Feb. S3, 1895. 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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no shooting at any rate then, but that] for sailing, fishing 
and loafing, they could find no better place , at]which to 
pass the blustery month of March. They concluded to 
go, and, as usual, I gave them the address of the Blucl- 
worth boys and the yacht Novice, in both of which I 
feel now as though I had a proprietary interest from long 
acquaintance. 
Mr. M. E. Bortree, President of the National Associa- 
tion, has been seeing what he could see since the close 
of the selling season in game. In doing this he has been 
forced to be rude to Warden Blow's friends, the game 
dealers and sellers, and has violated Mr. Blow's theory 
of letting the sale of game go on unmolested. Yesterday 
Mr. Bortree found fifteen illegal quail at Philip Henrici's 
restaurant, No. 103 Eandoph street. The case is set for 
to-day. E. Hough. 
(§mtit and ^ish §irokctwn. 
New York Legislation- 
Senator Donaldson's bill to combine the Fish and Forest Com 
missions provides for a board of five commissioners of game 
and fisheries, game and forest, to serve for five years. The 
president, appointed by the Governor, shall have a salary of 
15,000; each other commissioner a §1,000 salary, and £500 for 
expenses. The board shall appoint a State Fish Culturisfc— not 
one of; their own number — who shall have charge, under the 
direction of the commissioners, of the culture of all fish in the 
State, with salary of §3,501). They may appoint an assistant 
fish culturist, salary $2,500. A secretary is provided for at 
12,500, and an assistant secretary at $1,500. The duties of the 
board are the propagation and distribution of food and game 
fish and shell fish; the enforcement of the game, fish and forest 
laws. One of them is to be the shell fish commissioner. The 
commission shall appoint thirty-five game protectors and 
foresters to hold office during the pleasure of the board, which 
may summarily remove any one of them. The board shall 
designate one of the protectors as chief, two as assistants to the 
chief, and one as oyster protector. The chief shall give bond 
in $1,000, the others $500. The chief shall receive $2,000 a year, 
with $1,000 for traveling expenses; each assistant $1,500, with 
$450 traveling exppnses, the oyster protector $1,200, and $450 
expenses, each other protector $500 and $450 expenses, with one- 
half recoveries of fines, after expenses of recovery are paid. 
Bills introduced in the Assembly are: 
No. 6S. Amends sec. 141, excepts Chatauqua Lake, Cassadaga 
Lake, Bear Lake and Fiudlay's Lake, from law permitting in 
•fishing. 
No. 173. Amends sec. 49, by adding Saratoga and Washing- 
ton counties to those in which the rabbit open season is Aug. 
15 to March 15. 
No. 182. Amends sec. 56 by forbidding the use of dogs for 
deer hunting at any season, making the open season for deer 
Nov. 15 to Dec. 1, and season for sale and possession of same. 
No. 217. Amends sec. 132 by adding, "nor within three miles 
of the mouth of the Niagara" River,'' to localities where net 
fishing is forbidden; and by omitting the exemption in favor of 
Chauinont, Griffin and Three Mile Bay of Lake Ontario. 
No. 242. Amends sec. 57 forbids killing deer in water, or 
using boat to. head it off, or jack light. 
No. 2G5. Amends sec. 130 by permitting nets in Hudson 
Ri ver below northern line of Rockland county from sunset 
Saturday to sunrise Monday. 
No. 314. Amends sec. 49 by extending close of open season 
for rabbits and squirrels— now Jan. 1— to March 1. 
No. 341. Provides a bounty of one cent on English sparrows 
and five cents for nest. 
No. 349. Amends sec. 141 by permitting fishing in Lake 
Keuka or Crooked Lake. 
No. 343. Adds a new section 349. No person shall be deemed 
to have violated any law or ordinance by reason of selling, 
exposing for sale, transporting or possessing, or attempting so 
to do, the bo&y, or a part of the body of any wild animal or 
bh-d in the close season for such animal or bird, provided it be 
proved by him that said animal or bird was killed outside the 
State. 
No. 454. Amends sec. 163 relating to Long Island only, so as 
to make snipe close season— now in Jan. 16 to July 1— Jan. 1 to 
May 15; and trout close season— now Sep. 16 to April 1— Aug- 
ust 1 to March 29. 
No. 534. Amends sec. 141 so as to permit taking suckers, eels 
and bullheads in Seneca Lake with seines 4 rods in length and 
meshes not less than 1 1-4 inches in size; or with spears. 
