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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[July 18, 1896. 
ing in the waters of the No. 4 park and private park of 
the Adirondack Timber and Mineral Company must be 
observed by every person having the right or permit to 
fish in the above-mentioned parks, viz. : 
"From the commencement of the open season for 
catching trout to July 1, no more than 81bs. of trout must 
be caught by one person during any one day. 
"From July 1 to the close of the season only 4lbs. of 
trout must be caught by one person in one day. 
"Three trout may be caught in one day, even if their 
combined weight exceeds 4lbs. 
"As the trout in Sunday Brook are mostly below the 
legal size, this brook will be kept for stocking purposes. 
No person will be allowed to catch trout from Sunday 
Brook at any time. 
"No trout taken from the waters of above-mentioned 
parks shall be sold on any account." 
Charles Fenton, Lessee and Manager. 
The Adirondack League Club. 
The Adirondack League Club has 105,000 acres of land 
in Hamilton and Herkimer coimties, New York, a large 
portion of whieh has been preserved from indiscriminate 
hunting since the incorporation of the club in 1890. 
To quote from the year book: 
"When the club acquired control this tract bad been 
open to the public, but its fish, deer, bears, partridges and 
other game were less depleted than in other regions, be- 
caxise of its comparative inaccessibility. Prompt action 
was taken for the betterment of the fishing by restocking 
all its waters with such varieties of trout as were found to 
be best adapted to the varying conditions of food and 
water. Up to 1895 many nundred thousand trout fry 
were hatcned and carefully put out in the small inlet 
streams of the lakes and rivers. It was determined to fol- 
low the modem methods of more rapid and successful 
stocking by feeding and rearing a large proportion of the 
fry untU they were capable of more effectively taking care 
of themselves. In the winter of 1894^5, 35,000 two-year- 
old trout from 5 to 9in. long were successfully 
distributed. In the spring of 1895, 250,000 trout fry 
were distributed. During the past winter 17,430 one 
and two-year-old trout were distributed. There are now 
(April, 1896) in the troughs, rearing boxes and pools at 
Combs Brook hatchery 530,000 fry, of which 200,000 are 
salmon trout and 330,000 are brook trout. These are being 
fed and will be gradually distributed only as needed to 
make room for the growth of those left in confinement. 
The club's great hatchery at Combs Brook is equipped for 
large and successful hatchery operations, and the members 
are assured that their utmost skill and persistence with the 
rod cannot deplete the lakes and streams. 
The club has not been inattentive to the important sub- 
ject of adding to the supply of natural food for trout, such 
as the fresh-water shrimp and frost fish. Nearly a quarter 
of a million frost fish have been hatched for distribution 
this spring. 
The deer herd on the preserve has increased during the 
club's possession, due to natural increase and to reason- 
able restrictions on killing by club members, and also 
largely due to their fierce, indiscriminate pursuit on ad- 
jacent unprotected lands. It is literally true that this 
preserve is a harbor of refuge for deer driven off from 
public groimds. 
The result of this legislation (limiting of jacking and 
hounding) wiU certainly be to largely increase the number 
of our own herd. The club has for several years forbid- 
den jacking, so that the limitation is no deprivation to our 
members, while it will be of great advantage to have it 
in force elsewhere. While the club's officers took little 
part in securing the limitation of hounding, knowing the 
addiction of some of our members to that fascinating 
sport, yet it is believed that the two weeks' limitation, if 
it becomes a law, wUl soon restore aU the delights of still- 
hunting, and make that sport as productive in results as 
the more destructive methods which are now limited. 
The eighty miles of boundary line of the League tract 
is thoroughly and legally posted, for the most part with 
enameled tin signs. The club's compliance with the 
terms of the law making poaching on private preserves 
a misdemeanor has just been tested and confirmed by the 
conviction of two gentlemen who doubted, trespassed, 
and attained conviction, fine and repentance. Our 
troubles with poachers have never been more than an 
annoyance, and we are in a position to entirely stop it this 
season. 
West Canada Ijake Preserve. 
The 5,000 acres in this preserve are located in the north- 
east comer of Township 8, Hamilton Co,, N. Y,, and con- 
tains the West Canada Lakes, Brook Trout Lake, and two 
small lakes known as Twin Lakes. These lakes have the 
highest altitude of any lakes in the mountains, and are 
noted for their wild beauty, secluded situation and 
remarkable abundance of fish and game. The West Can- 
ada Lakes have an elevation of 2,348ft. above tide water, 
and are the fountain head of the West Canada Creek, the 
principal tributary of the Mohawk. 
