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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Oct. 15, 1895. 



CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 



Montana Elk and Bears. 



Chicago, Oct. 11.— Lieut. Elmer Lindsley, 6th Cavalry, 

 stationed at Fort Yellowstone, writes from camp that 

 Gen. Doe, Assistant Secretary of War, Mr. Wm. Doe, his 

 brother, and himself have been on a lorig hunt in the 

 country south of the Park, and have been fortunate 

 enough to secure eleven elk, two bears and quantities of 

 trout and grouse, to say nothing of some fine duck shoot- 

 ing at Henry's Lake. The whole trip was most pleasant 

 and fortunate. 



I have not yet heard of Capt. Brand, the German army 

 officer who went out with Billy Hofer's partner for his 

 guide in September, but hope he has met with success. 



Furs and Game in the Far North. 



Friend Thomas Johnson, at Winnipeg, sends the in- 

 formation that one dealer, Mr. Secord, at Edmonton, had 

 received the following skins and peltry: 205 musk ox, 

 137 bear, 3,5Q0 martin, 550 beaver, 50 otter, 50 cross fox, 

 100 red fox, 10 Bilver fox, 15 wolverine, 7 wolf, 108 

 lynx, 500 mink, 2,000 rat, 10 fisher and 401bs. castorum. 

 Mr. Secord estimates the value at $20,000. 



Mr. Johnson says that probably 500 musk ox were 

 killed last Beason. He states further that he also saw a 

 number of buffalo skins, and remarks that though he has 

 seen tens of thousands in his day he never saw any so 

 fine as those he saw last week. "We have only 200 or 

 300 left," he writes, "and it seems a pity some means can 

 not be devised to save these magnificent specimens." 

 Going further into the matter of game supply, he paints 

 a most alarming picture of the wildfowl situation. He 

 says: 



"I read with interest the Forest and Stream editorial 

 on game protection; but we have much to do here yet in 

 that direction. A week ago to-day I was shooting at Big 

 Lake. Of course you don't know where Big Lake is, but 

 if you will get a map of the Northwest Territories and 

 look up Calgary, 840 miles west of here, then find Edmon- 

 ton, some 200 miles north of Calgary, and search for a small 

 lake about ten miles northwest of Edmonton, near St. 

 Albert, you will see marked Big Lake. My bag was eight 

 ducks! Five years ago if I so desired it would have been 

 — well, all I wanted. 



"This week the Northwest Assembly have passed a law 

 limiting the number of chickens any one gun can kill in 

 a day to twenty; our next step will be to find ameanstopre- 

 vent the extermination of our big game. As for the ducke. 

 you in the United States are responsible for their almost 

 extinction. I passed scores of lakes that I have seen black 

 with ducks — lakes that have been their breeding grounds 

 for — ages and not a sign of a duck to^be seen. We have 

 the breeding grounds here, but if you will insist on kill- 

 ing every duck that shows its head in its winter quarters, 

 don't blame Canada for the cause of their extermination.'' 



I add to the above valuable information the comment 

 of a writer in the Winnipeg Tribune, who says in a late 

 issue during his remarks on the grouse and fowl supply 

 "A moBt serious question is the threatened depletion and 

 destruction of our game supply. What seems the most 

 feasible plan to prevent this is limiting the number any 

 one individual can kill in a season. Some oppose this on 

 the theory that you cannot make a law to prevent it and 

 put it in force. The writer, however, disagrees with this 

 theory, being satisfied that the killing of large numbers 

 was created from a desire to make a record, and a record 

 don't amount to anything if you cannot proclaim it. The 

 second trouble is, that farmers are also getting good dogs 

 and are reserving their shooting. So that if Manitoba 

 settles up as fast as we all prognosticate and desire, the 

 time will soon be here when the same principles will 

 have to be adopted to perpetuate our game supply as are 

 in vogue in older settled countries." 



This from the far North, a land so remote that most 

 American sportsmen only dream of going so far as even 

 to see the edge of it. Meantime, this winter will see five 

 times as many Northern shooters go to Texas as 

 ever before. It is painful to reflect that Forest and 

 Stream is one of the most potent agencies for the 

 destruction of game when it pursues its duties as a news- 

 paper in its field. Many who read its columns read of the 

 good game fields, but forget the wise counsel of self- 

 restraint and gentlemanliness which these columns have 

 always urged. I venture now this prediction: The North 

 will eat up the shooting of the South. Alone, the South- 

 ern men would have their sport forever. And I venture 

 this counsel to the Southern men: That if they this win- 

 ter see their generous country and its hospitality violated 

 by shooters from any section, they do not wait to bother 

 about any game laws, but extend the ungentlemanly 

 shooters an invitation to leave the country and leave it 

 soon. I think this will be better than game laws being 

 more direct and more easily understooa. It will 'not be 

 needed by all visiting shooters, but it very likely will be 

 needed by some. This is the prettiest game law in the 

 world. 



