FOKEST AND STREAM, 
[Jan. 12, 1895. 
ber 1, instead of January 1, as under the present law. 
His paper is thoroughly indorsed by the best sportsmen 
in this vicinity, but recent advices suggest little will 
be done to the laws this winter. Mr. Blanchard also 
earnestly urges that the better class of guides be made 
game wardens, for the reason that they can do more 
toward the enforcement of the laws than anybody else, 
and because they are beginning to see that the enforce- 
ment of the game laws is for their benefit. 
Mr. Blanchard has just received a letter from E. G. 
Farrington, secretary of the Maine Game and Fish Pro- 
tective Association, stating that matters had been 
Changed a good- deal at the last meeting at Augusta. 
The letter expressed the idea that not much special 
legislation would be asked for by the association, but 
rather, a general law would be preferred, giving the 
commissioners power to regulate fishing and shooting 
in certain sections, on petition of a given number of 
citizens and the publication of due notice. The associa- 
tion does not expect to change the law on partridges, 
unless woodcock can be included, and that is likely to 
be opposed. A law preventing the killing of cow moose 
will be asked for, but no attempt to restrict the amount 
of game to be taken further than the existing law is 
recommended. To reduce the amount of trust or land- 
locked salmon to 25 pounds instead of 50 pounds, as 
under the present law, will not be attempted. An 
attempt to prevent the taking of deer with jacklights 
will be made. Special. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
Fox River Fishing. 
^GhjcagoT" 111., Dec. 28. — There is a howl from the 
mackerel fishermen of Wisconsin against the passage of 
a law which is before the Legislature of that State and 
which is very likely a good law. Here is what the 
fishe r man's side says : 
' ' GttEEN Bay7 Wis.~Dec. 25. — The Wisconsin Fisher- 
men's Association will hold a mass convention here 
Dec. 28 for the purpose of discussing the question of 
stopping net fishing in the Fox River. This matter is 
of vital importance to the fishermen in this section of 
the State, as the passage of the proposed law would 
mean practically the ruin of hundreds of men engaged 
in this industry. The fishermen oppose the law which 
is proposed by the gamesters of the State who fish 
for pleasure, as fully one-half of the fish which are sold 
from this market come from inside of Long Tail Point, 
the limit which the proposed law prescribes for fishing. 
One firm in the fish business here for the last year did 
a business of $345,000, which was all spent in this city 
in wages. Some idea of the extent of the business 
which the sportsmen propose to ruin may be gathered 
from this. The convention will take vigorous action 
against the bill and will ask instead that a law be passed 
prohibiting fishing altogether during the spawning 
season. " 
^ " _ Other Side. 
■ There will be a meeting of sportsmen at the Sherman 
House, Chicago, to-morrow, Dec. 29, to revive the old 
Fox River Association of anglers. The laws are being 
violated to the worst extent and it is sought to again 
wipe out the illegal and destructive fishing, as was done 
under the vigorous administration of President George 
E. Cole. Mr. Cole I have always held to be the brainiest 
and best executive and foremost and most practical 
organizer ever connected with protection of fish in this 
entire Western country. Lukewarm support drove him 
out of the work and his loss has never been overcome. 
Warden Kills an Indian. 
Dispatches of Dec. 14 from Rice Lake, Wis. , had an 
account of the killing of an Indian who resisted arrest 
by a warden. I think wardens can find plenty of white 
men to arrest, and they are more destructive of game 
than the Indians. 
Case Didn't Stick. 
Advices from Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. 23, state that 
Judge Wallber refused a continuance in the Duke case to 
allow the District Attorney an opportunity to secure 
necessary evidence and dismissed the case. Duke was 
charged with selling game out of season contrary to the 
game laws. A W. Friese, representing the National 
Association for the Protection of Fish and Game appear- 
ing as prosecuting witness. Mr. Friese testified to pur- 
chasing one dozen quail from Dukes' store on Grand 
avenue a few days ago. 
Off For Texas. 
Mr. A W. Adams of Chicago has started for San 
Antonio, Texas, where it is his custom to winter. He 
says there is no place like it on earth, and he is right. 
Mr. Harry R. Laning of Chicago starts to-morrow for 
San Antonio, Texas, and will spena the winter there. 
He goes on the strength of the "Dixie Land" stories of 
last season in Forest and Stream, and the additional 
testimony which I could give him after the long trip 
south from which I have just returned. 
