Nov. 24, 1893.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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of wanton hunters by enforcing observance of the seasons. 



Among the guests of the clab were 0 C. Turn, Samuel 

 E, Smith and Richard Morris, of Frankfort. Ky., who 

 were cordially welcomed for the aid they have given the 

 club in many ways. 



Other guests of the club were Capt. Ed Taylor and 

 John CoUender, of the Wyandotte Fishing Club, of Holum- 

 bu9, O. These latter, like the gentlemen from Frank- 

 fort, have rendered the Cavier valuable aid in furthering 

 legislation in the interest of the preservation of game 

 and the regulation of the season for gathering it. 



The banquet committee consisted of H. H. Tinker, Lee 

 R. Keck and Lowe Emerson, and the house committee of 

 Luther Parker, John Egan and Alex Lewis. No one of 

 these gentlemen had been lax in his duties, as the success 

 of the entertainment showed. Besides these there was a 

 reception committee made up of a large number of mem- 

 bers, who divided the obliarationa of the evening in reliefs. 

 — Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, Nov 17. 



A BOSTON GAME REPORT. 



Boston, Nov, 19. — The number of deer being taken 

 in the Maine woods this fall is something remarkable. It 

 is safe to estimate that more than 100 have already come 

 to Boston; the results of the skill of sportsmen who have 

 been to that State in the open season, and have generally 

 taken their game honestly. At the Boston and Maine 

 railroad stations I learn that they are coming every day, 

 and have been since the first of October. At the- steam- 

 ers the report is the same, A gentleman well acquainted 

 in Lowell, Mass., tells me that he knows of over 30 Maine 

 deer that have been brought to that city by sportsmen 

 this fall. A Franklin county, Me,, newspaper says that 

 fully 100 deer have been taken in that county since the 

 open season begun. In the Macbias district, and up 

 through to Wesley, the number of deer shot has been 

 simply mafv<^lou9. In the Megantic region the number 

 is large. What a field of sport this is ! It is all the result 

 of protection, the great features of which are non- 

 hounding and non-crusting. Both these methods may 

 be practiced in some instances, but the fines are too 

 great and the game wardens too vigilant to permit of the 

 general destruction that would result, were these laws 

 repealed, 



M--. Charles H. Glover, proprietor of the restaurant at 

 the Boston and Maine railway station, in Boston, is a 

 happy hunter. He has just got back from a hunting trip 

 into the Maine woods. He had the good fortune to shoot 

 two handsome deer, one of which he brought home. His 

 party was made up of two Lowell gentlemen, besides 

 himself; Mr. W. T. Patten, and Mr. O. H. Dexter. They 

 went first to St. Stephen, then across to Calais, and up to 

 Grand Lake. Their hunting was done in the vicinity of 

 Clifford Lake, which is some four or five miles from 

 Grand Lake. They hunted on the hills in the neighbor- 

 hood of beech trees. The deer came for the beechnuts. 

 Mr. Glover speaks in glowing terms of still-huntiog for 

 deer. The work he pronounces extremely fascinating. 

 "You approach a beech grove, silently as possible, and 

 towards the wind. Suddenly you see a beautiful deer. 

 You make the slightest noise, and he is up and away. 

 But the deer in that section will stand approaching within 

 easy gunshot, if you go still enough." This party got 

 eight deer in all. One monster buck weighed 221 

 pounds with all the entrails out. 



