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should have a number, but I will postpone 
the registering of his name until Phillips 
gets a hook into him. 

COUNTRY PAPER EXAGGERATES. 
It was recently announced by a local 
paper that a judge of a certain court in 
Minnesota had killed 30 squirrels in a day. 
I wrote the judge for confirmation or de- 
nial of the report, and he replied that he 
and a friend were out 2 days and killed 26 
squirrels, some 8 or 9 of which fell to the 
judge’s gun. This illustrates in a marked 
degree the chronic offense of the average 
country mewspaper editor of exaggerating 
reports of hunting and fishing trips. It is 
safe to say that half the statements of such 
trips sent to this office in the shape of 
newspaper clippings prove false on inves- 
tigation. In the course of the letter to me 
denying the report the judge says: “ The 
publication of the item was without my 
knowledge, and | regret that any publicity 
has been given the trip. The few days 
during the year when I can get away for 
fishing, and hunting are enjoyed more be- 
cause of the opportunity for healthful rec- 
reation than for the capture of game. 
While a well filled creel or game bag adds 
largely to the enjoyment of the trip, yet I 
am always thankful and content with the 
small portion that usually falls to my lot.” 
If country newspapers would only con- 
fine themselves to the truth in reporting 
the hunting and fishing trips of their read- 
ers it would save many a man the necessity 
of convicting the editor or the reporter of 
falsehood. 
THE SHEEP MEN ARE HOT. 
Certain stockmen and sheep owners in 
Wyoming, whose range has been curtailed 
by the creation of the Yellowstone Forest 
Reserve, have been working hard for sev- 
eral months past to induce President Roose- 
velt to rescind the order by which the re- 
serve was created and throw the land open 
again for grazing purposes. These sheep- 
men have also demanded of the president 
the removal of Mr. A. A. Anderson from 
the position of superintendent of this re- 
serve. They have made a great deal of 
noise themselves and have induced other 
people in the State to join them in howl- 
ing; but from present indications their de- 
mands are not likely to be complied with by 
the president, and they should not be. The 
territory comprised within the limits of 
the Yellowstone Reserve is the natural 
home of the elk, the antelope and the mule 
deer, all of which have been greatly re- 
duced in numbers and their feeding grounds 
seriously injured by the encroachments of 
the sheepmen. The limits of Yellowstone 
Park have proved insufficient for the pre- 
servation of these species of game and it 

RECKEATION. 
is just and proper that the United States 
Government should enlarge it. Pending 
such action by Congress, the president acted 
wisely in creating the Yellowstone Forest ~ 
Reserve and it is hoped he may see fit to 
maintain it in its present size and shape. 

A CHEAP EDITOR. 
Albert, Arthur and Lyman Cooper, of 
Corunna, and William Robins, of Owosso, 
Mich., “all prominent citizens,” according to 
a local newspaper, were arrested in August 
last by game warden Brewster, charged 
with dynamiting fish in the Schiwassaa 
river. ‘The principal witness for the prose- 
cution was J. Haines, of Schiwassaa. The 
dynamiters made him a present of a mess 
of fish, which he ate, and then reported 
the case to the game warden. After the 
evidence was all in, the jury went out at 
10 o'clock at night and deliberated until 4 
o’clock in the morning, when the members 
reported to the court that they would like to 
visit the scene of the dynamiting. They 
were driven 14 miles through a drenching 
rain, and on their return agreed on a verdict, 
finding the defendants guilty, whereupon 
Judge Patchel assessed a good, round fine 
against the “prominent citizens.” 
The people of Schiwassaa should feel 
heartily ashamed of an editor who calls 
dynamite fishermen “prominent citizens.” 
The price these “prominent citizens” paid 
for their complimentary notice was proba- 
bly a mess of fish. Verily, honors are cheap 
in Michigan. 
Albert Cooper’s number in the fish hog 
pen is 945, Arthur’s 946, Lyman’s 947, and 
William Robins’ is 948. 

MOVING THE PRAIRIE DOGS. 
When the antelope range was first estab. 
lished in the New York Zoological Park a 
few prairie dogs were planted among the 
pronghorns, simply to enliven the land- 
scape, but they enlivened it too much and 
became entirely too numerous in course of 
time; so Director Hornaday set his men 
to work to trap them and transfer them to 
the regular prairie dog village, which has 
a stone wall around it, running into the 
ground. The amateur trappers in the park 
exhausted their ingenuity on the little ro- 
dents without being able to capture many 
of them. Then a professional trapper was 
called in, and soon solved the problem. 
He got a lot of empty barrels, knocked 
both heads out, set them over the prairie 
dog holes and filled the holes with loose 
sand. The dogs soon got tired of being 
corked up, dug out and let the sand go 
down below. This process stopped up the 
entrance to the holes. In other words, 
when a dog came out he pulled the hole 
out after him, and found himself barreled 
up. Then the trapper simply took a land- 
