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sibly outnumbered to the area that of any other 

 piacc in the world, and when the birds attempted 

 to take flight the shooting began. Exactly 1,878 

 Lirds were killed on Monday morning, several 

 of the hunters making excellent records. The 

 following named participated in Monday's shoot: 

 Mr. Lipop, U. S. A.; Mr. Dillon, Los Angeles; 

 Frank Ecker, W. L. Tibbals, Dr. Edwards, Dr. 

 Parsons, F. M. Doak, T. A. Johnson, Mr. Elynn, 

 of Los Angeles; F. B. Naylor Geo. Benson, and 

 C. P. Douglas. 



In the afternoon Mr. Babcock extended the 

 courtesy to Dr. Walcott and his party, who had 

 driven over to inspect the Otay dam. Mr. Wal- 

 cott, Mr. Wilson and Mr. Lippincott availed 

 themselves of the opportunity for a small sized 

 duck hunt, and brought down 90 ducks in an 

 hour, after which they took a turn at •fishing, 

 having to their credit 70 bass in a short period. 

 San Diego, (Cal.) Union. 



And the California papers continue to 

 record the slaughter done by these vulgar 

 brutes as they would the doings of decent 

 people in any good work. Verily, there 

 are some so-called educators who are sore- 

 ly in need of education. — Editor. 



GAME NOTES. 

 Some time ago you recommended E. E. 

 Van Dyke to me as a guide on a trip which 

 I contemplated taking, and you asked me 

 to report my success. While with Mr. Van 

 Dyke I killed 2 silvertips, one black bear, 

 one 7-point bull elk, a large mountain 

 sheep, a lynx and plenty of feathered 

 game. I could have killed deer and other 

 large game but I, as well as Mr. Van Dyke, 

 thought we would better leave them for next 

 year. I saw one large bull moose on a lake, 

 took a shot on the run, but did not get him. 

 The trout fishing beat anything I ever saw. 

 I caught a number that weighed zVz to 4 

 pounds each. I could have caught 150 

 pounds a day with a fly if I had wished. 

 Mr. Van Dyke is a gentleman, a first class 

 guide and hunter. He gave me the best 

 time and most'game I ever had on any trip, 

 either in this country or in Europe. 



Ed De Temple, Chicago, 111. 



I am of opinion that the game law as at 

 present constituted is unjust to sportsmen 

 in the Northern portion of Minnesota. Uni- 

 form game laws in a State over 300 miles 

 m extent North and South must be unfair 

 in some portions of it. We are not permit- 

 ted by the present law to shoot plover until 

 September 1st. The plover arrive here early 

 in August and are gone entirely by the last 

 of that month. Hence we get no shooting 

 at. all on plover. Our prairie chickens are 

 full grown by August 20th, and the season 

 is practically over by the middle of October. 

 We should be given at least a week the ad- 

 vantage of sportsmen in the lower part of 

 the State. Make the season on chickens 

 August 20th to October 20th, instead of 

 September 1st to November 1st; likewise 

 on all game birds up here. 



Lewis B. Franklin, Hallock. Minn. 



We recently had an unfortunate occur- 

 ence on our road, which I think worthy of 

 note. One morning while our log train 

 was on its way to the woods with 30 flat 

 cars and a coach, the engineer saw a large 

 doe running toward the track. When she 

 reached it she attempted to jump over one 

 of the flat cars, and would have succeeded 

 had she not chosen the one nearest the 

 coach. The train was moving rapidly, and, 

 as a result, the doe struck the coach with 

 such force as to kill her and smash several 

 windows in the car. A man in the coach, 

 thinking there was a wreck, jumped off the 

 back platform and landed on the dead doe. 

 When picked up he said he thought 'he 

 killed the deer by falling on her. 



Deer are still numerous here, though 

 some men persist in hounding and in shoot- 

 ing them in close season. 



W. M. Kummer, Au Sable, Mich. 



For a camping trip, I like bacon, pre- 

 pared pancake flour and what is known as 

 Swede bread, coffee, sugar, salt, pepper, 

 and some canned goods. It all depends 

 on whether you are carrying your own 

 goods or have a burro, canoe, or other 

 means of transportation. Swede bread is 

 made of ordinary dough, rolled thin, 

 punched full of holes with a fork and 

 baked in large sheets. It will keep a 

 long time, and is much better than hard 

 tack. 



A frying pan, a coffee pot, a large long- 

 handled stew pan with a cover, and 

 spoons make up the outfit. You can bake 

 in the stew pan. Sleep with your side 

 toward the fire, and don't make the mis- 

 take of making too big a one. Cooking 

 can be done better over the coals than over 

 the flame. W. R. Jackson, Pasadena, Cal. 



Am glad to say that gull shooting has 

 entirely ceased here. All game buyers have 

 received orders to stop taking even the few 

 gulls the duck shooters were bringing in. 

 No one has followed gull shooting as a 

 business since last summer, but now and 

 again a man would bring in a gull or 2 

 and sell them. Now even that has been 

 stopped. We are, I understand, to have a 

 general overhauling of our laws and a de- 

 termined effort will be made to stop battery 

 shooting and shooting from sail boats. 

 That will not touch the spot at all. The 

 market is the thing to close. There are a 

 few ducks about, but all are educated. They 

 sit in the ocean all day and come in the 

 sound at night to feed ; so but few are 

 killed. A. S. Doane, Waterlily, N. C. 



For 3 years I have made a standing offer 

 of $10 for information that would lead to 

 the conviction of any violator of the game 

 laws. One day last winter I sent my neph- 



