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high, when another bullet quieted him, and we then gral- 
loched him and dragged Jiim down to the ponies and started 
for home. By actual weight he weighed about 1961b8., 
while the beast shot in the morning weighed 1751b8. ; both 
were in good condition and had splendid heads. As Peter 
and I drove "back to the castle in the dark, we felt that our 
first day in the forest had been a great success. 
Storlax. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
The Sajzlnaw Crowd. 
Chicago, 111., Oct. 28.— The special car W. B. Mershon, 
containing the Saginaw crowd, earlier specified in these 
columns as having departed for the Northwest on a hunting 
tour, reached Chicago last Saturday, after a very successful 
trip, as goes without saying in description of the doings of 
this redoubtable aggregation. Something of their character 
and their performances may be learned by the following 
note from Mr. J. J. Gokey, of Dawson, N. D., at which 
point the party stopped for a duck and goose shoot. Mr. 
Gokey says: 
"The Saginaw crowd went home after having a good hunt 
and getting all the game they wanted. They are not game 
hogs, but gentlemen sportsmen, and they know when they 
get enough. Mr. W. A. Avery, of Detroit, and Mr. H. P. 
Dain had a little experience. They were out after a crippled 
duck in my boat, and they ran against a snag, and were 
going so fast that when they struck they tore a hole in the 
bottom of the boat, so large that it took three dncks to stop 
the leak when they got around to it. They were ducked in 
shallow water, but raised the boat to get ashore. They both 
said the water was mighty cold. Mr. Dain and his friend, 
Mr. W. P. Schultz, were goose shooting with me one after- 
noon, and I think they will say the geese were plentiful 
enough, for we got forty-two geese, though 1 don't know 
whether Mr. Schultz got his share or not. We have had some 
shooting here this fall, as you may see from the fact that I 
have loaded and sold 86,000 nitro shells this season. 
"A great many shooters have been here at Dawson from 
all over the country. Last week the palace car Yellowstone, 
with Mr. Jerome Marble's party, was here with ten shooters, 
as below: Mr. and Mrs. Marble, of Worcester, Mass.; Mr. 
A. W. Gibbard and son, Mr. A. B. F. Kinney, Mr. and Mrs. 
V. D. Kennerson, all of Worcester; Mr. F. L. Sturtevant, 
wife and son, and Miss L. A. Putnam, of Quincy, Mass. ; 
Mr. Lewis Eddy, of Dorchester; Mr, W. E Harman, of 
Lexington; Miss Helen S. Griffltns, of Lexington; Messrs. 
John M. Johnson and G. Pearce, of Norwich, Conn. All 
these had a fine time, and they got lots of game." 
Colorado Utes Make Trouble. 
Despatches of more or less inflammatory and probably in- 
accurate nature have been printed in Western papers this 
week since Oct. 26, touching upon an alleged Indian upris- 
ing in which the White River Utes are said to have fallen 
foul of the State game warden, with the result that firing 
ensued and that several Indians were killed. The first re- 
' ports came in to the effect that Game Warden Wilcox at- 
tempted to arrest some of the Utes near Lily Park, Col., for 
violating the State game laws, and that he was fired upon 
by the Indians. His posse returned the fire, killing five In- 
dians. The game warden, reinforced by several posses of 
officers and citizens, then pursued the Indians, who fled. 
The customary headlines about an "Indian uprising" were 
of course brought out. There is no doubt about the en- 
counter, for it was known and announced some weeks ago 
that the warden would try to stop the big fall hunt of the 
Utes, and since then the Indians have been coming in over 
the line from their reservations in large numbers. They 
have never been any too amenable to discipline when it came 
to changing their plans in regard to their annual fall hunt 
on their old hunting grounds, and hence the resistance on 
this occasion. Of course the talk about an outbreak is of 
the customary sort, something very well known in the 
border country, where the grangers have a little hay which 
they could be induced to part with to the U. S. government 
for a consideration, in case it should seem necessary to send 
troops to the scene of impending disaster. Of course, the 
Governor of the State was telegraphed to send troops at 
once, but this he did not do. <}en. Otis, of the U. S. A,, 
Department of Colorado, took the same view about order- 
ing out troops from Ft. Duchesne, where gome 110 men are 
stationed. 
