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FOREST AND STREAM. 



LDec. 9, 1898. 



there at the time it arrived. The tardier rivals had 

 nothing to offer readers about the triais for they had 

 already seen the Forest and Stream report. It is no 

 wonder that the sporting world turns to Forest and 

 Stream. It stands to reason. The world moves. 



At Vincennes it was my fortune to attend the ti-ial of 

 McLin, the fiend who burned up the dogs at Bicknell. As 

 stated elsewhere, McLin got three years in the peniten- 

 tiary as a consequence of his crime. Tbe verdict gave 

 general local satisfaction. There are stern features if 

 need be in sportsmanship. 



About the Midway. 



Mr. Howley writes further: "My Thursday evening 

 dinner piece de resistance is Forest and Stream. I read 

 with especial interest the thrilling experiences of yourself 

 and Mr. Waters while among the natives of the Midway 

 in search of copy." 



Evidently Mr. Howley is laboring under a mistake. So 

 also must be Mr. and Mrs. Claude King (of Sx)Orts Afield, 

 Denver) whose card left for this office says: "Called to 

 offer our congratulations on your serio-comedy, 'The Mid- 

 way Plaisance.' That was, honestly, great." 



There must be a wide-spread misapprehension out some- 

 where about this, because Mr. Wilbur Dubois, of Cincin- 

 nati, writes the same thing, as follows, to Mr. Waters: 



"The 'Staff Story of the Midway,' in Forest and 

 Stream for Nov. 4, is truly great — one of the brightest 

 extravaganzas I ever read, and all dehcious fooling. Be- 

 sides the wild fun I got out of it, I picked up a bit of in- 

 formation that is worth the price of the paper for a year, 

 namely, that Javanese cocoa will cure canker in the ear. 

 Why did you keep this back from me so long? I am fond 

 of cocoa myself, and while treating my setter this summer 

 I could have had him in the dining-room at the breakfast 

 table, and could have slopped half a cup of cocoa into his 

 ear just as easily as not. You ought to tell 'Ashmont' 

 about this for his new book. 



"It is a pity Katie foundered on bum-bum candy, or we 

 might have borrowed him for our trip South. She had 

 fed so miscellaneously on Ottomans, Amazons, and wild 

 men from Borneo, however, that I fear he would have 

 found our Christian fare too tame for her oriental appe- 

 tite, and she might have died on our hands, as Mollie 

 O'Brien did on Mr. Hough's. By the way, remembering 

 Fidus Achates, it is a wonder Mr. Hough didn't say that 

 Katie's other name was Fido. Katie, however, was good 

 enough for a dog like him (I mean like Achates, not Mr. 

 Hough), for aside from her unspeakable cannibalism, the 

 human mind revolts at his drinking seventeen cups of 

 heathen coffee, clear, without cream or sugar, all in a 

 single night. After making such a spectacle of herself, 

 he deserved to be carried out by her hindlegs at the end 

 of the play. I see I have got the sex of this classic 

 animal a little mixed, but I haven't been able to make up 

 my mind whether it was male or female. 



"Was Katie's life insured? After his experience with 

 Mollie O'Brien I should think Mr. Hough would have 

 taken this precaution, and yet, if you had suggested it to 

 him he would have rejected the proposition with disdain." 



Mr. Dubois is away off. Everybody is away off. To 

 ascribe the wild and vaporing imaginings of a shorthand 

 writer to two such men as Mr. Waters and myself is to 

 lay a charge which needs no refutation. I trust our 

 dignity and elegance of diction is too well known to per- 

 mit even the momentary existence of a suspicion to the 

 effect that such is our usual style of conversation, or our 

 manner of conduct. Is it then always to be proven true 

 that to be great is to be maligned? 



An Echo of the Fair. 

