Jan. 19, 1893.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



would be repeated with similar dignitT on the other side, 

 and so on. Presently, after how long an interval I can- 

 not say, but while "we stiU sat there looking at him, he 

 slowly turned away, and with stately tread pursued his 

 original coirrse across the '-breaking," and we returned to 

 our stone hauling. 



Tlierefore, as I know I was not frightened, and am as 

 certain that I saw what I ha^^e detailed as I am certaui of 

 ray name. I may Ije counted among those Avho know from 

 observation tliat a panther does ''wave" his tail, or at 

 least that one panther did. W. E. Garter. 



CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 



lli\-om. a Staff Con-espondent.] 

 All About Skins. 



CmoAGO, Til., Jan. 14.— Mr. J. A. Price, of Eiverside, a 

 Chicago suburb, has a magnificent buffalo robe of the old 

 sort, which has been in liis family unused for years. His 

 father bought it iji the late '&fs. He has also a rare and 

 luiiquc thing in the skin of an albiuo buffalo, a genume 

 white biiffalo. of the fabled sort. This is evidently the 

 robe of a yearling. The color is gTayisl^ ^\^hite. Mr. 

 Rice's father got it In 1871 . Its history is unkiiown. Still, 

 it has been in CMcago for 22 years, a . singularly interesting 

 iand valuable bit oi news as it is. I have been waiting for 

 22 years to see whether or not n valuecl albino contempo- 

 rary pubhshed ii] tliis city As-as going to say anything 

 about this skin. l)nt ha\ o iihnui concluded that it won't. 

 May be it Avill next ^veelc iio^v. 



The finest bear skin I CA er saA\' is the propertv of Mr. R. 

 F. Bidlen. of 186 Clark street, this city. It is a '-silver tip" 

 skin, though Mr. Bullen and the taxidermist thought it a 

 grizzly. While not so large as many grizzly skins, it is the 

 finest, in point of coal and general perfection, I ever met, 

 iSot that it is small, for indeed it is very large. We 

 nii-asured it 84 feet from hind foot to nose. Tft. lOin. from 

 tail t'l nose. 6ft. llin. from front foot to front foot acr(,>ss 

 its outstretched fore legs. Tlie liead is 19 inches long, the 

 actual skull being 15 inches as measured over the naked 

 bones. This bear Avas killed late in last September, near 

 ■.Hahn's Peak. CJolorado, and Mr. Bullen had a near call 

 with him. He and his guide sa^^' the l icar standing up on 

 his hind feet in a (]iiaking asp thicket. The guide got his 

 ■cartridges mixed, and his rifle was worthless. Mr. I3ullen 

 shot the l)ear though, with a .47-70 government cai-fridge. 

 His heavy 500 grain bullet did not stop the bear, and it 

 came on. Mr. Bullen fired three more balls at it which 

 struck it in the body, and aU but one seemed to pass 

 .through its body. This one AA^as foimd, battered and 

 flattened in the most singidar Avay, lodged against the skia 

 on the opposite side of the bod.y. None of these stopijed 

 the big fellow, and he came smashing out through the 

 thicket, walking on his hind feet till he got near the edge, 

 Avhere he dropped to all fours. He Avas then only a foAv 

 yards distant, and came on, AA^ith his head low doAvn and 

 roUin.g. as if to protect his head. Mr. CuUen fired scA-eral 

 rapid shots at his head and missed him, the bear snarling 

 and roai ing each time as if he kncAV A\diat the zip of the 

 Imllet meant. His last shot fired struck the bear in the 

 corner of the eye, and it turned him, though it Avas never 

 foiuid m the direction and probably did not do the mortal 

 Avork. At this shot, however, the old fellow swerA'-ed and 

 Avent liack int(^ tlie thicket, Avhere he wati fomid a. fcAA- 

 moments later (pn'te dead, with his head stretched out on 

 a log. Mr, Cullen says he was not scared at the tinie. He 

 knew he had to shoot and couldn't get aAvay. After it 

 was oA^er. he -got plenty scared, as well he might. This 

 Avill ,show tliat two men are better than one to kill "bear. 

