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In Eastern Oregon. 
La Grande, Ore., May 4.— The La G-rande Rod and Gun 
Club is composed of men who take a deep interest in sport, 
and numbers among its members some trap-shooters that 
will rank with the best in the Northwest. 
The State Sportsman's Association will hold their annual 
meeting in La Grande, on June 10 to 12. Our boys will do 
all in their power to make the meeting an interesting one 
to the representatives from the rod and gun clubs of the 
State. 
The Grand Ronde Valley has been stocked with Cali- 
fornia quail and Chinese pheasants. They are doing well, 
and are protected until the year 1900. 
Our deputy game and fish warden, Mr. A. V. Andrews, 
is doing good work in prosecuting all violators of any 
game law, and all true sportsmen will uphold him. 
Some fiend in human shape scattered poison over the 
town about three weeks ago, resulting in the death of 
eight or ten valuable hunting dogs. 
The lovers of the rod are having: fair success luring the 
wily trout from the mountain streams, several having 
returned with full baskets. K. 
Plover on Texas Prairies. 
Plover came in here about the time the quail season 
closed, and for a while hunting parties were out nearly 
every day. From thirty to sixty was about the usual bag 
for half a day's shooting for two, but 124 were brought in 
by one couple in one af ternoon. 
We hunt them in vehicles altogether. They are very 
wild from a person on foot, but in a buggy one can drive 
right through a bunch of them, getting first one on the 
ground and second on the wing. We have frequently 
heard it claimed that they are hard to kill. We have 
come to the conclusion that the trouble arises from shoot- 
ing too far. They stand up high, and their long wings in 
flight offer a large mark, while on the open prairie dis- 
tances look short. The last time we were out we drove 
within shooting distance of two plover. I killed mine 
and my chum missed his with the first and flushed it with 
the second, when I killed it. I asked him to pace the 
distance to his, while I did the same to mine. He re- 
marked that it was not so far as I imagined. It proved 
to be 43yds, to each one, but did not appear to be over 
30yds. E. R. E. 
The Southern Railway's New Through Sleeping 1 
Car Line to Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Commencing Sunday, May 12, a new through Sleeping Car Line from 
New York to Chattanooga, Tenn., will be inaugurated over the South- 
ern Railway, "Piedmont Air Line," going through the picturesque 
mountains of western North Carolina, via Ashefille, Hot Springs, 
Paint Rock and Knoxville. The through car will leave New York via 
Pennsylvania Railroad at 4:30 P. M., leave Washington via Southern 
Railway at 10:43 P. M., and arrive at Chattanooga following evening 
at 6:40. This car will be operated over the Southern Railway's- own 
lines from Washington to Chattanooga, which is an assurance of 
quick time, excellent connections and the best of service to be had. 
The country through which the new route runs is rich in magnificenG 
scenery.— Adt\ 
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.BOSTON AND MAINE. 
Boston, May 9. — The ice got the advantage of the trout 
fishermen in going out of the Maine lakes, and for two or 
three days there were no parties on the move for the trout 
waters. But now they are starting. Mr. A. S Foster, 
who has for a good many years, pioneered a party of 
sportsmen to some one of the Maine trout lakes — usually 
the Rangeleys — is to leave to-morrow or Monday. In his 
party are five or six gentlemen, including Mr. W. B. May, 
Mr. Rogers, Mr. B. J. Parker, Mr. J. Eaton, and probably 
one or two others. They go to Student Island, in Moose- 
lucmaguntic. Mr. C. P. Stevens, of Camp Vive Vale, was 
one of the first to be off, having started the next day after 
the ice left the Rangeleys. Mr. Stevens is alone this year. 
Mr. E. A. Dow, with his fishing friend Mr. E. G. Place, 
will start for Richardson Lake Saturday. They go to 
Camp Stewart, with George and Will Cutting for guides. 
