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[Dec. 4, 1897. 
three hours, when the moose seemed to tire of standing 
guard and left John to descend, much cramped by his 
awkward position. 
It_ is still persistently claimed by people living on the 
Tobique that Hon. John Coatigan has shot a moose up there 
with an antler spread of 70in. As the honorable gentle- 
man is still encamped on the headwaters of the river, and 
has not yet produced the head, it is impossible to verify 
the statement. I am skeptical. 
Dr. Heber Bishop, of Boston, with his Mends Messrs. 
Charles Williams and Seth Perkins, are expected to reach 
here Dec. 3 for a trip to the Crooked Deadwater region. 
Some excitement is being caused at Harvey Station by 
a large animal, supposed to be a panther, which has at dif- 
ferent times been seen in the woods near the Lake road, 
about two miles from the station. There is talk of organ- 
izing an expedition to hunt it down. 
Now that deer are becoming very plentiful, the "lucifee" 
is taking a hand in. Henry Payne, a Kingsclear farmer, 
trapped an unusually large one last Saturday, weighing 
431bs. 
John Sargeant, Koger Lawlor and Joe Petrie, of New- 
castle, had excellent luck on their recent trip to the goose 
grounds of Tabusintac. They brought home over 100 geese 
and brant. 
Fred Townsend, of Buffalo, and William Cbestnut, of this 
city, have just arrived from Arthur Pringle's grounds on the 
Northwest. They brought out five bull caribou, the best 
spread having twenty eight points. William bagged two 
fine others with his rifle. They saw thirty-two caribou on 
the trip and report moose quite scaj'ce. There is nearly 2ft. 
of snow in the Miramichi woods, which, as they were not 
provided with snowshoes, made traveling very laborious, 
Fkank H. Ristben. 
FrBDbricton, N. B., Not^. 26. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
Cause for ThanksKivlng. 
Chicago, 111., Nov 25 —1 was just sitting around and 
figuring to-day whether I ought to be thankful for being 
alive this year, and 1 have concluded that I ought, by a large 
majority, and so ought everybody else who has had any- 
thing like so lucky a year. In the first place, I had a good 
trip after big srame, and got my sheep and goat, and had a 
lot of snowshoe work, which I like so much. Then I came 
home and had a fine trout fishing trip in Michigan and a 
good bass fishing trip in Wisconsin, In the fall I had a nice 
day's duck shooting in Dakota and a half day of very pleas- 
ant chicken shooting in Minnesota, Now I am just hack 
from Michigan, where I helped kill some very nice bags of 
ruffed grouse and quail over good dogs, and in this case, as 
in all the foregoing cases, with the pleasantest of compan- 
ions. This, I submit, is enough to make any decent fellow 
a whole lot thankful. Incidentally, 1 have also occasionally 
done a little work as I went alorg, and I hold it to be cause 
for especial thanksgivmg that this work has not injured my 
system nor undermined my constitution to such an extent 
that I feel incapacitated for the dutits of another year. I 
hope for as large a slice of the Forest and Stream luck for 
every other member of the family. 
Hunting .Calamities. 
jViw. 37.— At Iron Mountain, Mich., a point much visited 
by deer shooters, the record of deer hunting calamities has 
this season been unusually startling. The local newspapi r 
has the foUowii g calm comment on one of these sad affairs: • 
"Fred Cawhng, aged twenty-six, one of the most popular 
young business men of this city, was shot dead four miles 
from Channing yesterday by a hunter named Wamsley, who 
mistook him for a df er and shot him in the back, the ball 
passing through his heart, causing instant death. Cawling 
was manager of Wright Brothers' cedar business and had 
been in the employ of the firm for eleven years. This makes 
the fifth fatality since the deer season opened a week ago." 
The record of deer shooting accidents is quite as bad for 
Minnesota as for Wisconsin , indeed perhaps worse. A gen- 
tleman recently returned from Minnesota says that a man 
was accidentally shot and killed near his camp, although he 
did not learn names or particulars. Mr. Charles Christadoro,' 
of Minneapolis, Minn., in a personal letter to a friend, which 
the latter took the liberty of showing to me, speaks very 
forcibly of the growing number of accidental shooting affairs - 
in the deer hunting country. He mentions more especially 
the increased danger from the new small-bore nitre rifles, 
and his words are so pertinent that I make bold to quote 
them : 
"How the boys are plugging each other in the woods with 
.303 bullets I It's all a man's life is worth to go hunting deer 
in the Minnesota or Wisconsin woods. Anything that moves 
'goes'; so the only hope for a man is to stay out of the 
woods, and buy his venison and then say he shot it. 
"To put a .303 smokeless in the hands of a 'Greek' and 
turn him loose in the thick woods is a crime. And while 
the 'Greek' would pump all day at a deer and miss every 
time, he shoots the other hunter plump through the head or 
heart every time — a dead shot every time. . 