 Of these two guns, one Avas out of order just at the time 

 when it should haA'e been working. The guide got a 

 cartridge jammed, one of different c-aliber from the one 

 his gun required. At an}' rate, after so narroAv a squeak 

 • and so exciting an experience. Mr. Bullen deserA'es hearty 

 congratulations. His trophy is A'aluable in every sense of 

 the Avoi-d. 



At Periolot & Wolfs fur store T spoke of the Bullen 

 bear skm. and ^'(:'ntlu•ed th.e remark that there \\'ere only 

 two kinds of liears in tlii^ Rock-ies, the grizzly and the 

 blacK'. <;)ni^ of the firm laughed at me, and showed me. 

 a.s som(41iing Avhicli he evidenth' considered conclusive 

 prool', the sldns of lilack. liroAvn, cinuam<m and silver ti]) 

 Deal's. "Tliese may cross." said he, "but \.\wy are distinct 

 species." I should lioi wonder if he cdleil tlie Bullen 

 skin a grizzly skin. 



The "Golden Beaver." 



Once u|)on a, time 1 wrote some ai'ticles about furs, and 

 had occasion to interA^ ie.AA' Mr, .J. F. Periolot, of this same 

 6rm. He shoAved me some specimens of golden beaA^er 

 felts, a. fur wjiich I have ahvays tlionght the most beautiful 

 on earth. ■■This is the golden bea\^ei'," said he, ••which 

 we usuaUA- call the Siberian l)ea\ er, but t(j be frank with 

 you, it doesn't come froru Silieria at all, Init is only foimd 

 on a few streams (.)f tlie In<lian Territory. This' priA'ate 

 .snap in ucavs I duly published. Iaoaa' it happened that 

 to-day, Avhile talking with the member of the firm Avho 

 didn't believe in restricting the bear family, that this 

 question of the golden beaver came up. • -There is no such 

 thing as a golden lieaA-er." said this candid gentleman. 

 "That color is all the result of bleachuig. We can bleach 

 a beaver slcin to any shade of 'golden,' as I wUI shoAvyou. 

 We used to call this Siberian beaA'er. but now cA^erybody 

 is on to this, and the trade secret is too common for con- 

 cealment." Thus Tanished alike my belief in the secret 

 streams of the Indian nations and in the honesty of a fur 

 man. My admiration for the Avonderful honey-colored 

 fur remains unshaken, 



A Sensation in Buffalo. 



But this was not all that I discoA-ered in my wild and 

 Avooly day of prowling after skins and furs. I ran across 

 a sensation Avhieh may cause many a man to start in his 

 chair, in New York or Colorado. I ran across oiie of the 

 slaughtered herd of the Lost Park buffalo, of Colorado, 

 something A^dlich has torn rrp the press, both, lay and 

 .sportmg, for some time. I found the skin of one of these 

 buft'alo, foimd A\'here it came from, and — ^more's the pity I — 

 came Avithin an inch of finding out the name of the man 

 Avho did the kdling! At least. 1 belicA^e these to be facts, 

 and Avill state the ease just as i( lay before me Avith the 

 guard that obviously the Avords of the fur men need careful 

 weighing. 



It Avas at this same atpre of the Wolf & Ppjiolot Fur 

 Co., and just after the golden beaver man had explained 

 the Siberian bleach to us, that he caUed oiu: attention to 



the mounted figure of a magnificent buffalo buU, in fuU 

 robe, and fairly Avell set up. 



Where does that come from?" I asked, "and how long 

 haA-e you had it?" 



"We've had it about 6 months. It came from the 

 north, from Montana," was the reply. 



"Then it must be from Manitoba, not Montana," said I. 

 "Did it come from the Warden Bedson herd, of Stony 

 Mountain, or did Buffalo Jones get all of that herd?" 



"Yes, that's where it came from." said the fur ma,n. 

