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t6ot. 9, 
1811, for instance, a Mr. Clark, of Wollingham, Suffolk, 
made a bet of 50 guiaeas that he would kill and bag 47 shots 
out of 50; as a matter of fact, he killed 59 birds in 60 shots. 
It is also recorded about this time that a gamekeeper in the 
employ of Sir H. Mildmay, for a considerable wager, "hit a 
cricket hall, with common shot, twelve times successively, 
between the wickets, bowled by Hams, one of the sharpest 
bowlers of the fiambledon Club." Can it be possible that 
the expression "bagging a brace" when a batsman retires the 
second time from the wicket with a nought to his discredit 
arose from this conjunction of gun and cricket-ball?— ijtJn- 
aon Standard. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
War at Chlcagro. 
Chicago, 111., Oct. 3.— Yesterday was the date originally 
set for the public auction sale of a large lot of confiscated 
game by State Warden Loveday, but after deliberation the 
latter determined not to put the game upon the market at 
just this time, when the opening of the season for the gen- 
eral sale of game will bring down the prices with a run. 
The bulk of this game was taken from the Monarch Cold 
Storage Co., which delivered up 1,500 grouse at one time, 
on last Saturday afternoon. Other dealers, commission 
firms or cold storage companies who have contributed lately 
to the property of the State in Mr. Loveday 's hands are Lal- 
ley & Sweeny, A. M. Lynch, A. L. Brown, F. M, Smith & 
Co. and others, who have for the most part been tackled be- 
cause they found themselves unable to resist the temptation 
to handle prairie chickens and grouse ahead of the season, 
as a great many of Iheir neighbors have been doicg. Most 
of these men are taking their medicine all right, with excep- 
tion of Mr. Sweeny, of Lalley & Sweeny, who objects to 
being fined or interrupted, and tnreatens to do and cause to 
be done all sorts of things, the least of which is the uncover- 
ing of a system of favoritism to which he darkly alludes. 
He threatens to expose, undo and make evident all kinds of 
perfons and things, unless the warden agrees not to "per- 
sist." The assurance of the average game dealer on South 
Water street is something Homeric. The whole business 
system of the street is so honeycombed with the commercial 
dishonesty of years that the continuous violation of the law 
is looked upon as a matter of course, and its disturbance re- 
garded with resentment. If Warden Loveday is able to go 
straight through South Water street from front to back and 
rip it wide open and show its condition of moral decay and 
business degeneration, he will do a work which will put him 
at once at the 'head of the game protectors of this country, 
and make him one of its most talked-of men. That would be 
a work well worth a man's while. It would be an honor- 
able calling, to break up this dishonorable pursuit. 
War at Koshkonong. 
Orim-visaged war has shown its front at Koshkonong 
Lake, Wis., the most famous canvasback country of this part 
of the West. This time it is the market hunters again. The 
members of the Blackhawk Club of sportsmen, who have 
grounds upon the lake shore, have long been regarded with 
anything but favor by those who in their selfishness and love 
of fair play want the whole thing for themselves. Under 
the lead of a certain Milwaukee "liero" these malcontents, or 
soreheads, whichever title prove most accurate, have organ- 
ized a hundred strong to flight the Blackhawk Club men. 
Meseems the fight will be mostly of the balloon ascension 
order, mostly operated by hot air. 
War at Tolleston. 
The fight goes on still upon the lands of the devoted Tol- 
leston Club, on the southern edge of this city. Last Friday 
the old-time threat of blowing up the Tolleston Club's dam 
was carried into effect, and the drainage of the club marsh 
has been going on since then, much to their damage. It is 
not yet decided what will be the course of the club in regard 
to the rebuilding of the dam, but neretofoie it has always 
been the policy of ihe club to meet such efforts with a 
quieted and dignified but none the less firm and steady 
course of persistence.in its regular lines. 
War in Utah. 
The White Kiver Utes are this week getting ready for one 
of their big game round-ups, regardleos of the past and of 
the warnings of the white men interested in preventing the 
certain butchery of large amounts of game The Indiins 
say that their ancient right was to kill all the game they 
wanted to, and they are going to keep on doing that still. 
They claim that their treaty rights also allow them to do 
this, and disregard all talk of the abrogation of such rights. 
The agency authorities are doing all they can to keep the 
hunters on their reservation, and the officers of the law in 
Utah and Col jrado are trying to aid in heading off the out- 
break from the reservation into the game country, where 
there may be a clash between the reds and whiles. 
Orsranlzingr. 
Warden Sharp, of Utah, is trying to effect an interstate al- 
liance with Warden Swan, of Colorado, the working plans 
to be perfected at a little convention of wardens and depa- 
ties to be held at Salt Lake City. Wardens Sharp and Swan 
will both go to Price, Utah, and to Ft. Duchesne, to inter- 
view the military authorities about the Indian circle hunts. 
