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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Oct. 6, 1894 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
[From, our Staff Correspondent.'] 
Chicago, El., Sept. 21. — The Chicago Inter-Ocean of 
Sept. 15 had the following in regard to a late game dinner 
held up in the jrine woods: 
Last Sunday Mr. C. L. Ryder, the manaeer of the Hotel Gogebic, 
entertained his many ^uest" with a game dinner that was worth com- 
ing raanv miles to enjoy. The menu was printed on two heavy pieces 
of birch hark, adorned with' a real partridge feather. The brook 
'■'out. black bass, venison, d"ck and partridge were all indigenous to 
Gogebic, while the meats and fish for the dinner were all supplied by 
the visitors at the resort. 
The menu was as follows: 
SOUP. 
Onme. 
FISH. 
Steamed Brook Trout. 
Baked Bla^k Bass. 
ROASTS. 
Saddle of Venison, hunter style. 
Mallard Puck. 
ENTREES. 
Gogebic Partridee. 5, la Preusser. 
Charlotte of Apples, port wine sauce. 
VEGETABLES. 
Baked and Mashfd Potatoes. 
Baked Sweet Potatoes. 
Green Corn on Cob. 
G r een Peas. 
RELISHES. 
Celery. O'cum^ers. Olives. 
DESSERT. 
English Plum Pudding, brandy sauce. 
Lemon Pie. Mince Pie. 
Wew York Ice Cream. 
Coffee. Tea. 
Bent's Crackers and Cbeese. Fruit. 
The manager of the Hotel Oogebic is one more of those 
who needs a copy of the Game Laies in Brief. Mr. Ryder 
was for a long time passenger agent of the Lake Shore 
& "Western R. R., and was well posted on the resources of 
his country. It is singular he does not have in mind the 
venison law in the north peninsula of "Michigan, hut T 
am loath to believe that be would knowingly serve illegal 
venison on the table of a hotel whose best sunpnrt should 
be expected from gentlemen sportsmen. The latter do 
not kill nor eat illegal venison. 
Bear. 
Mr. Andrew McAush. in company with Messrs. J. C. 
Farrar, S. Hamilton and J. C. Armstrong, were this summer 
in the Nepigon country and penetrated far to the north 
of those waters. They had grand sport with the big trout, 
and a local cigar store shows as curiosities in its window 
two tremendous trout skins uniquely mounted nn birch 
bark, these being among the most valued trophies of the 
trip above mentioned. The gentlemen brought back 
with them a little Mack bear cub, which at last accounts 
was doin g well. They killed the cub's mother. 
Gen. Nelson A. Miles, Commander of the Department 
of the Missouri, U. S A., starts for the "West this week 
with Mr. Frederic Remington, the artist They go to 
New Mexico and Arizona, or even to New Zealand if they 
do not earlier find the object of their search , which is 
nothing less than large, juicy, succulent bear. 
Mr. Jacob Stein man n, of Mands. Butler Co., Ohio, is 
not so particular as Gen. Miles. Almost anything goes 
with him. He writes: 
"As a party of us are going to take a hunt this fall, and 
as we can't decide where to go to, I was advised by the 
readers of your paper to write to the editor of the Forest 
and Stream, and if you please write and tell us of a place 
where we can find bear, deer, ducks, turkeys, quail and 
game like that. We were talking of going to Florida and 
hunt in the Everglades. Please give us your opinion about 
Florida." 
Florida might do, but T fear that even that luxuriant 
country would hardly produce all these sorts of game in 
any one locality. The Indian Nations would come very 
near to it, say between the Cimarron and Canadian rivers. 
If the gentlemen should go to Fort Smith. Ark., they 
could get near enough to what they wished, either in the 
Nations or western Arkansas. They might get their out- 
fits confiscated in the Nations by the U. S. soldiers. I 
would rather chance that part of the country for a gen- 
eral hunt such as seems to be wanted here, than the 
Everglades of Florida, which latter might prove a serious 
undertaking. 
Whether He Lives or Not. 
Patrick Galvin of St. Paul was found last week with a 
bullet hole in his forehead, orohably a self -inflicted 
wound. The Minneapolis Tribune says: "The wound 
was found to be a very dangerous one, but is not thought 
to be fatal. The loss of sight in the right eye will no 
doubt follow, whether the patient survives or not." I do 
not know whether the Tribune states this on a medical or 
on a journalistic basis, but it is safe on its facts if the man 
dies. 
A Cyclone on Horicon Marsh. 
