Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1893. 



( VOL. Xll.-No. 7. 



} No. 318 Broadway, Nbw Yobk. 





Editorial. 



The Indian and the Big Game. 

 When the Hudsoa was Hudson's. 

 Snap Shots. 



The Sportsman Tourist. 



Danvis Folks.— sii 



Mr. Rastus's Experience.— iii. 



Natural History. 



Pearls in the United States.— ii. 



Game Bag and Gun. 



A Pagre from Other Days. 



The Adirondack League's Hunt. 



A C"ld Weatlier Story for 



August Reading. 

 Sportsmen and Farmers. 

 Chicago and the AVest. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



New California Fishes. 



Escape and Capture 



New Hampshire Fish and Game. 



Angling Notes. 



MichiKaii, My Michigan.— ui. 



OfC-Sliore at Cape .May. 



Some Michigan Fishing. 



Chicago and the West. 



Boston and Mrtine. 



Fislilng Postals. 



The Kennel. 



Ottawa Show. 

 Spariel Field Trials. 



CONTENTS. 



The Kennel. 



Tvpe of Great Danes. 



Rhude Island Sho^v. 



Has Any One Lost a Pointer ? 



Flaps from the Beaver's Tail. 



Points and Flashes, 



Dog Chat. 



Kennel Notes. 



Answers to Correspondents. 



Yachting. 



New YorkY. O, Cruise. 

 New York Y. R. A Regatta. 

 ISavahoe^ 

 Beverly Y. C. 

 News Notes. 



Canoeing. 



Glen wood— Electra. 

 Red Dragon C. C. 

 News Notes. 



Rifle Range and Gallery. 



The Zettler Shoot. 

 The Army Rifle. 

 I San Francisco Rifle Shots. 

 Rifle Notes. 



I Trap Shooting. 



Hazelton Tournament. 

 Snooting on the Atlantic Coast. 

 The Standard Gun Club. 

 Drivers and Twisters. 



Answers to Queries. 



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INDIAN AND THE BIG GAME. 



From the upper waters of the Green River in Wyoming 

 comes a complaint of same destruction by Indians wliich 

 calls for attention by the Federal authorities. The abtise 

 referred to is not a new one. We have often alluded to 

 it, and past volumes of Forest and Stream contain a mass 

 of correspondence and testimony on the subject. 



Our correspondent tells us that, as occurs each year, the 

 Fort Hall and Pocatello Indians of Idaho have this season 

 come into the Green River country in large numbers and 

 are destroying the big game for their hides, and as usual 

 in their hunting expeditions, are firing the timber in all 

 directions. Fortunately a recent rain put out the.se fires 

 for the time. Our correspondent inquires whether by the 

 laws of the United States these Indians are allowed to 

 leave their reservation at all times, to hunt game where 

 they please and to kill for hides in direct violation of the 

 State laws, or to go from their reservation in one State 

 into another State without restriction. Has the Indian 

 agent a right to give them a permit to hunt off their reser- 

 vation when he knows they are killing game for hides? 

 or has lie the right to give them a permit to leave one 

 State and go into another to hunt? 



By the last treaty made by these Indians with the 

 United States Government, it was especially agreed that 

 they should forever have the right to hunt on unoccu- 

 pied lands of the United States. This right they have 

 always enjoyed in the section referred to, and it is under 

 this right that they invade the Green River country. 



That country now contains many settlers, and it is per- 

 haps a question whether it is stiU to be considered "unoc- 

 cupied lands" within the meaning of the language of the 

 treaty. At all events, since the Indians make a practice 

 of firing the timber, thus doing irreparable damage to 

 the forests and so seriously threatening the water supply 

 of a great territory, it is the duty of the Interior Depart- 

 ment, which controls the Indians, the timber lands and 

 Che Yellowstone Park, which is endangered by these for- 



est fires, to see that the red men are kept on their reserva- 

 tion and not allowed to violate the State laws. 



