Oct. 1, im.] 



FOREST AND STREAM, 



IGUANA.— The new canoe ownert and u«eil by H. D. Murphy at 

 the mt^et has been purchased by H. M. M. Smnh, of Bo'^ton, wbo 

 sailed ihp Hornet at Lhemett, aud whohusjusi .loinef' I he A C. A. 

 Mr. Murphy goes atToad this month to Kiudy art, and will De 

 ab«eni f ' ir a couple of > ear. 



Canvas CanncM and hoiu to Build Them. By Parker B. Field. 

 Price 50 cents. Canoe and Boat Building. By W. P. Stephem. 

 Price ^2.00. The Came Aurora. By C. A. NeidS. Price $1. Canoe 

 Handling. By C. B Vaux. Price $1. Canoe and Catnera. By T. 

 S.Stf le. Price IMO. Four MnnthainaSveaTibox. By N. H. Bishop. 

 Price $1.60. Canoe, and Camv Coo'krry. Bu "Srneca.'^ Price $1. 



Ko Notice Taken of Anouymoas Oorrespondenta* 



Matchless, Chicago,— The side with the head. 



J. H. R.- Tbe New Jersey law allows squirrel shooting between 

 Sept. 14 and Dec. 10. 



Subscriber.— The Virginia law does not forbid taking quail out 

 of the Siatt; but exportation is forbidden by the West Virginia 

 statute. 



W- A. a., Cheparhet, R. I.— Is there any law now in forco In 

 Rhcde Island restricting black bass flsUng 1»n three days In eacb 

 week, or has thf re ever t'^en such a law in the Stale? Ans. No 

 such Jaw IS givf n in tbe Book of the Oame Laws. 



G. W. v.. New Yorl? City.— Will vou please let me 'know the 

 game law of A comae k county, Va., as relating to ducks and 

 geese, what months tbey may be shot in, and whether any rp- 

 Htrict^ons as to shooting samp on certain days only of ench wetk? 

 Ans. Wildfowl may not be killed between May 1 and Sept. ], nor 

 at any tlmt in the night, nor except from the land; nor at any 

 time by non-residents. 



CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 



CHICAGO, 111 , Sept, 24.— You can gpt prairie chicken 

 and piunes for 40 cents now at C. C. Wm. Mey erg's 

 restaurant on Madison street, or at least this elfg^ant dish 

 was obtainable there a few days ago, Mr. H, D. Ntcholls 

 and Mr. C. D. G imm- n have between them located eight 

 cases of prairie chicken and prunes at Mr. M'^yerd's place, 

 and Mr. Abner Price one cas<^, and Messrs. John Haskell 

 and Ed Goodrich and a Mr. Potter three cases more. 

 Game is being generally pold at the restaurants now, per- 

 haps on the representations of unsrcrupulous dealers. It 

 is unlawful to sell prairie chickens in Illinois until Oct. 1, 

 though they may be killed Sept. 15. 



President Price has had Scate Warden Buck in his em- 

 ploy for the past week, and the latter at last accounts had 

 located six cases on restaurants, including two on the 

 Washington street saloon restaurant kept oy one Fred- 

 ericks. 



There will be four of the second crop Rector ca''es tried 

 to-morrow morning, or rather they are set for trial then. 



Night before last Messrs. R. B. Organ, W. P. Mussey, 

 their friends Messrs. Haines and McPherson, and myself 

 visited the Stock Exchange restaurant, Monroe and Dear- 

 born streets, and located a whole broiled prairie chicken- 

 No prunes are served with game at thi-> place, which 

 should be held as an extenuating circumstance. I hope 

 the man Meyer, who serves illegal chicken and also prunes 

 will get it hard and heavy. 



Last evening Mr, A. H. Harryman and myself again 

 went to the Stock Exchange restaurant. This time the 

 waiter was approached in regard to some quail on toast, 

 as per bill of fare, and he declared the birds young and 

 very good, "We found two of them so. 



