Deo. 23, 1892.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



885 



CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 



[By a Staff Coiresponclent.'i 



Chicago, 111., Dec. 17,— Speaking of game parks and 

 preserves, the following from the daily despatches may 

 be found of interest: "Denver, Colo., Dec. 10.— Col. W. 

 F. Cody ('Buffalo Bill') has just brought back a party of 

 Englishmen and Americans from a hunting trip through 

 northern Arizona and southern Utah. The party included 

 Col. McKinney, of the British Grenadier Cfuards, who 

 btarted for New York to-day and will sail for England on 

 the 14th; Major St. John, of Loudon; Col. 

 Prentiss Ingraham, a Southerner; Col. Frank 

 Baldwin, of General Miles's staff, and Col. 

 McKinley, Major J. Burk and Col. Ellison 

 Nay lor, of Washington. The hunters had 

 an escort of thirty-five cowboys and scouts 

 and plenty of arms and provisions. One 

 object Cody had in making the trip was to 

 find a place which he might use as a game 

 preserve. His idea is to establish a large 

 park, stock it with all kinds of game and use 

 it as his private shooting grounds. He found 

 several places both in Arizona and Utah 

 which exactly suited him." 



The millennium of uniform game laws is 

 not yet put beyond hope in the West, Last 

 week's convention of the wardens and others 

 interested, at Minneapolis, Minn., was prob- 

 ably the most thoughtful and well considered 

 efi'ort in this direction yet made. So far as 

 is possible through the efforts of those pres- 

 ent, the States of the Northwest will work 

 together for uniform laws, and will con- 

 sider any offense against one State as an 

 offense against all. Much lies between such 

 plans and their fulfilment, of course, but I 

 Delieve the day will come when we will see 

 such plans in large fulfilled. That so im- 

 portant a meeting should be held for this ! 

 purpose shows in the first place a realization 

 of the fact that the game is passing away, 

 and in the second place a clear understanding 

 of the proper wa,y of preventing its exter- 

 mination. We do not get all we ask for, 

 but we get nothing for which we do not ask. 

 On the whole, the situation in the North- 

 west in game protective rnatters is very 

 far from discouraging. We need, all of us, 

 to be careful not to find content in saying, 

 "L^t the good work go on." The good work 

 will not go on unless we push it on. 



Last night our friend Dick Cox, a gilded 

 young Chicago sportsman, was in a remin- 

 iscent mood, and told some stories of the 

 time when he was in Seattle, Washington, diligently 

 acquiring experience in his profession of the law, and 

 also preparing to write a book on the habits of the game 

 birds of ihe Northwest coast. 



" "That was in lb86,'' said he, "and I was out there on 

 the urgent request of my father that I should grow up 

 some with the country. I was willing to grow and did 

 not mind practicing some law, when it didn't interfere 

 with the shooting. My associate in crime was a French 

 gentleman, name of Teddy Haller. We were the youth- 

 ful members of the bar, and we drew 

 our first cases about together. My 

 first client was a Chinaman who had 

 been selling whisky to the Indians, 

 and I always thought I worked that 

 case fine — for the State. You see, 

 everybody knew my client had been 

 selling the whisky right along, and 

 there was no defense. The usual thing 

 in a case of this kind was a plea of 

 guilty and a sentence of two months. 

 This didn't suit me, and I set in to 

 clear my man. I made an able show- 

 ing and summed up in a brilliant 

 speech, I fcucceeded in getting my 

 client into the penitentiary for nine 

 months, which was more than the 

 District Attorney could have done, if 

 I had kept still, by about seven 

 months, 



"Teddy Hallei's case was defense 

 for burglary. His man had been 

 caught and held up in a store one 

 night in flagrante, et cetera, and he 

 had no defense ou earth. If Teddy 

 had pleaded plain guilty his man 

 would have got about a year, but 

 Teddy wouldn't have it that way. 

 'Your Honor,' says he, 'we admit the 

 criminal act, but would like to plead 

 extenuating circumstances. We should 

 like to put the accused on the stand, 

 and have the Court examine him as 

 to his innocence of other similar act?.' 

 Well, the Court did examine him, and 



blamed if Teddy's man didn't plead 



guilty to a whole lot of other bura;- 



laries and things, right there. He 



must have kind of got mixed up in 



his mind as to what Teddy wanted 



him to say. Maybe Teddy was a little 



mixed, too. The Court sent Tiddy's man up for five 



years. Then Teddy and I went out duck hunting again. 



