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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Destitution in the Northwest. 



The Tobique River tragedy. 



An "AL Fresco" Fund. 



Concerning Guides. 

 This Sportsman Tourist. 



What Shall be tbe Outcome? 



Phases of Sport Abroad. 

 Natural History. 



On Serpents.— II. 



White Buffalo. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



The Wood chuck Creek Coun- 

 try. 



Old Memories. 



Tbe Connecticut Association. 

 Golden Plover. 

 Extraordinary Shooting. 

 Yellowstone Park Report. 

 Protector Drew. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 

 In the North Bay. 

 Lake Edward. 

 A Giant Trout. 



FlSHCULTURE. 



Co-operation In Fishculture. 

 The Kenned. 

 Buffalo. 



American Pet Dog Club. 

 The Two Dog Clubs. 

 Indiana Field Trials. 

 Richmond Dog Show. 

 London Dog Show. 



The Kennel. 



Dog and Skunk. 



Cocker Spaniels. 



American - English Beagle 

 Club. 



Distemper.-i. 



Dog Talk. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Canadian Wimbledon. 



Western Rifle Association. 



National Rifle Club. 



The Trap. 



41, Bandie's Tournament. 



The Keystone Tournament. 



The Tucker Pool System. 

 Canoeing. 



A. C. A. Regatta Committee's 

 Report. 



Use and Abuse of Canoes. 



Arlington C. C. Fall Regatta. 



New York C. C. Challenge Cup 

 Race. 

 Yachting. 



White Wings. 



A Handy River Launch. 



St. Lawrence Club Cup Races. 



Galatea's Keel. 



Corinthian Y. C, Marblehead. 

 Voyage of the Minerva. 

 Racing Notes. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



DESTITUTION IN THE NORTHWEST. 



IN February last we spoke of the famine which was 

 then causing suffering and death among the Indians 

 of the Athabaska, Peace River and Mackenzie River dis- 

 tricts of the extreme Northwest. 



Our authority for the statements made at that time 

 was Mr. S. Cunningham, of Edmonton, a member of 

 the Northwest Council, and the information given by 

 him was confirmed by the Rev. Mr. Spendlove, a Protest- 

 ant missionary, who for nine years has resided in the 

 Mackenzie River region. 



More recent reports, received from Father Ledoursal, 

 a Roman Catholic priest in the northern part of the 

 Northwest Territories, indicate that this sad state of things 

 still continues, and that all through the winter, spring 

 and summer, the Indians have been dying of starvation. 

 The crops last year were a failure and yielded nothing. 

 The hunting season was likewise a failure, and the Indians, 

 not securing enough deer or smaller game to keep them 

 alive, were forced to eat, first their skins and furs, and 

 then one after another their dog harnesses and their dogs. 

 When these were gone, they began to struggle back to- 

 ward the settlements in the hope that there they might 

 find some, help, but on the road many a one dropped by 

 the wayside and died. At the settlements they were 

 scarcely better off, for the people were themselves too 

 ill provided to help them, and the wretched Indians 

 fought with the dogs for the garbage thrown out. 



This summer things are no better. Up to the middle 

 of June the weather was very cold, the temperature some- 

 times falling to zero. Besides, the spring and summer 

 were very wet, with almost constant snow and rain, and 

 much of the Athabaska region, always swampy, was over- 

 flowed, and its crops again destroyed. 



A more hopeless condition of things for the Indians 

 who inhabit this bleak region can hardly be imagined. 

 They are beyond the reach of help from civilization, and 



the products of the country — scanty enough at the best 

 of times— have failed them now for two successive years. 

 Even those white settlers who are well to do have barely 

 enough for their own wants and are in no position to as- 

 sist their neighbors, and the provisions and cattle at the 

 missions have nearly all been eaten up. 



It almost seems as if these Indians must inevitably 

 perish. 



THE TOBIQUE RIVER TRAGEDY. 



I^HE Tobique River, which is sixty miles long from the 

 St. John to Nictaux, its Forks, has no railway com- 

 munication but at the mouth, hence settlers are isolated. 