It is no trouble to get illegal game in the Chicago 

 restaurants. It i n'c much trouble to get the restaurants 

 fint d, either, and the boys are going to have some more 

 fun at this, a good deal of it, it would seem. 



Col. C. E. Felton made high bag of Mineola Club, at 

 Fox Lake, on opening day, 40 ducks. He is now absent 

 in Minnesota chickens shooting, 



Messrs. Place and Lapham had fair shooting at local 

 ducks on their Heron Lake, Minn,, trip, and also three 

 days of good chicken shooting. 



Dick Turtle and Sam Booth got 40 chickens last week 

 on a little hunt in Lee county, less than 80 miles from 



Chicago. The weather was very warm. The birds were 

 already taking to the corn and were banded. 



Messrs. John L, Jones and his f riend Mr. John Howley 

 made their annual trip this jear to Worthington, S, D., 

 and had good shooting at chickens and at local duck^^. 

 Hdnk TwiicheJl is a market hunter and good guide at 

 Worthington. He says there will be water and a good 

 flight of northern ducks in that region in October. 



The late torrid season has burned up the already dry 

 Njrth west, but to-day advices cjme that rain is fallint; 

 over the Dak-<tas and norlhern Minnesota. The latter 

 region has been visited by heavy furt'st fires, Duluth has 

 been enveloped in smoke for the past 36 Hours. Extensive 

 prairie fiies nave swept over South Dakota, cauuing the 

 loss of several lives. 



The fall season at Fox Lake has been poor. The 

 norihern birds are of course not down yet. Snipe very 

 few. The Kankakee country expects little snipe this fall. 

 The Illinois River valley is unu ually dry below Peoria, 



The Grand Rapids and Indiana and the Michigan 

 Central roads will make hunters' rates via Chicago, Mack- 

 inaw and St, Ignace to points in northern Michigan and 

 Wisconsin. Toe Chicago and Northwestern, Milwaukee 

 and St, Paul, WifOonsin Central, and Lake Shore and 

 Western roads have announced their intention to meet 

 the rates at once. 



State Game Warden Land, for Colorado, has lately 

 tried to capture the parties who lately killed iive buffalo 

 on the Kenosha range, but failed to do Colorado pro- 

 tects the buffalo absolutely till J900. Warden Land says: 

 "I judge that we have now in the State something less 

 than fifty buffalo, and these are in four bunches. One of 

 these has recently been seen in Middle Park and numbers 

 but five. Another, and possibly the largest, is in the 

 Kenosha range, and numbers possibly twenty. The 

 third, of ten or fifteen head, is at Hdhn's Pe-ik;, in Routt 

 county. Ttie fourth, and the smallest except that at 

 Middle Park, is at Dolores." 



Mr. W. W. Carney, late of Great Bend and Leaven- 

 worth, Kansas, and formerly owner of the Barton county 

 ranch, where the American Coursing Club held its run- 

 nings, will no longer De identified with the Middle West, 

 but with the Coast. He has gone to Portland, Ore., for 

 permanent residence. This U a good thing for Portland, 

 but bad for Kansap, where Mr, Carney was su generally 

 known and respected. 



Chicago sho -ters have enjoyed Mr, Townsend's spirited 

 sketches, ''Among the Wildfowl," but two or three have 

 called my attention to the fact that there is something 

 wrong with No. 3, issue of Sept. 17, '-Where Ignorance 

 is Bliss." The bird shown in the act of dropping into the 

 decoys is going the wrong way. Ducks always alight 

 against the wind, and the shooter puts out his decoys so 

 ti-at the wind blows against his back and toward the 

 decoys. The reasons for this are obvious to a shooter. 

