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pastor of the Oregon City Episcopal 

 Church; Rev. C. H. Lake, pastor of St. 

 Paul's Episcopal Church, The Dalles ; and 

 a layman, named L. R. Kollock. It looks 

 as if Mr,. Hardesty had been unduly lenient 

 in allowing the other 4 men to go free. It 

 was not their fault that they had not caught 

 any fish. They would doubtless have taken 

 100 pounds each if they could have got 

 them, and they should have been punished 

 for their effort at wrong doing. 



FISH PIRATES RUN IN. 



A State game and fish protector recently 

 arrested 5 Hungarians for seining in the 

 Mohawk river near Rotterdam Junction, N, 

 Y. The men were caught in the act of 

 hauling the seine, and were seen to dump 

 a large number of black bass and other 

 game fishes into the basket. Game Protec- 

 tor Jackson took the men into court, where 

 they pleaded guilty and were fined $10 

 each. 



Special Protector J. W. Furnside, of 

 Schenectady, who is also a member of the 

 League, recently arrested 2 men for violat- 

 ing the fish laws and heavy fines were as- 

 sessed against them. 



A great many men who violate game and 

 fish laws do not read newspapers or sports- 

 men's journals, but when one of these law- 

 less characters is introduced to a justice of 

 the peace and required to pay out money 

 to the State, the news travels among his 

 kind as rapidly as if it were printed in a 

 yellow journal with scareheads 6 inches 

 high. You rarely hear of a second prose- 

 cution of a game or fish law violator in any 

 given locality within a year. 



NOTES. 



Another slaughtering match, otherwise 

 known as a side hunt, was conducted in 

 October last by the employes of a wagon 

 factory at Canastota, N. Y. The butchers 

 were divided into 2 gangs led respectively, 

 or I should say disgracefully, by Edwin E. 

 Jones and E. A. Worden. These contempt- 

 ible wretches managed to pile up a total 

 score of 16,880, from which it may be in- 

 ferred that a large number of birds and 

 animals were sacrificed. The game was 

 fed to the swine who killed it in a local 

 hall with musical accompaniment. I am 

 sorry I canot give the names of the other 

 brutes who participated in this affair, but, 

 of course, their neighbors know them and 

 I trust my subscribers in Canastota will see 

 that each gets a copy of this issue. 



A subscriber in Whatcom, Wash., sent 

 me a clipping from a local newspaper some 

 months ago, stating that one J. Y. Johnson, 



of Fairhaven, that State, broke all previous 

 records of trout fishing in Silver lake "yes- 

 terday." The reporter says Johnson caught 

 371 trout, all over the average length of 10 

 inches; that he used worms for bait, arid 

 that he had to hire an express wagon to 

 carry the trout home, and that he sold the 

 catch for $11. 



I wrote Johnson, asking whether the re- 

 port were true, and have had no reply. 

 Therefore I deem it is. And therefore 

 Johnson goes on record as a fish hog with 

 bristles at least a foot long. 



Some time ago a friend in Seattle sent 

 me a clipping from the Times, of that city, 

 stating that S. J. Williams, of Renton, 

 Washington, had taken 253 trout in one 

 day. I asked Williams if the report was 

 true, but have not heard from him. As the 

 letter has not been returned, I take it for 

 granted it reached him all right and must 

 therefore consider his silence as a confes- 

 sion of guilt. Thus I am under the neces- 

 sity of adding one more occupant to the 

 already overcrowded corral in which Wash- 

 ington fish hogs are confined,. 



John Barnes, Bennett Siding, Wis., was 

 fined $240 by Judge Haily for killing 3 

 deer out of season. The judge valued one 

 deer at $25 and the other 2 at $100 each. 

 When Barnes was eating these 2 deer he 

 must have felt just as if he were eating 

 money. Haily is a bully judge and I wish 

 all the others in the country were like him. 



WANTED. — To know the present where- 

 abouts of H. H. Reitzenstein. This man 

 took a number of subscriptions for Recrea- 

 tion in Toledo, Ohio, Grand Junction, 

 Mich., and other cities in that State, in De- 

 cember last, and has failed to send them to 

 this office. 



"Do you think, professor," inquired the 

 musically ambitious youth, "that I can ever 

 do anything with my voice?" 



"Well, if you were a farmer it would 

 come handy to drive cows with." — Ex- 

 change. 



Recreation outsells all other sports- 

 men's periodicals here. 



A. B. Holbrook, Nashua, N. H. 



' Recreation is the best sportsmen's 

 journal out. 



E. L. Marsh, Fort Dodge, Iowa. 