This property is situated on one of the divides in the 
wilderness, and within a radius of four miles are other 
lakes, and in the opposite direction the Cedar, Miami and 
Jessup rivers flow to the Hudson, and the Moose and 
Black rivers to the St. Lawrence. J. I. Wendell, 
Upper Saranac Association. 
It is the impression of the officers of the Upper Saranac 
Association that game in our region has not at all de- 
creased in the past ten or fifteen years, nor has fishing 
deteriorated in any of the back ponds. In the Saranac 
Lakes themselves, the introduction of pickerel, supposed 
to have been maUcious, has interfered with the breeding 
of speckled trout, though the lake trout have held their 
own pretty well, a fair number of large fish having been 
taken last yeai;. 
We have had no experience with the introduction of 
breeding of extinct game species. Sam'l B. Wabd. 
I^iberty Club. 
Meriden, Conn. — ^I have been looking up the game 
birds and find that the English pheasante are increasing 
fairly well. Warden Stiles says that three or four pheas- 
ants nests have been found in the woods this spring. The 
ring-necked pheasants are the only ones that have been 
liberated so far, but the club are thinking of trying some 
Mongolian birds. Quail wintered well. They made 
good use of the sheds put out for them to roost in. Par- 
tridges hold their own, and will continue to be plenty if 
we can keep the boys from snaring them. , 
I think the farmers are as much to blame for the scarcity 
of game as anybody. I have heard of two pheasants' 
nests that were found and the eggs taken, and if that 
business continues the pheasant will have a hard row to 
hoe. I have a hen sitting on some pheasant eggs that I 
intend to liberate aroimd Meriden if I have any luck with 
them. T. A. Jamks, 
The Forest Iiake Association. 
The Forest Lake Association was incorporated in July, 
1883. The association owns 3,000 acres of forest land in 
Pike county, Pa. , between the Delaware and Lackawaxen 
Rivers, and the tract is stocked with deer and partridges. 
The club house is situated on an eminence l,500Et. above 
tidewater. There are three lakes on the property, which 
afford good fishing for bass, pickerel, perch, etc. 
Vilas Preserve. 
"During the five years that the Vilas Preserve has been 
preserved and in charge of keepers, there has been a 
steady increase of deer. During the season of 1895 deer 
were so numerous that they were constantly seen by 
parties traveling through the woods. Until the hound- 
ing season, they were unusually tame, and were fre- 
quently seen in our camp, a settlement of five buildings. 
Hounding is not permitted on the tract. 
"Our own experience does not justify any increased 
restriction in hunting deer in the Adirondacks. In many 
sections the laws are indifferently enforced against resi- 
dents. To make the restrictions severer punishes the law- 
abiding man. and tends to awaken opposition to the law. 
The laws of '93 and '95 were sufiicient to cause steady in- 
crease in the deer and yet give a fair hunting season. If 
any localities have suffered, it haa been through the viola- 
tion of existing laws." E. A, Carpenter. 
THE BANNOCKS AND THE WYOMING 
AUTHORITIES. 
Cheyenne, Wyo., July 9.— Editor Forest and Stream: 
In your issue of May 30, 1896, in an editorial under the 
heading of "Indian Hunting Rights," you do a great in- 
justice to the people of Wyoming. It is there asserted 
that in connection with the arrest of certain Indians for 
unlawfully killing game the officers made the most of 
the opportunity and shot down some of the unresisting 
and defenseless savages, and that after having thus taken 
the law into their own hands and inflicted the penalty of 
capital punishment for misdemeanors which the law 
punishes only by fine and imprisonment, the Wyoming 
authorities took the case into court to determine the 
actual rights of the Bannocks as secured to them by the 
conditions of their treaty with the Grovernment. I believe 
that in justice to the people of Wyoming you will accord 
me space for a brief correction of the above statement. 
