Not. 20, 1897.J 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
Wisconsin Deer. 
Chicago, 111 , Nov. 13.— From reports now at hand it 
■would seem that ihe deer season in Wisconsin this fall has 
been a good one, some hunters say the best for some time. A 
trip down the game markets of Chicago shows many dozens 
of carcasses of deer hanging on the outer walls, mute testi- 
monials of the destination of a good part of the pine woods 
product. Yesterday I saw one very fine buck hung up at a 
place on Lake street The antlers were remarkably heavy 
in beam and branch, and extraordinarily symmetrical. The 
head would have made a fine trophy. 
A great many hunters have been out from Milwaukee, and 
one train brought dovpn some thirty deer one day this week 
to that city alone. Among Milwaukee hunters who have 
been out are Messrs. John F. Burnham, W. C. Holtz, Dr. 
Stewart, Julius E Eoehr and Thomas M. D wight, who vis- 
ited the South Side Gun Club preserve near Three Lakes, 
This party brought down six deer, the only member who 
failed of killing a deer being Mr. Holtz. 
Mr. 0, H. Matthews, of Milwaukee, has gone to Girard 
Junction, Wis., after deer. Several members of the Toma- 
hawk Club are hunting near Wausaukee, in the Pike River 
country, • 
At Phillips, Wis., the deer hunting has been very gcod 
indeed. Dr. McDill and Dr Frank killed four deer between 
them on one day last week. Another party who went in at 
Phillips had twelve deer bung up at last accounts 
It is reported that hunters are having fine luck at Chan- 
ning, Floodwood and Siduaw, T presume the best of the 
hunting is found south of the strip vphich was swept by the 
heavy forest fires twn years ago, at which time there was a 
practical exodus of the deer from a large territory in upper 
Wiecon^in and Michigan. 
At Iron Belt, Wis., on Nov. 10 local hunters killed a fine 
buck near the edge of town. It was a six-pronged buck and 
weighed over 251)1 bs. 
Wolves In Wisconsin. 
The timber wolf usually follows the deer pretty closely, 
and although few wolves have been seen in Wisconsin of 
late years the animal has been by no means absent over a 
large district of that country. Deer hunters sometimes re- 
port seemg the tracks of wolves in the snow, and I knew of 
one hunter, a rather timid gentleman, who two years ago 
lost all the pleasure of his deer hunt in Wiscoasin because he 
saw too many wolf tracks. On Nov. 10, near Neillsville, 
Wis., two Indians, John White and Big Soldier, killed two 
big timber wolves which they found, like themselves, en- 
gaged in the pastime of hunting deer. 
Accidentally Shot. 
Mr. John M. Clarke, a prominent attorney of Milwaukee, 
while out deer hunting near Wausaukee this week, acci- 
dentally shot himself through the hand, ir'flictiog an awk- 
ward, though not very serious wound. Mr. Clarke wag 
hunting with members of the Tomahawk Club He shot 
himpelf while walking in i-he woods with his friend, Mr. 
Dixon. No one knows how the rifle happened to go oS just 
as Mr. Clarke's hand was over the muzzle, but that is the 
sort of time usually selected by a rifle tor going off without 
logical reasons, more especially a rifle knowr to be entirely 
empty. It is an extremely good rule about firearms never 
to point them at anything you do not want shot, then they 
are not so liable to go off. Mr. Clarke received early medi- 
cal attendance, and being only about a doz^n miles from the 
railroad, was taken to Wausaukee, and thence reached his 
home in Milwaukee. 
Minnesota Oeer. 
Reports from the Minnesota deer country are at this date 
not very flattering, although it is ditficult to get any ad( quate 
idea of the moose and deer crop. But very few moose have 
been killed, so far as known, and als-o very few deer, com- 
paratively speaking. The authority best qualifl' d to report 
on the results of the season says: "I estimate that not one 
deer in ten will be killed this year as compared to last year, 
and I think 1 would be safe in saying not one in twenty. 
