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RECREATION. 



giraffe, the gorilla, the chimpanzee, the 

 mountain zebra, the wild ass, the white- 

 tailed gnu, the eland and the little Liberian 

 hippopotamus. 



These species are marked out for destruc- 

 tion, and special efforts will be made to re- 

 duce their numbers : Lions, leopards, hyae- 

 nas, hunting dogs, otters, baboons and other 

 harmful monkeys, crocodiles, poisonous 

 snakes and large birds of prey which are 

 not useful. 



Of the following the young and the fe- 

 males must not be killed : The elephant, the 

 rhinoceros, the hippopotamus, the zebra, 

 the buffalo, the antelope, the gazelle, the 

 ibex and the chevrotain. Export duties 

 will be imposed on their hides, tusks and 

 horns. Severe penalties are imposed on the 

 killing of elephants, and tusks weighing 

 less than 10 pounds shall be confiscated 

 wherever found. 



Among species the killing of which 

 shall be limited by law are fur monkeys and 

 small monkeys, dugongs, manatees, small 

 cats, various pigs, jackals, large tortoises, 

 bustards, guinea fowl, and other game 

 birds, birds whose feathers have commer- 

 cial value, like marabous, egrets, and os- 

 triches, for the preservation of whose eggs 

 special measures are to be taken. 



This is believed to be the first interna- 

 tional action ever taken for the protection 

 of game. Five years ago it would have 

 been impossible to have induced any of 

 these nations to trouble their crowned 

 heads about what became of the game in 

 Africa ; but the sentiment in favor of sav- 

 ing the works of nature has invaded even 

 the sacred precincts of the throne room. 



Verily the world do move. 



TEN SLEEP GAME. 

 I have intended for some time to send 

 some items from the Ten Sleep country to 

 apprise the greatest educator of sports- 

 men in modern times that elk and deer 

 still roam our mountains. Up to this nth 

 of February we have had little snow in the 

 basin country of the Big Horn, conse- 

 quently game is wintering well, and this 

 year game hogs are scarcer than usual. In 

 fact, our game laws were never so well ob- 

 served as during the past year. Visiting 

 sportsmen were very successful. One 

 party Mr. Burke had here, whom I as- 

 sisted a short time, got 7 animals. Two of 

 these were fine bull elk, and one or 2 were 

 deer. Another party I was with got one 

 10-point and one spike bull, and there 

 were several other elk killed in these Big 

 Horn mountains. A party I sent into the 

 Park and Jackson Hole country got 7 elk. 

 During the season of '99 I served the gov- 

 ernment as ranger in the Big Horn Forest 

 Reserve. In that capacity I had an 

 Opportunity to see more of the mountains 



than I ever saw before. At the head of 

 nearly every stream is a chain of lakes 

 varying in size from ponds to lakes, one to 

 3 miles in length. Many of these are full 

 of fish. The others fish can not get into on 

 account of falls; but all are capable of sup- 

 porting a multitude of fish, and I mean to 

 do all I can to have them stocked. 



September 17th, in company with Mr. 

 Matthews and Mr. Sargent, 2 geological 

 surveyors, I made the ascent of Cloud 

 Peak, the highest one in the Big Horn, 

 13,200 feet. The view from its summit is 

 grand beyond my power to describe. A 

 glacier extends from its summit to a lake 

 on the South branch of Piney creek, which 

 runs East from Cloud Peak. On the West 

 side of the Peak is a basin several miles in 

 extent, nearly circular, in which are 8 

 lakes. Looking East, one can count 10 

 lakes down Piney creek, and South, down 

 Ten Sleep, are 5 or more lakes. Lake 

 Solitude, on middle fork of Paint Rock, is 

 one of the largest. The middle fork of 

 Ten Sleep heads in a canyon with perpen- 

 dicular walls nearly 2,000 feet high. I often 

 wished for a companion to view these 

 grand scenes with me and to see the young 

 game animals in their summer homes. 

 Mark H. Warner, Ten Sleep, Wyo. 



MORE SLAUGHTER BY SIDE HUNTERS. 



Wigwam, Colo. 

 Editor Recreation: 



Herewith a clipping from Denver Re- 

 publican: 



Rifle, Colo., Oct. 28. — The arrest and conviction of 

 Venier, last night, by the game wardens, seems to have 

 had a depressing effect on the receipts of game to- 

 day by the numerous hunters, but 8 deer being brought 

 in. The only other animal slain was a lynx, which A. 

 S. Ramsey killed. 



The hunters apparently have been advised that 3 

 game wardens are here and they are avoiding the in- 

 spection by shipping from other places, the total re- 

 sults of the 3 days' hunt, so far as have shown up, be- 

 ing nearly 20odeer, 5 elk, 4 lions, 3 bear and 3 lynx. 



Mr. Smith estimates that over 100 deer will be 

 brought out over the government road for shipment 

 to-morrow. It will be readily recognized that the 

 "lion hunt" has resulted in an immense slaughter of 

 deer. 



Isn't it a pity that people will insist on 

 killing off the deer as fast as they can? 

 The railroad company advertised this as a 

 "lion hunt," but a blind man could see it 

 meant a slaughter of deer. 



I went to Pagosa Springs in Archuleta 

 county, Colo., last September. Had a good 

 time. Our party got all the trout and 

 grouse we could eat in camp, and one 

 deer. It was at first only wounded, and 

 the boys heard it crying out as if in great 

 distress. Before they came up with it they 

 found large lion tracks. When they found 

 the deer and gave it a finishing shot its 

 hips and back were badly scratched where 

 a lion had endeavored to hang on until he 

 could kill it. 





