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ing stations. There would be danger 

 in getting caught in the Naskopie country 

 in winter, for a traveler would have to di- 

 vide his provisions with any Indians met 

 en route who were short of supplies. If he 

 tried to keep his own provisions he prob- 

 ably would not need any the next day. The 

 Nascopies are good enough excepting when 

 they are tempted, and they are easily 

 tempted. 



Robert T. Morris, New York City. 



RECREATION NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS 

 To J. H. Osgood, Fergus Falls, Minn. 



You sent me a clipping stating that 6 

 men had killed 75 prairie chickens. Let us 

 see how much of a crime they committed. 

 That is an average of i2]/ 2 birds to each 

 man, and it is likely that as those men 

 went from Chicago and St. Paul to the 

 shooting grounds, they stayed more than 

 one day. But suppose they had stayed only 

 one day. What then? A man may reason- 

 ably kill 12 or even 15 prairie chickens in a 

 day, though personally, I believe no man 

 should be allowed to kill more than 10 in 

 a day. Until we have laws limiting the 

 bag to some such figure, there is no ob- 

 jection to killing 12 birds a day, or to aver- 

 aging that number. 



I did not go into the matter at such 

 length in reply to your first letter, but when 

 under date of September 23. you state a 

 string of falsehoods, it becomes my duty to 

 show you how far you miss the truth. I 

 therefore enclose herewith a few clippings 

 from past issues of Recreation in order to 

 show you whether or not I confine my 

 roasts to poor men. 



One man condemned in one of these arti- 

 cles is General N. A. Miles, Commander in 

 Chief of the United States Army; another 

 is S. E. White, a prominent business man 

 of Grand Rapids, Mich. ; another is Pro- 

 fessor O. C. Hagermann, President Lex- 

 ington University, Morgantown, W.. Va. ; 

 another Senator J. H. Smith, of your State ; 

 another an ex-Justice of the Peace and 

 ex-game warden S. P. Monroe, of Lyme, 

 Mass. ; another W. F. Burrell, a wealthy 

 business man of Portland, Oregon ; and still 

 another J. A. Cooper, Commissioner of the 

 Supreme Court of the State of California. 

 And I could name 100 others if necessary. — 

 Editor. 



NEBRASKA GAME BUTCHERS. 



I send you an account from the Wisner 

 Chronicle, of a great rally of shoats in 

 this vicinity. It was not the first of the 

 kind here. This time they killed 150 

 quails, 225 rabbits, and more than 200 ducks 

 and prairie chickens. The high man, T. 

 Thompson, admits that he potted 14 quails 



in a bunch on the snow. Is there no way 

 to stop such work? J. C, Wisner, Neb.. 



The clipping reads as follows : 



The local Nimrods went forth last Thursday to 

 slaughter game for points. It was not a favorable 

 day for hunting and less game was secured than 

 in former contests of this kind. The victory wai 

 won by A. Lednicky's . side, the following being 

 the score: 



beemer's side. 



0. D. Beemer, Capt. 200 S. Lant ii2 l / 2 



A. R. Oleson 112J/2T. Thompson .... 470 



F. J. Buck ii2^Wm. Murphy .... 160 



G. Wessel 140 B. Emley 190 



R. Schwarz 100 H. Johnson 165 



M. Hoff 40 Wm. McKenzie . . 65 



Geo. Labohm .... 65 



Total 2,097^ 



lednicky's side. 

 A. Lednicky, Capt. 90 M. Thompson ... 170 



E. C. Kinzel .... 90 VV. McKown 280 



E. Herrmann .... 170 C. Behlers 200 



H. Kinzel 1 i2*^C. Schneider .... 260 



O. R. Thompson . 60 H. Cornaman .... 165 



S. J. Merriam . . . 405 F. Balster 60 



L. Thiemke 260 



Total 2,487/2 



Unfortunately there is at present no 

 law against holding side hunts except that 

 of sportsmanship. In a few years more, 

 participation in a side hunt will be a pun- 

 ishable offense. Meantime the white people 

 of Wisner might tar and feather these 

 butchers. If the tar was of the proper 

 temperature it would perhaps impress on 

 them the fact that wholesale slaughter is 

 becoming unpopular. I fear, however, that 

 gentle measures would have little effect on 

 these men. — Editor. 



MARKET SHOOTING IN TEXAS. 



I note your call on the people of Texas 

 to stop the slaughter of their ducks by 

 Eastern hogs. The inference from your 

 article would be that it should be an easy 

 thing to do. It is not. 



Five years ago last spring I came up 

 from New Orleans and on the train met a 

 sportsman who told me that 6 men' were 

 then in Texas killing mallards for New 

 York. They had refrigerator cars side- 

 tracked and killed day and night. Not 

 only this, but they hired as many natives 

 as possible and paid them 7 cents each for 

 mallards. For smaller ducks they paid in 

 proportion. They did not, however, want 

 the other species, but instructed their hire- 

 lings to bring only mallards. They had an 

 open offer that held good for a certain 

 time, for every duck brought in. The 

 ducks were so thick and so hungry that 

 those hogs could murder them wholesale. 



I wondered then what was the matter 

 with the sportsmen of Texas. There are 

 some good ones in that State and just why 

 they should allow butchers to rob 

 them, was a mystery to me, I trust 

 you have a good circulation in Texas and 