A mutual understanding between wardens of States so nearly 
identified cannot fail to be of value. 
The State of Kansas is to have an organization for the pur- 
pose of game protection, or rather at this writing perhaps 
has such, since the call was for a meeting to be held at Wich- 
ita, Ka,n., Oct. 1, The initiative was taken by the Wichita 
Fish and Game Club, which asks a general meeting for the 
organization of a State sportsmen's association. One ob- 
serves with pleasure the fact that the moving club is not the 
"rod and gun" club of some town, and, therefore, has no savor 
of trap-shooting attached to the "State's sportsmen's" body. It 
is a curious fact of history that most rod and gun clubs have 
nothing to do with the rod, and that very many State sports- 
men's associations have little to do beyond trap-shooting. 
Wichita has lately been showing much good fruit from the 
hard work of the State Warden, Dr. Shults. 
Soaked. 
A few more cases of soakings come to hand this week. 
At Spokane, Wash., Rev. Evan P. Hughes, pastor of the 
Congregational Church of Hillsboro, paid fine for killing 
illegal birds. Let him not be cast down over this, for he has 
good company. 
At Salt Lake, Utah, last week, J. F. Ehbert was fined $8 
for killing ducks and snipe out of season. 
On the train bound east overland in North Dakota last 
week were two gentlemen of Oxford, O., their names C. 
Widerraan and Fred. Carmeier. On the same train was a 
pleasant sort of man with whom they scraped acquaintance 
without much trouble, and him they advised that they had 
just had fine shooting at a point in North Dikota out beyond 
Jamestown, and that, they had been altogether too shtewd 
for the State Game Warden, and had not taken out any non- 
resident licenses. They didn't believe in such a license, any- 
how, and thought it defrauded them of many of their in- 
alienable ri^^hts. And then the pleasant stranger introduced 
himself and his star as the State Game Warden, Mr. George 
B. Bowers. They reluctantly separated themselves from 
fifty of their inalienable dollal-s and went on back home. 
They regret their predisposition to converse with strangers. 
Warden Bowers, of North Dakota, writes me that the 
non-residents are coming in very fast out in bis countiy 
now, and he is having his hands full in watching a good 
many widely separated points for persons who try to evade 
the license law. 
Mlaratlons of Game. 
Owing to dryness of the country in parts of central Illinois^ 
the quail are making quite an extensive migration to the South 
this week, and have appeared in numbers at many towns in 
the lower part of the State. This migration of the quail in 
Illinois and Missouri is something, to which I have often 
called attention before, and it is one of the odd but well- 
recognized facts regarding the wild game of those regions. 
A big movement of gray squirrels is going on up in Wis- 
consin just now, and at Baraboo, Wig., last week, the squir- 
rels hau appeared in hundreds. This is the first squirrel mi- 
gration seen at that point in eight years, and one of the 
largest ever noted. The local paper calls attention to the 
fact that it is only the gray squirrels which migrate, and says 
that the fox squirrels remain m the country where they were 
born and reared. The migration is expected to last about 
two weeks in passiag a given district, and no one knows how 
far to the South the little animals will go. The last two 
years have been very good squirrel years in lower Wisconsin, 
as I can personally testify. What will be the next two years 
no one can tell, as sometimes one of these big movements 
will clean out the squirrels over a large strip of country for 
quite a time. 
Mljrratlons of Sportsmen. 
The twenty-fourth annual trip of the Jerome Marble hunt- 
ing party of Worcester, Mass., in the hunting car Yellow- 
stone, is now in progress in Minnesota and Dakota. Follow- 
ing are ihe names oi those who accompany Mr. Marble: A. 
W. Gifford, Arthur E. Gifford, Mrs. A. B. F. Kinney, Y. 
D. Kcnerson and wife, Lester Kenerson, Worcester; T. L. 
Sturtevant and wife, L. H. Sturttvant, Miss L A. Putnam, 
Quincy; W. E. Harmon and Miss Helen S. GnfSths, Lex- 
iugton; John M. Johnson and G. Pearce, Norwich, Conn ; 
Lewis Eddy, Dorchester. 
Mr. J. J. Gokey, of Dawson, N D., writes me as follows 
regarding shooting parties at his town: "Mr. Chas. Ray- 
mond and son, of Chicago, are here for a hunt. They only 
intended to stay one week, but the shooting is so good they 
will make it two weeks. Mr. Eddy and party of eight, from 
Boston, will be here Oct. 5 for a hunt and have asked me to 
take charge of the party. The northern birds are just be- 
ginning to come in, and it makes fine mixed shooting, ducks 
and geese " 
Mr. Gokey adds-a little story of a happening in the goose 
pits last week, when he had out a tenderfoot who had never 
before shot at geese : ' 'A big bunch of geese was coming in," 
says Gokey, "and when I gave the order to shoot 1 saw this 
yoang man jump up, when the geese were right over him, 
and let ofl" both barrels in the air, and then he began to yell. 