The Code. — Senator Donaldson introduced his revised code 
Tuesday, our press day. 
An . Adirondack Capture. 
For several months past rumors have been afloat relative to 
the depredations of a couple of desperate characters who have 
been slaughtering deer m the remote portion of the Adirondack 
wilderness about the head waters of West Canada Greek. 
These parties, one of whom is a Frenchman known as "French 
Louis" and the other an Indian renegade from the St. Regis 
reservation, have been in the habit of killing large numbers of 
deer in and out of season. It is said that the Indian has aver- 
aged a deer a day for several months past. The other has 
kdled since the 1st of September last, no less than 27 deer. 
Most of the deer killed have been disposed of at the various 
lumbering camps in the vicinity of the slaughter, and such as 
they have been unable to dispose of are left to rot or be 
devoured by beasts and birds. During the months of Decem- 
ber and January the protectors succeeded in getting sufficient 
evidence and Protector Keuwell and Special Officer Lobdell 
went in after the pair. 
After a long and tedious drive over very bad roads they 
reached a lumber camp in the town of Wiluiust late in the 
night of Jan. 28, the camp named being located about 20 miles 
from that of Lief. Wishing to surpise the Indian in his camp, 
the officers remained here until the afternoon of the following 
day, and then proceeded on snow-shoes and by the aid of a 
lantern reached Lief's camp about daylight on the 30, and 
found it without an occupaut, but found plenty of evidence of 
illegal deer killing. Lief was tracked to the camp of the Can- 
adian, Louis, about six miles further in the woods, and there 
these two worthies were found. 
Under pretence of desiring to purchase furs the officers en- 
deavored to get sufficient information to convict the Canadian, 
but made only a partial success of it. Louis' case is one of "I 
killed the dog but you must prove it," and while there is little 
doubt of his having killed large numbers of deer illegally, the 
officers thought best to secure the Indian as the greater offender 
of the two and the stronger case for conviction. Lief accom- 
panied the officers back to his own camp, for the purpose of 
selling theni his furs, and was there put under arrest, after 
having shown Messrs. H. and L. a carcass of fresh venison that 
had noi, been discovered by them during their first visit. He 
also brought to light the heads of three bucks that had not been 
killed earlier than the latter part of Dec. last. Louis, who 
seems to have mistrusted that all was not quite right, followed 
the party back to Lief's camp, and appeared very much fright- 
ened when he found the Indian a prisoner. He denied having 
killed any game out of season, or othei wise illegally, but ib is 
safe to say that there will be sufficient evidence forthcoming in 
the near future to convict him on several counts unless he shall 
in the meantime leave the country. 
Lief was brought out to Sageville with the intention of tak- 
ing him to Fulton county for trial, but at Sageville he offered 
to plead, and was permitteed to do so, when he very obligingly 
confessed to a killing, on which he could not have been con- 
victed on any evidence in the possession of the officers and was 
sentenced to 40 days' imprisonment in the Hamilton county 
jail. There are at least, four or five other clear cases against 
liim that ought to keep him sent up for several months, after 
which he will be sued for the penalties in the several cases, and 
if he does not flee the country, the chances are that he will be 
kept out of mischief for some time to come. 
A few years ago Lief turned up as a witness in a case of 
illegal deer killing, tried in Herkimer county, and by very stout 
swearing succeeded in preventing a conviction where the 
people had a Very strong case against one of his pals. He is a 
thoroughly bad egg, and it is to be hoped that both he and the 
Canadian, Louis, may be finally driven out of the woods. 
Both Have been in the habit of selling large quantities of deer 
skins to parties in Fulton and Hamilton counties and have no 
doubt been engaged in slaughtering deer for the hides alone 
when they could not dispose of the venison. It is, However, 
difficult to convict on any evidence other than fresh skins, for 
the old story, "these skins were taken from deer killed by the 
several parties whom we guided during the season," will 
always be given as an excuse for having any large number of 
skins on hand. Lief is a half breed renegade from the St, 
Regis reservation, who has followed hunting and trapping in 
the Canada Lakes country for the past four years, and the 
Canadian, "French Louis," has followed the same vocations in 
that vicinity for a somewhat longer period. S. 
Maine Venison in Boston- 
Boston, Feb. 16. — That wholesale, illegal shipment of venison 
out of Maine, of which the Forest and Stream had an account 
last week, is proving to be a most interesting affair. Cant. 
