands of my friends, and 

 my only ambition is to do as they wish me 

 to do. 



Now, gentlemen, don't hesitate to speak 

 out. If you don't want these articles printed 

 in Recreation, say so, and they will go 

 elsewhere, by special messenger. 



ELK AND MOOSE TO THE SLAUGHTER. 



Mr. W. C. Whitney has sent his entire 

 herd of elk, 80 animals in all, to various 

 points in the Adirondacks, where they have 

 been liberated. I regard this as a serious 

 mistake on Mr. W r hitney's part. It is cast- 

 ing pearls before swine. It will be remem- 

 bered that some 2 years ago a moose es- 

 caped from one of the Adirondacks pre- 

 serves, probably Dr. Seward Webb's, and 

 that a low vagabond who lived in the vi- 

 cinity killed it. 



When arrested and charged with the kill- 

 ing, he swore he saw the animal lying down 

 and thought it was a bear; that he fired at 

 it ; that it got up and took after him ; that he 

 ran until almost exhausted, and then turned 

 and killed the animal in self defense. Any 

 man who knows anything of the nature of 

 the moose, knows that man swore to a lie. 



The newspapers have recently reported 

 the killing of 3 elk in the Adirondacks" by 

 some men who claimed to. have mistaken 

 them for deer. At last accounts these men 

 had not been arrested. If they should be 

 at any future time they will, of course, 

 perjure themselves, as the moose killer did, 

 and escape punishment. 



So it will go with all these grand ani- 

 mals that Mr. Whitney has donated to the 

 public, and with any other elk or moose 

 which have been or may be liberated in the 

 Adirondacks. 



There are some good hp,nest guides in the 

 Adirondacks. They know who the other 

 fellows are that are killing off the elk and 

 moose and should see that itjs stopped. 



If the fool killer would only do his duty 

 and exterminate the pot hunters and the 

 game hogs, in the Adirondacks and else- 

 where, it would then be safe to stock that 

 region with moose and elk. In the mean- 

 time all efforts in that direction are simply 



in the nature of giving up these magnificent 

 animals to slaughter. 



The Kodak recently played a unique and 

 important part in the conviction of one 

 Horace Lydick, of Cass Lake, Minn., for 

 killing a moose in close season. It is re- 

 ported that June 19th, last, Lydick and a 

 man named Kennedy were going down the 

 Big Fork river in a canoe. They saw a 

 cow moose and a calf on the bank of the 

 river and opened fire on them, killing the 

 cow. Noah Fletcher and S. C. Farwell 

 were in the vicinity and had sighted the 

 game about the same time. Fletcher was 

 stalking the cow with his camera. When he 

 was nearly ready to press the button on her, 

 4 shots rang out, 4 bullets whizzed past him 

 and the cow fell, floundering in the water. 

 He went up to her, made a snap shot of 

 her, and by that time the hunters landed. 

 They pulled the carcass ashore and com- 

 menced chopping it up, when Fletcher ex- 

 posed another plate on the group. Game 

 Warden Sam Fullerton heard of the trans- 

 action and sent deputy game warden Archie 

 Phillips, of Duluth, after the moose butch- 

 ers. Lydick was arrested, taken into court 

 and placed on trial. Mr. Fletcher was there 

 as a witness and produced his 2 photo- 

 graphs. That settled the business and Ly- 

 dick was fined $100 and trimmings. 



I have before me a letter from W. F. 

 Spencer, of Wilson, Wyo., dated July 25, 

 1903; one from Noble Gregory, of Elk, 

 Wyo., dated July 14; and one from Wm. 

 Binkley, of Grovont, Wyo., dated July 19, 

 1903, in which these men offer, to sell to 

 their correspondents elk teeth ^at certain 

 prices which they quote. Wyoming has a 

 law prohibiting the sale of any part of an 

 elk at any time, yet these men, one of 

 \vhom poses as a guide, and is therefore a 

 deputy game warden, are deliberately seek- 

 ing chances to violate this law. Game 

 Warden Nowlin should watch these men 

 closely and I hope if either of them ever 

 sells a tooth,i he may be caught and pun- 

 ished to the full extent of the law. 



One of the so called "great" magazines 

 published in this city prints an article in its 

 November issue lauding the prowess and 

 skill of the Duchess d'Uzes, of France, 

 who*, that magazine says, has recently been 

 in at the death of her eleven hundredth 

 stag. The writer of the article lauds this 

 aristocratic butcher as "France's first hunt- 

 ress," and praises her exploit as if she were 

 a modern saint. 



In the same issue of the same great 

 magazine appears another article, com- 

 mending the good, wholesome game laws 

 that have recently been enacted by the Leg- 

 islatures of several of our States. Rather 

 inconsistent, eh? 



