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1 VOL. XXIX.-No. 6. 

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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



The Rocks Remain. 



U. S. Fish Commissioner. 



Butchering Utes. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Notes of a Two Weeks' Outing. 



Moosehead in Fly Time.— m. 



Tough Luck in the Tuckiseegee 

 Natural History. 



Notes from the Bunk House. 



Black and Silver Foxes. 



Confiding Quail. 



Nesting of the English Spar- 

 row. 



Game Bag and Gun. 

 Michigan Seasons. 

 Miscou. 



The Upland Plover. 

 Phases of Sport in Texas. 

 New England Game. 

 Successful Unsuccessfulness. 

 Shooting Notes. 

 The Wild Rice Harvest. 

 Bear Trapping. 

 Indian Elephant Capture. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 

 A "Baster." 



Sea and River Fishing. 



SummerAngling and Camping 



Bass Fishing Extraordinary. 



September Camps. 



Lakes Calumet and Gogebic. 



Landlocked Kockfish. 

 Fishculture. 



Fish Commissioner Goode. 



New York Fish Commission. 

 The Kennel. 



Newcastle Dog Show. 



Barney. 



A Chase for Autelope. 



American Kennel Club. 



Beagles for Bench and Field . 



Kennel Management. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 

 Canoeing. 



The A. C. A. Meet of 1887. 

 Yachting. 



Steam Launches and the In- 

 spection Law. 



R. N. S. Y. S. Jubilee Regatta. 



The Trial and Cup Races. 



BUTCHERING UTES. 



ALL advices up to the present time confirm the view- 

 expressed last week in these columns that the 

 trouble between the Utes and the wdiite settlers is wholly 

 of the latters' seeking. Within the past few days a 

 ' 1 battle " has taken place in which several bucks and 

 some Indian women and children were killed and 

 wounded. 



It appears now that the Indians were betrayed by 

 means of the basest treachery. The person in command 

 of a small body of scouts on August 24, had .a meeting 

 with the Ute chief under a solemn flag of truce, and it 

 was agreed between them that Colorado and his follow- 

 ers should return to their reservation unmolested. This 

 agreement the white man who made it calls justifiable 

 strategy, but it appears instead to have been abominable 

 lying. His characterization of it shows that he intended 

 to break the agreement when he made it. The following 

 morning, the Colorado militia and some cowboys at- 

 tacked the Indian camp, surprising the Indians and 

 killing and wounding a number of them, among whom 

 were at least two women and a baby. The Indians made 

 what defense they could under the circumstances, and 

 succeeded in killing three or four of the attacking party. 

 If any confirmation were needed of the fact that the 

 Indians had no intention of fighting, it may be found in 

 the valorous killing of the women and child in this 

 "battle," for it is a well-known fact that when Indians 

 are prepared for a fight, their squaws and pappooses are 

 always removed to a safe distance from the scene of the 

 combat. 



In addition to the slaughter of these wholly innocent 

 people, the white outfit captured 300 horses and about 

 2,000 sheep and goats, and this number is now being 

 divided up among the marauders. The United States 

 Government has been requested by the Agent to recover 

 this stock for the Indians, and steps have been taken by 

 Assistant Secretary Muldrow and Commissioner Atkins 

 to have it restored. 



The whole affair is one of the most shameful, brutal 



and unprovoked attacks on an unoffending people that 

 has ever disgraced the soiled pages of the history of our 

 treatment of the Indians. The foulest treachery was used 

 to lull into security the Utes, who were conscious of no 

 wrong, and then they and their wives and babies were 

 butchered. In all the miserable, heart-sickening business 

 there is but one redeeming feature. That is that the 

 press of the whole country — of Colorado as well as of the 

 East — unites in stigmatizing the outrage as it deserves. 

 The Utes ought to have a heavy claim for damages against 

 the United States Government, but the Indians can never 

 hope for justice. 



THE ROOKS REMAIN IN THEIR PLACE. 



