Deo. 21, 1895.J 



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thought to be that of a deer, which measured 4in. across. 

 They trailed it for some distance. 

 (P. S.— It was an ox track.) 



Close of Navigation. 



Leon Pomel, of Kezar, Col., reports a foot of snow in 

 the Gunnison country the first week of November. He 

 killed two bucks one day and sent the head of one, a 

 grand one, to Mr. J. W. Oswald, of Toledo, O. 



On Nov. 26 the river at Edmonton, Alberta, N. W. T., 

 froze hard enough for foot passengers. 



Among the Clubs. 



The Swan Lake Shooting Club elected officers at the 

 Great Northern Hotel yesterdav afternoon as follows: E. 

 W. Bangs, President; W. C. Nash, Vice-President; Sam- 

 uel Jewitt, Secretary; S. Mack, Treasurer, and Cummings 

 and G. H. High, directors. The club house is at Henry, 



Representatives of the Tolleston Hunting Club, which 

 is composed of over 100 of Chicago's leading shooters, ap- 

 peared in court at Crown Point, Ind., Dec. 11, as defend- 

 ants in the case of the State vs. the Tolleston Hunting 

 Club. The State is endeavoring to secure a clear title to 

 several thousand acres of swamp land in Calumet Town- 

 ship now occupied by the Tolleston Club. The case goes 

 to the Supreme Court for final decision. 



Calumet Heights Club had a Thanksgiving turkey shoot 

 and coon hunt. Two foxes were killed one week on the 

 club grounds. The club meeting is held at the Sherman 

 House this week. 



Messrs. J. E. Dreudel, Charles E. Erbet and George R. 

 Frankland, all;of Chicago, have purchased a tract of land, 



"Yes, Jim; I went out for two hours; just had 100 

 Bhells and shot ninety times; killed eighty-eight birds. I 

 tell you I did some good shooting." 



"What did you do with them, Sam?" 



"Why, I sold them to H., and he is going to ship them 

 to New York to-morrow." 



"Don't you think, Sam, that H. is liable to get in trouble 

 for shipping quail out of the State?" 



"Oh, no; he ships them in with rabbits, and the game 

 warden thinks they are just rabbits and lets them go." 



This is the way most of our quail freeze in the winter. 

 Give them a chance and they will survive our most severe 

 winters. This one man is not the only one I hear bragging 

 about the number of quail they shot that day when this 

 snow was on the ground. 



Our game law should be stricter in respect to shipping 

 quail; then there would not be so much pot-hunting. 



J. G. M. 



Brucevilxe, Ind. 



PROTECTION IN MICHIGAN. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Michigan seems to be somewhat jealous of her rights to 

 the fast disappearing deer within her borders. 



In making the license fee for the resident hunter the 

 paltry sum of 50 cents, while the stranger without her 

 gates is compelled to pay $25 for a like bit of paper, she 

 has followed in the footsteps of Missouri and North 

 Dakota in discriminating against non-resident sportsmen. 

 Personally I do not approve of such legislation. It 

 smacks too strongly of the "What's yours is mine and 



A LONG ISLAND MARKET-HUNTER'S HARVEST OF 



BIRDS IN A DAY. 



including a lake, thirty miles from Ellis Junction, Wis. 

 The lake and tributary streams are well stocked with fish. 

 Game is also very plentiful. The intention is to form a 

 club of friends and spend the summer at the place. 



They Want the Fish. 



The Fox Lake Representative, of Wisconsin, thinks 

 Forest and Stream too suspicious in advising against the 

 marketing of the fish in the drying lakes near that city. 

 It claims the only intention is to prevent a pestilence in 

 the spring, and so thinks the fish should be killed by dyna- 

 mite and marketed. "Any way will suit our people," it 

 says, however, "so long as the fish are taken care of and 

 not allowed to rot. If Mr, Hough would come up we 

 could convince him in five minutes there is no suspicious 

 commercial transaction in the deal. We are pleading for 

 the lives of our people." 



The fish are not frozen to death yet. The pestilence is 

 not yet a certainty. Yet it is certain that dead fish tell 

 no tales later on. 



Personal. 



Dr. French, Mr. Frank Burdo Huntington, Mr. Edward 

 Herbert Holmes were among the callers at the Forest 

 and Stream Chicago office the past week. 



Mr. Edward Little Rogers, of Kinross road, Boston, was 

 also among the callers at the Forest and Stream Chicago 

 office during the past week. 



A Near Thing. 



Chicago, Dec. 14.— "Special" to Forest and Stream: 

 Fire broke out at 9 P. M. this (Saturday) evening in the 

 building at 149-151 Wabash avenue, occupied by A. G. 

 Spalding & Bros. The fire was on the fourth floor. It 

 was soon extinguished, not extending to the main floors, 

 where the most valuable sporting goods are kept. The 

 chief damage will be from water. It was an extremely 

 near thing for the entire store and its heavy stock of 

 goods. E. Hough. 



