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fco bay, he died, a true game animal to the last. Talk of 

 sport, one hunt like that was worth an age of deer hunt- 

 ing at its best, and ought not to be named on the same 

 page with deer dogging or jacking. 



Bruin's capture requires on the part of the sportsman 

 the hardest of work, the best knowledge of woodcraft, 

 lots of endurance, and to insure success, well trained 

 dogs. If successful and when in at the death he will have 

 do qualms of conscience (as perhaps might be the case 

 v^ien a dying deer cast a last appealing look at him), for 

 bis bearship's last act will probably be a vicious cuff that 

 augurs no good to any dog within reach of that powerful 

 iimb. Living or dying he is game, and shall he not be 

 protected as such in the proper seasons? 



Brother bear hunters, let us hear from you. 



Urstjs A. 



TWO BEARS WITH ONE BALL. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Recently seeing an item in a local paper stating that a 

 sear hunter near Canon City, about fifty miles west of 

 ;his place, had performed the marvelous feat of killing 

 two bears at one shot, I wrote to him to get the particulars 

 >f this extraordinary affair, and in due course of time re- 

 3eived the following letter: 



Oa^on City, Col., Sept. 20.— I received your note of 

 nquiry on the 18dh. The item you refer to is correct, 

 Inasmuch as I killed two bears at one shot. One was a 

 alack, the other a brown bear. They were standing 

 aroadside, one beyond the other, at about 100yds. dis- 

 :ance. The ball passed through the shoulders of the first 

 me and broke the back of the second. The black bear 

 p^as full grown, weighing probably about 3001bs. The 

 arown one was about half grown , likely a yearling. I 

 ised a single shot Winchester, .45 70 caliber. 



I was out looking for bear and came across four feed- 

 ng on acorns, two standing as described. I killed two 

 it one shot, and one of the other two, running, at about 

 .50yds. distance, at a second shot. 



I may add that I have killed six bears in the last two 

 ^eeks at seven shots. Yours respectfully, A. S. Sage. 



Mr. Sage says he killed the two bears at one shot. Now 

 t bear is rather tenacious of life, and one shot through 

 he shoulder, or one with a broken back is not necessarily 

 tilled, though possibly fatally injured. I am sorry Mr. 

 •age did not state more explicitly whether or not the 

 nimals were instantly killed or whether he finished the 

 ob with an axe or some other weapon. 



However, the feat was a remarkable and an uncommon 

 me, and will take rank with any I have read of for 

 ome time. Tenderfoot. 



Pueblo, Colorado; 



OHIO DEER HUNTERS. 



AYTON, Ohio, Oct. 20.— Five parties of deer hunters 

 have already left this city upon their regular 

 ual expeditions into the wilds of the West and North- 

 vest. Philip Kern, Julius Wehner, Edward Schwind 

 ind Louis Schwind are in the pine Avoods near Iron 

 Mountain, Michigan. 



Harvey Puterbaugh , Edward Stuck, John Puterbaugh, 

 jouis G-roneweg and Jacob Puterbaugh are camping in 

 ''orest county, Michigan. 



S. S. McKinney, John Franz, Frank Volker, Sabin 

 Statler and Levi Falknor, of Piqua, and John F. Beaver, 

 if Dayton, with Phil Leidigh, Eli Stayrook, Frank Griffin, 

 W. B. Chichestry , William R. Nivin, Charles L. Robb and 

 ra Brown have gone to Montana to shoot bear, deer, 

 noose and elk, and will not be home until December. 

 There are sixty hunters in the party. They have chartered 

 iwo cars, and will camp on the banks of Lake St. Marys, 

 Montana. 



James Burnett, Joseph Eadress, Jr., W. D. Emerick, 

 Jacob Fudge, Samuel Browsman and George Coleman 

 :orm a Germantown party that has gone for three weeks' 

 leer hunting in the Upper Michigan peninsula. 

 s'Xenia sent three large parties to the wilderness west of 

 Goodwood, Michigan. The old Greenville deer hunters 

 lave divided into two parties and are in camp near Flood- 

 tvood, Michigan. Camp No. 1, D. S. Heirn, J. H. 

