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Dawson later on. At Dawson we saw a few flocks of 
geese and cranes during our hunting two days last week, 
and the men there think the geese will soon begin to 
come in. A few geese breed in that country, but most of 
them come in from above somewhere, as do the cranes. 
At Dawson last week were Mr. W. H. Tyng, of Chicago, 
and Mr. J. R. Moore, of New York city, both there for 
trips of some length.. They go out each day, but do not 
shoot very long or very hard. Soon other parties will be 
there for stops of a week or more each, among these Mr. 
L. S. Pettitt, of Milwaukee, Mr. Strobridge. of the big 
lithograph house at Cincinnati, and Mr. C. H. Wilson, of 
Troy, JST. Y. There is hardly a city of the land but holds 
some shooter who has been to Dawson or wants to go. It 
is wonder that the place is not shot out, but the contrary 
is true, as we have seen, and it appears altogether likely 
that the non-resident license will save the game there, 
if not for many, at least for the few who can afford it. 
Farmers' Leagues. 
A curious feature of the times in shooting matters is the 
springing up in different parts of the country of leagues of 
farmers against the city shooters. There is reason for all 
this, of course, and of course there is legal ground for it if 
the farmers so choose, though probably the farmers are too 
apt to generalize in their estimates of sportsmen. The big 
cranberry marsh near Palmyra, Wis., was this fall taken 
into care by the farmers owning the land there, and I 
mentioned last week the acts of Judge Mallory and Peter 
Earth, of Milwaukee, who shot there in spite of the 
farmers and killed some birds. Up a little further in the 
State, at Baraboo, the same sort of sentiment obtains 
among certain farming communities, as witness the follow- 
ing extract from the local paper, the JS^ews: 
NOTICE TO HUNTEHS 
Owing to the destruction of timber and property caused by forest 
iires. originated in most cases by hunters, and owing: also to the 
■wanton hnd wholesale slaughter of game, both in and out of the 
legal hunting season, we the undersigned freeholders, hereby forbid 
all persons from hunting upon any lands owned or eonirolled by us, 
and persons found so trespassing will be prosecuted to the extent of 
the law. But this prohibition snail not apnly to the farmers whose 
names are hereto appended: .lacob Cline, John Luce, Amos Plum- 
mer, George W. Harrison, F. O. Newell, J. J. Bick. Mrs. H. W. Par- 
shall, B F Thomas, B. Battles, W. T. Loomis, A. H. Norton, A. Rin- 
ney, C. Catlisch, E. C. Green, John Wrightmyre, Charley Beardsley, 
S. H. Webster, Seth Andrews. Grant Francisco, Miner Brown, Norris 
Wilcox, Steve Burton, 0. A Getchell, Q A. Loveland. 
In Michigan also the movement of the farmers has taken 
hold, and the Siar, of Niles, Mich., this week contains the 
following notice: 
NOTICE TO HUNTERS. 
We, the undersigned land-owners in Milton, Howard. Bertrand and 
Niles townships, in Cass and Berrien countieis, do hereby give notice 
that hunting and trespassing upon our premises isstrictly forbidden, 
and any person found .so hunting or trespassing will be prosecuted 
to the extent of riie law. E. S. Siewart. C. E. Reum. Wm. C. Eeum, 
W. M. Woodford, P. V. Brunner, Chas. Morehouse, Fred Fowlpr, L. 
Koebeck, J. A. Curt, Y. L. Reum, D. C. Updike, B. Blowhard and H. 
K. Fritts. 
Probably the record State in the North for farmers' 
leagues of this sort is Ohio. I take from the Canton JRe- 
podiory, of Canton, O., this record of yet another Ohio 
movement against city shooters; "An organization has 
been eftected by farmers of portions of Plain, Lake, Nim- 
ishillen and Marlboro townships for mutual protection in 
the matter of preserving game. The meeting of the farm- 
ers was held at Tyro Hall school-house. A vigorous dis- 
cussion was indulged in, and it was promptly decided that 
farmers should organize for the purpose of protecting 
themselves. It was stated that game can not be killed by 
farmers when they have time to do so, and that often their 
stock and the persons of themselves and children are en- 
dangered by reckless hunters. It was agreed that the law 
in regard to trespassing be enforced." 