Sept. 28. — What with the Northern forest fires and the 
Southern floods, we seem to be having rather an annus 
mirabili8 in this section of the country. The latest thing 
in Western weather has been the terrible wind storm 
which during the past week crossed the States of Iowa , 
Minnesota and Wisconsin, and has since then created 
havoc on the Great Lakes. This cyclone has perhaps a 
hundred deaths to its credit, and it came near making 
news in the line of sporting journalism. Had it veered 
200yds. to the south, at the point where it crossed the 
Horicon marsh of Wisconsin, it would have torn the 
club house of the Horicon Shooting Club into fragments, 
and at least seriously injured some of the fifteen shooters 
who were in it at the time. 
This storm occurred on last Friday night, and as I hap- 
pened to be up at the club at that time I was able to see 
personally what a wind storm can do when it tries. We 
all went to bed early that night, intending to get up at 
3 or 4 o'clock the following morning in order to get an 
early stort for our duck shooting. It was about midnight 
when the storm struck us, and in about three minutes 
thereafter there was not a soul left in bed. The club 
house seemed every moment on the point of going to 
pieces, and for a few minutes hung about evenly balanced 
against the push of the wind. The roar of the storm was 
like that of a distant railway train, to quote the words of 
an ordinary newspaper report of a cyclone, to which I 
oan testify as being accurate enough by way of descrip- 
tion. In a few minutes the club house floors were afloat 
with water, and the most popular costume among the 
duck 'shooters seemed to be a robe de nuit and a pair ®f 
hip boots. The ' club house, however, withstood the 
storm, which did ^notlstrjke it with its entire strength, 
though a small sleeping-house npar by was blown entirely 
to pieces. On the following morning the track of the 
storm could be traced plainly for more tlmn ten miles 
across the country. The sturdy oak timber on the hills 
was torn and twisted in every direction. Many orchards 
were torn up and one farmer lost both his house and barn. 
No lives were lost in that part of Wisconsin so far as we 
learned, except those of a couple of hundred of sparrows 
which were crushed by the wind under the eaves of a 
barn. A bushel or so of these birds were found dead 
along the side of the barn in the morning. 
The great storm did not seem to affect the duck shoot- 
ing much, as it did not pass far enough to the north to 
start the northern flight down. It apparently drove most 
of the ducks from the upper end of the Horicon marsh 
down to the south end and no very startling bags were 
made on Saturday. Mr. Howard Bosworth, of Milwau- 
kee, was high bag with 47 birds, and Mr. Robert Rom, of 
the same city, was next with 45 birds. Gov. Peck, of 
Wisconsin, shot on his favorite bog, about a quarter of a 
mile from the boat landing, and made a bag of 30. The 
Governor is a verv ardent duck shooter, and slips off to 
the Horicon Club, of which he is a member, whenever 
the cares of the State allow him a little time to himself in 
the shooting season. He is a rattling good duck shot, 
using a 10-gauge gun and black powder, but just now is 
about converted to the nitro powder idea. Gov. Peck is 
a very popular member of the Horicon Club, and when- 
ever he comes up he is by tacit consent given his stand 
on the bog above mentioned. This is the place where he 
killed 69 ducks one day last fall, and where be expects to 
do it again. It therefore bears the name of the "Govern- 
or's bog." 
Thp ground of the Horicon Marsh has not been in the 
be«t condition yet this fall for snine. and no very heavy 
bags have been mdde. my own of 22 birds being the best 
yet, although on the same ground a year ago I bagged 50 
jacksnipe one afternoon. The entire marsh is alive with 
yellowlegs, and I suppose one could kill a thousand of' 
them a day if he cared to. 
A bag of 33 chickens was made on the opening day 
within threp miles of Horicon club house by Mr. Thomas 
Hanson, of Milwaukee. 
Dakota. 
At this writing the special car tourist sportsman is rev- 
eling in the grouse and wildfowl shooting of Dakota. 
There is nothing wrong in the special car tourist idea, but 
there is very much that is radically and absolutely wrong 
in the way this idea is carried into effect. The Dakota 
laws are in no way more openly or contemptuously vio- 
lated than by the so-called Eastern sportsmen who go 
out to see how much they can kill each day. I hear that 
last week one of tbese special cars was searched at Minne- 
apolis and over 300 chickens found aboard it. A train I 
repeat that the town of Dawson, on the Northern Pacific, 
road, will very well bear watching in this regard, and I 
believe that the Northern Pacific road could do no better 
business action than to station a proper official at this 
or similar points to stop the unrestricted violation of the 
Dakota law. 
