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silent paddling. Two teal jump up and go skimming 
away, straight ahead. Bang, bang! Two dead birds. 
Retrieve. Slip quietly along again. Big mallard springs 
up almost under bow of boat. Bang, miss, cover with 
left and bang again. Some feathers drifting in the 
morning breeze. Big splash. Dead mallard. 
Sun comes up. "White man hungry. Looks back at 
Indian, says "camp." Indian turns canoe paddles half- 
way across channel. Duck jumps up at edge of rice in 
front. Swings to the left. White man screws around, 
duck swings still more to the left. White man screws 
around still more, covers and pulls. Bang! Two big 
splashes, canoe bottom up. White man with arm over 
canoe. Looks back; sees bubbles, dead ducks and paddle 
bob up. Indian bobs up. Catches hold of canoe. White 
man feels water running down inside shirt collar. Says 
"ough." Indian makes no sound, but looks all around. 
Sees big pine tree in edge of rice, about ten rods away; 
looks at white man; jerks head toward tree. White man 
and Indian swim and shove canoe to tree. Climb up. 
Pull up canoe and empty out water. Gather up ducks. 
Both paddle, and canoe hums through water to camp. 
Big fire. Indian still silent. "White man fixes two tin 
cups full of hot water and something else hot. Hands 
one cup to Indian. A moment's silence. Two empty 
cups. Indian speaks. "Ugh! Think like to go out tip 
over again!" Geo. W. Miars. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
Chicago, 111., June 20. — The Kewaunee case, the cause 
celebre in Western protective matters, "drags, like a snake, 
its wounded length along." It was expected that Judge 
Bigelow, before whom the motion for new trial in the 
confiscation proceedings came up, would before this have 
passed on the motion; but be has not as yet done so. It is 
very possible that he feels himself in an awkward judicial 
position, and realizes that he may have been wrong in his 
first position. He has asked to refer the case to a second 
circuit judge, who has declined the honor. Attorney 
Ladd, for the sportsmen, writes this week that he believes 
that it would be as well to take the case direct to the 
Supreme Court of the State, but is not clear how this 
can be done over the head of the Circuit Court before 
which this motion is pending. Meantime the "people's 
case," taking up the criminal side of the Merritt freezer 
question, is to come up before the Appellate Court early 
this fall. The court will determine the question of the 
illegality of having in possession game killed in other 
States. This question comes up also in the' confiscation 
or property side of the case, and it is possible that Judge 
Bigelow would not be adverse to getting a line on this 
question of law from the Appellate Court. Should the lat- 
ter court favor the sportsmen in its decision, and should 
the Circuit Court incline to the same position, the sports- 
men would have nothing left to ask and nothing to be de- 
cided except the right to seize the illegal game. This 
would take the matter to the- Supreme Court in very good 
shape. It must probably go there finally in any event, 
and in the meantime these tedious legal delays constitute 
practically the whole amount of the news of the matter. 
The case is a very important one, and should the sports- 
men eventually win it, it will break the back of the cold 
storage game outrages in the West. 
The Texas Buffalo Herd. 
Telegraphic news comes this week that the mysterious 
Texas buffalo herd, known as the "Val Verde herd, has 
been again located, and at last accounts a party of cow 
punchers had been sent out by the rancher who intends 
to round up the herd and confine it in his ranch pasture. 
Italian Joe. 
Readers of Forest and Stream may perhaps remember 
that unique character, Italian Joe, the plover shooter. 
Joe tells me that he now has a little place of his own out 
on the edge of the Chicago plover country, I think he 
said at Archer road and Fifty-fifth street. He invites me 
to come out next September, and says that we will cer- 
tainly have a good time with the golden plover then. 
Joe says that he had very fair plover shooting this spring. 
His favorite ground lies on the ground of the natural 
flight of the snipe and plover, which I have earlier men- 
tioned as lying between Chicago and the Fox River. 
This is a high, rich farming country of black land inter- 
spersed with sloughs and waterways. 
Bears In the Big Hole. 
Curt Harrison, a Montana hunter, is reported to have 
killed three bears in the Big Hole basin last week— one 
grizzly, one silver tip, and one black bear. The grizzly 
is said to have weighed over 5001bs. 
The Biggest Bighorn. 
