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NEW YORK, JANUARY 19, 1888. 



I VOL. XXIX -No. 26. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Bills Must be. Paid. 



New YorU Game Lat^s. 



The Opposition to Rule 2. 



Notes and Cimm^nts. 



The Rock Climbers.— rv. 

 The Sportsman Touuisi. 



Sam Level's Camps.— vr. 

 Natural Iiistory. 



Food of the European Sparrow 



More About Texas Wolves. 

 Game 3a a and Gun. 



Public Opinion. 



Shooting Notes. 



D»er Jumping-. 



The Yell >wstone Park as a 



Forest Preserve. 

 Montana Game Law. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 

 The Next Tournament, 

 Tarpon Fishing. 

 Angling Notes. 



FlSHCULTCRL. 



The !t ) *ars Fish way. 

 T-'ibtttesto Baird. 



The Kennel. 

 Rule No. 2. 



"Genuine Hydrophobia." 

 American Kennel Re ister. 

 Eastern Greyhound Coursing 

 Club. 



The Camden Mastiff Case. 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap > hooting. 



Small Calibro Military Arms. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 

 Vahhting. 



The Disowned Cup. 



Deed ot Gift. 



The Gru : S"a« Schooner Alert. 



Classes for Small Yachts. 



A Rule That Will Not Work 

 Both Ways. 

 Oanoeinq. 



Cruising Canoes at the Meet. 



W. C. A. Fx. Com. Meeting. 



The A. O. A. Meet. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



ing person that the Utes ought to he indemnified by the 

 State of Colorado for their losses, but to secure any such 

 indemnity from the State would no doubt take years, and 

 the Indians ought not to have to wait so long. The 

 Federal Government is the guardian of the Indians, and 

 it ought by all means to pay the losses inflicted on 

 them by the State of Colorado, and then take measures 

 to recover from that State the sum paid. The United 

 States can afford to wait, the Indians cannot. 



The treatment of our native races by the American 

 Government has been marked by so many breaches of 

 faith, so much cruelty and so much oppression, that to 

 affirm that any one act of barbarity toward these people 

 is the worst of which we have been guilty, would be say- 

 ing a great deal, but through all the harsh and savage 

 treatment to which they have been subjected, there have 

 been few acts which were more brutal and less justifiable 

 than that which caused the Ute "outbreak" of 1887. 



BILLS MUST BE PAID. 



LAST summer the Colorado militia had their sport 

 with the Ute Indians. Without provocation they 

 attacked them, burned a camp or two, killed some 

 women, two small children and a baby, and ran off about 

 3,000 sheep and 400 head of horses. All this was very 

 good fun for the white men along the border, who, not- 

 withstanding the fact that the Utes have been driven 

 from place to place and the area of their reservations 

 again and ag tin cut down, still Ion; for the final expul 

 sion of the Indians from the State in order that they may 

 drive their cattle on to the ranges which the Indians 

 still possess. The wlula story, so sickening in all its de- 

 tails, was gone over last August, and the disgraceful 

 treachery of the authorities exposed in these columns. 



We urged at that time that, while no measures that 

 could be taken by either Federal or State authorities 

 could repair the bitter wrong that had been done these 

 people, they should at least be indemnified for the stock 

 that had been stolen from them, and their losses in this 

 respect be made good. We are glad to see that our view 

 has been adopted by the Secretary of the Interior, and 

 that he has recommended the passage by Congress of a 

 bill which shall authorize the restoration to the Utes of 

 the stolen stock. 



Those who at th aie followed the history of the dis- 

 graceful butchery of Colorado's women and children, 

 know that these Indians, measured by any standard of 

 justice, were guiltless of -wrong; that, while their methods 

 were perhaps not legal, they did nothing more than to 

 obtain by craft property which they honestly believed to 

 be theirs, and which was withheld from them by force. 



The sentiment of the Army is expressed by General 

 Terry in his report on this affair in which he says that he 

 does not consider that "the burning of the unoccupied 

 habitations of persons for whose arrest warrants have 

 been issued or the opening of rifle fire without warning 

 upon an unsuspecting body of men, women, and little 

 children, are usual steps in the service of process." 

