FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 



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ANOTHER EDITOR OF THE RIGHT SORT. 

 I enclose a clipping from the Roland 

 Record of August 22d, 1900: 



It is but a few days till the open season for prairie 

 chicken shooting is at hand. This sport is getting to be 

 rare in this State but it can be kept up if every true 

 sportsman will observe the game laws and see that others 

 do the same. There is no excuse for killing game out of 

 season. What sport there can be in killing young birds 

 that scarce can fly is beyond comprehension. That 

 game is decreasing is admitted by all, not only in these 

 more thickly settled regions, but in the North and North- 

 west. This is caused by the reckless butchery of men 

 who think themselves sportsmen, but who in reality are 

 nothing but mean, measly swine. Just the other day we 

 saw a picture of 3 fellows standing over the carcasses of a 

 dozen deer. These fellows thought they deserved dis- 

 tinction for their day's work and stood there with a 

 "we're hot stuff" look on their bilious faces. Such fel- 

 lows have killed off our buffalos and now they are killing 

 off our deer. Give'm a kick. 



The open season for prairie chicken 

 shooting began September I. There has 

 been a notable increase in the number of 

 quails in this neighborhood during the 

 past few years. Other game is decreas- 

 ing. 



H. H. Birkeland, Roland, la. 



SUE THE GAME WARDENS. 



Chilton, Wis., May 19. — John J. Hanby of Stockbridge. 

 Wis., who was implicated in the arrest made on April 28- 

 by the game wardens on Lake Winnebago, and who re- 

 ceived a bullet in his leg fired by the wardens in attempt, 

 ing to make the arrest, has engaged Atty. George C, 

 Hume to bring an action for damages against the wardens, 

 — Milwaukee (Wis.) paper. 



You are on the wrong trail, John. Of 

 course it hurt, but you are not the first 

 man who has been shot while violating 

 game laws, and I hope you may not be the 

 last. There are a lot of other fellows who 

 deserve it. The way of the transgressor 

 is hard, and you may consider yourself 

 mighty lucky that you did not get it in the 

 neck instead of in the leg, in which case 

 there would have been a better show for 

 the law officers to preserve the game in 

 your State than there can be while you are 

 at large. The law recognizes the right of 

 an officer to use force in making an arrest, 

 and you might just as well sue the sheriff 

 who locked you up in jail as the man who 

 wounded you and took you in. — Editor. 



SHOULD JOIN THE L. A. S. 

 The Carolina Gun Club is an organi- 

 zation formed for the purpose of protecting 

 fish and game by enforcing the game laws, 

 and for the advancement of its members 

 in the art of wing shooting. The club was 

 organized in 1896 and has 25 members. 

 Interest in the preservation of game is 

 increasing each year, and we hope to hear 

 of many other such clubs being formed 

 throughout the country. We hold weekly 

 shoots throughout the spring and summer, 

 the proceeds from which are used to meet 

 the expenses of the club. We recently lib- 

 erated, in different parts of our neighbor- 

 hood, 60 pairs of quail, purchased through 

 one of Recreation's advertisers, Charles 



Payne, of Wichita, Kan. The birds were 

 not turned out on grounds controlled by 

 the club, but on grounds where all persons 

 have equal rights to shoot in open season. 

 F. N. Brown, Carolina, R. I. 



ARRESTED FOR TRAPPING SONG BIRDS. 

 Game Warden H. W. Loveday and Secretary Harry 

 A. Sullivan of the Game and Fish Protective association 

 secured the arrest of J. Maul, charged with violating th- 

 game laws. The case has been on trial in Justice Hoage 

 lund's court and yesterday the justice took the case under 

 advisement, announcing he would render a decision 

 Friday. Maul is accused of trapping song birds such as 

 the goldfinch and robin. — South Ben d paper. 



I think the officers mentioned in the 

 foregoing should be complimented bv 

 Recreation on their good work. I wish 

 there were such men in every community. 

 We have in the West end of this city a lot 

 of miserable Poles and Hungarians. These 

 wretches prowl with shotguns through the 

 surrounding country, and kill every bird 

 they see, even down to little song spar- 

 rows. I am no dyspeptic crank, but I love 

 the birds, and it exasperates me to see 

 them slaughtered by the riff-raff we fool- 

 ishly invite to this country. 



R. D., South Bend, Ind. 



GAME NOTES. 

 Little game is left in this part of the 

 State, except cottontails and a few quails 

 and prairie chickens. We seldom see ducks, 

 geese or cranes. Twenty-five years ago 

 this prairie in spring was literally alive 

 with feathered game of all kinds. Beaver 

 creek, once one of the best fishing streams 

 in the State, has been dry most of the 

 time since '94. Most of the fish were of 

 poor varieties, such as suckers, bullheads 

 and buffalo; but there were many pickerel, 

 some bass and sunfish, and numerous other 

 small fish. Now there is nothing in the 

 stream but a few bullheads. Even our 

 song birds are getting scarce. Not one 

 to-day where were hundreds 20 years ago. 

 Long live Recreation and prosper its 

 good work of protecting game, song birds 

 and fishes. 



L. W. Ellis, Berkeley, la. 



The account of a giant deer seen in the 

 Southwest, reminds me of an experience 

 of my own. In October, '93, John Davis, 

 Ruben Callet and I, all of Vernal, Utah, 

 were camped at 3 Springs, Rio Blanco 

 county, Colo., hunting deer. The last day 

 we hunted, when I had but one cartridge 

 left, I found an enormous buck. I thought 

 at first it was an elk, but its color disproved 

 that. After snapping my lone cartridge at 

 him about 25 times, I ran to camp and 

 got some .40-65 W. C. F., though my gun 

 was a .40-60 Marlin. The shells worked 

 all right when I found the buck; but as I 

 could not also find the right trajectory I 

 did not get him. Mr. Davis had 4 shots at 