The most famous farmers' preserve in Illinois is the Ris- 
ing Sun Game Park preserve, referred to earlier in this 
column, and fully written up in Forest asd Stream some 
years a^o. This preserve is the cherished work of Mr. 
Valentine liicks, an enthusiast on the subject of protec- 
tion. His efforts have really preserved the chickens on a 
big strip of country, and when one stops to reflect that 
otherwise they would all have been killed long ago, it is a 
pretty hard matter to feel any regret that the league of 
sturdy farmers have put up the bars against legions of 
shooters from Chicago and other cities. Say what you like 
against this spirit on the part of the farmers, each such 
league aa that set on foot by A^alentine Hicks is a protec- 
tive body and runs a game preserve, and therefore is to be 
regarded with a feeling far different from resentment. 
Violations. 
At Waupaca, Wis., Sept. 15, Deputy Warden Stout 
served papers on the National Express Company for illegal 
handling of game and fish, the offense being located at 
Fremont. 
At Tacoma, Wash., on Sept 10, M. E. Weix was fined 
$10 for selling grouse out of season. Stop the sale of game, 
Mr. Weix, it will be weixer for you. 
At Caldwell, 0., Sept. 6, Austin Miller was fined $25 for 
killing two quail out of season, and was sent to jail for non- 
payment of the fine. 
The Game Regions of the Northwest. 
Sept. 24.— The sporting traffic which sets in early in the 
fall IS something of a magnitude not generally understood 
by those who do not make it a study. The railroads ap- 
preciate it and do all they can to increase it. Nearly every 
road running out into game country makes a regular 
yearly campaign of education in this regard, and compiles 
what data it can in regard to the best game localities 
along its line. This is usually obtained from the local 
agents at its points, and often this information is very 
valuable to persons looking up a place for a trip. 
While at St. Paul I inquired of the Great Northern 
Railway for such information as they could give me of 
their best sporting country, and received the appended 
list of localities, made up especially from their latest cor- 
respondence, for the use of Forest and Stream. Inquiring 
sportsmen will do very well xo preserve the list for refer- 
ence or further investigation. While I do not suppose all 
station agents are finished sportsmen, a good many of them 
know what they are talking about, and a tip thus obtained 
may be of use this fall or next year. No gazetteer of sport- 
ing country can be accurate long at a time, for what is good 
country one year is perhaps not good the nest: but these 
lists, with those published in last week's Forest and 
Stream, cover the best of the grouse and wildfowl country 
pf the entire Northwest, and among them one may pick 
out his locality and look it up more at leisure. The tables 
are as follows: 
MINNESOTA GAME RESOKTS. 
Northcote — Ducks, prairie chickens. 
St. Vincent— Ducks, prairie chickens, grouse, geese. 
Appleton-=-Dueks, prairie chickens, geese. 
Richmond— Ducks, prairie chickens, geese. 
Morris— Ducks, Geese. 
Stephen— Prairie chickens, geese. 
Rutbton— Ducks, prairie chickens, geese. 
Donnelly— Ducks, prairie chickens. 
Fosston— Ducks, prairie chickens, grouse. 
Brandon-Ducks, geese. 
Osakis— Pucks. 
Anoka— Ducks, prairie chickens. 
West tJnion— Ducks, prairie chickens, geese; 
Ashley— Ducks. 
New London— Ducks, geese. 
Atwater — DucliS, prairie chickens, geese. 
Milaca Ducks. 
Bellingham — Ducks, geese. 
Willmar— Ducks, prairie chickens, geese. 
Cold Springs— Ducks. • , 
Elbow Lake — Ducks, geese. 
