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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



A Case for Prompt Action. 



Dr. J. H. Kidder. 

 The Sportsman Todbist. 



Sea Trout Fiabing in Canada. 

 Natural History. 



The Insectivora. 



Long Island Birds. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Spring Shooting near St. Louis 



Chicago and the West. 



A Uniform Game Law. 



Snaring Ruffed Grouse. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Sawdust in Streams. 



Cape Cod Brook Trout. 



Muskoka Trout. 



FlSHCUIiTURE. 



The Menhaden Industry. 

 Results of Fishculture. 

 The Kennel. 

 Boston Dog Show. 



The Kennel. 



Worcester Doi? Show. 



The Chicago Show. 



Philadelphia Dog Show. 



Central Field Trial Club Rules 



The Seitner Case. 



Dog Talk. 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 

 Yachting. 



Cruise of the Orinda. 



The America's Cup. 



Classification by Corrected 

 Length . 



Seawanhaka C. Y. C. 



C. P. Knnhardt. 

 Canoeing. 



Change in A. C. A. Rules. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



DR. J. H. KIDDER. 



DR. JEROME HENRY KIDDER died at his residence 

 in Washington, April 8, after a brief illness, from 

 pneumonia. Most of his friends did not know that he 

 was dangerously sick, and the news of his death came as 

 a surprise and a shock. The funeral takes place to-day, 

 April 11, and the interment will be at Oak Hill Cemetery. 



Dr. Kidder was born in Baltimore Co., Md., Oct. 26, 

 1842. He was graduated from Harvard College in 1862, 

 entered the Union Army and served until the end of the 

 war. Part of his service was as a military cadet in 

 military hospitals near Baltimore. He took his degree of 

 doctor of medicine at the University of Maryland in 1866, 

 and was appointed a* assistant surgeon in the U. S. Navy 

 in the same year, attained the rank of passed assistant 

 surgeon in 1867, and in 1876 that of surgeon. His sea 

 service was performed chiefly in the Mediterranean, 

 Japan Seas, and on the coasts of South America and 

 South Africa. 



Dr. Kidder's first opportunity as a field naturalist was 

 offered in 187-4 when he became surgeon and naturalist of 

 the Transit of Venus Expedition to Kerguelen Island and, 

 after his return, spent a year in the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion preparing his reports upon the scientific results of 

 the expedition. His first important contribution to zool- 

 ogy was published In 1876 by the National Museum, as 

 Bulletin No. 3, and embraced his "Contributions to the 

 Natural History of Kerguelen Island" and "A Study of 

 Chionis minor with Reference to its Structure and Sys- 

 tematic Position." In 1875 and 1879 Dr. Kidder was de- 

 tailed for special service with the U. S. Fish Commission 

 and in 1882 became the first surgeon of the newly com- 

 pleted steamer Albatross. In 1883 he resigned from the 

 Navy and joined the office staff of the Commissioner of 

 Fisheries. Soon after the apj>ointment of Mr. G, Brown 

 G-oode as Commissioner of Fisheries, Dr. Kidder was 

 made Assistant Commissioner, which position he held 

 until the reorganization of the Commission in 1888, when 

 he resigned his connection with the Fish Commission, 

 and was placed in charge of the exchanges of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, continuing in this important service 

 until his last sickness overtook him. 



Dr. Kidder's medical work was directed largely in the 

 direction of publications relative to hygiene and the 

 sanitation of public buildings. About 1883 he made a 

 sanitary survey of the proposed site of the new Naval 

 Observatory and in 1885, with the cooperation of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, he made analyses of the ah- in 

 the House of Representatives. 



As a scientific man he will always be best remembered 

 by his publications relating to the Transit of Venus Ex- 

 pedition, his observations upon the temperature of the 

 blood of fishes, and his attention to the physical problems 

 involved in marine explorations. He was a member of 

 the Boai'd of Managers of the Cosmos Club and also of 

 the Biological) Chemical, and Philosophical ftooietie»s 



A CASE FOR PROMPT ACTION. 



rpHE injury done by Indian hunting parties to the for- 

 ests and the game in and near the Yellowstone Park 

 is so serious that it demands immediate attention. The 

 letters and affidavits published this week come from men 

 who have been on the ground and are fully cognizant of 

 the facts. The damage done by these parties has been so 

 apparent to the Superintendent, that ever since he has 

 been stationed in the Park he has urged on the Interior 

 Department the importance of keeping the Indians away 

 from the neighborhood of the reservation. The Indian 

 Bureau has generally seemed anxious to comply with his 

 request, but lately, the agents of the tribes at Fort Hall 

 and Lemhi, while acknowledging in effect that they can- 

 not control their Indians, and that they go when and 

 where they please, still deny that they approach the 

 boundaries of the National Park. Reading between the 

 lines of Captain Harris's official report to the Department 

 of the Interior, it is impossible to avoid the conclusion 

 that the agents who deny the statements made in that 

 and other documents from the same pen are unable to 

 handle their Indians. Competent men would have carried 

 out the orders of the Indian Bureau. 