We were helpin' the Commonwealth right along, and 



nobody could kick on our going hunting occasionally 



after such forensic struggles as that, 



"But the best case we ever had— or maybe I'd better 

 just call it our other case: anyhow it was our masterpiece 

 — was our sheep case. You see, one old settler had a lot 

 of hounds, and another old settler had a lot of sheep. Our 

 client was the man with the sheep. Everybody knew 

 the hounds were killing the sheep. One morning the 

 owner of the sheep found fourteen dead sheep in the pas- 

 ture. The hounds showed plenty of sign of a sheep bar- 

 becue, and the thing was a cinch for us to collect big 

 damages. We allowed our sheep were worth easy $10 a 

 head. Teddy and I brought out our witnesses to show 

 above facts, and then we submitted our case vrithout 

 argument^allowin', of course, that we bad a cinch. But 

 what did the attorney for defepse do b^t bring in a lot 

 of other teBtimony, and make ^ speeeh boiir long, IJe 



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low-lived, mean sort of a fellow, and that it served him 

 right to have his sheep killed. He also showed that 

 that neighborhood was much infested by cougars, 

 and declared that it certainly was cougars that 

 had killed those fourteen sheep. 'Unquestionably, 

 gentlemen,' says he, 'these cougars would have killed 

 many more sheep bad not my client's dogs appeared 

 upon the Ecene and driven away these destroying animals. 

 The claim that we should pay damages for these 14 sheep 

 is preposterous. Upon the contrary, we shall urge a 

 counter-claim of salvage for the whole remainder of the 



WAITING FOR TIDK TO RISE. 



herd, thus saved from destruction by the courageous 

 efforts of the noble dogs belonging to my esteemed and 

 wrongfully accused client, whom to know is to respect in 

 the most unqualified manner ! ' Of course, the jury 

 couldn't stand that, and they promptly cleared the other 

 fellow, and assessed damages ou us. So we had to pay 

 for the sheep we didn't get killed. That sheep salvage 

 case was one of the jokes of the Seattle bar for a long 

 while after that. I thiiik you will agree that Teddy and 

 I had a career at the bar which was brilliant though short. 



MORNING ONTHORICON MARSH. 



After a while I got tired of growing up, and concluded to 

 transfer my talents back to Chicago again. It's pretty 

 good shooting around here, too, and if you're trying a 

 sheep case here they can't spring no cougars ou you, see ?" 



At Warsaw I met Mr. C. E. Irvin and Mr. C. W, Doug- 

 las, to both of whom I had the letter of Mr. M. E. Moran, 

 now of Chicago, but formerly of Warsaw. Mr. Moran 

 and Mr. Douglas are partners in the Kosciusko Kennels 

 at Warsaw. Mr. Irvm was home on a visit, which in- 

 cluded some quail shooting and a good deal of mixing up 

 in doggy matters, he being much of a loTer of a fine dosr. 

 "We've only got 36 dogs now," said Mr. Moran, "but if 

 you think that'll do, you might go out and have a little 

 quail hunt.'' Naturally, therefore, we all drifted down 

 to the kennels and had the usual pleasure in looking over 

 a fine lot of dogs, Warsaw.is one of the sportiest towns 

 of its size I ever saw. Good bird dogs are common in the 

 streets, and some of them are very good indeed. Mr. Lee 

 Hayman had along with him on the street when we met 

 him a bitoh which would need fear little in a bench show, 



Sf4 U» ^Tptji^h t^^^^Q u?^ymm, of- the Qirmt Cowt, 



had another good one at his knee when we called at 

 his home. "My business is shooting and fishing," said 

 the Judge, "and, of course, thia dog of mine is the best^ 

 one on earth. Yes, shooting is ray business. I just 

 hold court as a sort of side show !" 



Mr, Irvin had for his string this fall the stylish dog 

 Twin Mai'k, and two puppies. Noble and Sinbad, of which 

 he expects much when they are old enough to hunt. Cer- 

 tainly they are handsome specimens. It took only a short 

 time to decide that we ought to have a quail hunt. So 

 Mr. Irwin, Mr. Douglas and myself made up a party. 



We took along Twin Mark, a little bitoh 

 called Domino and a three year old dog, 

 Ham's Vic, owned by Mr, L, M. Hamline, of 

 Chicago, who hunts in this vicinity, and 

 leaves Vic at the kennels. 



We drove about 12 miles out from town, 

 stopping at the farm house of Arthur Knoop, 

 and here we had a quail hunt as was a quail 

 hunt. The weather was execrable, with 

 rain, slush and mud in plenty, yet in parts 

 of two days we bagged 7(5 quail. The first 

 half day out we put up nine bevies, and I 

 presume we saw over two dozen birds in all. 