Indians have the right to take game by lawful meth- 

 ods and at lawful times, just as white men have. Both 

 classes are subject to the laws of the State in which 

 they find themselves. Neither has the right to kill game 

 out of season nor to fire the forests. The rights of an 

 Indian should be precisely those of a white man. When 

 the act of either is against the general good his liberty 

 of action should be curtailed. It must be remembered, 

 however, that when he kills game out of season, or 

 when he fires the forests to help him in hunting game, 

 the Indian does not know that he is violating the law 

 of the land. He is doing only what his ancestors have 

 always done, what he has always been taught was the 

 proper way to secure game. But even though his offense 

 be committed in ignorance, it is still a violation of the 

 statute and should subject him to a penalty. But it 

 would be much wiser and much more for his interest to 

 restrain him of his liberty by keeping him on his reser- 

 vation rather than to allow him to be exposed to this 

 danger. The Interior Department, acting through the 

 Indian agent, has the power so to restrain him, and 

 ahould exercise this power. 



At the same time it is a matter of common knowledge 

 that whites kill game out of season and for hides, and are 

 seldom or never punished for it, nor in any way interfered 

 with, in the new Rocky Mountain States. The successful 

 prosecutions for violating the game laws in Wyoming, 

 Montana and Idaho — except in one limited section — could, 

 we imagine, be counted on the fingers of one right hand, 

 and the counter would still have his trigger finger left for 

 use. It is popular to make a great fuss about the harm 

 done to game and forests by the Indians and to say noth- 

 ing about that done by whites, who, by virtue of the color 

 of their skms, are supposed to have the right to burn and 

 destroy at will. 



It is absurd to ignore the offenses of either race. Such 

 offenses should be punished. Both classes should be made 

 to keep within the law, and it is just such men as our cor- 

 respondent, who might, by a little work in their own 

 locality, arouse the public sentiment which would enforce 

 respect for and obedience to the statutes now so lightly 

 regarded. 



WHEN THE HUDSON WAS HUDSON'S. 

 There are several claimants for the credit of having 

 suggested the enterprise now in progress of stocking the 

 Hudson River with salmon; and he woidd be rash indeed 

 who should have the temerity to determine the justice of 

 thek conflicting claims. It is interesting to note, how- 

 ever, that the original sugeestion of putting salmon into 

 tlie Hudson was made years before the present generation 

 of fishermen and fishculturists came upon the stage. 



The project is one which has allured the fancy and 

 engaged the attention of public-spirited citizens, and 

 challenged their efforts for more than a century. The 

 scheme had its origin when the dwellers on the river 

 banks were as yet loyal subjects of George III., and fish 

 protective laws were enacted by a Governor and council 

 who derived their authority from the Crown, and when 

 the Hudson River was Hudson's River. It was two 

 years before the fateful destruction of the taxed tea in 

 New York and Boston, that certain residents of Alban^v, 

 moved thereto by a desire to increase the food supply of 

 the Colony and fired with an ambition to add to the noble 

 river a game fish worthy a British angler's skill, deter- 

 mined to try the experiment of stocking its waters with 

 salmon. 



The history of such entei-prises in America must be 

 written in large measure from the records of the protec- 

 tive legislation relating to them; so far as we know the 

 only available data respecting this salmon stocking 

 scheme of colonial days is contained in the statute pro- 

 mulgated for the protection of the fish. It was adopted 

 on Feb. 16, 1771, and it will commend itself to the reader 

 of to-day as a very sensible piece of legislation, in spirit 

 and specification not widely different from our own 

 statute for the protection of Hudson River salmon: 



•'ir/iereas. It is thought that if the fisli called salmon, whifh are 

 very plenty in some of the rivers and lakes in this and the neighboi ing 

 Colonies, wi re brought into Hudson's River, that they would by 

 spawning become numerous, to the great advantage of the public; and, 



" Whereas, a number of persons in the county of Albany propose 

 to make the experiment and defray the expenses attending the same, 

 in order that the good design may be carried into more effectual exe- 

 cution, it is conceived necessary that a law should be passed for pro- 

 hibiting the taking and destroying the said flsh for a term of years. 



"Be it therefore enacted by his excellency the Glovernor, the Council 

 of the General Assembly, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of 

 the same, that if any person or persons after the publication of ihis 

 act, and for and during the term of five years nest to come, shall take 

 any salmon in Hudson's River, creek or brook emptying itself into the 

 same, and kill or destroy the same, every such person shall for every 

 salmon he or she shall so take and kill or destroy, forfeit the sum of 

 £10, to be recovered with costs of suit by any person who shall sue for 

 the same before any one of His Majesty's justices of the peace in any 

 of the counties within this Colony, who is hereby impowered and re- 

 quired to hear and determine the same. 



