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tee, consisting of A. F. Keseberg, E. D. Weimer 

 and H. F. Kimball, who arranged the event and 

 conducted it so successfully all the way through. — 

 Ludington Record-Appeal. 



This is simply shameful. Two bushels 

 of red squirrels and chipmunks ! What can 

 a party of grown men who go into the 

 woods and slaughter little innocent animals 

 like these at such a rate think of them- 

 selves? Hanging would be too good for 

 them. — Editor. 



AN EXAMPLE TO FOLLOW. 

 As Conductor Frank Beckwith's train on the 

 Valley road was nearing Arnold station, Friday 

 morning, a deer was noticed running alongside 

 the track. The engine was slowed down, and 

 the deer took to the track, running ahead of the 

 train. Finally it jumped down an embankment 

 and became caught by both horns and one foot 

 in the wire fence that separates the railroad prop- 

 erty from the pasture land along the track. Con- 

 ductor Beckwith stopped the train and with the 

 assistance of several passengers managed to break 

 enough of the wire netting to free the animal. 

 When released it started off into the woods. Con- 

 ductor Beckwith says the deer was about 2 years 

 old, and weighed between 100 and 150 pounds. — 

 Exchange. 



Here is an example that it would be well 

 for everyone to remember. The average 

 man if in this conductor's place would have 

 murdered the deer, thrown it on his train, 

 called on the editor of the local paper at 

 the end of his run, given him a piece of the 

 venison and would probably have received 

 in return a free puff. Conductor Beckwith 

 and the passengers who assisted him in re- 

 leasing this deer are entitled to the grati- 

 tude of every lover of nature. — Editor. 



PROTECTION OF BIG-HORNS. 



Something should be done by the government 

 toward protecting mountain sheep in this district. 

 Under the game act it is a punishable offense to 

 kill the ewe or lamb of these much prized animals, 

 yet every year a number are slaughtered in the 

 Ashnola district, presumably by prospectors, who 

 claim the right to kill them on the strength of 

 holding a miner's license. The game protection 

 act states that every non-resident shall pay a fee 

 of $50 to the government for the privilege of 

 hunting big-horns. This law is easily evaded by 

 the hunter's taking out a miner's license and 

 claiming the right to kill game because he is a 

 prospector. He thus saves $45 and claims the 

 right to shoot everything in sight. Mountain 

 sheep are getting scarcer in the Province and 

 stringent measures should be adopted toward pro- 

 tecting the bands on the Ashnola mountains. No 

 prospector need kill eyes for meat, as there are 

 plenty of deer in the country, which are much 

 easier to kill than a mountain sheep. The last 

 hunting party on the Ashnola reports numerous 

 carcasses of ewes which had been shot and left to 

 rot on the trail. A limit should be set to the 

 game a prospector is allowed to kill and a heavy 

 penalty inflicted on anyone found transgressing. 

 The game act has never been properly enforced 

 in the Province, consequently big game is becom- 

 ing scarcer every year, and it is high time for the 

 government to take the necessary steps for its 

 protection. — Samilkameen, B. C, Liar. 



hog of our town. I do not think he killed 

 the birds, but he probably bought them. 

 He wears knee pads so he can crawl up 

 on a covey of quails and shoot them sit- 

 ting. He hides around grape vines and 

 shoots the birds when they come in to feed. 

 He is also a spring duck shooter arid he 

 sells all his game. 



S. W. M., Williamsport, Pa. 

 The clipping referred to is a reproduction 

 of a photograph showing a coarse, gawky 

 looking chap standing up behind a big 

 string of ruffed grouse and rabbits. It is 

 just such a looking creature as one might 

 expect to find sneaking into the back door 

 of a butcher shop to sell birds he had shot 

 on the ground or had bought from other 

 pot hunters. — Editor. 



Till recently I have always been an ar- 

 dent sportsman, and should, therefore, feel 

 lenient toward those in whom the same 

 passion sometimes proves too strong. 



However, facing the facts that large game 

 and game birds are doomed, and that men 

 pursue the remnant with fiercer avidity, 

 with the greedy motto on their tongues : 

 they are bound to go, I'll get my share be- 

 fore they're gone; I am convinced that 

 nothing but stopping for a time can save 

 them. 



One thing you should make clear. Many 

 comfort themselves with the idea that game 

 is really increasing, a fallacy which deceives 

 no one. 



If in one section deer seem to have multi- 

 plied it is because they have been chased 

 from 100 other places. 



A. H. Thayer, Oswego, N. Y. 



I am much interested in the work being 

 done by the League of American Sports- 

 men. It is high time every true sports- 

 man took a decided interest in the preser- 

 vation of what game and game fishes are 

 left. I believe a general law for the 

 United States would be a wise thing, which, 

 of course, might be modified according to 

 locality. I also believe in the prohibiting 

 of the sale and the transportation by com- 

 mon carriers of any game or game fishes 

 whatsoever in the United States. 



Geo. P. Langford, Vernon, N. Y. 



Congress has no power to enact game 

 laws, strictly speaking. It can only aid 

 the States in enforcing their laws, and that 

 is the purpose of the Lacey Act. — Ed. 



GAME NOTES. 

 Enclosed please find a newspaper clipping 

 showing a picture of L. W. Slack, the game 



I saw in Recreation a statement regard- 

 ing the pheasants put out in this State. 

 Mr. Reutinger gave me 2 pairs of them. 

 They are to be the game birds of the 

 future. The weather, 20 degrees below 

 zero, did not hurt them at all. 



I believe in a tax on hunters, Tax every 



