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[001, 30, 1897. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
Chicago, 111., Oct. 2?>.— A number of inquiries are at hand 
in t.Ms office from gentlemen ■wishing to know where good 
deer country can be fouad Ihia fall. The season is now 
praclically at hand, and the tide of deer hunters is already 
well under way to the pine country of the North and North- 
west. One railroad, on one evening this week, carried out 
sixty-seven deer hunters out of Chicago, all bound for Staples 
and Park Rapids, Minn, Many of them would go to Wis- 
consin, but for the license. A great many deer hunters have 
also gone to Daer Eiver, Minn., on the Duluth. Superior & 
Western E. R. One party has g ne to Cloquet, Minn. I 
think probably over 100 deer hunters have gone into Minne- 
sota already over this one road alone from or through Chi- 
cago. 
i am advised by a man just back from the T'ifield country 
of Wisconsin that the deer are to he found in that neighbor- 
hood ia great plenty this fall. Although of courrje not 
hunting, he saw a great deal of sign, and the. local men 
said it would be no trouble to get plenty of deer in season. 
This is one of the safe points to reach, I think, Go to 
Pifield, on the Wisconsin Central, then wagon twenty-four 
miles east to Feeley's place, on the Fifleld Chain. Bob Hurd, 
the game warden for the coiintj', is a guide who is recom- 
mended. 
Ellis Junction, on the C, M, & St. Paul Railroad, is now 
and has for years been in the heart of a splendid deer country. 
Take wagon at that point for the woods some twenty or 
thirty miles west. Guides will be needed. Another fine 
point on this road is Lena, Wis , where deer arc this fall in 
good numbers This point is not far from Green Bay, and 
h,as hardwood and swamp country both. Take wagon at 
Lena and go fourteen miles west to Kelly Lake, where there 
' is a small settlement and where a guide can be procured. 
This is a safe point for deer, 
Ducks. 
Mr. C. N. Souther, of the Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway 
in this city, is iust back from a little run up to the norlhera 
marshes about Horicon, and says that on the club marsh of 
Diana Club he saw more ducks than he ever did before, He 
made a nice little bag. 
Mr. W. S. Milligan, tax commissioner, this city, is just 
back from a trip to Big Stone Lake, Minn,, and is delighted 
with that region. He says the ducks were there timply in 
clouds, and he had never seen the like. 
Mr. Chauncey M. Powers, of Decatur, 111., to-day passed 
through Chicago on his way home from a trip to the Devils 
Lake country of North Dakota, where he has been three 
weeks shooting with Fred and Dick Merrill They shot 
ducks, geese and chickens. The latter were scarce and wild, 
and the goose shooting was cut into by a lot of horseback 
hunters, who went all over the country and scared the geese 
out of their regular fly ways. Ducks did not seem to decoy 
very well, but they had finesport in blind shooting on points, 
calling ia the ducks with the good old lUiuois River duck 
call, with which instrument very few men are more expert 
than Mr. Powers, The latter is now on his way for a week 
or so at the Hennepin Club grounds of the Illinois River, to 
which club he belongs. The mallard shooting on those 
famous preserves should be very fine this fall if the water 
holds. 
The Kankakee marsh is dried up and burning up this 
week, and we cannot hope for much shooting there. There 
is not water enough to hold even the snipe, and but tew 
bags have been made of any consequence. 
Mr. Smith, of the town of Niles, on the edge of Chicago, 
has just returned from South Dakota, and has talked to a 
friend, who has talked to me, not knowing that he was tell- 
ing anything out of the way about Mr. Smith. He could 
not tell me Mr. Smith'd initials, so I don't know which Mr. 
Smith it was. He tells my informant that be ' had to smug- 
gle his game out of the State," but he brought home a lot of 
ducks, which he had salted down in barrels by the farmer's 
wife at the place where he stopped. He says these ducks 
were skinned and the breasts taken and slightly salted. 
They are described as tasting very well, perhaps all' the bet- 
ter because they are stolen salts. 
, Mr. J. C. McDonald, a long time reader of Forest a:sd 
Stream, asks for good open duck country in Wi-consin, 
where he can also get some groufeshoDting. Can Mr. W. E. 
Warren, of Fox Lake, Wis., give u? any information about 
his neck of woods as a place for a few ducks and a few 
grouse? I should think that one might locate somewhere in 
that region, and get all the shooting be would need for a 
1 itle leisurely trip of a couple of weeks. Many of the best 
Wisconsin marshes are preserved, but not all of them. Part 
of the Butte des Morts and Poygan country is still open, and 
much of that country is still good at times in the fall flight, 
though usually better in the spring, when bluebiUs (legal 
game in that State in spring) are very often killed in hun- 
dreds. For upland shooting, a few grouse and a pleasant 
country,' I think Berlin, Wis., would be a good place. Bab 
cock is another good point to keep in mind for a little fall 
woods hunt. 