 Mr. Townsend's fleet seems to point against the wind and 

 the duck is lighting against the wind, but to do this it 

 has had to croes directly over the blind. Tnis would 

 keep it out of sight while "making the draw," unless the 

 shooter moved his head, as many shooters would. Out 

 here we shoot with the wind blowing from blind to 

 decoys, whenever that is possible, as our ducks are no 

 longer ignorant and are apt to take a jump if they draw 

 in close over a boat or blind by mistake. With the wind 

 at back, the shooter has the whole beautiful picture of 

 the "draw" in front of him. It is very likely that artistic 

 reasons, however, influ^^nced the able artist in grouping 

 his figures thus and m taking advantage of the perspec- 

 tive, so as to have the canvasback in front. If Mr, Town- 

 ser d did not know as much about shooting as any of us 

 he could not make these pictures. 



It is bad news to say that State Warden F, L. Buck, 

 whose f ffective work for the State and for the Kankakee, 

 Fox. and latterly for the Illinois State Associations I have 

 taken such pleasure in recording, is to leave the work 

 altogether. He goes on the road for a hardware and tin 

 house. Warden Buck has not received his salary for 

 last April, he says, and he is not pleased with tbe fact 

 that the Fox River people aie making arrangements 



with a $45 a month warden to watch the ice fishing this 

 winter, lie is to be paid out of funds which Buck had 

 helped raise. Perhaps there is some misunderstanding 

 in all this. Certainly it is to be regretted we lose so 

 good a man. The Scate has no appropriation out of 

 which he can be paid. I should like to see the Fox and 

 Kankakee associations make up that April salary be- 

 tween them. I believe Mr, C )le wnuld favor this. 



Sept. £5— Mr. C. S. Burton U back from his shooting 

 trip to Dalton, Minn., and is downcast. He says he did 

 not get a dczen birds. The country was all dried up. 

 From the car window he saw in one field fourteen stacks 

 of wheat burning up in one of the prairie fires, the poor 

 farmer looking on helpless. 



Reports to-day are that rain is falling in the Northwest, 

 The tires at Ashland. Wis., are dying out. The Rat River 

 Marsh, near Medina Junction, Wis, was burning all day 

 yesterday. A heavy fire has raged along the Wolf River 

 country. Seven deaths in the fires are reported from 

 Minnesota and Wiscimsin. Below us the heat is intense. 

 A fire on the Kankakee marshes now would mean that 

 the bog and peat would burn down five feet deep, utterly 

 destroying all duck feed, as was once the case at Cum- 

 berland Lodge. E. Hough. 



An Incident op Deer Stalking. — London, Sept. 20.— 

 Thos. Fieiden, member of Paibamtnt for the Middlecon 

 Division of Lancashire, while deer stalking on Saturday 

 in the mountains of Scotland , was resting on a crag at 

 the summit of a mountain when he lost his balance and 

 fell backward over a precipice. Gamekeeper Eraser 

 sprang forward, and at great risk of being pulled over the 

 chff himself caught the vanishing bagstrap of the falling 

 man and checked his descent so that he swung upon a 

 rocky ledge 20ft. below. But for this hewtuld have 

 fallen to the bottom of the ra,vine, a distance of 1.000ft, 

 Fielden had been made insensible by the fall and contact 

 with the rocks. Eraser was obliged to hold fast to the 

 unconscious man and c >uld not leave him to summon 

 help. He shouted and fired his gun to attract the atten- 

 tion of Mr. Banner and others who were hunting with 

 Mr. Fielden. It was an hour before Banner and his 

 p^rty, who had heard the gun and were trying to locate 

 the point where it was fired, caught sight with their 

 glasses of their unfortunate companion. They sent their 

 eillies to fetch appliances for ihe rescue and care of the 

 injured man and themselves hastened lo the spot. It ^as 

 six hours from the time of the accidtnt bf-fore the res- 

 cuers arrived The six men in the party then managed 

 to raise Mr, Fielden, and he was carried on a stretcher to 

 G.endoll Lodge, Mr, Banner's place, where medical care 

 was procured. Mr. Field en's ribs were broken and his 

 ankle spra'ned and he also sustained severe scalp wounds, 

 but his injuries will probably m t prove fatal. Mr. Ftel- 

 den unquestionably owes his life to Ga,mpkepper Eraser's 

 faithfulness and presence of mind.— Oa&Ze to the Re- 

 corder. 