 Mr. F, A. Whitman, of Macomb, 111., writes and says 

 he wants his name pasted in the Forest and Stream 

 register, wherever that now may be, for that in July he 

 tried to register and couldn't, because the lady attendant 

 was so busy talking to her best young man. It is written 

 and it shall be posted. Names there have good company. 



The Carlin Party Rescue. 



Dec. 2. — In x-egard to the rescue of the Carlin hunting 

 party, who were snowed in in the Bitter Eoot country, a 

 special to the Omaha iJee^had the following details: 



The lost party consisted of W. E. Carlin, J. H. Pierce, A. H. Himmel- 

 wriglit and M. Spencer, guide. They were in bad shape when found, 

 Iseing out of provisions, nearly stai-ved and barefoot, and with scarcely 

 any clothing. They were slowly making their way down the river. 

 George Colgate, ttie cook of the party, gave out a few days before the 

 rescue and had to be left, and it is feared may have died. All possible 

 will be done to find him dead or alive. The rescued and the rescuers 

 are expected here on Tuesday, and General Carhn will meet the party 

 here. 



The story of suffering, desperation and hardship told by the lost 

 hunters was frightful. Ever since the heavy snows set in in the Bitter 

 Root Mountains, they told Lieut. EUiott, they had been making an 

 effort to return to Kendrick. For many days they had battled with 

 the mountain blasts and drifting snow, slowly heating their way down 

 the Clear Water in an effort to reach civilization. Their progress was 

 impeded by the swollen river, which was often blocked with floating 

 ice, rendering passage exceedingly difficult and dangerous. They 

 managed to cross the Clear Water in several places at great risk to 

 their lives, being compelled to wade the icy current up to their necks 

 or swim amid tbe floating blocks of ice and snow. Nearly all the horses 

 died of cold and starvation 



The men were put on half rations of hacon and bread. Their shoes 

 had become worn out fi-om constant tramping over the mountain 

 rocks and their clothmg was torn into shreds. At last the struggle 

 became too great for George Colgate, the cook of the party. He be- 

 came utterly exhausted and was unable to proceed further. Colgate 

 realized the situation fully and advised his companions to attempt to 

 save themselves. 



When Lieut. Elliott and his snowshoers came upon the exhausted 

 men in the Middle Fork of the Clear Water they were bravely flghtiug 

 their way through the snow. The reception they gave the gallant 

 officer and his men was more than a welcome. 



909 Sbcurity Bun-niNG, Chicago. E. HOUGH. 



Pennsylvania Game. 



' MUNCy, Pa., Nov. Bl. — A flock of about twenty wild 

 turKeys was seen just across the river from this place the 

 first of this week. The boys ai'e after them. The 9:39 

 on the P. & R. the other morning scared up a large flock 

 of quail. We made for the spot where we marked them 

 down, when lo and behold! there it was, "No trespassing," 

 etc., and the quail were safe. Numerous reports reach us 

 concerning the deer hunting. A party of Williamsporters 

 bring in five from the vicinity of Trout Run. Hon. C. W. 

 WilUamson and son have killed six on the headwaters of 

 Larry's Creek. Some successful ones are reported from 

 English Centre. A man by the name of Zach Clark killed 

 a large bear near Brookside. More deer have been killed 

 in the northern part of the county for the last three or 

 four falls than before for years. There is little or no 

 hounding done, and they increased immediately when 

 this work was no longer continued. J. M. E, 



DEER IN MICHIGAN. 



Lansing, Mich., Nov. 28.— The deer season is closed. 

 The woods have been full of hunters who came from all 

 sections of the country, and it has been positively danger- 

 ous for a man to go into the woods. I have not learned 

 of any serious accidents occurring, but it has been re- 

 marked often by those who have been in the great north 

 woods and have returned home that it was a wonder that 

 half of the hunters were not kiUed by careless shooting. 



