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a fee of $1,000,000 in a single case. This 
incident proves that some of the brainiest 
and busiest men in the world read REcREA- 
TION and appreciate it. 

H. S. Tubbs, a deputy game warden of 
Manchester, Ia., went into Minnesota, killed 
some game and was caught in the act of 
shipping it out of the State. A local warden 
arrested him and took him to court, where 
the Justice assessed a fine of $100 and costs 
on him. No doubt Tubbs is zealous in 
prosecuting the lawbreakers at home, and it 
is exceedingly gratifying to learn that when 
he undertook to violate the laws of a neigh- 
boring State, he should have been given a 
dose of his own medicine. 
Game Wardens John F. Luman and D. 
F. Shea, of Massachusetts, called on Wal- 
ter Dean and Mason Dean, of Oakham, that 
State, some weeks ago and caught them in 
the act of fishing in Crawford brook with 
a seine. The offenders were taken before 
Justice Healy, of Oakham, and fined $25 
each. Albert Hapgood had also been mon- 
keying with a net and was fined $s. 
Their numbers in the fish hog register 
are: Walter Dean 997, Mason Dean 908, 
Albert Hapgood 999. 


New Jersey is fortunate in having on its 
State Fish and Game Commission at least 
one man who is a thorough sportsman and 
a warm friend of the cause of game pro- 
tection. Mr. Percy Johnson, of Bloom- 
field, has been a vigorous worker on this 
line many years, and all law _ breakers 
have cause to dislike him. Notwithstanding 
this, Mr. Johnson goes on the even tenor 
of his way and is still bringing men to jus- 
tice for infractions of the game and fish 
aws. 

A dispatch from Ann Arbor, Mich, 
states that after a wind and rain storm 
which occurred there some time ago, the 
janitor of the court house picked up 3 
bushels of dead sparrows on the court house 
grounds. It was found by careful count 
that there were 1,500 dead sparrows in the 
bunch. Truly, it is an ill wind that blows 
nobody good, and the citizens of Ann Arbor 
may congratulate themselves that the Storm 
King rid them of so many of these pests. 

The express company doing business at 
Rifle, Colo., makes the following report of 
deer shipped from there during the past 3 
years: 
1902, 650. 
1902, 428. 
1903, 37. 
This is only another page in the history 
of the passing of the mule deer. 
RECREATION. 
At the request of the President of the 
Argentine Republic, an employe of the U. 
S. Bureau of Fisheries, has gone to Argen- 
tina to make investigations regarding the 
possibilities of fish culture in that country. 
He will be there 6 months, This is an im- 
portant mission and it is gratifying that 
the Argentine> government is showing so 
keen an interest in this subject. 

Will Cave, of Missoula, Montana, who 
says he is county assessor, though the coun- 
ty letter head on which he writes does not 
bear his name, admits having caught 110 
trout in 2 days, and adds, “I assure you that 
if I could have caught 200 trout in 2 days 
I would have done so.” © 
He is registered in the fish hog book as 
number 1,000. 

Joseph Parry and Arthur and Louis 
Loucie were arrested at Pawtucket, R. I., 
by Game Warden E. J. Burlingame for kill- 
ing birds in violation of law and of hunt- 
ing rabbits with a ferret. Each of the 3 
vandals was fined $85 and costs. They 
know more about game laws now than some 
men do who never violated one. 

4 man in Williamsport, Penn., has writ- 
ten me an interesting letter on the sub- 
ject of game protection, which I should be 
glad to print if possible, but unfortunately 
the writer does not sign his real name, 
and so, under the rules of this office, his 
communication cannot be given any further 
attention. 
Dr. Hugh M. Smith, deputy commission 
er of Fish and Fisheries, U. S. Bureau of 
Fisheries, has returned to Washington af- 
ter an absence of several months in Japan, 
where he went to study the methods em- 
ployed by the Japanese in preparing fishery 
products. 

A Western sportsmen’s magazine comes 
to me with a half page ad of an automatic 
shot gun, and without a word of editorial 
condemnation of that infernal machine. 
There is a difference between some pub- 
lishers. 

Readers of RECREATION are cautioned 
against sending money to Dr. Morris Gibbs, 
of Kalamazoo, Mich. I have reason to be- 
lieve that he is thoroughly dishonest. 
Will Mr. C. H. Barksdull, who sent me 
a story entitled “A Day’s Sport in Alaska,” 
please give me his address. 


Little Girl—Do you stutter all the time? 
Little Boy—N-n-n-n-no; only when I 
talk.—Mail and Express. 