Mr. H. Walter Pinkb^m is another succsssful hunter, 

 who has been into the Maine woods. Besides Mr. Pink- 

 ham the party was composed of D. P. Power, H. Osgood, 

 Geo, H. SiUaway, of Boston, and Fred H. Holmes of 

 Belfast, Me. They visited the wilds of Wesley, the town 

 where the two game wardens were murdered several 

 years ago They had great success. They took 75 par- 

 tridges, three ducks, two deer and a fawn. This latter 

 they secured alive, and it is now on exhibition at Pink- 

 ham's market, on-Dudley street in Boston, Xt is a hand- 

 some fellow, a little buck, aboat five months old. It is 

 already very tame, though it has been out of the woods 

 not many days. How in the world they caught it alive, 

 the hunters have not yet explained. They only say that 

 "the mother was shot, and this one hung around;" so 

 they caught him, 



Mr, E, M. GiUam, already mentioned in the Forest and 

 Stream as going to Vin eland, N. j., on his vacation, 

 where he met his two brothers, one the sporting editor 

 of the Philadelphia Record and the writer of the cele- 

 brated advertisements of Postmaster-General Wanamaker, 

 has returned to the Boston Advertiser, They had "a glor- 

 ious vacation," hunting a good part of the time. They 

 were on the ground on the firgt day of the open season 

 on game in that State, November 1st. They secured 

 twenty-three quail the first day, and with the rest of 

 their success they got nearly one hundred quail in all. 

 They also secured a number of rabbits. Hereafter it is 

 possible that Ernest M. will not take a gun when he 

 goes after rabbits. Nature has provided him with a 

 natural weapon of good size. His brother, with his dogs, 

 started a rabbit one day, and it ran directly towards 

 Ernest. The brother shouted for Ernest to "Lookout!" 

 There was not time to get his gun into position, and the 

 rabbit running very near, Ernest drew out his foot and 

 "let him have it with a sidewise kick." The rabbit fell 

 dead a rod away. Gillam tells this story on 'Change, and 

 the flour and grain men look at his feet and smile. The 

 Gillam boys did not get any deer, though they trailed a 

 . number. Ernest got two snap shots, and he is honest 

 enough to own that he missed them both. One hunter 

 in that section, however, got two deer and a couple of 

 pheasants in one day. The deer they found to be ex- 

 tremely shy; frequently skulking away, even when the 

 hunter was entirely hidden, and skulking so cautiously 

 that they could not be seen. The Gillam boys are much 

 pleased with what protection has done for game in New 

 Jersey, the number of hunters is so great that it is hard 

 for the game supply. Special. 



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COLORADO GAME AND FISH. 



Denver, Col., Nov. 14— It is reported that a band of 

 the Indians from the Uintah Agency in Utah are killing 

 elk, deer and mountain sheep in large numbers in west- 

 ern Colorado. The reports are from cattle men in that 

 part of the country and are apt to be highly colored. 

 They state that the Indians are killing large game by the 

 thousand and take nothiner but the hides. The number 

 in the band is placed at 100, but this is in all probability 

 exaggerated. The settlers say Indian Agent Waugh is 

 responsible for this invasion, and hint that he and the 

 Indians have a mutual understanding in regard to the 

 disposition of the bides. The Governor notified the Fed- 

 eral authorities on Saturday, Nov, 13, and asked to have 

 immfdiate steps taken to return the Indians to their 

 repervation. 



Game Warden Land is hard at work preparing his 

 annual report to the Governor. In it he will recommend 

 a numb-^r of changes in the existing law. It will be ready 

 about Dpc. 1. 



Capt. Sedam's new shooting park was thrown open to 

 the public Nov. 13. There was a large crowd of sports- 

 men there and several lively sweeps at targets were shot. 

 The Captain is an enthusiastic trap-shoter, and has fitted 

 up this place with all the requirements of the art. It is 

 destined to become a very popular resort. 



Messrs. Blayney, Haywood, Sibley and McKay, of the 

 Queen City Club, killed 101 ducks at McKay's Lake on 

 Nov. 13. 



Mr, George 'Ady, general agent of the Union Pacific 

 Railway, has bad 33,000 young trout placed in the Platte 

 River in the canon. Considering that this stream is very 

 easily reached from Denver, and that a special train for 

 the accommodation of fishermen goes up the caiion every 

 day during the summer, the fishing is very good. If the 

 law in regard to retaining fingerlings was rigidly en forced 

 the fishing in this stream would improve, but at the 

 present time the "trout hog" has it all his own way, and 

 numbers, not size, is the criterion of skill. 