Wrong Font. 
A late issue of a Chicago publication remarks that a 
man by the name of Ehlers of Chicago, had been killing 
illegal prairie chickens in central Illinois. Mr. Henry 
Ehlers, one of the best known sportsmen of Chicago, and 
winner of this year's championship of the Illinois Associa- 
tion, feels hurt at an assertion which might be taken to 
apply to himself. Mr. Ehlers wishes to say, what in view 
of his reputation it is unnecessary to say, that he has not 
this year or any other been shooting illegal prairie chick- 
ens. The Chicago paper got into the wrong font, prob- 
ably. 
Heathen Near At Home. 
A friend remarked to me last night that an acquaint- 
ance of his who works on South Water Street told him 
that he had spent the last day or so in nacking quail, all 
of which quail were of course illegal. Yesterday a mem- 
ber of a South Water street commission house told me 
that never in the history of the street had there been so 
much illegal game sold as within the past year and a half . 
He said that the street now was overflowing with illegal 
game. I would gently suggest to the Illinois State Sports- 
men's Association, and to city warden Blow, who has been 
doing such excellent work in punishing violators at differ- 
ent points in the State, that there are plenty of heathen 
near at home. 
Wisconsin Deer. 
There should be excellent deer hunting in Wisconsin 
and the North Peninsula this fall, provided one hits just 
the right section where the game has been driven in and 
not driven out bv the forest fires. I would not advise 
any one to go to Florence this fall, as late reports say that 
the deer have been driven from that section. On the 
other hand I believe that State Line and the Lake Vieux 
Desert region will be excellent deer country for October. 
A party of thirty-one deer hunters from Ohio left 
Chicago this week, bound for Metropolitan, Michigan. 
There would seem to be enough of them to keep the deer 
from getting lonesome. 
West. 
Mr. Charles Norris. of the Big Four Railroad, leaves this 
week for Missoula, Montana, where he will hunt and -fish 
in the Bitter Root r^uge. certainly a most phasing trip to 
look forward to. Mr. Norris was fortunate this summer 
to kill a black bear in Florence county, Michigan, the 
said bear having showed a disposition to pick huckle- 
berries in the same patch with Mr, Norris and his friends. 
If a wanter wants any thing and asks for it in Forest 
and Stream he always gets what he wants. Lately I had 
occasion to inquire for Colorado deer country in favor of 
Mr. W. ./. Letts, of Sedalia, Mo. And now comes Mr. 
W. J. Dixon, the same an old time Forest and Stream 
man, and writes as follows, from Cimarron, Kas. : 
' f I am going to Colorado to hunt on my old stamping 
ground, and I have offered to takeMr. Letts and party in 
with me, and written to tb?m in full. Referred them to 
you as knowing me. The Kickapoo won't open this fall, 
I fear, so I am going to play with my Mexicans. 
"I like what you write always. You are a nice man. 
If you want to come to me in Colorado I can make you 
smell old times at White Oaks." 
T print what Mr. Dixon says in full because there are so 
few men who think I am a nice man that I look on the 
statement as a matter of news. I am not at liberty to 
state just where Mr. Dixon intends to go, but he says 
there is nothing but deer. Mexicans, turkeys, antelope, 
prairies, mountains and canons in that country, and that 
it has material for a dozen stories to the square mile. I 
wouldn't mind getting tangled up with W. J. out in that 
country myself. 
The following succinct paragraph I take from the daily 
press: 
Gbantsborg, Wis., Sept. 26.— Peter Anderson and his brother, while 
out bear huntinerneflr lWud Hen Lake, mistook a squaw for a bear. 
Both shot arid both bullets took effect. The squaw was 100 years old. 
This certainly is brief enough to suit the most exacting 
editor, though it seems to leave much to the imagination. 
One could wish to know whether the hunters shot the 
squaw on the supposition that she had lived long enough, 
then alleging the excuse that they mistook her for a bear. 
It would seem to be more humane to let centenarians, 
even Indian centenarians, live, on as long as they want 
to, after getting such a good start. But there is no real 
excuse for joking over so serious a matter. A squaw does 
not look like a bear to the eye of any hunter fit to carry a 
rifle in the woods. The same painful lesson is again 
brought forward that no man should fire at a moving ob- 
ject in the woods or anything else, without knowing 
clearly what it is, and without intending to kill it. We 
are left to infer that the victim in this case was killed, 
although the correspondent who sends the dispatch 
neglects to commit himself on this important point. One 
or more persons are killed every fall in Wisconsin and 
Michigan by fools who cany rifles and shoot at anything 
they see moving, but still this particular brand of fool 
appears to be perennial and flourishing. 