 (He Avas very pohte and this may have been the wolf, 

 though I do not knoAv his name). 



We turned to go, when I met Mr. Periolot, whom I 

 had met often before. I spoke to him of the big bull at 

 the stock yards, remarking that it Aveighed over a ton. 

 "Oh, that's nothing," said he, "we've got one in here that 

 weighed 2,700 pounds." 



"Where did you get him?" I asked, 'as we v\'alked back 

 to the bull. 



"He came from Colorado," said Mr. Periolot, "or rather 

 it was smuggled into Cheyenne from Colorado. It Avas 

 killed in BroAvn Co. , Col. ," but you know there's a .$1000 

 fine for killing a birffalo in Colorado. We got this skin 

 packed doAvn close and tight in a store box. It was 

 killed by a man who hunts and traps for us all the time 

 out there, and shipped by our Cheyenne firm." 



"Why, this nuist be one of the Lost Park herd," said I, 

 unAvisely; •'you know there aren't very many buffalo left 

 out there.'" " Then I tiaught myself, and grcAv more care- 

 ful. "Do you know Avho killed the big bull?" I asked, "he 

 was in big luck to get a shot at a buffalo these days." 



•'I can't just think of his name," said Mr. Periolot, "biit 

 I'A'e got it on my books. Come on Vjack, and I'll look it 

 up." 



We had gone half way t*) the desk before he tmnbled. 

 '■No, I guess T won't giA'e you the name, said he, "It 

 might get the felloAV into trouble out there." 



This is how I ran against one of the Ivost Park herd. I 



Dick Rule, a local newspaper man, says he doesn't care 

 to take a gan Avith liim Avdien he goes after quail in this 

 comitry. That he can kill all he wants Avith a club. An 

 incredulous smile on the faces of some of his auditors 

 called out an emphatic reassertion. Dick insists that he 

 can go to Rattlesnake Springs, twenty miles west of Eddy, 

 and Avhen the quaill come in to Avater, in. the morning, he 

 can kill a basketful in half an hour. Still telling this story 

 he is often introduced to strangers as the only club hunter 

 in the Pecos Valley. 



A local neAvspaper reporter recently stated that a man 

 had brought in from the Guadalupe Mountains a carload 

 of deer. The only error in the statement occurred by the 

 t dropping out of the Avord "cart." A little incident some- 

 times makes a big difference in the result of a hunting tiiji. 



A big mrde deer, brought in a feAv days ago and sold to 

 a butcher, Aveighed, Avhen dressed, 1831bs. He was killed 

 in the Guadalupe some distance Avest. 



Bob Welch, Avho fives on the Penasco, fifty mUes west, 

 brought in a Avagon load of good, fat deer the day before 

 Christmas and sold them at $3 a carcass. 



C, R. Sims and J. L. Bock, from the same neighbor- 

 hood, brought in fifteen deer a day or Iavo later, which 

 they killed in eight davs. and sold at .six to eight cents a 

 pound. " G. O. Shields. 



SOME NEW BRUNSWICK TRAPS.— III. 



Fisher Trap (Fig. 3), Tobique River, N. B. 

 As IS Avell knoAvn, the fisher is often very destructive to 

 sable and mink traps. These animals either spring the 

 trap and eat the bait, or else devour sable that are captm-ed, 

 In a region where the black-cats are plentiful, it AviU be 

 observed, Avhen folloAAung a ''line" of traps, that eA'ery 

 other trap, or several consecutive tra])s. are built someA^diat 

 larger than the others, yet not too big to cai>hu-e sable 

 also. But it sometimes happens tiiat the black-cat refuses 



Pia. -3.— Fisher Trap, 



give the .story for Avhat it is worth. The conflict in the 

 reports of tlie Iavo member's of the firm wiU be noted. 

 Does any one. Mr. Jones or any one else, know the real 

 story of the big fuU blood bifil noAv to be seen mounted in 

 this store? If not, did it really come from Colorado, is 

 not this a clue better than nothing, and better than any 

 yet held by the Colorado men who are after the brute Avho 

 did the fllegal and abojnmable act of killing one of the 

 Last Park lierd? E. Hough. 