June 13.— The biggest bighorn head in the world, so 
far as is known authentically at this time, hangs to-day 
in the "Western office of Forest and Stream, having just 
been received from the hands of the taxidermist, Thomas 
W. Fraine, of Rochester, N. Y. Mr. Fraine has spent 
some weeks in modeling this head and has consulted all 
sources of information, referring to photographs and re- 
corded measurements, as well as consulting with the best 
authorities on big game in the country, and making 
studies from such live mountain sheep as he could find 
in the parkB. The specimen in question was worthy of 
all the care and patience it received, for the like of it is 
thought not to exist to-day, this being the verdict of the 
most experienced big-game shooters who have seen the 
head, both in New York and Chicago. 
The thanks of Forest and Stream are certainly due to 
the donor of so magnificent a specimen. As was men- 
tioned in the report of the Sportsmen's Exposition in 
March, the killer and donor of the head was Mr. William 
Jackson, of Piegan, Mont., who will be remembered 
pleasantly by so many who saw him at the Forest and 
Stream camp of the red hunter. "Billy" Jackson will be 
glad to know that the great head in which he took so 
much pride has had proper attention and has safely ar- 
rived at the abiding place which he selected for it. It 
has already been seen by a number of the sportsmen here 
who have marveled at it, and it speaks eloquently of the 
noble sport still to be had in some of the wildest corners 
of the Rocky Mountains. There is no prouder or gamier 
looking animal than the Rocky Mountain bighorn and 
the face of this scarred and battered old veteran retains 
the melancholy but bold and fearless expression of his 
kind. The head has been voted the choicest possession of 
the Forest and Stream office here. As considerable 
scientific interest attaches to this specimen, I shall later 
have proper measurements made by an authority on such 
matters, and confidently believe that we shall then be 
in a position to ask competitors to bring on their big 
sheep. 
To the Rockies. 
Mr. Alfred Weed, of Anderson, Ind., inventor of the 
Weed perforated' bullet, made this office a pleasant call 
this week. Mr. Weed purposes taking a trip for big game 
into the Rockies this fall, probably into the Jackson's 
Hole country. He has killed all the big game of the East 
in Maine and Canada, but is shy an elk and a grizzly or 
so. The latter, I am disposed to think, he will come pret- 
ty near getting if he lodges one of his flat-headed, stove- 
pipe bullets in any ticklish part of bis anatomy. Mr. 
Weed tells me that Mr. Archibald Rogers killed two griz- 
zlies on one day, using these cylindrical bullets, whose ef- 
fect he described as being extremely destructive. 
A Folk-Lore Meeting. 
A meeting of the International Folk-Lore Association 
was held yesterday evening at the residence of Mrs. J. Y. 
Scammon, of this city. Professor Starr, of the Chicago 
University, gave an interesting talk on the sun dance of 
the Indians. A number of Sioux Indians from Buffalo 
Bill's Wild West show were present at the meeting. An 
association seal was adopted indicating the purpose of the 
body, which is the study of Indian traditions and myths. 
Babies In the Park. 
At Lincoln Park, in this city, a mountain lioness has 
given birth to three cubs, which are flourishing very well 
at this writing. The park also has a pair of baby leopards, 
which are now two months old. 
Crawfish and Jacksnlpe. 
A friend living in the South gives me a curious bit of 
information about the "crawfish lands" of his country, 
meaning lands in which the crawfish bore their holes. 
He says that this land raises better cotton than any other, 
the stalks reaching great height on such soil. A Northern 
friend, joining in the same conversation, called attention 
to the fact that though in the North the crawfish land is 
not held valuable, it is always the ground where one will 
find the most jacksnipe. 
The Daily Reporter. 
My friend, the daily reporter, has again gotten mixed 
up with firearms. In describing a recent murder he 
says, "The murderer was heard shambling about the 
house, but it was not suspected he was priming his 
revolver." Probably he wasn't. Any really up-to-date 
murderer hardly uses a revolver which has to be primed, 
and indeed he might find difficulty in finding such an 
arm. 
The Game of Alaska. 
