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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Nov. 10, 1892. 



ing along the road, never over three rods from the road 

 or a hundred yards from the buggy, we put up three more 

 bevies of quail within a mile of the house, and added 10 

 more to our string, Dick working like an angel. This 

 was just the easiest, nicest shooting there ever was 

 in the world, and under the pleasantest circumstances 

 possible. I think I could have stood a week or two 

 more of it without serious injury to my health, 

 but it could not be, so I had to say some more 

 good-byes and go, regretting more, certainly, to leave the 

 shooting, than to leave my friends. And Dick, the dog- 

 may he live long and prosper, and never meet a tem- 

 porary master who does not know him as a wise and 

 faithful servant, and therefore deserving of all kindness! 

 There is only one man fit to own Dick, and that is Dick 

 Taylor. Both man and dog are known through all that 

 countryside, and are lit to be known through all the 

 world. 



Western Notes. 



Leavenworth, Kas., Nov. 4.— The White River Utes, 

 of Colorado, are this week reported to have left their 

 reservation and gone into camp on Spring Creek, thirty 

 miles below Meeker. They are killing hundreds of deer 

 for the hides alone. The citizens are protesting against 

 the wholesale slaughter of game, and have resolved to 

 drive the Utes back. 



From Ogden, Utah, comes a wild and apparently faked- 

 up story regarding two Brooklyn, N. Y,, men, Frank M. 

 Conroy and J. F. Barkelow, who are said lately to have 

 left Ogden to explore the caves of the early cliff dwellers 

 along Nine-Mile Creek. Barkelow returned alone and 

 reported that Com-oy had fallen over a precipice with his 

 burro, and that as he lay injured on a ledge below he was 

 attacked by eagles, which drove him from the ledge and 

 continued their onslaught upon his mangled remains. 



Yesterday a St. Louis boy, Frank Smith, playfully 

 snapped a .*22cal. target rifle at a man named Sims Grace, 

 lodging the ball in Grace's back. Grace may die. The 

 bov was not aware that the weapon contained a charge. 



Yesterday William Parks, of Kansas City, went out 

 hunting and got the muzzle of his gun choked up with 

 mud. He tried to clean the barrels out with his fingers, 

 and in doing so shot ofl; his left forefinger. 



These incidents remind one of the exploits of hunter 

 Dills, of Uniontown, Pa. , three days ago. Hunter Dills 

 crept up on Mr. Gates, who was in a blind calling tur- 

 keys, and firing a load of buckshot by guess killed Mr. 

 Gates where he sat. 



Snow fell in South Dakota Nov. 1. On Nov. 2 a bliz- 

 zard was forecast for Kansas, but materialized only in 

 a cold rain. The flight of geese is not yet all in over 

 western Kansas. 



A Fort Scott, Kas., man is buying a carload of dogs, 

 whether for sausage or field trial purposes it is not de- 

 clared. 



A California little ostrich bird has just yielded 300 

 feathers, worth $65, at one sitting, or rather plucking. 



The flight of wildfowl this week is so heavy on the 

 Salt marsh south of Eaymond, on the Santa Fe, that 

 hunters from as far east as Topeka have come to take 

 advantage of the shooting. The Rattlesnake pond holes 

 below Great Bend are also affording good sport. 



Much land is being posted by the Alliance men in Kan- 

 sas. The farmers publish notices in the local papers 

 warning trespassers to keep ofi: their lands. They de- 

 scribe their lands by range, township and section lines, 

 put up notices on the corners, and moreover chase an 

 offender off when detected. This is all very well. It 

 hurts nothing if all Kansas becomes a game preserve. 

 The salvation of American game lies in the the trespass 

 law. 



Any one who has ridden or walked much in Western 

 Kansas knows how the alkali dust of certain sections 

 offends the skin of the face and lips. In a few days the 

 lips become painfully sore and crack open, bleeding and 

 refusing to heal. No one should use vaseline or cold 

 cream for this trouble, for either will only make the 

 trouble worse. The best remedy is collodion, which is 

 rather a preventive. Spread upon the lips, it forms a 

 tough, adhesive coating, which keeps out the air and dust. 

 It is useful also to cover any abraded surface, or to apply 

 about the finger-nails in case of hang-nails or other trifling 

 wounds, which under cold air and alkali dust and alkali 

 water, rapidly become very annoying. The collodion 

 coats the skin like the film upon a photographic negative. 

 Take:the collodion bottle along on a trip to California or 

 the plains. 



Death of Lieut. Schwatka. 

 Lieut. Frederic Schwatka, of Arctic and Alaskan 

 fame, was found dying in the streets of Portland, Oregon 

 at 3 A. M., of Nov. 3. He died at 4:50 of the same morn- 

 ing; the cause of death being supposed to be an uninten- 

 tional over-dose of laudanum, a bottle of which drug was 

 found near him. This ends the life of a fortunate and 

 unfortunate man, a man brave and yet weak, a man who 

 sufficiently well illustrates the continual contradictions of 

 human life and human accomplishment. E. Hough 



Enforcing the Ontario Law. 



