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FOREST AND STREAM. 



| June 9, 1894. 



CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 



\From a Staff Correspondent.] 

 Horicon Wins. 



Chicago, 111., June 1.— A private letter to Mr. Percy 

 Stone, from the attorney of the Horicon clubs, has the 

 following; good news: ^ 



"Beaver Dam, Wis., May 28.— Percy F. Stone, Esq., 

 Chicago, 111.— Dear Sir: The Supreme Court last Friday 

 reversed the case of the State of Wisconsin vs. Klieforth 

 and Cummings, and the case of the State vs. you by 

 agreement of the court and District Attorney will follow 

 the same decision. I suppose that this decision disposes 

 of the cases; I have not yet seen the opinion of the court, 

 but suppose it holds that the rule of daylight given by 

 Judge Sloan has been declared not the law. When I get 

 the opinion will send a copy to you. Yours, J. J. Dick.' 



It will be remembered that the County Judge, bloan, 

 and the Waupun local jury of trespass sympathizers found 

 against the club men. The reversal of this decion by the 

 Supreme Court shows that justice is not dead in Wis- 

 consin. Deputy Klieforth, of the club's protective force, 

 has the following inserted in the local paper: 



To the Editor of the Mayville JVews: 



Some time ago your paper and nearly all the other county papers 

 contained an article reflecting upon myself, Percy Stone and William 

 Cummings in reference to our acts as protectors of game, and par- 

 ticularly In reference to the Horicon Shooting Club, in which you said 

 that we had been convicted of assault and battery for the illegal 

 taking away of Fred Lamb's gun while he was shooting on the Hori • 

 •can Marsh. The case was appealed to the Supreme Court and on 

 May 25 their decision therein was rendered by which the judgment 

 against us was reversed. This decision practically disposed of the 

 pretended claims of all parties who claimed to have the right to 

 shoot on the grounds of the club, and especially as to their right to 

 shoot game anywhere before sunrise. The Horicon Shooting Club 

 i ntends to prosecute all parties who have heretofore or shalT here- 

 after violate the game laws of the State, or who shall be found tres- 

 passing on the club grounds. Wm. Klieforth, Deputy Warden. 



Will Have a Hanging Bee. 

 Mr, E. M. Hungerford, of Billings, Montana, shows 

 what I call true hospitality in his invitation below. I 

 have not been at a hanging bee for a good while, and this 

 sort of tempts me. Mr. Hungerford says: "Everything 

 is quiet here with us as when you was here. Weather is 

 good for the breeding of both geese and ducks. Come 

 •out this way this fall and we'll give you the greatest vari- 

 ety of sport you ever found in one locality. We'll even 

 promise a special hanging bee (not with yourself as the 

 subject) or another Coxey riot for your edification. Of 

 course these would be simply side issues and would in no 

 way interfere with 'the legitimate sport — ducks, grouse, 

 wolf -chases, etc., ad lib. Our mutual friend, Mr. Lose- 

 kamp, is still on deck and would send his respects did he 

 know I was writing." 



Got If Another Invitation. 



Dr. W. D. Taylor, of Brownsville, Tenn. , who is in the 

 city on a short business visit, hunted up the Forest and 

 Stream Western office, as I am very glad to say, and 

 though I had never been so fortunate "as to meet him be- 

 fore, he very nearly got my solemn promise to come to 

 Brownsville next summer and shoot quail with him. If 

 I didn't have to work once in a while I could have a lot 

 of fun. Dr. Taylor says the birds are doing well in Ten- 

 nessee. But now, have I ever exaggerated the quality of 

 the Southern men's hospitality? This gentleman, who 

 had never met me at all, came all the way and looked 

 me up, just because he thought, from what he had read 

 in the "Dixie Land" articles, I had enjoyed the quail 

 shooting of the South. What Northern city man ever 

 looks anybody up and tries to do him a kindness? We 

 don't know how to live here. E, Hough. 



909 Seoubity Building, Chicago. 



FLORIDA TWENTY YEARS AGO. 



Omaha, Nebraska— Forest and Stream is a paper 

 that from long reading has become one of the great 

 pleasures of the week, and when a Sunday passes without 

 it I feel lost. Ever since 1876, when as a boy I hunted 

 and fished in Florida, with little thought of game laws I 

 fear, I have read it. In that year a thoughtful friend in 

 the North sent it to me, and from that day to this I have 

 only missed it when so situated that I could not find a 

 copy on sale. How eagerly its arrival was looked for- 

 ward to in those early days; we received our mail onlv 

 once a week, for we lived ten miles from the nearest 

 post-om.ce. 