Millard Mitchel and Mate Charles W. Allen, of the schooner 
Monticello, are under arrest here in Massachusetts for stealing 
90 saddles and carcasses of venison, valued at about $580. The 
schooner was loaded at Addison Point, Maine. Thej>- were well 
aware that the game was being unlawfully shipped, it seems, 
and they conceived of the idea that since the shipment was 
illegal anyway, tbey might have a hand in the spoils. So, 
though the venison was consigned to several Boston parties, the 
captain thought he would put into Gloucester and dispose of the 
cargo there. He did so, and he with the mate, according to the 
story of the officers, succeeded in selling off a big lot of the 
meat at 10 cents per pound. The men admitted selling venison, 
and surrendered the money they had obtained for it. The rea- 
son they gave the officers who arrested them for appropriating 
the goods was that they were aware that the whole shipping 
transaction was illegal anyway, and that they might as well 
have some of the benefits of it as the other fellows. They did 
not believe that the consignors of the venison would ever dare 
to make any complaint. 
But the shippers of tne venison are not to escape this ^time. 
Their names are given as George W. Bucknam, William E. 
Bailev and Byron E. Tibbetts, of Addison Point, and Harlev 
Worcester, of Columbia Falls, As good fortune would have it, 
Fish and Game Commissioner Henry C. Stanley, of Maine, 
was in Boston at the time the arrest of the officers of the 
schooner was made, and he at once took measures to obtain 
all the facts with the names of ifche consignors. A stenographer 
was employed, and duplicate notes of all the proceedings went 
to Maine. I have it from good authority that the shippers who 
sent the venison out of the State are being prosecuted accord- 
ing to law. The penalty for having in possession or attempting 
to take or send out of the State more than the prescribed three 
deer in a season is $50 for each deer so had in possession or 
shipped out of the State. The whole cargo of 90 deer can be 
made to cost the shippers the snug little sum of $4,500. Com- 
missioner Stanley is now satisfied that by vessel, from some of 
the many little out of the way ports in Maine, is the" way that 
so many Maine deer have been getting into the Boston 
markets. Including the shipment of the Monticello, probably 
no less than 500 deer have illegally reached the markets here 
the past season. The Forest and Stream has already had 
accounts of these many deer arrivals, with the fact mentioned 
that they have come by vessel. It certainly looks now as 
though a case of sufficient magnitude was to be made of the 
consignment of venison by the Monticello to make the danger 
of such shipment sufficiently clear to both consignors and 
vessel owners to make them stop it. All that your corre- 
spondent said last week concerning the evils of deer and other 
game being received in Massachusetts is just and true, and a 
good deal more, but since we cannot make Massachusetts pass 
a. law to prevent the sale of game that is illegal in a sister 
State, let us be glad that justice is overtakiug the shippers this 
time, in a wholesale way 
Superintendent Phillips, of the Megantic Club preserve, 
writes to L. Dana Chapman that the trout eergs in the club's 
hatcheries are getting along finely. There has been no loss 
from the recent extremely cold weather, as was feared there 
might be. Under the direction of Isaac Tibbets, who had 
charge of the Rangeley trout hatcheries last year, the club 
secured &0,000 trout eggs, last fall, and Mr. Tibbetts has these 
eggs now ill charge iu the hatcheries. These eggs were secured 
from the native trout. Land-locked salmou have been planted 
in the waters of the club, and also land-locked smelts; in order 
that the salmon may have food. Both officers and members of 
the Mesrantic Club are working earnestly for the propagation 
of fish in their admirable waters. SPECIAL. 
Prairies and Market Stall. 
Worthingtou, Minn., Feb. 12.— Editor Forest and Stream: 
The proposed Illinois game laws has caused much discussion 
among the sportsmen of the West, and the interest is almost as 
great as it would be were the bill introduced in our own Legis- 
lature, 
The bill as ib now reads is without doubt the most vicious 
piece of legislation on record, ani were its author the greediest 
of market hunters instead of the sworn protector of the game, 
he could not well have devised a measure more favorable to its 
total extermination. 
Mr. Blow asks "what interest the sportsmen of Illinois have 
in passiug laws to protect the game of other States." Now It 
may not occur to that gentleman, or if it has he overlooks — 
apparently in his zeal to serve the game dealers— the fact 
recognized by all thinking men, that the more sparsely settled 
Spates must of necessity be the source of supply from which 
game must come to restock older and depleted covers, the 
nursery in which game must be protected for the benefit of all 
alike, if it is to be preserved from total extermination and that 
without the greatest care extinction will follow anyhow. Al- 
ready the game supply of the Western and Northwestern States 
has dwindled to a comparativelv small remnant through the 
greed of market hunter and game dealer and the bulk of this 
trapped and slaughtered game has found its way to the game 
dealers of South Water street, Chicago, both in and out of 
season. 