Colorado Game. 
It is Mr. Warren, of Fox Lake, by the way, who writes 
me more fully about his Colorado trip, to which I referred 
last week. He thinks the big game of Colorado is not yet 
all gone, and remarks : 
' I have been reading the 'sheep and snowshoe* articles. I 
have been through the mill in Colorado, and while out there 
this fall climbed into the sheep country four times and saw^ 
sheep three limes. But for the stringent game laws would 
have brought out some fine trophies. Would have got a 
fine picture of three old rams and two ewes, but had fool- 
ishly left the camera in camp that day. 
"Gunnerson county has the name of being shot out, but 
there's plenty of game there yet — I think at least 300 sheep 
ia one locality in the West Elk Mountains. While I was 
there this fall a party of four caught 801b3. of trout in a half 
day. Another man caught eight trout in one day that 
weighed 431bs. ; so you will readily see there are fish there 
yet. Colorado has a hot game and fish law, and is really 
trying to live up to it, all of which I was glad to see." 
Big Missouri Preserve, 
Despatches from St. Louis dated Oct. 19 describe one of 
the most interesting movements in preserve matters which 
have recently come up for chronicling, in the middle west. 
The news reads as follows. 
"Deeds will be signed to-day completing the purchase of 
the last 780acresof al7,000-acretractof land in Iron county, 
Missouri, that is designed to form one of the greatest game 
preserves in the United States, 
Tlie pqr(?haser \^ the Mouutaw and I^alje JJuiitiog mi 
Fishing Club, including in its membership many well-known 
men in St. Louis. 
The tract selected for the purpose of the club is in the heart 
of the richest game regions in Missouri, in the beautiful 
Arcadia Valley, surrounded by the Ozark Mountains 
The intention of the club is to present the preserve to the 
State at the expiration of fifty years, providing the plans of 
the club euccessfully carry out " E Hough. 
1206 BoYOE Bdu,ding, Chicago. 
NOTES FROM NEW BRUNSWICK. 
Feedericton, N. B., Oct. 23. — The head of the large 
moose shot on the Nepisiguit by Mr. John Bodkin, and 
which was reported in the press as being a record head, 
reached Fredericton yesterday. It proves to be consider- 
ably under the measurement claimed for it, but is never- 
tlieless a remarkably large and maesive head. From tip 
to tip it measu res 60|in. Some idea of the kind of game 
country Mr. Bodkin was in may be formed from the fact 
that on the evening that Mr, B, called up this moose four 
other bulls responded to the call. Mr. B. now thinks that 
there is no such thing as an ideal rifle for all kinds of 
game. He says that his gun, which throws l^oz. of lead, 
is just the right thing for moose, but when it comes to 
shooting bears at a range of from 200 to 300yds., of which 
animal he saw five on the trip, his weapon wasinadequate, 
not having a sufficiently flat trajectory. In addition to 
this moose, the head of which will be sent to Mr. Crosby, 
of Bangor, for mounting, Mr. Bodkin shot two fine caribou. 
The big moose head taken on the Tobique, referred to 
last week, though not 69in. heats the record for New 
Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Maine by a large majority. 
Mr. Crosby, of Banger, writes me: "The big head that 
came from the Tobique last week has an exact spread of 
66in. It has twenty-eight points, and was killed by 
Stephen Decatur, of Portsmouth, N. H. This head is the 
widest spread we have ever handled." 
At least half a dozen moose have been shot in New 
Brunswick this fall with spreads of 60in. or more. One of 
these was secured on Nictaux Lake, on the headwaters of 
the Tobique, by Chauncy P. Williams, of Albany, N. Y., 
who spent a month in that ideal game region in company 
with his friend, George R. Shaffer, of Troy, N. Y. They 
had as their guide George Armstrong, of Perth Centre, 
Yic*"oria county, N. B., who is a thoroughly reliable man 
in every respect and a fine moose caller. Mr. Shaffer se- 
cured , a moose with a horn measurement of 4iiin. Mr. 
Williams said he bad never seen a fish and game country 
that equalled the Tobique, and that he fully intended to 
return next year. The party saw over twenty-five moose 
on the trip. Mr. Armstrong informs me that fourteen 
large heads have been secured on the Tobique this 
fall, and he saw two besides the one taken by 
Mr. Williams that measured over 60in. across 
the points. It is currently reported at Andover 
that a mammoth moose has been shot up river by Hon. 