It was at first reported that several white men were killed 
in the mix up between the posse and the Indians, but this is 
denied in a despatch which was sent Gov. Richards by 
Deputy Sheriff Watson from;Meeker, Col,, Oct. 25. 
To-day, Oct. 28, news comes from Rifle, Col., that War- 
den W. R. Wilcox has sent out by Boyd Vaughan, a Snake 
River Rancher, a despatch to the Goyernor dated Oct. 21, 
and also a letter to James Lyttle, warden at Meeker, which 
letter goes on to say : 
Boyd Vauahn's Eanch, Oct. Zi^— James I/}/ttle, Game Warden, 
Meeker, Col.: To day, witti a party of tweive men, I tried to arrest a 
camp of Uce ladians. We used all patience, aud they flred upon us 
and then we had to fight. On Snake fiiver, five miles above Lilly 
Park, several Indians were killed and wounded. 
I have riders to warn settlers in Lilly Park and elsewhere. The set. 
tiers are gathering at Vaughn's ranch ana are much alarmed, ana think 
you should tm-n out witn what men j ou can co try and arrest the 
Qtes. I believe that there were about sixcy tJtes in this camp, but 
late intormatlon shows at least lOO men, ana some say aOO. I have 
seen about forty, but they were at many places, and may retaliate; 
Dut if these InOians wish to, the settlers are entirely at their mercy. 
So you and tne Sheriff of Elo Blanco county had better do what you 
can to protect the settlers. Yours respectfully, W. R. Wilcox. 
]SIr. Vaughan says that seven Utes were killed, but no whites ; 
and this part of the long story seems not only very familiar, 
but very probable. Vaughan says an old squaw began the 
firing, and that the white men at once began firing into the 
camp, badly wounding several besides those shot fatally. 
Mucn indignation is expressed against the warden, who, it is 
claimed, should have known better than to try to arrest a 
whole camp of mountain Utes, numbering at least forty 
men. These Utes are undoubtedly bad men, and it is likely 
that they are about the worst game butchers on earth; but 
after all the facts are in— should it be possible that all the 
facts of a Western Indian uprising story ever could come 
i^ — "vfe shall perhaps find that the Indians were not wholly 
to blame, or perhaps that they did not wholly understand 
what was wrong or what was wanted of them. They may 
yet retaliate on innocent settlers along the valleys ot that 
region, but this is not hkely. Should they so retaliate, they 
will probably be doing wfiat they think is right. Shoula 
they not do so, they will perhaps • go back home feeling ihat 
they have been grievously wronged and bitterly imposed 
upon. If in this case they resisted, it does not yet appear 
that they did so at the order of their xesponsible head, but 
only after the action of a woman had been answered by the 
law of firearms. Thus arise Indian troubles, when very 
often the Indians are not "so deliberately mean and danger- 
ous and misunderstanding as they are misunderstood and 
misrepresented. It will be well enough to wait till we have 
the other side of this, if there can ever be any other side in 
a case between Indians and white men. The chief draw- 
back on the part of the Utes seems to be very likely the fact 
that they have no press agent, no associated press, and no 
stacks of hay ready to sell the army for a reasonable consid- 
eration. 
Still Another Indian Trouble. 
Yet another Indian difiieulty over gatoe-law matters comes 
from Minnesota in the dispatches ot to-day from St. Paul. 
It is stated that a spec'al telegram from Leech Lake reserva- 
tion, in upper Minnesota, reports that a messenger had just 
arrived at the agency with news of a fight yesterday between 
some of the Indians and a game warden, two of the Indians 
engaging in the fight. It was stated that both these Indians 
and also the game warden were killed, and that an Indian 
woman was also killed. It would seem that modern ad- 
vanced thought in regard to the sex has not missed the out- 
lying Indian settlements, as witness this report and the one 
of the Ute squaw who began the last Colorado war. I have 
only this meager information at hand at this writing, and it 
is possible that this is a part of the same sort of thing in 
which two or three times there has been previously an- 
nounced the death of Warden Stephens, of Detroit. It may 
very well be, however, that some trouble will ensue at the 
Minnesota reservations about the recent order issued by the 
Indian Department restricting the sale of game from Indian 
reservations. Leech Lake country is a great one for this game 
traffic, and if there has not something happened up there of 
serious nature, it may very likely occur almost any day, 
until the Indians get the correct situation into their minds. 
