March 14, 1889.] 



FOREST AND STREAM, 



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selection of the lands. Should this intelligent start be 

 proseeuted, as doubtless it will be, the Hennepin Club 

 will be possessor of some most desirable privileges. 

 Following is the list of the Hennepin Club: President. 



E. P. Hilliard; Secretary and Treasurer, J. B. Sibley; 

 Director, F. E. Willarcl. * Members: W. K. Reed, J. B. 

 Siblev, W. W. McFarland, J. A. Sexton, C. R. Carroll, 



F. E. Willard, F. I. Bennett, H. S. Lepper, C. S. Lamb, 

 H. D. Nichols. C. D. Gammon, M. J. Eich. J. V. Clark, 

 Jr., G. M. Sibley, E. W. Dillett, E. H. Daft. J. F. Gray. 

 A. R. Barnes, G. M. Davis, W. A. Bond, A. T. Ewing. 

 Chas. lglehart, E. P. Hilliard, R. B. Organ, J. F, Ballan- 

 tine. ~ E. Hough. 



NO. 175 MONTtOK STREET. 



Ma rcli /.—In the Illinois Legislature the Committee on 

 Game and Fish have reported a bill which makes it un- 

 lawful to hunt, kill, trap. net. ensnare or destroy wild 

 buck, doe, fawn and wild turkeys, between Jan. 15 and 

 Sept. 15; grouse or prairie chickens between Nov. 1 and 

 Sept. 15; rough grouse, quail, pheasant and partridge, 

 between Dec. 1 and Oct. 1; squirrels between Dec. 15 and 

 June 1. Brant, duck or any otber water fowl are pro- 

 tected between April 15 and Sept. 15. During the spring 

 season of shooting it shall be unlawful to shoot any wild 

 game on Sunday, Monday or Tuesday of any week. It is 

 made unlawful to shoot any birds with a swivel gun, or 

 from a steam or sail boat, nor shall any one be permitted 

 to shoot from any sink or sneak boat or blind in any open 

 body of water. The bill is not especially liked by Chicago 

 sportsman. South Water street (our game market) has a 

 delegation present at Springfield. A number of sports 

 men are also there. There never was so much interest 

 shown in game legislation, and the result, whatever it 

 may be, is awaited with concern. 



Chicago, 111., March 6. — We have got 'em again! The 

 long looked-for are here. The ducks have arrived. 

 Three days ago a big flurry of bhiebills and mallards 

 appeared on the Illinois River and then dropped back. 

 \esterday five barrels of ducks came up from Lake Sen- 

 achwine. To-day a telegram came up from Water Val- 

 ley, on the Kankakee, saying that the ducks were 

 swarming in on the marsh. The boys of the Kankakee 

 clubs are going down to-day in numbers. The market 

 men report any quantity of ducks being shipped in from 

 New Madrid. Ducks are a drug on the market. The 

 season will probably open now with a rush. E. H. 



SNARING RUFFED GROUSE. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



I notice that "Hermit" in your issue of the 23th nit. 

 says: "Let me say, in justice to myself, that I do not 

 yield the palm to any member of the Ufiea Association 

 in my desire to protect any and all game birds or game 

 animals of our country." 



The Htica Fish and Game Protective Association have 

 successfully demonstrated that they enforce the game 

 and fish laws. Now note what "Hermit" savs in his let- 

 ter (Feb. 28): "If my critic ("TJ. F. & G. P. A.") were 

 here I should take him to a locality where there are six 

 grouse, five of them young birds: and then I could show 

 him more titan forty snares, some of them artfully and 

 temptingly baited with coral-red barberries or rosy- 

 cheeked baldwins." 



Massachusetts game law says ruffed grouse can only be 

 legally killed from Sept. 1 to Dec. 1, yet "Hermit" ad- 

 mits that the snarer around his "cabin home" is doing 

 his level best to kill grouse contrary to the law. 



"Hermit" says he desires "to protect any and all game 

 birds." His words have a very incongruous look. The 

 Utica Association would surely act in this case if in their 

 territory, yet "Hermit" will "not yield the palm to any 

 member of the Utica Association" in game protection. 

 Now this is pure unadulterated nonsense. The whole 

 import of "Hermit's" letters is to try to show that bird 

 dogs (how many breeds does this include?), not snares, are 

 the means by which the grouse are being exterminated. 

