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RECREATION. 



J. A. Towie, Jackson, killing deer; bound 

 over. 



B. M. Fernald, Jackson, catching trout; 

 60 days, $25. 



W. G. Loud, Conway, shooting raccoon; 

 60 days, $10. 



Leslie Merrow, Conway, killing deer; 

 bound over. 



Leavitt Hale, Albany, killing deer; 6 

 months, $100. 



Colby Chase, Albany, killing deer; 6 

 months, $100. 



Albert Johnson, Albany, killing deer; 6 

 months, $100. 



Frank Mansfield. Conway, hunting deer; 

 6 months, $25. 



James Reynolds, Colebrook, killing deer; 

 6 months, $100. 



Two Italians, Berlin, shooting robins; 6 

 months $10. 



W. Hardy Whitefield, shooting fawn; 6 

 months, $25. 



ANOTHER ONE ON BENNETT. 



There is a game hog in this town who 

 has bristles fully developed. Chas. E. 

 Hewitt, who has an automatic shot gun, 

 went to the Nesqually flats one day last 

 week and killed 147 ducks in one day. I 

 am in favor of the preservation of game, 

 and I abhor such indiscriminate slaughter 

 as this. Please give Hewitt such adver- 

 tising as he deserves. 



W. H. Cyhley, Tumwater, Wash. 



I wrote Hewitt as follows : 



I understand you recently killed 147 

 ducks in one day with an automatic shot 

 gun. Kindly let me know if this report 

 is correct. 



Here is his reply: 



Correct in every particular. 



Chas. E. Hewitt, Tumwater, Wash. 



Yet Mr. Bennett, President of the Win- 

 chester Arms Co., while insisting that his 

 company has no intention of making auto- 

 matic guns, claims that the automatic gun 

 already on the market is one of the most 

 harmless, innocent and respectable weapons 

 ever invented. He claims that a man can 

 not kill any more birds in a day with an 

 automatic gun than he could with a double 

 barreled gun, that game hogs will not use 

 the automatic gun because they like their 

 old pump guns better, and all that sort of 

 rot. 



Some people are weak minded enough 

 to be buncoed by such arguments into ad- 

 vocating the making and use of the auto- 

 matic. Fortunately, there are a few thou- 

 sand sportsmen in this country who think 

 for themselves, and who are radically op- 

 posed to allowing game hogs to buy and use 



these infernal machines. The number of 

 such discerning sportsmen is increasing 

 every day. I have on file several thousand 

 letters of this tenor. If I should print all 

 I get each month they would fill every page 

 of Recreation. I can give place to only 

 a few, but enough to show the trend of 

 sentiment among decent men. The time 

 will come when the use of the automatic 

 gun will be prohibited by law in every 

 State in the Union. 



Hewitt's number on the game hog reg- 

 ister is 1041. 



DAMPIER BREAKS THE LAW. 



On page 417 of December, 1899, Recrea- 

 tion I published a photograph showing 4 

 men standing beside a string of about 200 

 pounds of pike, and I labeled the picture 

 "Another Bunch of Hogs." E. R. Dampier, 

 one of the members of the herd, who claims 

 to be a law}^er, wrote me threatening a libel 

 suit and suggested that I send him a good- 

 sized check in order to secure a settlement 

 of the case out of court. Later Mr. A. L. 

 Vermilya took a shy at Mr. Dampier, in 

 verse, which was published on page 501 of 

 Recreation for December, 1900. 



Now comes a clipping from a Minnesota 

 paper stating that this same E. R. Dampier 

 has been up in the United States Court, 

 charged with an infraction of the postal 

 regulations. The report states that he wrote 

 a letter, rolled it in a newspaper, put a one 

 cent stamp on the wrapper and sent it 

 through the mails. The full penalty of 

 $10 was laid against Dampier and the 

 costs in the case brought the total assess- 

 ment up to $28. 



Dampier could have bought 1400 2 cent 

 stamps for that amount and these would 

 probably have lasted him the rest of his 

 life. He is even a Dampier fool than I 

 thought he was. 



State Game Protector Jackson, of Schen- 

 ectady, captured Henry Shafer. of Schenec- 

 tady, while fishing with a fyke net in Lish- 

 askill. Of course, Henry claimed that he 

 was fishing for minnows, but he had some 

 good game fishes in his possession when 

 taken and the court levied a tax of $60 

 on him. His net was confiscated and Llem 

 ry is now a wiser if a poorer man. 



The story printed on pages 331 and 332 

 of May Recreation entitled "A Race With 

 a Grizzly," was written by S. G. Fisher. 

 Grangeville, Idaho, but owing to an over- 

 sight his name was not printed at the head 

 of the article, and the initials "M. C. H." 

 were substituted. This paragraph is print- 

 ed for the purpose of giving Mr. Fisher due 

 credit for the article. 