- ''•Well, as I don't intend going into the woods, I presume 
1 need not lie awake nights over it, I am sure. But it is 
tough on a fellow who wants to spend a day among the 
pines near home stalking deer. I guess the law will have 
to put them all back to bows and arrows, or perhaps buck- 
shot blunderbusses." 
A St. Paul, Minn., newspaper prints the following dis- 
patch from Maine, under the pertinent heading "Needed in 
Minnesota": 
"Augusta, Me., Nov. 10.— A bill will be presented to the 
next Legislature to punish sportsmen who accidentally shoot 
or kill men in the woods, The measure is prompted by the 
number of fatalities which occurred during the present sea- 
son. It is claimed that the hunters who kill persons are 
as a rule green sportsmen, who become excited and blaze 
away at any moving object they may see, " 
There are four States, or, if we include New York, five 
States which are overrun by shooters during the deer sea- 
son, these being Maine, Mict igan, Wisconsin and Munesota. 
I do not know how many fatalities have been recorded iri 
Ijs.in'^ and the Adirondack country. I presume the deaths 
in Wisconsin of men shot for deer would be more than five, 
"•sd I believe Minnesota this year furnishes even more cases 
tnan that of accidental shooting. The total number of such 
io-aavjties would bestarthngwerc it known, though, of course, 
it h the exception when the facts of such an affair become 
Known, the matter usually being hushed up as speedily as 
possible. Of course, it is of no use advising caution or giv- 
ing advice, and about the only thing clearly to be deduced is 
that the struggle for the remaining American game is a very 
hot one 
As to the number of deer shooters who went out this fall, 
to call them an army would not be stating the facts too much 
in large. The one city of Minneapolis, Minn., outfitted over 
400 men for deer hunting trips in that State the past month. 
The number of men who went to Minnesota for big game 
shooting this fall no doubt ran up into the thousands. 
Non-Resident Kickers. 
So much for the struggle for the remnant of the game. 
The other side of the picture, the struggle to give all these 
people, resident and non-resident shooters, something to 
struggle over, is hardly so large, numerically speaking. 
The closing days of the Minnesota season were hard ones 
for Agent FuUerton. and he met the non-resident kicker in 
great abundance. The latter gentleman was usually a man 
who had come into Minnesota free of license, and killed 
his game, and who was then unwilling to comply with the 
reasonable State law asking him to accompany his game to 
its point of destination. On one day Warden Fulierton 
seized five different parcels of venison. One case especially 
angered him— that of two Ohio deer hunters who killed eight 
deer in Minnesota and consigned them direct to a St Paul 
commission house, which destination, it is cheering to re- 
mark, they never reached. Three other parties consigned 
deer to St. Paul commission houses and also lost their veni- 
son. On the whole the work of proti ction was thankless, as 
it always is, though perhaps it did its share in the long, hard 
lesson of common sense in game laws. 
How the Dealers Observe the Lavt/. 
Under the Minnesota law. partridges cannot be shipped. The 
following circular, sent out by a St. Paul commission house, 
will show how those law-abiding business men, the game 
dealers, observe the statutes enacted for each and every citi- 
zen of the State: 
To Partridge Shippers: The weather has turned quite cold aud 
partridges ought to arrive In good condition. We have a good stiff, 
firm marlcet and a good demnnd for undrawn birds. Drawn par- 
tridges sell slowly at $8.50 to $3 15 per dozen, while undrawn par- 
tridges sell readily at $4 per dozen We want you to ship us all ihe 
birds you can Pack in light boxe.=, billing direct to ine Do not put 
your name on the tag; simply advise me by mail of your shipment, 
and it will be promptly and saft-ly attended to at rhi.seDd,and we will 
remit ynu just as soon as the game is received, You know the house 
is perfectly responsible, and that whatever we tell you you can de- 
pend upon. Game of all kinds is in good demand, and we can handle 
all you can ship. Do you intend handling venigon this season? If so, 
write me for special shipping instrtictions. 
Under the Minnesota law, venison found in the possession 
of dealers is liable to confiscation, and possibly this interpre- 
tation of the statute will henceforth be enforced. Ilere is 
another circular, from another St. Paul commission house, 
which will further show how the law-abiding game dealer 
observes the law of his State: 
Partridges very scarce. We must have more to fill our orders. 
Ship in Tight boxes and use our numbered tag. 