 It is populated by about the same class of persons as 

 those who occupy back settlements in Maine and New 

 Brunswick, whose situation, circumstances and dispo- 

 sitions are about the same. The inhabitants of the 

 Tobique on the whole are a peaceable, inoffensive people 

 — farmers, trusting to the lumber business for their means 

 of subsistence rather than to the soil. This class of peo- 

 ple anywhere is not so orderly and well-behaved as a 

 farming population. Those who do attend to farming 

 are fairly prosperous. There need be no want of food 

 among any of the settlers on the Tobique, the land on 

 that river being eminently fertile. It is a beautiful 

 stream of clear rapid water, running over a gravelly bot- 

 tom; it has its sources on the high Crystalline Hills, which 

 divide the waters running into the St. John from those 

 which empty into the Bay of Chaleur. 



There may be, and probably is, an ill feeling against 

 persons leasing fishing rights on the Tobique. Such ill 

 feeling, however, would be found among those who have 

 been violating the fishery regulations of the Dominion 

 of Canada, which have never been properly enforced by 

 the Canadian Department of Fisheries. Had such been 

 the case there would never have been any trouble, as 

 poachers would have been taught by this time to respect 

 the laws. Among the farming and respectable people 

 on the river there is no ill feeling against the purchasers 

 of fishing rights. 



The parties implicated in the Tobique murder were 

 William Day, a man who has not a good reputation even 

 among his neighbors; he is a man of such character that 

 when young people take his advice or associate with him 

 they invariably get into trouble; he is an idler, who oc- 

 casionally^ works in the woods, hunts and fishes; his age 

 is about 40. The other two young men have been inti- 

 mate associates of his, hunting with him, poaching in his 

 company and generally ill-advised by him. Trafton may 

 be 22 years of age; Phillipine probably about the same. 

 The latter has been on Tobique only about two years. 

 Had they been under better influences than those of Day, 

 there is no doubt that they would now not be in the posi- 

 tion they are in. Day has been the evil counselor; and 

 these two the weak instruments by which his ill advice 

 has been carried out. Day is an evil plotter, one who 

 takes care to keep himself out of the results of his plots, 

 leaving to others the carrying of them out. 



There is no fear of any further trouble to fishermen 

 and sportsmen visiting the Tobique. All the people on 

 the river look with horror on the late terrible tragedy. It 

 was very unfortunate that one of Major Howes' party 

 discharged a gun to' terrify the poachers the evening be- 

 fore the murder. This seems to have been the means of 

 bringing out all their bad passions. 



CONCERNING GUIDES. 



FROM Sweetwater county, Wyoming, comes a grue- 

 some tale that two young Eastern men who had set 

 out from Rock Springs, on a hunting expedition, with a 

 guide and outfit of horses and mules, have been found 

 dead, murdered by the guide, who stripped the victims 

 of money and valuables and fled with the horses and 

 mules. A clue to the identity of the murdered men is 

 alleged to have been worked out by a ranchman who 

 found in another camp fifteen miles from where the mur- 

 der occurred a letter all torn to pieces which he put 

 together again. 



While it is perfectly credible that all this happened in 

 Sweetwater county, as reported, the probabilities are 

 strongly against the presumption that the two men were 

 murdered by a guide. If they were murdered , and if the 

 murderer shall be brought to bay, in all probability he 

 will ton out to be not a guide in any true sense of the 

 term, but one of those hangers-on encountered in certain 

 parts of the West, who are ever ready to play the tender- 



foot for whatever he may be worth, seeking to rob him 

 by swindling rather than by recourse to actual violence. 

 They pose as guides, but their entire service in this capa- 

 city is a huge swindle, as they know perfectly well from 

 the beginning, and as the tenderfoot gradually finds out 

 for himself. These fellows have their counterpart in the 

 popular resorts of the East, particularly in the Adiron- 

 dacks, where, however, this swindling is conducted on a 

 much smaller scale with individual tenderfeet, because 

 the victims are more numerous, and so soon as one has 

 been fleeced another takes his place. 