 Schwable, Charles Johns, James Knick, Daniel Snyder 

 md Frank Culbertson. Camp No. 2, Dr. A. J. Marling, 

 aarrod Mills, S. A. Hostetter, J. N. Lowry, Oscar David- 

 ion and S. N. Wilson. 



Fred Huber, William Ten Eyck, Levi Gluck, Samuel 

 Jarver and John "Von Kopf , of Tippecanoe, have gone to 

 3 ike county, Wisconsin. 



Oct. 20— -If the same conditions prevail in the Scioto 

 falley as here on the Miami, quail will be as scarce when 

 he season opens as they were last year, and farmers will 

 >e again unjustly blamed for the slaughter. People, 

 rowever, are getting their eyes opened to the facts, and 

 i sensation will develop when it becomes generally 

 mown that town hunters, men of respectability who go 

 rat ostensibly to shoot rabbits and doves are really after 

 mail, and take pot shots wherever they can get them, as 

 >eing less liable to detection than if they shoot the birds 

 n the air. 



This being true, then it is not the protective game law 

 ;hat is to be credited with the remarkable increase in 

 lumbers of quail through Ohio and Indiana, but rather 

 ;he mild weather of last winter. The birds had not been 

 shot at until within the past three or four weeks, but now 

 ire being slaughtered without restraint. Less than a 

 nonth ago the coveys were large, twenty to thirty quail 

 n each, aud very tame. Now they are growing wild 

 md coveys are not found with over twelve to sixteen 

 [uail. Country papers are cautioning farmers against 

 participating in this illegal shooting, but the danger is 

 .hat farmers will see no other way of getting a share of 

 ihe game, and the quail will thus be depleted. We have 

 io efficient gaoie wardens in this vicinity. Brown. 



New Hampshire Woodcock.— A party at Newport, 

 S". H., during the six days ending Oct. 11 killed seventy 

 oirds, chiefly woodcock and partridges (ruffed grouse;. 

 They stopped at the hotel and drove from one to ten 

 miles to reach the covers.— T. H. B. 



Massachusetts Birds. —The October gales have 

 Drought some good flights of shore birds, and Boston 

 gunners have been after thetn. But the report is that 

 they are wilder than ever this year and very hard to 

 approach. In their nights they steer far away from 

 boats or blinds. George T. Freeman, of Harrington & 



Freeman, has been down to Annisquam after ducks, 

 with fair success. The quail hunters are generally dis- 

 appointed in this State. The restocking has given more 

 birds, but they have all along been too small to shoot. 

 Whether the broods from the birds put out by the Fish 

 and Game Protective Association have been later than 

 the native birds, it is hard to tell. But it is certain that 

 the open season beginning Sept. 15 is altogether too 

 early for quail, and even the market hunters are not 

 pleased with it. One sportsman, and a true friend of 

 game protection, says that soon after the open season 

 begun he made a trip to the Cape, with a view to quail 

 shooting. He hired a team and drove along one of those 

 well-known sandy roads that run through the woods. A 

 bevy of quail was started, when behold the little chickens 

 were so young and small that one of them actually got 

 tumbled into a wheel rut in the sand and could not get 

 out. Some of these little quail were obtained and the 

 skins were mounted, and they will be presented before 

 the Legislature this winter as conclusive evidence of the 

 faulty condition of a law that allows of the hunting of 

 birds so young. — Special. 