Mcintosh- Prairie chicketis. ' 
Darwin— Ducks. 
Menahga — Ducks, prairie chickens. 
Thief River Falls— Prairie chickens, gi-odse; 
Spicer— Ducks; 
Hinckley— Grouse. 
Dassel— Ducks. 
Alexandria— Ducks. 
Big Lake— Ducks. 
Sauk Centre— Prairie chickens. 
NORTEt DAEOTA GlAMB KlfsOHTS. 
Leeds— Ducks, geeSe, 
White Earth— Ducks. 
Lakota— Ducks, geese. 
Rugby Juncuon— Ducks, prairie chickens. 
Larimore— Ducks, prairie chickens. 
Michigan City— Ducks, geese, prairie chickens. 
Wahpeton— Prairie chickens. 
Church's Ferry- Ducks, prairie chickens. 
Park River— Prairie chickens. 
Neche— Prairie chickens. 
Devil's Lake— Ducks, geese, prairie chickens. 
St. John— Ducks, prairie chickens. 
Portland— Prairie chickens. 
SOUTH DAKOTA GAME RESORTS. 
Putney— Ducks. 
3I0NTANA GAME RESORTS. 
Great Falls— Grouse, prairie chickens. 
Cascade - Grouse, ducks. 
W^olf Creek- Grouse, prairie chickens. 
Libby Creek— Grouse, partridges. 
Jennings— Grouse, partridges. , 
Kalispell- Grouse, prairie chickens. 
Big Sandy— Prairie chickens. 
Columbia Falls— Grouse, prairie chickens, partridges. 
Blackfoot— (From grizzly oear down). 
IDAHO GAME Bt'SORTS. 
Bonner's Ferry— Grouse, ducks, geese. 
WASHINGTOS GAME RESORTS. 
Chester- Chickens. 
Leavenworth- Grouse. 
Wenatcbee- Chickens, grouse, ducks, geese. 
Marysville— Ducks. 
Blaine- Grouse. 
Albino Otter. 
A dispatch from San Francisco dated Sept. 17, states that 
the schooner Rattler is in from the northern seas with 
twenty-five sea otter skins, one of which is a pure white 
one, the first ever known upon the coast. It is thought to 
be worth about $1,000. E, Hough. 
1200 BoYCE Building, Chicago. 
IN THE SHASTAS. 
Shasta Mountains, Cal., Aug. 18.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: The other day Jim and 1 packed my speckled gray 
horse with camping things, and left my shack for the higher 
mountains. We intended to stay out for several days if 
necessary, and bring in a buck, a buck of some consequence 
in the world, with something on his ribs besides leather. 
We started about 6 o'clock in the morning of what proved 
one of our hottest July days. After climbing for two hours, 
we made camp on a small torrent, one mile and a half from 
our starting point. 
Now it ,may seem foolish to rig up a pack horse to go a 
mile and a half from home and camp, but some folks know 
that a mile and a half up some mountains is not a thing 
to be sneezed at. We wanted to be on the ground 
selected during the best hours to hunt deer— at dusk 
and dawn. Having selected a spot lor a camp, we unpacked 
the horse and turned him loose. 1 told Jim I would look 
around down the creek for sign and a way to hunt toward 
evening. Jim said he would go up creek a way I crossed 
a gorge, and somehow, about 10 o'clock, I found myself on 
about the hottest and steepest ridge on the mountain tide. I 
saw a mighty big deer, without horns, run over an opposite 
lidge, and 1 decided to go over and see whether it had any 
particular business there or not. It was a hard climb to get 
over to where the deer disappeared, and when I got there I 
was upon a narrow spur of granite, in the blazing sun- 
as barren a spot as ever was set up edgewise. 