The weather is responsible for this state of aff irs in Minne- 
sota, not the scarcity of game. In my trip I traveled over 
about 100 miles of the finest deer country in the world You 
know we have had no snow in Minnesota thus far this sea- 
son, and tverylhing is very dry, and you cannot get any 
place without making a noise. It is impossible to still-hunt 
deer In weather like this. Then, our new law making it 
obligatory on a man to accompany his deer to the place' of 
deslinatiim, is going to save a lot of deer that would other- 
"wise btj killed and marketed." 
KIlIlnB of Minnesota Warden. 
In a private letter to me this week, Mr. S. P. Fullerton, 
executive agent for Minnesota, says that he has just returntd 
from a long and hard trip taken for the purpose of investi- 
gating the murdtr by Indians of Warden Wetsel, which was 
earlier reported in Forest and Stream. There seems to be 
no question that this was a cold-blooded murder. The 
Indians, or a great many of them, seem to imagine they can 
commit all sorts of depredations, and as long as they reach 
the reserva'ion they will be safe. The poor fellow was liter- 
ally stabbed to death and then clu bed after death. If he 
had been of a quarrelsome disposition or a drinking man 
there might have been some excuse, but he was just the op- 
pos'te, and everyone who knew him in that vicinity speaks 
m the highest possible terms of him. He was a man who 
was not afraid of anything, but of a very quiet disposition. 
The evidence all goes to show that Wetsti fired the three 
shots he did while he was on his back and he must have had 
a desperate struggle for his life against such fearful odds, as 
he had seventeen knife wounds in his body besides being 
clubbed. 
Mr. Fullerton says that the Indians have been trying to 
make trouble ever since the order of Commissioner Jones, 
compelling them to observe the game law. The new Indian 
agent, Mr. Sutherland, will have the order of the commis- 
sioner absolutely obeyed by the Indians, no matter how sul- 
len and ugly they become over it. The State Commission 
will see that the authorities in Beltrami county push the pro- 
iecution against the Indians who killed Wetsel, providing 
lhat they recover from the wounds inflicted by the latter be- 
fore his death. 
All who are interested in energetic game protection will 
>e glad to hear that Mr. Fullerton has recovered almost en- 
irely from the injuries received in an encounter with the 
jxpress company's men, at Staples, Minn. He was badly 
licked by these men during the scrimmage, but thinks noth- 
ing serious will come of it. Mr. Hay, superintendent of the 
express company, is miking investigation of this matter. 
The company, after b( ing warned, carried this game out of 
the State, and on the whole, it would seem, made out a very 
bad case for itself. There is every probability in the world 
that before it gets through with this little matter, this par- 
ticular express company will conclude that it does not own 
the entire State of Minnesota. 
Still we continue to hear good news from the practical pro- 
tection in Minnesota. Some twenty seizures of game have 
been made where parties did not accompany their game, as 
required to do under the law. This has been making trouble 
for the commission men, who prefer to have the game, and 
not the owner thereof, make appearance at their places of 
business. The Minnesota partridge law is working splen- 
didly, and it is claimed will save 75 per cent, of this kind of 
game this year, no very large shipments of partridges having 
been spotted so far. 
Ducks. 
Nobody seems to know what became of all the ducks this 
fall. As reported generally, the season in the Northwest 
started in with a rush, but this would seem to have been 
shooting mostly on local birds, the wildfowl having bred in 
unprecedented quantities all over Minnesota and Dakota. 
It was expected that the supply would still be larger when 
the Northern flight began, but though millions of ducks 
were expected in Minntsota, but very few of them came 
through that waj^. We have not heard of tdem on the Wis- 
consin and Illinois line of flight, and it is now about time 
they were coming if they are to be here at all. The Kanka- 
kee shooting was about nil On the Illinois River, the duck 
shooters mostly whittled: "Tuere'll come atime, someday." 
I know of nine actual ducks being killed in Illinois this week, 
these being shot by A W. Carlisle, Calumet Heights Club, 
along the beach of Lake Michigan. 
