FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 



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that the loyal sportsmen of that great State 

 will wake up before it is too late. 



F. M. Gilbert, Evansville, 111. 



ANSWER. 



Yes, I know such butchery has been go- 

 ing on in Texas for years, to feed the 

 Eastern epicures. The same as to the 

 coast of North Carolina. The only new 

 feature of the matter is that the North 

 Carolina men themselves have wiped out 

 the great flights of water fowl that for- 

 merly wintered in Carrituck sound and 

 have now gone to Texas to clean up that 

 coast also. — Editor. 



SOMETHING DOING IN OREGON. 

 The markets here are still full of wild 

 ducks, and the ducks are full of wild rice 

 and wapatos, but we can not buy mu~kox 

 for 4 bits a pound. There has not 

 been enough big game killed here in a 

 month to lunch a bachelor's family; but 

 I know where there is a bunch of elk and 

 deer ranging in the 26th ward. Am now 

 getting up a party to move on them a? soon 

 as the moon gets in the dark. Eastern 

 hunters who want to join should renp f at 

 once before it is everlastingly too late. No 

 reasonable fees refused. It will be an iasy 

 hunt, no tiresome tramps. Locality is also 

 known as City park, and fresh bear tracks 

 have recently been seen there. Street cars 

 to within 2 blocks. As to my guiding ac- 

 complishments, I refer, without permission, 

 to those I have guided. The biggest bags 

 recently made here were out on Pudding 

 river, away up the North fork. A party of 

 4, guided bv Swinomish Sam, of Snohom- 

 ish, using rifles whose spud gear never got 

 clogged, shot a total of 827 codlin moths 

 in one day ; a short winter day, too. As 

 soon as the days lengthen out to 24 hours 

 again the same party expect to take a 2- 

 day whirl among the hoplice and bag at 

 least 6,000. Fear of your giving the bacon 

 brand to these hunters causes the with- 

 holding of their names, but everyone will 

 acknowledge the corn when you write and 

 ask. A Legislature is the next thing to be 

 elected here, and into it we propose to 

 introduce a bill inviting all the wild game 

 of the State to come in and board at the 

 best hotel in town. It is claimed that 

 such a system would be easier on the tax- 

 payers than present protective methods. 

 John Watermelon, Portland, Ore. 





A RECORD TO BE PROUD OF. 

 The Clearfield Game Protection Associa- 

 tion was organized here February 9, 1899. 

 Its object is to assist in restocking our 

 streams and woods with 'fish and game; to 

 enforce the game and fish laws, and to 

 prosecute all offenders in our county. Since 

 its organization the following cases have 



been disposed of: G. M. Baney, 2 squirrels, 

 shot before season, $20 and costs; he went 

 to jail. James Condon, killing one deer in 

 August, $100 and costs; paid. Andy Reese 

 and John Cams, dynamiting trout, $50 and 

 costs; paid. John Lynch, killing one 

 grouse and 2 squirrels, $50 and costs ; paid. 

 Christian Weber and another, killing one 

 deer in July, $100 and costs; paid. Alex. 

 Wallace, killing one deer in July, $100 and 

 costs; paid. Victor Baker, killing one rab- 

 bit with ferret, $50 and costs ; application 

 for new trial pending. 



The Philadelphia Inquirer is urging defeat 

 of a bill introduced by Hon. F. G. Harris, 

 Representative to the General Assembly 

 from this county. Most of the opposition 

 to the bill is being offered by the game 

 dealers of Easton, Pa. We have good 

 grouse shooting here, and last fall over 

 1,000 birds were shipped from Clearfield 

 by non-resident hunters. I presume that 

 in all cases, when possible, the daily limit 

 of 10 birds was taken.. Most of our sports- 

 men favor the passage of the bill. Still we 

 have some hunters who are never satisfied 

 until they have taken the daily limit of 

 birds. If all sportsmen would stop to con- 

 sider the growing scarcity of game, there 

 would be little opposition to the passage of 

 our bill. License the gun by all means. 

 H. W., Clearfield, Pa. 



TWO DOVE CASES. 



August 10th I arrested Geo. A. Cun- 

 ningham, ex-city attorney, for shooting 

 doves before the open season. He ad- 

 mitted killing 14 doves, and I secured 

 them. He returned to the city with me, 

 and I filed an affidavit before Justice 

 Poole. Mr. Cunningham claimed there 

 was an error in the affidavit and appealed 

 to the circuit court. State Warden Sweeny 

 has instructed me to see the case through 

 to a finish. 



This matter was thoroughly ventilated 

 in the daily papers, but on the 13th of 

 August, while after some other law break- 

 ers, I found Ed. T. McNeely shooting 

 doves. He was accompanied by Mayor 

 Covert. I did not see the latter shoot, nor 

 have any game in his possession, but I saw 

 McNeely throwing doves out of his pocket 

 as he, ran. I made him go back with me 

 and we picked up 5 doves. I filed com- 

 plaint against him before the same justice 

 and the matter has dragged along until 

 to-day when McNeely paid $52.75 fi" e an(1 

 costs, for shooting one dove. 



I found it imoossible to get legal help 

 till Mr. A. J. Clark was employed by the 

 State. I do not hesitate to say that if 

 these men had not been leading politicians 

 the cases would have been settled long 



