Dec. 29, 1893,] 



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FOR UNIFORM LAWS. 



Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 23. — A meeting was held 

 here last week to agree upon a uniform game law, which 

 may be recommended to the several legislatures of Michi- 

 gan, Wisconsin, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota and 

 Minnesota, James J. Hogan, of La Crosse, was elected 

 president and A. F. Ferris, of Brainerd, secretary. The 

 following were present: H. W. Wilder, Grand Forks, 

 N. D.; James Nevins, Superintendent of the hatchery at 

 Madison, Wis. ; T. S. Grigg, Fish Commissioner, of Spirit 

 Lake, la.; Dr. R. O. Sweeney, Superintendent of the 

 hatchery at Duluth: S. S. Watkins, of St. Paul; Wm. 

 Bird, of'Fairmount, Minn, ; Frank L. Stetson, Game War- 

 den of Minnesota; Secretary Andrus of the Minnesota 

 Fish Commission. The meeting discussed a bill prepared 

 by Mr. Andrus, and a committee on legislation was ap- 

 pointed, which consists of Senator Calvert Spensley, of 

 Mineral Point, Wis, : Senator E. F. Mack, of Storm Lake, 

 la.; W, L, Wilder, Grand Forks, N. D.; W. P. Andrus, 

 Minneapolis; Dr. S. P, Bartlett, Quincy, 111.; Col. Win- 

 sor, Sioux Falls, S. D. A thousand copies of the pro- 

 posed bill will be printed and placed in the hands of the 

 members of the several legislatures. A strong effort will 

 be made for uniform seasons in the several States, which 

 will do away with the shipping of game from one State 

 to another. Spring shooting will be abolished and the 

 season for ducks and chickens will open on the same 

 date. It will also be unlawful to shoot any birds for 

 sport. There was a strong sentiment in favor of a game 

 warden or deputy in each county invested with enough 

 police powers and backed up with a sufficient amount of 

 salary to make them wide awake and fearless enough to 

 head off and bring to justice the pot hunter and poacher. 



It is an open secret that deer are killed out of season by 

 parties that could easily be brought to book, but as the 

 law now stands it is almost impossible to obtain convic- 

 tions in country .iustice courts. W. F. D. 



CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 



[By a Staff Coi-respoiidmtA 

 Trapped Quail. 



Chicago, Dec. 34.— Warden Bortree tells me th^t the 

 markets here are full of trapped quail coming from 

 Kansas. They come in thousands, by boxes, bags and 

 barrels. ''For heaven's sake," said Mr. Bortree, "shake 

 up the sportsmen out in Kansas. What are they about? 

 The destruction of quail this fall by netting and trapping 

 is perfectly fearful. They come in here by thousands, 

 not a wing broken and not a shot mark on them. We 

 ought to have a clause in the Illinois and Indiana laws 

 like that in the Missouri law, forbidding the having in 

 possession any bird that does not show shot marks." 



It is no unusual sight to see countrymen come in on the 

 trains to Chicago carrying strings of very neat and not 

 much demoralized quail. The most of these come from 

 Indiana. I suppose many more quail are trapped there 

 than are shot. 



Our quail season is now over here for this year, closing 

 last Tuesday for Indiana, where most of the Chicago 

 shooters go.' In addition to the good bags made by 

 Chicago men on quail this fall T should add that of Mr. O. 

 Von Lengerke, who bagged 41 on last Saturday near 

 Aokron, Indiana, and 18 the day previous. Mr. F. C. 

 Donald, in his November visit to Page county, Iowa, near 

 the Missouri line, had very good sport, he anfl his brother- 

 in-law bagging over 100 in four days' shooting. Their 

 top bag was 33 in one day, which they thought was quite 

 enough. Mr, Donald tells of a singular point made by his 

 dog on this hunt. The dog was crossing a small stream, 

 and when about half way across, and leg deep in the icy 

 water, struck the scent of a bird on the opposite bank, 

 and pointed hard and fast where he stood, the bird being 

 put up some moments later, the dog remaining in the 

 water, staunch on the point all the time. This I believe 

 to be an incident that would not often happen. 



