FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 



in 



my position, I picked out a doe and fired, 

 killing her on the spot. After bleeding and 

 cleaning her I started for camp. 



Presently I saw 2 big bucks run into a 

 hollow that led back toward, the hills. I 

 ran to where they had disappeared and, 

 looking up, saw one standing on top of a 

 steep hill. I took quick aim and fired. Off 

 he went. When I reached the top of the 

 hill I saw my buck about 250 yards away. 

 I fired twice without bringing him down. I 

 had but one cartridge left and the buck had 

 left, too. Still I followed as carefully as 

 possible, but not very hopefully. I finally 

 saw him standing with his head down, evi- 

 dently wounded, about 200 yards away. 

 With a careful aim I sent my last bullet 

 after him, holding just over his back. He 

 seemed to break in 2 when the bullet struck 

 him and went down in a heap. When I 

 got to him, however, he was far from dead, 

 and I dispatched him with my knife. I 

 cleaned him and, returning to camp forthe 

 horses, got both antelope in by dinner time. 

 Ernest A. Johnson, Morris, 111. 



SCALPED BY A SILVERTIP. 



I left Old Faithful inn at 7 a. m. to-day, 

 and arrived at the Yellowstone Lake hotel 

 at 3.15 p. m. There was great excitement 

 here. Two of the men connected with the 

 hotel were walking in the woods about half 

 a mile back of the hotel. Being tired, they 

 were about to sit down, when they came 

 on 2 silvertips. One of the bears ran away, 

 but the other attacked the men, knocking 

 one man down. His friend hit the bear 

 with a club and was in turn promptly 

 knocked down with a swipe which laid his 

 scalp open 6 inches, over his left ear. The 

 bear also bit through the man's left arm 

 and walked on him. Evidently thinking 

 the man dead, the bear left him for the 

 man first attacked, who was by that time 

 up a tree. This gave the more severely in- 

 jured man a chance to climb a tree and 

 save his life. 



A doctor from Brooklyn, assisted by the 

 barber, sewed up the wound with a cambric 

 needle and a fishing leader. I assisted by 

 getting solutions, stimulants, etc. The man 

 who has only severe scratches and bruises 

 is nearly scared to death, while the other, 

 who is in really a serious condition, is as 

 brave as they make them. "■ 



At 5 p. m. I saw 5 black and brown 

 bears, and at 7 p. m. 5 silvertips, on the 

 garbage heap where they are fed; but ex- 

 cuse me from wandering far in the woods 

 alone. I have never been afraid of any- 

 thing, alive or dead, but I should not like 

 to meet the old 900 pound silvertip I saw 

 this evening. 



Dr. J. S. Emans, Yellowstone Park. 



A PERSEVERING WARDEN. 



November 21, 1904, I arrested Howard 

 Miller and George Shraner, 2 hunters 

 from Baltimore, Md., for hunting in our 

 State without a license. I went to their 

 camp from Reedsville, driving nearly all 

 one night in order to get there before day- 

 light. There were 17 men in the camp. 

 I told them who I was and my business, 

 and asked them to point out to me the 2 

 men I was seeking. I had their names, 

 but did not know them by sight. The hunt- 

 ers refused to identify the 2, so I put the 

 whole 17 under arrest. When they saw 

 that I meant business, they pointed out to 

 me the 2 men I wanted. I held them each 

 for 2 days this year and one day for 

 last year and fined them each $75 and costs, 

 making in all $173.14. 



These 2 men hold good positions in 

 Baltimore, on the railroad, still they were 

 not gentlemen enough to take out the re- 

 quired license which in our State is only 

 $10, considerably less than the $173.14 

 they eventually paid. 



After they got out of our State last year, 

 they bragged of having got away from 

 me, but this year the laugh is on them. 

 Joseph Berrier, Game Protector, 

 Harrisburg, Penn. 



You're a good boy, Joe, and I hope the 

 neighbors of Miller and Shraner will see 

 that they are properly ostracized by the 

 decent people of Baltimore.— Editor. 



GAME NOTES. 



The Scugog is filling with wild rice, but 

 I believe it is the government's intention 

 to dredge part of it. There were an un- 

 usual number of black ducks last summer. 



We ought to have in every Province and 

 Territory in Canada and every State and 

 Territory in the Union a law to prohibit 

 the sale of game and birds. If such a law 

 were strictly enforced, it would do more 

 to stop the decrease of our game and game 

 birds than stopping the sale of the auto- 

 matic gun. We want both stopped, how- 

 ever, for they are the 2 greatest causes of 

 decrease. The automatic is at present only 

 begun, but now is the time to stop its 

 manufacture. 



The winter of 1903-4 proved hard on the 

 deer up North. Guides tell me a great num- 

 ber were either frozen, starved or killed by 

 wolves. " 



S. E. Sangster, Port Perry, Ont. 



Some Keene, N. H., game butchers re- 

 cently held a side hunt. One end of the 

 crowd was headed by "Doctor" W. C. 

 Mathews and the other by C. H. Slade. I 

 wonder what Mathews is "Doctor" of? It 

 would seem from the love of slaughter he 