T F it be true, as an eminent public man has recently 

 declared, that "the soil remains in its place," it is 

 equally susceptible of demonstration that the rocks re- 

 main in their place. Recent blundering complications of 

 the executive department of the American Kennel Club 

 and their results afford a striking illustration of this 

 grand truth. For after it all, the rocks (that is to say the 

 shekels) remain in their place. 



The selection of Mr. Charles H. Mason as a judge at the 

 last Waverly dog show was so obnoxious to the Gentle- 

 man of the dog world, though the classes assigned to Mr. 

 Mason were not those in which the Gentleman was inter- 

 ested, that the Gentleman refused to enter any of his dogs 

 in the show. Subsequently, after the entries had closed, 

 the Gentleman became reconciled to the inevitable; and 

 it being thought desirable that his pointers should meet 

 Beaufort, the Gentleman's kennel partner, Mr. Charles 

 Heath, handed to Mr. C. J. Peshall $50 to be given as a 

 special pointer prize. As his express purpose in this was 

 that Beaufort (entered in the show not for competition) 

 and the Graphic pointers (not entered in the show 

 at all) should be brought together for a comparison 

 of merit, Mr. Heath enjoined upon Mr. Peshall to make 

 the conditions of the special so comprehensive as to pro- 

 vide for the entry of all these dogs. This was done. So 

 far so good. The meeting of the giants was a sure thing, 

 barring accidents and possible whims of the Gentleman. 

 And that is just where it was not sure. The Gentleman 

 had a whim, a whim so severe that, after all, the Graphic 

 pointers were not entered for this special prize given by 

 the owners of the Graphic pointers in the hope that one 

 of the Graphic pointers might win it. The three entries 

 actually competing were Beaufort, Nick of Naso and 

 Patti M. Beaufort won, and "the rocks" went into his 

 owner's pocket. 



Then Patti M.'s owner, Mr. Munhall, forgetful of the 

 great truth that "the rocks remain in their place," con- 

 ceived a notion that he could remove them from Mr. 

 Mason's pocket into his own. He protested the award; 

 the show committee refused to sanction the protest; and 

 the rocks remained in their place. He appealed to Local 

 Delegate Peshall; the delegate refused to sustain the pro- 

 test; and the rocks remained in their place. He appealed 

 to the American Kennel Club; the club refused to sustain 

 the protest; the rocks remained in their place. 



Mr. Munhall did not give it up. He had great faith in 

 President Elliott Smith's stupidity and Secretary Vreden- 

 burgh's subserviency. His faith was well founded. Mr. 

 Smith's administration had been marked by one stupid 

 blunder after another. He could with great confidence 

 be relied upon for a fresh exhibition of the same nature. 

 Secretary Vredenburgh is one of the intermittent pro- 

 ducts of the superfluity of dogdom. It is a characteristic 

 of these creatures, their superfluousness being a burden 

 to them, that they are always on the lookout for some 

 opportunity to "catch on." At that particular time little 

 Vredenburgh was scheming for a salaried position as the 

 club's secretary, and he was eager to make himself use- 

 ful to any one who had any use for him. If there was a 

 round hole to be filled he would be a round stick of tim- 

 ber to fill it; if the hole were square and a square piece 

 were required, he w r ould be as square as he could be. 

 Counting on official stupidity and subserviency, at a 

 subsequent meeting of the club Mr. Munhall tried it the 

 fourth time. The tool Vredenburgh moved a reconsider- 

 ation of the first final decision of the club, and President 

 Smith, who appears on that particular occasion at least 

 to have been adventitiously and temporarily obtuse, 

 failed to recognize the absurdity of the motion itself 

 and the grounds given for it, and the impertinence of 

 Vredenburgh, who was not entitled to any voice what- 

 ever in the meeting, in presuming to make such a 



motion. The first final decision was reconsidered, and 

 by a second final decision Beaufort was declared to have 

 been ineligible to compete for the prize. 



