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R EC RE A TION. 



A TRIP IN MINNESOTA. 



Conneaut, O. 



Editor Recreation: I returned some 

 time ago from an enjoyable hunting trip in 

 Minnesota, with Harry Neal, of this place, 

 as a companion. 



We found deer plentiful but much wilder 

 than usual, owing to the building of a rail- 

 road through that section. There were 

 a few moose, too, as well as lots of smaller 

 game. We managed to kill a deer and a 

 moose. 



The small bore cranks would have stood 

 a pretty small chance with that moose, with 

 a .32-40 or a .38-55, at the distance at which 



1 had to shoot him. I shot at about 350 

 yards. Could only see his head and hind- 

 quarters. I pulled for his back without 

 stopping to raise my sights. I had a .45-70 

 Winchester, with smokeless, soft-nose car- 

 tridges. He went down, with a ball through 

 bis spine, but I had to shoot him through 

 the heart before I dared go near him to 

 cut his throat. 



I left the moose head in Duluth to be 

 mounted, and am having a rug made of the 

 hide. Harry had his deer hide tanned by 

 our Indian guide. 



One thing came to my notice, while there, 

 that made me mad clear through. A party 

 of hunters — or rather butchers and hogs of 

 the worst type — camped on the beach of 

 Lake Superior. They' would set their dogs 

 after deer and the dogs would chase them 

 into the lake and these brutes (I mean the 



2 legged ones) would go out in a boat, cut 

 the deers' throats and tow them ashore. The 

 wardens were particular not to let a sports- 

 man take a piece of venison out of the State, 

 but allowed a thing like that to go on. I 

 think if everybody would read Recreation 

 there would be much less of that kind of 

 business. A. A. H. 



INDIANS ARE AFTER THE ELK. 



Kalispell, Mont. 



Editor Recreation: I inclose herewith 

 letter from Henry Morrison (Slippery Bill). 

 He was one of the first men in this State 

 to join the L. A. S. and lives in a locality 

 where he can do us a lot of good. 



I have laid the matter before Commis- 

 sioner Brennen, of the Forestry Reserve, 

 and he has sent one of his rangers to in- 

 vestigate and take proper action in the 

 premises. The locality mentioned by Mor- 

 rison is on one of the government timber 

 reserves. Sidney M. Logan. 



The letter is as follows: 



Summit. Mont., February 18, 1899. 

 S. M. Logan. Kalispell, Mom. 



Dear Sir: Last Monday 7 Indians were 

 seen going up to the head of Badger creek, 

 about 10 miles back of this place, after elk. 

 My trapping partner met them as he was 

 coming out. They had 3 toboggans, shod 

 with oil cans. The elk winter on the bare 



hills near the summit and are dead easy, 

 being poor and tame. When these tobog- 

 gans are loaded with what little good meat 

 there is on elk at this time of year, it will 

 represent about 15 cow elk to each sled, as 

 they winter better than the bulls. These 

 red devils kill bulls merely for their tusks. 

 Moose are hard to get, as they winter high 

 up in the heavy timber and are safe from 

 raids of this kind. The Kootenays did a 

 big job on game last fall. Ollie tells me 

 he saw 3 bunches of them — about 75 ponies 

 — packed. This will give you a tip on the 



mum. 



H. Morrison. 



SLAUGHTER OF ELK IN JACKSON'S HOLE. 



Editor Recreation: As a member of the 

 L. A. S. I desire to report to you that dur- 

 ing the last 60 days 1,000 head of elk, 

 mostly cows, were killed in the Teton tim- 

 b^ reserve, Wyoming, mainly by men 

 from Idaho and partly by people living in 

 the Teton basin, along the Idaho line. We 

 attempted. to stop the transportation of this 

 game, and succeeded in obtaining a few 

 convictions; but the fines imposed were so 

 light the guilty persons considered it a 

 huge joke. We have evidence against some 

 of these persons sufficient to obtain con- 

 victions, but are afraid to proceed. 



We were successful in seizing 35 head of 

 elk, and believe we saved a great number 

 of elk from being killed. 



The people of the lower Jackson Park 

 have subscribed a large amount of money 

 to defray expenses in keeping game war- 

 dens employed to. protect the game, the 

 county authorities having refused us any 

 assistance, notwithstanding the fact that 

 $4,000 has been turned in to the general 

 fund from the issuance of hunting licenses 

 and from fines for violation of the game 

 laws. 



W. L. Simpson, Jackson, Wyo. 



Since the above was written we have or- 

 ganized the Wyoming Division of the 

 L. A. S. with Dr. Frank Dunham, of Lan- 

 der, as Chief Warden. He has appointed 

 Mr. Simpson and Mr. S. N. Leek local war- 

 dens for Jackson's Hole, and the chances 

 are that the next outfit that undertakes to 

 slaughter elk in the Hole will find out what 

 the L. A. S. was made for. — Editor. 



TRAPPING PRAIRIE CHICKENS. 



Cherokee, la. 

 Editor Recreation: You sound the 

 right note when you advocate the closing 

 of the game markets. That is the only way 

 to stop the slaughter of game. Ten years 

 ago, this country was teeming with prairie 

 chickens and quails, and in spring and fall 

 we had thousands of ducks. Now it is a 

 hard matter to get a mess of chickens; and 

 while a great many are shot in the close 

 season, most of them have been cleaned 

 out by trapping. Along the line of the 



