PROM THE GAME FIELDS. 



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Bag limit : 25 quails, 50 ducks, 50 doves, 

 daily ; 3 deer during the season. 



Does, spotted fawns, antelope, elk and 

 mountain sheep can not be killed at any- 

 time. 



No game whatever can be had in posses- 

 sion during the closed season. 



Night shooting is prohibited. 



No game can be transported from the 

 State except for scientific purposes. 



No killing of meadow larks except 

 where the birds are destroying crops, and 

 then the owner or tenant must do the kill- 

 ing. 



For the purpose of enforcing the laws 

 each county may have a game warden, w r ith 

 a salary of $50 to $100 a month, and not 

 more than $25 extra for expenses. 



The limit on the daily bag of ducks and 

 doves is twice what it should be, and no 

 one should be allowed to kill more than 12 

 tree squirrels in a day. As far as I can 

 learn, nearly all county laws have been 

 abolished since this new State game law 

 was passed. It is fortunate such is the 

 case, as it makes the law uniform through- 

 out the State. The farmers where I was 

 last summer kill doves all the time, and 

 a number put out poisoned grain to thin 

 out the doves. An article on the food 

 of doves might prove of interest to Cali- 

 fornia readers, and I for one should be 

 much obliged for a little light on the 

 subject. 



H. V. S. Hubbard, 



Los Angeles, Cal. 



MR. SETON NOT GUILTY. 

 One of Colorado's deputy State game 

 wardens, named Bush, arrested John B. 

 Goff, a noted guide and ranchman, who 

 lives near Meeker, and Ernest T. 

 Seton, the well known author, artist 

 and naturalist, in October last, took them 

 before a justice of the peace and charged 

 them with baiting a bear trap with venison. 

 The case was tried before a jury composed 

 of some of the largest tax-payers in the 

 county, and Bush failed to produce a 

 particle of evidence to sustain his charge. 

 After being out only a few minutes the 

 jury returned with a verdict completely ex- 

 onerating both Mr. Goff and Mr. Seton 

 and characterizing the charge as malicious 

 persecution. Mr. Seton subsequently pub- 

 lished the following statement of the case : 



To the Editor of the Herald: — 



In your issue this morning you quote from 

 Denver papers a statement that is calculated to 

 do me much injustice. You will, therefore, I 

 hope, allow me to correct the impression. 



I was arrested in Colorado for being in com- 

 pany with John B. Goff, who was charged with 

 setting a bear trap with venison. In the court 

 it was abundantly proved that: — 



First — I never owned or set a bear trap in my 

 life. 



Second — That I had not carried a gun or fired 



a shot or killed or trapped any animal on the 

 whole trip. 



Third — That my only weapon was a camera. 



Fourth — That Mr. Goff was wholly innocent of 

 the charges made. 



Fifth— That the game warden, named Bush, 

 was seeking a little cheap advertising. 



Sixth — The verdict was: "We, the jury, find 

 the defendant not guilty as charged, and believe 

 the prosecution to be malicious." 



Seventh — It was proved on behalf of Mr. Goff's 

 dogs that they were trained so they would not 

 chase a deer. Interesting side evidence of this is 

 found in Scribner's Magazine for October. In 

 that issue, President Roosevelt, who hunted with 

 Mr. Goff last winter, enlarges on the remarkable 

 fact that these hounds are among deer the year 

 round, and yet are so well trained that they 

 never think of following deer. I may add that 

 my own observation on a hundred different 

 occasions entirely confirms this. 



Ernest Seton-Thompson. 

 New York, Oct. 11, 1901. 



No further evidence will be needed by 

 the thousands of readers of , Recreation 

 who know Mr. Seton to completely exon- 

 erate him and Mr. Goff. — Editor. 



BROKE NON-EXPORT LAW. 

 I enclose clipping from Minneapolis 

 Tribune which may prove of interest to 

 you. Judging from the men having so 

 many trunks they were game hogs as well 

 as evaders of the law. Let us hope they 

 will get the limit. You get so many words 

 of praise for Recreation and for your 

 splendid work for game preservation that 

 it seems superfluous for me to add any, but 

 I want to tell you how thoroughly I enjoy 

 the best sportsman's magazine on earth, 

 Recreation, and of my respect for your 

 fearless work in the extermination of fish 

 and game hogs and the encouragement of a 

 manly, self-respecting race of sportsmen. 

 H. A. Allen, Minneapolis, Minn. 



The clipping enclosed by Mr. Allen is 

 as follows : 



Frank C. Hale made a clever haul of game 

 that was being shipped out of the State. Mr. 

 Hale is attorney for the game and fish com- 

 mission, and he had noticed trunks going 

 through Minneapolis, checked from the duck 

 grounds. He secured a bench warrant leveled at 

 the handy gentleman named John Doe, went to 

 the Milwaukee depot and seized three trunks. 

 They were nicely stocked with ducks, fine ham- 

 merless guns, cartridges and expensive hunting 

 paraphernalia, and the ducks were at once ap- 

 propriated. The owners will be enabled to se- 

 cure their guns and equipment if they will come 

 forward and- prove property, and pay a certain 

 sum for every bird shipped. The law' evaders 

 will have to do a sum in arithmetic before they 

 ascertain whether they would rather lose the 

 guns or pay the damages. 



I reckon that is about the most disagree- 

 able "hail" storm those fellows ever got 

 caught in. The next time they go duck 

 shooting it would be well for them to char- 

 ter a balloon to take their game out of the 

 State if it happens that the State they hunt 

 in has a non-export law, as most States 

 have nowadays. — Editor. 



