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NEW YORK, AUGUST 23, 1888. 



i VOL. XXXI.-No. 5. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



The Tragedy of the Tobique. 



"They All Do It." 



Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Early Days on the Missouri.- v. 

 Natural History. 



The Sciurida3.-i. 



Domestication of \\ ildf owl. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Breaking Camp. 



A Day ou Grand River. 



A Bunch of Bear Stories. 



A Camp Hunt in Arkansas. 



Shore Birds. 



In the Woods. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



A Night with a Bone Shark. 



A Michigan Stream. 



Chief of Small-mouth Bass. 



Large Maskinonge in Canada. 



Berkshire Trout Streams. 



Fly-Fishing at Lake Edward. 



Sunapee Lake. 

 Fishculture. 



Food of the Fishes of the 

 Mississippi Valley. 



Death of Seth Green. 



The Kennel. 



The National Dog Club. 



American Kennel Register. 



American Pet Dog Club. 



"Disgruntled Associates." 



The Two Dog Clubs. 



Our Boston Show Report. 



"A Bit of Kennel History." 



Coons. 



Dog Talk. 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Marksman Jourau. 



Range and GaUery. 



New York Shooting Ground. 



The Trap. 

 Yachting. 



A Cruise upon the Great 



Points of the New York Y. C. 

 Cruise. 



Corinthian Y. C, Marble- 

 head. 



Racing Notes. 

 Canoeing. 



A. C. A. Meet, Lake George. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



THE TRAGEDY OF THE TOBIQUE. 



WE have had occasion in times past to record atro- 

 cious crimes committed by depraved men whose 

 murderous instincts were fired by the acts of officials 

 charged with enforcing the game laws. There were the 

 members of the Shacker band in the town of Wesley, 

 Maine, who out of revenge fired houses and barns, poi- 

 soned cows and beheaded horses ; and again, the deer 

 doggers who murdered Game Warden Hill at Fletcher 

 Brook. These crimes of Maine's ruffian deer hunters 

 have now been eclipsed by that of New Brunswick's sal- 

 mon poachers. 



Much ill feeling has been engendered in New Bruns- 

 wick by the custom obtaining there of leasing salmon 

 and trout streams to parties who come from abroad. 

 Many local anglers, respectable citizens, feel that they 

 are deprived of their rights in such waters; and this feel- 

 ing is shared in an intense degree by that riff-raff element 

 of society which furnishes the salmon spearers, trout net- 

 ters, deer trappers and inveterate poachers and tres- 

 passers. 



One of the leased streams is the Tobique River; and 

 there has been bad blood between the lessees and the 

 poachers. This has now culminated in a startling trag- 

 edy. It is a sickening story. 



Among those who own fishing rights on the Tobique is 

 Major C. F. Howes, of Philadelphia. For a month Major 

 Howes and his wife have been salmon fishing on the 

 river. 



Last Saturday a number of men were detected engaged 

 in fishing on that part of the stream owned by Major 

 Howes. They were warned off, and after some alterca- 

 tion sullenly obeyed. That night the Philadelphia party 

 camped at Galquac. Sunday morning they started down 

 the river. There were in all ten persons, in three canoes. 

 At a point thirty miles from the mouth of the river the 

 canoes were fired upon by parties concealed in ambush 

 in the woods on the New Brunswick side, forty yards dis 

 tant. The fire was aimed at the leading canoe, in which 

 were Major Howes, his wife and two Indians. The third- 



shot struck Mrs. Howes in the head; she fell forward and 

 died instantly. The firing was continued upon the 

 second canoe, in which was Miss Howes; then the occu- 

 pants of the third canoe returned the fire, and the 

 assassins retreated. 



The accepted theory is that the murderers were the 

 poachers who had been driven off the day before. Diffi- 

 cult as it may be to accept the theory that out of revenge 

 for having been ejected from the salmon grounds these 

 depraved men should deliberately murder a woman, it is 

 perhaps the theory which must be accepted, for there is 

 no other to take its place. Suspicion rests strongly upon 

 two men in particular; and at latest report a sheriff's 

 posse was out in pursuit. 