A couple of years ago Mr. F. D. Simonds, of Columbus, 

 Ohio, came to Lansing and invested in real estate. He 

 has a beautiful piece of woodland covering nearly forty 

 acres. He has platted the entire property and, as Engle- 

 wood Park, it is known the State over as one of the finest 

 additions to our city. Mr. Simonds has made a handsome 

 fortune out of his Lansing venture, and as he accumu- 

 lates valuable real estate, his love for the gun and his 

 enjoyment of a life in the woods quite overcome him. 

 Early in November he got out his Winchester .45-70-40.5, 

 and packing his grip the morning of the 5th, he started 

 for the woods. He first put up at the Ingleside Hotel, 

 Charlevoix, where he spent a couple of days in talking 

 with the people who came into the village, and trying to 

 find a favorable point to spend a few days with a fair 

 prospect of getting a shot at a deer. His investigetion led 

 him to East Jordan, and from East Jordan he went to a 

 little four-corner place in Antrim county called Ches- 

 tonia. Here he put up with a settler, Mr. S. C. Wilcox, 

 and from this place he started out each morning on his 

 hunt. This section of country is partly settled up, but 

 there is an immense body of hard wood timber, and in 

 the woods at several places he found hunting camps. 



For tliree days he ranged the woods for miles around 

 and did not even get sight of a deer, although deer was 

 said to be fairly plenty. Getting discouraged he started 

 for home, but the night he reached Charlevoix it began 

 to snow, and in the morning the snow lay on the ground 

 about three inches deep. This condition of things encour- 

 aged him somewhat so he went back to Chestonia. The 

 next morning early he started out, and he had hardly 

 reached the woods before a big buck boi-e down upon him, 

 and, passing aboiit twenty rods to one side, he exposed 

 his whole side, giving Mr. Simonds an opportunity to 

 send a 405-grain ball through his left hip high up. The 

 big fellow tumbled to the ground with his leg smashed to 

 pieces, but he very soon got up and started ofl' on three 

 legs and made good time for the Jordan River, about eight 

 miles away. Mr. Simonds foUowed him to the river, and 

 supposing that the buck had crossed the river he plunged 

 into water and made the other shore, but as he was not 

 able to strike the trail he re-crossed the river and, after 

 searching for a short time, he again found 1;he trail, and 

 after going about half a mile he found the buck taking a 

 rest in a little clump of bushes. The buck by this time 

 had bled a great deal and had got so stiff that he could 

 hardly rise, but as the hunter came up he again attempted 

 to make off, when he received a 405-bullet through the 

 neck, which finished the hunt. Mr. Simonds found his 

 way out by the aid of a couple of hunters who heard his 

 shot, and being short of meat the hunters were glad to 

 assist him for a portion of the carcass. Mr. Simonds 

 brought home the skin, which he has sent to Columbus 

 to have tanned for a rug, and the head, with the big five- 

 prong horns, he is having set up for his library. He is 

 well pleased with his hunt, but thinks deer are too scarce 

 in the section where he was to make it an obiect to go 

 there at any great expense, thinking to get many deer. 

 The hunters in that section use the .40-60 mostly; but one 

 whom he met had any other, and that was a .38. Mr. 

 Simonds got lost the first day out, and but for coming 

 across a straggling hunter, like himself, he would laave 

 had quite an experience of a night in the woods. There 

 is a trail in the woods which is widely known as the 

 Simonds trail, and as he struck the big buck while on this 

 trail he quite naturally thinks that the Simonds trafl is 

 quite a famous place. JtTLLA.N. 



West Branch, Mich., Dec. 1. — Deer were very plenti- 

 ful this fall, and still there were very few shot. There 

 was one crew of thirteen hunters who came here from 

 Ohio who did not get a deer, and they are not the only 

 hunters that went home empty-handed. Om- local hunt- 

 ers had the best luck. One gentleman in this town shot 

 six deer the past week. He shot two deer with one bullet. 

