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I have invited Mr. DuBray, who iB an old friend of mine, 

 and also Mr. Burch, of Chicago, who is an all-around 

 good fellow and a thoroughbred. The remainder of the 

 party, which will number about fifteen, will be from 

 Memphis and all of them representative men. Among 

 those who have signified their intention of making the 

 trip are Col. Napoleon Hill, the cotton king of Memphis; 

 Col. John Overton, Jr., one of the land barons of Tennes- 

 see, and a crack shot with an 8-bore; Gen. Sam Carnes, 

 lately Brigadier-General of the State and the organizer of 

 the famous Chickasaw Guards; Judge J. M. Greer, Mr. J. 

 H. Watson and Mr. R. D. Jordan, all prominent members 

 of the Memphis bar; Mr. W. H. Bates, the proprietor of 

 the leading printing house of this section; Mr. Tom Wil- 

 liamson, prominent farmer of Fayette county; Mr. John 

 G. Hendon, of the same place; Mr. John R. Sloan, Chan- 

 cery Court clerk, Tipton county, this State; Mr. T. A. 

 Divine, whom you know, and T. K Riddick, a Somer- 

 ville banker and lawyer. All of these gentlemen are en- 

 thusiastic sportsmen and most of tlvm are excellent 

 marksmen. I am satisfied you will enjoy the trip and we 

 will be delighted to have you join us. We shall nave one 

 of Pullman's finest private cars." 



To meet such company on such a trip and in such a 

 country would make an epoch in one's life. Is it any 

 wonder, I say, that since I can't go I feel that life in Chi- 

 cago is a failure, under which mutiny and insurrection 

 can be called only natural and fit? Heine's old German 

 song says: 



"TJnd dies hat mit ihrem Singen die Lorelei gethanl" 

 which, being translated, means: And this has, with his 

 singing, this Southern shooter done. I shall surely kick 

 the dog to-night. It's an iron dog too. You can't keep a 

 live dog in Chicago. 



The Flight of the Fowl. 



The wildfowl flight is now working down from the 

 North. On Sept. 26, when I was up in Fargo, I met Mr. 

 Walter Smith, who, with Clarence Lyon, of Fargo, John 

 Burkhard, of St. Paul, and another shooter, had just 

 returned from a hunting trip about twenty-five miles 

 north of Dawson, N. D , on the i>. P. line. They shot 

 two days and bagged 50 geese, some of them monstrous 

 Canada honkers, besides a great many ducks and a num- 

 ber of chickens and grouse. They report the shooting 

 very good, and apt to improve. 



Jacksnipe have made appearance in this region. Dr. 

 W. H. Waterman bagged eight one evening along the 

 Des Plaines, near Cnicago. Reports of scattering bags 

 are at hand also from lower Wisconsin and upper 

 Indiana. No heavy shooting as yet, so far as I know. 



Wants to go to Texas. 

 The Forest and Stream emigration bureau continues 

 to work. The last inquiry is from Providence, R. I., 

 where Mr. Newton Dexcer wishes to learn about winter 

 accommodations on the Texas Gulf coast. He is sure to 

 go, though I trust not beyond the reach of Providence. _ 



Accident in the Mountains. 

 Mr. M. B. Thrift, of Chicago, is just back from a hunt- 

 ing trip in Colorado, which was terminated in a deplor- 

 able manner. Mr. Thrift was joined n Colorado by four 

 companions, and they went into the mountains some 

 eighty miles southwest of Laramie, Wyo, Among the 

 party was Mr. G. H. Brewster, of Ha worth, Col., for- 

 merly of Beatrice, Neb. The partyjwere in the woods and 

 engaged in felling a tree. In some way Mr. Bristol's foot 

 slipped as he was about to step aside to avoid the falling 

 tree, and the tree struck him on the head, crushing his 

 skull and killing him instantly. The friends of the dead 

 man had the hard duty of taking his body eighty miles in 

 a wagon to the nearest railway point. The hunt was of 

 course abandoned. 



'Lunge. 



The muscallonge are now biting well in the Wisconsin 

 lakes. Mr. H. L. Stanton, of the Natchaug Sdk Co., and 

 his friend Mr. Willard went to Squirrel Lake, near 

 Minocqua, and got twenty odd, mostly small, however. 

 Mr. Roth, of the Wilkinsc i Co. , this city, showed me a 

 fine 'lunge the other day (3slbs.) which was just down 

 from the Elk River, near Phillips, WiB. A 40ibs. speci- 

 men from Lakota waters waB this week displayed 

 (mounted) in a Madison street restaurant window. 



E. Hough. 



909 Security Building, Chicago. 



Nitro Powder. 



W Philadelphia, Pa.— Editor Forest and Stream: Hav- 

 ing used nitro powders since Schultze was introduced, I 

 agree with Mr. C. M. Stark. Any one using common 

 sense in loading nitros I think will obtain good results. 