Venison Shippers: You aie well aware that the season this year 
opened Oct. §5, runniog to Nov. 15, with five days after that to clean 
up, giving you a total of twenty-five days. You can either make 
your shipments direct to me or ship to your own order iiy espivss 
Secure from the railroad company an express receipt showing that 
you made this shiptnent; mail the express receipt to me and we will 
be able to get fhipmenrs promptly. If you do not accompany it be sure 
you mark your tags as follows: "Owner accompanies." Seeihatvour 
venison is properly handled— we want it- any amount and will be 
able to get you good ijrices. Ship all you can. We want every bird 
and every saddle you can get. Guarantee you top prices and returns 
same day goods are received. 
How the Indians Observe the Law. 
It is stated that some of the leaders of the Chippewa- 
Indians of Minnesota believe that the Indian Commissioner 
has exceeded his authority in his ordfr obliging the Indians 
to observe the game laws of iheir State. 'They claim that 
the Commissioner thus commands the State of Minnesota to 
disregard the terms of the treaty made with the Indians 
when they ceded their land. Some of the Indians will obey 
the order, but others will not, and the situation remains 
somewhat involved. It takes a fighting man to handle the 
work of game protection in a State like Minnesota, which is 
the scene of one of the intensest struggles for the remnant of 
our American game. It is not likely that we will find a bet- 
ter man jthan Warden Fulierton to push this fight, and I hope 
that he will be continued in office. Recently he summed up 
some of the ditBculties of his position in the following state- 
ment, which is very well worth reading and remembering by 
sportsmen who aie interested, or who pretend to be inter- 
ested, in matters of actual game protection. 
"With the dealers offering a big premium for game, the 
people up North in sympathy with the violators of the law, 
the express companies aiding all they can to get the stuff 
into market and protect the shippers, supposedly honest 
sportsmen taking a haod in the business, Indians killing our 
wardens for interfering with their wholesale schemes of 
slaughter, and everybody turning in and abusing those who 
are tryirg with all their might to enforce the law, one can 
gain some idea of the difficulties the Pish and Game Com- 
mission of Minnesota is laboring under to enforce the game 
laws of the State. I tell you it is a very discouraging state 
of affairs, and I am dead sick of my job." 
How City Officials Observe the Law. 
The following paragraph, taken from the Minneapolis 
Journal, is sent to me by Mr. T. A. Devereaux, of Syracuse, 
N. Y. The latter asks a few per linent questions about the 
non export law and the twenty- five birds limit law. The 
item will go to show the way in which the State game com- 
mission is upheld by its resident brethren, and will incident- 
ally show how the city offisials of one of the main cities o£ 
Minnesota observe the law they are sworn to respect at home: 
"The City Hall Nimrods who have been dodging deputy 
game wardens around Lake Irvine, near Church's Ferry, 
N D., returned yesterday morning. They bagged 537 ducks, 
538 geese and twelve cranes. The party managed in some 
way to bring their birds home, Frank T. Moody did the 
most killing, with Bob McMullen a close second. All are 
veteran himters, however, and each one gave a good account 
of himself." 
How South Water Street Observes the Law. 
Mr C. H. Jones, of Chicago, also asks some interesting 
questions about certain features of the supply of venison in 
Chicago. 
"Can you," he asks, "explain the following facts for me? 
Coming to business this morning, I counted ninety-one deer 
carcasses on South Waier street. What a wholesale slaugh- 
ter this must mean, when we consider that these are but a 
'few of many 1' How do they succeed in getting them out 
of the States where killed, when we poor sportsmen cannot 
bring home our one honestly killed quarry that has undoubt- 
edly cost us at least |100, counting license, guide, etc., etc.? 
Is this the game protection which we are advocating and 
paying for? A reply, giving me a little light on these sub- 
jects, will be greatly appreciated by an old reader and lover 
of your and our old Forest and Steeak." 
I wish that I or anybody else could give Mr. Jones some 
satisfaction on this bead. Of course, the laws of States 
other than Illinois are violated in the case of this venison 
shipping. Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota and other States 
all lose more or less game, smuggled out by the freight or 
express companies contrary to the State laws. It has been 
found thus far practically impossible to check this abso- 
lutely, though it has been shown capable of modification and 
very great restraint, as witness the record of Forest asd 
Stream's reports on these matters. The one conclusion al- 
most irresistibly forced upon a thinking man is that we shall 
always have illegal game and a sportsmen's constituency 
robbed of their rights, until the platform of Fokest and 
Stbeam has been established — "Stop the Sale of Game." If 
it were illegal to sell this game in Chicago at all, the enforce- 
ment of the law alike in Chicago and in Wisconsin would be 
a simple matter. It is the loopholes that make laws inopi 
erative. 
Albino Deer. 
Only one albino deer has been reported for the West this 
fail, that killed near Augusta, Wis., by John King, of Mil- 
waukee, Wis. This animal was about two years of age, and 
a very fine specimen of albinism, being pure white, it is on 
exhibition at Higgins's place, on Mason street, Milwaukee. 
Duoks. 
