FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 
The man who quits when he gets enough, with plenty of game still in sight, is a rea] sportsman. 
COL. DUNN’S TRIP TO TIA JUANA. 
Colonel Dunn, of San Bernardino, has returned 
from a hunting trip at Tia Juana. The trip lasted 
3 days and there were 5 in the party. The Times- 
Vadex assures its readers that ‘‘in that short time 
they killed 2,480 quails, 150 doves and 100 cot- 
tontails, and made meat a drug on the market 
among the Mexicans and cholos. As a result of 
their liberality the village meat market closed 
during their stay. It was all wing shooting, 
too, barring the cottontails—San Diego (Cal.) 
Union. 
I wrote to Mr. F. W. Dunn, as follows: 
I am informed you and 4 friends recently 
killed 2,480 quails in 3 days. Will you 
kindly let me know if this report is cor- 
rect, giving full particulars. 
Here is his answer in part: 
Your inquiry I will answer as _ intelli- 
gently as possible. The shooters in the 
party were Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Black, Mes- 
srs. D. P. Doke, Fred Doke, E. A. Fano, 
George Garretson and I. With us, but not 
shooting, were Mrs. Garretson, the 2 
Mrs. Dokes and Mrs. Fano. There were 
7 shooters the first day and 5 the other 2 
days, Fred Doke and Mr. Fano and their 
wives having to return to San Diego. The 
result of the first day’s shoot was 824 
quails, 165 doves and 42 rabbits. The other 
2 days filled out the gross bag of 2,480 
quails, 423 doves and 192 rabbits. 
I am aware you want the information in 
order to roast us as game hogs. Being 
conversant with all the conditions from 
New York to California and from Washing- 
ton to Florida, I have some conception of 
the justice of your efforts. 
No man is more of a gentleman than any 
one of the several in our party and none 
would go farther to uphold the laws; but 
there are places where even law is in error 
as to game seasons. Still our party assists 
in upholding them. 
T. A. Brown, of Mafivel, Calif., S. H. 
Black and | took another trip into Mexico 
2 weeks after the one above mentioned, 
partly to shoot and partly to examine a gold 
mine. We shot the first day, bagging 418 
quails, 65 doves and 18 rabbits. The ‘next 
day we drove 20 miles, looked over the 
mine and left that camp to go back to Tia 
Juana Hotel, 30 miles. We carried to the 
hotel on our return trip 402 quails, 31 
doves and 19 rabbits. Now don’t think 
this is pot shooting. There was scarcely a 
chance in a day when we could get a pot 
shot on the ground. California quails flush 
easily and they run light, to high brush. 
A covey scatters in ail directions, and 
it is single bird flight shooting entirely, 
the birds resembling more the jack snipe 
than the Eastern quail in flight; so it is 
no pot hunter that can make a bag, and no 
common cold blooded dog that has nose 
enough to point. The country on both sides 
of the line is a rugged one, covered with 
brush. 
All our game was given away to poor 
people in Tia Juana, where the butcher was 
charging 60 cents a pound for beef. We 
have made an eternal enemy of the butcher, 
as we threw the game out on the porch and 
told everyone to help himself. You 
should have seen the little half-clad ur- 
chins taking away as many quails as their 
hands would hold. In 5 minutes there was 
not a head’ of game in sight. 
Being 54 years old and having shot thou- 
sands of head of game in nearly every State, 
and spent 30 years helping hew out the 
American frontier I believe I am not really 
required to apologize to any one on this 
subject and shall not do so. 
F. W. Dunn, San Diego, Cal. 
Mr. Dunn writes a 9 page letter, all of 
which I should have been glad to print if 
I could spare the room for it, as it is 
really interesting. It will be noticed that 
Mr. Dunn says in conclusion he will not 
apologize for his act, yet at least 7 pages 
of his letter are devoted to making what 
could only be properly termed an apology 
for this reckless killing.. He undertakes 
to show that the pcor little quail of Mexico 
is a pest to the ranchmen and fruit growers 
_of that country, and not only a pest but a 
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pestilence as serious and as destructive in 
its nature as the grasshopper ever was in 
Kansas, and he classes himself and friends 
as philanthropists who went down to Mex- 
ico and helped clean out the quails purely 
in the interest of the aforesaid ranchmen 
and fruit growers. He says in effect that 
he and ‘’s companions deserve the grati- 
tude of the people whom they benefited, as 
much as auy grasshopper fighters ever de- 
served the gratitude of Kansas farmers. He 
recounts to me as he did to the newspaper 
reporter the fact that the quails were given 
to the starving, suffering inhabitants of Tia 
Juana and tells how these people thanked 
the donors with tearful eyes for the strings 
of birds which they carried away. Mr. 
Dunn furthermore says that he and his 
party incurred the everlasting hatred of 
the butcher in that town, who was unable 
to sell any meat for a week after each of 
the 2 visits made by these quail butchers. 
If this story was new, it might have 
mitigated the offenses of these quail butch- 