The people of the State are beginning to realize that 

 our trout afford a source of revenue, and agitation for 

 due protection is a natural result. I note this in the 

 Colorado Sun of Nov. 16? 



Probably no man in Colorado has had so goorl aw opportunity 

 fo learn tbe true state of aifairs as Mr. Gordon Land, State Fish 

 Commissioner. £t has not only been his official duty, but his per- 

 sonal pleasure to study the situation from every standpoint, and 

 whpu be speaks, he does so advisedly. 



"Tne supply of fish in Colorado streams,'' said he, "is growing 

 less every year, in spito of the fact that hundredn of young fish are 

 yearly distributed from the State and national haicheriea. 



"In the first place, the number of fishermen wlio line the hauks 

 of Colorado streams diirine; the summer months is something 

 wouderfui. I do not think that there is a g''eat amouut of fishing 

 by illegal methods, but the numbers of rods and lines to b» seen 

 along the hanks must convince anyone that the daily catch 

 through the season is enormous. 



"In one point I think the law might be changed to advantage, 

 regarding the catching of trout. The present law allows trout 

 tithing as early as May 1. This is about the time they begin to 

 spawn. The spawning season upualiv continues about six weeks. 

 During this time the fish seek tbe riffles. When the spawning is 

 over they are very hungry and take bait voraciously. They are 

 thus caught in great numbers. 



"At this time they are so lean and soft as to be unfit for food, 

 but many persons seem to be unaware of this, and the places 

 where the fish consregate for spawning are lined with fishermen. 

 The fish should be protectPd by law at this time. 



"Many mountain streams that never had fish in them before 

 have been stocked from the State hatcheries, and in every in- 

 stance the fish have shown remarkable growth, but in m'ist ciises 

 they have not been allowed to live long enough to attain a very 

 great size. The fisherman comes before they are large enoush to 

 m^ike a decent fry and carries them off. 



"Colorado's iisuing is one of her greatest attractions, and it 

 should not only he properly protpcted by law, hut the State should 

 appropriate more money toward fostering it. Nature cannot be 

 relied upon to keep up tbe supply, and the State should pay more 

 attention to it. To lose her reputation with thfl fishermen of the 

 East would by a calamity to Colorado." 



Teseeby. 



CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 



[By a Staff Corresponamit.] 



Chicago, IlL, Nov. 18. — One often has occasion to won- 

 der why, in the many mistakes made by compositors and 

 proof readers, the victim of the error always gets the 

 worst of it, and never has his meaning or his method im- 

 proved. In my copy for the issue of Nov. 10 I said, or 

 meant to say, in regard to a Kansas quail shoot, that I 

 left "regretting not more, certainly, to leave the shooting 

 than to leave mv friends." Inasmuch as t was quite in- 

 debted to my Kansas friends for the shooting, and inas- 

 much as I do not care to be publicly ungentlemanly, not 

 to say ungenerous, I was somewhat horrified to see the 

 types coldly and calmly announce that I left "regretting 

 more, certainly, to leave the shooting than to leave my 

 friends." Even the most callous newspaper writer could 

 not let such mishandling pass without protest, for the 

 offense is not to the writer but to others. 



This morning telegraphic communication between this 

 point and St. Piul was made by way of Denver, Ogden 

 and Helena, The direct lines were blown down by the 

 blizzard of last night. Nashville and Memphis, Tenn., 

 communicated via Chicago, St, Louis, New Orleans, and 

 back through Chattanoogo. So it may be seen that the 

 storm was general. In fact, it was worse south of here 

 than west. This is the third bad storm of this fall, and it 

 probably cleans up what little laggard fiight of wildfowl 

 there may have been left this week along this latitude. 

 The late mallard shooting, which has been so good this 

 fall, is now ended, unless a few birds remain holding to 

 the heavily timbered streams. 



