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RECREATION 



"We must pass a law that creates the office 

 oi a State Game Warden, extending that official 

 the power to appoint county and precinct game 

 wardens, whose duty it shall be to strictly en- 

 force a law that will in reality protect the game. 

 I introduced such a bill in the Legislature, ses- 

 sion of 1898-99, but it was so amended by the 

 exclusion of counties that it was practically 

 emasculated. There was no public sentiment 

 for it then, but we must create a demand for it 

 now.". 



Mr. Wallace has written a bill covering the 

 emergency for introduction in the next Legisla- 

 ture and he calls upon every sportsman and 

 lover of bird life to assist in a campaign favor- 

 able to the enactment of the bill. 



Preserve for Massachusetts 

 A plan is on foot to convert the Douglas 

 woods in Worcester County, Mass., into a State 

 reservation for the propagation of game and the 

 systematic practice of forestry. The region is 

 estimated as containing about six square miles 

 of rough timber land, and it certainly is an ideal 

 place for protecting and propagating quail and 

 ruffed grouse, in which Dr. Hodge, of Worces- 

 ter, will undoubtedly have a hand. Massachu- 

 setts sorely needs a State game preserve, and the 

 prospects for one are promising. 



An Expensive License 



The State Game Commissioner of Illinois, 

 John A. Wheeler, is going to protect the resi- 

 dent sportsmen against poachers from adjoin- 

 ing States if heavy fines will accomplish any- 

 thing. Recently H. L. Greasedick, of St. Louis, 

 Mo., was fined in the sum of $100 and costs 

 for hunting in Illinois on a resident license. 

 Brother Greasedick might better have saved 

 the price of the resident license. He'd have 

 gotten off much better if he'd had no license 

 whatever. St. Louis sportsmen are contribu- 

 ting handsomely to the Illinois fish and game 

 fund — through fines. 



Beats Putnam and the Wolf 

 Our good friend, J. A. Nash, of Spokane, 

 Wash., and a right good bear hunter, sends in a 

 clipping from a Spokane newspaper, telling of 

 the killing of two bears in a cave at Valley, 

 Wash., by a mere lad. We quote: 



Valley, Wash., March 28. — Citizens of this 

 community are still marveling over the nerve of a 

 17-year-old boy, who, singlehanded, shot and 

 killed two large hibernating bears in a cave in the 

 mountains near this place. 



Ernest Taylor is the lad's name. While on a 

 hunting trip recently, his dog sniffed out a bear's 

 den, the mouth to which was only a narrow crevice 

 in the rocks. It was too dark for the boy to deter- 



mine how many brutes were sleeping within, but 

 from the smell and sound of breathing he was 

 assured that the big game was there sure enough. 



Young Taylor went back home and got a candle, 

 which he placed on the end of a long pole. With 

 this improvised torch and his gun ahead of him, 

 the boy wriggled his way through the hole and 

 located the sleeping bruins. His aim was unerring 

 and steady and he succeeded in killing both ani- 

 mals. He then dragged both carcasses out by 

 means of a rope. 



The boy is well known here as a daring and suc- 

 cessful hunter. He spent several days recently in 

 hunting for a large cougar which had been terrify- 

 ing the neighborhood. 



Snowshoeing in Arizona 



Arizona is getting to be quite a snowshoe 

 country, in the fact that in the last two winters 

 the snow has been so deep in the hills as to 

 make locomotion difficult for man or horse. 



I do not know if there is such a thing as a 

 snowshoe in the country, but if this wintry 

 weather keeps up another year they will be in 

 fashion. I actually suffered with the cold here 

 last winter. 



The California quail have been very thick in 

 this section for the past year. Wild turkeys, 

 also, are numerous since the ten years' drought 

 that has hung over this country has been lifted. 



Luther S. Kelly. 



San Carlos, Ariz. ("Yellowstone Kelly.") 



One Side of Wardening 



Game Wardens Trudell and Hoyt, scouting 

 in the vicinity of Grand and Long lakes, in 

 Alpena County, Mich., early in the spring, 

 came upon a settler's cabin where they found 

 abundant evidence that deer had been 

 butchered there out of season. Deer had been 

 killed, three of them, but the wardens found 

 that these deer had furnished the chief means 

 of sustenance for the father and mother and 

 nine children, and that every one of the latter 

 was barefooted for want of shoes. The wardens 

 gazed on the ninety bare brown toes and nine 

 pinched faces, wiped the mist of Grand Lake 

 from their eyes, "coughed up" a dollar apiece 

 for the family and hiked. No arrests. 



Bought Herd of Deer 



Peter Kennedy, of Belvidere, 111., has pur- 

 chased the herd of some sixty-odd deer owned 

 by the Eldredges of sewing machine, bicycle and 

 automobile fame of that place, and undertaken 

 to move the herd to a large farm, which he is 

 turning into a game preserve. The Eldredges, 

 or more correctly Mr. B. Eldredge, had the deer 

 on a tract of timber land, and though they were 

 fed on clover, hay, corn and carrots in the 



