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j VOL. XXVI.-No. 18. 



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Editorial. 



A Nation's Honor. 



The International Match, 



A Boom for Cooke City. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



A Slice of Luck. 

 Natural History. 



The Audubon Society. 



Habits of the Bluejay. 



Hawks vs. Partridges. 



Sparrow Hawks Wise 

 Foolish. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Lines. 



The Deer Hounding Bill. 

 The Uaca Association. 

 Spring Wildfowl Shooting. 

 Grouse and the Snow Crust. 

 Almost a Miss. 

 The Turkey Shoot. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 

 Camps of the Kingfishers,— vm. 

 The Trout of Sunapee Lake. 

 Big Trout. 



Variation of Brook Trout, 

 New England Trout Streams. 



CONTENTS. 



Sea and River Fishing. 

 The Brandy Point Trout. 



FlSHOULTURE. 



The American Fisheries Society. 

 The Kennel. 

 English Kennel Notes.— xxxiv. 

 Dog Show Secretaries and 



'•Specials." 

 The Hartford Dog Show. 

 The Buffalo Dog Show. 

 The Fox-Terrier Club's Coat of 



Arms. 

 Kennel Notes. 

 Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 

 Range and Gallery. 

 The Trap. 

 Canoeing. 

 A 500-Mile Cruise on the Rivers 



of Northern California. 

 The American Cruising Canoe. 

 Yachting. 

 Cruise of the Coot.— xx. 

 The Atlantic. 



Length and Beam Designing. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



A NATION'S HONOR. 

 AR away in the north western corner of Washington Ter- 

 ritory is a little reservation occupied by the Puyallup 

 Indians. They number 560 individuals, and the reser- 

 vation covers about 18,000 acres of land, so that they have 

 about thirty-two and a half acres apiece, or not far from 

 a quarter section — 160 acres— to a family of five per- 

 sons. These people are entirely self supporting and derive 

 four-fifths of their living from the cultivation of their 

 farms. These have been allotted to them on the reservation, 

 and they hold them solely by allotment certificates issued by 

 the Government in the year 1881. 



The Puyallup Indians are to all intents and purposes 

 civilized. They are farmers, mechanics, laborers. They 

 earn their bread by the sweat of their brow like other men. 

 Two-thirds of them have made valuable improvements on 

 their lands, cleared off heavy forests, built houses, cultivated 

 lands, provided homes for their families. Besides this they 

 have, without assistance, purchased an eight horse power 

 thrashing machine, seven mowing machines, sixty-eight 

 horse rakes, ninety-three wagons, and all that is necessary 

 for farming in the way of plows and smaller tools. They 

 have teams and cattle, their lands are fenced, they are a 

 well-to-do farming community. Their children, to the 

 number of sixty or eighty, attend the school at Puyallup, 

 which is within one-half mile of the limits of Tacoma. 



Almost without help these Indians have raised themselves 

 from a condition of barbarism to one of civilization. They 

 are constantly improving. Bach year the attendance at the 

 school has grown larger, and it was never so good as last 

 year. 



One thing they have to fight against, one thing discourages 

 them in their attempts to make their farms valuable, leads 

 them to feel that it is useless to work hard, paralyzes their 

 industries. They do not own their lands. 



The allotment certificates recite that a certain man is 

 entitled to a certain specified tract of land, and that he "may 

 take immediate possession of said land and occupy the same, 

 and the United States guarantees such possession and will 

 hold the title thereto in trust for the exclusive use and bene- 

 fit" of the Indian named and his "heirs, as long as such oc- 

 cupancy shall continue." The certificate then goes on to 

 state that it is not assignable, except to the United States, or 



to other members of the tribe. There is nothing in it, how- 

 ever, which gives the holder any reason to believe that he 

 has any right to occupy this land permanently. He is a 

 tenant at will. At any moment he may be evicted at the 

 pleasure of a Government officer. At any moment he may 

 be expelled from the home which he has made for himself, 

 losing it and all the labor which he has expended on it. 