John, Eakl of Dunmork, Governor." 



Among those whose names should be remembered in 

 connection with the history of Hudson River salmon was 

 Mr. Robert L. Pell, of Ulster county, N. Y., who in 1857 

 offered to stock all the waters of the State with salmon 

 at his own expense if the Legislature would enact a law 

 for the protection of the fish until they should become 

 established. Mr. Pell took a lively interest in the arti- 

 ficial breeding of fish, then in its primitive stage, and 

 in the introduction of foreign species into American 

 waters. A shipment of fecundated ova of the English 

 sole, white bait, tench, carp and oth r fish, consigned 

 to him and intended for planting in the little bays formed 

 by the Hudson River R. R. .was lost in the ill-fated Arctic. 

 He experimented successfully with the artificial breeding 

 of shad, demonstrated its entire feasibility, and endeav- 

 ored to secure the enactment of a statute making it 

 incumbent upon the fishermen to plant the spawn of a 

 certain number of fish annually — a principle which has 

 since been adopted with respect to the whitefish fisheries 

 of the Great Lakes. But the scheme most cherished was 

 to see the salmon in the Hudson; and although nothing 

 ever came of his offer to undertake the work at his own 

 expense, the discussion of the project, with the interest it 

 aroused in the subject, entitle him to an honored place in 

 the records of fishculture in this State. 



SNAP SHOTS, 



Here is an interesting coincidence. Nearly twenty years 

 ago there was published in our columns an account of 

 the "Pet Birds of St. Augustine." The story was of a 

 kindly woman, dwelling on the outskirts of the town, 

 who had won the confidence of the birds in the adjoining 

 woods — mockingbirds, bluebirds and sparrows — so that 

 at her call they would fly from the trees and perch on 

 hand and head and shoulder for crumbs and raisins. It 

 was a charming instance of the trust and familiarity 

 which sometimes reward one's sociable advances toward 

 the wild songsters. In our Natural History columns 

 to-day is reprodticed a photograph sent us by ''Didymus," 

 of a St. Augustine pet hummingbird, confidingly sipping 

 sweets from a bottle held in hand. The story of how the 

 shyness of these little creatures may be overcome, and 

 how they may be won as charming pets, has already been 

 told by "Didymus." The coincidence is that the spot in 

 St. Augustine where the birds of twenty years ago were 

 tamed is practically the spot where "Didymus" has tamed 

 his hummingbirds. There must be some potent influ- 

 ence surrounding the place. 



The Waltonian celebration planned by the anglers of 

 Great Britain for the tercentenary of Izaak Walton last 

 Wednesday appears not to have brought together a large 

 number of participants. In America the chief celebra- 

 tion was at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. Some seventy- 

 five anglers were in attendance from the United States 

 and Canada. There were fly-casting competitions, and 

 competitive story telling. The first prize for longest and 

 best cast went to Mr. C. Hunter, of Toronto, the second 

 to Mr. J. Pringle, of Toronto, who also won the distinc- 

 tion of being the best story-teller. Hon. J. G. Edj ar, of 

 Toronto, took the prize for long distance and accuracy cf 

 cast. Steps were taken to establish a permanent organiza- 

 tion. The committee named for the purpope is made up 

 of Theodore Roosevelt, H. G, Wells and J. S. Kennedy, 

 New York; S S. Spalding, J. D. Sage and J. W. Aldrich, 

 Buffalo; J. Hill and S. B. Coleman, Detroit; J. C. Kemp, 

 C. Hunter, R. L. Patterson, M. Baldwin. Dr. J. B. Howe, 

 J. Pringle and P. Jamison, Toronto; Judge Chadwick, 

 Guelph; F. Stancliffe, William Ramsay and C. R. 

 J. Johnston, Montreal; Sheriff" Mercer and W. B. WeUa, 

 Chatham. 



Jack up your wheel and put on some axle grease. Take 

 a rest. Go fishing. Then you'll spin along at a faster 

 clip than ever. _ 