Mr. Mtrshon, high chief of the Saginaw crowd, says that 
the duck shooting in Dakota was immense. He also' gives 
another tip or two about the. Western trip of his party, 
but I shall not forestall his coming account of their ad- 
ventures by running in advance sheets on him. 
Gokey, of Dawson. 
I regret to see that history is repeating itself in the case of 
Gokey, of Dawson, whom I have earber mentioned as the 
chief citizen of North Dakota. Success and prominence in 
any line of life bring with them the certainty of envy, 
calumny and backbiting. Napoleon had enemies, and so 
had Washington. And although that would have appeared 
impossible, so it seems has Goeey. Can it be lhat Golcey 
has failed to advertise his dental parlors, his harness shop 
or his photographic studio in the columns of a certain local 
paper of Dawson ? If this be not the casp, why should this 
paper so assail the public character of Gokey, of Dawson^ 
as it does in the following malicious paragraph: 
The case of E C. Nafns vs Cook and his party, was called for last 
Friday, Justice Golsej presiding Nsfus claimed Cook and bis party 
set a prairie fire whieb did him and others much damage. Six jurors 
were chosPD with much care— taking a wholp day in the selection. 
The plaintiff called several good »iinesses, but the defendant had 
NONE - Cook himself refusing to go on the stand ; but in the face of 
all I his, the Honorable? Judge took the case from the hands of the 
Jury and alsmissed the case Moral See to it votees that all olHcers 
of our free country— celebrated all over the world for her "trial by 
jury"— are American born citizens and not uneducated foreigners. ' 
As I have earlier stated in these columns. Judge Gokey 
was born in New England, and it has never been judiciously 
proven of record in any of the courts of this country that a 
Yankee is entitled to be called a foreigner. He may be a 
little odd, but he is not necessarily a foreigner. Even if it 
were true that Gokey were a foreigner, the only thing that 
Dawson needs is a few more such foreigners, in order to have 
the seat of Government removed from^Washington to Daw- 
son. Thelurther comment of Mr. Gokey's cnaracter as a 
judge is not worth notice by him. The only trouble with 
that editor man is that he can't be justice himself, and can't 
shoot ducks half as well as Gokey can. I trust the latter 
will make him feel bad by sending him a few ducks, and 
also a few turnips, so that he can get through the winter. 
As for me, although I have a certain sympathy for any news- 
paper man, I cannot sit idly by and see any member of the 
profession, able as he may be, heap wanton abuse upon of- 
ficials in powt r. Moreover, while I have never seen this 
editor, I think Gokey can lick him. 
From the Sandhills. 
The weird sandhill region south of this city this week pro- 
duced two specimens unusual tor this region, both birds 
killed not far from the Calumtt Heights club house. Mr. 
W. S. Schmidt killed a genuine raven, with a beak as long 
as his finger and a spread of 46in. from tip to tip of the 
wings. Mr. J. Williams killid a snowy owl whose wings 
strt-tched nearly as wide as a man's arms could reach. I 
have not heaid of either of these Epecies being seen near 
Chicago at any time in the last ten j ears. 
Personal. 
Mr. Charles H. Kingsbury, of Rochester, N. Y., lately of 
Spokane, Wash., made a pleasant call at the Forest aud 
Stream cfiice this week. Mr. Kingbbury is ju&t back from 
a hunt in the Oakanogan country in nortnwest Washington, 
on the dry side of the Cascade range This region was once 
a famous one for sheep, but Mr. Kingsbury says that the • 
supply now seems mucn cut down, and he saw not one where 
he would have seen ten a lew years ago. He did not see one 
mature ram in a two weeks' hunt, though he killed one 
yom g ram. The camp was not without venison, and JVIr. 
W. B. Lee, one of the party, also of Rochester, likewise 
killed a sheep, a very fair ram, which was the first mountain 
sheep he had ever seen. The party camped about sixteen 
miles from Loomis, which is the end of a sixty-mile stage 
line that runs up north of the Columbia Rivtr. Mr. Kings- 
bury thinks that the game of that section is rapidly di- 
minishing. 