 I beg to submit, for the benefit of "Hermit," the follow- 

 ing editorial from the Fokest and Stream, under the 

 date of October 19, 1882. In referring to ruffed grouse 

 you use the foLlowing well-chosen words: "That the 

 pursuit of them with dog and gun, in proper season, 

 would ever exterminate them, we cannot Relieve. We 

 have seen too many of their successful tricks, and wit- 

 nessed too many of their triumphant escapes from the 

 best of dogs and the best of guns to believe anything of 

 the kind. * * * With snaring the case is entirely dif- 

 ferent, and the man who thoroughly understands "their 

 habits in a short time will exterminate them from any 

 locality." 



As "Hermit" says that snares are set now nearly three 

 months after the time that the law says that grouse can- 

 not be killed legally in his State, and his allowing the 

 same after saying that he will "not yield the palm to any 

 member of the Utica Association" in the matter of game 

 protection, has a very peculiar look. A. C. Collins, 



HArtf Oiir>, Conn. 



"Shooting for Fun and Profit. — Editor Forest and 

 Stream: — In a recent issue a correspondent hurls an ava- 

 lanche of abuse against the market-hunter, holding him 

 up to the contempt of sportsmen as the despoiler of our 

 game, and as the prime cause of its constantly diminish- 

 ing numbers. In a spirit of fair play and justice to a 

 much abused class of sportsmen will he tell me the dif- 

 ference between the one who kills a score of birds and 

 sends them home to friends and him who kills a like 

 number and sends them to market, to perhaps buy bread 

 for his starving family? Does one protect or preserve 

 more than the other, and if so which, and which is the 

 most justifiable in the killing? Each has equal rights 

 both under moral and statute laAv, and if the true sports- 

 man tramps wearily home in the gloaming with clisap- 



{>ointed hopes and empty pockets it is only because he 

 acks the skill, the experience and the woodcraft to load 

 himself with game. I am no market-hunter, and I wish 

 from the bottom of my heart their numbers were less. 

 Still more do I wish that the so-styled true sportsman, 

 who takes to the covers in early July to frighten to death 

 the half-fledged woodcock and downy ruffed grouse under 

 the name of "Bhortbills," would mete out to themselves 

 the full measure of their misdeeds and divide with the 

 market-hunter the responsibility which they lay entirely 

 at the latter's door.— Nom de Plume. 



Some Ducks Accounted For.— Editor Forest and 

 Stream.: While traveling to-day from Indianapolis to St. 

 Louis, I noticed among the express matter on a truck at 

 Terre Haute' an engine which may interest some of your 

 readers. This was the iron work of a punt gun, un- 

 finished, but evidently on its way to some local gun smith 

 to be fitted up and prepared for service. In old times I 

 have seen at Pat Mullin's place in JSew York guns manu- 

 factured for members of the Carol Fs Island Club for use 

 on the high-flying canvasbacks and redheads of the 

 Chesapeake Bay, which approached this in size. lake 

 them, this was single-barreled, but it is far larger than 

 any shoulder gun that I have ever seen. The iron work 

 alone is said to weigh 201bs. The gun is not less than 

 oft. sin. long, and the diameter of the bore is an inch or 

 perhaps somewhat more. Not far from the breech is a 

 pin, working on a fore and aft hinge, which is to fit into 

 the socket in the bow of the boat. I should suppose that 

 the gun could throw a pound of shot. Some of your cor- 

 respondents, as I notice by your paper, which recently I 

 have Bought each week in Chicago, are wondering where 

 the ducks have gone. I think that in the hands of 

 market-shooters a few guns such as this one would ac- 

 count for a good many of the fowl. This gun was con- 

 signed to Newport, Indiana.— G. (St. Louis, Mo.. March 5). 



St. Louis, March 9.— Last Friday the cold wave broke 

 and the weather became warm and pleasant. Reports 

 came from the ducking places that the webfeet were 

 making their appearance. Many went out, but as a rule 

 bags were light. M. Billmeyer, E. C. Mohrstadt, W. Het- 

 tel, C. Hemphill and W. Clark spent several days in the 

 vicinity of Dameron, on the line of the St. Louis, Keo- 

 kuk and Northwestern Railway. A telegram was received 

 from them stating that the ducks were coming in in fail- 

 numbers. If they came in, this gentleman says, they 

 must have kept going, for when they arrived at the local- 

 ity, the shooting was slow and of no especial interest. 