Mr. C. E. Willard, Western representative of tbe 
Colt's Patent Fire Arms Co., starts on Jan. 12 for 
Texas, and will go to Rockport and will look up the 
yacht Novice, covering much of territory from which 
our party has just returned. He will go with the 
special car of Marvin Hughitt, Jr., of Chicago. Mark 
Cummings of this city also goes. I trust they will have 
all the sport gentlemen could ask. 
Mr. Thomas A Divine of Memphis and Mr. Randolph 
W. Foster of New Orleans entertained Mr. R. B. Organ 
of this city and myself in Louisiana, Tennessee and 
Mississippi last month, and of this I shall write at 
length with pleasure. 
* Mr. W. W. Peabody, Jr. , assistant general manager of 
the B. and O. Southwestern Railroad, was the host of 
our party west of New Orleans. He brought with him 
his good friends, Mr. Wilbur Dubois and Mr. Robert 
Burton, also of Cincinnati, and Mr. Richard Merrill of 
Milwaukee. The latter was met last "winter in Texas, 
but the Cincinnati gentlemen were new in that country, 
and they were charmed to a degree and vow they will 
return next year. We had a great trip, of which I also 
shall write at better leisure and at length Mr. Merrill 
remained behind in Texas and is much to be envied. 
He meets two Milwaukee friends— the brothers Schmidt 
—at San Antonio, and will, no doubt, see many more 
Northern friends before the winter is over. All the 
gentlemen above named went to Texas because Forest 
and Stream had told about Texas. I fear a Southern 
boom has been started, and I don't know whether to be 
glad of it or not, looking ahead to what that may mean 
m the future. Next year there will be more yet going 
South. Among all these there will be all sorts. I sup- 
pose I have sent twenty or thirty men to Texas points, 
and how many have gone who have never heard from, 
wiled by the pen of Oscar Guessaz of "Texas and the 
Southwest" no one knows. All the Northern tarpon 
fishers of the season past at Rockport went there through 
the Forest and Stream reports of that country 
Off For Egypt. 
Within the next ten days Mr. Carter H. Harrison, son 
of the lamented Mayor Harrison of Chicago.' will start 
for a long and delightful journey among other lands 
He and his wife first go to Egypt, with friends. The 
ladies of the party then return to Rome, Mr. Harrison 
and friends going on to India for some big game shoot- 
ing, tiger, if posible. Returning thence they join their 
party at Rome and all sail for Havana, Cuba They go 
thence to Mexico, and will come North from Mexico to 
Chicago sometime, next winter, being absent about a 
year. No one deserves a glorious time like this more 
than Mr. Harrison, who is an unostentatious but keen 
and thorough-going sportsman and lover of out-door 
things andjplaces. 
Off For the South Seas. 
Mr. Preston Harrison, brother of Mr. Carter Harrison, 
leaves also shortly for a long trip, but goes in the oppo- 
site direction. He leaves San Francisco for a long cruise 
around the South Sea Islands. He will go as far South 
as he feels like and stop where he likes in that delight- 
ful country. His absence may extend over nearly a year. 
Both of these gentlemen were recently in active man- 
agement of the daily newspaper, The Times of Chicago. 
Christmas Fox 
Daily despatches say : " Batavia, O. , Dec. 25.— The 
initial race of the Fox Hunters' Club resulted in the 
capture alive of a ten pound fox in two hours and forty- 
eight minutes. Fourteen hounds were entered. Two 
hundred horsemen participated. The second run takes 
place to-morrow. ' ' 
Dec. 29.— The meeting of the Fox Lake Fish Protec- 
tive Association at the Sherman House this afternoon 
brought out about twenty members, gentlemen belong- 
ing to the various sportsmen's clubs located along the 
Fox Lake system. Ex- Alderman John W. Lyke was in 
the chair. Mr. D. S. Daly acting secretary. The gen- 
tlemen raised $55 cash and will add $200 more to stop 
the illegal fishing which has been going on there so 
disastrously during the present season of low waters. A 
working committee of three was appointed, Mr. John 
Wilkinson, L. M. Milander and C. J. Paterson. A 
Committee on legislation was also appointed, Messrs. 
Henry C. Hertz, Clarence Knight and M. R. Bostree. 
A warden will be secured and sent up to Fox Lake 
soon, and in about two days he can stop the illegal 
fishing if he looks sharp. The Stanley outfit of guides, 
boatmen, etc. , are the worst. They are always breaking 
the laws, but will be easy to corral. 
From Dakota. 