Every one hunted in our neighborhood, and I think 

 throughout the State, and I suspect that many of our 

 present day readers would not hesitate to class us as pot- 

 hunters, and we were. It was hunt or eat salt meat 

 and any one who has tried dry salt meat as a steady 

 diet will not blame us. A deer meant a change and we 

 were not slow to avail ourselves of every chance we had 

 to get one. How well I remember the time-worn excla- 

 mation that arose from every one, "Meat in the pot " 

 every time the report of a gun was heard, or the look of 

 disgust on the face of fat old mam Cicely when she poked 

 her head out of the kitchen door and saw us boys return 

 empty handed. J 



We used muzzleloaders in those days and I still prize 

 my old gun, a 14-gauge Manton that had seen hard ser- 

 vice long before it reached my youthful hands. But how 

 it did shoot, and many are the deer and wild turkeys it 

 brought to our table. In the winter season we had fun 

 with the wild ducks and had to work hard to retries 

 them. Ine lakes and ponds swarmed with alligators 

 and the native dogs could not be induced to venturo in 

 nor indeed would they retrieve on dry land for that 

 fjff S bir ^° g l W T? lmost u *known with us, though 

 L?i antatl0n b ° asted i ts Pack of hounds, and pointers 



The omt Z7j eTe de Tf a T* 0 ^ and little esteemed 

 i ?J I ever had as a boy met with an untimely 

 end-too much alligator. He would go in swimminJ 



a fn?hl al 7 ayS ^ Unhealth y for do & m ouTcSry 5 

 In those Hay S Florida was a paradise for hunters. Deer 

 turkeys and quail were to be met with at every turn' 

 ducks covered the lakes and bayous all winter long and 



™%? a & f hem j Wild f a 1 t , 9 and ™ lves daunted Sam- 

 mock lands and sandhills; and so it might have remained 

 until to-day had not the sportsmen found It out! We 

 natives were no doubt pot-hunters of the first water but 



5 " Thel^T kiUed and °^^led wtt w e cou?d 

 use. lhe fame of our game went abroad, and soon the 



SS?,W T rr f Un W l th S °- Called gentlemen sporternen" 

 who shot only for pleasure and left what they killed to 

 rot where it fell. It makes me sore to this day when I 



think^of the butchery Tthat was perpetrated "in the name of 



SP Sportsmen! Nothing of the kind. Murderers of the 

 worst kind, who should have been landed in jail. I well 

 remember one fellow, an Englishman, who came all 

 trigged out in the latest fashion, and with a valet. He 

 hunted in our neighborhood for a week or more— until we 

 stopped him. We found four dead deer lying in the 

 woods where he had left them, and then my brother and 

 I took the law into our own hands, mounted our horses, 

 called together all the dogs on the place— some twenty or 

 more— and ran Mr. Sportsman with the hounds. I don't 

 know how badly he was scared, but this I do know, there 

 were no more dead deer found. "W. R. H. 



PENNSYLVANIA LAW. 



Pennsylvania State Sportsman's Association,— Al- 

 toona, Pa., June 3.— Editor Forest and Stream: The sale 

 of game, the question of a State game warden, the trans- 

 portation of game out of the State, and the problem of a 

 uniform game law for Pennsylvania that will as far as 

 possible meet the wishes of all sections of this vast com- 

 monwealth, are some of the nuts that the Pennsylvania 

 State Sportsman's Association is now trying to crack. It 

 asks through your columns that the sportsmen of the 

 State will help it in this matter by offering suggestions in 

 regard to the above points. The Association has reprinted 

 the bill reported favorably to the last House of Represen- 

 tative at Harrisburg, and has sent copies of the same to 

 all the organizations which ate members of the State 

 Association, with a request that suggestions be offered 

 for the consideration of the legislative committee of the 

 Association. By means of these suggestions it is hoped 

 that a bill can be framed which will represent the views 

 of the majority. 



As the law now stands it is permissible for a man to 

 go into the woods with his gun and dog any time after 

 July 4. He is going for woodcock, of course! As a mat- 

 ter of fact, we don't hunt woodcock at all after the first 

 three or four weeks of the open season, the birds get 

 scattered and are hard to find. During those three or 

 four weeks the birds are in their prime and I know of 

 no better sport than a morning's hunt during July. In 

 the fall we get no flight shooting to speak of; as a rule 

 we get none at all, the birds passing by Us altogether. 

 The birds that have bred here slip off on the first sign of 

 frost and don't return tintil March, when they commence 

 housekeeping at once. "What We want here is a month 

 of summer woodcock shooting as recommended in the 

 bill referred to above, which provides that woodcock 

 shall be lawfully killed between July 4 and Aug. 4. The 

 date set in the bill for the resumption of the open season, 

 Oct. 15, is altogether too late for this section and, I take 

 it, for the main portion of Pennsylvania. 