Bkacebridge, Ont., Oct. 33.— The first trial in this 

 district under the Ontario game law was held to-dav 

 before Mr. James Boyer, .J.P. On information of R D 

 Brown, deputy warden of the Township of Stephenson 

 the following persons were arraigned and convicted oj 

 huntmg deer out of season: L. Markle, B. Botterell J 

 Preble and A. Markle, all of Brunell Township, and were 

 each fined $20 and costs. These convictions will have a 

 salutary fffect throughout the Province and wiC show 

 that the Ontario government intends to prosecute an-v 

 rases which come under their notice.— Toroji/o World. 

 (Je t 9 . '2,4 • 



An Election Day Hope Not Realized. 



l^OEFOLK, Ya., Nov. 7.— The weather has been very 

 favorable tor ducks during the past few days, and a 

 telephone from the Cumtuck Club grounds' reports a 

 large gathering of black ducks and sprigtails. I saw 

 to-day a fine assortment of these birds at the commission 

 house of Mr. J B. White, who is a member of the Ragged 

 Island Club. Grover Cleveland and President Harrifon 

 are both honorary members of the Ragged Island Club 

 and to-morrow, the Sth, being a sort of off-day for them' 

 the crowd 18 hopmg they will be persuaded to put it in on 

 tijejnarshes. Charles Hallock. j 



THE FALL MONTHS AT BILOXL 



BiLOXi, Mississippi.— It has been my good— as well as 

 my bad— fortune to visit Biloxi during the fall months 

 for the past two years. My bad fortune was because I 

 was compelled to make the trip to rid myself of an attack 

 of malarial fever, contracted in the evvamps; and my 

 good fortune was in being able to find a place where I 

 could have all the comforts of home and as fine fishing 

 and hunting as can be found anywhere in the South. 



We were called shortly before daylight the other morn- 

 ing, and after "discussing" a first-class breakfast pre- 

 pared for our especial benefit by our sable friend Jessie, 

 who presides over the destinies of the culinary depart- 

 ment of the Montross, we bundled om'selves, dogs and 

 guns into a very comfortable buck board that Colonel 

 ivlontross had in waiting for us. A drive of ten minutes 

 brings us to the ferry across Back Bay, an arm of the 

 gulf that nuts in back of Biloxi, and into whose waters 

 flow the Biloxi River. A quarter of an hour and we are 

 across the bay, while another ten minutes brings us to 

 an open field, where the dogs are invited to step down 

 and out. The dogs were Punch, a four-year-old pointer, 

 through whose veins flows the blue blood of Faust and 

 Keswick: Queen, a lemon and white pointer bitch from 

 the Hempstead Farm Kennels, and Lady Likely, a black, 

 white and tan setter who can boast of such ancestors as 

 Roderigo, Gladstone, Sue and others. 



We had scarcely gotten our guns out of their cases and 

 put together, when Paul, our driver, exclaimed, "Look 

 at Queen!" Sure enough she had struck the scent, and 

 with every nerve quivering was reading up a small open- 

 ing by the edge of a heavy canebrake. She had not gone 

 very ifar before she brought up solid. Calling the other 

 dogs up we started toward her. The moment Lady and 

 Punch crossed into the opening they saw her and backed 

 her finely. The sight was a beautiful one — all three of 

 the dogs standing as if they had been carved out of 

 marble. Mr. King stepped forward a couple of paces, 

 and up whirred a bevy of at least twenty -five birds; an 

 instant later came the crack of three guns, when five of 

 the feathered beauties left the bunch and fell, striking 

 the ground with a thud. 



At a word from their owner the dogs who had dropped 

 to shot retrieved our birds finely. There was no use to 

 look after the scattered birds, as they had pitched into 

 the middle of a very heavy cane brake, where they were 

 perfectly safe. Calling in the dogs we bundled into our 

 buckboard and drove across a heavily timbered bottom to 

 an open field beyond. Here the dogs were again put out. 

 Before they had gone a hundred yards Punch, who was 

 working among some palmetto scrub, "brought up stand- 

 ing," Once again the other dogs backed, a second more 

 and the bevy was in the air. This time we did not do so 

 well, the trouble being that all three of us fired at the 

 same bird, cutting him into ribbons. We bagged three, 

 however, and marked the rest of the bevy in the timbered 

 bottom we had just crossed. As there was little or no 

 underbrush in the bottom we decided to give it a turn. 



On the edge of a small stream that ran down through 

 the timber Punch again straightened out, and as Mr. 