 The birds were the Avildest I ever saw, and 

 it was next to impossible to get much work 

 out of the singles, for often the bevy would 

 go nearly half a mile before alighting, and 

 it was hard to mark them with any cer- 

 tainty. The country was wheat stubble, 

 marsh and timber, and would have made 

 pond grounds for field trial work. 



We found most of our birds on the stub- 

 ble, and after the rise would have to go to 

 the woods for the scattered birds, which ran, 

 hid^under the leaves, took to the trees, and 

 ured all the other arts of old and wily quail, 

 much to our displeasure. We took it rather 

 easy, however, and certainly got as many 

 cjuail as we need want. I had my pack-sack 

 full of them when I got in, for my Warsaw 

 friends would not keep a single bird, but 

 asked that Mr. Moran, in Chicago, might be 

 remembered with some of the quail killed 

 over his dogs. Mr. Moran is in the gun 

 : department of Montgomery Ward & Co. I 



I took him up fifty odd quail, and there was 



I an immediate onelaua;ht upon him by Horace 



I Greeley Holt, Eolla Heikee, Eddie Bingham, 



_J Charlie Grubbs, etc., so that I doubt if Mr. 



Moran ever got many of his quail home with 

 him. I saved three quail from the general 

 ruin, and have so far eaten one of them, 

 though I have designs on the other two. 

 When a man has two pleasant shooting 

 companions of the right sort, and the dogs are of the 

 right sort, too, and he has a nice new light scatter gun 

 that will kill a quail if pointed over in its direction, and 

 when the quail are obliging enough to be found every 

 half hour or so, I don't see what more that man can want 

 by way of happiness. I shall remember this brief quail 

 trip very long and very pleasantly, I am sure, and next 

 year I shall be on hand at Warsaw some more, maybe 

 in the sprin? for snipe, or in the summer for woodcock. 

 The dogs of Warsaw are explained. There is something 

 there to hunt with dogs. 



Two of our dogs, Mark and Domino, 

 had been broken on woodcock, an 

 unfortunate thing for a quail dog, 

 though these two had not yet been 

 long on quail. Both these were very 

 careful and close workers and good 

 pointers. I doubt if any dog ever had. 

 a better nose than the little Domino. 

 We relied on her much for the singles. 

 Dick was a high-headed, slashing, 

 ripping goer, and he found the bevies 

 for us, much helped by his earlier 

 training on quail in Kansas and Texas. 

 Mark is a very stylifh dog, and take 

 the three together they make a great 

 field team, both for show and service. 

 Sometimes we had them all pointing 

 at once; one time, I remember, they 

 were all bunched up, pointing stiff on 

 a quail that was right tinder their 

 feec. The dogs all backed well, except 

 when one got an occasional notion 

 that it was its turn on a bevy, and so 

 got up too close, in that strange 

 jealousy which dogs often so plainly 

 show over the success of a rival in 

 finding that strange, fascinating scent 

 which it is the aim and object of their 

 lives to discover and denote. Dogs are 

 different as men. You can not find out 

 all about a dog from seeing him'alone; 

 you must hunt him with other dogs 

 ] to see all the phases of his character. 



I mentioned my new scat^er garx. 



__J It is really an old one, but I am in 



lovt) with it. After shooting a choke 

 bore for a term of years, the manual 

 labor of hitting a quail with a cylinder 

 bore is much less, Mr, Irvin trav- 

 eled still lighter than myself, using a 

 e^lbs. Whitmore, in which he shot 2idrs. powder andloz. 

 shot in a good sort of way, Charlie Douglas labored 

 with a heavier chokebore, and him we persuaded he 

 could not hit a barn the first day, though on the last he 

 beat us both, I should call the best gun for late quail . 

 one with the left barrel drawn down a little, say a modi- 

 fied choke, though for the right barrel on upland shoot- 

 ing I can see no need of any choke at all. My new old 

 gun makes a pattern which I will back against any gun, 

 bored under any system whatever. It think it will throw 

 shot further toward the edges, over the end of a barn, at 

 20yds., than any gun ever was. It is a very discouraging 

 sort of a gun for a quail to try to get away from, though 

 by patient effort I foimd I could occasionally miss one, 

 even as it was. 



The quail season in Indiana closes next Tuesday, Dec. 

 20. Then the potting and netting will begin, if the snow 

 falls heavily enough. Given any decent show after the 

 legal season closes, and the supply of quail next season in 

 northeastern Indiana will be a great one. The birds are 

 tber§ now in aybundanoe, strong and fully at)J,e to 