Mellie O'Brien. 



Mr. G W. La Eue writes from New York regarding the 

 obituary of the late Mollie O'Brien, the dog which Mr. 

 Roll Organ took out hunting and didn't bring back. Mr. 

 La Rue incloses a handsome picture of a shepherd dog for 

 Mr. Organ to give Mr. O'Brien as a souvenir, I always 

 wondered how Mr. Organ was going to break the news to 

 Mr O'Brien about Mollie O'Brien's death. From Mr. 

 O'Brien's story it would seem that it was much like the 

 case of the laboring man who proposed marriage as a 

 way of breaking the news gently to a lady who was 

 ignorantly a widow. 



"You know that dog I borrowed of you?" said Mr, 

 Organ, 



"Yes," said Mr, O'Brien, 



"Well, you ain't got any dog now," said Mr. Organ, 

 and then he walked away. 



The jokes don't always go Roll Organ's way. I recall 

 a time when Jack Wiggins and a friend or two were 

 down in Florida. At a little railway station they met a 

 negro woman who had a lot of children with her, one 

 only a few months old. Jack got talking with the old 

 aunty, and inquired the names of all the children. It 

 appeared that the youngest had not yet been named. An 

 idea struck Mr, Wiggins, 



"I'll tell you what I'll do. aunty," said he. "If you'll 

 name that boy of yours 'Roll Organ,' I'll give you a new 

 calico dress," 



"Go 'way!" said the lady, 



"I mean it, it's business," said Jack, 



"Well, sah," said the lady of color, "ef you'll jes' 

 write dat name down on er piece of paper, an' gib me 

 two dollahs fer a new dress, I suht'ny gwine baptise dat 

 boy jes' dat veh'y name." So the bargain was concluded, 

 and I do not doubt that to-day there lives in the wilds of 

 Florida a hearty black boy who exults in the name of 

 "Roll Organ," Under a system somewhat like this, 

 about fifty of the pushers and natives around Mak-saw- 

 ba club bouse have named their sons "Roll Organ," and 

 I once met a dog in Indiana that was called "Roll Organ," 

 He was no good, too — I mean, either, 



A Good Pack Bag. 

 These piping times of Christmas remind one of Santa 

 Glaus, and Santa Claus reminds one of a pack sack, I 

 have discovered a pack bag made by a man away up in 

 Duluth, Minn,, which is a rare thing, a praoticsd pack 

 bag. It is patented but practical. It is about 33 inches 

 wi<ie, rather higher th^ that, and macle with a cover 



flap, which gives it as much holding capacity as you like. 

 The cover buckles neatly down with long straps. The 

 carry straps are so set on that they catch the shoulder 

 naturally, and can be adjusted. With this bag a man 

 can make a ti'amp under a good-sized load with much 

 more comfort than with any I have yet seen, and I have 

 tried a good many poor ones and good ones. This bag 

 also has the Indian forehead or "tote" strap, sometimes 

 called "lump strap." An Indian will not pack except 

 with the strap passing over the forehead. As to the 

 shoulder straps, he usually remarks briefly, "Ugh! Hurt 

 Injun heap !" I find my new bag very convenient for 

 carrying rough clothing, ammunition, etc., on a brief 

 hunt out of the city. Not so heavy as a canvas carryall- 

 bag, more convenient than a long sailor-bag, and better 

 than a trunk or any number of valises. 



For Advertisers. 

 At Warsaw, Ind,, one day this week, I saw an adver- 

 tising wall card which showed that the enterprising 

 fakir had been fa.king in an newish sort of way. This 

 scheme was to print on this elegant chart, guaranteed 

 circulation half a million, the advertisement of each local 

 merchant at, say, $5 a head, each advertisement to be 

 framed in terms not of harsh prose, but in flowing Eng- 

 lish verse! The total was headed "Warsaw in Poetry," 

 One of these sheets I obtained and shall long keep it as 

 proof of the astounding things that human beings can 

 do. The "poetry" was horrible beyond the wildest dreams 

 of travesty. No one can know how ludicrously tough it 

 all was, for I have only room for one sample, which I 

 commend to the attention of the able advertisers who are 

 to be found in the columns of Forest and Stkeaji in in- 

 effective prose. The local sporting goods dealer was thus 

 mirrored forth by the advertising artist: 



Should you wish to go aflshlng 



A fowling or what not. 