I continue to notice in the Pacific coast papers reports 
of the resources in big game of the recently developed 
gold country along the Yukon in Alaska. It would seem 
that moose and caribou are very abundant, and that any- 
one who wants his grizzly can get him without any 
trouble. A recent writer speaks of a breed of grizzlies 
known as the Mount St. Elias bears, which he says are 
fighters from the drop of the hat. The usual custom of 
mining camps will be followed no doubt, and much of the 
game immediately around the gold fields will be killed 
off, but this will only mean a better acquaintance with 
the country for the sportsmen's travel which is bound to 
go to that country before very long. E. Hough. 
1206 Botce Building, Chicago. 
In the Mountains. 
Red Lodge, Mont. , June 13. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
I shali be located in the game country in Montana and 
Wyoming for the next four months. The latch string 
you will always find on the outside of the tent should any 
of the Forest and Stream family come this way. If any 
brother sportsmen contemplate a trip to this section and 
will communicate with me I will give them valuable in- 
formation as to outfitting, etc., from here. 
Wednesday last I rode over to Clark's Fork Canon and 
I found it as beautiful as ever. In fact, I believe it grows 
more beautiful each time I see it. The fishing was poor 
in Clark's Fork owing to very high and muddy water, 
though in the Little Rocky and Bennett creeks the fishing 
is excellent. 
There is much rivalry among the outfitters here this 
season. Like all other outfitting towns, there are guides 
and men who call themselves guides, and it is difficult for 
the uninitiated to decide which is the guide. I am on the 
ground and will cheerfully give any information possible 
to help out. There is still much snow up in the moun- 
tains, though the hot sun of the past three days has 
cleared many places. Will report all along the line of 
march. W abash. 
Chinese Pheasants in Kansas. 
Topeka, Kan., June 20.— Editor Forest and Stream: 
The introduction of the Chinese golden pheasant into this 
section of the country may be credited to Hon. A. B. 
Quinton, a prominent lawyer of Topeka, who last year 
procured a pair of birds from H. T. Hudson, president of 
the H. T. Hudson Arms Co., of Portland, Ore. The pair 
survived and are in good condition, and last May Mr. 
Quinton received from Mr. Hudson eighteen eggs, out of 
which were hatched fourteen chicks, four of the eggs 
being broken. The chicks are lively and doing well, and 
will be kept in confinement until next spring, when they 
will be turned down some miles out from town upon a large 
farm where hunting is not allowed, where it is hoped they 
will thrive and multiply. 
The introduction of this splendid game bird into Kan- 
sas is a matter of great importance to the shooting fra- 
ternity, and the experiment is being watched with much 
interest by our local sportsmen. A. J. Hawker. 
HE CAUGHT A HUNDRED TROUT. 
BY FBKD MATHER. 
I met him at the station door, 
With rod and well-filled creel, 
And as he stepped to earth once more 
Most happy he did £eel. 
He ope'd his eyes and rubbed his head, 
And smiled and gazed about; 
Then winked at me and slowly said: 
"I caught a hundred trout." 
"A hundred troutl" I cried. "O, dearl 
Where have you been, I pray, 
While I've been chained to business here 
And could not get away? 
Has pussy-willow dropped her blow? 
Is the dogwood blossom out?" 
He only said: "I do not know; 
I caught a hundred trout. " 
"How clear has been the thrush's note? 
How often have you seen 
The May fly on the water float, 
With wings of changing sheen, 
Leaving her thin, transparent shell, 
Rejoicing that she's out?" 
He only said: "The fish bit well; 
I caught a hundred trout." 
A hundred trout 1 O, deary m e 1 
And I am tied down herel 
What weeks of work I'd give to see 
The brook, the wood, the mere I 
There's a moral hid somewhere in this, 
But I can't find it out; 
I only know to me 'tis bliss 
To take a dozen trout. 
MEN I HAVE FISHED WITH. 
After reading an English book entitled "My Life as an 
Angler," by Mr. Henderson, a friend who had heard 
some of my fishing stories in many parts of this conti- 
nent, and abroad, with gentlemen, loafers, Indians and 
niggers, suggested that I write up these many-sided peo- 
ple in an anecdotal, historical and semi-biographical sort 
of way for Forest and Stream. 