Mr. M. J. Eich, of Chicago, is back from his shoot at 
Hennepin Club, on the Illinois River. He averages about a 
dozen birds a day, his biggest bag being twenty-one, mostly 
mallards. The Powers brothers, of Decatur, who were also 
shooting at Hennepin Club, on one day killed ninety- one 
birds, mostly mallards, two of them — one being Chan. Pow- 
ers — bagging also fifty-eight on one day and thirty-nine on 
another. 
Good Hunting. 
Mr. D. J Hotchkiss, of Fox Lake, Wis., writes very nicely 
about the game resources of his region, which has been 
earlier mentioned as a very fair one for all-round shooting 
at small game. He says of the season just ended for this 
fall: 
"The duck season is closed here, the lake having frozen 
up yesterday, and the birds have gone South. We had very 
good shooting, especially in the early part of the season, 
but the latter end was so full of mudhen hunters that they 
scared the ducks off as fast as they came on the lake. There 
have been lots of squirrels and rabbits shot here this fall, and 
no one could ask for better territory for that sport. We also 
find quite a few grouse in the woods, and jacksnipe and yel- 
lowlegs were fairly plenty. Taken all around for ducks, * 
prairie chickens, grouse, snipe, squirrels, rabbits, etc., I don't 
know where one can find a more satisfactory section for 
sport if a man is satisfied with a reasonable amount of 
game." 
Gossip from Cokey. 
1 have received from Gokey, of Dawson, the following in- 
teresting gossip on game matters in Dakota. It will be ob- 
served that, to his other accomplishments. Judge Gokey 
adds that of chef de cuiune, and I have no doubt his recipe 
for cooking a duck will be read with interest by many. 
Without wishing to subtract anything from Gokey 's repu- 
tation, I want to say that when we were at his house for 
dinner we all supposed that it was Mrs. Gokey who cooked 
the ducks. Be that as it may, we may regard the advice as 
ex cathedra. Gokey goes on to say : 
"The season for ducks and geese is closed, and the birds 
have left. There have been more ducks and geese here than 
for the past eight years. The geese were not hunted on the 
lakes, and this made the field shooting better. 
"A party of three came from Fargo and hunted with me, 
and one afternoon we got eighty-two geese. Bags after bags 
have been made of over fifty geese. 
"Mr. S. S Lyon, Mr. George Scofield and Mr. Nichols, 
all of Fargo, were with me a few days and bagged over 200 
ducks and a few geese. 
"Mr. George Pierce and Mr. John Rinchler, of Fargo, also 
were here and had good shooting. A funny thing happened 
to Mr. Pierce: he shot a goose \vhich fell 300 or 400yds. 
from the pit and started to pick it up, but saw the bird try- 
ing to fly. A big wolf was chasing the bird, and soon 
caught it and ran off with it. Mr. Pierce said : 'D— n that 
dog!' and started after it on the run, but the wolf got away 
with the goose all right. He did not see at first that it was 
a wolf. 
"Mr. William Rinchler and a friend, both from Fargo, • 
shot with me one day and we bagged thirty-seven fine geese, 
nine of them Canada honkers, some of which weighed over 
141 bs. each. 
"Mr. W. A. Wheatley, of Memphis, Tenn., wants me to 
tell his wife how to cook a duck, and I will take this way of 
telling him how we do that here: Take a good fat duck and 
dress it in good shape, and put it to soak in salt water over 
night. In the morning take it out of the salt water, and if 
you wish to cook it at once rinse in cold water and dry on 
the outside. Then get the oven very hot before the duck is 
put in. Let it cook twenty-two minutes, not more than 
twenty-five. The duck must not be stuffed, but seasoned to 
taste, and in this way you get a duck fit for the royal table. 
"Mr. Wheatley also wishes to know what is good feed 
for ducks. The best feed is wild rice and wild celery, the 
latter best of all, but it will not grow in all waters. Wild 
celery wants a sandy bottom and so does wild rice, to grow 
well. I have stocked several lakes about here with wild cel- 
ery and it all is growing well, and lakes where the canvas- 
hacks and redheads once never fed now have those birds all 
the time. The way I did was this: I went to a large lake 
where the wild celery grew and pulled up lots of roots, and 
picked up lots of bulbs, and took them to the lakes I wanted 
to plant. The bulbs I pushed down in the bottom, and the 
same with the roots, and I found the next season that it had 
all taken root and was growing in good shape. In three 
years my new lake was full of wild celery and full of wild 
docks, as you know the canvasbacks and redheads are very 
fond of wild celery and will stay where it is." 
Personal. 
Dr. Clarence H. Wright, of Chicago, has returned from a 
hunting triple Itasca county, Minn., and describes the Big 
Fork country as a delightful region. Hesaw some deer and 
also plenty of sign of moose, although no moose were lo- 
