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LAug. 28, 1897. 
sboot a deer, although very wrons for any one else. The 
club man who licks his chops over a little previous chicken 
grouse deprecates any such practice in other persons, but 
cannot see how the law can he construed to apply to him- 
self. 
_ Just now two singular instances came to mind of this dis- 
tinguished personage business. A Pennsylvania Congress- 
man wants to go elk bunting in Wyoming this month, and 
has telegraphed Governor Richards of Wyoming for permis- 
sion to kill elk. Such permission has been respectfully de- 
clined. A similar request was made of Governor Eichards 
by the TJ. S Geological Survey party at work Ihis summer 
in the Teton forest reserves. These men wanted permission 
to kill game for food, but their request was denied. Tet 
another instance occurs this month la Colorado, and this 
not without certain comic features. A party of Kentucky 
men engaged in hunting in Coloradn discovered that they 
were breaking the law, and wrote to State Game Commis- 
sioner Swan, begging him to give them a special dispensa- 
tion. As one unanswerable argument, they stated that if he 
would do this, they would send him a barrel of the best 
Kentucky whisky obtainable in the entire Blue Grass 
Country ! After this it was indeed tough to be told that no 
elk or deer could l)e killed except in the course of scientific 
research. The Kentucky hunters will return to their State 
firmly convinced that Colorado at least has an absolutely in- 
corruptible warden! 
Wild Pigeons In Wisconsin. 
Messrs. Melz & Sehloerb, of Oshkosh, Wis., write me, 
under date of Aug. 14, a very interesting letter regarding the 
appearance of wild pigeons in upper Wisconsin. The in- 
formation is brief but authentic, the letter reading; 
"Seven flocks of wild pigeons were seen here this morning 
about 6 A. M. , Aug. 14, The flocks ranged in size from about 
ten to fifty. They were flying low along the shores of Lake 
Winnebago, and are the first seen here in eighteen years. ' 
"There is no mistake about this, and I think you will soon 
hear from other sources about the presence of wild pigeons 
amongst us again." 
for the gratification of their desire to kill. A dozen par- 
tridges or ducks ought to satisfy the greediest sportsman, 
but many times you will hear him boast of his hundreds, and 
•• then regret that some were still flying in the woods and 
marshes. No true sportsman ever pursues this course, only 
human beings with pot hunter instincts. We have had our 
share in Vermont, and at times the "pismire" age seemed 
close at hand, but now, thanks to game legislation, the state 
of things is improving. Kenewah. 
Milton, Vt., Aug. 16. 
Illinois Prairie Chicken Season. 
A CURIOUS complication has arisen concerning the enforce- 
ment of the game law which forbids the killing of prairie 
chickens in certain months in each year, and Game Warden 
H. W. Loveday, who makes his headquarters in this city, 
says he hears of many people who openiy disregard Xhe law 
and of some oificials who refuse to prosecute under it. la 
1889 the Legislature amended the game laws, and the House 
changed the date of the open season so that the killing of 
these birds was only lawful between Sept. 15 and Nov. 1, 
The Senate amended the House act by changing 15 to 1 in a 
specified line, and the House concurred ; but the bill as passed 
contained the dates fixed by the House, and thus fbe bill 
stands. Those who now defy the law assert it was changed 
by the clerk of the House and is invalid. Mr. Loveday and 
ex-Game Warden Bortree assert that the law is valid. It is 
the intention of Mr. Loveday to strictly enforce the law as it 
stands. — Chicago Herald. 
Country vs. Town. 
ViNTGsr, la. — There are a few who would like to have it 
understood that the farmers commit all the crimes against 
the game laws, and that the passing of the game is due to the 
criminal disposition of them alone. There is now and then 
a city sportsman who, upon having trouble with a farmer, 
seems to denounce all farmers as a class, J. K. B, 
Country than he does himself, yet I am afraid that the 
method practiced, as he mentions, was not the only one in 
Vogue among the warm-weather shooters in Minnesota and 
otner Western States. It was not unusual for sportsmen or 
market shooters to handle their birds as Grumbler states 
when it was inconvenient or impossible to obtain ice. We 
nearly always treated our birds in this way on our shooting 
trips out in Iowa, fifteen years or more ago, though we had 
ho occasion to do any shipping, of course. It was in August 
that most of the market shooting was done, and in August a 
young prairie chicken will spoil in a single day Tf the 
weather be very warm. The method which I saw most 
practiced in the northwestern counties of Iowa, then largely 
unsettledj was as follows: A party of market shooters 
would hire a team and light wagon and put into it several 
casks containing ice. They drove across country with this 
rig, their dogs ranging out, and they themselves riding. 
"When birds were found and killed they were thrown into 
these casks of ice or ice water. Of course the market 
shootet was not shooting for fun, but for money, and he 
could not afford to lose his birds after he had killed them. 