 King and myself walked toward him, we heard the flut- 

 ter of wings together with the familiar half chirp and 

 half whistle of a woodcock. I took a snap shot at him 

 as he was going through an old tree top, and was grati- 

 fied to hear my friend say, "you downed him." After 

 picking my bird up we looked around for Lady and Queen, 

 and found them standing in some palmettoes not fifty 

 yards away. This time it was one of our scattered birds. 

 As he cleared the brush , Mr. King's Greener cracked and 

 the bird whirled over on its back as dead as a stone. 



It was now getting along toward noon, and as the sun 

 was nearly overhead, the heat made tramping about in 

 the open anything but a pleasant occupation. We accord- 

 ingly called a halt, and once more mounting our buck- 

 board drove about five hundred yards to the banks of the 

 Biloxi River, where, under the shade of some magnificent 

 oaks we ate lunch. 



While we were lounging about I noticed the swirls of 

 some large fish as they fed among the lUy pads that 

 fringed the river banks, and Driver Paul informed us 

 that in his opinion they were "green trout," but that he 

 would show us to a certainty if we would have a little 

 patience. He immediately began to skirmish through 

 his pockets, finally producing a piece of what had once 

 been a waterproof trout line. After straightening this 

 out he began searching under the sweat leather of his 

 hat. From this receptacle came a large and fearfully 

 and wonderfully made fly. Red all over body, hackle, 

 wings and tail. I thought that if trout would bite at 

 any such fly as the one in question they must be green, 

 sure enough. After tyins fly and line together Paul 

 went in search of a rod. This he soon found in a piece 

 of cane about 7ft. long and as stiff as a poker. After 

 making connection between the line and his improvised 

 rod, our fisherman walked slowly and cautiously to the 

 river bank. Imagine our surprise when at almost the 

 first time the fly struck the water a flsh took it and was 

 unceremoniously "yanked" out of his native element 

 and landed high and dry on the ground at least 10ft. 

 from the water. For the first time I had an opportunity 

 of examining a "green trout," and found it, just as I had 

 supposed, a large-mouth black bass. While we were 

 waiting for the day to get a little cooler Paul caught 5 

 more of his "green trout," showing conclusively that 

 with the right kind of tackle one could have the finest 

 kind of sport. When we were ready to make another 

 start our gunner informed us that if we would drive 

 back in the country three or four miles he was sure we 

 would find "right smart" of partridges. 



Nor was he wrong, for during the afternoon we flushed 

 no less than ten bevies, out of which forty-six partridges 

 fell to our guns, making our bag for the day fifty -seven 

 partridges and one woodcock, not so very' bad for our 

 first ti'ial. 



The next time we visit that neighborhopd you can be 

 very sure that bass tackle will be part of the outfit. Two 

 or three hours' fishing under the shade of the magnificent 

 oaks that grow along the river banks will be a very pleas- 

 ant way of passing the heat of the day. While "talking 

 over our day's work with Col. Montross, he told us that a 

 little later when the bass left the shallows and sought the 

 open water they were caught by the hundred in both gill 

 nets and seines. At this rate it will not take very many 

 years to deplete our waters of this gamiest of all fresh 

 water fish, A little later in the season the writer and Mr 

 Kmg are going to trj our luck back in the country, where 



we are told there are any quantity of turkeys and deer, 

 with an occasional bear thrown in. On our return I shall 

 report. In the mean time I can truly say if a man wishes 

 to find a place where he and his family can be perfectly 

 comfortable, and at the same time have all the fishing, 

 both fresh and salt water that he wants, together with 

 very good shooting, Biloxi, Mississippi, is the place for 

 him to come to. BiLOXl. 



THE SYRACUSE QUAIL CASE. 



Syracuse, Nov. 6. — The pot-hunter arrested by Game 

 Protector Jackson for snaring seventy partridges near 

 Cicero (not Coustantia, as before reported), was brought 

 before the police justice last week through the assistance 

 of Andrews Bros. He was fined |50, the charges against 

 the firm not being pressed. TJie name of this hunter is 

 Benjamin Brackett. 



Wednesday last warrants were issued by Police Justice 

 Mulholland for the arrest of Andrews Bros, for having 

 snared birds in their possession contrary to law. The 

 Onondaga Sportsmen's Club were the prime movers in this 

 action, and it's interept is being looked after by Attorney 

 Shinaman. Both H. B, Andrews and J. M. Andrews were 

 arraigned. They pleaded not guilty, and their attorney 

 raised the question that the justice had no jurisdiction. 

 Justice Mulholland plainly told the defendants that he 

 had the jurisdiction to try the cases, if the defendants so 

 wished, but it was their privilege to give bail for the 

 Grand Jury without first securing an order from a higher 

 court. The accused gave bail in the sum of $500 each for 

 the action of the Grand Jury. The bail bonds were 

 signed by A. Ames Hewlett, of the Lefevre Arms Co., 

 and G. M. Barnes. 