These Indians are deeply attached to their land. This 

 country has from time immemorial been their home. Here 

 their fathers were born, lived and are buried. Here this 

 generation have passed their childhood and their youth. 

 Here their children were born. It is their home. On these 

 lands this simple people carried on the great struggle which 

 has lifted them from barbarism to civilization. They cleared 

 away the virgin forest and fenced in the wild land. Their 

 hands subdued the stubborn soil ; their labor converted it 

 into fertile farms. Once barren it is now productive; once 

 worthless, it is now valuable. By every tie of sentiment 

 and affection they are bound to these homes; by every right 

 which patient industry confers, these lands are theirs. To 

 take from them these farms, with the improvements which 

 they have made on them, would be injustice, would be out- 

 rage, would be robbery. 



This is just what the United States tried to do. 



The agent for the Puyallup Indians, knowing the attach- 

 ment that they feel for their lands, knowing that they had 

 all made their locations, built houses, and made some im- 

 provements on their allotments, and that they are intensely 

 desirous to obtain patents for their lands and would by no 

 means consent to sell them, sent on to the Interior Depart- 

 ment a statement of the condition of things at the agency 

 and urged the prompt granting of the patents to the people. 



This is the reply he received : 



Department of the Interior, ) 

 Washington, D. C, March 3, 1885. j 



Sir: I have your telegram concerning the patents to the Pu- 

 yallup Indians. I do not think it for the interest of the In- 

 dians to have the patents issued. The land they occupy is 

 valuable for farming and toion site purposes and ought to be 

 sold and the money used to establish them in another place. I 

 shall therefore decline to allow the patents to issue, hoping 

 Congress may make suitable provision for their removal and 

 the sale of their land and the investment of the money for their 

 benefit in some other place. Very respectfully, 



H. M. Teller, Secretary. 



Mr. Edwin Eells, U. S. Indian Agent, Tacoma, Wash. 



Their homes were to be taken from them and sold and 

 they with their families were to be moved off to some desert 

 place, and having been located there were to be encouraged 

 to become civilized, to become self-supporting. This is the 

 Government method of encouraging the Indians to follow 

 the white man's road. 



The robbery thus contemplated was never carried out. 

 Secretary Teller went out of office before this could be done, 

 and the present administration has recommended the grant- 

 ing of the patents to the Puyallup Indians. But the action 

 of this Cabinet officer is a fair example of the shameful 

 course of fraud and oppression carried on by the Govern- 

 ment toward the Indians. 



THE INTERNATIONAL MATCH. 

 'T^HE letter from the National Rifle Association here to 

 the Association in Great Britain has up to this writing 

 brought no response. This is not surprising, since it is a 

 matter not to be lightly decided, and besides the lapse of 

 time has hardly been great enough to permit a reply to reach 

 our shores. There is considerable doubt whether or no a 

 match will be held this year. With Sir Henry Halford 

 lying at deatti's door, the American marksmen lose the ser- 

 vice and active aid of one who has borne almost the entire 

 burden of organizing and carrying out previous matches 

 between the two countries. 



The Council will in due time consider the American letter 

 and do what they can to bring about a contest. It is not at 

 all unlikely, however, that the response will come in the 

 form of a counter proposition for a match to be fought on 

 British soil. The victory now lies with the foreign team. 

 We are a defeated company, and the most natural way 

 would be to send a challenge for the championship and 

 follow it up with a strong team. It may strike the British 

 riflemen as smacking somewhat of presumption for a de- 

 feated team to send over an invitation for the victors to 

 come and give a chance for reclaiming the lost laurels. 



The great Wimbledon meeting is a fixture. An American 

 team going abroad may be sure of finding the very pick of 

 the marksmen from the entire Kingdom gathered there, and 

 a victory over such a team on such a field would be one of 



which the Americans might be justly proud. Such a step 

 would be the natural one to take, and thus the onus of get- 

 ting back their laurels would rest on our foreign cousins. 