Mr, Dow has a record of a trout above 51bs. last year, and 
Mr. Place is expecting a big one this year. 
Mr. L. Dana Chapman, corresponding secretary and 
treasurer of the Megantic Club, starts to-morrow for Weld 
Pond, in Maine, wiih a party of six. They go for land- 
locked salmon. In the party are also Messrs. E, J. Little- 
ton, Charles A. Kilham, Dr. W. G. Kendall, A. Bernard, 
and J. Ilarberger. They are to make a short trip, but 
expect great sport, as they have direct word that the fish- 
ing is good. The Stanley Minnow will be thoroughly 
tried and the Forest and Stream is promised the results. 
It is also more than probable that Commissioner Henry O. 
Stanley will be one of the party. Mr. David H. Blanchard, 
well known to the readers of the Forest and Stream, is 
soon to start for Monson, Me., with Mr. C. P. Keeler. 
They will fish Monson lakes for lake trout. Mr. 
Blanchard will visit his salmon river later. 
There are reports of good landlocked salmon fishing in 
Sebec Lake in Maine, but the fishermen who have gone to 
Grand Lake and Grand Lake Stream for the same fish are 
not having the sport they expected, if all reports are true. 
Mr. G. A. Fales has started with a party for Moosehead. 
The Produce Party, so named from the fact that most of 
the fishermen making it up belong to the produce and 
provision trades, was one of the first to be off for Moose- 
head this year. But the ice went out before the party was 
ready, though they will make good the advantage taken 
of them later. In this party are mentioned Mr. Wallace 
F. Robinson.president of the Boston Chamber of Commerce ; 
Mr. L. E. Pierce, Mr. Stearns R. Ellis, Mr. Conant, Mr. 
Smith, Mr. Powers and several others. They have the 
best steamer on Moosehead engaged to take them out on 
their fishing trips, with guides and canoes. Capt. J. B. 
Thomas, one of the directors of the American Sugar Re- 
fining Co., formerly a resident of Boston, but now of New 
York, will visit Moosehead this year with a party of 
friends. His party will go later for fly-fishing. Mr. 
Thomas was formerly the "commodore" of the Kineo 
Club, a party of sportsmen that annually visited Moose- 
head for fly-fishing for many years. In this party were 
such fishermen as Mr. W. S. Hills, now blind, but who 
kept up his love for fishing, in spite of his blindness, for 
a number of seasons. Last year he tried salt-water fish- 
ing when his health permitted. 
The Linder party to Moosehead I will give particulars 
about later. Then there is the Magee party to the Range- 
leys. The Camp Stewart party to the same lakes, which 
will go later, with numerous other fishermen ready to be 
noted in due season. Mr. Edgar W. Curtis, of Meriden, 
Conn., passed through Boston on Monday en route to his 
camp in the Pond-in-the-River, below the Middle Dam. 
He was accompanied by Mr. Joseph Loy, of the same 
place. Mr. Curtis has fished the Rangeleys for many 
years, and his record of trout is a remarkable one. I be- 
lieve that he is a long time patron of the Forest and 
Stream, and he is certainly a true angler. 
Boston, May 10. — There are reports of good black bass 
fishing in Lake Cobbosseecontee, some four or five, miles 
from Gardiner, Me., and one or two Boston parties are 
there, or have started, Mr. John H. Lord, of Springfield, 
is in Gardiner for the summer. He was accompanied on 
a bass fishing trip the other day by Warren Whittemore, 
of that vicinity. They were quartered at Camp Comfort. 
A fine string of bass was taken; about twenty in all. 
Many of the fish were returned to the water. It is noted 
by bass fishermen that the fishing is unusually good for so 
early in the season — a result of 1 the extremely warm 
weather. 
Still the fishermen are starting for the Maine lakes. 
There are reports of a party of twenty-eight from Boston 
for Moosehead. But such a report lacks confirmation. 