 While the veteran Indian fighter, General Crook, who 

 visited the scene just after the occurrence, says that "in 

 every case the whites were the aggressors and fired first. 

 Colorow had no desire whatever to fight, and made use of 

 his weapons in self-defense only." 

 There can be no doubt in the mind of any right-think- 



THE OPPOSITION TO RULE £. 

 HPHE numerous letters printed in our Kennel columns 

 from week to week have shown how decided and 

 how widespread is the opposition to the rule which seeks 

 to compel registration in a particular registry. This 

 opposition does not come from breeders who fail to 

 recognize the necessity of somewhere preserving adequate 

 reg : stration of their stock. The opposition is not directed 

 against registration per se. 



The opponents of Rule 2 agree perfectly with its promo- 

 tors that registration is absolutely essential in intelligent 

 dog breeding. But they say, we insist upon the liberty 

 of saying when, where, and in what manner we shall put 

 the records which are worth mere to us than to anybody 

 else. These men naturally resent the assurance of the 

 rule promoters in assuming to have just discovered ken- 

 nel pedigree registration as some new and admirable 

 cure-all which all dog owners must be compelled to 

 swallow. 



The opposition to this stand-and-deliver imposition is 

 gaining strength as the exact nature of the rule becomes 

 better known. The s lit in the Club itself is in all prob- 

 ability a permanent cne, and the estranged sympathies of 

 breeders are Dot likely to be regained by the Ciub by any- 

 thing short of rescinding the obnoxious rule. 



THE NEW YORK GAME LAW. 



THE committees on game laws at Albany have been 

 appointed as follows: Senate, Messrs. Vedder, Foley 

 and Langhein. Assembly, Messrs. Prime, Hadley, 

 Ainsworth, McCann, Flaherty, Donaldson, Haskell and 

 Hogins. 



A bill already introduced is said to have come from 

 those who are represented by Mr. Robert B. Roosevelt. 

 It is a much more simple bill than the average game 

 law measure, ic i3 easily understood, and many of its 

 provisions are most excellent. Briefly outlined, it pro- 

 vides the following open seasons: Deer, Aug. 15 to Nov, 

 1. Wildfowl, Sept. 1 to March 1. Ruffed grouse, Sept 1 

 to Jan. 1; on Long Island, Nov. 1 to Jan. 1. Woodcock, 

 July 1 to Jan. 1. Quail, Oct. 20 to Jan. 1. Robin, hare, 

 meadow lark, gray and black squirrel, Sept. 1 to Jan. 1. 

 Rail and meadow hen, Sept. 1 to Jan. 1. Bay birds, July 

 1 to Jan. i. Wilson, English, or jack snipe not protected. 

 For fish the open seasons named are: Salmon, land- 

 locked salmon, speckled, brown and California trout, 

 April 1 to Sept. 1; in the Adirondacks, May 1 to Sept. 15. 

 Lake trout, April 1 to Oct. 1. Mascalonge, Oswego bass, 

 black bass, pike-perch, fresh-water striped bass (white 

 bass), May 20 to Dec. 31. Sale of grouse, quail, hare and 

 squirrel is permitted to Feb. 15, venison from Nov. 1 to 

 March 1, and salmon trout, black bass, and pike-perch 

 the year around, provided the same was lawfully killed. 

 Deer hounding is prohibited at all times. Long Island 

 deer are protected for five years. A new feature is the 

 prohibition of game exportation "to a foreign country 

 from the State of New York," which is capital in theory, 

 but will not be in practice worth the ink it takes to 

 draft it. 



It is almost too soon to discuss a bill like this, for its 

 present shape is not at all likely to be kept intact after 

 the game law committees have listened to the suggestions 

 of the men who turn up at Albany every year to doctor 

 the game laws to suit their own private purposes. No 

 one imagines, for instance, that the clause forbidding 

 the hounding of deer will get very far in its progress 



toward passage, although if that prohibiton could be re- 

 tained, we are inclined to think that the benefits accru- 

 ing from such a law would more than outweigh any of 

 the defects in the bill. 



NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



WHAT is the trait of human nature which prompts 

 the residents of the North Woods and the Maine 

 forests to savagely resent the liberal efforts of the State 

 to benefit them by increasing their natural wealth? Not 

 long ago we recorded the raid of a gang of masked men 

 on one of the Maine hatching stations. The Commis- 

 sioners were prosecuting the work of restocking the 

 waters with food fish, and these miscreants set to work 

 to thwart them by violence. The same spirit has ruled 

 in the North Woods. Fish hatcheries ha ve been estab- 

 lished there by the Fish Commissioners of this State; but 

 the residents have resented the attempt to benefit their 

 locality; the employes of the hatching stations have been 

 obliged to maintain an attitude of continuous watchful- 

 ness against the attacks of local vandals. The spawning 

 beds of trout have been raked by poachers, who sell the 

 trout to hotel keepers to salt down; and in manifold ways 

 the Commissioners have been shown that the particular 

 sections they have sought to enrich have not the decency 

 nor common sense to appreciate the benefit. We under- 

 stand that in consequence of this discouraging condition 

 of affairs no further public fishcultuie will be under- 

 taken a; the expense of the State treasury m the North 

 Woods. 



Before very long the President will have to appoint a 

 United States Fish Commissioner. Mr. G. Brown Goode, 

 whose manifold duties as Curator of the National Museum 

 will not permit of his retaining the position at the h^ad 

 of the Fish Comissission, has le^igned, and the work is 

 now temporarily in charge of Dr. J. H. Kidder, whose 

 scientific attainments and long and close connection w.ih 

 the Commission admirably fit him to direct it. The loss 

 to the Commission by Mr. Goode's resignation cannot but 

 be seriously felt, and it may be h ped that whoever shall 

 receive the appointment as his successor will be a man 

 who will command the respect of the scientific mm of 

 the country. Politics should certainly have nothing to 

 do with an appointment of this nature, and from wLat is 

 known of the President's viewj of the Fish Commiision 

 and its work, it is believed that the selection will Le made 

 witli the same wisdom that marked the choice of Mr. 

 Goode. It is certain that if the President will take 1hat 

 gentleman's advice in the matter the appointment will be 

 satisfactory. We see more or less in the Washington 

 despatches to the daily press about the different candi- 

 dates for this position, and that such and such persons 

 are pushed for the place by this or that Senator or Repre- 

 sentative. This is all wrong, and it is pretty safe to 

 say that no man who has announced himself as a candi- 

 date should be chosen for the position. I : the case of 

 this appointment it i-; moro than ever trua that the effice 

 should seek the man, and not the man the office. 



The economic importance of preserving the forests of 

 the Yellowstone National Park is well understood by all 

 who have given the subject any study. These forests 

 form just as truly a part of the material wealth of this 

 country as do the wheat fields of Dakota, the silver mines 

 of Colorado or the cattle ranges of Wyoming. These 

 who have not fami'iarized themselves with this subject 

 will learn from the article by Mr. Hague, printed in an- 

 other column, the office which these forests perform. 

 The author of this letter is better qualified to write of 

 the Park than any one else in the country, for he has 

 devoted years to a careful personal examination of this 

 region and the surrounding country. His letter sets forth 

 forcibly the value of the Park to the Northwest, and 

 members of Congress who are desirous of being informed 

 on this point cannot do better than consult it. 



The calamity befalling the Columbus, Ohio, bench show 

 last week, was in all its details a most distressing affair. 

 The building in which the show was held appears to have 

 been a tinder box of the most flagrant character; and in 

 no respect a fit place in which to chain dogs and coop up 

 poultry, where the peril of fire was so manifest. The 

 hurried investiga'ion made by the exhibitors and reported 

 in our Kennel columns can hardly be said to be very 

 satisfactory. A more searching inquiry is called for. 