 The only bag of any consequence reported was at Kid 

 Lake, about 21 miles south of here, by Mr. H.C.Griesidieck. 

 He left here Monday and returned Wednesday evening 

 -with 35 mallards, 10 sprigtails and a few green wing teal. 

 The game dealers have bad good shipments of all kinds 

 of ducks from points in this locality, and judging from 

 the excellent condition in which they are, certainly suf- 

 fered none in the "Sunny South." t^uite a number of 

 large fat snipe are being regularly received from near 

 Galveston, Texas, and the northwestern portion of Kan- 

 sas has sent in a few during the past two weeks — Unser 

 Fritz. 



Missouri.— Alexandria. — The winter here in northeast 

 Missouri has been a peculiar one for its mildness, dryness, 

 limited expanse of clouds and temperate winds from the 

 north and east. The snowfall has been very light, and 

 the rains were few. One noted feature is the scarcity of 

 migratory wildfowl and native birds, which usually re- 

 main with us all winter, flying northward or southward. 

 Ducks were few; I have seen but t wo kinds, the mallard 

 and what we call the sprigtail. Considering the open- 

 ness of our great rivers, and the balminess of the atmos- 

 phere, we would suppose that ducks and geese would be 

 here in great numbers. There are forces at work that we 

 cannot account for. Usually we have many birds in our 

 forests all the year round, but this winter we have been 

 nearly forsaken by even the redbirds. Never, in all my 

 close observation.' have I noticed such scarcity. Quail 

 are only moderately plentiful, and the grouse appear to 

 be few in numbers! I have not seen an eagle all winter. 

 — Jasper Blines. 



Ithaca, N. Y.. March 7. — A large flock of wild geese 

 passed northward over litis city to-night, and as a result 

 the spring shooter smiles wickedly as he softly murmurs 

 that familiar ditty "Johnny get your gun." — M. Cmu.. 



Pistol Cartridges in a Rifle.— Will not somebody 

 give briefly the results of his experience with the .22-5-30 

 long pistol cartridges used in a rifle? I do not find them 

 at all accurate.— J. L. K. 



Delaware.— One thousand of the two thousand live 

 quail ordered by the State Game Association have been 

 shipped from Alabama and will arrive in a day or two 

 and will be distributed immediately. — Del. A. WajKE, 



MAINE GAME LAW. 



r pHE text of the bill amending the game law of Maine 

 JL changed the reading of several sections of the statute 

 as follows: 



Section 8. Whoever hunts, kills or destroys with dogs auy 

 moose, or in any manner huuts, killB, destroys or has in posses- 

 sion any cow moose, or part thereof, forfeits one hundred dollars 

 for every moose so hunted, killed, destroyed or had in possession; 

 and no person shall, between the first days of January and Octo- 

 ber, in any maimer limit, catch, kill, destroy or have in posses- 

 sion any hull moose, or auy part thereof, taken in close time, 

 under the same penalty. 



fc-BC. 10. Whoever hunts, catches, kills or destroys with a dog 

 or dogs any deer or caribou, forfeits forty dollars for every deer 

 or caribou so hunted, caught, killed or destroyed; and no person 

 shall, between the first days of January and October, in any man- 

 ner hunt, catch, kill, destroy or have in possession any deer or 

 caribou, or part thereof, taken in close time, under the same 

 penalty. Any person may lawfully kill any dog found, kept or 

 used for the purpose of hunting moose, deer or caribou. Any 

 person owning or having in possession a. dog for the purpose of 

 hunting moose, deer or caribou, or that is used for such hunting, 

 forfeits not less than twenty nor more than one hundred dollars. 



Sec ll. Whoever has in his possession any such animal, or 

 part thereof, between the first days of January and October, 

 shall be deemed to have hunted, caught and killed the same, con- 

 trary to law. and be liable to the penalties aforesaid; but he shall 

 not be precluded from producing proof in his defense that such 

 animal was hunted, caught or killed in open time. Any officer 

 authorized to enforce the game laws, may search for such animal 

 or part thereof, subject to Sections 12, 13 and 14 of Chapter 182; 

 and the warrant may be issued on his own complaint. 



