18 8 FOREST AND STREAM; i Sept. 4, 1897, 
outside of the city, as a number of sloughs in the outskirts 
were literally covered with ducks. The market to-day is 
flooded with ducks and prairie chickens." 
The Jamestown, D,, Capital prints the following local 
chicken hews in its issue of Aug. 21. It may be of service 
to many Eastern men who think they should be able to get 
off the cars anywhere in Isorth Dakota, and at once fall to 
work shooting at innumerable coveys of chickens 
"If all the hunters who left Jamestown Thursday night 
and yesterday morning had met with good luck there would 
probably be few chickens left in Stutsman county, but the 
majority of those who left so full of hope, promising untold 
quantities of birds to less fortunate friends compelled to re- 
main at home, returned last night weary and dejected, with 
few chicliens to show for their day's hunt. Chickens they 
unanimously report scarce and very wild, showing they had 
been hunted before the season opentd. Ducks are plentiful, 
but the ponds are so full of water and the grass so high that 
it is next to impossible to get them after they are shot. 
"Only two of what might really be called good bags were 
reported last night The list was headed by Aid Kuhn, 
Frank Taylor and Frank Dallair. who got sixty-one chickens, 
eleven ducks and about a bushel of snipe. They secured 
most of their game southeast of Wimbledon. John Clarke 
and D. E. Hughes follow next with forty-one birds secured 
near the city, at no time more than seven miles distant. 
"Superintendent Wilson and Pierce Blewett hunted about 
three hours in the vicinity of Hobart, in Barnes county, and 
brought in a nice bunch of chickens. 
"Mayor Fuller and Chief Mahony went out about 5 o'clock 
last evening and got seven chickens and one duck before 
darkness came on. 
"M. L. Parker and Alex Gilffillan got eleven birds before 
dumer, and Chas. Klaus and Lou Niemeyer report a killing 
of sixteen birds. 
"Geo. Game, H. B. Wood and E S, Rose managed to get 
a good early start, and by attending strictly to business got 
eleven birds. 
"County Treasurer Halstead and Night Pati'olman Cadieux 
liUnted in' the vicinity of Pingree and bagged eleven. They 
only run across two coveys, and were following up one of 
these in a tree claim when stopped by the owner. 
"F. F. Montgomery, Dorm. Baldwin, William Hotch- 
kiss and John Eddy traveled about forty miles— and got 
back. 
"Among those who hunted in the early morning and came 
back empty-handed, or nearly so, were Alderman Durkee, 
who couldn't find the birds; Auditor Vennum and N. P. 
Agent Spurling, who got one chicken, and Chet. Hodge and 
Dan Sacho, who got a duck and one chicken." 
The agent of the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad at Ha- 
zel Run, 140 miles west of St. Paul, telegraphs on Aug. 26 
that the chicken shooting there will be good, and the sloughs 
are full of local ducks I think fair sport could be had in 
lower ^Minnesota on this line, or that of the Milwaukee & St, 
Paul, anywhere about 100 mUes west of St. Paul. 
It is still too early to give authentic news from Minn., 
whose opening day is Sept. 1. Wisconsin also opens her 
season Sept. 1, and there will be fair shooting in the lower 
part of that State, although the sooner has been much abroad 
in the land. Illinois, wisest of all these States, opens her 
chicken season Sept. 15, and in spite of the illegal shooting, 
will still be able to show in the cool days of the fall a few 
scattered coveys of big, strong, brown-backed birds, such as 
any sportsman may be proud to bring to bag. 
It appears that the iniquitous side-hunt is not yet abolished 
in the land. At Sioux Falls, S. D., two companiesof chicken 
hunters, fifteen on each side, have been organized to have a 
grand side-hunt on Aug. 31. The programme is a butchery, 
a banquet and a ball. The captains of the misguided men 
who are to assist in this unsportsmanlike proceeding are 
Messrs. F. P. Roberts and W. 1?*. Saunders. 
At Tacoma. Wash., on Aug. 18, A. Berens was arrested by 
Warden Kielmeyer for shooting quail out of season, and was 
fined |10 and costs. August is a sweet time of year for 
shooting quail. 
Stanley county, S. D., last week decided to offer a bounty 
of $5 per scalp on gray wolves. These animals are coming 
out of the bad lands and destroying the young cattle on the 
Missouri River ranges. 
Genesee county, Mich., has this year, since May 1, paid 
out on sparrow bounties $1,227.14, This accounts for 
61,357 English sparrows. Yet there are others. 
Personal. 