The authorities of Wyoming attempted in the first in- 
stance to have the hunting rights of the Bannocks deter- 
mined by legal procedure, and in fact never proceeded 
against Ihem in any other way. Upon the 7th day of 
June, 1895, William Manning, a constable at Marysvale, 
in the basin known as Jackson's Hole, arrested an Indian 
who had in his posseesion 50 elk hides and about 501bs. of 
meat. He was fined $15 and costs, the costs being after- 
ward waived. On the 24th day of June, Constable Man- 
ning, with two deputies, attempted to arrest five Indiana 
for the wanton destruction of game. These Indians drew 
their guns on the posse and refused to submit to arrest, 
although they understood English and had heard the 
warrants read. They said they would kill anyone who 
attempted to arrest them. After being joined by twenty- 
five other Indian hunters, they jeered at and ridiculed the 
officers, and twitted them with their inability to arrest 
them. This party had over 500 elk hides and not enough 
meat to last them two days. Constable Manning returned 
to the settlement, organized a posse of thirty-seven 
deputies and on July 4 arrested ten Indian hunters with 
their squaws. They had over ninety elk hides and not 
over lOOlbs. of meAt. The Indians were fined $75 each 
and on being unable to pay it were started under guard 
for the county seat, but on the way there they all escaped 
from their guards. On July 7 Constable Manning with a 
posse of twenty-seven deputies, armed with proper war- 
rants, arrested nine Indians, having in their possession 
about 200 elk, moose and antelope hides and very little 
meat. In this party were several well-educated Indians 
who talked and understood English perfectly. The war- 
rants were read and fuUy explained to them. Judging 
from the fact that one lot of prisoners had recently escaped 
from their armed guard, and from certain suspicious actions 
of his prisoners, Mr. Manning alternated each Indian on the 
march with a guard, ^hich of itself was an evidence to the 
Indians that the officer was determined to take them to the 
settlement for trial. At a point where the trail passed 
through a heavy growth of young pines each Indian, at a 
given signal, wheeled his horse and dashed into the thicket. 
In the confusion a few shots were fired and one Indian was 
killed and one wounded, the rest escaping. If the officers 
had desired to make the moat of the opportunity they 
could have killed them all, being twenty-seven to nine, 
and all men accustomed to rapid and accurate firing. 
They were as well aware before the occurrence as they 
were convinced by evidence afterward that the killing of 
an Indian under any circumstances would endanger their 
lives and those of their families and neighbors, as well as 
call down upon them the censure and ill-will of the Indian 
Department, the Indian Rights Association, and a press 
ignorant of the facts. 
The consequences of the killing of this one Indian are 
too well known to need further comment. It was the 
only casualty of the Jackson's Hole trouble. He did not 
suffer capital punishment for a misdemeanor pilnishable 
by fine and imprisonment, but was killed by an officer in 
attempting to escape after a proper and legal arrest, and 
such occurrences are so common in every portion of any 
' settled and civilized and Christianized country as to excite 
no comment whatever. 
At the first term of the District Court after the killing 
of this Indian I called the attention of the judge of the 
district to it and requested him to investigate the same, 
and if it appeared to have been unlawful to take the prop- 
er steps to have the offending officers punished. He did 
so, but found nothing to warrant action by the grand 
jury. When the United States District Court convened 
a grand jury was summoned by the United States Mar- 
shal and the fact of the killing of this Indian was laid be- 
fore them by the United States Attorney for Wyoming; 
witnesses being brought here from Jackson's Hole, from 
Washington, and also Indian witnesses from the Bannock 
Agency in Idaho. The grand jury found no grounds for 
an indictment of the officers. 
The proposition for an agreed case to test the law as to 
the hunting rights of the Indians came from the Interior 
Department at Washington, a special agent coming to 
Wyoming to arrange the matter with me. We claimed 
that they had no right to hunt in this State except in 
conformity with our game laws. This view we attempted 
to enforce by legal procedure, beginning in our lowest 
court before a justice of the peace. The proceedings 
have been declared regular and according to law by our 
State courts and the United States G-rand Jury; and the 
Supreme Court of the United States nas now decided that 
the State authorities were right in the position which 
they assumed in the matter, and that the Indians were 
and are amenable to our State laws. 
Wm, a. Richards, Governor of Wyoming. 
MEN I HAVE FISHED WITH. 
II.— Billy Bishop. 
"If these hills should come together where would I be?" 
asked Billy when he found himself alone in Quackendaiy 
Hollow, where he had been sent to cut cordwood. This 
was hie excuse for returning from a lonesome spot which 
his superstitious mind peopled with all kinds of creatures 
which might even draw the hills together and cmsh him, 
as they had done on many occasions, he said, in Holland, 
where his grandparents came from. The scarcity of hills 
in that country may not have been known to Billy, but 
that was a matter of no importance to him. 