From letters I have received on the subject it seems as 

 if it was the general wish not to shorten the seasons, but 

 by the aid of a law that will prohibit the sale of game 

 and the transportation of the same out of the State, as well 

 as the appointment of a State game warden to enforce 

 the law that may be found best suited to the State. 



If any clubs or individuals desire copies of the bills 

 mentioned above, 1 will send them the same promptly. 

 At the same time, any suggestions intended for the legis- 

 lative committee of the State Association can be sent to 

 me and will be laid before that committee at its next 

 session. Edward B anks, Sec'y. 



Same Notes from the Roseau Country. 



Pelan, Minn. , May 25. — Editor Forest and Stream: I 

 have just returned from a long hunting trip in the Mus- 

 keag country, south and east of here, principally in 

 search of bear, but failed to find any number of them. I 

 made a circuit of about 200 miles, covering a region in 

 which I have always heretofore found plenty of bear, but 

 they are scarce this spring. We got but one, and that a 

 young one, I killed a yearling bull moose for camp 

 meat, and saw a large cow, heavy in calf, but did not 

 kill her. I think she was the tallest moose I ever saw. I 

 was out two weeks and was out of grub for three days, 

 except some fat bear meat, which I did not relish as a 

 steady diet. The half-breed whom I took with me de- 

 serted me in the midst of the Muskeags, and left me with 

 my team to get out as best I could. Of course I knew 

 the country thoroughly, and came out all right, but it 

 made rather heavy work for me, handling the team and 

 the baggage alone, and doing all my own cooking and 

 camp work. 



I am arranging for a trip into Manitoba, leaving here 

 about June 1, to catch moose calves. The Ellerton 

 brothers are going with me. We shall take a team, two 

 milch cows, and a full supply of provisions. Shall be 

 gone two to four weeks and hope to bring home several 

 moose and caribou calves. Will report results later. 



Burton Harris. 



Going North. 



Robert D. Perry, of Hraintree, Mass., and Dr. Wm. E. 

 Reeve, of Patchogue, L. I., are the first Forest and 

 Stream readers to take advantage of the opportunity 

 afforded sportsmen by Dr. Cook's Arctic Expedition to 

 secure Arctic game. Dr. Reeve has just returned from 

 Virginia, where he has spent several months hunting for 

 deer, and expects to hunt Polar bears and walrus for the 

 summer. Mr. Perry was one of Dr. Cook's companions 

 m the schooner yacht Zetta last summer, cruising alone- 

 the Greenland shores. He is thoroughly fascinated with 

 the bleak Arctic shores, the glaciers, the icebergs the 



^w^ 6 » for ™ s $H life ' and lon S s a S ain to return°to the 

 Wild Arctic Wastes " The time is not long distant 

 when men will go to the North Pole in search of game. 



A Sample of Tennessee Shooting-. 



Claresyille, Tenn., May 26.— Thank you for your 

 kind invitation on front page of this week's paper- 

 •Report your luck with rod and gun." Large bags of 

 game here are a rarity, but I will give you the total of 

 tour days shooting during jack snipe season. I would 

 leave home at 8 o'clock A. M., returning at 12-30 P M 

 never going over three miles, so only actually hunting 

 three horns each. In that time I bagged forty-one lack 



SJ^Tm f ay ? • ipe ' ^ pl0Ver ' ^ ree duck^ seven 

 rail (small) two king rail, one squirrel, one hawk and 

 one coon. I had unusual luck one day in getW into a 

 ot of English snipe. The Clarksville Gun°Club ha? not 

 iol a f eetm S th is year yet and if they do you may hear 

 again from me, ' Slippery 



Quail .Packing. 



NeW YORK, June 1. — Having seen Mr. H. L. Burdick's 

 article in last week's Forest and Stream, entitled "Quail 

 do Pack," and there seeming to be some question whether 

 they do or not; let me say, with Mr, Bur dick, that quail 

 do pack, especially in the Southwest, New Mexico and 

 Texas. A year ago I lived on a ranch in Mora county, 

 New Mexico, where the blue quail were very thick. At 

 no time do I remember having seen single birds, always 

 from ten to forty in a bunch. When shot at, they would 

 naturally scatter, but in a little while would be in one 

 bunch again. Not being hunted much, they were quite 

 tame and nearly every ranch had a semi-domesticated 

 bunch, that lived near the buildings]almost like chickens. 

 Not having had much experience with Eastern quail, I 

 can say very little about them; but hope to hear from 

 some Eastern fellow-sportsmen if the quail bunch or not 

 in the Eastern States. C. W. 



Currituck Quail Shooting. 