The next step in the process of rock moving was ex- 

 ceedingly simple. Mr. Munhall appointed hirnself Wav- 

 erly Special Pointer Judge, ex post facto, and ignoring 

 the claims of Nick of Naso, awarded the prize to his own 

 entry. Patti M., and made requisition on the New Jersey 

 Club for the prize money. Their reply was in effect that 

 the money had already been paid over to Mr. Mason, and 

 "the rocks remain in their place." Then Mr. Munhall 

 wrote to Mr. Peshall for the money. That gentleman 

 returned a like reply; "the rocks remain in their. place." 

 Whether Patti M.'s owner wrote in a similar strain to Mr. 

 Mason we are not advised. The rare delicacy which had 

 prompted Mr. Munhall, as a member of the board 

 of arbitration, to vote in his own favor in the 

 case where his dog was concerned, and which had 

 prompted him to jump to the conclusion that Patti M. 

 would have beaten Nick of Naso for the prize, and to de- 

 mand from the New Jersey Club a prize he had never 

 won — this delicacy might not have proved an insur- 

 mountable barrier to his making a demand on Mr. Mason 

 for "the rocks." But, whether or no, "the rocks remain 

 in their place," that is to say, in the pocket of Beaufort's 

 owner. The latest development in this interesting case 

 is the reconsideration of final decision No. 2, by the vote 

 recorded in our kennel columns. Final decision No. 1 is 

 sustained by this final decision No. 3, and "the rocks re- 

 main in their place." 



The end is not yet. The Hornell Kennel Club delegate 

 has announced his intention of instituting another recon- 

 sideration, or of having the club declare final decisions 

 Nos. 2 and 3 and all the proceedings in connection there- 

 with null and void, on the ground that the superfluous 

 Vredenburgh's motion was illegal, unparliamentary, im- 

 pertinent and not in any way binding on the club. Such 

 action will not affect the "rocks;" they will "remain in 

 their place." 



FISH COMMISSIONER GOODE. 



\ S was predicted last week in the Forest and Stream, 

 Prof. G. Brown Goode has been appointed United 

 States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries in the place of 

 Prof. Spencer F. Baird deceased. The office was tendered 

 to Solicitor of the Treasury McCtie, of Brooklyn, and to 

 Acting Secretary of the Treasury Thompson, and by both 

 of them declined. It was understood that they w T ere 

 designated to fill the vacancy temporarily, pending the 

 permanent appointment, and for financial reasons only, 

 in order that the work of the department might not be 

 interrupted. By the terms of the law providing for a 

 Fisheries Commissioner both Judge McCue and Gov. 

 Thompson would be ineligible to fill the office perman- 

 ently. The statute provides that the appointee must be 

 "a civil officer of the Government of proved scientific 

 and practical acquaintance with the fishes of the coast;" 

 and this scientific knowledge is possessed by neither of 

 these gentlemen, however well qualified they may be in 

 other respects. When this law creating the office was 

 enacted its provisions were made especially to fit Prof. 

 Baird; and just as there was at that time no one else who 

 would have been eligible to the office, it may be said that 

 now in this second case no person woxild be eligible 

 except Prof. Goode. 



The new incumbent is most admirably qualified to fill 

 the position. By his scientific attainments, his training, 

 his long residence in Washington, and above all his years 

 of close association with Professor Baird, he is preemi- 

 nently fitted to receive the mantle let fall by his distin- 

 guished chief. Prof. Goode has been connected with the 

 Commission since its inception; his scientific attainments 

 are of the very highest order, and his executive ability is 

 shown by the admirable manner in which he has man- 

 aged the National Museum. The public has every reason 

 for confidence that under the control of Prof. Goode the 

 work of the Fish Commission will be prosecuted without 

 any impairment of the efficiency which has placed this 

 bureau foremost among like institutions of the world. 



The terms of the law respecting the Commissionership 

 have been shown to be defective and they should be 

 amended at the first opportunity. There is something- 

 anomalous in the demand for exceptional qualifications 

 on the part of the incumbent and the absence of any 

 salary whatever to reward the possessor of these qualifi- 

 cations for the arduous work demanded of him. 



