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NEW YORK, JANUARY 15, 1891. 



f VOL. XXXV.-No. 26. 



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CONTENTS, 



Editorial. 

 Another Trap-Shooting Stim- 

 ulator. 



An Extraordinary Decision. 

 Snap Shots. 

 Sportsman Tourist. 

 Antoine Bissette's Letters.— v. 

 In the Region Round Nicato- 

 wis. 



Natural History. 



The Woodcock's Whistle. 

 Game Bag ahd Gun. 



Maine Deer. 



Memories of North Carolina. 



A Moose Hunt in Kibby Valley 



New System of Boring Shot- 

 guns. 



Adirondack Deer. 



Maine Game Interests. 



The New York Game Law. 



Rochester and Vicinity. 

 Ska and River Fishing. 



Trolling for Wall -Eyed Pike. 



The Wolf of the Waters.— II. 



My First Black Bass. 



Angling Notes. 



Chicago and the West. 

 Ftshculture. 



New York Fishculture. 



Fisnes Recently Acclimated in 

 France. 



Connecticut Shad. 



The Kennel. 

 Cocker Spaniels of 1890. 

 With the Beagles. 

 Bench Shows and Judging. 

 Philadelphia Kennel Club 



Meeting. 

 Notes and Notions. 

 Dog Chat. 



Bulldog Club Specials. 



The Flour City Kennels. 



Mi-. Brailsford Reviews the 

 Field Trials. 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



National Rifle Association. 



The Trap. 



Mercer Gun Club. 



Chicago Trap Shooters. 

 Yachting. 



The America's Cup. 



A Corinthian Cruise on Pacific 

 Waters.— ii. 



Quaker City Y. C. 

 Canoeing. 



A Canoe Cruise Down the 

 Susquehanna. 



Amateur and Professional. 



Canoeing in England. 



A Prize for Hoisting Sails. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



AN EXTRAORDINARY DECISION. 



A DECISION has just been rendered by the Supreme 

 Court of Pennsylvania, which is a surprise to all 

 who are familiar with game legislation and previous 

 rulings of the courts. The Pennsylvania law, act of June 

 3, 1878, as amended April 25, 1889, prescribes: "No per- 

 son shall kill or expose for sale, or have in his or her 

 possession after the same has been killed, any quail or 

 Virginia partridge, between the fifteenth day of December 

 in any year and the first day of November next follow- 

 ing, under a penalty of ten dollars for each bird so killed, 

 exposed for sale or had in possession." 



This has been held to mean that no quail could law- 

 fully be had in possession in the prohibited period with- 

 out regard to whether the birds have been killed in the 

 State or without. Under this law, in the Allegheny 

 county case of the Commonwealth against Wilkinson, 

 for having quail in his possession and offering them f or 

 sale out of season, the defendant was found guilty, the 

 jury, however, finding in a special verdict that the quail 

 which had been offered for sale had been killed in another 

 State and at a time when it was lawful to kill them. 

 The case was carried to the Supreme Court, and it has 

 just delivered an opinion reversing the finding of the 

 lower court, on the ground that the law applies only to 

 game killed within the State. The Chief Justice says: 

 •'The law was not intended to have any extra territorial 

 effect, or, if it was, it would be nugatory. After pro- 

 hibiting the killing of quail the act further provides 'or 

 have in his or her possession after the same has been killed.' 

 The word 'same' clearly refers to the antecedent game, 

 the killing of which is already prohibited. The meaning 

 of the act, as we view it, is that no quail shall be killed 

 in this State between the dates specified. The construc- 



tion claimed for the act by the Commonwealth would 

 render any one a criminal who lawfully killed game in 

 another State and brought it with him for his own use." 