Mr. F. 0. Selous, an Englishman of considerable fame as 
a big game hunter, calls in Chicago this week on his way 
west to Wyoming. Mr. Selous hunted for twenty-three 
years in Africa, and killed a great many elephants, Hons and 
other big game. He states that h.e killed 111 elephants in 
three years. This was some twenty-five years ago. Mr. 
Selous regrets that there are none of the American buffalo 
left. There were a few others ahead of him. 
Mr. E. C. Carter, assistant engineer of the Chicago & 
Northwestern Railroad, leaves on Sept, 3 for a big game 
trip on the middle fork of the White River, Colorado. He - 
takes with him a full battery of guns and a few caissons of 
ammunition. Mr. Carter has mildly lost a bear and believes 
that the best outfit with which to go in search of him is a big 
gun with a big bullet and a whole lot of Curtis and Harvey 
powder. 
Mr. John F. Eberhart, of this city, a sportsman who has 
traveled in many remote regions of the country, is just back 
from a trip to the Rainy Lake country, where he had good 
fishing and saw abundance of deer. 
Mr. H. S. Canheld is a sportsman and newspaper man 
whom I was fortunate enough to meet at San Antonio, Tex., 
so long ago as 1890. Mr. Canfleld afterward joined the 
large siaff of newspaper correspondents located at Washing- 
ton, D. C. Then he did a year of newspaper work in New 
York. Now he is located in Chicago, and is doing some of 
the best special stuff our dailies here are getting. He strolled 
into the PoRKST AND St:qeam office this week, and we have 
about concluded we will go hunting somewhere together 
this fall if we have luck. San Antonio papers will please 
copy. 
By the way, what has come over the spirit of the dream 
in San Antonio? Why do we hear nothing from Oscar 
Guessaz, .loe George or other representatives of the great un- 
drowned and unhung contingent loose in the prickly star 
State? It would'st seem something might happen whereby 
shooters of the North could again get word from these irre- 
pressibles. It would give me pleasure to announce a relief 
expedition sent out from San Antonio for the purpose of res- 
cuing Mr. Canfleld from his perilous position in the ice fields 
of the North. 
No Guns for the National Park. 
It is now contrary to regulations to carry any sort of fire- 
arcs, sealed or unsealed, within the limits of the Yellow- 
stone National Park. Orders to this effect were issued by 
the new superintendent. Col. Young, on Aug. 23. It is 
thought that these regulations will work a hardship on hunt- 
ing parties bound for the Jackson's Hole country, who have 
been in the habit of going in via the National Park, Col. 
Young slates that it was customary for some persons to re- 
move the seal from their guns after tbey got away from the 
beaten trails, and that he intends to have no more of this 
sort of ihing Tourists will be willing to have their firearms 
taken away if it can be establi hed that the poachers can all 
be caught and treated in the same manner. 
Iowa Hunting. 
Mr. 0. B. .Johnson, of Orion, 111., writes me the following 
letter of inquiry : "Would you kindly inform me where I 
can find good chicken shooting in Iowa, within 200 miles of 
Rock Island, 111. ; also if I could find any ducks there about 
the first two weeks in September? Would 1 find such game 
in Tama county, la.?" I cannot kindly inform anybody 
where he has a cinch on good chicken shooting in Iowa or 
anywhere else, but Mr, Johnson ought to find fair chicken 
and duck shooting in the neighborhood of Ruthven, la. 
There are still some birds lett in northwestern Iowa. In 
Tama county there might be a few prairie chickens, but I 
do not think that country so good as other parts of that 
Slate E, Hough. 
1206 BoYCB BuiLDJNG, Chicago 
Rhode Island Association. 
Providence, R I., Aug. 20. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
A hammer-head shark 10ft. in length was captured a short 
distance off Matunick Beach a few days ago by Mr. G. N. 
Browning. 
David B. Manchester caught a white eel off Wickford a 
few days ago, a variety rarely found in these waters 
At tfie meeting of the Rhode Island Game and Fish Asso- 
ciation held a few days ago many new and influential nami s 
were added to the large list of members, and renewed in- 
terest in the protection of birds and fish in this State was 
shown. Every member pledges himself to observe the law 
relating to birds and fish, and with the means at the disposal 
of the Association all others will be visited with the extreme 
penalty of the law in case of violation. Vigilant and active 
special constables have been appointed under the provisions 
of the charter of the Association in different sections of the 
State, and any violators will be rapidl}'^ detected and pun- 
ished. 
The Association voted unanimously to protect all song and 
insectivorous birds, as well as game birds, and will prose- 
cute vigorously any violations of the law in this direction. 
