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RECREATION. 



sportsmanship is concerned, and taught me 

 to avoid becoming one of those bristlebacks 

 you so frequently and justly roast. I have 

 for the past 3 years spent a few days each 

 season hunting deer in the Adirondacks, 

 and am glad to say I never shot at any- 

 thing but a buck. For the man who spends 

 only a few days each season in search of 

 big game, the temptation to shoot anything 

 that comes in view is almost irresistible 

 unless he has been taught that such an act 

 is brutal as well as unsportsmanlike. Let 

 us hope that every hunter may digest a few 

 numbers of Recreation before entering the 

 woods ; then there will always be good 

 hunting and plenty of game. 



W. J. Delap, Stamford, Conn. 



You are doing more good than you per- 

 haps realize by interesting the various In- 

 dian agents in game protection. Mr. W. H. 

 Smead, of the Jocko Agency, has done a 

 world of good in the past 2 years, and his 

 Indians are fast becoming model sports- 

 men. The Nez Perces Indians still con- 

 tinue to slaughter elk in the Clearwater 

 country during July and August. You 

 would do well to write their agent. Last 

 summer the Indians were hunting in the 

 Clearwater district and killed and dried 

 at one place some 30 elk. As they were 

 drying the meat, 3 Idaho forest rangers, 

 who are also game wardens, arrived, and 

 though they stayed there 8 days, they did 

 not even remind the Indians that they were 

 violating the law. 



A. E. Hammond, Darby, Mont. 



I understand "Judge" Fisk is going to sue 

 you for denouncing the hoggish work he and 

 his gang of fellow swine did at Bemidji. 

 That certainly will do him no good, whether 

 he wins or loses the case, for the sportsmen 

 know he is a genuine bristleback, and the 

 louder he squeals the farther he can be 

 heard. You have done him no wrong. 

 He has disgraced himself among all true 

 sportsmen, and the only way to come 

 out of it, is for Judge Fisk to repent of his 

 sin, ask the sportsmen of Bemidji to forgive 

 him, and promise to be a good boy in 

 future. 



Long live Recreation and its fearless 

 editor. Continue to roast game and fish 

 hogs until they all reform. 



L. A. Arundson, L. A. S., No. 1956. 

 Moscow, Idaho. 



Some counties in Washington realize the 

 need of game protection and try to secure 

 it. A few go to the length of enacting gun 

 license laws. That, of course, shuts out the 

 improvident pot hunter, but does little to 

 restrain the wealthy game hog. Other 

 counties show no concern in the matter, 

 and in them the hog is rampant and patted 



on the back by the local press. Our greatest 

 game hog, Swinus maximus, is, vide the 

 Spokane Chronicle, one John Cochran. 

 He is not satisfied with shooting a cart- 

 load of ducks in 2 days. He must needs go 

 back the next week, with others of his kind, 

 to butcher more. I have not heard how 

 he made out, but I hope his gun burst and 

 blew his bloody head off. 



J. A. Cottle, Spokane, Wash. 



Adolph Bonner, a cabinet maker of 824 Grand 

 avenue, and Charles Koelle, a saloon keeper, of 

 119 Saltonstall avenue, were tried before Justice 

 Grove j. Tuttle in the East Haven court, charged 

 with violating the game laws. The men were ac- 

 cused of shooting a deer in the East Haven 

 woods December 31st. The arrests were made 

 by Deputy Sheriff Beach, of North Haven. Wit- 

 nesses testified that they saw Donner and Koelle 

 load the deer they had killed into a wagon and 

 carry it away. The deer that was shot, it is 

 believed, was one that was rescued from cap- 

 tivity by the game warden a year ago at Morris 

 Cove and turned loose in the East Haven woods. 

 Donner and Koelle were each fined $100 and 

 costs. — Exchange. 



Served them right. Beach is a' corker. 

 This is by no means the first record he has 

 made in the cause of game protection and 

 I trust it may not be the last. — Editor. 



Our local police chief and assistants, also 

 our judge, have promised me they will do 

 all they can to help enforce our game and 

 fish laws and the first case brought before 

 the judge will get the full penalty, so as to 

 make it a good object lesson. The principal 

 of our public school is going to 

 present one of the L. A. S. posters before 

 the pupils in all the rooms, and thoroughly 

 explain its meaning, especially regarding 

 birds' nests and eggs and destroying our 

 song birds. 



Fred. W. Whittle, Northfield, Minn. 



Game in this section is increasing rap- 

 idly since the passage of the law prohibit- 

 ing the sale of ruffed grouse and wood- 

 cock. There were 3 men here who shot 

 for the market, and without doubt they 

 killed 5 times as much game as the other 

 residents of the town. A law prohibit- 

 ing its sale is the only law that really pro- 

 tects game, for if the market hunter can 

 sell game he will kill it, in season or out. 

 It is easy to kill game illegally, but quite 

 another proposition to sell it illegally. 



E. C. Hall, Ashfield, Mass. 



While staying last summer in Coffey- 

 ville, Kansas, a city of 6,000 inhabitants, I 

 was surprised to hear the whistling of 

 quails. Going to the window I saw 3 of 

 the birds on a building opposite and 15 or 

 20 more in the street and on the sidewalk. 

 I was told there are 100 or more in the 

 city, the descendants of a pair that came 

 in 3 years ago. The city has taken them 