Sometimes he could not get into the railroad every night. 
This method of shooting obtained over upper Iowa and 
lower Minnesota during the summer months. I do not 
mean to say that it was the only method practiced, or that 
it was the method practiced in the country where Grum- 
blet made his observations. All 1 ask our friend to be- 
lieve is that in my time I savvied prairie chickens a few my- 
self. 
Not Wisely, but too Soon. 
A few cases have come to hand in which gentlemen have 
shot or eaten prairie chickens not wisely, but too soon, and 
who have, therefore, been obliged to settle with the law. At 
Brookings, S. D., on Aug. 18, two brewers of Dubuque, la., 
named Hub and Inhufi, were fined for shooting and snipping 
illegal prairie chickens. They were arrested at Elkton, and 
caught in the act of billing the chickens out at the raihoad 
ofiice. They were fined $65 and costs. May equal good for- 
tune attend a plenty of other non-resident shooters who break 
the laws of the States where they go to shoot. 
Out at St. Paul they have an active and energetic game 
dealer by the name of R. E Cobb, who handles a good deal 
of the legal or illegal game of Mr FuUerton's State. A 
few days ago Deputy Warden William Tuttle, acting under 
the recommendation of a hotel keeper, wt ntto Mr. Cobb and 
said that he needed some prairie chickens for a banquet. 
He got thirty-five illegal prairie chickens. Mr. Cobb will 
get $10 and costs for each bird. 
At Litchfield, Minn., on Aug, 15, Warden FuUerton 
caught a "sooner" with seven illegal prairie chickens in his 
buggy. It is said that the country about Litchfield has been 
full of chicken shooters for two weeks, and the only wonder 
is that more have not been apprehended. 
Warden Harry Loveday, of Chicago, has been hustling his 
best this summer. He has done a lot of correspondence, and 
has appointed over seventy deputy wardens. In his work he 
has been left quite alone, no State wardens having yet been 
appointed for Peoria and Quincy. It seems not to be gener- 
ally known — even by Gov. Tanner himself — that there are, 
under the law, three Slate game wardens, and not one. It 
would seem to be time that Quincy and Peoria were heard 
from. 
So far as I know. Warden Loveday has had but one illegal 
game case and one conviction. On yesterday William H. 
Jung, a restaurant keeper of 106 East Randolph street, this 
city, was fined $10 and costs for oiiering for sale venison, 
this item being listed in his bill of fare. The case was tried 
be'fore Justice Prindiville, and the man Jung offered a 
unique defense. He declared the meat actually sold was not 
venison, but bear meat, and both he and his cook swore that 
this was the case. Jung furthermore produced as a witness 
the man who sold him the meat. The latter, an employee of 
the house of F. M. Smith, game dealer, also swore the" meat 
was not venison, but bear meat. This man knew his busi- 
ness well. Anyone who works for the big game dealers like 
Smith is far more useful if he has a handy conscience and a 
correct memory, the accuracy of the latter member being 
gauged by his ability to remember having sold nothing but 
legal game. Justice Prindiville listened calmly to these 
doughty, or doubty swearers, smiled, and soaked Mr. Jung 
flO and costs 
Methods of Came Dealers. 
There is no doubt that if illegal game is being handled on 
South Water street this summer it is done in a well-covered 
manner, and with no flaunting disregard of the law. At 
times the dealers in illegal game have been somewhat put to 
it to cover up their illicit property. One firm has been in 
the habit of keeping its contraband stuff' in a loft to which 
access was had by means of a ladder. If any suspicious 
parties appeared the ladder was removed, so that suspicion 
was not apt to be directed to the real hiding place of the 
game. One other firm when pressed close by a former war- 
den, was obliged to take a lot of game out on the roof of the 
store to escape detection. It is said that at the time when 
the Chicago Club had its property searched for illegal game 
a number of prairie chickens were secreted under a bed ! 
The "Hot Time" at Grand Rapids. 
The Itasca Gun Club, of Grand Rapids, Minn., will hold 
its annual trap-shooting tournament Oct 39 and ;30, and it 
has been at some pains in spreading the announcement that 
there will be a "hot time" at Grand Rapids on these dates. 
It is likely that this tournament is to be a sort of boom-pro- 
moter for the town. A large attendance of shooters is an- 
ticipated, and it is announced that there will be a grand 
moose hunt, to which all visiting sportsmen will be invited. 