 Call in and view a sample 



Of what H, J. Mansfield has got. 



Sportsmen wilVfind guns, rifles here 

 For shooting ducl<s, rabbits and deer; 

 He'll furnish powder, shot and shell 

 The very best and treat you well. 



His double barrel shotguns 



Are just what you desire, 

 And his rifles and revolvers 



Did never yet miss.fire. 



All goods to suit the sportsman 



On every class and kind. 

 Fishing tackle, and outfits 



The best you here will find. 



All of these things Mansfield supplies 

 And he's the man to patronize. 

 Tis paid his goods are oheappst 



And none deny his claim; 

 And if you trade with Mansfield 



You will also say the same. 



If Mr. G. Harry Squires, Mr. W. C. Thome of Mont- 

 gomery Ward, etc., or other hard laboring young men 

 who have to frame new advertisements occasionally, will 

 cast their eyes ui)on the above, I think they will learn 

 something to their interest. The full flower of advertis- 

 ing as a fine art was left to bloom in Warsaw. New York 

 and Chicago can only gaze in envy. 



Photographing- the Fair. 



Apropos of Forest and Stream's "Rod, Gun and 

 Camera" series, an excellent thing, one that has attracted 

 much attention in this section. It may be of interest to 

 many amateur photographers to learn that a fee of $3 

 is charged at the gates of the World's Fair for any cam- 

 era taken on the grounds, and no camera larger than a 

 4x0 photo is allowed to be used by any but the official 

 photographer. The management is afraid of having its 

 intellect photographed. I presume. It looks to me as 

 though a good source of free and valuable advertising 

 was thus cut off, and many of the people deprived of 

 what might seem their right to an interesting and valua- 

 ble privilege. E, Hough, 



175 MONKOE St„ Chicago, 



THE POT-HUNTERS OF PIKE. 



MiLPORD, Pa,, Dec, 19, — Editor Forest and Stream: 

 The article in your issue of Dec, 15 signed F, Y, H, 

 should be read by every sportsman, pondered over, re- 

 membered and acted on. No truer words were ever writ- 

 ten, and they confirm in every way all that I have seen 

 or written on the same subject. I can even go further 

 than F, Y. H, in showing up the pot and market hunters 

 of Pike county. It is time that some action should be 

 taken to save the game of this great State. There are 

 men able to do it. Will they not act? 



Not a better hunting district is to be found than in 

 Pike county, but it makes the blood of a sportsman boil 

 to see the slaughter of game, every law broken, no game 

 associations, no game wardens, not a voice raised against 

 the lawbreakers, the law a dead letter. 



The lawbreakers are known. Year after year the same 

 men continue their work. The county papers publish 

 the names of the hunters, compliment them on their suc- 

 cess as shots, and laud the results as a credit to the men 

 and abundance of game. This season shows 100 deer 

 killed, and a safe estimate of illegal killing by hounding 

 is eighty. The best known lawbreakers have twenty 

 deer to their credit, Gi'ouse are snared by the dozens, 

 other game killed out of season, and no word is heard 

 against it. The farmers are desirous of a change in the 

 game laws, and there is a possibility of some action being 

 taken by the coming Legislature. 



What is needed is a leader and unity of action. Can- 

 not this be don^? Y. 



Game in Minnesota. 



Toledo, O., Dec, 24,— At St. Paul, Minn,, a few days 

 since a decision was rendered in a suit brought for the 

 violation of the game law of the State which raises an 

 interesting question as to its effect, if sustained, on pro- 

 tection, Merrill Ryrler. who keeps a meat market on 

 Jackson street, in St, Paul, was arraigned in the civil 

 branch of the municipal court charged with selling veni- 

 son out of season. The accused showed to the satisfac- 

 tion of the court that the game in question came from 

 adjoining States, and contended that for this reason he 

 was not amenable to tHe laws of the State of Minnesota 

 in its sale. This view was sustained by Judge Cory, who 

 bear(3 t^ie cage, and the defendant was discharged, It 



would be desirable to learn what were the grounds on 

 wbich the St. Paul court took this view of the violation 

 of the State law, and whether he regarded the latter as in 

 conflict with the law regulating interstate commerce. Is 

 not this something new? 