The hollow lay half a mile above the village of Green- 
bush and was then well timbered and uninhabited. 
Twenty years later it had quite a settlement and was often 
called "Nigger Hollow." But Billy Bishop was fonder of 
the society of man than of those weird inhabitants who 
worked evil in the dark forests by day or in open fields by 
night. On the hill above the railroad was a field which 
formed part of the farm of Mr. Frederick Aiken, and a 
dilapidated barn in it was prominent in the sky-line from 
the river road above the first creek. This was the "spook- 
house lot" and the "spook-house barn," the house which 
gave the name having burned before my recollection. 
Billy told me that spooks danced in the barn on certain 
nights and that in the shape of stumps of trees a dozen of 
them had chased him down the hill one night, but before 
daylight they changed into bats and flaw back. This was 
certified toby John Pulver and Jakey Van Hoesen, chums 
of Billy and rivals in doing odd jobs about Isaac Fryer's 
tavern when thirsty and time was plenty. The weight of 
evidence was convincing. These things happened in 1841, 
the date being fixf d by the death of President Harrison 
and the fact that Billy said : "EE I'd 'a' knowed he was 
goin' to die so soon I'd never 'a' woted fur him, " 
At this time Billy may have been forty years old, may 
have been sixty, it was all the same thing to me; he was 
old. All men over thirty were old, and ten to thirty years 
more made no difference, 
"Ef you got a lantern I want to borry it to-night to 
get some worms outen yer garden," said Billy, and it was 
a revelation to me to see him pick up a quart of big 
"night walkers" in a short time, 
"What are you going to do with the big worms, 
Billy?" 
"Bobbin' fer eels; don't yer want to go, to-morrer 
night?"' 
"Yes, if mother will let me; come around till I ask 
her," 
"Well," said mother, "he may go with you, Mr, Bishop, 
if you will take care that he doesn't fall overboard and 
you don't keep him out too late at night." 
"All right, ma'am, we can't stay late, because I'm only 
goin' here in the crik beginnin' about sundown, and eels 
don't bite at a bob much a'ter ten o'clock, nur fur that 
matter much a'ter nine. I'll take keer of him all right 
an' mebbe I'll have some eels to skin fur yer bre'kfas', 
ma'am." 
The worms had been put in a keg with plenty of earth 
and set in a cool place. I was home from school early in 
the afternoon, for the mystery of bobbing for eels was to 
be unfolded to me by a master of the art. Billy was on 
hand an hour before sundown, and getting a few yards 
of stout linen thread and a knitting needle from my 
mother we started for the woodshed to arrange some- 
thing, but just what it was to be was a mystery. First 
Billy cut oft about 6ft, of thread and fastened it to the 
middle of the knitting needle by a knot and two half- 
hitches, two young eyes watching every move. Next he 
threaded a big worm straight through from one end to 
the other, ran it the whole length of the thread and fas- 
tened it so that it would not slip off. This was re- 
peated until the thread was full and was 6ft. of living 
worms; then he wound the string around the fingers 
of his left hand until the upper end was reached, when he 
cut off the knitting needle, took the coil from his hand 
and laid it on a piece of fish line, which he doubled over 
and tied hard and fast, cutting through to the threads and 
leaving a number of worm-covered loops at each side, and 
the "bob" was made. The fact that it was a dirty job did 
not disturb Billy nor me; in fact, we boys made many of 
them afterward, and neither dirt nor the possible suffer- 
ing of the worms were ever given a thought, and at this 
ripe age it seems to be no worse than the ordinary baiting 
of a hook with "our mutual friend," as a late writer in 
the English Fishing Gazette called that humble beast 
which we have termed a "barnyard hackle" and scientists 
have dignified with the title of Lumhrims terrestris to 
signify his ownership or occupancy oi: the soil. It simply 
seemed a trifle worse because the labor of impalement and 
the consequent dirt all came at once. These things are a 
matter of taste and temperament, nothing more. 
With the boat at anchor in the little creek, just below 
Hiram Drum's slaughter house, which was about as far up 
as a boat could go at ordinary times, Billy told me how to 
proceed. 
"In swifter water we'd had to use sinkers to get the 
bobs straight down," said he; "but we won't need 'em 
here. You see, you want to let your bob down till it 
touches the bottom and then raise it a couple of inches, 
for eels they swjnj near the bottom and bit the bob just 
right,'? ' " ' 