It is doubtless the Produce Party, already noted in this 
paper, that the flourishing newspaper writer has got hold 
of. The party goes directly to Kineo. It has the use of a 
private car. 
Mr. C. Z. Bassett, of Appleton & Bassett, who has 
tended to the outfitting of a good many sportsmen this 
spring, is soon to start on his own annual fishing trip. 
He will be accompanied by G. N. Smalley and C. W. 
Chamberlain. Mr. Bassett and Mr. Smalley have fished 
together for a great many seasons, and they have a record 
of a couple of trout, weighing in the neighborhood of 
olbs. each, taken with the fly off the rocks, near Billy 
Soule's camps in Cupsuptic, at a time when every other 
fisherman seemed to think that trolling was the only 
thing to do. This year they will stop at Billy's for a 
while, and doubtless go to Kenebago and the other lakes. 
Mr. Eugene Lynch, of 24 Broad street, with Mr. M. H. 
Curley, of 103 State street, is to start on his annual fishing 
trip to the Upper Dam on June 3. The wives of both 
gentlemen will accompany them. Mr. Lynch is a fly 
fisherman altogether. He does not care for trolling, and 
is wilhng to return all the small trout to the water. The 
man who fishes for count is not in good favor with him. 
Would that there were more sportsmen like him. 
Mr. Patrick Kelley. of Cambridge, is to start for the 
Upper Dam the last of May or the first of June. His friend 
Bateman hopes to be with him, but he is not yet certain. 
Mr. Kelley is a fisherman with "considerable parapher- 
nalia," but he is an expert with it. He is a fly fisherman, 
and one that is willing to work all day for a good rise. 
Last year he fished in Southern waters, where he was a 
good deal disgusted with the fish, and still more with the 
fishermen. 
Boston, May 11. — There are reports of "big trout fish- 
ine;" in some of the brooks in Maine. The unusually 
warm weather has put the water at the "trouting pitch" 
earlier than usual. Mr. F. B. Stevens, of the. Boston 
Globe, with Dr. Hilton, of Lowell, is planning a trip to 
some one of the Maine brooks. Dr. Hilton is well known 
as owner of Hilton's Specific No. 3, There are reports of 
good fishing in brooks near Portland, Me. Messrs. Boyle 
and Earnshaw, of this city, took ninety-three trout from 
Worthly Brook the other day. Sorry that they fished for 
numbers. Lake Auburn, in Maine, continues to yield 
some good fishing. A gentleman, who came from 
Lewiston yesterday, says that Mr. H. H. Hanson, of the 
Lake Auburn Fish Protective Association, landed fifteen 
trout and a salmon from the waters of that lake on 
Wednesday. Another party were fishing on the lake the 
same day. They secured a trout weighing over 21bs. and 
a landlocked salmon of 3ilbs. weight. It must be remem- 
bered that this fishing is all the result of restocking; the 
fishing there having completely "played out" a few years 
ago. 
One of the most noted of Boston fishing parties to the 
Rangeley Lakes is about ready to start. In this party are 
Mr. Edwin U. Curtis, Mayor of Boston; Col. Horace T. 
Rockwell, E. B. Haskell, C. H. Andrews, Henry A. Priest 
and Wm. T. Cushman. Col. Rockwell has pioneered this 
fishing party for a great many seasons. Mr. Haskell and 
Mr. Andrews are senior partners and founders of the Bos- 
ton Herald. The gentlemen of the party are nearly all 
members of the Oquossoc Angling Association, but Mr. 
Haskell and Mr. Andrews also own their private camp on 
the east shore of Mooselucmaguntic. This party is now 
waiting for the return of Mr. Haskell from a journey in 
the Old World, where he has been with his son. He is 
daily expected. In this party are some of the senior 
anglers of Boston, and followers of the Gentle Izaak, who 
go afishing each season for the good they gain out of it. 
Special. 