I don't think Mr. A. E. Gibson has given nitros as ex- 

 haustive trials as I have. I have used every brand of 

 nitro on the market. I also find that 2f to 3drs. of nitro 

 give good satisfaction in a 12 gauge gun for any kind of 

 field shooting, barring pheasant, or pigeon shooting from 

 the trap. I have seen several minor accidents with nitro 

 powders, some purely through overloading, some from 

 firing-pin bursting through the primer. I have had the 

 heads of several shells pulled off, some loaded with 2£drs. 

 only, to which I put down the cause as defective shells. 

 I have 3een plenty of heads come off at tournaments, the 

 majority, I think, through improper loading. 



P. H. D. 



In the Indian Territory. 



Loco, I. T., Oct. 1. — I have seen no chickens as yet, 

 but a few early ducks are here. I never saw quail more 

 abundant, and doves are so numerous that no notice is 

 taken of them as a game bird. 



I anticipate excellent duck and chicken shooting a little 

 » later on. We also have any quantity of curlew in season. 



"Pot shots," either on land or water, are violations of 

 the unwritten law of true sportsmanship, and should be 

 discouraged by every one. Brunt Gray. 



Sunday Shooters in New Jersey. 



Hackensack, N. J., Oct. 4.— Game Warden Ri'cardo 

 arrested four men from New York and Brooklyn, last 

 Sunday, at Woodridge, for illegal gunning. Two were 

 fined $32 each by Justice Collins, of Rutherford; two were 

 brought to Hackensack and fined $20 each by Justice 

 Cumming, leaving their guns as security for the fines. 



NEW ENGLANDERS WITH GUNS. 



The open season on gray squirrels and rabbits in the 

 State ot New Hampshire begins Sept. 1; on partridges 

 and woodcock Sept. 15. Therein lies a solid cause of 

 complaint in the op nion of many sportsmen who live in 

 the southern portion of the State. The season on birds 

 used to begin Sept. 1, and it is claimed by many of the 

 shooters that the recent change to the 15th has been very 

 hard on those who respect the law and do n»>t go out 

 until that date. An Exeter friend who delights in par- 

 tridge shooting tells me that in Rockingham county (in 

 which Exeter is located) there were many broods « f birds 

 previous to Sept. 1, but a visit to the same localities after 

 the 15th showed the birds to be very scarce, and what few 

 there were left extremely shy. His experience was only 

 a repetition of many others', and the only conclusion to 

 draw is that the rabbit and squirrel shooters have been 

 bagging the game. It is not difficult to tell whether or 

 not birds have been hunted, and all agree on that fact. 

 It would have been far better to leave the opening day as 

 it was, thus giving to all an even chance. In southern 

 Massachusetts and in Rhode Island many bird shooters 

 are complaining bitterly over the non-enforcement of the 

 Sunday law. There are many mills in that region, and 

 large numbers of foreigners are numbered among the 

 help. It is the custom of these people to go out Sundays 

 and bang away all day, making it almost an impossibility 

 to bag any game during the remaining six days of the 

 week. This is particularly true in many parts of Rhode 

 Island. It would appear to be an easy matter to stop a 

 good part of this Sunday shooting, and as the law is 

 plain it should be enforced. 



With the exception of northern New Hampshire wood- 

 cock are reported very scarce in all the New England 

 States. It is said that a good rain is needed to drive them 

 down from the covers high up in the Granite State, but 

 the season has been so extremely dry that the birds have 

 suffered and it will be hard to find them anywhere else. 

 Partridges, on the contrary, are reported quite plentiful, 

 especially in Maine. Along the coast line shore bird- 

 shooting has been slow. Ducks are coming in slowly, but 

 are scattered and few of the shooters have done much. 

 Coot have been fairly plentiful down around Cohasset, 

 and one ambitious gunner with a large gauge gun suc- 

 ceeded in killing enough the other day to thoroughly 

 blacken his shoulder with the recoil. The Cedar Beach 

 Gun Club, who have a club house and a good stretch of 

 marsh down at Cedar Beach, Nantasket, have had the 

 best luck I have heard of. During September they killed 

 a large number of plover and yellow legs and had good 

 sport. The club members are T. H. Rollinson, G. M. 

 Woodman, S. Y. Nash, B. T. Dyer and J. D. Scudder, all 

 from Waltham, Mass., I believe, and all royal good fel- 

 lows who would rather shoot or fish than do anything 

 else known to them. 



Allimoosic Lake, Maine, is a favorite resort of C. D. 