 The number of hunters is increasing each year. Forty- 

 three were camped on a lake near here and it is lucky 

 that no one was kiUed. Rabbits are very thick but par- 

 tridges are few. O. N. B. 



Central Latce, Nov. 28.— Last Saturday closed the law- 

 ful deer hunting in this State, and as far as I have learned 

 the hunters in this region have had pretty good succe.ss, 

 There w-as a good tracking snow toward the last of the 

 season, which has seldom been the case for several years 

 past. In fact it fell in Otsego county to a depth of three 

 and a half feet, which was not only unusual, but decidedly 

 too much of a good thing. 



Some deer have been shot in the Jordan and interme- 

 diate swamps, but the most I think were found in the 

 great forests of our eastern counties. 



One party of eight who went somewhere in the direc- 

 tion of Alpena kiUed sixteen. They saw bear signs but 

 had no shots at bruin. 



Here the snow is a few inches deep, the lake not frozen 

 as yet. The "boys" have planned a "side-hunt" for 

 Thanksgiving day, but there is little game here now 

 worth shooting. I am glad to be able to say that I never 

 took part in one of those "side-hunts." I regard them as 

 an abomination. Kelpie. 



forces combined a great power can be exercised in the 

 work of saving fish, game and the forests from annihila- 

 tion, and cheapening fish-food for the masses. 



Let us rally in large numbers and with fixed determina- 

 tion at this annual meeting to be held at the Hotel Yates, 

 in Syracuse, beginning at 10 A.M., Thursday, Jan. 11. 

 It is expected that the Commissioners of Fisheries, the 

 Forestry Commission, Chief Protector Pond and his depu- 

 ties, the representatives of aU the hatcheries, and men 

 both in and out of the State who are prominently inter- 

 ested in the work wiU be present. The attendance should 

 be very large and representative, such as to command the 

 attention and respect of the good people of the entire 

 State. 



We feel certain that you will see to it that your organ- 

 ization is fully represented by earnest men. 



John. B. "Sage, Secretary-Treasurer. 



INew York State Association. 



BixPFALO, Dec, 1, — To all Members of the New York 

 State^ssociation for the Protectioyi of Fish and Game : 

 The annual meeting of tliis Association will occur on Jan. 

 11. Your attention is thus early called to the fact that 

 you may have ample time to prepare for it. Full and 

 strong delegations should be selected for this meeting, for 

 its pi-oceedings will be important. The work of the Asso- 

 ciation becomes more and more important as the years go 

 by, and the people of the State are looking to it for good 

 service in its sphere of duty. 



The Association now lias the favor and confidence of 

 State officials whose creation was a direct result of the 

 agitation of the subject of protection. Those officers and 

 the Association are now in happy accord, and with such 



TEXAS HAS ATTRACTIONS. 



Victoria, Texas, Nov. 24.— We have had a protracted 

 drought in Texas during the past summer and fall, and 

 in consequence the grass is short and the cover for quail 

 so poor that they do not lie well for the dogs, although 

 we have a goodly number of them, perhaps as many as we 

 usually have. 



The best^shooting is along the rose hedges inclosing the 

 pastures, where the quail gather for protection from 

 hawks. Several fair bags have been made by our 

 hunters during the past few weeks. Two gentlemen went 

 fifteen miles to the hedges and returned to our little city 

 by 4 o'clock with sixty -seven quail. A friend and I made 

 the same trip and returned with forty-four birds. We 

 found them very wild and frequently had to f ollov7 them 

 a quarter to half a mile before we got in shooting distance 

 of them, after they left the hedges. We found the best 

 shooting along the hedges. One of us would take one 

 side and one the other, and thus get shots when the birds 

 flew out no matter which side they flew. We found 

 numbers of empty shells along the hedges which showed 

 conclusively that a great deal of shooting had been done 

 along there. 