John Costigan, of the Dominion parliament, the antlers 
measuring 70in. As a rule these reports of record heads 
cannot be relied upon; the figures show a marked ten- 
dency to shrink when brought in contact with the tape- 
line. It is a notable fact that while Mr. Costigan has been 
for a quarter of a century one of the most prominent of 
Canadian politicians, in his early days he was a profes- 
sional hunter and trapper in New Brunswick. He still re- 
tains all his old-time love of the woods and spends a 
month or more every fall on the upper Tobique. It would 
seem that the moose heads taken on the Restigouche and 
the Tobique this year have distinctly out-classed those 
which have come from the Miramichi, though the latter 
is reckoned as one of the finest moose countries on earth. 
American sportsmen are still arriving on nearly every 
train from the West, and most of the prominent guides 
have their dates filled until Jan. 1, when the season closes. 
There is no doubt that they will come next year in still 
greater numbers, as the hunting opportunities of the Prov- 
ince are becoming more widely known. Some of the 
Maine guides, dissatisfied with the short season in that 
State and attracted by the game reports from New Bruns- 
wick, are preparing to locate here permanently. Some are 
now prospecting on the Tobique, Restigouche and other 
streams; others are building hunting camps in readiness 
for business next season. It is not surprising that there 
is some local sentiment against non-resident guides com- 
ing into the Province and competing with the local men. 
In Maine no guide is allowed a license unless he has had 
previous residence of at least three months, and it is felt 
that Maine guides have no right to expect better treat- 
ment in New Bruswick than our own men receive in 
Maine. I do not think it probable that the Provincial 
Legislature will debar non-resident guides from coming in, 
but it is not unlikely that a license fee will be imposed. 
Talking about big moose, I am reminded that Mr. James 
TurnbuU, of Halifax (who is not unknown, I think, to the 
readers of Forest and Stream), has received a letter from 
the noted big-game hunter, Dal DuWeese, of Caiion City, 
Col., who last year hunted with Mr. Turnbull in the Nor- 
west, giving an account of a very successful trip he has 
had in the Yukon region, Alaska. Mr. DuWeepe shot 
three moose, one of them having a 69in. spread, nine 
mountain sheep, a grizzly bear and a mountain lion. 
A few weeks ago Mr. Jerome Bradley, of Dobbs Ferry, 
N. Y., with another gentleman, decided to try his luck on 
the Nepisiguit upon my recommendation. I have just re- 
ceived a letter from Mr. Bradley in which he says that the 
party had a most enjoyable and successful trip. They shot 
one moose, two caribou and two bears. 
Guy Saunders and Archie Hale, of Woodstock, returned 
last Friday from the Tobique, bringing with them two 
moose and two caribou. 
John Nelson, of Gibson, has returned from a very suc- 
cessful tour of the lakes in Queen's county. He brought 
home a fine moose head, also sixty-eight black ducks. 
The returns are beginning to come in from the haunts 
of the goose and brant on the North Shore. James Run- 
die, Joseph Petrie and George Johnson, of Newcastle, 
remained about a week at Tabusintac Beach. They 
bagged over 100 sea fowl, chiefly brant. 
A very sad and mysterious story comes from Newcastle 
concerning the disappearance of Mr. W. E. Anslow, editor 
of the Newcastle Advocate and one of the most widely 
known of Provincial journalists. He was on a partridge 
shooting expedition, in company with his son, at a point 
0^. the Sou- West Miramichi, twenty-four miles above New- 
cftstlet Tbe mu left bis ffttber oi^ agroaU island in tins 
river while he went on some errand to a neighboring 
farmhouse. When he returned he could not find his 
father. This occurred on the 14th inst., since which time 
(though hundreds of men have been scouring the woods 
in the vicinity), no trace whatever has been discovered of 
the missing man. At first it was thought that Mr. Anslow 
was lost in the woods, latterly the prevailing opinion is 
that he was drowned while attempting to ford the river 
from the island to the mainland. Frank H. Risteen. 
HARD LUCK. 
New Yoek, Oct. 20.— Editor Forest and Stream: "Report 
your luck for For"est and Stream " Nothing said as to 
any particular class of luck. Therefore I inclose a memo- 
randum (made at the time) of a day's turkey hunting in the 
swamps of North Carolina. It may appeal to others who 
have not always been successful, viz : 
Dies Irse. (March 12, 1895.) 
6:00 A. M.— Rain. 
6:05 A. M,— Hunting boots badly burned last night: must 
wear "the low ones. N. B— The branches and 
slashes are knee-deep. 
6:10 A. M — Cold breakfast. 
6:^:0 A. M.— Darky boy don't know the way to Wolfenden. 
6:30 A. M.— Mud, rain, mud. Missed road three miles out. 
8:00 A. M. — Seven miles out. Everything wet. 