909 Security Builditg, Chicago. 



Indiana Quail Shooting. 



"Say, Bill, let's go and shoot some quail this evening 

 before the snow goes off." 



"I'd like to go, Sam, but you know I can't shoot quail 

 flying." 



"Oh! you can shoot them on the ground while the snow 

 is on. I was out this morning and shot eighty-eight in 

 two hours." 



"Well, Sam, I thought you was a sportsman, but a fel- 

 low that does that I'd call a game hog." 



"You may call it game hog if you want to, but I got 

 $8.80 for them, and am going to hunt them as long as the 

 snow lasts." 



"Hello, Sam! Bill told me you had good luck this 

 morning." 



what's mine is my own" policy. Whether it will put 

 money in her coffers and preserve the deer remains to be 

 seen. The season which has just closed has proved noth- 

 ing. If one may believe newspaper reports, there were 

 but just two non-resident deer hunters in the State. One 

 of these paid for his license like a little man. It is to be 

 hoped that he killed a deer or two. The other, being of a 

 more daring disposition, concluded to take his chances. 

 How he came out the following extract from the Grand 

 Rapids Herald of Dec. 11 will show: 



"Tustin, Mich., Dec. 10.— Irving J. Lane, a resident of 

 New York State, has reason to believe that the game laws 

 of Michigan are not a farce. He has been tried and con- 

 victed on a charge of hunting deer without having secured 

 a non-resident's license, and sentenced to three months in 

 the Hersey jail at hard labor. Thus Mr. Lane will have 

 ample opportunity to compare the sport of hunting deer 

 with that of sawing wood for Osceola county." 



I should like to know if this party killed a deer. I con- 

 fess to feeling a decided sympathy for him — not because 

 he violated the law, however; the law, good or bad, 

 should be respected— and hope that he has something 

 pleasant to remember while he is sawing the wood. 



My sympathy is his because he is an outsider and has 

 felt the weight of Michigan justice as administered to all 

 outsiders when they are caught violating the fish and 

 game laws. That there is a strong discrimination against 

 the non-resident in the matter of punishment for vio- 

 lations, the following extract from the same issue of the 

 same paper quoted above will prove: 



"Roscommon, Mich., Dec. 10.— Seven fishermen from 

 some of the towns along the F. & P. M,, in Clare county, 

 were caught spearing fish in Houghton Lake, Roscommon 

 county, by one of the deputy game wardens and fined $3 

 and costs." 



Three months at hard, labor (for the non-resident) for 

 hunting deer without a license! Three dollars and costs 

 (for the resident) for spearing fish! Truly, "the punish- 

 ment fits the crime" in each case. Great is Michigan 

 justice. 



Nor is this an isolated case of severity on the outsiders. 

 I have seen just such in my own county, and have read 

 of many others in different parts of the State. Five dol- 

 lars and costs is the heaviest fine that has ever been as- 

 sessed upon the resident violator in this county so far as 

 I know, even in the most flagrant of cases. 



Protection is not making rapid strides in this section 

 for reasons which I have stated in these columns be- 

 fore. Most of those who were genuinely interested in it 

 have lost heart. I feel like giving a Semitic shrug myself 

 whenever I hear the word, although continuing to "saw 

 wood" whenever the opportunity presents itself. 



But it must be apparent to every man who is in the 

 habit of taking a yearly deer hunt that the deer are rapidly 

 disappearing. I think it safe to say that not half as many 

 deer were killed in this county this season as were killed 



five years ago. It was a remarkably favorable season for 

 the still-hunter, too, the snows coming early and remain- 

 ing on the ground. Many hunters attribute their poor 

 success to the fact that they did not dare to run their 

 dogs. Deputy State Warden Brewster and his satellites 

 were known to be near, and that fact had a salutary 

 effect. Still there was a great deal of dogging done. Two 

 or three men in a sparsely settled country like this can 

 guard but a small territory. They might protect a town- 

 ship, but not a county. 



It is not the slaughter in the legal season which is so re- 

 ducing the deer. The "mossback," the Indian, and the 

 man who kills to supply the lumber camps keep right on 

 with their work all winter. Now and then one is caught, 

 but so rarely and with so slight a punishment that the 

 rest of his stripe are not deterred from pursuing their evil 

 course. 



It would bankrupt the State to protect the deer by a 

 force of wardens large enough to cover all the deer- 

 inhabited territory. They will be all gone long before 

 "popular education" can accomplish the end. The rank 

 and file care nothing about the deer, and the majority of 

 those who do care are so ignorant and narrow-minded 

 that thty consider a deer in the hand to-day worth far 

 more than all they might kill in the years to come. 



It may be that I am a pessimist on this subject; it may 

 be that this is, so far as protection is concerned, a dark 

 corner of the State; but I must confess that I see little 

 hope for the preservation of the deer. 