The intent of the Legislature was unquestionably to 

 prohibit the entire sale of quail in the close season, 

 whether the game was killed in Pennsylvania or else- 

 where. The wording of the statute is similar to the texts 

 of the laws of other States, where it has uniformly been 

 held that sale is absolutely prohibited without regard to 

 the source of supply. As a matter of fact, this decision is, 

 we believe, quite novel in its contention that a State law 

 cannot apply to game removed from beyond its territorial 

 limits. Came laws would not be effective if a close 

 season did not mean close for all game, wherever it comes 

 from. 



Just as we go to press we are in receipt of the following 

 from the Duquesne Kennel Club, of Pittsburgh: 



At a meeting of the Duquesne Kennel Club, Monday, the 12th 

 inst., the following resolutions were unanimously adopted: 



Wltereas, Under the decision of the Supreme Court, in the case 

 of The Commonwealth vs. Wilkiuson, the existing laws are de- 

 clared to prohibit only the possession and sale of game killed 

 within this State; and 



Whereas, It is believed that it was the intention and purpose of 

 the promoter of the passage of said acts to absolutely prevent the 

 killing of game in this State within the time specified; and 



Whereas, The construction of said acts permitting the possession 

 and sale of game shipped from other States gives such oppor- 

 tunity for evasion as to render said State acts futile; it is 



Resolved, That the Duquesne Kennel Club use every honorable 

 means in their power to procure the passage of such laws as will 

 fully protect all game within this State. 



A special resolution was unanimously passed by the club com- 

 mending John W. Hague, Esq., for his zeal and efficacy in enforc- 

 ing the game laws. S. L. BOGGS, Pres. D.K.C. 



W. E. Littell, Sec'y D.K.C. 



ANOTHER TBAP- SHOOTING STIMULATOR. 



IT cannot be said that the American Shooting Associa- 

 tion has done all that its projectors anticipated for 

 it. Tliis combination of manufacturers and dealers set 

 out to stimulate the sport of trap-shooting by providing 

 uniformity of rules, classification of shooters, and compe- 

 tent management of tournaments. While it has done a 

 good work in classifying shooters according to their skill, 

 and thus providing some chance for amateur shots to par- 

 ticipate in tournaments and yet not sacrifice everything 

 to the experts, the expenses of operation have been out of 

 proportion to the benefits gained by the men who put up 

 the money. We have had no formal notice that the as- 

 sociation is dead, but the probabilities are that it will not 

 be heard of in the future as a potent factor in trap-shoot- 

 ing interests, 



A new scheme is being put through by Mr. Penrose 

 of the Keystones. His plan is to form an association of 

 manufacturers, dealers and others who may be interested, 

 the association to guarantee certain sums to be distrib- 

 uted as prizes at semi-monthly tournaments, to provide a 

 manager to conduct the tournaments, to assume the 

 financial responsibility of the meetings, pocket the losses, 

 or turn over any profits to the clubs for whose benefit the 

 shoots are given. The operation of this plan will call for 

 a less expenditure than was required under the American 

 Association plan , and one thing in its favor is that local 

 clubs will have a chance to make a profit out of their 

 meetings — something they could not do under the other 

 control. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



THE death of Captain Wallace and of Lieut. Casey of 

 of the army, both of whom were killed by Sioux 

 not far from Pine Ridge, Dakota, will carry a feeling of 

 sadness to the heart of every army officer and of the 

 many friends of these two brave and good soldiers. 

 It was our good fortune to have known them both inti- 

 mately, and not since the Custer massacre have any 

 deaths occurred in Indian fighting which appealed to us 

 so melancholy. Both men were fine fellows and good 

 soldiers. Each was just entering the summer of his life 

 and had reached that point when they could do a man's 

 best work, both had served long on the plains and were 

 familiar with the ordinary dangers of Indian war. 