During tbe terriflc thunder storm on Tuesday afternoon a 

 most remarkable event occurred on the farm of Fred Pless, 

 about one mile from Long Lake, ou the old Detroit and Lan- 

 sinjar plank road, Township of Genoa, Livingston countv, says 

 the Detroit Free Press. During the storm one of Mr. Pless's 

 hired men was standing in the open door of the grain 

 barn watching the descending flood, when a turtle was 

 rained down. The reptile, when measured, was found to be 

 5 by 3Xin., and weighed 7j4_ >z It struck upon its back in a 

 pool that bad been formed in front of tbe door bv tbe rain 

 with a "sp.at" or "crack" as loud as a pistol shot, indicating 

 its fall from a considerable height. W. H. H. Russel), the 

 attorney, who was at the house of Mr. Pless at the time, 

 secured the turtle, and now has it at his room 27 Moffat 

 block. His theory is that it must have been swept up into 

 the clouds by some strong uplitt of atmosphere from pne of 

 the numerous small lakes in that locality. Itsgrr-at weight, 

 however, makes the circumstances chiefly remarkable, much 

 more so than tbe fall of angleworms ana small flsh, which 

 have been noted in the past. 



For jears the harness dressing manufactured by Frank Miller 

 has been tbe favorite preparation in r ur first-class staMes. for it is 

 a preserver and beautifler. Miller's harness dressing filves a beau- 

 tiful finish to the leather and will neither peel, crack, smut nor 

 harden it. — Adv. 



FEKGUSON'S PATENT 



Reflecting Lamps, 



With Silver Plated Locomotive Reflectors. 



UNIVERSU lAMP. 



I With Adjustable Attachments. 

 For Sportsmen and Others. 

 CombiuoB Ut^ad Jxck, 

 Boat Jack, Fishing Lamp, 

 Oauip Lamp, Uash Lamp, 

 Belt Lantern, Band Lan- 

 tern, etc, 



EXCELSIOR DASH LAMP, 



Superior to all others. 



Send stamp for Illustrated Catalogue. 



ALBERT FERGUSON, Office 6B Fulton St. N.Y 



The Adirondacks. 



Map of the Adirondack Wilderness. 



Po. kei edition on map-nond pap r §1 00. 

 "It IS the most complete map of the Adirondack 

 region ever published."— Jbresi and Stream. 



Pocket Map of Lake Champlain and Lake 



George. Map-oond papt r. 50 cts. 

 Guide Booiss.— The Adirondacks, Illustrated, 



16 mo , 272 pages, pseudo cloth cover, 25 cts. 

 Lake Oreorve and Lake Champlain, 25 cts. 

 Address a. »<TODIIARD. Klen« KalU. N. V. 



BLUEFI$H,WEAKFI$Han(l STRIPED BASS 



Can be caught in any of the waters around New York City. Big 

 bluefish are in large numbers along the coast. We can supply 

 the tackle. You can do the rest, 



Call and examine our stock, or send us 10 cts. to cover postage, 

 and we will mail you our 136 folio page illustrated catalogue. 



ABBEY & IMBRIE, 

 Manufacturers of All Grades of Fishing Tackle, 

 18 Vesey Street, New York. 



St^Vlish Turngqt 



1 1^ .^^r^^ ^ FR^ 



requires a handsome harness, and a hand- ^ 

 some harness requires the continued use of j, 

 FRANK MILLER'S .ws^ HARNESS DRESSING. 



'it^^ dituiM^ii^^of tbe WORlpD aud sold by aU Haniessi Dt^aicirt!*. 