It is clear that these Indians ought not to be allowed to 

 leave their reservations except in charge of some respon- 

 sible white man who can be held accountable for their 

 actions while they are absent, and it is equally clear that 

 under no circumstances should these hunting parties be 

 permitted to approach the borders of the Park. The 

 statement made by a correspondent that the Indians, 

 during these excursions, meet whisky traders and supply 

 themselves with liquor, is another strong reason for keep- 

 ing them at home where, under a wise and strong agent, 

 liquor cannot be had. 



It is admitted on all hands that the Yellowstone Na- 

 tional Park is chiefly valuable to this country as a reser- 

 voir, where may be stored the waters which are so 

 essential to all farming operations in the arid West. But 

 its use as a reservoir depends on the preservation of its 

 forests. If these are destroyed it cannot hold the water 

 which falls in winter and spring. 



Although the destruction of game by these Indians is 

 to be deplored, this destruction is of but slight importance 

 from an economic point of view. The game has a refuge 

 within the Park, and while protected there will soon re- 

 produce itself, and again overflow into the surrounding 

 country. But the growth of the forests is slow and any 

 extensive fires may carry widespread disaster to a large 

 area of country far removed from the National Park. 



We are not among those who believe that the Indian 

 has no rights which should be respected. On this point 

 we are quite prepared to stand upon our record. When, 

 however, the Indian does anything antagonistic to the 

 general welfare he must be restrained, and the Indian 

 method of using fire as an aid to hunting has in it an 

 element of danger to agri culture in the West which is 

 most serious. It will not do at this late day to have our 

 oniy national forest preserve threatened in this way. It 

 would be far cheaper to supply the Indians complained 

 of with unlimited beef rather than have the forests of 

 the Park perpetually endangered. 



The Department of the Interior controls both the Indian 

 Bureau and the National Park, and it is within the power 

 of tins Department to remedy the evils here complained 

 of. The matter is one which calls for prompt action on 

 the part of the Secretary, who, we believe, has visited 

 the National Park and no doubt appreciates its uses and 

 its needs. 



The subjoined letters from gentlemen perfectly well 

 known to us, and in all respects trustworthy, tell the 

 story : 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



To the readers of the Forest and Stream interest in 

 the Yellowstone National Park may be presumed to 

 center chiefly in the fact that it affords a safe refuge and 

 breeding ground for the large game of the Rocky Moun- 

 tain region. The hope and expectation has been cher- 

 ished that within the area of this large reservation the 

 game might receive such protection, that not only would 

 the different species be preserved from extermination, 

 but that its natural increase would overflow into the 

 adjacent regions, and that thus would be secured in the 

 future a hunting ground in which the sportsman, seeking 

 his annual recreation, might be reasonably certain of 

 finding sufficient sport to reward him for the expenditure 

 of his time and money. 



This expectation has been in a moderate degree real- 

 ized. The Park has been, during the past three years, a 

 safe refuge for the large game. The elk in immense 

 numbei's make this Jfeservatiof their winter home, and 



the remnant of the buffalo find comfort and security 

 during the long winters in the vicinity of its warm 

 springs and geyser basins. 



During the months of October, November and Decem- 

 ber, the season only in which the Territorial laws permit 

 the killing of game, no better hunting ground can be 

 found on the American continent than the region im- 

 mediately adjacent to the National Park. And if the 

 excellent laws provided for the protection of the game 

 are observed and the killing of game animals restricted 

 to the proper seasons and to sportsmanlike methods, 

 then the game, having a secure refuge in the Park, must 

 continue to increase, and good hunting will be found in 

 all future years around its borders. 