The tournament will be held in the deer-shooting season, but 
the moose season does not open until Nov. 5. I fancy that 
a trap tournament with the side show of a "grand moose 
hunt" is something not often set down in the annals of sport, 
though I fear very much that the best of sportsmen will not 
care to add to the "hot time" at Grand Rapids at the particu- 
lar time set forth in the prospectus. Moose hunting is some- 
thing for the individual and not for the crowd. If the 
sportsmen of Grand Rapids have really some moose country 
near them, as it is said to have, they can do much better than 
to exploit it by means of a "hot time," whose main feature 
is a general moose hunt with a brass band and a hallelujah 
chorus. 
Distinguished Guests. 
Oftentimes there appear distinguished guests whose names 
are such as they themselves will not willingly let die. In 
the human heart there springs perpetually the belief of each 
individual that he is different from all the rest of the world, 
and a little bit better. The men who take a rifle along when 
they go mascallonge fishing think, it is no harm lor them to 
More About Pheasants. 
Mr. J. F. Blome, of Tomah, Wis., writes me on Aug. 18 
about his success with the pheasants which he is breeding in 
an amateur way. He says he has two hens and a cock, 
which he obtained this spring. One of the hens has laid 
eighty-nine eggs this summer, and the other seventy-two. 
He wants to know if anybody nas beaten this record. Next 
spring Mr. Blome will breed these birds more extensively, 
and will market a few if his good luck continues. I should 
say that his birds are the English ring-necked pheasant, and 
he says they are very gamy fowl. E. Hough, 
1206 BoYCE BciLDiNa, Uhicago. 
Maine Game Regions. 
FoK the benefit of sportsmen who are seeking the most 
desirable localities in the Maine forests the coming fall for 
hunting big game, I desire to call tbeir attention to the 
region of the Moose River. The C. P. Railway passes di- 
rectly through the heart of one of the most desirable por- 
tions of the great Maine wilderness for moose, deer and car- 
ibou. Jackman station on this railway is the most central 
one to take to reach the best moose hunting that, I am sat- 
isfied, can be found in Maine. 
From this point it is fifteen miks on the old Canada turn- 
pike, a most excellent road for wagoning, to the boundary 
line between Maine and Canada. 
From there it is fifteen miles in a dense wilderness to 
Portage and Penobscot lakes. A good saddle road has been 
cut through to these lakes, where are eight large and com- 
fortable hunting camps, go'^d guides, excellent cooks, and 
good, substantial camp fare. There is a carry of only one 
mile between the two lakes. 
Deer are very abundant now almost anywhere in the Maine 
woods, but in the Moose River region they are so plenty that 
the settlers are complaining bitterly of their trespasses upon 
their fields and growing crops. 
But while deer are to be found in many places, it is not 
every section of northern Maine that affords good moose 
hunting. 
The Portage Lake country is an exceptionally good one 
for moose without question. Some caribou were killed 
there last year, and several of the guides there told me re- 
cently that they had seen more this year than last. 
The open season for deer is the same as formerly, Oct. 1, 
but moose cannot be taken this year until Oct. 15. 
Parties desiring information regarding this region for 
moose hunting had better correspond with C. A. Coleman, 
Jackman, Me. J. P. SpKAOUffl. 
MoKSON, Me., Aug. 16, 
Green Mountain Deer. 
The city papers have been very arduous of late in whoop- 
ing up the deer of Vermont, in many cases letting their en- 
thusiasm get the better of tlieir veracity. There are deer in 
this State, that is very true, but if the city sportsman comes 
up to Vermont expecting to see them on every hillside he 
will be sadly disappointed. The southern and eastern parts of 
the State support a few specimens, and these poor, lonesome 
representatives of the deer tribe did so much damage to the 
crops (?) that the last Legislature, after much brain exhaus- 
tion (?). concluded that an open season would be the thing, 
and so Vermont offers golden (?) opportunities this fall for 
the deer ,stalker. It is rumored that the farmers where the 
deer are said to abound have got a coss between the Jersey 
cow and the razorback hog on the market, so that no sports- 
man need return without venison. But I cannot vouch for 
the truth of the story. Stranger things than that have hap- 
pened, however. 
I read with much intei'est the account in your paper of the 
occurrei;ice of the mocking bird in this State, and I think I 
know of a later occurrence. Some time since, while talk- 
ing with the curator of the State museum, he informed me 
that he knew of an occurrence of the above-mentioned bird 
as nesting in the southern part of this State only a year or 
two. A friend from Massachusetts informs me that he has 
seen several of that species in his State during the last five 
years, and on one occasion found a nest with four eggs. It 
may be possible that this Southern songster is extending his 
range of distribution to take in the New England States. 
Mount Tom's article, in a recent number of your paper, 
has the true ring to it. It is a lamentable fact that sports- 
men often slaughter (that's the only word) game ruthlessly 
Ansonia, Pa. — I have lived in the country all my life, and 
have handled a gun ever since I was large enough to hold 
one; and where I am known I am considered a fair wing- 
shot, 1 think human nature is about the same whether a 
man is dressed in corduroy and $15 hunting boots or in over- 
alls and $2 cowhides. I have hunted with a good many so- 
called sportsmen, and I never hunted with one yet who was 
satiified to stop when he had a reasonable amount of game. 