Opera Bouffe Moose. 

 The daily dispatches this week chronicle a novel suit 

 against the State of Minnesota, instituted by one Alex- 

 ander Phair. It seems that the latter, who is a Willow 

 River farmer, was out without his gun, and was attacked 

 by a moose and nearly killed. As Minnesota has a three 

 years' close season on moose, Mr. Phair, being a law-abid- 

 ing man, stayed his hand, and only said, "Oh please 

 aottV'when t h ,e m oose jabbed him. Then he sued the 

 whole State of Minnesota on the ground that this opera 

 bouffe moose was a ward of the State, and put up bv the 

 latter to butt, jab, horn, hook, gore and have fun with 

 him, the said Phair; which wasn't phair, because he 

 couldn't retaliate legally, since he just loved the game 

 laws. This is a pretty tunny law suit, and the first of its 

 kind. But how about the hundreds of illegal moose 

 found dead along the waters of the Eainy Lake region 

 since the mining boom began there? 



Killed by a Tame Elk. 

 Far more serious than the above is the report from 

 Forest Park, St. Louis, this week, telling of the killing of 

 Keeper Henry Nelson by a bull elk, one of the park herd 

 The animal was goring an elk calf, and when Nelson tried 

 to stop it the elk turned and drove its brow antlers 

 through his breast, pinning him to the fence. This same 

 elk is said to have killed a man in Lincoln Park, Chicago. 



Sanguinary Moon.: 

 1 For a brief time the hunter's moon of October has had 



a sanguinary look, pending the heated discussion in the 

 press dispatches between Mr. A. L. Trude, of Chicago, 

 and Police Commissioner Roosevelt, of New York, as to 

 the ability of the latter to hit a goat, a bear or a flock of 

 wild barns. Mr. Trude is reported to say that certain 

 Rocky Mountain guides told him that the only bear Mr. 

 Roosevelt ever killed was a trapped one, and that the 

 only goat he ever shot was a dead one propped up by the 

 guides. Mr. Roosevelt very properly stigmatizes this as in 

 no wise consistent with fact. Mr. Trude was one of the 

 very ablest of Chicago's criminal lawyers before he retired 

 and went in to have a good time. He is possessed of a bit- 

 ing tongue, but is not reputed to be malicious in any way. 

 I am inclined to think he wishes to engage in daily jour- 

 nalism, and has bought him a new hat, through which 

 he is practicing. Either some guide has filled him up or he 

 has filled up some reporter. Now, all guides do not agree 

 on this point, to say nothing of gentlemen who no doubt 

 could, if they liked, s y more to the point than any guides. 

 Taswill Woody, an old and respected guide, once told the 

 writer that Mr. Roosevelt was the best shot at big game 

 he ever saw. On the contrary, no guide has ever told me 

 that Mr. Trude has ever slain even a West Side goat tied 

 with a rope. Are we to infer from this that Mr. Trude 

 has never shot a West Side goat? By no means. Perish 

 that thought as unfair and illogical and injurious to Mr. 

 Trude's reputation as a sportsman. May it not therefore 

 be that equal unfairness exists in the strictures upon the 

 marksmanship of the gentleman unfortunate enough to 

 live in New York? I will admit that appearances are 

 against any man that lives in New York and cannot prove 

 an alibi; but let us hope that this matter can be settled 

 without any one getting irritated or doing anything fur- 

 ther to ruffle the feathers of white-winged peace. 



The Krag-Jorgensen Rifle. 



The new TJ. S. militaiy Krag-Jorgensen rifle has this 

 week received most unfavorable criticism after thorough 

 tests on the range at Fort Sheridan, in the hands of the 

 best marksmen of the garrison. It is said a strong effort 

 is making to induce the Government to go back to the 

 Springfield. The city press says of the trial made: 



"The test was of short duration, as those conducting it 

 gave up in disgust after they had used fifty rounds of 

 ammunition. The range was in fine condition and the 

 atmosphere all the most fastidious marksman could de- 

 sire. It was the hope of the officers who were trying the 

 rifle to find some justifiable excuse to set aside the verdict 

 that the weapon was unreliable in its accuracy of fire, 

 but in this hope they were disappointed, for of the fifty 

 shots fired the best score made was thirteen, with only 

 one center and three fours. The judges were perplexed 

 and showed it as they marched from the range. When 

 h s bed for an opinion of the qualities of the rifle tested 

 they refused to reply." 



Chicago Restaurant Cases. 



Deputy wardens lately secured evidence against five 

 Chicago restaurant keepers for serving illegal game. This 

 week the cases all came to trial and fines were imposed. 