'THEY ALL DO IT." 



THE officials of Lewis county, New York, are desirous 

 of learning the whereabouts of Dr. Alfred G. Bailey, 

 the young man of Cleveland, Ohio, who was arrested for 

 deer killing and escaped from the sheriff. It is reported 

 that the fugitive was piloted by the guide Mike Zimmer 

 through the devious windings of the wilderness and tor- 

 tuous trails over the line into Canada, where the Cleveland 

 doctor is now no doubt establishing a practice among the 

 members of the "American colony." This is certainly 

 "hard lines," and all the more rugged when we consider 

 the mitigating plea made by the doctor's father, that as 

 to killing deer out of season, "they all do it" at Low- 

 ville, and that his son, a medical student from 

 another State, should riot be punished for inno- 

 cently following the custom of the country. The 

 peculiarity of this plea is that while it does not soften 

 the exile of the young doctor it bears down rather hard 

 on Lowville. It is very similar to the plea of New York's 

 "boodle" aldermen, some of whom are now in the 

 "American colony" in Canada, and some in prison, they 

 sought to extenuate their crime by saying that it was 

 the custom to give and take bribes in New York. The 

 plea may have been based on truth; but what light it 

 sheds on a noisome atmosphere. If the Bailey pleading 

 that prominent and "respectable" citizens of Lowville 

 disregard the game laws and kill deer out of season be well 

 founded, what is the particular standard of decency ob- 

 served in that locality? 



SNAP SHOTS. 



A BUFFALO bull was killed by some Crow Indians 

 week before last within four miles of Billings, 

 Mont., on the south side of the Yellowstone River, and 

 a little band of five or six head is reported northeast of 

 the same place. It seems likely that these are almost the 

 last stragglers of the buffalo that have for years been 

 known to range on the heads of Porcupine and Dry 

 creeks, tributaries of the Musselshell. It was from these 

 that Mr. Hornaday secured his fine series of specimens 

 for the National Museum, and an occasional one has been 

 killed from time to time since then. By this time, how- 

 ever, they must be nearly or quite exterminated, and the 

 only ones to be found now in the United States— except 

 in the neighborhood of the National Park — are the few 

 stragglers in Texas, those left by Mr. Jones when he 

 returned from his raid into the Lone Star State after 

 living buffalo to increase his herd. 



A dispatch from Hamburg, Germany, announces that 

 thirteen crocodiles escaped last Monday from a steamer 

 in which they had been brought from Africa and took 

 refuge in the river Elbe. Great consternation is said to 

 be caused among the population living along the river 

 bank by the escape of these reptiles. This is a case of 

 involuntary introduction of exotic species which is quite 

 unusual in character, but it will do no greater harm than 

 to cause anxiety to the local population. The crocodiles 

 will live only a short time, but no doubt for years they 

 will continue to alarni the small boys and girls of the 

 Fatherland. We may expect before long to hear of the 

 killing of some of these saurians by German sportsmen, 

 who are likely to turn out en masse and watch the river 

 banks on the chance of getting a shot at a wild crocodile 

 in Germany. The glories of boar and rehbock shooting 

 will pale before this new attraction. 



A Connecticut canoeist set out on a bridal tour in a 

 canoe. Experienced canoejsts will agree with us that 

 unless the groom is a skillful paddler the couple will be 

 likely to have a falling out very early in the honey- 

 moon. 