17.5 MONHOE STBEET, CMcago. 



GAME NOTES FROM THE PECOS VALLEY. 



Eddy, New Mexico. — A party of Eddy sportsmen made 

 a round-up on rabbits A^esterday afternoon and in two 

 hours' shooting kfiled lo8, 96 of which Avere killed Avith 

 Wmchester rifles of .32 and .32cal.. and the others Avith 

 .shotguns. The score was as follows: J. E. Gluck 17, F. 

 G. Hodsell IT. G. D, Huestis 17, W. A. Morrison 8. Ed 

 PiontoAvskv 17, Auu'ust Gagg 17. W. A. Whittlesev n. A. 

 Luckey 3(J. W. P. Sim<mds i'and C. ( '. Blodgett ll'. You 

 Avill notice that six men tied on 17. Tlie tie is to be shot 

 oJf within a feAv^ days. Four of these shooters went cmt 

 a fcAv days ago and" hr()ngh.t in 51 rabbits, the result of 

 three hours'^vork. The reason Ave kiU so many rabbits 

 hej'e is, first liecause there are so many, second l>eca.use 

 Ave can, ami third liecaiise they are a pest to th<? frint 

 groAvers and ought to be kfiled. We estimate, hoAvever, 

 that it Avill take about ten years to exterminate them, at 

 this rate. 



Jack rabbits do some queer things. A local sportsman 

 Avas lately shooting some cottontails in a large bunch of 

 mesquite and. after killing scTeral, saAv a jack sitting in 

 the furtlier edge of it, not more than 10ft. from him. He 

 preferred to shoot the jack on the run and Avalked toAA^ard 

 him to start htni up. Jack simply moved around to the 

 other side of the bmicli of brush. The shooter foUoAved 

 him up sev eral times and he kept Avalkiug from one place 

 to another, at no time gettmg more than 6 or 8ft. aA\ ay. 

 Finally the hunter picked ni3 a smaU pebble and, holding 

 his gun in his right hand, thrcAv it with his left. It hit 

 Jack on the side of the nose Avith such force as to make a 

 sharp report and to stagger htm. He Avinked his left 

 eye, claAved the injured member Avith his left foot, bucked, 

 jumped and performed various gymnastic feats, for a 

 minute or so, Avhen he fit out across the coimtry and a 

 rifle ball turned Mm oA'er. 



A flsh hawk offered an interesting bit of entertainment 

 to the same man a fcAV days later. The bird hovered over 

 a shalloAv place in the river, for a moment, and then, 

 dro])ping into the Avater, fastened to a catfish that Avas 

 more than he could fift. He struggled with it for some 

 minutes, the cat toAving bun about the river, and some- 

 times takmg him entirely under the water. The hawk 

 hung on untfi he seemed to get the best of the fight, Avhen 

 he struck out for the shore, using his wings as paddles, 

 and Avas making fair progress. He would undoubtedly 

 have landed his catch in a feA\^ minutes more, but a small 

 rifle buUet also ended this struggle. 



jw R. ]\L Gilbeil, who lives thii-ty miles above Eddy, on 

 the Pecos, states that some time ago he Avent away from 

 home, taking his family Avith him. He left a couple of 

 seines, each about 100ft. long, hanging on a fence to dry. 