Sportsmen throughout the West favor wise and strictly 
enforced game laws and do the 'best they can to have them 
enacted and enforced. They have before them, however, the 
great task of educating the people up to a sensible view of the 
subject, a task more difficult with us than in an older com- 
munity like Illinois, and we naturally look to the older States 
to set before us an example and object lesson— just, wise and 
properly enforced. 
Our own markets consume immense quantities of game, but 
were the drain confined x to this alone, the natural reproduction 
would make good the loss. Wham however, an immense popu- 
lation like the city of Chicago is accessible to the Western 
hunter, a market in which he can dispose of all the game he 
may capture by any and every devise, and the prolit for which 
is sufficient incentive to induce him to set our laws at defiance, 
the slaughter goes on at a rate that is fast depleting our supply 
to such an extent that it is only a question cf a short time until 
the last bird has disappeared, and this, too, with a compara- 
tively short open season for the sale of game. Judge, then, 
how long the supply would last with Chicago — the greatest 
game market iu the West — thrown open for the entire year, 
with no restriction placed on the sale of game, nor method used 
in its capture, so long as it was ostensibly obtained outside the 
State. I would ask Mr. Blow how long he expects the Illinois 
supply to last after that of the surrounding Slates is exhausted 
—destroyed in the interest of his friends, the game dealers. 
Will these very good friends of his make a. distinction between 
the home grown article and that of other States, and make 
careful inquiries in regard to where and how it was obtaine'd 
before purchasing? or will they in the future, as in the past, 
take everything offered in and out of season, sell it to safe 
parties and call it fictitious names and swear it came from out- 
side the State? 
Probably they will if asked to do so— raise another little jack 
pot to pay Warden Blow's salary. They should do no less for 
so zealous a partisan. The sportsmen of Illinois can hardly be 
expected to contribute anything towards it, for they can have 
nothing in common with the ally of market hunters and com- 
mission men. W. R. H. 
Game Protection in Pennsylvania. 
The Pennsylvania State Sportsmen's Association is doing 
good work in behalf of better game protection in that State. 
Although of comparatively recent organization, being not yet 
five years old, there is every probability of its accomplishing 
something at this session of the State Legislature, that will be 
of permauance and lasting benefit to the sportsmen of the Key- 
stoue State. Word comes from Harrisburg that the bills 
mentioned in the following communication are well in hand, 
with good prospects of their becoming a law before summer is 
on deck : 
At a meeting of the Pennsylvania State Sportsmen's Associa.- 
tion held at Harrisburg, Pa., Feb. 7, 1895, the following pre- 
amble and resolutions were unanimously adopted: 
Whereas, game of all kinds within the Commonwealth of 
Pennsylvania is rapidly becoming extinct, by reason of the 
inadequacy of our laws for their protection; therefore, be it 
resolved. 
First. That we heartily indorse, and earnestly recommend 
the speedy passage of the bill creating a game commission, pro- 
viding for game protectors, etc. 
Second. The enactment of a law prohibiting the killing or 
taking of deer, squirrels, hare, rabbits, wild turkey, ruffed 
grouse, any kind of pheasant, quail, partridge and woodcock, 
at any time save between the 15th day of October and the 31st 
day of December next following, inclusive. Provided, however, 
that woodcock may be shot from the 1st of July to the 31st day 
of July, inclusive. 
Third. That the fish laws be so amended as to prohibit the 
taking or catching of speckled trout for the purpose of sale. 
Fourth. That the law permitting the gathering and taking 
the eggs of all game birds for scientific purposes, be amended 
to prohibit the taking of the same for any purpose. 
Fifth. That Senator Grady's bill, No. 107, prohibiting the 
sale and exportation of game be amended by striking out all 
provisions relating to speckled trout, and extending its pro- 
visions to squirrels, hares, rabbits, wild turkeys, partridges, 
and all kinds of pheasants, and striking out in line 2, of section 
4. the words "in this State or," and in lines 3 and 4 of the same 
section, the words "for the purpose of sale." 
Sixth. That the legislative committee are hereby instructed 
to prepare the foregoing bills and amendments and urge the 
passage of the same. 