The president of the Narrows Island Club has made 

 arrangements with a number of farmers of Currituck 

 county, whose lands adjoin the club's property, by which 

 the quail shooting on their farms shall be reserved foi- 

 members of the club. It is intended to supply these 

 farmers with buckwheat which they nipy sow in their 

 fields after they have gathered their crops, so as to afford 

 abundant food for the birds, which are already numerous. 

 The recently passed law forbidding the shooting of wild- 

 fowl for two days in the week tends to induce sports- 

 men visiting Currituck county to pay more attention to 

 upland shooting than has heretofore been the case. The 

 grounds of the Narrows Island Club includes a consider- 

 able area of admirable quail country as well as extensive 

 snipe marshes, on which, first and last, a great many 

 birds are killed. 



Baltimore County Game. 



Baltimore, Md., June 1. — Our new game law (applying 

 to Baltimore county only) protects partridge, rabbit, 

 pheasant, gray squirrel and woodcok until the game 

 seasons of 1895. This law is radical. A close season of 

 nearly eighteen months for quail, but, sad to say, wood- 

 cock, a migratory bird, is also in the list. As for squir- 

 rels and rabbits, 1 have no use for them except in the 

 tree or on the lawn. In the pot the rabbit looks too much 

 like the family cat, and like her they too are protected. 

 There is also a new clause, and this will interest our 

 friends, for while non-residents must pay a license of $10 

 per annum for the privilege, yet if they get our consent 

 they can shoot over our lands for nothing. 



Asa B. Gardiner,, Jr. 



She Has ' a True Aim." 



Many of the iadies of Jackson's Hole, Wyo., aire known 

 to be good shots and to have killed various sorts of small 

 game, but last winter Mrs. R. L. McDermott broke the 

 record by going out alone and unaided and killing a big, 

 fat cow elk, and she made a shot that any hunter could 

 be proud of, as the ball went directly through the heart of 

 the animal. The gun, a .45-90 Winchester, she had never 

 fired before, as her favorite gun had always been a .22cal. 

 Colt's repeater. One would "never select Mrs. McDermott 

 as the woman with the nerve to tackle a bunch of elk, as 

 she is a handsome and refined little blonde lady with an 

 entire absence of any suspicion of masculinity in her 

 make-up. — Correspondence Cheyenne (Wyo.) Leader. 



Game in Iowa. 



Rockwell, Iowa, May 31.— We are having an ideal 

 spring for game; prairie chickens are thick, although they 

 could not be found last fall. I have seen more quail thia 

 spring than ever before in this vicinity. W. L. H. 



Br Cook's Arctic! ExfEDiTtON, A few sportsmen can join it. To 

 "Greenland's icy mountains." To within 800 miles of the North Pole. 

 Hunting polar bear, neal, walrus and reindeer.— Adv. 



TARPON AND TURTLES. 



OspRey, Manatee County, FJa.— Last year we had excel- 

 lent sport with our tarpon in the bays near my winter 

 home on Little Sarasota, ail through April. This year } 

 however, that incorigible coquette, the Meaalops, has 

 given us poor sport. In fact, from all that can be heard 

 there is good evidence that very few tarpon have been in 

 the bays up to the present date, and the few that have 

 been inside have given us very mediocre sport. The 

 "Grand Ecailles," as some of the semi-French natives call 

 them, have been, in this region, at least, "off their wit- 

 ties," and when they seize the mullet they nibble rather 

 than bite, and walk off with it in place of running off the 

 coil as we like to see it unwind. 



About the mouth of the passps in the open Gulf plenty 

 of our frisky friends maybe seen, not singly, but in assem- 

 blages numbering from a half-dozen up to a half-hundred. 

 But in the case of these gatherings, as in the case of the 

 Coxey contingents, their ways are dark. They bask lazily 

 along the surface of the warm water and swim about in 

 a dreamy way. Now they are in a body and later on they 

 assemble in a sort of a circle and swim around slowly as 

 if playing circus. 



While indulging in these antics they pay no attention to 

 any bait which may be tossed even within a few inches 

 of their broad mouths. Some days ago while fishing for 

 black groupers over the rocks which form the northern 

 boundary of Little Sarasota Pass I noticed such a gather- 

 ing of tarpon. Pulling in my anchor, a few strokes of an 

 oar soon brought my light boat to the group. The grand 

 fish paid no attention to the approach of their enemy — 

 man — so I was enabled to follow them about leisurely for 

 over a half hour and study their movements at pleasure. 

 During this entire period they never left the surface, but 

 were in sight all the time. At short intervals they ex- 

 posed their heads and grand eyes, then the dorsal fin and 

 the feather next the tail were exposed. They also rolled 

 over at times, showing the silvery gleam of their large 

 scales. There movements were slow and lazy beyond ex- 

 pression. 



The boat was paddled up so near to them that it would 