 Haskins, of Boston, one of our electrical experts. This 

 gentleman, accompanied by Mrs. Haskins, returned a 

 short time ago from that country, and was so pleased with 

 the trip that he is going down again soon. He had some 

 excellent bass fishing, on one occasion taking lOlba. in 

 twenty minutes. His largest bass weighed 3ilbs. and 

 there were several others near that size. He also had 

 good duck shooting, saw many partridges, as every one 

 else has who has visited Maine this year, and was treated 

 to the sight of a few deer. His only adventure of note 

 occurred with a Canada lynx. He met one of these vicious 

 brutes in the road one evening, and having no firearms 

 with him was satisfied to wait until the animal had moved 

 on. Desiring to do his share toward ridding the com- 

 munity of these animals, Mr. Haskins adopted a novel 

 method to secure a shot. Procuring a squirrel he tied him 

 to a long string and fastened the other end to his person 

 on going to bed. During the night he was awakened by 

 a vigorous pulling of the cord, and Mr. Lynx walked off 

 with the bait while his would-be slayer was minus the 

 shot. He intends to get revenge for that trick later on. 

 Lynx are altogether too plentiful down there for the com- 

 fort of the people, and one of 451bs. weight was recently 

 killed by a well-directed shot from the hands of a resident. 



The number of big-game shooters who have gone • into 

 Maine up to the present time this year is something 

 phenomenal. For the last few years New York and Penn- 

 sylvania people are going into the Maine woods in consid- 

 erable numbers, and at present this fact is more noticeable 

 than ever. It certainly speaks well for the attractions of 

 the old State that so many from distant States are finding 

 and learning to love its mountains, streams and forests. 

 From Boston, and in fact all parts of Massachusetts, 

 almost innumerable parties are making up to go, and this 

 fall the deer are destined to suffer a thinning out never 

 before equaled. His Honor, Mayor Edwin M. Curtis, of 

 Boston, and Mr. Fred Conant, of Portland, are in the 

 Moosehead region. They have a fine camping outfit, 

 with gooa guides, and will use every effort to get their 

 share of the deer and perhaps a moose during their two 

 weeks' stay. 



Edward Belcher, of South Easton, Mass., and John 

 Weber, of Wrentham, Mass., leave on Oct. 12 for a shoot- 

 ing trip in the neighborhood of Mt. Katahdin. It is to be 

 entirely a camping trip of three weeks' duration. Last 

 year they were in near Lobster Lake and succeeded in 

 getting two deer. They hope to do even better this 

 time. 



That veteran sportsman, Dr. M. A. Morris, of Charles- 

 town, accompanied by his friends, Dr. E. D. Robbins, W. 

 B. Hastings and N. F Tuf cs, has gone away on a two or 

 three weeks' trip into Maine after large game. Their desti- 

 nation is kept secret, but it is said they have gone to some 

 unknown region where every man of the party is sure to 

 get all the law allows. Dr. Morris has been a very lucky 

 man in the past, and I hope this time their hopes will be 

 fully realized. It is whispered that somewhere near the 

 Katahdin Iron Works is the wonderful place selected for 

 the slaughter, but as that is only a guess, perhaps it is far 

 from the real truth. 



Dr. Heber Bishop, another one of Boston's best sports- 

 men, wita J. C. Whitney and Charles T. Cockey, Jr., of 

 Baltimore, and J. B. Seward, of Boston, have just re- 

 turned home from an extensive trip into Nova Scotia and 

 northern Maine. Mr. Cockey killed, his first bull moose in 

 Nova Scotia, and all hands enjoyed the best of parti idge 

 shooting there. A long jump was made from here to 

 Moosehead Lake, Maine, where the party went into camp 

 at the head of the lake. They arrived there just before 

 the opening day of the season (Oct. 1), and saw many 



deer while waiting until the law was off. On Tuesday, 

 the first day of legal shooting, they bagged two fine bucks, 

 and left for home on the following day, much pleased 

 with their good fortune. Dr. Bishop is a great hustler on 

 a trip of this kind, and it pays to hustle, even in the 

 woods, when you can get results as he does. 



Since Jock Darling left Nicatous I have not heard of 

 many Boston men going into that country. I dare say 

 the new management is just as competent and the ac- 

 commodations just as good, but Nicatous without Jock 

 does not seem natural. The only party that has come to 

 my knowledge as going down there left some time ago 

 and must have returned ere this. Chas. A. Eaton, Ches- 

 ter Eaton and W. A. R j ad, of Brockton, and Mr. Burley, 

 of Newburyport, were the men who composed the party. 

 I hope to find out from them how affairs are progressing 

 at the ancient place, 



W. C. Vaughan and D. C. Roberts, of Cambridge, and 

 H. L. Talbot, of L >well, leave in a few days for Mount 

 Katahdin and the S >bois Lake region. This party were 

 in the same region last year and did so well that they 

 felt encouraged to repeat the visit this fall. B jth birds 

 and deer are their hopes for the trip. May their desires 

 be realized during the ten days they expect to be away. 



Hackle. 