N. A. HUGHES, President, 
J. H. WORDEN, Vice-President, 
HARRY W. THURMAN, Secretary. 
New Jersey Legislation. 
The bill prepared by Commissioner Frothingham and intro 
duced into the Legislature last week is a comprehensive measure 
of which the chief points are as follows: 
Wild deer, buck, doe or fawn may he killed or in posesssion only 
between Oct. 15 and 25 inclusive. Hare, rabbit, quail, ruffed 
grouse, gray, black or fox squirrel, European pheasant, European 
partridge, European grouse or woodcock, from Oct. 31 to Dec. 15 
inclusive. Gray snipe (commonly called English or Wilson snipe), 
reed bird, rail bird or marsh hen. from Aug. 31 to Dec. 15 inclu- 
sive. Grass or upland plover or dove, from Aug. 1 to Sept. 30 in- 
clusive. In shooting wild fowl, the boat or sink-box or other vessel 
cannot lawfully be placed at a greater distance than 100 feet from 
136, marsh or meadow, bar or bank or heaped seaweed not covered 
with water at nigh tide; and the hours of shooting are between one 
hour before sunrise, and one hour after sunset. Shooting at wild 
fowl from any vessel propelled by other means than oars or pad- 
dles is prohibited. The law prohibits owners from shooting on 
their own lands in the close season. It is unlawful to have in pos- 
session, sell or offer for sale any of the birds, fowl or animals 
enumerated after the same have been caught or trapped by means 
of any snare, swoop net, trap or device of any description what- 
ever It is unlawful to have in possessison, sell or offer or expose 
for sale any game birds or animals enumerated, except during tne 
seasons in which tbey may lawfully be killed. Sunday hunting, 
either with dog or gun, is prohibited. The law does not prevent 
individuals or associations from domesticating or bringing into 
the State animals or birds for propagation purposes, or to keep til 
a favorable season for release. Fishing with any contrivance 
whatsoever, except wich rod and line in the manner called angling, 
is prohibited; this clause does not apply to eels caught by means 
of a wicker eel-basket or pot, nor to the spearing of eels, suckers 
or carp, the taking of winnows for bait with a seine not over 
twenty-five feet in length, provided that the young of trout, pick- 
erel and bass are not injured; and it does not apply to the taking 
of fish under the direction of the Fish Commission of the State. 
Black bass, Oswego bass, can be taken between May 30 and Dec. 1 
inclusive. Brook trout, April 1 to July 15 inclusive. Black bass 
less than nine inches in length, or trout less than six inches, can- 
not be killed, or kept in possession, or offered for sale. Explosives, 
drugs or medicated baits for taking or killing fish are forbidden. 
The turning of any deleterious or poisonous substance into the 
waters of the State, in quantities destructive to the life of the fish 
or disturbing their habits, is forbidden. Shutting off or drawing 
off the water of any pond, stream or lake, for the purpose of cap- 
turing fish, is prohibited. Set lines, or linos not under constant 
and immediate supervision, are prohibited in any waters inhabited 
by pickerel, black bass, perch or trout. Fishing through the ice. 
in waters inhabited by brook trout, and fishing for pickerel, pike 
or perch through the ice, except with sinele lines and hooks, one 
to each line, arc prohibited. Fishing in any manner, from any 
lake, pond or stream stocked with fish bv the fish and game com- 
missioners, or by private individuals, is unlawful for three years 
from the time the stock is introduced: provided the fish and game 
commissioners post ten notices on the banks or shores of such 
waters. It is unlawful to enter or trespass on any land for the 
purpose of taking fish from any private waters if the same be 
posted. The term "waters of this State" means all waters within 
the State where the tide does not ebb ana flow, but where the 
taste ot said water is not brackish or salty. Waters under the ex- 
clusive control of individuals or associations, created and stocked 
exclusively by them, and not run ways for migratorv fish, shall be 
considered private waters and exempt from the provisions of this 
act, Owners, lessees and tenants of any property shall not knowing- 
ly permit the erection or maintenance of anv unlawful contrivance 
for the taking of game or fish, nor shall they permit the setting or 
drawing of any net whatsoever from the banks of any stream 
forming a boundary of said property; it is made their legal duty 
to immediately destroy all unlawful contrivances. It is unlawfu 
to remove from the State any of the birds, game or fish whose cap- 
ture is prohibited or for which a close season is provided, excep 
when such are in the possession of the person who may have law 
fully captured them, excepting unbroken packages in transit 
across the State. 