Mr. C. E. Robbins of Fargo, N. D., sends me the fol- 
lowing account, as given by the local press, of a meeting 
of the sportsmen of that vicinity for the purpose of 
furthering the interests of game protection, and for the 
organization of a North Dakota State Sportsmen's Asso- 
ciation. The cutting reads : 
b The sportsmen's meeting held in Scofield's gun store 
Thursday evening was attended by the following gentle- 
men: Hon. Augustus Roberts, Dr. Henning, W. W. 
Smith B. D. Scofield, E. G. Bowers, Dr. Carpenter, S. 
S. Lyon, G.W Garrett, Dr. Hinebauch, John Rentschler, 
C. E. Robbins and others. Among those present from 
a distance were : Dr. J. A. Rankin and Hon. Andrew 
Blewett of Jamestown, who gave the meeting valuable 
assistance and advice with respect to game law leg- 
islation. 
S. S. Lyon was elected chairman and C. E. Robbins 
secretary. Mr. Robbins called attention to the fact that 
the game law of Minnesota was framed from a bill 
adopted at a conference of the game and fish commis- 
sioners of the States of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, 
North and South Dakota, held in Minneapolis in 
December, 1892, and it was suggested that a similar law 
would be good for our State. 
The sentiment was unanimous that another meeting 
should be held prior to the convening of the Legislature, 
at which the sportsemn of the entire State should be 
repersented. 
Dr. Hinebauch moved that a committee of three be 
appointed to prepare a fair apportionment of representa- 
tion for the next adjourned meetng from all the counties 
in North Dakota. Carried. Motion was made by Mr. 
Bowers that a committee of five, the chairman included, 
be appointed to draft a bill for protection of game and 
fish in North Dakota, the same to be presented at our 
next adjourned meeting. Carried. 
W. W. Smith moved that the delegates to the next 
adjourned meeting use every effort to organize a North 
Dakota State Sportsmen's Association. Carried. 
. The committee on preparing a game law is, S. S. 
Lyon, chairman ; Andrew Blewetb of Jamestown, F. B. 
Morrill, W. W. Smith and W. L. Wilder of Grand 
Forks. The committee on apportionment is Dr. Hine- 
bauch, chairman; A. B. Guptill and E. G. Bowers. 
There is some feeling at last beginning to arise among 
Daokta shooters against the ruthless destruction of game 
by non-resident shooters. Mr. Robbins inquired for 
precedents on non-resident license laws. The organiza- 
tion of a State Asociation could have no worthier object 
than the agitation of game law and game protection 
matter, and we must hope that the meeting of Jan. 7 at 
Fargo will be a large and earnest one, with a strictly 
business" on its banner. Trap shooting and talk are 
not among the sole possibilities of an organization of 
that kind. It can do actual good, "and I hope this one 
will. 
He Is Good Natured. 
Jan. 4— Often in the past I have had occasion to 
speak of Mr. A. Hirth,or "Papa" Hirth, as the boys all 
affectionately call the enthusiast who presides over, the 
Spaldings' tackle counter. I believe he is the best 
natured man on earth. Once a robber knocked him 
down and took about all he had, but when he came to 
he woke up laughing. "Such a joke on that fellow," 
he said, "here's a pearl collar button he overlooked. 
Which way did he go?" You can't rile or rattle Papa 
and he is one of the attractions of Chicago. He has 
dyspepsia, rheumatism and neuralgia, though you 
wouldn't think it to look at him — but no one ever heard 
him complain, or saw him out of humor. "There's 
only about half of me left now, " he says, "butjit's the 
best half. No one ever got the best of me yet. ' ' And I 
guess that's true, too. Well, what I was going to say 
is, awhile ago Mr. Hirth felt that he must lay off£from 
work for a time or else get sick So he knocked off and 
went down to Hot Springs, Ark., for a rest. He has 
just returned, and is as frisky as a yearling colt, his 
improvement being in no wise more notable than in the 
vigor and elasticity of his imagination. "I killed 9 
bear, 17 deer and 28 turkeys while I was gone," said 
he. "Billy, go andjiring out those bears skins— but I 
didn't hunt very much because I was busy working on a 
volume of memoirs I am going to bring out before long 
— all about the kind of fishing talk Napoleon Bonaparte 
used But that's a great country. Billy, fetch out some 
of those deer heads. ' ' Everybody abuses Papa and 
everybody loves him, except Billy Morgan, who accuses 
him of getting gay and threatens darkly to lay for him 
some dark day after business hours. Even Billy is 
secretly glad that Papa is back, and with health far 
better for his trip to a kinder climate than this horrible 
onej 
A Man From Corpus Christi. 