Boston, May 11. — A letter just received from Harry 
Pierce, of the King and Bartlett preserves, states that the 
ice left the lake on May 6. He presents quite a remark- 
able weather record for that region, adding that the ther- 
mometer registered 90°, but a strong breeze made it pleas- 
ant and comfortable. He is building a large new family 
camp, which will soon be finished, and is already engaged 
for a party of eight, headed by Mr. Sanger, of Boston. 
Mr. Henry O. Stanley, Commissioner of Inland Fisheries 
of Maine, has just shipped a large lot of fresh-water smelt 
spawn to stock the lakes at King and Bartlett. Mr. Pierce 
also says that he expects to start in a few days with John 
Vilas in search of a new pond about the size of Horseshoe 
Pond, which Mr. Vilas discovered last winter while run- 
ning lines for the Coburn heirs. It is only about H miles 
from Horseshoe, and has never been fished to any one's 
knowledge. If it proves to be as productive as expected, 
Mr. Pierce will build a bark camp there at once for sum- 
mer use, and run a trail to it, 
Mr. C. F. Dowse, of the big Boston hardware house of 
Bigelow & Dowse, left on Monday last (May 13) for Billy 
Soule's camps at Indian Rock, Me. He will spend some 
time there enjoying the fishing and taking a well-earned 
rest. 
Mr. A. A. Sargent, of Haverhill, Mass., will leave in a 
few days on a fishing trip to the Rangeleys. This gentle- 
man has a camp noar Haines's Landing, called Camp 
Haverhill. He has made an annual trip to this region for 
thirty-five successive years, and there are not many New 
England anglers who have so vivid a recollection of the 
early days at Rangeley as Mr. Sargent. His son, Mr. H. 
C. Sargent, has inherited the father's love for the sport, 
and rarely misses the spring fishing at Camp Haverhill. 
Mr. J. Otis Wardwell, ex-chairman of the Republican 
State Committee, has just returned from a few days' fish- 
ing near Alton Bay, N. H. He fished the brooks in that 
vicinity, and his record for the trip was 118 nice brook 
trout. The party with him had good luck at Lake Win- 
nepesaukee, and caught one landlocked salmon weighing 
61bs. , the first one, I am told, that has been landed in that 
lake. 
Mr. Moses R. Emerson, New England manager for the 
Home Insurance Co. 'of New York, in company with the 
president of the company, from New York, has left Bos- 
ton for a two weeks' trip after trout in New Hampshire. 
They will enter the woods from Colebrook, N. H., near 
which are located a number of good ponds. For fifteen 
continuous years these two gentlemen have fished to- 
gether, a record which leaves no doubt as to congenial 
companionship. 
One of the best game and fish preserves to be found in 
the East is that of the Laurentian Club. The territory 
controlled by this organization lies in Canada about 120 
miles northeast of Montreal. It is reached from that 
city by way of Three Rivers and branch of Canadian 
Pacific to Grandes Piles station. The club was organized 
in 1885, and the district originally leased or purchased 
extended for two miles north on the St. Maurice River, 
and was about ten miles wide. In 1893 and 1894 they 
added the Castor-Noir-Wessonneau and Pabelogena.ug 
waters, which, added to the original grant, placed under 
their control about 400 square miles of as good fishing 
country as can be found anywhere. There are about 
thirty lakes on the preserve and innumerable streams, in 
which are found an abundance of gray trout, speckled 
trout, black bass, muscallonge and pickerel. Deer, bear, 
caribou and many game birds afford the shooter excellent 
sport in the open season. The main camps of the club 
are located at Lake La Peche, where they also have a 
good-sized farm. Good camps and boats are provided at 
all the principal lakes, and trails are cut through to 
most of the points of interest. It is the intention of the 
members to place a fish hatchery at Edouard Lake to 
supply these waters with salmon. When that is done 
very little will remain to make the Laurentian Preserve a 
paradise for sportsmen. Every facility is afforded for 
the enjoyment of members and their guests, and any one 
who is fortunate enough to spend a few weeks with rod 
and gun in this interesting country is certain to treasure 
it up as a pleasant reminiscence. The club membership 
is limited to 300. Their rolls now contain about 250, 
mostly living (I am informed) in New York, with a good 
sprinkling from New England and Canada. 
