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there are men who draw salaries from the 

 State to protect the game. This is an ex- 

 cellent country for fish and game, and with 

 a little protection there will be game here 

 for years to come. There is a good road 

 from Yampa direct to the best hunting 

 grounds in the State; also a good trail 

 from Yampa to Trappers' lake and Lost 

 lake, where the fishing is unexcelled. Elk 

 season is open from the 25th of October to 

 the 5th of November. I shall enforce the 

 law to the full extent of my ability. 



M. J. Powers, Yampa, Colo. 



THIS LODGE OF ELKS IS DIFFERENT. 



The proposed hunt and game banquet for the 

 local Elks is off. The proposition to have a game 

 supper was first offered by Exalted Ruler Boyns, 

 who thought the carrying out of the idea would 

 insure for the participants in the hunt a good time 

 and to the members generally a tempting feast. 

 William Youngs and William B. Jarvis were 

 named as captains of the rival teams. Each was 

 authorized to select his team and they were to fix 

 the dates. 



When the captains considered the proposition, 

 however, they realized that to carry out the idea 

 meant to throw out 2 large squads of hunters not 

 actuated by the ordinary rules of sport, but im- 

 bued with the desire to secure all the game they 

 could, the side making the biggest killing win- 

 ning. As both captains are members of the Con- 

 solidated Sportsmen's Association, they demurred. 



The proposed game feast has, therefore, been 

 declared off, and the local lodge of Elks has been 

 placed on record emphatically as in favor of pro- 

 tecting the game of the State. 



Unfortunately the subscriber who sent 

 me this clipping failed to give me any data 

 as to where it comes from. However, this 

 lodge of Elks, wherever it may be located, 

 has shown its superior judgment and has 

 placed itself on record as being far in ad- 

 vance of certain other lodges of this and 

 other orders, and even of some alleged 

 sportsmen's clubs. 



I wish all the men in the country who 

 are confronted with any suggestion as to 

 the holding of side hunts would table them 

 as promptly as did this lodge of Elks. — 

 Editor. 



SHOULD HAVE BEEN SHOT. 

 Recreation is the only magazine that has 

 sand enough to roast game hogs and the 

 still more despicable brutes who use fer- 

 rets. They deserve all they get. One day 

 last fall, while in a piece of woods near 

 my house, a rabbit came bounding past me 

 with 4 hounds in close pursuit. The little 

 fellow earthed near by and the hounds re- 

 mained baying around the hole. In a 

 few minutes 4 men came running up. One 

 took a ferret from his pocket and put it 

 down the burrow. When the fellow rose 

 to his feet he was holding a rabbit. The 

 men talked a while and then, loosing the 

 dogs tossed the rabbit among them. The 

 unfortunate little creature was torn to 



pieces in an instant. A worse example of 

 sheer brutality I never witnessed. 



C. H. White, Haverhill, Mass. 



If you had only had with you a Win- 

 chester repeating shot gun loaded with 

 buck shot, and had been clothed with au- 

 thority to use it, as it should have been used 

 at that time, you could have made a fine 

 record on these 2 legged brutes and their 

 4 legged servants. The whole outfit should 

 have been laid out and sent to some soap- 

 grease factory. — Editor. 



TOO MANY SQUIRRELS. 

 Police Captain Frank Jones and Earl Soules re- 

 turned last night from Hancock, where they had 

 been hunting grey squirrels 2 days. They bagged 48 

 in spite of unfavorable weather, and it was the 

 biggest string brought into the city this season. 



Above clipping is from the North Adams 

 Transcript. Jones and Soules make several 

 trips like this each season. Jones also goes 

 fishing every spring and his fishing is of 

 the same grade as his hunting. Kindly give 

 them a good roasting. 



H. W. H., North Adams. Mass. 



Captain Jones, in reply to my letter of 

 inquiry admits the correctness of the Tran- 

 script's report. 



This is indeed a beautiful story. In the 

 first place no man should kill a grey squir- 

 rel at any time. In the second place, if 

 Jones and his friends insist on hunting this 

 harmless, beautiful creature, they should 

 certainly be satisfied with 3 or 4 a day to 

 each gun. I trust after thinking this mat- 

 ter over seriously they may decide never 

 to kill another grey squirrel, under any 

 circumstances, that they may advise their 

 friends to adopt the squirrels as pets and 

 to protect them at all times. — Editor. 



GAME NOTES. 



I enjoyed the article of H. N. Beecher, 

 of Canon City, Colorado, entitled, "The 

 Life Story of a Grizzly," as published in 

 December last, in your valued magazine. 

 I have hunted over much of the same terri- 

 tory and am acquainted with most of the 

 parties he mentions. Only last October I 

 killed a buck deer on one of the mountains 

 he speaks of. Beecher's story was much 

 appreciated here by the boys and while we 

 have for years heard of the big bear we 

 never knew his history. I was always 

 under the impression that Whort killed 

 him on Witeher mountain, about 20 miles 

 West from this city. 



I am much like you ; I never kill anything 

 unless I want the meat, except that I enjoy 

 killing wild beasts. I killed an antelope, 

 in Wyoming, in the early days out here, 

 with a Colt's 45 caliber, from a horse on a 

 fast run. I wounded the antelope, and had 