9:00 A. M.— Crossing branch, floating log gave way. Mud 
knee deep, water deeper. 
10:00 A. M.— Nothing done. Right heel badly blistered. 
10:15 A, M.— Drove to another lot of ridges. Smashed 
buggy; patched it up. Mud, rain. Roads 
awful. 
12:00 M.— Gun only weighed 9|-lbs. at 8 A. M. ; weighs 
about 191ba. now. Run. Swamps full. 
Only just able to hobble. 
2:00 P. M.— Lunch; bread soaked, ham wet, pie uneatable, 
nothing to drink, 
2:30 P. M. — Tobacco pouch soaked, matches wet. 
3 :00 P. M. — Nothing done. Drove to a third series of ridges. 
Rain heavy. Water in gun barrels. Safety 
catch for left lock seems out of order. 
4:00 P. M. — Leather coat soaked through. 
4:15 P. M —Tried a fourth fieries of ridges, 
5:00 P, M.— Sighted an old gobbler across the branch and 
1 50yds. away. 
5:80 P. M. — Stalked him half an hour. Never got withia 
80yds. Lost him in the twilight. Heavy 
rain. 
b:00 P. M —Back to buggy, 
7:30 P, M.— Seven miles of mud and rain. Road well under 
water in the swamps Ran down another 
buggy in the dark. 
8:10 P. M.— Too late for supper. Cold meat, bread and 
water. 
8:20 P. M.— Mail late, Here at last. Anything for raeV 
Yes, a cold Note (from further South). More 
rain. Much discouraged. A wretched day, 
and there are only a certain number of days 
in a lifetime. C. S. D. 
THE VERMONT DEER. 
FisoKRiES and Game Commissioner .John W. I'lliconib 
has taken pains to collect statistics of the deer killed in Ver- 
mont, Under date of Oct, 23, he writes us: "1 see your last 
paper gives a very fair account of the deer question. The 
fact h that deer hunting in October without dogs is not 
what it is cracked up to be, and whi'e our territory ia not 
extensive, I do not think our deer will be exterminated. I 
was personally opposed to having an open season in any part 
of the State except Es^ex county. 
"In order to inform myself as to the number of deer killed 
throughout the State, I'issued postal cards to every post- 
master in Vermont similar to the inclosed. I think that the 
reports which I have received cover about 90 per cent, of all 
deer killed from Oct. 1 to date. The following is a sum- 
mary of the number of deer killed, by counties, from which 
you win £60 that there is a total of fifty-nine. Among this 
number may be included two or three does. One of the 
does had quite conspicuous horns, about the same as those 
on a yearling buck." 
sravrsiAET. 
Addison county ...-..^.,.....1 Rutland county,...,. 15 
Bennington county, 5 Washington county 1 
Caledonia county ....,5 Windham county , ,.7 
Chittenden county 1 Windsor counly,,,., 4,..,,...,,. .Ifi 
Essex county , ,,3 — 
Lamoille couniy .....2 Total .....,...,,,59 
Orleans couuly....... 3 
The Rutland Herald reviews the deer stocking and the 
1897 hunting; 
"Deer have never been exterminated in Essex county, 
but in other parts of the State they had grown more and 
more rare, and for many years not one was seen. The 
first move toward restocking the State was made in 1876, 
when the Lrgislature made a law giving absolute protection 
to deer for five years. That law has been renewed and in 
coEstant operation, until the 'open season' began with this 
month under a law made by the Legislature of 1896. 
"It appears that the first deer brought to the State were a 
buck and two does released at Manchester in the spring of 
1877 The work was done by Manchester men, and doubt- 
less M. S. Colburn was prominent in it. All three animals, 
with one fawn, were reported living in the country a year 
later. Some Rutland men, the next spring, in 1878. bought 
and brought here twelve or thirteen deer for breeding pur- 
poses; but one died before acd another after release, so that 
ten or eleven living animals were sent into the woods. 
"This reintroduction of deer in the State was heartily wel- 
comed by the pub'ic upon every hand, and the law protect- 
ing them was generally supported and obeyed, and the 
animals left unmolested, Finally the deer damaged crops a 
little here and there. The Herald has never been able to 
learn that the damage was anywhere of any sort of practical 
consequence, but it was enough to make a lot of talk about. 
Then people in Essex county wanted a right to hunt deer, 
and somehow or other — nobody seems to know how — the 
Legislature iu 1896 made a law establishing an open season 
of a month in each year. The beginning of the open season, 
came Oct. 1 — and then the other side was heard. 
"In the first place, it at once became apparent that the 
defer were generally regarded as public pets, in many cases 
particular animals had become special pets of individuals, 
and the shooting was resented. And the fear that the deer 
would be again esterminated made the feeling stronger ye<w 