In this scheme Mr. Henderson's arrangement will be 
reversed, just as an inventor turns a machine upside 
down and gets a patent for an original device. The 
sketches will incidentally contain all that is covered in 
Mr. Henderson's title, but that is a natural sequence of 
the title which I have chosen; yet the foreground will be 
.filled with the main people in the cast, each being the 
star of the evening. 
This series of articles will cover over half a century, 
and most of the actors are dead, and in some cases I 
know little of their lives, and will be very glad to get 
any anecdotes, biographical sketches or even obituary 
notes of them. The following is a partial list of the per- 
sons with whom I have fished and will write up, and 
among them will be found a few who are still living,' and 
I hope fishing, whose consent may not have been fully 
given, but who will not bring suit for defamation of 
character until they read what has been said of them. 
The list is given by decades: 
1840. Eeuben Wood, John Atwood, Billy Bishop and 
Port Tyler, all of Greenbush, N. Y.; Geo. W. Simpkins, 
Warrensburg, N. Y. 
1850. George Dawson and Ira Wood, Albany, N. Y.- 
Charles Guyon, Potosi, Wis.; Antoine Gardapee, a Wis^ 
consin trapper; George H. Bay nor, Chicago, 111.; Wet 
Dog and Dirty Face, Ojibwa Indians; William Warren. 
Kansas. 
1860. Gen. Chester A. Arthur and Francis Endicott 
New York city; Mortimer Locke, Honeoye Falls, N. Y.; 
Seth Green, Rochester, N. Y. 
1870. The Grand Duke Alexis, of Russia, in Currituck 
Sound; Hon. George Clark, Ecorse, Mich.; Hon. James 
Geddes, Syracuse, N. Y; E. Z. C. Judson (Ned Buntline), 
Eagle's Nest, Adirondacks; Len. Jewell, Bay City, Mich.; 
Admiral George John Malcolm (H. B. M. Navy), at Frei- 
burg, in Baden; Prof. James W. Milner, Waukegan, 111.; 
Thaddeus Norris, Philadelphia; Franklin Satterthwaite, 
Newark, N. J. ; George W. Sears (Nessmuk), in Adiron- 
dacks; Genio C. Scott, New York city; Prof. Spencer F. 
Baird, Washington, D. C; Rear-Admiral L. A. Beardslee 
(Piseco), on Cape Cod and in Adirondacks; Delaware 
Bradby, or Bradly, a Pamunkey Indian, in Virginia; Joe, 
a darky boy, in Bermuda; Fred. E. Jones, Pike county, 
Pa. ; Pete, a darky, of Tangipahoa, La. 
1880. Wallace E. Blackford and Hon. Eugene G. 
Blackford, Brooklyn, N. Y.; John J. Flanagan, Utica, 
N. Y. ; Jack Sheppard, an Adirondack guide; Col, Locke 
W. Winchester, New York city; Rev. Henry L. Ziegen- 
fuss, Poughkeepsie, N. Y; Hon. Amos J. Cummings, 
M. C, New York city; Castalia Club, Castalia Springs, 
Ohio; Alvah Dunning, Adirondack guide; Dr. Bashford 
Dean, Ph.D., Columbia College, N. Y.; Herr Max von 
dem Borne, in Germany; and several other men of note, 
who will be written of as anglers, with whom I have had 
the pleasure of fishing either as boy or man. 
Many of those with whom I have fished were but little 
known to me at the time, yet there remain many memo- 
ries of their personal traits as developed on one or more 
fishing trips, where a man will show more of his individ- 
ual traits in a day than in a year's acquaintance in busi- 
ness. Hence my appeal for such notes as may relate to 
subjects of my proposed sketches. Fred Mather. 
Game Laws In Brief. 
The Game Laws in Brief, current edition, sold everywhere, has 
new game and flsh laws- for more than thirty of the States. It covers 
the entire country, is carefully prepared, and gives all that shooters 
and anglers reaujre. See advertisement, 
Dynamiters in Massachusetts. 
Mhjjbury, Mass.— In this vicinity there is work for the 
Commissioners on account of the use of dynamite in the 
ponds. Singletary Lake and Dorothy Pond have been 
dynamited, and after picking up what fish were wanted 
the rest are left all along the edges of the pond. 
Lou Clapp and Touch Wright caught the best string of 
pickerel seen this year in Singletary last week, the largest 
weighing ajlbs. G . E. P. 