Besides quail there have been several deer killed in the 

 wooded bottoms of the river near town. A party of four 

 wlio went about thirty miles south from here into the 

 O'Connor Pasture on the west side of the San Antonio 

 River, killed fom* deer and report having seen more than 

 200. Not having any way to save the meat, they did not 

 try to kill more, as they found ducks and geese abundant 

 and killed a number of them. 



We are short on fish however, which have died in large 

 numbers owing to the drying up of streams and lakes 

 during the drought, and the prospect is poor for good 

 fishing in the near future. 



With our mild winters when snow is almost unknown , 

 I know of no place where the conditions are more favor- 

 able for winter hunting than South and Southwest 

 Texas. In almost any one of the coast cotmties from the 

 Sabine River to the Nuices, first-rate sport can be had 

 and ducks and geefee and quail are abundant. Guy. 



MAINE BIG GAME STATISTICS. 



Bangor, Me. , Nov. 26.— Editor Forest and Stream: In 

 your issue of Nov. 7, we notice "Special" states, that 

 "there was never anything like the exaggeration of the 

 amoimt of game being killed this fall." Now as he has 

 made several misstatements, we take up our pen to cor- 

 rect some of them. In the first place he quotes J. G. 

 Rich as stating that fully "100 deer are being killed daily. 

 If he will take the trouble to look up Mr. Rich's article 

 under the date of Nov. 4, he will find that it reads "100 

 deer weekly." 



As we are in the best position to know about the quan- 

 tity of big game that is killed in Maine, we will state that 

 100 deer a week is> rather low estimate of the[number. We 

 have counted between 300 and 500 carcasses of deer, cari- 

 bou and moose that have come into or through Bangor 

 alone thus far this fall; and they constitute only a part 

 of what are killed in the whole State. We think that 

 there will have been at least 1,800 deer, caribou and 

 moose killed in the three months open season this year. 



Now a word in regard to heads. Up to Nov. 7, we re- 

 ceived for mounting at oiu- Bangor establishment alone 

 16 moose, 13 caribou and 91 deer heads, instead of 10 

 moose, 5 caribou and 36 deer heads, as "Special" has it. 

 The gentleman who informed him either had not been 

 in our place, or if he had must have made a very poor 

 guess. Why, for the week from Nov. 18 to Nov. 25, we 

 have received [25 deer and one caribou head, and with 

 good snow storms for the next month, we estimate that 

 the total number of heads which we will receive from our 

 two establishments, Bangor and Rangeley, wfll reach 

 surely 250, Now as there are several other taxidermists 

 in Maine who each get a few (John Clayton of Lincoln 

 will probably get nearly 100), we estimate that there 

 will have been fully 500 heads mounted in Maine this 

 season, and of course quite a number of heads are car- 

 ried home by sportsmen from out the State to be 

 mounted by local taxidermists ; and furthermore, cer- 

 tainly not more than one-fourth of the animals killed 

 have heads that people think worth saving, so many of 

 them are does and fawns. So you can see that l,800,is a 

 very good estimate. We have received heads from a 

 great many of the people whom "Special" mentions as 

 having killed big game. We are not writing this article 

 as an advertisement but as a perfectly correct statement 

 of the facts of the matter. 



The weather is very cold, ponds are freezing and there 

 is snow in northern Maine. S, L, Crosby & Co. 



Indian Rook, Me., Nov. 27,— Deer are very plenty, as 

 you already know, but from the best information I can 

 get through guides and hunters not more than one hun- 

 dred have been killed in this section, comprising Oxford, 

 Franklin and Somerset counties, I have been in the 

 woods a few hours (since snow came) and find tracks as 

 plenty, or more so, than I have ever seen before. Bears 

 are frequently found on beech ridges gathering beech 

 nuts to prepare themselves for winter. Billy Soule 

 kflled one a short time ago and three more were seen 

 near where it was shot. There have been but two days 

 of good still-himting this faU. A crust formed soon after 

 snow fell 9.nd deer were on the alert. 



C, J, Richardson. 