Brother Lo is not always easily defeasible in his notions 
about game and the game supply. The Uces and Snakes 
have long been bad skin hunters, but the worst sort of Indian 
is the one who believes he has an inalienable right to hunt 
for the market the year round, as these Minnesota Indians 
have been doing. Indian hunting for Indian use never yet 
caused destruction of any local game supply. Indian hunt- 
ing for white'men's use will depopulate any game country on 
earth. 
Season Dwindling. 
Our shooting season for this part of the West seems to be 
dwindling, though it started out with promise. The weather 
has been splendid for anything but hunting or farming, the 
whole month of October for half a dozen Western Slates, 
having been gloriously clear and balmy. This has dried up 
the ponds and streams to a great extent, and has spoiled the 
shooting country over a wide area, beside retarding the 
south-bound flight of the wildfowl. Very few of the North- 
ern birds have been reported as down in Minnesota yet, and 
we have had none of consequence in this part of the country, 
though the crop of local birds in Wisconsin was extraordin- 
arily good. Low water and mild weather do not promise 
much for the Kankakee this faU, and we can expect very 
little shooting, except as a day or so at flight birds offers, 
there being no great body of good marsh anywhere in sight. 
A few scattering bags of snipe have been made, and these 
birds are coming well down. I should expect to hear of 
good shooting at ducks on all available waters of this region 
within a day or so now, for the blizzard of the past two days 
has reached not only Colorado, but parts of Dakota, and a 
colder ware is expected here soon. Under these conditions, 
we may get a few d .js fun at the lower Wisconsin grounds, 
those of upper Illinois and upper Indiana. Then attention 
will turn to the quail, of which there is a splendid crop in 
lower Illinois and Indiana. Nowadays we think nothing of 
a few hundred miles when we take into consideration the 
game supply of a given section. The Chicago shooters go 
over a wide strip of country. We hardly think of Illinois 
as a Southern State until we take dowO a map and see how 
far south it runs. Away down in Illinois, in that great corn 
country known as "Egypt," the conditions are practically 
Southern; and the abundance of game is almost Southern, 
quails especially being found there in great abundance. The 
lower third of this State and of Indiana, will be grand shoot- 
ing fields this fall for upland game, though hardly for wild- 
fowl, 
Illinois Chickens. 
It is an odd fact, and one hardly to be called widely 
known, that Illinois was this year about the best chicken 
country there was in the West. Of course, this is not true 
in any wide or general sense, but I mean to say that in Henry 
county. III, the bags of chickens made were larger tban any 
of which 1 got track after a diligent hunt for the news out 
in Dakota and Minnesota. The birds were not disturbed 
very much on a certain narrow strip of country there, acd 
the virtue of protection at once became evident. There is 
no ti-ouble about having game, if a few simple problems in 
arithmetic be kept in mind, such as "One from one leaves 
naught." or "Naught from naught you can't." We used to 
do those things when we were ooys, but we forget how to 
do them as we get older, it seems. The case in this pait of 
Illinois was one which has not been infrequent in difl'erent 
' parts of the West. The birds were shot out hard, and har- 
ried until they seemed not worth harrying any longer. Then 
they were passed over for a few years, in the belief that ihty 
were about exterminated. Then they were protected against 
indiscriminate shooting of illegal sort during their defense- 
less season. Gradually they cnanged their nabits, learning 
new ways, such as taking to the cornfields for shelter and 
protection. In the course of years the local stock thus re- 
cuperated became full again, until its quality was again dis- 
covered. Next year we may not hear of quite so good a 
crop, but it is sure that the buds were not cleaned up there 
this year. The worst enemy of the game birds of this great 
and glorious land of the free is not the game hog, nor the 
market shooter, nor the fai-mer boy, nor any of those honor- 
able agencies by which the game is ostensibly and customarily 
destroyed, but the most unfailmg and relentless enemy is good 
old human nature. 1 have noticed large quantities of human 
nature hanging around the edge ot a great many good 
chicken countries, and nearly always, by and by, tliere 
seemed to be, after a while, rather more human nature than 
prairie chickens left. 
