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RECREATION. 



where one is standing. This no doubt pro- 

 tects the game in a measure. About 4 years 

 ago our Government appointed me a special 

 game warden for New Brunswick and I am 

 also a lumber estimater. I spend nearly all 

 my time in the woods and am well posted 

 as to our game. We have had several 

 Americans here, and all to whom I gave 

 license got moose, especially M. L. Shover, 

 of Ostrander, Ohio, and F. H. Davis, of 

 Worcester, Mass. They got the best heads 

 I ever saw. This season Judge Bruce, of 

 Massachusetts ; Mr. James Smith, of Phila- 

 delphia ; David and W. Collins, of Phila- 

 delphia; A. L. Cadwalater, of Yardly, Pa., 

 and F. H. Davis, of Worcester, Mass., were 

 here. They are true sportsmen and are 

 satisfied with reasonable bags. 



Our chief trouble here is pot hunters. 

 It would take the eyes of a lynx to watch 

 them. About 30 moose and some caribou 

 have been killed here under local license, 

 and no doubt some without, as those who 

 kill illegally are sure to keep it to them- 

 selves. 



I shall be happy to answer inquiries from 

 any of your readers at any time and give 

 them all the information in my power. 

 Recreation is a grand publication; just 

 what is needed to put down pot hunters. 

 P. H. Welch, Chipman, New Brunswick. 



toward Turkey creek, and I have not seen 

 a sign of him since. 



W. J. Banta, Palisade, Colo. 



THINKS HE KNEW OLD MOSE. 



I read Mr. Beecher's story of the grizzly 

 in December Recreation with deep interest, 

 more especially because I was hunting in 

 that part of the country when Old Mose 

 killed Radcliff. The story is true as far as 

 it goes, but at one time Old Mose moved 

 down on Eight Mile creek, East of Canyon 

 City, and killed lots of cattle of Jeff Young, 

 Ed Merritt and others. I hunted deer 

 about Black mountain and the head of 

 Badger creek, and saw Old Mose's tracks at 

 different times. The bears often would find 

 and eat some of the deer I killed and could 

 not bring into camp the same day. I kept 

 a bear trap set and caught one large grizzly 

 and one black bear, which I took to Pueblo 

 and sold at 10 cents a pound. 



I was hunting in that part of the country 

 once and a bear ate part of a deer that I 

 had hung in a tree. I did not have the bear 

 trap there, so I set 2 wolf traps and the 

 next night a very large bear got in them, 

 which we supposed to be Old Mose. He 

 rolled all around and finally got out, leav- 

 ing part of 2 toes. That taught him a lot 

 about traps and probably accounts for his 

 .never getting into a bear trap to stay. 



I set a trap at the carcass of a calf that 

 had .been killed by a mountain lion. Old 

 Mose came along and sat down on the-trap. 

 It caught him by the rump and he jumped 

 about 10 feet, tore the trap loose and left a 

 big bunch of hair in it. He then went off 



NO GAME ON THE MONTANA RANGE. 



Having just come East this winter, after 

 working some time for cow outfits on the 

 range, I can tell a little about game condi- 

 tions out there of late. While on the 

 roundups in Montana and Assiniboia last 

 year, I noticed there was mighty little game 

 in the country. 



In Eastern Montana, North of the Mis- 

 souri, antelopes are scarce. I saw only 

 7 or 8 in 2 months' riding. Local hunters 

 said there was a bunch of 50 just South of 

 the river, near the mouth of the Yellow- 

 stone, but I never saw them. There are a 

 few deer in the hills and near the creeks, 

 but not many. Wolves and coyotes are thick. 



Small game is fairly plenty, and would be 

 more so were it not for the Sioux, who kill 

 off everything. 



In Canada game is just as scarce. The 

 prairie seems empty and deserted, with no 

 sign of life anywhere. Up there the half- 

 breeds collect ducks' eggs in the spring, 

 but how many they take or whether to eat 

 or sell I do not know. We camped near sev- 

 eral lakes where the ground was covered 

 with broken egg shells left by them. At 

 any rate it does not seem to have effected 

 the supply of ducks, as we saw them in 

 large numbers. Some people can not seem 

 to realize that the slaughter of game in this 

 country must be stopped. 



R. L., Boston, Mass. 



SLAUGHTER IN LUZON. 



Since the outbreak of hostilities there has been 

 no greater slaughter recorded than that which 

 took place on Laguna de Bay as the result of a 

 duck hunting trip under the direction of Thomas E. 

 Evans. The party that accompanied Mr. Evans 

 consisted of Messrs. Knight, Bell and Guy. The 

 result was that 384 ducks were secured, and many 

 hundreds killed which were not secured. 



The party left Manila Saturday night at 11 

 o'clock in the launch Knight and steamed up to 

 the lake near Napindan. The greater part of the 

 night was taken up in making plans for the morn- 

 ing. Before sunrise they had taken up a position 

 commanding the entire area of marsh which marks 

 that portion of the lake. 



They had no retriever and recovered only such 

 birds as fell in the open, many hid in the thick 

 growth of reeds. In all possibly 2,000 ducks were 

 lost in this manner. — Manila American. 



As a rule I pay no attention to foreign 

 game hogs, but Luzon is American terri- 

 tory,' and we may safely assume the men 

 who committed this butchery were Ameri- 

 cans. They therefore deserve to be brand- 

 ed just as if they had done their butcher- 

 ing in any one of the States. Congress will 

 soon be called on to make a game law for 

 the Philippines, and I trust public senti- 

 ment may in the meantime demand that a 

 prison penalty be attached fpr men who 

 commit such butchery. — Editor, 