E. S. Boss, Eugene Atwood and J. M. Reed, of Willi- 
mantic, Co.nn., and Q. A. Atwood, of Boston, have just 
returned from Sebec Lake, Maine, where they have had 
excellent luck salmon fishing. This trip only whetted 
their appetite for more, and at least two of the party 
intend leaving for Rangeley at once to try the trout 
fishing. 
Dan Hole Pond, situated a few miles from Ossipee, N. 
H., promises to become quite famous among Eastern fish- 
erman for its landlocked salmon. This little sheet of 
water up among the hills was stocked with salmon a 
number of years ago. The fish grew to large size and 
used to run up the brooks to spawn, where the natives 
used to spear them. This practice was stopped by a law 
enacted by the Legislature and since then more attention 
has been paid to fishing the pond in a legitimate manner. 
Very few, if any, were caught until last season, when 
Joseph Murphy, the actor of "Kerry Gow" fame, suc- 
ceeded in landing a few lusty specimens. This started 
the ball rolling, and many efforts were made during . the 
balance of the season to duplicate Mr. Murphy's work, 
with varying success. This year a number or good fish- 
ermen used to salmon trolling have visited the place and 
as far as I can learn all have done well. One gentleman 
captured a string of eleven fish (all salmon) weighing 
104lbs. , and Dan Hole can now be classed among the more 
prominent places in New England for salmon. 
W. S. Johnson and James A. Nichols, of Putnam, 
Conn., stopped off in Boston only long enough to replenish 
their stock of fishing tackle en route to Grand Lake, Me. 
They will be gone about ten days and will stop at Thomas 
Calligan's. 
Dr. Heber Bishop, John W. Duncklee, Myron W.Whit- 
ney and others leave next Friday for a two week's trip to 
the Megantic Preserve. Dr. Bishop is one of the best 
posted men in the club on the resources of this region for 
sport and those who accompany him are assured of a good 
time in advance. 
A letter received from Boardman Hunt, of Green- 
field, N. S., states that fly fishing at Indian Gardens 
on the Liverpool River was excellent during the first 
part of May. The warm days coming so soon after 
the ice went out brought the trout to the surface in a 
hurry. 
An acquaintance, who has spent much time in New- 
foundland, describes the resources of that country for 
sportsmen in language that would fire the heart of any 
man who loves the rod and gun. He says the country 
actually abounds with trout, and during the open season 
has seen boys endeavoring to sell them to passengers on 
the train at a price per dozen so low that I dare not men- 
tion it. Fifty miles from St. John, at Salmonier, he had 
some very fine grilse fishing. The run of salmon had not 
begun, but he was promised the very best of sport a little 
later. From there he went to Placentia Bay, where he 
had some splendid sea trout fishing. There is good fish- 
ing to be had very near St. John, and he also mentions 
the Terra Nova River country in highest terms. Consid- 
ering that one can reach St. John within three days from 
Boston, it is surprising that more Eastern sportsmen do 
not take the trip. There are points in the Maine wilder- 
ness which require two or three days to reach, so that 
Newfoundland, although further away, is quite acces- 
sible. 
The Megantic Club have just published an illustrated 
and descriptive report in pamphlet form, containing 96 
pages, which will be of great use to members and guests 
while on the preserve. It contains a description of all the 
different camps, giving distances from point to point, the 
names of all the different waters, a list of guides, routes, 
rates of fares, board, etc. ; in fact, everything of interest. 
A number of handsome illustrations grace its pages, and 
the book is decidedly a credit to the club. Hackle. 