G. H. Williams, of the Lakeside restaurant, failed to 

 enter appearance to plead. 



Monument to George Fulton. 

 The subscription books for the purpose of erecting a 

 monument in memory of Hon. George Fulton, of Texas, 

 the "Prince of the Southwest," lately deceased, have been 

 opened and are now circulating among the sportsmen of 

 the South and the North. Mr. Fulton entertained hun- 

 dreds of sportsmen. He needs no monument in their 

 hearts, but let this shaft be built to say he needs none to 

 tell others after his friends are dead, that sportsmen re- 

 membered gratefully as good a friend and sportsman as 

 ever lived. 



Reads It on the Court House Steps. 



Dr. L. W. Cock, of San Marcos, Texas, now in Chicago, 

 is an intimate friend of Tom Glover, who sent him up to 

 me with the prettiest spotted cat skin I ever saw — I never 

 could tell which I liked the most, the Doctor or the cat 

 skin. Now Tom Glover has a father, an old gentleman 

 who likes to hunt and fish. Of him, although I never 

 eaw him (or his son), I have a pleasant mental picture. 

 "Every week," says my Chicago Texan to me, speaking 

 of his San Marcos friends, "when the mail comes that 

 brings the Forest and Stream, old Mr. Glover goes over 

 to the post office, gets his Forest and Stream, and walks 

 over and sits down on the court house steps and reads it 

 all through. This is one of the regular San Marcos hap- 

 penings every week. He sits right in the same place every 

 time, and I reckon he always will." I hope he always 

 will, through the sunshine of many long Texas years. 

 He Is Known. 



The gentleman on the Boston hen paper who stole the 

 items from the Chicago and West woodpile is known, 

 and if the offense is repeated not even our regard for his 

 family will prevent us from making his name public. I 

 can't work hard to make a Boston holiday. Go get some- 

 thing fit for me to steal, and I won't say a word. 



Which reminds me of an odd incident I saw not long 

 ago. One night last month, when the Chief with Two 

 Stomachs was taking his vacation in Chicago, he and a 

 California friend of his and myself were going home 

 about 8 o'clock, when the party was approached by a good 

 specimen of the genus bum, a low-down loafer who had 

 only one arm, and who would fain be drunker than he was. 

 "I'm only a poor, good-for-nothing bum, gentlemen," said 

 he, "with only one arm and not long to live, but I'm aw- 

 ful thirsty. Can't you give me the price of a drink? ' No 

 one paid any attention to him, but he walked along and 

 became more importunate, and then insolent when asked 

 to leave. At last the Chief with Two Stomachs paused 

 and looked at him calmly. "You poor, low-down cuss 

 you," he said, "if your other arm was off I'd lick you!'' 

 Anglers Win in Iowa. 



Frequent mention has been made of the attempts of 

 anglers in Eastern Iowa to break up seining and net- 

 ting in the bayous and river mouths along the Mississippi 

 River. There have been many arrests made in the last 

 two years and much litigation has resulted between the 

 sportsmen and the market fishermen. At first defeated 

 the anglers went to the Supreme Court and have now 

 just won an important victory there. The Dubuque Tele- 

 graph covers this in the following paragraph: 



"Lansing, Oct. 5.— One of the most important cases ever 

 decided by the Supreme Court of this State was that of 



the State vs. Haug. The question raised was whether the 

 State had jurisdiction of the lakes and sloughs along the 

 Iowa shore of the river. A local fisherman. Gilbert 

 Haug, was arrested on complaint of the Lansing Rod and 

 Gun Club for seining on Big Lake. The District Court 

 discharged him, holding that because the sloughs are fed 

 by the Mississippi River they are a part of the river and 

 exempt from the operation of the statute. The Supreme . 

 Court now reverses that decision and thereby holds that 

 fishing can only be legally prosecuted hereafter with hook 

 and line except in the main channel of the boundary 

 waters of the State. Fishermen's rights have always been 

 a mooted question until this decision, which finally settles 

 the matter so far as seining is concerned." 



Castalia Trout Club. 

 The total catch of trout at the famous Castalia Trout 

 Club, Castalia, Ohio, for the past season was l,7601bs., 

 4,600 trout being taken. The largest one weighed 3ilbs. 

 The club will stock the waters with 100, 000 small fry from 

 the best streams this fall. They also expect to raise 

 500,000 in their .private hatcheries. The club is in fine 

 condition. 



Mr. J. W. Oswald, of Toledo, ia an able member of the 

 Castalia Club. He has made a plaster cast of the record 

 trout and of a 21bs. trout captured by Mr. John A. Waite, 

 and has painted the casts in the trout colors, with sur- 

 prisingly life-like results. Mr. Oswald has not been con- 

 tent at home, however, for one learns of his fishing the 

 Conejos and Gunnison, in Colorado, this summer, with 

 great success and enthusiasm. 