Warden Fullerton Assaulted. 
There seems to be plenty of trouble over game law matters 
out in Minnesota this week. This time details come with 
the news, and it seems that it is the State game warden him- 
self who has been assaulted this time. The dispatches read 
as follows: 
"DLfHiTH, Minn., Oct.. 28 —State Game Warden Sam 
Fullerton arrived here to-day from Detroit. While waiting 
at Detroit he saw a box addressed to a cold storage com- 
pany at Chicago. Watching an opportunity, he opened it 
and found ninety-eight partridges in it. He attempted to 
seize it and was set upon by three expressmen and was 
kicked, beaten and choked. He declares that he will prose- 
cute the express company to the fullest extent of the law." 
This is about the only time that Warden Fullerton has, 
during the course of his work, been subjected to anything 
worse than threats and expostulations. He has once or 
twice come near to being fired upon, and has once been 
obliged to give up — under the cogent argument of the 
"drop," enforced by a shotgun in the hands of a fisherman 
—some illicit property he had seized. He has not before 
this suffered personal indignitiy at the hands of violators of 
the la^ , and perhaps ihe express company's agents did not 
know whom they were tackling. Mr. Fullerton will show 
them very conclusively about this part of it, and before he 
gets through with that particular outfit they will very much 
regret that they have taken the law into their own hands and 
committed the grave offense of resisting an officer in the 
course of his duties. 
Texas and the Klondike. 
It may be news to a good many Northern friends of Oscar 
Gucssaz, the stalwart San Antonian, to learn that he will in 
the spring join the great army of enterprising men who are 
pushing on to the Arctic circle in the hope of finding fortune 
in the gold fields of the Klondike country. It seems much 
as 1 have said earlier, all the good men are going to Klon- 
dike, and we who stay behind are not much account. Mr, 
Guessaz writes me that his partner is to be Dick Ware, the 
U. S. Marshall of that district in Texas; a man who doesn't 
say much, but acts a heap. We will all wish them good 
luck, acd the man who doesn't want to go along has some- 
thing wrong about him. Mr. Guessaz leaves a good business 
behind him, but if he can scratch gravel in Alaska the way 
he can throw sand in Texas, he is all right. 
For anyone wanting to get into the upper peninsula of 
Miraigan, I would advise the vicinity of Iron Mountain, or 
better yet, Metropolitan. The latter is a terminus of a woods 
line, and last year was very good for deer. This is Chicago 
& Northwestern R. R. country. Each of the three lines 
mentioned hereinbefore can give full details about the game 
country along its lines. The Northwestern Road this fall 
got up a list of its game countries by means of inquiry 
among its station agents, and this Mst is offered Fokkst and 
Stream for pubHcation, I would advise Ihat all these rail- 
road lists of game points should be retained for reference the 
following year Of necessity they are not always exactly 
accurate, and the facts change in regard to local game sup- 
ply from yeai lo year; but these lists are approximately cor- 
rect, and serve to land a man somewhere near the place 
where he wants to get, and lie can do his own skirmishing 
when he gets that near. The Northwestern gazetteer covers 
many varieties of game beside deer, and is as follows : 
ILLtNOIS. 
jV/cHewn/.— Ducks, geese, snipe. Prospects good. Hunting grounds, 
liver one mile and lakes four to eight miles. 
Richmoiul —Ducks and rabbits. Fair prospect, November and 
Dectmber. Hunting grounds, two to four miles. 
Ringwood.- Duck plentiful. Nine miles distant 
£enfow.— Snipe, dujks and geese. Good prospects November, 
Hunting groimos two miles distant. 
WISCONSIN. 
Ashland.— Vncks, partridges and deer plentiful. Grounds five to 
twenty miles away. Uuides necessary aua obtainable. 
Monico Junction.— Deer and bear. Deer plentiful. Himting 
grounds close to station. Guides can be obtained. 
^]anito^vish.—DeeT and ducks plentiful. About twenty lakes in 
vicinity with wild rice. Huniing grounds one to twenty miles dis- 
tant. 
McNaughton. Deer and partridge plentiful; someducks. Hunting 
grounds three to twenty miles away. 