Sec 12. Whoever catches, kills, destroys or has in possession be- 

 tween the first days of January and October more than one moose, 

 two caribou and three deer forfeits one hundred dollars for everv 

 moose and forty dollars for every caribou or deer so caught, 

 killed, destroyed or had in possession, except those lawfullv 

 taken in open time, or the increase of those domesticated, more 

 than the aforesaid number of moose, caribou and deer, or parts 

 thereof , shall be deemed to have caught, killed or destroyed the 

 same in violation of law. 



Sec. 13. Whoever, during close time, buys or sells any moose, 

 caribou or deer, or any part thereof, and whoever carries or trans- 

 ports from place to place any such animal or part thereof during 

 close time, or in open time, except animals or parts thereof in 

 possession of the person who lawfully caught or killed the same, 

 open to view, labeled or tagged, with the name of said person 

 plainly written or printed thereon, shall forfeit the sum of one 

 hundred dollars for each moose, and forty dollars for each cari- 

 bou or deer, or part thereof, so bought," sold, carried or trans- 



ported. And whoever, with intent to aid another in such trans- 

 portation, by taking possession of any such animal or part, thereof , 

 or permits his name to be used on the label or tag attached thereto, 

 shall be liable to the respective penalties aforesaid; such animals 

 or parts thereof being transported in open time by common 

 carriers or other persons, so labeled and tagged and accompanied 

 by the person who lawfully caught or killed the same, shall be 

 deemed to he in possession of such person and not in the posses- 

 sion of such common carrier. Whoever, by false, representa tions, 

 induces a common carrier or other person to take any such 

 animal or part thereof ro transport, shall pay a flue, of not more 

 than twenty dollars, and be imprisoned not exceeding twenty 



f^SJc, 15. All game hunted, caught, killed, destroyed, bought, 

 sold, carried, transported or found in possession of any person or 

 corporation, in violation of the provisions of this chapter, and 

 amendments thereto, shall be liable to seizure; and in case of con- 

 viction for such violation, shall be decreed forfeited by the court 

 to the prosecutor, who may sell the same for consumption in this 

 State. 



Sec 16, Any officer authorized to enforce the fish and game 

 la ws shall, while on duty, wear a badge as an insignia of his office, 

 and mav, without process, arrest any person found violating, or 

 who has violated, any of said laws; and he shall, with reasonable 

 diligence; cause a process to be issued and prosecuted against 



Sec. 2fi, AH lines and penalties recovered for violations of the 

 preceding sections, to and including Section «, shall bo paid one- 

 half to the prosecutor and the other half, witli the costs, to the 

 county where the action is brought or the warrant or indictment 

 issued. 



All tines, penalties and costs collected on complaint or indict- 

 ment in the enforcement of any fish or game law, shall be paid to 

 the court trying the same, and by such court to the treasurer 

 of the county in which such court is held, which court shall 

 certify to such treasurer the name of the person entitled to one- 

 half of such fine or penalty, which said half shall be paid to him 

 by such treasurer. In all actions of debt therefor in any court, 

 if the nlaintiff prevails, he shall reeover full costs without regard 

 to the" amount recovered: and one-half of all lines and penalties 

 collected in actions of debt, shall be paid forthwith into such 

 treasury; any officer or other person who shall receive any fine or 

 penalty, or any part thereof, for the violation of any fish or game 

 law, except through the county treasurer, on complaint or in- 

 dictment, as aforesaid, or if by action of debt, and neglects for 

 more than sixty days to pay one -half so collected into such treas- 

 ury, shall be punished by fine of not less thau forty nor more 

 than one hundred dollars for the first offense, and for every sub- 

 sequent offense by said fine, and imprisoment not exceeding six 

 months. 



Sec. 21 is amended by adding that "woodcock and ruffed grouse 

 or partridge shall not he carried or transported from place to 

 place except in possession of the owner thereof under the same 

 penalty.' 1 



{.Special to Forest and Stream.] 

 Augusta, Me., March 13.— The hill to amend the game law was 

 defeated in the House. The law remains the same as before. 



Tallmadge, 0„ Sept. 24, 1888— UnitM States Cartridge Co. 