Two or three dwarf pines, some big, jagged ledges and a 
few clumps of scrub acorn bushes were down the steep 
mountain side to my left, 200yd8. From behind one of the 
pines I could see that a deer's head protruded. I could not 
tell whether it was the head of a buck or a doe, but it seemed 
that of a small deer. There was no possible chance to get 
closer, as the deer was plainly watching me, and the hill was 
almost precipitous. A deer's bead at 200yds. down hiU 
is a small target for the best rifle shot and 1 fired at it, 
trusting to luck for a scratch, and I missed it. The 
head disappeared instantly and another appeared as a 
big fellow with horns jumped from one of the bushes. He 
was evidently confusea at the report, and he hesitated just 
long enough for me to reload. As I raised the rifle he 
sprang forward, then turned to bound over a ledge of rock, 
and 1 took a snap-shot as he turned. He made his leap over 
the ledge, but the ball from my .'68 took out a section of his 
vertebrae at the same instant, and he never jumped again. 
He went down the hill 100yds., but in a very undignified 
way indeed for an "antlerecl monarch of the waste" to go. 
He finally stopped in the gorge, and was gasping his last 
when I got there. There were five tines on each antler, yet 
in velvet, though the horns were" hardened. He weighed 
about 1501bs. dressed, and there was an inch of tallow on 
his rump, and a liberal allowance upon his ribs and other- 
wheres. After dressing him, I tooR his head and horns 
and returned to "look lor Jim." I found him in camp con- 
templating a smaller buck he had killed and hung in a tree. 
We had all the deer we wanted, but had to remain over 
night, as the speckled horse was a half mile below us, my 
deer was a mile above, and we were tired and hungry. We 
leturned home next day with all the speckled horse wanted 
to tote. The camping part of our trip was a failure, but we 
were prepared to stay till we got a deer. Kaksackeb. 
THE JACKSON'S HOLE ELK. 
From the Denver (Colo.) KepubUcan, Sejit. JS. 
Secretary E. K. Whitehead, of the Colorado Humane 
Society, has addressed a letter to Joshua A Adams, of Jack- 
son Hole, Wyo., stating the law relative to the crime of 
cruelty to animals and showing how it applies to wild animals 
as well. 
i/lr. Adams ran a herd of wild elk into a corral to feed 
them during the severe winter and he thus saved them from 
stjarvation. The i'oBEsf and Stream, a sportsman's paper, 
attacked the Wyoming game warden severely for having 
neglected to require Mr. Adams to release the wild game un- 
lawfully detained in a corral. The letter follows: " 
Denteb, Oolo., Sept. It. — Mr. JosJmd A. Adams, Jackson 
Hole, Wyo.: Dear Sir — Some time ago the Massachnsetts S. 
P. C. A , having its attention called to the elk question in 
which you are interested, and mistaking the location of the 
dispute, wrote to us in this State asking if some provision 
could not be made for feeding the elk since; as they supposed, 
they were on a State reservation. 
This drew bur attention to the controversy in Forest atsfI) 
STREAiki in a way that would not otherwise have occurred. 
While Forest akd Stream is one of the best sportsman's 
papers, and while its editors seem to be actuated in most 
things by a much more kindly and humane spirit than rhany 
editors of kindred journals toward the creatures other thaii 
mankind, of which the world is full, in this case, assurning 
the facts to be as stated, they are certainly wrong. 
It is true that game laws should be respected. It is true 
that no mere pretense of feeding starving wild animals 
should be permitted to serve as a pretext for their evasion. 
But, granting so much, when a man has actually prevented 
the starvation of wild animals, by providing them with food 
at his own expense, we are inclined to think that few humane 
and considerate people will question his right to control the 
animals his bounty has preserved from destruction. It is 
well enough to insist that ofiicers of the law shall enforce the 
law as it stands. But human laws cannot be made to tit all 
cases, and when the literal and rigorous enforcement of any 
law in specific cases would be contrary to common sense and 
common humanity, courts ought tc and do modify the 
apphcation "of the law. Moreover, officers are justified in 
refraining from pushing the enforcement of law when it is 
certain that, for the reason just given, the court itself would 
refuse to enforce it. Whatever may be said in criticism of 
this statement it is, nevertheless, true, and states a fact 
recognized and acted upon by all kinds of officers and courts 
in the administration of all the laws on the statute books. 