I got out of my blind and went over to him, and found him 
white as a ghost and trembling. I hardly blamed him for 
yelling. 1 got two geese out of the flock as they came in, 
and one of these, a 12|lb. honker, dropped right on top of 
him as he had his gun in the air and struck him on the 
chest, knocking the gun out of his hands and nearly scaring 
him to death. He roared so you could have heard him a 
mile." 
Gokey says a good many fine bags of canvasbacks have 
been made, and that the shooting is as good all round as 
could be asked by anybody. 
Messrs. W. P. Hilliard, E. C. Copelin and G. E Marshall, 
of Chicago, are just back from a hunting trip, where they 
were in camp sjme eight miles north of Herman, Grant 
county, Minn., about 300 miles above St. Paul. They had a 
team, driver and cook, and were out two weeks, killing in 
all above 700 ducks, one day killing seventy birds. They had 
the finest shooting any of them had ever known, and say 
that the sloughs all over that region were simply alive with 
ducks. They shipped 500 birds to Sc. Paul — for what pur- 
pose is not known. What to do with so large a number of 
birds as such a hunt produces is one of the problems of the 
hunt. The ducks killed were teal, spoonbills, mallards, 
redheads, and a few canvas. 
Where to Go. 
M. E. W , of Peoria, III., writes as below in search of in- 
formation about ducking country: 
"Will you kindly inform me through the columns of 
Forest and Stream where 1 can get good or fair duck 
shooting this fall, and how far from Peoria, 111., and the ex- 
pense of the place, best time to go, whether you can get de- 
coys at the place or not ?" 
The answer to the above may be found herewith in the 
news of the Chicago hunters or in the report by Mr. Gokey, 
at Dawson, N. D. The points thus mentioned are only a 
few of a great many which are this season extraordinarily 
good in the Northwest. As to detailed information about 
prices, etc , it is not always easy to get this for each and 
every point. The Chicago party took portable boats (Kan- 
kakee model) in with them. At Dawson one can depend 
upon getting boats, decoys, dogs, and any material he may 
need, from shells on up. The regular charge there for a 
guide, team, wagon, boat and decoys is $5 per day. There 
will be many points closer home than Dawson this fall, and 
points even m Illinois, where the duck shooting will be fair, 
though hardly approaching that of the banner point in this^ 
banner year tor wildfowl m the further Northwest. It ii 
too early to speak with with any accuracy about shooting 
points in this State or in Wisconsin. If one can take the 
North Dakota trip it is time to start at once. 
Chickens. 
The largest bag of chickens made in Illinois this fall, so' 
far as I have known, was made by Victory Emery and HaL 
Opperman, near Pontias, Sept. aO, forty-seven birds. Most 
of the shooting was in the cornfields, and in one such field 
nineteen birds were killed. The habitj of the chickens havq 
undergone change in Illinois with the change in the environ- 
ment. The chickens take ts the corn as they used to resbi't 
td the grass in the early days. 
Manitoba Geese. 
.. Mr. Thomas j'ohnson writes me from Winnipeg that his 
friend Mr. George Manson, of Shoal Lake, wrote him on 
Sept. 83 about some good goose country near his home: 
"We have a strange thing here, south of the lake, a^oUt 
six miles from town, bptween Shoal Lake and Ilaven Lake, 
every fall for the past five years Large flocks of wild geese 
Congregate about the same place an d are really a pest to the 
farmers. They are there now in great numbers." 
A Washington Game Country. 
Word of a good game region in far away Washington 
comes from Mr. William Nelson, at Spokane, Wash., to his 
friend Mr. L. P. Good, of Chicago, who is kind enough lo 
send the matter to Forest and Stream. 
"I left here with my family and team on July 12," says 
Mr. Nelson, "and drove to a small lake thirty-five miles 
from here, called Fish Lake, and camped there that night 
and the next day and night to rest my team a little. At the 
end of the fourth day I found Priest Lake, a beauty, tweniy 
miles long by twelve miles wide at the center, but the lake 
is only three miles wide taking the average. Here 1 got a 
little 'jim crow' steamer, the only one up there, to take U9 
up to the head of the lake. The beat time the steamer can 
make is four miles an hour, but we finally got there and 
made our permanent camp for the whole six weeks on the 
lake. On Monday I started out to get some venison for my 
own use, but came back without even seeing one, but there 
was plenty of tracks. On Tuesday morning I took my boat 
q,nd started after trout, and was having fine sport when I 
heard the water splash behind me, and on looking around 
what should I see but two full-sized deer, a buck and doe, 
standing in the lake up to their knees di inking and fighting 
flies. I picked up my oars and rowed hack to camp, and I 
couldn't relish my breakfast for thinking what a fool I was 
for not putting a gun in the boat before i started. 