Mr. H. Thorn, of the Nickel-Plate Railroad of this city, 
leaves next week for a trip on the plains south of Pueblo, 
where he will visit a horse ranch and have a little try for an- 
telope and other game. 
Mr. Robert Ansley, of Westville, Ind., called this week. 
He says there are a few quail in his part of the country. He 
reports the Kankakee bottoms very dry, and says the bass 
have all gone to the headwaters in Deep Lake, where they 
are now biting well. On one day last week Mr. Ansley and 
a friend saw a curious phenomenon on Dtep Lake. Uver a 
large extent of water the fish were leaping by hundreds, so 
that the water was fairly churned up. The fish were large, 
but he could not tell of what varifty He was toll that the 
fish were carp, which seems a trifle singular. I would about 
as soon expect to see a hog jump a five-bar gate aa to see a 
carp jump of his own free will. 
The Largest Muscallonse. 
I have been paying some attention to the record weights 
of muscallonge of this region for the past few years. The 
one mentioned last week, 401bs., taken in Woman Lake, 
Minn., was the largest known for this year. I never heard 
of a larger 'lunge taken in Wisconsin than 551bs , though a 
guide told me that he once saw a fish of that weight taken 
by a gentleman from Wausau. I saw a head at a Madison 
street butcher shop which was described as coming from a 
St. Lawrence 'lunge, weighing 75lbs. This may have been, 
and probably was, only guesswork. This week I saw 
hanging over the desk of Mr. J. W. Rudolph, of Hibbard, 
Spencer, Bartlett & Co., the heads of two muscailonge 
which I think are the largest I ever saw. These fish were 
taken two years aeo in Muskegon Bay, on the west shore of 
the Michigan South Peninsula, in the nets of market fisher- 
men. One of them was a male and the other a female, the 
former weighing 65Jlbs. and the latter 65lbs. even. The 
male fish was taken en one day and the female the day fol- 
lowing, in the same net. It has been a long time since I 
have known of any muscallonge being taken in Lake Michi- 
gan, as the fish is becoming scarce in all the Great Lakes. 
It would seem that after all we must go to the bigoest waters 
for the biggfst fish Incidentally I miaht say that we must 
go to Chicago for the hisfgest listi story; because Muskegon 
is but a little way from Cbicago. E. HouGH, 
1S06 BoYCffi Building, Ctucagro. 
MAINE GAME AND HUNTERS. 
Boston. Nov. 13.— Conductor F. L. Gardner, of the Maine 
Central Railroad, with Mrs. Gardner, has returned from 
Lilly Bay, Moosehead. Mrs, Gardner is credited with shoot- 
ing a fine buck deer at 200yds., with a rifle. F. A. C. Hill 
and E C. Ostry, of Pawtucket, R. I , are out with a big bull 
moose from Coxabexis Lake, in the Chessuncook region. A. 
T Rowell, of Hardy Corner, a few miles above Brewer, re- 
ports two drunken hunters firing a ball through his trousers 
as he was sawing wood in his yard. The fellows were 
dressed like city sports, and were a good deal surprised that 
JVIr. Rowell was not a deer or a moose, though he claims not 
to look like one, nor does the noise of his woodsaw resemble 
the notes of either moose or deer. A sportsman was washing 
face and hands in Sebac Lake recently, kneeling at the 
water's edge. Two hunters suddenly rounded a point in a 
boat. It was dusk; but without waiting to see what the 
object might be, the hunters'lel fly a bullet, which whizzed 
close by the kneeling camper's body. He jumped up, and 
yelled murder to the top of his lungs. The hunters in the 
boat shouted, ''Heavens, 'tis a man!" and were quickly pad- 
dled out of sight. 
There are reports of deer being dogged in the vicinity of 
Holden, Me. A hunter, who has lately been there, says that 
he heard the hounds nearly every day he was out, and re- 
ports came to his camp of remarkable success at camps a 
short distance away. 