En Passant. 

 Mr. H. O. Wilbur, of Philadelphia, is in Chicago this 

 week, and it is natural that as a sportsman he should drop 

 into the Western office of Forest and Stream, era passant, 

 as we say in Chicago. 



Anglers Win Again. 

 Oct. IS.— The upper court at Oshkosh, Wis., has sup- 

 ported the fish wardens (i. e., the anglers) in 'their late 

 vigorous crusade against illegal netting in Lake Winne- 

 bago and kindred waters. The cause of protection slowly 

 gains. It is a curious fact that the idea of protection has 

 always advanced more rapidly in regard to fish than in 

 regard to game, probably because it has been better 

 pushed. 



Guinea Fowl and Grouse. 

 A Chicago restaurant man, when this week asked fo 

 plead on the charge of selling illegal prairie chicken, de- 

 murred on the ground that the bird put on the bill of fare 

 as prairie chicken was really guinea fowl. He said no 

 one could tell the difference, and that many restaurants 

 used the latter under the former name, they costing much 

 less than prairie chicken. The case was thereupon dis- 

 missed, but the restaurant man was at once tried on a 

 charge of offering "grouse" for sale on his bill of fare, 

 and was promptly fined. Bogus guinea-grouse meat 

 seems not to be so cheap, after all. 



A Clinker. 



Last week I mentioned a little chicken hunt I had with 

 Mayor A. G. Lewis, of Moorhead, Minn., but I forgot to 

 mention the chief dramatis persona, that is to say Mr. 

 Lewis's lemon and white pointer Leo. This dog I should 

 consider it a great misfortune to lose, but no crime to 

 steal. He is a chicken dog of the sort to love, and yet 

 good enough to win on the bench or in the field. I think 

 I never saw a dog with such steam-engine vigor and 

 speed, yet he knew his business and was staunch as any. 

 Mr. Lewis thinks of » Southern trip this winter, and if he 

 takes Leo with him, Leo will just about go off a point in a 

 half mile or so of cactus and they never will find him 

 again until the leaves of the judgment book unf old. 



E. Hough. 



909 Security Building, Chicago. 



NEWS FROM YELLOWSTONE PARK. 



Yellowstone Park, Oct. 2. —Editor Forest and 

 Stream: There has just been completed in Hayden Val- 

 ley a fence for a buffalo pasture. There is about a square 

 mile inclosed. The fence is very strong and high, so 

 located that it includes the trail over which the buffalo 

 pass often in winter in going from one part of their win- 

 ter range to another. There are also about fifty tons of 

 hay in two stacks with a fence around them and inside 

 the pasture. It is the intention of those in charge to cor- 

 ral about twenty buffalo if possible and hold them in 

 this inclosure. There is a fine grove of pine timber for 

 shelter, with good feed and water and some hop country, 

 so that the conditions are favorable for the buffalo to be 

 contented. At present there are three openings on the trails; 

 these will be closed when the buffalo are once inside the 

 inclosure, 



There is no doubt that many of the Park buffalo were 

 killed last winter and spring on the western side of the 

 Park. There was so little snow that they were not com- 

 pelled to go to their usual winter range for feed. There 

 is no telling how many buffalo there are now in the Park. 

 Some place the number at about seventy-five. If the 

 new corral proves a success it is hoped that enough 

 money can be obtained to fence in several thousand acreB 

 in Hayden Valle> and hold all the Park buffalo where 

 they can be held and protected. As it is now they can 

 roam at will, and do go outside the reservation into Idaho 

 and Montana, where there is no protection at all. 



One trouble about Ihe buffalo pasture now will be to 

 keep the elk out. When I was last there, there had been 

 a large band of these animals inside the inclosure. The 

 elk are very numerous in the Park. Large bands were in 

 Hayden Valley and around Mount Washburn. I passed 

 within 50ft. of several while crossing Washburn on the 

 Norris trail. 



The antelope have increased thi3 season very much, but 

 unless something is done to kill off the. coyotes, which 

 have increased very fast, they will kill hundreds this 

 winter, when the antelope are lorced on to their very lim- 

 ited winter range at the mouth of Gardiner River. The 

 people of that town could see the wolves killing the ante- 

 lope last winter and hear their yelps as they hunted their 

 meat. Bands of ten and twelve coyotes were often seen 

 running the antelope. I have had them follow me for 

 half a mile at a time barking at my dog. It was very 

 aggravating to have them sit within 20yds. of one and 

 bark or yelp at you and you not to shoot. I am in hopes 

 orders will come from Washington to have as many of 