Much satisfaction is expressed at the positive results of 

 the efforts of the Maine Commissioners in fostering the 

 fish and game supply. The success of their work has 

 been in many cases phenomenal. This season has seen 

 the biggest run of salmon in the Penobscot River for 

 years. Landlocked salmon planting in the lakes has 

 shown some specimens of rapid growth, perhaps unsur- 

 passed; for instance, in Wilson Pond in the town of Wil- 

 ton, a landlocked salmon of vlbs. weight was taken this 

 spring where the young fiy were planted only four years 

 ago. From Nicotous Lake landlocked salmon of 41bs. 

 were taken of four years' growth. The landlocked salmon 

 is also a marked success in Rangeley. In Webb's Pond, 

 in the town of Weld, fish of 11, 12 and even 141bs. have 

 been taken; this latter pond was planted some ten years 

 since. Deer are reported abundant from every quarter. 

 Caribou have shown themselves in almost every part of 

 the State, and frequently have been seen crossing the 

 railroad tracks. Although the Commissioners have not 

 the means afforded them to entirely suppress hounding 

 deer, enough has been done to more than triple the 

 amount of game, and to triumphantly demonstrate that 

 the suppression of that practice alone would abundantly 

 stock the Maine forests, even without further effort for 

 enforcement. 



From this time on until the early days of September 

 shore-bird shooting ought to be at its height. From Cape 

 Cod south all along to the "Capes" the birds are scattered. 

 They are nowhere found in such tremendous hordes as in 

 the olden time when we were young; but sometimes it is 

 possible to get a morning's shooting even now. The hard 

 storm of Tuesday last has probably caused a general 

 movement of the birds along the coast, and we shall look 

 for a report of some good bags. Although shore-bird 

 shooting seems to many men rather tame by comparison 

 with an upland tramp after quail and woodcook, the pur- 

 suit of the roaring ruffed grouse, or lying in a blind for 

 fowl; yet, as it comes at a season of the year when there 

 is no other shooting to be had, it is welcomed by the man 

 who wants to get his hand in for the shooting which the 

 cooler weather brings. 



Every one knows how hard it is to find a thoroughly 

 congenial companion for camp life. The days in camp 

 are severe in their tests of compatibility; if two persons 

 can agree in camp, they will find little difficulty in living 

 harmoniously elsewhere. The judge who presides over 

 the Superior Court of Sonoma county, California, appears 

 to have an appreciation of this quality of camping, for he 

 has permitted proceedings in a divorce suit before him 

 to be stayed on condition that the parties thereto go 

 camping out together. No further action will be taken 

 until they return. It is needless to say that if they live 

 in love and peace in camp, the divorce suit will be dis- 

 missed forthwith. 



Brooklyn's stray and unlicened dogs are taken to as 

 pound, and if unclaimed are drowned and sent to a Mas- 

 peth factory. Here the skins are removed, and the car- 

 casses are converted into fertilizers. The skins are sent 

 to an establishment on the Hudson River, where they are 

 tanned and then used in the manufacture of "kid" gloves. 

 Let not Miss Frivolity unduly bewail the pet pug wrested 

 from her arms by thieving dog catchers; for in due time 

 he will reappear to her, his grosser elements transmuted 

 into roses and lilies and gloves for the delicate hands 

 which once caressed his hide. 



Vineyard Sound, Buzzard's Bay and all eastern parts of 

 the Sound are filled with drift nets, to the extent of al- 

 most excluding troll fishing from sailboats. This causes 

 great loss to boat owners, and almost unvarying disap- 

 pointment to parties who hire the boats for bluefishing. 

 Now that the Massachusetts Fish Commissioners have a 

 constable for their express use, why do they not suppress 

 this crying evil? It has been brought to their notice time 

 and again. Mr. Brackett has all the law he needs on his 

 side, if he would only employ it. 



The New York Elevated Railway has the largest pas- 

 senger traffic of any railroad in the world; it carries 

 525,000 people daily. A rule of the company forbids dogs 

 in the cars. This is perfectly proper, even though the 

 popular apprehension of danger from the dogs be wholly 

 unfounded. Of the passengers some hundreds of thous- 

 ands presumably object to the company of dogs and their 

 feelings must of necessity be respected. 