There is a good deal of earnest talk in Maine about secur- 
ing the passage of a law, at the next session of the Legisla- 
ture, compelling non-resident sportsmen to employ registered 
guides in every instance. Commissioner Carlton is reported 
to be in favor of it, and the fact that so many hunters who 
go there seem to be unable to tell a moose or a deer from 
a man will be urged in favor of such a measure. It is 
also reported that the wealthy and influential lumber land- 
owners are going to work for if. Tliey claim that they 
shall feel far safer in regard to fires if no sportsman is 
allowed on their lands unless accompanied by a native of the 
section, who is presumed to understand the natute of the 
forest and the danger from fires. The timber land-owners 
say that many thousands of dollars loss are traceable to care- 
less and ioexperienced sportsmen and hunters, and they will 
demand that the State take hold and protect their interests 
as well as the fish and game. Among the wealthiest and 
most extensive lumber land-owners are Gov. Powers and ex- 
Gov. Burleigh. Whatever they ask for in the Legislature is 
very likely to be granted. 
Another happy hunting party has returned to Boston. The 
names are W. J. Higgins, Dick Murphy, Al. Mclunes, Dave 
Power, Walter Pinkham, Henry Stoddard and M. J. 
O'Uearn. Each of the party shot two deer, except Mr. 
Power, who got one. He also had the good fortune to 
secure a Loup cervier, yfhlch is reported to have swam toward 
his canoe for an attack, but was shot when within 5ft. of it. 
The total weight of the deer loaded at the Union Station on 
the evening of their return was l.o411b8. The party hunted 
about thirty miles from Wesley, in the Machias region. 
Other hunters want to know how they succeeded in getting 
so near to the law's quota of deer, and also how it was that 
the Loup cervier happened to be in the water, since all of the 
cat family abhor that fluid? A couple of Plymouth, Mass., 
clergymen are just out of the Maine woods with a moose 
and a caribou The hitest reports say that the snowstorm of 
Thursday night and Friday leti 6in on the ground in some 
parts of Maine and New Hampshire, furthest from the sea- 
coast. This will make excellent deer hunting. Deer to the 
number of over 4 000 have already been shipped out over the 
Bangor & Aroofctook Railroad up to date, if reports are true. 
SpkoiaI/. 
Maine Game Records. 
The Bangor & Aroostook Railroad passenger department gives 
out its game record for October, 1897, in the following table, which 
shows the amount of game shipped from the stations of the road: 
Cari- 
Shipped from. Deer. 
Caribou 8 
Presqe Isle , 
Fort Fairfield , . , . 
Houlton ., 1 
Oakfleld 3 
Island Falls 11 
Crystal 3 
Patten.. , 67 
Sherman 14 
Stacyville 58 
Grindsione. . . , , 62 
Millinockett. , . , 31 
Twin Dam 11 
Norcross 261 
So Twin 16 
Perkin's Siding. 24 
Ingall's Siding . 33 
WestSeboois... 19 
Moose, bou. 
3 
1 3 
1 
1 
16 
Shipped from. Deer. 
Schoodic S4 
Brownville 12 
Milo 3 
Alton 1 
Ashland 33 
Masardis 15 
St. Croix 3 
Wetksboro 1 
Smyrna Mills... 3 
Katabdin Iron 
Works 36 
Brownville Jet. 4 
lIonsoD 5 
Greenville 427 
Shirley 3 
Monson Jet 1 
Guilford 1 
Cari- 
Moose. bou. 
11 
Total. 
.1346 
Moose. 
24 
53 
55 
20 
Cariboii. 
10 
37 
67 
For comparison we give: 
Dfer. 
Game shipped in October, 1894.....,, 4 9 
ftameshipp d iu October, )89") H69 
Game shipped in Ooiober, loi6 ,.,....10 9 
The sbipmerts ot moose ar- from Oct 15 to Oct 31 only. 
The above statement compriBea only game sbiipHO by visiting 
sportsmen, and does not include that killed by native hunters or the 
large quantities consumed In camps. 
Geo. M. Houghton, G. P. & T.^ 
