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RECREATION 



WORK FOR MISSISSIPPI. 



E. O. Toomes, a subscriber at Jackson, 

 Miss., calls our attention to a disgraceful 

 slaughter of robins in his locality. Negro 

 pot hunters have been coming into town with 

 great strings of dead robins. In his letter, 

 Toomes says : "The negro pot hunter is re- 

 sponsible for the ruthless murder of these 

 beautiful songsters, and there should be some 

 method to put his class of hunters entirely 

 out of business. The laws are good enough 

 in Mississippi if they were enforced as they 

 should be." 



We have taken action in an effort to bring 

 the matter to the attention of Mississippi au- 

 thorities and trust that all Mississippi sports- 

 men will co-operate with us in an effort to 

 secure the proper administration of the laws 

 in that State. 



SHAME, ALABAMA! 

 Alabama is not far behind her sister State 

 if we are to believe the following newspaper 

 story. The whites there are just as bad as 

 the negroes in Missisisippi. 



A jolly party of hunters, composed of 

 County Treasurer H. C. Miller, Chief 

 Deputy Criminal Clerk John P. Abbott, 

 James Hamilton, W. H. Preigel, and 

 Kirby Ward, returned recently from the 

 vicinity of South Park, where they state 

 that they killed 605 robins. Mr. Abbott 

 claims to have made fifty-six succumb to 

 his ability as a shooter without moving 

 out of his tracks. 



Truly, they, are having a slaughter of the 

 innocents in the South. 



All of the members of this "jolly party" 

 have heard from us in no uncertain terms. 



A RETROGRADE STEP. 



An active fight is being made in Arkansas 

 to repeal the law prohibiting the 'sale of 

 game in a number of the counties of that 

 State. This retrograde step is being discour- 

 aged vigorously by the sportsmen in Arkan- 

 sas, one of whom says, in a letter to us, 

 "never since I was a boy have I seen duck 

 as plentiful or in such variety as during this 

 past fall and winter season, and why? Simply 

 because for two winters we have been rid 

 of pot-hunters, and the sale of ducks and 

 geese has been prohibited. Before we had 

 a non-sale law this city (Helena) was known 

 as one of the best supply points, and thou- 

 sands upon thousands of ducks and geese 

 were shipped to foreign points. We have 

 had varieties of ducks this year that had al- 

 most quit coming this way before the non- 

 sale law was passed." 



What better argument can the sportsmen 

 of the country desire for the passage of the 

 anti-sale laws? There seems to be slight 

 danger that this act will be repealed. 



PHEASANTS THRIVING. 

 Reports from Madison, Wis., indicate the 

 fact that the pheasants released in Wiscon- 

 sin some years ago are thriving, many of 

 them having been seen in the vicinity of this 

 city. 



FREE PUBLICATION. 



W. F. Scott, Fish and Game Warden of 

 Montana, has printed the game laws of that 

 State in a neat little pamphlet of convenient 

 size for carrying in one's pocket. Copies can 

 be had, free of charge, by writing Mr. Scott, 

 at Helena. 



WITHOUT PROCESS OF LAW. 

 A statute authorizing game wardens to 

 seize and forfeit to the State summarily, 

 without affording the owner thereof oppor- 

 tunity for a hearing, all guns, ammunition, 

 decoys, fishing tackle, etc., in actual use by 

 persons hunting in violation of the game law, 

 is held, in McConnell vs. McPhillip (Neb. 

 65 L. R. A. 610) to be void as depriving the 

 owner of his property without due process 

 of law. 



A GREAT GAME SUPPER. 

 Bozeman, Mont. — At our meeting two 

 weeks ago it was decided that we select 

 two captains and they choose sides from 

 the roster of membership, each side to 

 go hunting wild game, the side that 

 scored the least points to attend to pre- 

 paring the supper to be had in two 

 weeks, the game to be turned over to 

 them. The hunt was to be between four 

 days. Capt. Geo. Whitney and Capt 

 Wm. Rider were chosen to make the 

 needed arrangements. The Royal Neigh- 

 bors were to be invited, of course (but 

 not to do any of the work). We never 

 can have any doin's without having 

 them in it. We also invited the Wood- 

 men families and Woodmen sweet- 

 hearts. We have about 225 members, 

 so had a good list to choose from. The 

 captains agreed on the points to count, 

 and the clerk was to record the points. 

 Tuesday night at 6 o'clock the contest 

 closed. Soon after a Neighbor drove 

 up and called the clerk to register two 

 deer heads, the balance of the deer and 

 the hunting party being in the moun- 

 tains, blocked by snow from getting in. 

 Game came in fast, and seven deer, 

 forty-nine jack- rabbits, fourteen cotton- 

 tails, one coyote wolf, and a box of 

 fish were registered. — Modern Wood- 

 man, Lincoln, Neb. 



These "modern woodmen" had better 

 get a new name. "Modern" does not apply 

 to people guilty of engaging in the brutal 

 side hunt of our half savage ancestors. 