A Toledo game dealer the other day, in his list of game 

 in season, advertises "English pheasants, the first ever 

 brought to this market." J at Bebbe. 



THE NEW YORK GAME LAWS. 



Syracuse, N. Y., Dec 2i.— Editor Forest and, Stream; 

 The f oUowing amendments to the game law have been 

 submitted to the Committee on Legislation of the Execu- 

 tive Committee of the State Association for the Protection 

 of Fish and Game: 



Sec. 3(), Amend so as to read as follows: "Special Protectors: 

 The Board of Commissioners may, in its discretion and at pleas- 

 ure, appoint or remove a person recommended by any Biard of 

 Supervisors, or by any incorporated society, for the protection of 

 flsli or game, as special protector, who shall possess the same 

 powers that am conferred upon State Protectors; such special 

 protectors shall receive no compensation from the State, but 

 they shall receive from the county wherein the work is performed, 

 compensation for their ser\'ices at the rate of 13 per day and their 

 necessary expenses, not to exceed the sum of 8100, exclusive of 

 expenses in any one year, and the same shall be a county charge 

 to be audited and paid as other county charges are paid. The ac- 

 counts shall be verified as similar accounts are required to be 

 verified. They shall make similar reports to those required from 

 Sta'e Pfoteetors," 



Sbg. 41. Amend by inserting after the word "venison" the 

 words "elk and antelope," and strike out of said section the words 

 "or out of the State." 



Sec. a. Amend by striking out the words "eleventh," "tenth" 

 and "September" in the second line, and inserting in place thereof 

 tbe words "first," "twentieth" and "October," 



Sec. 47. Amend by inserting before the word "crusting" the 

 words "floating and jacking." 



Sec. 49. Add, "and rabbits and hares shall not be hunted, shot 

 at, killed or possessed, between the first day of January and the 

 first dav of September." 



Sec, 70. After the words "south of Zona Island," amend by 

 striking out the words "and that portion of Lake Ontario known 

 as Grep t Sodus Bay," 



Sec. 75. Amend by striking out the words "or out of the State," 

 and by adding at the end of such section the words "China pheas- 

 ant shall not be caught, killed, sold or possessed in the State of 

 New York for five years." 



Sec. 77. Strike out the words "and excepting in the counties of 

 Onondaga, Wavne, Oneida. Cayuga, Wyoming, Genesee, Niagara, 

 Monroe. Erie. Chautauqua. Cattaraugus and Orleans." 



Sec. 102. Amend by adding the words, "Having In possession 

 nets, or fish caught or killed in any manner or by any device, ex- 

 cept angling, upon the shores, islands or inland fresh waters of 

 this State, shall be sufflcient evidence of the violation of this sec- 

 tion." 



Sec, 108, After the words "landlocked salmon" insert the words 

 "pike and pickerel." 



Sec. 110. Amend by inserting after the words "thirtieth of May," 

 "except in the waters of Lake Ontario, in which black bass or 

 Oswego bass shall not be fished for, killed or possessed between 

 the 1st day of January and the X5th day of June." 



Sec 111, Strike rut the words "eight inches" and insert in place 

 thereof "one pound in weight or one foot in length " 



.'^EC. 112. Strike out the words "thirtieth of May" and insert 

 "15th day of June." 



Sec, 120. Amend by inserting after the words "$10 for each fiah 

 caught." the words "killed or possessed." 



Sec, 133. Amend by adding after the words "any islands there- 

 in," "nor within three miles of the mouth of the Niagara River," 

 and by striking out all of the words in parenthesis as follows 

 "The waters of Lake Ontario in the county of Jefferson, included 

 between Blue Rock Point, in tbe town of Brownville, and the 

 town line between the towns of Lyme. Cape Vincent, including 

 Chaumont Bay, Griffin Bay, Three j^lile Bay, are hereby exempt 

 from the provisions of this act." 