"After dinner that day, I took a stroll over to a beaver 
dam about half mile from camp, and walked around it, and 
by doing so I saw the trails made by the deer when they 
came in to feed. Early next morning I then took my .38 55 
and started. After walking about half-mile, I sat down be- 
hind a big pine tree and waited; but did not have long I o 
wait, for in less than fifteen minutes I heard the brush crack. 
Hooked sharp in the direction, but could see notbirg; then 
in a moment I heafd the brush crack again, and still 1 could 
not see anything. So I raised to my feet to look again, and 
in doing this 1 stepped on a twig and it cracked, and this no 
sooner done than up went the head of a fine deer "about 
125yds. in front of me. I wailed uutil she gave me a broad- 
sider, and then cut loose for her just behind the shoulder. 
She dropped, and then jumped up to run again as I sup- 
posed, so I sent another bullet after her, and down she went 
again. Now, what do you think? I bad not only killed 
one, but two! I ran to bleed the last one, thinking that 
it was the first one shot twice; but after 1 had bled 
this one, I looked back and saw the grass move, so 
went there and found that I had two diad deer instead 
of one. I had not seen the second one until after I 
had killed the first one. I was sorry for this for I did not 
want 80 much venison at once; but I got the two out and 
dressed them, and by hard work succeeded in giving half of 
one away and we used the other one and a half by being very 
good to my two bird dogs, and then it is no trouble to keep 
meat up ther", ten days by putting it into sacks and hanging it 
in a tree out of the sun. It needs two sacks to keep the flies 
away from it, for they will sti ag through one. I first pat it 
into a cotton sa-ck and then the cotton sack into a gunny 
sack, and that is too much for the flies to sting through. 
"I hael been at the lake less than a week and had trout, 
grouse and venison. What more did I want? I thought 
that I would put in a few days catching trout and salt them 
down for my next winter's fish, and so I did. I soon caught 
and put down lOOIbs., all I cared to bring home. Then 
what I was to do was the question. After our venison was, 
getting low I thought I would go ovtr to another meadow 
about two miles from camp and kill a caribou, but they are 
loo slick for me. While I could see plenty of tracks, 1 never 
could get near enough to see the great reindeer, for he was 
too cunning and could scent a man too far. So I had to 
give up that, but not until I had worked very hard. 
. "On the whole, I had a very delightful trip, and it did 
Tae lots of good, and I only wish that you could have been 
with me. When I tell you that it is no more trouble lo kill 
a deer up there around Priest Lake than for a farmer to go 
out and kill a sheep, I am telling you the truth ; and as to 
taking trout out of that lake, it is tooea&y, and the strangest 
thing about it is that the trout are all of one size. They are 
from t^lbs. to l-^lbs., and take the fly very wickedly, jump- 
ing above it and then turning down; and then comes the 
fun, as they fight from start to finish, often jumping their 
full length out of the water six to ten limes before you can 
land them. After we had been there about four weeks, I 
thought that we needed some more fresh meat, so I went 
after another deer, but by this time they had quit my 
first meadow, from the fact of our being so close, 
dogs barking, our shooting, etc. I went up on the side 
of a small mountain and waited on a trail one after- 
noon, and after being there for about an hour and 
not seeing anything, I started to cross a small ravine, and 
jumped only thirteen in one bunch. They were lying down 
m the shade. I picked out a large buck and pulled the trig- 
ger, but still he went on. I gave him another, and this time 
he fell, but only to get up and go on again. I stdl kept 
pumping lead into him undl I had hit him twelve limes be- 
fore I killed him. the last shot breaking his neck. 1 could 
not have shot so many times only I was on one side of the 
ravine and he on the other, so he could not get away. He 
was a very large deer and I was forced to cut him up before 
I could get him out. This was the last deer I tried to get. 
If you will join me up there next summer I will guarantee 
that you will have the sport of your life. Think of the good 
it does a business man to gel away from the cares of life for 
a month or two. I was gone about seven weeks and had a 
bully time from start to finish." 
Hurt by a Grizzly. 
On last week Alexander Tolman, of Marion, near Pocatello, 
Idaho, while out hunting near the head of Rock Creek, 
was unlucky enough to meet a she grizzly with cubs, and 
he wounded the mother. The bear charged him and struck 
him over the head, then bit him savagely and mangled h-m 
in a fearful manner before she left him lying unconscioui. 