He always wanted to make a score. A. Van G. 
Off for the Bitter Root. 
Nevada, la., Aug. 20. — A small party of Nevada's best 
citizens. Dr. C. E. Hoag, Dr. F. S. Smith, J. M. Wells and 
Hon. J. F. Reed, will leave about Aug. 30 for the big game 
country. Their destination is the Bitter Root Mountains. 
These gentlemen are true sportsmen, and all but one are ex- 
perienced hunters. They are fitted out with Winchester re- 
peating rifles, .30 40, smokeless; Kenwood sleeping bags and 
cameras. They have engaged one of the bast guides in the 
West, M. P. Duntiam, and will also be joined in Montana by 
a brother of Mr. Reed. Dr. Hoag uas partially promised me 
that the trip shall be written up for Fobbst and Stream, 
and if it is we may expect some entertaining reading. 
John C, Beiggs. 
Information Wanted About Duck Shooting;. 
Pakkersburg, W. Va., July 'd\.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: Will you kindly make inquiry through your valu- 
able paper for information regarding good points for duck 
shooting — for some information regarding the Sunken Lands 
below Cairo? Our party (members of the Mountain State 
Gun Cluh) are trying to make selection of location for our 
fall shooting trip, and some favor inland or swamp and 
others seashore shooting, so we are desirous of gettmg in- 
formation on the subject, and know of no better way to 
reach sportsmen than through Forest and Stream, Any- 
thing you may do in the matter will be fully appreciated 
C. L. 8. 
Mr. Adams in Town. 
Me. B. H. Adams, of the Moosehead Ranche, Wyoming, 
has been in town for some little time. He came on with 
the consignment of elk, buffalo and deer shipped by tliat 
ranche to Mr. W. C. Wliitney for his preserve near Lenox. 
That these animals all reached their destination in good 
condition was due very largely to the unremitting watch- 
fulness and care exercised by Mr. Adams. 
New Tork Fish and Game Protectors. 
Name. Address, 
J. Wabren Pond Chief Protector, Albany. 
John TS. Leaviit Assistant Chief, Johnstown. 
M. G. Worts., .Assistant Chief, O^jvvego. 
8. T. Clock Oyster Protector, Bay SHoM. 
Edgar Hicks .............Oyster Protector, West New Brfgbtan. 
John Ferguson... Assistant Oyster Protector, Patchogqa 
J. L.Ackley ..'.....Penn Yau, Yates county. 
F. 8. Beede Keene VaUey, Essox county. 
George Carver ......Lyons, Wayne county. 
T. H. Donnelly , Perry, Wyoming county. 
L. S. Emmons Oneonta, Otseeo county, 
Robert Jones Hardenbur^, Ulster county. 
J. F. Shedden Hooers, Clinton county. 
Abraham W. Wyckoff Jamaica, Queens county. 
Eugene Hathway Harrisville, Lewis county. 
Spencer Hawn, Cicero, Onondaga county, 
James Holmes Apalachin, Tioga county. 
Carlos Huichins. , . , . , .Indian Lake, Hamilton county. 
Willett Kidd , Newburg, Orange county. 
Hiram L.Walt , Uray, Herkimer county. 
J. D. Lawrence Bloomville, Delaware county. 
J. H. Lamphere Weedsport, Cayuga county. 
J. W. Littlejohn Loon Lake, Franklin county. 
E. J. Lobdeil -North ville, Fulton county. 
B. H. McCollum... , Oswegatchie, St. Lawrence county. 
Joseph Northup ,,,, . Alexandria Bay, Jefferson county. 
Albert Warren , Williamstown, Oswego county. 
F. M. Potter ,,,, Chautauqua, Chautauqua county, 
Stanton J. Tefl"c .Greenwich, Washington county, 
D. N. Pomeroy .Lockport, Niagara county. 
W. L. Heed,..,.,,.,... ..Canaudaigua, Ontario county. 
R. M. Rush Camden, Oneida county 
Bernai'd Salisbury i....EiIicottv)Ue, Cattaraugus county,- 
Nicholas Shaul .».v,,.,.]VIiddle Grove, Saratoga county. 
George B. Smith Horseheads, Chemung county, 
Alvm Winslow Stony Creek, Warren county. 
E. I. Brooks,,.,.. Rochester, Monroe county 
E. A. Hazen, protector for the Thousand Islands, Hammond, St - 
Lawrence county, 
^ Fred H. Smith, Bolton, Warren county, custodian of Lake George.^ 