Kentucky Quail.— Shelby County, Ky., Oct. 9.— The 

 happy results of the efforts of the Kentucky Fish and 

 Game Club are to be seen already in this county in the 

 increase of the number of quail. There is so little forest 

 here that pheasants, turkey, deer and the like are almost 

 unknown, but there is a great abundance of quail; and if 

 the pot-hunters (mostly negroes) are kept from their 

 nefarious work there will be plenty of shooting for the 

 sportsman. Of course. there are any quantities of hares, 

 but they are so heavy to carry, and are such dry eating 

 that but few sportsmen will shoot them. There are a 

 vast number of negroes about the towns who don't work 

 in winter and who hunt for "meat," and scour the 

 country and shoot everything they see larger than a 

 sparrow. These create a nuisance, and often cause the 

 true sportsman to be forbidden the privilege of shooting 

 on farms. A man could have fine sport in either of two 

 ways; he could make a good bag of quail, or by having 

 two or three beagles to start and trail hares he could kill 

 a brace of dozen in a few hours, and a hare properly 

 cooked and served is not to be "sneezed at." No fishing 

 or fox hunting here to any amount, — J. S. M. 



Columbus Sportsmen's Luck.— Columbus, O.— "Judge 

 Frank F. Huffman, Dr. Elmer Potter, Capt. Wm. F. 

 Burdell, Maj. J. L. Rodgers, Col. C. D. Hinman and Col. 

 Horace Park started on the 20 th ult. for the Rosseau 

 country, near the Lake of the Woods, Minn., where moose, 

 caribou, elk, deer and bear are reported plenty. That 

 country is also the home of ducks, geese, brant and swan. 

 The fishing, too, is reported the very best. The party 

 expect to stay about six weeks. We hope to have the 

 opportunity of publishing a full account of the trip on 

 the return of the party." The above is from a Columbus, 

 O., paper. The parties have just returned from the tire- 

 some trip (being absent but three weeks) much disap- 

 pointed. They did not see a live moose, caribou, elk, 

 deer or bear while they were away. They had good 

 duck shooting and bass fishing, that's all. There is a 

 vast amount of delusion in this going "away off " for 

 sport when one can often do as well near home. Those 

 remaining here had nearly as much success with ducks 

 and bass within thirty miles of Columbus. I am too much 

 disabled to get out.— M. P. P. 



Quail in Town.— Zanesville, O., Oct. 18.— I was sur- 

 prised yesterday, while sitting in my office, to hear quail 

 calling one another in the center of the city. This was 

 about noon. At 4 o'clock I went out for a walk and 

 found that a whole covey was scattered over the city, in 

 flower gardens, trees and on tops of houses, Friday, 

 while driving through Mclntire Park, in the city, I saw 

 a covey of quail running around, apparently as tame as 

 chickens. The reason they are so tame is that they are 

 well protected, nearly all the farms are posted, the law 

 being in force up to Nov. 10. We have only thirty-five 

 days shooting in this part of the State. We expect good 

 quail shooting this season, but only those who have privi- 

 leges to hunt on farms will enjoy the best shooting. I 

 have an invitation for the opening day and I am getting 

 my Irish setter Toby Glencho in trim for this occasion. 

 He has not been in the field for two seasons, but when he 

 sees a gun he nearly goes crazy. — F. V. R. 



The Curious Antlers mentioned by a Whitesboro', 

 N. Y., correspondent in our last issue maybe seen at a 

 taxidermist's shop on Fayette street, Utica. 



Our readers who enjov (he sport of duck shooting will rind an 

 offer of importance to them in our advertising columns to-day. 

 A half interest in a celebrated shore is offered by tne owner for 

 sale for the sake of company. The flight at this point is said to 

 be excellent, and it is an opportunity that seldom offers. See 

 advertisement of Geo. H. Wild.— Adv. 



"That reminds me." 



JIM, Bob, John and the writer were sitting around the 

 camp-fire one night when the subject of snakes came 

 up. Bob asked how many eggs we supposed an old 

 chicken snake could eat at one sitting. John said he 

 thought one setting would hardly make a lunch for a 

 good-sized chicken snake. Says Bob, "Do you know how 

 a chicken snake manages to break the shells after he has 

 swallowed a stomach full of eggs?" 