Sec. 134. Amend by striking out the word "eighth" and insert- 

 ing in place thereof the word "half." 



Sec. 140. Amend by striking out the words "It shall be lawful to 

 flsh for bullheads with fyke nets in Seneca River, in Cayuga, 

 Wayne and Seneca counties, but not in any part of said river, 

 within fifty rods of the mouth of the Clyde." 



Akt. 9. Amend by inserting a section after Section 314, as fol- 

 lows: 



Sec. 314A. "After the laying out of the grounds for private 

 parks, and the due publication and posting of the notices provided 

 to be published and posted in this article, and upon filing in the 

 clerk's office of the county where the premises are situated, proof 

 by affidavit that the foregoing provisions of this article, as to 

 posting and publishing notices, has been complied with, an order 

 may be entered in any court of records in tbe county where the 

 premises are situated, reciting the fact of such publication and 

 posting of notices, and declaring that the premises therein de- 

 scribed have been constituted a private park, in accordance with 

 the provisions of this article." 



A certified copy of said order may be read in evidence in any 

 civil or criminal action or proceeding, as evidence of the facts 

 therein recited. 



Sec. 315. Amend by inserting after the words "or interfere in 

 any way with," the words "or catch, shoot, kill or possess." 



Sec. 317. Amend by inserting in the first line, after the word 

 "article," the words "is a misdemeanor, and in addition," and by 

 striking out after the words "damages in," the word "an," and 

 insert in place thereof the word "the," and after the word 

 "amount," strike out the words "not more than," and insert in. 

 place thereof the word "of," and after the word "lessee," insert 

 the words "and penalties in the sum of $10 tor each fl=h so 

 caught, killed or possessed, and .$3-t for each wild bird or wild ani- 

 mal so caught, shot, killed and possessed." 



Sec. 236. Amend by striking out in Section 336 as follows : After 

 the word " may," in the fifth line, insert the words " prosecute 

 for and," and after the word " penalties," in the same line, add 

 the w"rds"and fines;"; after the words "such person shall be 

 entitled to " strike out the words " one-half of," and after the 

 word " penalfy " insert the words " and fines," and after the word 

 " recovered " strike out the words " the other half to be paid to 

 the Board of Commissioners." 



Sec 337. Amend by adding the wordfe "No peraon. imprisoned 

 under an execution against the person, as herein provided, shall 

 be admitted to the liberties of the jail," 



Sec 348. Amend by adding to the section the words " the fact 

 of giving such evidence by an offender against a co-offender in any 

 civil or criminal action, prosecution or proceeding shall be a bar 

 to any civil action or criminal proceeding against such wiiness," 

 WaTjTer S. MacGhegoe, Chairman, 



liOng-Sighted Shooters. 



For the benefit of those who have grown old and re- 

 quire spectacles to shoot on the wing, I give the following 

 advice: Put the glasses upside down. This brings them 

 higher than the usual way, Placo the right-hand notch 

 of the connecting arch over the nose, if you are a right- 

 handed shooter. This brings the glasses to the left. 

 With the glasses thus placed a shot made far around to 

 the left will not bring the rim which surrounds the glass 

 come between your eye and the game. If you are a left- 

 handed shooter place the glasses to the right. By wearing 

 the glasses in the usual way they are apt to slip down 

 unperceived, and the rim gets before the vision or even 

 below it, and in side shots the eye is quite sure to look 

 outside the rims, and the shooter misses his mark without 

 knowing the reason why. Old shooters, try it, and see if 

 you haven't something to thank me for, N. D. Elting, 



Woodcock Weights. 



AvooA, N. C— While out shooting on Dec. 19 I shot a 

 woodcock that weighed full 8oz, down weight. It was 

 the fattest one I ever saw. Who can beat this? There 

 seems to be cjuite a lot of them here for so early. 



S. W, EVEBITT, 