They hope to abate the nuisance of those who, armed with 
guns, go forth to shoot at" every bird that may come within 
range, and also to commit other depredations if opportunity 
offers. The pursuit of song birds by this class, mostly for 
the feathers, has been so continuous and destructive that it 
has become impossible for the farmer to raise crops without 
the use of poisons to destroy insects, which were formerly 
kept in check by the birds. 
In the course of the discussion it was stated that in the 
neighboring State of Massachusetts a law has recently been 
enacted prohibiting the sale of parts of birds for ornament, 
and the wearer is said to be liable to arrest. The Audubon 
Society has been organized, whose members pledge them- 
selves to protect song and insectivorous birds, and to wear 
no ornaments made from their plumage. The Rhode Island 
Association counts oh the assistance of these members in their 
efforts to protect this class of birds. 
Within a few weeks. Representative L^cy from Iowa in- 
troduced a bill in Congress to enlarge the scope of the Fish 
Commission so as to include birds, and providing that the 
Commission shall extend its jurisdiction so as to provide for 
the propagation and distribution of game and other wild birds 
of the United States. Under this bill it is expected that the 
different States will supplement national legislation in regu- 
lating and protecting after the birds are introduced. It is 
the intention of the Rhode Island Association to ask the 
Legislature at its next session to take action in the same di- 
rection, so as to have the Fish Commission of this State in- 
clude all birds in their jurisdiction. United efforts of all 
lovers of birds cannot fail of success, and it is believed the 
day is not far distant when the farmers' and the true sports- 
men's interests will be mutual, W. H. M. 
A "Snipe Hunt" which Worked the Other Way. 
Jacksonville, Fla., Aug. 38. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
Your note in this week's issue about the snipe hunt trick 
prompts me to send you this amusing story, which is told in 
a current Tallahasseean: 
St, Teresa has been the scene of many successful "snipe 
hunts"; that i", successful for the projectors, but awfully de- 
structive to the patience of the "victim." They had one 
down there a few nights ago, however, that took a turn 
- somewhat out of the ordinary rut. The reports that have 
V reached this city state that J. S. Winthrop and State Attor- 
ney George W. Walker, of this city, and Hon. Flavins T. 
Christie, of Miccosukie, were the leaders of the party, and 
Thomas J. Hogan, this city, was the victim selected "to 
hold the bag." Hogan was considered an especially good 
man for the part he was to act in the sport, for the reason 
that he only recently moved here from Memphis, Tenn , and 
the party never dreamed that "snipe hunting" was practiced 
in that far-off inland city, but the sequel shows they had 
reckoned far too recklessly. A torch was secured and the 
party set out up the beach, each member inventing and pour- 
ing into the willing ears of the "victim" miraculous stories 
of fabulous numbers of snipe that were frequently attracted 
in the way they proposed and made captives in "the bag." 
When they had reached a lonely spot, far off from the hotel, 
the torch was lighted and the "victim" stationed on the 
beach to "hold the bag." All the others started off toward 
the hotel "to drive the snipe." Hogan would not agree to 
hold the bag alone unless they would drive from the other 
direction. This they finally agreed to do, and all set out 
that way. As soon as they were far enough away they 
made a circuit around the "bag holder" and returned to the 
hotel through as vexing a piece of scrub woods aa. mortal 
ever trod. But the fun was worth it, so they thought. But 
imagine their surprise to find Hogan sitting in the parlor of 
the hotel, when they reached there, complacently holding 
his bag. When they left him he stuck his torch in the 
ground so it would continue to burn, and leisurely returned 
to the hotel in ample time to prepare the guests for giving 
the crowd the horse laugh when they returned. 
New York Grouse Season. 
Ithaca, N. Y.— Although sick and unable to get out for 
nearly a month past, I am able to write, by virtue of the 
kindly offices of some of my local Fobest and Stream 
Iriends, that a great many ruffed grouse are to be found in 
neighboring covers. The birds, however, are small and im- 
mature, and do not afford the sport they will later on. As 
expressed in these columns last year, 1 am fully convinced 
that the grouse season should not open prior to Sept. IS. I 
hope to get afield soon, and will then be able to report more 
definitely in regard to the grouse and woodcock supply,, and. 
where it may be found. M. Chiul.; 
Black Game and Capercailzie. 
Sheldon, Vt. — Editor Forest and Stream: I have a recent 
letter from a trapper in Sweden saying that he will be able 
to deliver in October both black game and capercailzie in 
New York at 32 kro. and 40 kro. each. To encourage the 
importation of these peerless game birds I would on applica- 
tion give full particulars and place intending purchasers in 
direct correspondence with this Swedish gentleman, 
N. P. Leach. 
[The Swedish crown is 26.8 cents, so the prices would 
be approximately $9 and |11.] 
Proprietors of fishing resorts will find it profitable to Qbdvertise 
them in Fokkst and Stream. 