ADIRONDACK DEER FLOATING. 



Boston, Mass., Sept. 28. — Having sepn a good deal in 

 your magazine relative to hunting in Maine. I thought I 

 would give you particulars of a recent trip that I made to 

 the Adirondacks. 



I left Boston Friday night, Sept. 20, and reached St. 

 Regis Falls, N. Y., at 10:30 Saturday morning. From 

 there I drove eight miles to Lake Oz mia (formerly known 

 as Trout Lake). From there I boated two miles to the 

 south end of the lake, where my camp is located. It only 

 took a short time to make preparations for a night's hunt. 

 We left camp about 4 o'clock in the afternoon and then 

 had four miles to travel in a straight line, but the way 

 trails are cut the actual distance is about six miles. The 

 walking was very good over these trails and we reached 

 Weller Pond about 6 o'clock. After suppt r and a rest we 

 concluded to try Train Pond, which is a mile east of Wel- 

 ler Pond. We reached Train Pond at 9 o'clock, walking 

 the distance between the two ponds by lantern light, as 

 the trail was well marked and a good one. 



I hunted with a closed jack and had a first class pad- 

 dler, but owing to the excessive light from the stars the 

 pond was very light, and although we could hear deer at 

 different parts of the pond, before we could get to them 

 they would sneak out and get off in the woods. We took 

 two long runs of about two hours each during the night 

 and drove out eight or ten deer, but were unable to get 

 near one of them, therefore had no venison for break- 

 fast. 



We went back to camp Sunday morning and spent the 

 day at Lake Ozonia in camp. The day was beautiful and 

 the scenery was fine. The white maples on the shore 

 were as highly colored as beets and the tints through the 

 woods were all the way from a beet hue to a dark green. 

 Although I have made many trips to the woods 1 have 

 never at any time seen the foliage finer than it was on 

 Sunday. Sunday evening we walked back to Train Pond 

 and about midnight concluded to try our luck again. 

 We went out on Train Pond and it was not as light as on 

 Saturday night and was very still, as there was no wind. 

 We could hear everything that moved, no matter if it 

 were quite a long distance away. There was one fawn 

 playing around not more than 100ft. from our landing, 

 but we did not take the trouble even to look at it, but 

 . went out on the pond with a closed jack. It was so still 

 that only a paddler of great skill could paddle a boat with- 

 out a noise, especially where there were large quantities 

 of weeds and lilypads. After listening a while we decided 

 to go to the north shore of the pond, where there were 

 several deer out in the water. We consumed about half 

 an hour going a distance that could easily be accomplished 

 in five minutes; but my paddler, honest John Wait, of 

 Parishville, one of the most skillful paddlers and best 

 cooks that there are, did not make a sound and no motion 

 of his body above his wrists in going across the water. 

 When ponds are so light deer will detect the slightest 

 motion and will leave the water. When we came near the 

 shore I opened my light and I could see one eye of a deer 

 through the grasses that was feeding a little distance 

 away. I waited for a moment until it raised its head 

 and started to walk away, when I fired, and from the 

 noise I felt sure that I had broken a leg. The deer 

 moved about 75ft. to the edge of the woods and we could 

 hear no more noise. 



I then heard a rustle about 50 ft. to the right of where I 

 had shot my first deer, and turned my light in that direc- 

 tion and the guide immediately turned the boat around. 

 I could see a deer in the edge of the woods facing me, and 

 not knowing positively whether I had shot the first deer, 

 and being desirous of securing one deer, I fired at this one. 

 This deer made one or two jumps and was dead. We 

 drew the deer out and dressed it. It was a fine two-year- 

 old buck, in first-class condition. We then looked for our 

 other deer, but were unable to find it; therefore we went 

 back to our bark camp to sleep until morning. 



Early Monday morning we went out to look for our 

 other deer. We found it in the edge of the woods, dead. 

 It was a three- year-old dry doe. We dressed this deer, 

 and left the f orequarters for the guide and took down the 

 saddles to Lake Uzonia for some friends. I took the buck 

 home with me to Massachusetts. 



I had a warm job of it packing the saddles down to Lake 

 Ozonia Monday morning, and John and his son did not 

 have a very easy time taking down the whole deer 

 strapped to a pole. 



I had dinner at Lake Ozonia, and drove back to St. Regis 

 Falls and took the 3:38 train and was back at my officeln 

 Boston Tuesday morning. 



Now I think this is as good results as any one can show 

 in Maine. I was only gone from my office two business 

 days and Sunday; traveled by rail 704 miles, by boat 

 four miles, by trail fourteen miles, by carriage to and 

 from St. Regis Falls sixteen miles, and the result two fine 

 deer, shot within a minute of one another. 1 t 



If any one can show a quicker or more successful trip | 

 and the same distance traveled, I would like to hear from 

 them. Frank A. Cutting, 



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