The second blizzard, that of Nov, 7, was general 

 throughout the entire West and Northwest, and the heavy 

 snow that fell then would have been bad for the game 

 birds had it not gone off quickly. The first hard storm 

 was over two weeks ago, and not severe as these later 

 ones. So far as can be learned, the quail crop will not be 

 seriously cut up by any of these early winter entertain- 

 ments. 



Swan Lake Club and the open %vaters of Lake Senach- 

 vpine have afforded good shooting within the past two 

 weeks. Eddie Steck bagged over fifty birds, about half 

 mallards, on Senachwine last week. Mr. John Earll 

 bagged ninety, mainly mallards, on Swan Lake, two weeks 

 ago, and at that time other Swan Lake men had heavy 

 shooting. It is reported that Mr. Ed. Hunter bagged 

 eighty-seven mallards on this water one day, and seventy- 

 odd the next day, but as to this I do not have particulars 

 or confirmation. Certainly the shooting there has been 

 good. Walter Dupee yesterday said that he bad word of 

 a big of eighty, mostly greenwing teal, on Swan Lake 

 ihis weekt out fee this also detaiig are aeager« 



On tbe Kankakee, on Mak-saw-ba Club grounds, Dr. 

 Norris, Mr. Shedder and two others one day last week 

 killed eighty-four duck!=!, mostly mallards, and Mr. W. H. 

 Haskell and Mr. Joel Kinney have continued in their 

 good shooting at that point. 



Mr. C. B. Dicks and Mr, Geo Holden left three days 

 ago for a floating trip after mallards along the Kanka- 

 kee, They will float over 100 miles of the river, starting 

 from Mak-saw-ba Club, at Davis. Ind. Tbe weather has 

 been cold since they left, but whether they found con- 

 ditions favorable or not can not yet be told. To make 

 mallard shooting in this style most successful, the marsh 

 must be frozen up, the stream in the timber open, and 

 the weather rough and blustery. Granted these condi- 

 tions, and no sort of duck shooting is more intesting and 

 exciting. 



Having been much out of town of late, T missed an invi- 

 tation from Mr, W. Y. Wentworth, of Ft. Atkinson, Wis., 

 to come up to shoot canvasback on Lake Koshkonong. 

 LTnder date of Nov, 3 Mr, Wentworth said; "Every ap- 

 pearance is good for fair canvas shooting for the next ten 

 days. Come up if you can. Governor Peck bagged 

 eighteen birds yesterday, ten canvas, four redhead and 

 four bluebUls," 



The present cold snap came too late for one unfortunate 

 whose young eyes should have opened in a still colder 

 clime. The little Esquimaux baby, Columbia Manak, 

 born at the World's Fair grounds the first of the month, 

 died about a week ago. The little one, so say the city 

 news columns, was the pride of the Esquimaux colony, 

 and her death is much mourned, 



A Judicial Quail Hur\t. 



Last week there went afield at Winamac, Ind, , a party 

 of grave and reverend seniors which included no less 

 than four judges of the bench. These were Judge Dyke- 

 man, of Winamac, Judge Burson, of the same town, 

 Judge Winfield, of Logansport, and Judge Johnson, of 

 Chicago. Mr, F, C. Donald, vice-chairman of the Cen- 

 tral Traf&c Association, of Chicago, was along to add 

 dignity to the occasion, and according to his story this 

 was needful, for the judicial gravity was not very sternly 

 observed after the shootins: began. The party hunted 

 over the grounds of Judge Dykeman, about a section of 

 land in one body. Twelve bevies were put up and nine- 

 teen birds bagged, Mr. Donald getting 9. The cover was 

 so dense the dogs could hardly work and shooting was 

 next to impossible, I think that under the circumstances 

 Mr. Donald has fully earned the right to be called "judge" 

 also. It would be a shame to break the sequence. But 

 if five judges go quail hunting and one judge kills nine 

 quail, how many quail do the other four judges kill 

 apiece, I wonder? 1 wonder, also, if five judges go hunt- 

 ing and one judge says, "How about that, Judge?" How 

 many judges would say, "I don't mind?" 