It is to be hoped that the Sportsmen's Club wins in this 

 action, as it will prove a death knell to all such kinds of 

 pot-hunters, and if full judgment is secm-ed, |1,775, it 

 wiU enlarge the club's treasury, as one-half goes to the 

 State and half to the club. 



Henry Johnson, game constable for the Onondaga 

 Anglers' Association, has returned from Oswego county, 

 where he has been on a "still-hunt" for offenders. Utter 

 disregard is paid to the game laws in that section, and 

 consequently game is very scarce. In one day he dis- 

 covered and destroyed sixty partridge snares in the 

 woods. 



Three arrests were made last week of game snarers. 

 They were William Trumble, George Trumble and Ben- 

 jamin Brackett, of West Am boy. The last named is an 

 old offender, being connecter) with the Andrews Bros, 

 bird case and who was fined $50 in that case. He is also 

 a noted offender in this kind of work. They will be tried 

 before ,Iudge Northrup some time this week. 



The fishing in Onondaga Lake has been much improved 

 the past year. Mr. Jackson says that only two nets were 

 taken last month, and at present there is no net fishing 

 being done in this lake. D. K. 



COLD BARRELS. 



Williamsbctrg, Ind.— Noel E. Money asks an explana- 

 tion of the fact that a hot gun barrel shoots harder than 

 a cold one. It is because the expansiveness of gases is 

 largely dependent on then- temperature, and the cold 

 barrel absorbs so much heat that it reduces the power of 

 the propelling gases. O. H. Hampton. 



Red Bank, N. J —The appeal of Captain N. E. Money, 

 manufacturer of E. C. powder, to the general public to 

 solve the problem why his powder when fired out of a 

 cold gun does not give the same velocity as subsequent 

 charges, when fired out of a warm gun, is rather surpris- 

 ing, coming as it does from the manufacturer of a nitre 

 powder. It is a well established fact that all nitros are 

 very susceptible to cold, and therefore the loss of velocity 

 of the first shot out of a cold gun is occasioned by the 

 rapid cooling of the high pressure gases in the cold gun 

 barrel. If Captain Money will experiment a little he will 

 find that at 40° Fahrenheit a standard charge of 43gr8. E. 

 C. will lose 90ft. or about ten per cent, of its velocity, and 

 that at a freezing temperature the loss is still greater, so 

 as seriously to impair penetration. This fault, however, 

 if known, is easily overcome and can be guarded against 

 in loading. To guard, however, against atmospheric in- 

 fluences, dampness and dryness, is much harder, and this 

 serious fault has been overcome by one nitro only, the 

 new Walsrode smokeless. Whippoorwill. 



MASSACHUSETTS DEER LAW. 



Massachusetts has no law on deer except as to Plymouth 

 and Barnstable counties. Session Laws, 1883, Chap. 169: 



Sec. 1. Whoever h ants, chases, or kills a deer within thp couu' 

 ties of Plymoiith or Barnstable, except his own tame deer kept on 

 his own grounds, shall forfeit for every such offense one hundred, 

 dollars. 



Sec. 2, AH acta or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are here- 

 by repealed May 5, 1883. 



There was up to 1886 a general deer law. Sec. 8 of the 

 Public Statutes of 1883 provided: 



Sec. 8. Whoever between the first day of December and the 

 first day of November takes or kills a deer, except his own tame 

 deer kept on his own grounds, shall be punished by fine of one 

 hundred dollars. 



This section was amended May 2, 1882, by Chapter 199, 

 Laws 1882, Sec. 1, as follows: 



Sec. 1. Section 8 of Chapter 92 of tlie Public Statutes is amended 

 so as to read as follows: Whoever at nny time in the year except 

 Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays in the month of 

 Novemt)er, hunts, takes, wounds or kills a deer excf pt his own 

 tame deer kepf on his own grounds, and whoever on any Tuesday, 

 Wednesday. Thursday or Friday in the month of November, 

 hunts, takes, wounds or kill« in any pond or river, or within two 

 hundred yards thereof, a deer, except hia own tame deer kept on 

 his own grounds, shall be punished for each offense by a fine of 

 not less than twenty-five dollars, and not more than one hundred 

 dollars, etc. etc. 



Chapter 276, Laws 1886 (passed .June 10), enacted as a 

 substitute for Chapter 93 of the Public Statutes, makes no 

 mention whatever of deer, but does by Sec. 11 specifically 

 provide for the entire repeal of Chapter 92: 



Shc. 11. Chapter ninety-two o£ the Public Statutes, chapter 

 thirty-sis of the acts of the year one thousand eight hundred and 

 eighty-three and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith 

 are hereby repealed. 



This leaves oolv the Plymouth and B^,rQBtable law, ag 

 given in the Book of the Gmie Laiv$. 