Mr. Casey was appointed to the U, S. Military Academy 

 in 1869, and after graduating went out on the plains where 

 he saw almost continuous service for many years. He 

 was a good scout and prairie man, his capabilities in this 

 direction being testified to by many officers, Indians and 

 scouts. About a year ago he undertook the task of or- 

 ganizing a company of Cheyenne scouts from those at the 

 Tongue River Agency, and his energy, enthusiasm and 



knowledge of Indian chaxacter were such that he soon 

 made this organization a body of well drilled, soldierly 

 and hard working Indians. Last summer they cut and 

 hauled logs for their own barracks, and built a set of 

 comfortable quarters of which white men might have 

 been proud. It is but a few months since we spent sev- 

 eral days in the camp of Mr. Casey's scouts, and were 

 deeply interested in the important work that he had 

 accomplished. 



We first knew Captain Wallace as a second lieutenant 

 in the Seventh Cavalry in the year 1874, during the ex- 

 pedition to the Blfick Hills, then an unknown region. On 

 this expedition he had charge of a large body of Indian 

 scouts, which served with the troops, and he managed 

 these men with good judgment. The death in 1876 of 

 a large number of the officers of the Seventh Cavalry 

 rendered his promotion more rapid than is usually the 

 case in the army, and some years ago he attained his cap- 

 taincy. No feature of these so-called Indian uprisings is 

 more deplorable than the fact that men like Casey and 

 Wallace must be sacrificed to the irresponsibility of Con- 

 gress and the bad system of the Indian Department. 



What should be the end of the Drew affair has now 

 been reached. At their meeting last Thursday, the Com- 

 missioners dismissed that officer from the service for 

 neglect of duty. We understand that the new fish and 

 game protector for the Tenth District will be Edward 

 Hawn, who as a deputy warden, in the employ of the 

 Onondaga Anglers' Association of Syracuse, has made an 

 excellent record. In our issue of Dec. 4 we quoted from 

 the Syracuse Times a report of the work accomplished 

 by the Onondaga Association in their fight against the 

 illegal netters of Oneida Lake. From that report, as well 

 as from letters we have received from Syracuse anglers, 

 it is learned that to Mr. Hawn is chiefly due the credit for 

 the success of the campaign. He is the man who has done 

 most of the work ; and with him in active service have 

 been associated Deputies Crownheart and Shackleton. For 

 what they have done Protector Drew had the credit, 

 simply because he assumed it. There is reason to believe 

 that the Commissioners have in the past been deceived 

 with respect to Chief Protector Drew; they have been led 

 by his official reports to believe that he was doing work 

 in which, as a matter of fact, he had no active part. If 

 there is any proof that Protector Drew ever put his hand 

 to a net in Oneida Lake, or actually engaged in a raid on 

 those waters, it would make reading only less interesting 

 than Mr. John D. Collins's carefully concealed proof to 

 sustain his recent charges against the Commissioners. 



Capt. Healy, of the United States revenue cutter Bear, 

 has proposed a game importation scheme for Alaska. 

 The Esquimaux natives of the northwestern part of that 

 Territory depend very largely upon the deer for their 

 winter food; but the deer supply has been decreased to 

 such an extent that the natives' supply of meat has been 

 seriously affected. The project of Capt. Healy is this, 

 that the Government shall import some of the tame rein- 

 deer of Siberia, which are there herded by "deer men,'' 

 and shall put them out in regions of Alaska where the 

 character of the country and the food conditions will be 

 favorable. He also suggests bringing to Alaska some of 

 the Siberian herders, to teach the Esquimaux how to care 

 for the game. Such an undertaking might very well be 

 put through at slight cost, and Capt. Healy 's suggestions 

 are worthy of careful consideration. 



We are quite at a loss to understand why Jonathan 

 Darling should attempt to deny that he was fined for deer 

 hounding in Maine, as stated in the Book of the Game 

 Laws, when the Maine Supreme Court records are against 

 such a denial. 



They have great wildfowl shooting on the northwest 

 coast; and we have some interesting descriptions of days 

 with the ducks and geese from the pen of a Washington 

 contributor. The first one will be given next week. 



We would be glad to have information about desirable 

 shooting resorts in North Carolina and that part of the 

 South, a section of country to which many gunners look 

 for winter shooting. 



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