RECREATION. 



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ANOTHER MILITARY GAME PRE- 

 SERVE. 

 There are several thousand acres in this 

 reservation, abounding in rabbits, bob- 

 whites, squirrels, and, in .season, snipe, 

 ducks and geese. I have never before seen 

 so much bird life in one place. Have 

 noted some 75 varieties this spring, and 

 have little time to look for birds. 



No shooting is permitted on the reser- 

 vation, even during the open season. Con- 

 sequently we are little affected by game 

 laws or by the doings of the sportsmen of 

 the state. Poachers on the reservation are 

 the only game hogs we run across. All 

 we can do to them is to put them off, pos- 

 sibly confiscating their guns. The civil au- 

 thorities cannot do anything in the case, 

 having no jurisdiction. Even if the federal 

 courts have power to act, it is not likely 

 that the military authorities would be will- 

 ing to appeal to them. It is so much sim- 

 pler to keep poachers off by mounted pa- 

 trols of the guard than to drag .them be- 

 fore any civil authorities, that the former 

 modus operandi is invariably adopted. 

 Thus you see we have here a fairly effec- 

 tive game preserve ; but that we have little 

 or no influence on the general question of 

 the preservation of game in the state. 



While stationed at Montgomery, Ala., 

 I tried to impress on the minds of those 

 around me, by force of example and by 

 tactful argument, the importance of the 

 work of the League, and had the satisfac- 

 tion of seeing several sportsmen voluntarily 

 set limits to their bags and honestly live up 

 to their new principles. 



I shall try to interest my friends and see 

 if w 7 e cannot send from here to other West- 

 ern posts student officers who w 7 ill try to 

 have their new posts converted into game 

 preserves similar to this. 



R. R. Raymond, 

 Captain Corps of Engineers, U. S. A. 

 Fort Leavenworth, Kans. 



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I have received the H. & R. revolver 

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