But unfortunately a class of hunters — not sportsmen, 

 but pot-hunters by descent and inheritance — who are 

 restrained by no laws or scruples as to the manner in 

 which game is to be taken, have also discovered that the 

 best hunting grounds are on the borders of the National 

 Park. The Crows on the east, the Shoshones on the 

 south and east, the Bannocks from Fort Hall and Lemhi 

 on the south and west, all send annually their hunting 

 parties into the region surrounding the Park for a win- 

 ter's supply of meat. Of all the various bands who have 

 raided the Park borders, those from the Fort Hall and 

 Lemhi reservations have been the most numerous and 

 active, and their operations have inflicted by far the most 

 serious injury upon the Park. Their encroachments 

 have been a standing cause of complaint to the Park au- 

 thorities for the past three years, but the control exercised 

 by the Indian Department over these Indians appears to 

 be of too slight a character to enable it to place any effec- 

 tive restraint upon then movements. The facts which I 

 desire to place before yom readers concerning the injuries 

 wrought by these Indians have been gathered during a 

 residence of several years in this section of the country, 

 and in frequent conversations with the Superintendent 

 and other officials of the Park, and can be relied upon as 

 entirely correct as far as the particulars are stated. 



During the month of September, 1886, when the Park 

 was thronged with visitors, a band of Bannock Indians, 

 whose numbers were variously estimated at from fifty to 

 one hundred, approached the Park from the west in such 

 warlike array as to give rise to much anxiety and excite- 

 ment among the tourists, causing many of them to 

 shorten their stay in the Park. Information of the raid 

 was promptly sent to the Department of the Interior at 

 Washington 'by the Superintendent of the Park and also 

 by gentlemen holding civil positions under the Govern- 

 ment, who at the time happened to be in the Park. The 

 Superintendent also sent a detachment of soldiers under 

 an officer to intercept the Indians and to endeavor to pre- 

 vent them from entering the Park. They were found 

 within the Park and were induced to move outside its 

 limits, but as soon as the officer and detachment had left 

 them, they started two forest fires within the Park, and 

 withdrawing into the mountains to the west, continued 

 then hunting operations, secure from interruption by the 

 troops, whose authority did not extend beyond the Park; 

 a fact with which they apparently were well acquainted. 

 While they were loading their bands of pack animals 

 with the slaughtered game, which had been driven from 

 its refuge in the Park by the fires started through their 

 deviltry, the Indian agents from Fort Hall and Lemhi, 

 where these Indians belonged, having received ordei's 

 from Washington to recall their Indians, came into the 

 Park, and, while ostensibly looking for their Indians, took 

 the opportunity to visit the Geyser Basins and other ob- 

 jects of interest in the Park, after which they returned 

 to their agencies. The fires started by the Indians at this 

 time in the Park continued to burn until they were ex- 

 tinguished by the snows of winter, destroying the timber 

 over a wide extent of country. It may be noted here, 

 that these Indians invariably make use of fire to facili- 

 tate their hunting operations. Having selected a suitable 

 location, fires are started at one or more points several 

 miles distant, by which the game is driven out, and is 

 thus more easily taken. It is a well-known fact among 

 old frontiersmen that an Indian hunting camp is never 

 found without forest fires in its vicinity. At the same 

 time that this large hunting party of Bannocks was oper- 

 ating in the country west of the Park, in September, 1886, 

 another large party from Fort Hall was hunting in the 

 country just south of the Park, near Jackson's Lake, and 

 gentlemen who saw them there are ready to testify that, 

 having started fires to keep the game within their reach, 

 they were slaughtering in such quantities as to have tons 

 of meat drying on their scaffolds. 



The hunting operations of these Bannock Indians dur- 

 ing the summer of 1887 were repetitions of those of the 

 previous season. During the month of August a large 

 party threatened to invade the western portion of the 

 Park. The Superintendent reported the situation to the 

 authorities at Washington, and an officer with a detach- 

 ment of soldiers was sent to intercept them. The Indians 

 again located themselves in the mountains west of the 

 Park, and continued their slaughter of game until they 

 had loaded their packs. The agent from Lemhi appeared 

 at the Geyser Basins and other places of interest in the 

 Park a little later, presumably in search of his Indians. 

 His search was probably unsuccessful, as he registered at 

 the hotel at Mammoth 'Hot Springs on Aug. 30, and de- 

 parted the next day via Cinnabar and the railroad. About 

 the middle of September following Mr. Ed. Wilson, the 

 Government scout, having with him two soldiers, encoun- 

 tered a party of Bannocks from Fort Hall with a large 

 number of pack animals, all loaded with dried meat, the 

 product of their summer's hunt neat* the southern border 

 of the Park; When Mv, Wilson htet them they were 