Snipe. 
The fall flight of snipe has made its appearance well to 
the south of Illinois and Indiana. Two guns bagged 
eighty snipe at Calumet Lake two weeks ago The 
Desplaines Valley has shown some very heavy bags. One 
of seventy odd birds was roado by a single gun one day 
last week near L< ckport. Mr. Frank Bissell and a friend 
got a fa-'r bag at Water Valley on the Kankakee last 
week. In my talk with Mr. Henry Ehlers last week he 
told me that he killed twenty-eight blue-wing teal and 
fifty-eight snipe one morning last week on the Kankakee, 
killing twenty-three jacksnipe without a miss. Mr. 
Ehlers used a 10-gauge gun on snipe, which accounts for 
the twenty-three. He killed seventy woodcock along the 
Kankakee on one trip this summer, using the same 10- 
gnuge gun. I am trying to persuade him to use something 
Mr. Chas. Hallock, the veteran of all veterans in mat- 
ters of sportsmen's journalism, is in Chicago to-day on his 
way West to Hallock, Minn., where he has large landed 
interests. Mr. Hallock will enjoy a little of the fall at its 
best in the Northwest, and will then move to the South 
with the flight of the fowl, spending the winter in North 
Carolina. He tells me he has not spent a winter in the 
North since 1882, by which it may be seen he knows how 
to live. E. Hough. 
909 Securkt Building, Chicago. 
STOP THE SALE OF GAME.-. 
A Platform Plank.— The sale of game should be forbidden at ai* 
times. — Forkst and Stream, Feb. 10. 
Chicago, Sept. 26.— Editor Forest and Stream: I have 
been much interested in the articles which have appeared 
in your valued paper regarding legislation prohibiting 
entirely the sale of all kinds of game. This has been a 
favorite idea of mine for several years. There is no ques- 
tion in my mind that the indiscriminate sale of game, and 
the consequent incentive to market-hunters to kill all they 
can. will in a verv short time cause the extinction of 
nearly all kinds of game. If there are any true sports- 
men who have not yet made up their minds on which 
side of this question to array themselves, I would ask 
them to take a trip up and down South Water Street in 
this city at any time during the open season, and if the 
piles of ducks, partridge, quail, prairie chickens and all 
sorts of game do not make them strong advocates of the 
new principle, I will be out of my reckoning. 
There is another feature of this matter that I have not 
seen touched upon and which I think could be used as a 
strong argument, which is that such enormous quantities 
of game as are dumped on the Chicago marketinthe fall, 
particularly ducks, partridge, prairie chickens and quail, 
cannot help but cause a large difference to the farmer in 
the price that his poultry brings in the market. Let all 
farmers know this and it is my opinion that you will have 
an ardent supporter of the new plank in every one m the 
land who raises poultry to sell. E. T. D. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
I hope you can spare me room in your columns to voice 
my sentiment in regard to the total prohibition of the 
sale of game. I am heartily in favor of it, as every 
American who claims the name of sportsman should be. 
As has been said, "'the wedge that Forest and Stream 
has started must be driven home." , 
One of the mistaken arguments against the prohibition 
of the sale of game seems to be that it will place game 
more in the hands of the rich. This is not so, for the law 
prohibits no one's shooting game, while it does prevent 
the rich from obtaining it out of season. 
No true sportsmen will kill more game than he can 
dispose of, for it is against his principles, and besides he 
knows he is injuring his own prospects for the future. 
He does not find enjoyment in shooting into bevies of 
birds and slaughtering"' them by dozens. Such men do 
very little toward the extermination of game. It is the 
market-hunters who are doing the harm; they use guns 
that are almost cannon; net the birds; and employ all 
such illegitimate means of procuring game m large quan- 
tities. If the sale of game were stopped this slaughter 
would cease, and game would then be killed merely by 
the lovers of the gun. . . . 
I think that the prohibition should be made to include 
the law that no game should be taken out of the United 
States to stock foreign countries, for our game must be 
kept here and protected. B. F. E. 
Ithaca, N. Y. ' 
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sees the train now in the brightness and freshness of its new equip- 
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introduced and the other distinctive features make it the most luxur- 
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