I was out deer hunting for a few days this year, and if 

 I can ever find time to reduce my experience to writing 

 may telj your readers about it. F. A. Mitchell. 



MANISTftE, Deo. 12. 



NORTH CAROLINA GAME NOTES. 



New Berne, N. C. ; Dec. 12.— The steam yacht Sybilla, of 

 Philadelphia, with a party of ten sportsmen, came up to 

 New Berne from Pamlico Sound last Saturday and sailed 

 again for Roanoke Island early on Sunday morning. 

 They landed 500 ducks, geese and brant, which were 

 shipped north by express. On Monday Mr. Carroll Win- 

 chester, wife and party of seven, from Baltimore, came 

 up from Beaufort with his sailing yacht and left again on 

 Thursday for Bogue Sound. He has rented a house in 

 New Berne for the winter. Mr. A. W. Howkins, wife 

 and family, of Great Barrington, Mass., have winter 

 quarters at the Hotel Chattawka. He puts in his off days 

 on quail. Fayette S. Giles, Esq., and wife, are also guests 

 of the Chattawka. They are recently from Paris, 

 France, where Mr. Giles has had a v.atch and jewelry 

 establishment for many years. Mr. Giles is well known 

 as the originator and first president of the Blooming 

 Grove Park Association. He is writing a book on "soci- 

 ology," and divides his time between work and hunting. 

 He scoops anything whatever from quail to bears, but is 

 especially struck on wild turkeys, of which there is a 

 great abundance this season. A train on the Wil- 

 mington, Norfolk & New Berne R. R. ran into a 

 large flock the other day, and Captain Pittman shot 

 a big one from the deck of his steamer May Bell 

 while on his regular trip up the Neuse River. Three wild 

 turkeys were shipped north on Monday by a shooting 

 party from Norwich, Conn., who are camping on Catfish 

 Lake. The same outfit captured a fine fox squirrel whose 

 head and fore paws were entirely black. Its tail measured 

 15in. in length, being Sin. longer than the body. The 

 fine lake wilderness, eighteen miles from New Berne, is 

 becoming much frequented by Northern sportsmen. Joe 

 Ballard and his brother have killed and shipped twenty 

 deer from there within the month. Perhaps a better 

 deer and bear country than this would be on Core Creek 

 and White Oaks River. There is a heavy timber country 

 in there very little frequented. Dr. W. S. Bell and family, 

 of Philadelphia, are at the Chattawka for the winter, and 

 Mr. Compton, of Piainfield, N. J., is at Riverdale, eight 

 miles out, in the center of a good turkey ground. 



Pierre La Montague, of New York, was showing a bunch 

 of seven fine woodcock the other day. Woodcocks are 

 quite abundant in certain localities and are very little 

 looked after. N. S. Richardson, job printer, of New Berne, 

 gathers more quail than most any one else. He says they 

 are quite plenty around Grifton, up the Neuse River, 

 reached by steamboat or train. Short trips up river or 

 by rail are quite in vogue by parties who prefer New Berne 

 for permanent headquarters. Messrs. Giles and Howkins 

 speak very highly ot the table at the Hotel Chattawka. 



C. H. 



Wildfowl in Currituck Sound. 



Van Slycke's Landing, N. ft, Dec. 8.— The opening of 

 the shooting season here in Currituck Sound did not prom- 

 ise much sport. The fowl were singularly few, and but 

 little was done by those gunners of the North who sat in 

 blinds on the opening day. Dp to about Dec. 1 but little 

 shooting was done, the best score of which I heard being 

 forty birds, all of them common ducks. Up to that 

 time no blackheads, redheads or canvasbacks had been 

 seen. 



The change of weather which came about Dec. 1 brought 

 on a lot of birds, and since that the shooting has greatly 

 improved. Bags of fifty, sixty and seventy birds have 

 been made and a good proportion of those shot are wid- 

 geons. 



It Beems evident that the scarcity Of birds at the open- 

 ing of the season was due to the mild weather, and that 

 a little severe cold will drive the birds to us in something 

 like their usual numbers. We shall know more about 

 this, however, by Christmas time. 



A number of gunners from the North, members of the 

 clubs owning property on these waters, have been down 

 here, and some of them have had excellent success. No 

 doubt others will visit us during the winter, and the right 

 sort of weather will probably bring them down here in 

 numbers. 



Little quail shooting has been done, but the birds are 

 as numerous as ever, and we may expect ^to have good 

 sport with them later in the season. A. C. 



Mr. George W. Naugle killed some pheasants Thursday, and in the 

 craw of one of them was a green snake about a foot long. About 

 half of the reptile was digested, but the other half, including the head 

 protruded from the gizzard of the bird. Mr. Naugle preserved the 

 gizzard in alcohol, and you can see ic it you call at tiis wtort,. Don't 

 l Led ^ ^ y ° U ValUtl y0ur iiJiin S for Peasants.— fhUUpsburg, Pa. 