The "Game Laws in Brief." 
Thb current edition of the Game Laws in Brief (index page dated 
Aug. 1) contains the fish and game laws for 1897, with a few excep- 
tions, as they will continue in force during the year. As about forty 
States and Provinces have amended their laws this year, the Brief 
has been practically done over new. Sent postpaid by the Forest 
and StrtamPub. Co. on receipt of price, 95 cents. All dealers seU it 
A SUNDAY FISHING STORY. 
Gbbenvii.le, Me.— Editor Forest and Stream: In your 
paper of Aug. 31 the article headed "Sunday Fishing" re- 
calls to my mind an incident which happened some twenty 
years ago, and which goes far to prove that fish seem to be 
hungrier and more greedy for the bait on the day set apart 
for divine worship than on the other days of the week. 
The Judge, Mac and myself (the humble son of the .Judge) 
had heard for some time tales of marvelous trout the habi- 
tants of Indian Pond — a sheet of water on the other side of 
Squaw Mountain, eighteen miles distant, to which the only 
approach was directly through the woods — there being no 
road or blazed line to the same. The only person who had 
fished this pond in those days was our regular guide, Levi, a 
French Canadian, who never tired of dilating on the size and 
beauty of the fish in this pond, and who always compared 
unfavorably any large fish we might take in the well fished 
waters of this vicinity with the trout in these inaccessible 
waters. 
We were all ardent fishermen in those days, and were more 
able to endure fatigue for the delight of feeling the thrill of 
a big fish on light tackle than we are to-day; and the reiter- 
ated accounts of the big fish in the far distant pond had their 
efff ct. We determined to take some of those fish and to 
cast our flies on those waters which had never been fished 
before except by Levi, who had caught what fish he needed 
for baiting his traps in the winter time, when he hunted on 
Squaw Mountain. 
Accordingly, we started on Friday morning, early, with 
great anticipations. The day was overcast and the rain be- 
gan to fall shortly after we had progressed. Over windfalls 
and through the forest primeval we laboriously made our 
way through swamps made more swampy by the rain, 
through underbrush which at every movement added to the 
downpour of moisture upon our unprotected shoulders. It 
is needless to write of the hardships of this journey, or of 
Ihe condition in which we reached that b autiful lake which 
nestled in the mountains, surrounded on all sides by the hills, 
but we arrived there footsore and weary, tatters and rags, as 
the daylight was b coming dusk, and it was dark before 
we had built oijr bough camp and finished our meal of fried 
pork and potatoes. 
The next morning after breakfast — menu 8a,me ^s the 
night before — we set to work to build a raft— a. matter of a 
couple of hours' work, and once launched we prepared for 
the slaughter. But the fish didn't rise, and although tried 
with fly and bait assiduously, refused to be allured, much to 
the mortification of our guide. After whipping every cor- 
ner of the pond, we returned to camp as darkness came on, 
disgusted and disappointed, without having had a sight' of 
the much-lauded huge trout. 
The next morning, Sunday, was the time for our return 
to civilization. The day was beautiful, and in order to 
more easily strike our trail, we determined to start from the 
other side of the pond. The Judge and Map had taken 
apart their rods and were ready for the journey back. 
Probably because of natural disinclination to do any work 
before it was absolutely necessary, I had my 7oz. Leonard 
jointed and rigged as I had used it the day before, intending 
to disjoint it on the way over the pond. We had not pro- 
gressed more than a few yards from shore when a splash 
made by a huge fish attracted our attention. It was the 
work of a moment for me to make a cast in the direction of 
where the fish rose. The Judge and Mac both protested, 
requesting the sinner to remember the day, but such a rise 
overcame all scruples As the raft stowly neared the epot where 
the trout rose another cast was made, and with a sudden rush 
the hungry fish had taken the tail fly and the reel sung as he 
made a wild rush for freedom. This was interesting to the 
man at the other end of the rod, but the Judge and Mac Still 
protested and begged the wicked one to remember the day 
and refrain. How that fish did play, And when it was 
finally brought to net what exclamations of wonder on his 
size. Another cast was made, a flash of silver and gold and 
the reel whizzed and the rod bent, and again the fight was 
on. " A sudden murmur from Mac, "I can't stand this if it is 
Sunday 1" and the Judge's protest, ' Don't you sacrifice your 
principles, even though the boy does catch a few fish." But 
Mac paid no attention to the admonition, and with . fingers 
trernbling with excitement was busily engaged in putting 
his rod together, and at the first cast had hooked a monster. 
The Judge began to look interested, and when at the next 
east another 3-pounder rose, heaved a sigh of resignation 