Plenty of Quail. 



Quail are abundant enough in Indiana, and nearly all 

 of the Chicago quail partipR there have been successful. 

 Messrs. L. M Hamline. C. B, Dicks and F, A, Place were 

 at Warsaw, Ind,, four days of last week, and averaged a 

 good bag daily, their highest being 56, It would seem 

 that about Marion, Ind. , the birds are even more plenti- 

 ful. A recent letter from a gentleman of Marion to a 

 friend in Chicago has the following apologetic tone for a 

 bag of "only 75:'' 



In regard to that contemplated auail slaughtering expedition 

 of your friends, I spoke Mr. B.. who escorted the party nut yns- 

 terday, and he stated that it would be useless to go otit aeraiu he- 

 fore we bad a good rain The party vesterday only got 75; it waH 

 so dry the dogs would walk right ovv a covey withotir seeintr 

 them. As soon as it rains I will wire Mr. D , and it he can mak«i 

 it convenient to coma Mr. B. and Mr. H. will take him or ochei.' 

 friends of yours out for a couple of aays 1 Jeel confident tha t they 

 will show them a good time. Bring no dogs; plenty good oam 

 there. 



Messrs. Oswald Von Lengerke and Charles Antoina, 

 who pull together in the sporting goods trade in this city, 

 have been having good shooting this fall along the line of 

 the Chicago & Erie road, near Newton, Ora, and other 

 points. On Oct. 15 and 16 they bagged 34 quail and 1 

 ruffed grouse. A week later they got 33 quail, and a 

 week later still, 40, and then again 30, One day last week 

 Mr. Antoiue alone bagged 27, the two together bagged 38, 

 and the day following Mr, Von Lengerke bagged 21. On 

 Oct. 21 Mr, Von Langerke was out with Italian Joe, in= 

 side the city limits, between Calumet Lake and South 

 Chicago, and they bag-ged 36 jacksnipe and 6 ducks, 3 of 

 the latter mallards. On the next day Joe and Mr. An- 

 toine got 41 jacksnipe on the same grounds. This has 

 been a great year for birds of all sorts. 



Mr. Ernest Detmold, of the big New York bouse of Von 

 Lengerke & Detmold, is in Chicago this week, naturallv 

 much with the 'younger firm here of Von Lengerke & 

 Antoiue. 



Rolla Heikes spent a week in Indiana, shooting a little 

 about Logansport, with a total of 65 quail. 



E. Hough. 



New Mexico Game Notes. 



Eddy, New Mexico, Nov. 12, 1892.— Mr. Jnhn Plow- 

 man, of this place,. went into the Guadalupe Mountains, 

 about 70 miles west, a few days aso, and killed three 

 mountain sheep, the heads of which are now being 

 moimted by a local taxidermist. This taxidermist, by 

 the way, is making up a coUetion for exibition at the 

 World's Fair. He has mounted, thus far, good specimens 

 of elk, black bear, mule deer, and several small quadru- 

 peds. He has sent a hunting party into the Staked 

 Plains, about 40 miles east of here, after Virginia deer 

 and peccaries. 



The quail season is now open and the game is plentiful. 

 Several good bags have been made during the past few 

 days. Ducks are coming in and wUl winter on the Pecos 

 Elver. A few flocks of geese and brant have also been 

 seen. War on the jack rabbits has begun and will be con- 

 tinued throughou.t the winter and until the weather be- 

 comes too warm for hunting, next summer. 



G. 0. Shields. 



North Carolina Quail. 



Reidsville, N. C, Nov, 16.— This is one of the best 

 hunting localities that I know of. There are more birds 

 this season than usual. Good accommodations for vislt- 

 i^ing sportsmen W. B, ViesxmSt 