"I suppose the stomach dissolves the shells the same as 

 it digests other things." 



"Oh no," says Bob, "he goes to some hard piece of 

 ground— a road is a good place — and raises himself up 

 like a rainbow, just standing on his nose and tail, and 

 then strikes himself down on the ground until the shells 

 are broken." 



"Ah," says John, "I didn't know that before. Iam 

 glad to learn such an interesting fact in natural history." 



The next day was rainy and we were sitting in camp, 

 when we heard some one at a distance pounding heavily. 



"What do you suppose is making that noise?" said John. 



"Some one splitting rails," said Bob. 



"No," said John, "it's a chicken snake breaking a 

 stomach full of eggs." Lew Willoav, 



Arkansas. 



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m mjd Hjjkivqr fishing. 



SUNAPEE LAKE FISHING. 



'"pHE fishing, except for salmon, was not so good this 

 J. year in Sunapee Lake, New Hampshire, as in some 

 previous years. The number of fishing places is small. 

 As many as twenty-five boats have been anchored in one 

 string. Two large steamers and some smaller ones are 

 churning right over the fishing grounds, making six 

 round trips a day. The fish have undoubtedly moved be- 

 cause of these sources of noise and fright. 



Fully l,0001bs. of landlocked salmon were caught in 

 Sunapee Lake. Three hundred trout and salmon were 

 taken in May on. about two acres of fishing ground (Blod- 

 gett's Landing), the trout from 1 to olbs..the salmon from 

 5 to lOlbs. 



Some of the fishes found in Sunapee Lake are black 

 bass, pike-perch, yellow perch, sunfish, pickerel, suckers, 

 horn chub, dace, roach, catfish, eel, smelt, brook trout, 

 golden trout, Loch Leven trout, rainbow trout and land- 

 locked salmon. All of the Salmonidm, except the brook 

 trout and the golden trout, were introduced, as were also 

 pike-perch, black bass and smelt. The roach was prob- 

 ably introduced as a bait fish. It is known at Sunapee 

 as the "grass fish," and we have seen only a single srjeci- 

 men from that locality. The sunfish or pumpkin seed is 

 called "flatfish" or "flat sides" at Sunapee and in some 

 other portions of New Hampshire. It is believed that the 

 pike-perch has died out. 



The smelt, which was introduced more than twenty 

 years ago, occassiona,lly reaches lOin. in length. It is 

 extremely abundant, and is often washed up on the east- 

 ern shore of Sunapee by strong winds. The young land- 

 locked salmon here is sometimes styled "tinker salmon," 

 from its resemblance to a small mackerel. The largest 

 landlocked salmon ever taken in Sunapee Lake, as far as 

 our knowledge goes, was caught July 21 by Mr. Walter 

 Aiken. It weighed 1-if-lbs , and fought over an hour. 



The introduction of smelt into New Hampshire lakes 

 has an important bearing upon the number and size of the 

 trout and salmon reared in them. The fish are usually 

 transported as fish, but Mr. Aiken established them in 

 Webster Lake by the novel method of taking the fertil- 

 ized eggs after they had been glued to stones in the 

 spawning brook. Stones with the eggs upon them were 

 placed in a little tributary of Webster Lake, and now the 

 waters are teeming with smelt. 



An Alligator Gar.— Mr. A. Turpe, of Brackettsville, 

 Texas, has sent to the National Museum a six-foot speci- 

 men of that interesting fish the alligator gar {Lepidos- 

 teus trishechus), which is not a bad rival in size of jaws 

 and teeth of the formidable reptile for which it is named. 

 The gar was "pearl green on the back and sides, the back 

 a shade darker, the belly white, head light green, under 

 jaw white, eyes black, with wide golden circle, two gol- 

 den shades in star shape." 



A Book. About Indians— The Forest and Stream will mail 

 free on application a descriptive circular of Mr. GrinneU's book , 

 "Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales," giving a table of contents 

 and specimen illustrations from the volume.— Adv. 



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