This Wyoming murder (if it occurred) must not be 

 charged to the account of the Western guides, unless it 

 shall be shown that the murderer actually was a guide. 

 A few years ago there was a great stir about an Adiron- 

 dack case, when it was stated that a woman traveling- 

 alone with a "guide" had been subjected to indignity; 

 but it was very quickly shown that the so-called guide 

 was not a guide at all, but a renegade from justice who 

 had fled to the North Woods, taken up the employment 

 of boatman, and like sundry other North Woods boatmen 

 had been dubbed guide, because he could pull a boat, put 

 bait on to a hook, or hold a deer by the tail while the 

 sportsman shot or clubbed it. 



Your true guide, the man who has information about 

 the country, knows the ways of game and fish, and on an 

 honest basis exchanges his woodcraft for your green- 

 backs, is of different texture. The experience of thous- 

 ands of sportsmen every year demonstrates that in camp 

 with these men in the woods one is as safe as in his own 

 home circle; in fact, the chances of being slugged to 

 death by a burglar, while asleep at home in one's bed, are 

 as ten to one of being murdered by a guide in camp. 



AN "AL FRESCO" FUND. 



READERS of the Forest and Stream are presumably 

 familiar with the distressing condition of Jackson- 

 ville, Fla. Unable longer to contend against the plague 

 unaided, the city has sent up a cry for help. The wires 

 flashed over the country last week this appeal; 

 To our Friends and Fellow Citizens of the United States: 



We, the authorized representatives of the city of Jacksonville, 

 recognizing the fact that the epidemic has now reached such a 

 stage that our own funds are insufficient either to cope with the 

 many cases of absolute necessity for the engagement of nurses or 

 for numerous other demands upon us; and whereas, in the ab- 

 sence of all business, many of our able citizens are unable to 

 furnish further funds, we now think we are justified in accepting 

 the many willing offers of aid that have been received from you. 

 We therefore wish our fellow citizens of the United States to 

 know that we will gratefully receive the aid tbey have offered, 

 and that any contributions will be used for the benefit of those 

 in need, and where it will do the most good. We request tnat any 

 such contributions may be forwarded to James M. Schumacher, 

 President of the First National Bank and Chairman of our 

 Finance Committee. 



Neal Mitchell, President of Duval County Board of Health; D. 

 T. Geron, Acting Mayor; P. McQuaid, Acting President of Citi- 

 zens' Auxiliary Association. 



One of the physicians who have stuck to their posts in 

 Jacksonville, and are doing their duty there— and what 

 a heroic word is that simple word duty— amid the pesti- 

 lence, is the President of the City Board of Health, Dr. 

 C. J. Ken worthy, the "Al Fresco" of the Forest and 

 Stream, whose writings in our columns have for years 

 charmed the readers, and whose personal courtesies to 

 sportsmen visiting Florida have been innumerable. It 

 was once laughingly said by an angler, whom Dr. Ken- 

 worthy had directed to fishing waters, that "Al Fresco" 

 resented the notion of any Northern man fishing in 

 Florida unless he had first directed him where to go. 

 One thing is sure, in the hearts of Northern sportsmen 

 and anglers Dr. Kenworthy holds a very warm platee. 



We print Jacksonville's appeal as coming from "Al 

 Fresco." Because it comes from him it ought to meet 

 with a generous response, not only from those who have 

 visited Jacksonville, but from all whose hearts and purses 

 may be reached by this urgent cry for help. 



It is proposed that contributions which maybe made in 

 response to this note shall be known as the Al Fresco 

 Fund, in Dr. Kenworthy's honor. Money may be sent in 

 care of the Forest and Stream; but better, when prac- 

 ticable, and so more quickly, to Chairman Schumacher. 

 We shall be glad to receive memoranda of any sums so 

 forwarded, in order that they may be recorded as a part 

 of the Al Fresco Fund, 



The List of Five Hundred Entries at Buffalo is a 

 most decided victory for fair play. 