■ Mr. Grant R. Bennett, now of Corpus Christi, Texas, 
who was one of the many kind hosts our party had 
during our trip to that country last month, turned up 
in Chicago this week en route to his old home, Portage 
City, Wis. I met him swapping lies with Pa Hirth 
and there was a good Chicago blizzard blowing outside 
at the time. Mr. Bennett was the coldest man in 
Chicago, and the most discontented. "I surely will 
never come into this country again in winter, ' ' he said. 
"This is awful,] and I'm going to get out of here as 
soon as I can. ' ' Mr. Bennett will, soon after his return 
to Corpus Christi, start for a trip into Honduras, 
where he expects some novel experiences. 
Many Going South. 
Both of the gentlemen above mentioned commented 
on the unusually large number of gentlemen who are 
going South this winter. It is astonishing how much 
the winter fishing tackle trade in Chicago amounts to,, 
much of it in the form of tarpon gear. Hon. Hemstead 
Washbourne, ex-Mayor of Chicago, has just outfitted for 
a tarpon trip to Florida, and there are many anglers and 
non-anglers who will avail themselves of the chance to 
get away from Chicago in the winter within the next 
ten days. It certainly seems that the new tide of 
sportsmen travel to the South is getting in strongly and 
unmistakably. I hope that neither side will ever come 
to regret this. 
Mr. Fred Badger of Dorchester, Mass., who asked' 
directions of me for a trip to Corpus Christi, writes me 
from Galveston that he concluded to stop there, and 
that he is engaged in skirmishing around the edges of 
the famous Moody preserve on Lake Surprise. He says ■ 
that there "must be six or seven hundred thousand 
canvasbacks on those waters, ' ' and that ' • when they 
rise it abounds like a cyclone. " That's a good many 
ducks, but that is really the best canvasback country I . 
know of. 
Mr. John J. Mott of Michigan City, Ind., and Mr- 
Jos. Winterbotham of Joliet, 111., came tip the other' 
day to make inquiries about Texas tarpon and Texasi 
climate, being in hesitation between that country andt 
Florida for a pleasure trip this month. I could not tell 
them much about Florida, but if Florida is. any better 
than Texas it must be a James bird of a place. 
From Nebraska. 
Mr. W. C. La Tourette of McCook, Red Willow 
County, Nebraska, and his young son George, came to 
the Forest and Stream office here yesterday, and I am 
glad he did. Mr. La Tourette says that for some reason 
they have had very few prairie chickens in his country 
latey, though quails are very abundant. He says there 
is no market shooting, but that the farmers trap large 
numbers of quail all the winter, more especially if snow 
falls. 
Mr. La Tourette and I were speaking of our old friend 
Buffalo Jones, who used to live at McCook, but he 
could not give me his present address. Singularly 
enough, Buffalo Jones himself came into my office this 
morning, though at the time I happened to be out. 
He came and departed mysteriously as usual, and I can- 
not say where he came from or what his present abode, 
though I would like to see him. 
Off For the Arctic Circle. 
Dec. 29. — The following word comes down from a 
Winnipeg paper, showing that Mr. Casper W. Whitney 
of New York is rapidly getting to the edge of railway 
travel on his journey to the far North; 
W. H. Heming, Hamilton, and Casper W. Whitney, New York 
W&re two aignaturea found on the Manitoba register last even- 
ing. The gentlemen who inscribed their names proved to be 
associated with an enterprising journalistic venture and alBo to 
be possessed of interesting personalities. Both aro connected 
with Harper's Ma /azine, and are on their way to the haunts of 
the musk ox and wood buffalo in the far Norlh, for the purpose 
of studying the habits and characteristics of those interesting 
members of the Canadian fauna. They have mapped out a 
route northward from Edmonton to Fort liae on the Maekonzie 
Iiiver, which follows generally the waterways used by the H. B. 
Co., making the company's posts tueir sources of supply. This 
will enable them to travel "light," a sort of flying column, and 
they hope to accomplish the object of their trip and return to 
civilization by April next. They wilt travel on anowshoes and 
transport their equipment and provisions on dog sleighs. Their - 
larder will be meagre, stocked only sufficiently to serve them 
from one post to another. They will sleep inEskimo bagsin the 