 Lowell, Mac*.: Dear Sirs— £ have used a good many U. S. car- 

 tridges, and they have never failed to give satisfaction. Yours 

 truly, (Signed) E. S. Metlin.— Adv. 



$m <tt(d giver Jfe/wt#, 



'Sam LoveVs Camps.'' By R. E. Robinson. Now ready. 



A SPRINGFIELD CLUB IN CANADA. 



OCORE another club of Americans in Canada. The 

 IO Springfield, Mass., Republican reports: Edward S. 

 Brewer and Damon N. Coats have returned from a trip 

 of several weeks to the vast Canadian reservation for the 

 control of which the Springfield fishing and game club 

 was formed recently. They found "Government ther- 

 mometers'' registering 45 degrees below zero and snow so 

 deep on a level that the little cMmneys were all that 

 afforded trace of the cabins of the hibernating natives. 

 They encountered one blizzard which kept them prisoners 

 twodays and two nights and left the snow so deep and 

 soft that a guide who had been sent off in the morning 

 with a message for a camp seven miles distant, returned 

 at nightfall, having been all day going one mile and back. 

 Messrs. Brewer and Coats contracted for two cabins for 

 the club and all the necessary furnishings, provisions and 

 camp equipage. They select as club headquarters an 

 island, about a mile in circumference, in Amabalish 

 Lake, a beautiful sheet of water six miles long, one of 

 the gems in the club's leased tract of 300 square miles. 

 The principal house will have a piazza thirty-five feet 

 long and six feet wide, from which a fine view of the 

 surrounding territory may be had, and a. monster fire- 

 place inside which will burn "big wood." The island is 

 18 miles from the nearest point on the St. John Eailway, 

 which is an old Hudson's Bay Company trading post, not 

 far from Chambord and right on the shore of Lake St. 

 John. Henry Poole, a famous man in that section of the 

 Canadian wilderness, has a hotel at this post, and will 

 take care of the tender members of the families of the 

 Springfield association, who do not care to make the 18 

 mile jaunt to the camp by birch bark canoes, up streams 

 and lakes, over carries and through brush. The point 

 selected for headquarters is about midway in the stretch 

 of 30 miles along the Matebetchuen River, extending five 

 miles on either side: so that small camping parties, two 

 or three men and their guides, may pick out little favor- 

 ite nooks by the score. Herein lies the novelty of the 

 attraction, for no white sportsman has ever traversed the 

 reservation; Messrs. Brewer and Goats have merely visited 

 it, although they have spent several weeks there and 

 covered a deal of ground, beside testing the fishing and 

 hunting. They caught on this trip hundreds of brook 

 trout weighing three and four pounds, and brought home 

 a lake trout weighing between 1 6 and 1? pounds. They 

 saw eight caribou shot near their stopping place, and one 

 day during their visit a Montaigne Indian came to the 

 trading post with $45 worth of skins. The lease covers 

 many Takes five or six miles long and a host of small 

 streams with trout pools that would make a fisherman's 

 eyes start from their sockets. In one hole, perhaps 10 

 yards square, Mr. Brewer says he saw on his first trip, 

 last August, at least 100 trout out of water at once, and 

 the pool fairly boiled with the lashing. A party of 13 or 

 14 is already made up to go in June to the new camp and 

 verify these* reports. Henry O'Sul livan , surveyor-general 

 of the Province of Qnebec, returned with Mr. Brewer 

 and has been stopping for several days at his Crescent 

 Hill residence, visiting Smith & Wesson's pistol factory, 

 the National Armory and other manufacturing concerns. 

 The Springfield Fishing and Game Club is thus officered: 

 President, E. S. Brewer; Vice-President, D. N. Coats; 

 Secretary and Treasurer, E. M. Coats, and these with 

 Frank D. Foot and Robert W. Day are stewards. The 

 rest of the membership of 20 is as follows: Louis H. Orr. 

 Walter H. Wesson, E. C. Barr, Dr. S. W. Bowles, Col. M. 

 V. B. Edgerly, D wight O. Gilmore, Henry S. Dickinson. 

 Col. H. M. Phillips, E. A. Alden, N. D. Bill, A. B. Wal- 

 lace, John Pettigrew and W. H. Lockwood, of Hartford. 