The humane law of this State (that of Wyoming is iden- 
tical, it being partly through the efforts of this society that it 
was passed) provides: 
"Sec, 8. Any officer or agent of the Humane Society may 
lawfully take charge of any animal abandoned or neglected 
* * * may care and provide for such animal * * * 
and the expense of such care and provision shall be a charge 
against the owner of such animal * * *. 
"Sec. 9 When said Humane Society shall provide neglect- 
ed and abandoned animals with proper food, shelter and 
care, it may detain such animals until the expense of such 
food, shelter and care is paid, and shall have a lien upon 
such animals therefor." 
Here is a recogniton, as least so far as private owners of 
animals are concerned, of the principle that he who supplies 
needy animals with food and drink for their own sakea. is 
entitled .to be reimbursed, if need be, out of them. Why 
does not the same principle apply to starving wild animals 
whose owner is the State? Of course the provision that 
only representatives of the Humane Society shall have this 
authority, takes its exercise out of the hands of irresponsible 
or designing persons : and we are far from saying that every 
case which is claimed to be one of supplying food to starv- 
ing wild animals should be considered, but that each case 
should be investigated and dealt with upon its merits. 
Under the sweeping language of the statute I see no rea- 
son why you should not, by taking out a commission as an 
officer of the Flumane Society, render such action, as is com- 
plained of in your case, entirely legal in the future. The 
statute says: "And animals neglected or abandoned * * *;•» 
if wild elk are the property of the State, there is no reason 
why they should not be considered as "neglected and aban- 
doned" when the State fails to provide food for them when 
starving, just as much as when the same thing happens to 
animals owned by individuals. Yours very truly, 
E. K. Whitehead, Sec'y. 
Carrying Arms Through Yellowstone Parle. 
These seems to be a general misunderstanding on the part 
of the public regarding Col Young's recent order respecting 
the carrying of arms in Yellowstone Park by hunters who 
are going into the territory south of the Park for big game. 
The order simply provided that himting parties going through 
the Park shall carry sealed arms and provide themselves 
with registered guides. Any guide of good reputation on 
registering at Fort Yellowstone, Mammoth Hot Springs, will 
be authorized to conduct hunting parties through the Park, 
where their objective point is the Teton country, Jackson 
Lake, or contiguous territory beyond the boundary of the 
Park. The order will, therefore, in no manner interfere with 
hunting parties who may desire to make this trip during the 
fall months. In fact. Col. Young, at Port Yellowstone, states 
that he will even go further in case responsible parties who 
desire to go through the Park to meet their guides or pack 
trains,, and will furnish a small escort thoroughly familiar 
with the roads and trails to accompany each party to the 
south, east or west boundary line according to their destina- 
tion. 
Golden Plover in Maryland. 
Ellicott City, Md. — Editor Forest and Stream: While 
shooting beach birds at Ocean City, Md., last week (Sept. 
10), I had the good fortune to bag a pair of golden plover. 
Are these not rare visitors to the surf bank '? In an experi- 
ence covering some twelve years beach-shooting, generally 
in the month of August, I have never seen such plover on 
the beach, and cannot, or rather did not, find a resident who 
positively asserted their presence at any time. So far as I 
know, the golden plover is not killed in this State even on 
the uplands, the "upland" plover (Bartram's sandpiper) being 
fairly plentiful. Both birds I killed were in full plumage 
and splendid condition. The one was killed from a buggy, 
the other stalked, though neither showed any symptoms of 
fear, and seemed to prefer rimning to flying. If any brother 
sportsman can give me informal ion as to the rarity of this 
bird, either on the uplands or beaches of New Jersey or Mary- 
land, it wiU be much appreciated, Sam'l J. Fort, M. D. 