 Some prospectors came along, camped near his ranch, 

 and seemg the seines stretched them up in the mesquite, 

 in the shape of a V with a pocket at the angle. They then 

 made a drive throngh the brush, for a distance of half a 

 mile back and dro\ e in several coveys of quad, capturing 

 in aU 180 birds. ^ i r b 



to enter the larger trap built for liirn, so whenever a suit- 

 able chance is afforded, an ingenious contrivance is built 

 for the cunning animal, like the foUoA\-ing, AA^hich Avas 

 used on the headAvaters of the Tobique River: 



A spruce stump, higher than one's head, had been left 

 standing after some gale had broken the top off. A fmv 

 blows Avith an axe completed the Avork which the storm 

 began, and the stump was split doAvn nearly its Avhoh' 

 length. Two spruce poles, five inches thick and fifteen 

 feet long, had been cut. and the butts of each hewed some- 

 Avhat flat. One of them Avas forced down into the split 

 stump to Avitbin four feet of the grormd, the smaU end 

 resting upon the ground. The other pole was laid up on 

 top of the first one. Then at a point about three feet dis- 

 tant from the stump, the ordinary ■■standard" and ■'baifc- 

 .stick" Avere set up betAveen the two poles, the "bait-stick" 

 pomting out at right angles. Over the triggei-s a handful 

 of flat fir boughs had been jjlaced. lialanced upon tlie upper 

 pole, and to keep it in place a short pole Avas laid u]) on top 

 of it, as shown in the Uhrstration. The bait cannot be 

 reached from the gromid. and the roof of boughs ])revents 

 its being taken from overliead : so in order to get at thw 

 bait at aU, it is necessary for tire animal to crawl doAvn 

 upon the under pole. He is thus lietAveen the two poles, 

 and Avhen he seizes the end of the "bait-stick." the upper 

 l»ole (AvMch should be A\Teighted) falls ujion him. This is 

 by no means a common traj). Tappan Adney. 



COLORADO GAME INTERESTS. 



Dena^ek, Col., Jan. 18. — In bis annual message to the 

 Legislatm-e Governor Routt made the following sugges- 

 tions in regard to the game laws: 



It is evident from tlie re|)orti of the fi.sh uomuiissioner that an error 

 was committed in adding the duties of game warden to his depart- 

 ment. The ijrotection of oiir fish and same from cruel and -wanton 

 destruction should be made a subject (if yow acth-e interest, and legis- 

 lation -n'hich will be effective in secin-ing- this result, together with a 

 sufficient appropriation to enable those charged with the duty of en- 

 forcing the same to jM-operl}- ]ierform their duties, will earn tlie grati- 

 tude of our future as well as our present citizens. 



In the propagation of fish our present coumiissiojiei' has heen i-en- 

 dering the State a good sei-vice, as shown b,\- his I'eijort, and suitable 

 provision should be made to accommodate the growing needs in this 

 direction. 



The many waters of our State seem to be well adapted to this pur- 

 pose, and the iumiense ntmiber of fish deposited therein by the coai- 

 missiouer insures a bountiful supply for our sportsmen arid for food 

 pvtrposes, if proper safeguards are provided. 



In the matter of the destruction of game more stringent legislation 

 is ahsolutely necessary if we wotdd pi-eveut its total extinction. 



I Avould recommend that no appropriations be made for boiuitie„s 

 upon bears or moimtain lions and that all laws upon this subject be 

 repealed. Our present condition does not justify any expenditure of 

 money in this direction, as no injury to our stock'uiterests of any con- 

 sequence can result from this source. 



There appears to be a groAving interest in game and fisli 

 protection among the most influential of our citizens, and 

 it looks now as if something worth Avhfie in the Avay of a 

 game law would be enacted by the present Assembly and 

 that a fund Avill be created to properly enforce it. 



' Teseeby. 



A Ne-w-Subscriber Oflfer. 



A bond fide new subscriber sending us f 5 will receive for that sum 

 the Forest and Stream one year (price Ig4) and a set of Zimmerman ""s 

 famous "Ducking Scenes" (advertised on another page, price $5)— a 

 $9 value for $5. 



This offer is to iu'ip sitbsci-ihors only. It: r/.jcs- nal- (qiplii h, n'lK'ini.lx. 



Tor a bo4,» firh- mnv sul!s< Tiber for six nionrhs will iv.-five the 

 Forest Stream during tJiat time and a copy <if Dr. Van Fleefs 

 handsome work, '"Bird Portraits for the Young" (the price ol; which 

 is $3). - 