Pelican Lake.— Deer, bear, ducks and partridges. Rice Lake, with 
wild rice for ducks. Deer most plentiful. Guides desirable and ob- 
tiinable. 
Pratt Junction —Deer, bear, partridges, ducks geese; deer and 
ducks most plentiful. Rice Lake eight miles, Pelican one mile away, 
with wild rice for ducks. Guides obtainable. 
Shinelander. — Deer and partridge. Good prospects for deer. Hunt- 
ing giounds anywhere outside of city limits. Guides, boats necessary 
and obtainable. 
State Line.— Deer and ducks most pleniiful. Duck hunting good 
in October Lake Bieus Desort supplied with wild rice for diicks 
Huniing grounds five to twelve miles distant. Guides desirable and 
can be obtained. 
Sutnmit iafce.— Deer, bear, partridges and ducks; deer and par- 
tridges most plentiful. A marsh about two miles from station, sup- 
plied with wild rice. Huntmg grounds near. 
Tomahawk Lake — Deer, partridges, ducks; deer most plentiful. 
Hunting ground» nearby. Guides obtainable, desirable, but not ab- 
solutely necessary. 
jt avorable reports also received from Three Lakes, Hurley, Mara- 
thon City, Woodruff. Hatley, Hazelhurst Junction,.Gilleit, Eimhurat, 
Birnamwood, Ijittle Chute, Marinette, Meeriah, Wausau, Oaanah, Nor- 
rie. Forest Junction, Embarrasss, Dane, Marshland, Midway, Nece- 
dah, Necedah Junction, Okee, Onal&ska, Trempeauleau, Waunakee, 
Calvary, Fond du Lac, Gienbeulah, Malone, Princeton, Rosendale, 
Fort Atkinson, Jefferson, Koshkonong, Milton Junction. Pleasant 
Prairie, Woodworih, Waukesha, Ueetfleld, Dousman, Green Iiake, 
Peusaukee, Oahkoah. 
MICHIGAN. 
Wakefield —Deer and partridges very plentiful. Hunting grounds 
two to lour miles Distant, timcies desirable and obtainable. 
5:o66t«.').— Deer and partridges; deer especially plentiful. Grounds 
about a half mile away. No guides. 
Foster City. — Detr plentiful all around station. Guides not neces- 
sary. 
jSessemer.— Deer and bear, some partridges Deer plentiful. Grounds 
about twenty miles distant, and guides necessary. 
Sicanzy.—Deer, partridges, ducks, spruce hens, etc. Deer and 
partridges especially plentiful. Grounds ten miles distant. Guides 
desirable. 
Spalding —Deer, partridges, ducks. Good deer hunting in Novem- 
ber. All inree kinds plentiful. Grounds ten to thirty miles distant, 
and guides not necessary. 
Norway.— Veer, partriuges and trout. Deer very plentiful. Grounds 
located ihree to twenty-five miles. Guides obtainable and desir- 
able 
JSscanaha.-Deer, bear, rabbits and partridges. Deer and par- 
tridges especially plentiful. Fair sport with birds within a few mi es; 
betier ten to fifteen miles away. Guiaes not necessary. 
Champion.— Deer, rabbits, partridges, ducks. Partridges very plen- 
tiful. Grounds eight to ten miles distant Guides not necessary. 
jB/mwood.— Deer, partridges, prairie chickens, rabbits. About 
twelve lakes, some of them supplied with wild rice. Deer and par 
tridges most plentiful. Guides can be obtained. 
Favorite reports also received trom Crystal Falls, Amasa, Bagley, 
Loretto, Narenta, Metropolitan, Michlgamme, Saunders, Daggett, 
Nadeau, Stager. 
IOWA. 
De^nar.— Prospect for prairie chickens good within three to four 
miles. 
Moingona.—Frairie, chickens, grouse, quail, rabbits and squirrels; 
tte last three most plentiful witnin three miles radius. 
Scmnton.— Prairie chickens plentiful all through this vicinity. 
0're«cen<.— Ducks, geese, quail, snipe; ducks and geese abundant. 
Lakes in the vicmity supplied with wild rice. Boats necessary for 
hunting on the lakes, but good hunting on tne land. 
Loveland. —dooA prospects for ducBs, geese, chickens, quail rab- 