 We regret that they show no disposition to take away our 

 small-bore honors, and our regret would be more than 

 doubled if the great army of Volunteers should ever follow 

 the example of their small-bore, long-range comrades and 

 rest quietly in the ranks of the defeated. At present we 

 on our side the water have but a partial victory to our 

 credit. We know we have the better long range weapons. 

 We are certain that we can make the better military rifle, 

 and find men to shoot them, too. Let us do it, and in a 

 manly fashion, too, by going over with a strong team, armed 

 with home-made weapons, loaded with home-made ammuni- 

 tion, and fighting both the British weather and the British 

 shooter. 



Just at present there does not seem to be very much ex- 

 citement anent the proposed renewal of international hos- 

 tilities, but then we have a way of jumping in with a rush, 

 getting ready for victory, getting the victory, and getting 

 back to business again, which is peculiarly our own. If an 

 American team is to be organized, a good percentage of it 

 ought to come from other than the vicinity of New York. 

 Boston and the West ought to contribute men. The Pacific 

 slope keeps up a great deal of shooting of a sweepstake sort. 

 Let a few of the California shooters come over and gain the 

 skill in long-range work they have in short-range shooting, 

 and there will be no trouble about satisfactorv results. 



Spring Woodcock. —A gentleman who recently returned 

 from Washington, informs us that woodcock are now being 

 served up there at certain restaurants. He was told by John 

 Chamberlain, that he was receiving about 2o woodcock 

 daily. The idea of serving up nesting birds— as woodcock 

 killed during the month of March certainly are— is suffi- 

 ciently shocking and calls attention to the miserable in- 

 efficiency of the game laws of the District of Columbia, and 

 the equally miserable inadequacy of their enforcement. It 

 is a shame that the seat of the United States Government 

 should be the scene of such an abomination as eating breed- 

 ing woodcock. The sportsmen of the District of Columbia 

 are entitled to some consideration at the hands of Congress, 

 and a suitable game law ought to be introduced and passed 

 without delay. 



Initials are not Names — If every correspondent who 

 writes to the Forest and Stream on business should sign 

 his bare initial instead of his name, the paper would shortly 

 suspend. Some stupid folks do send in such semi-anonymous 

 letters, and they are always a source of bother and vexation 

 of spirit. Sometimes such letters contain money; sometimea 

 the writers want something sent to them; sometimes the 

 letter relates to a sick dog. There are all sorts of demands, 

 requests, inquiries, written by people who do not know 

 enough to sign their names. It takes all sorts of people to 

 make up the world. Even fools have their place in the 

 economy of human nature, for as said the Elder Cato, wise 

 men may learn from them. 



Spring Shooting. — A correspondent suggests that the 

 speediest way to legislate against spring shooting would be 

 to secure the enactment by Congress of a law forbidding the 

 spring killing of migratory birds. Unfortunately, however, 

 Congress has no jurisdiction in the matter; it can only legis* 

 late with reference to the game of the Territories. The stu j 

 pid and bungling fashion in which Congress handled the 

 buffalo question a few years ago, showed that little intelli- 

 gent game conservancy is to be expected from that body, 

 even where it has jurisdiction. The abolition of spring 

 shooting must be secured by State legislation. 



Chicago has a Quail Net Factory. Quail nets are 

 more familiar institutions in the South and Southwest than 

 in other parts of the country. Their use ought to be for- 

 bidden everywhere. The only mitigating feature of the 

 netting business is that some of the live birds are bought 

 by sportsmen to restock depleted game grounds. 



The Yachting Season of 1886 promises to be more active 

 than that of 1885. The canoeing season will be made 

 notable by the international races. 



The Hodnder'8 Motto.— A deer in the water is worth 

 two in the woods. 



The Milliner's Motto.— A bird in the hat is worth 

 two in the bush. 



