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cated. Of ducks, fish, and partridges the party had abun- 
dance and the country is spoken of m abounding in small 
game. Dr. Wright this winter goes on a trip to the Isthmus 
of Tehauntepec, and will investigate the sporting resources 
of that somewhat rettote precinct. 
Mr. George A. Losekamp, of Billings. Mont., has re- 
turned from a trip to Lake Brevoort, near Moran. Michigan 
Upper Peninsula.. He and his friends had yery successful 
duck shooting, ' 
jyir. A- W. Adams, of Chicago, leaves next week for his 
regular annual trip to Texas, where he is in the habit of 
fas been having correspondence with parties in Central 
America, and says that he has discovered that the wild 
pigeon, which was once so abundant in this country, is still 
to be found in great numbers in Central America, to which 
country it seems to have migrated for keeps. A large roost 
is known in that country. E. Hough. 
1206 BoYOE BinLDiNG, Chicago. 
RHODE ISLAND GAME. 
Pbovidence, R. I., Nov. 29. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
THE SPOTTED SANDPIPER. 
Pfom the Original Portrait l)y John James Audabon. 
"passing the winter. He will try Dallas and Ft. Worth, then 
Waco and San Antonio, until he finds a climate that suits 
him. 
Mr H. S. Canfield, formerly of Texas, but now of 
Chicago, will be one of a party of nine men who will stait 
for the Klondike region early next spring. They go by boat 
from Seattle to the mouth of the Yukon, and will hunt bear 
along the west coast of Alaska and in the Copper River 
country. They take their own steamer, the Diana, 42ft. 
length, with them by rail from Chicago to Seattle. The ex- 
pedition will be called the "Diana expedition," and will be 
one of the beet equipped that ever left for the gold couc- 
Repreaentatives of the Game Protective Association hav^ 
been waging an active campaign in the southwestern part of 
this State, known as South county, against violators of the 
game laws. The presence of spies and the prosecution of 
offenders have aroused a determined opposition among the 
farmers of that section. Recently four farmers were arrested 
in Charlestown, charged with erecting, setting, repairing, 
maintainirfg and tending certain trap, net and spring snares 
for the purpose of taking, killing and destroying cjuail and 
partridges. The trial took place in the District Court before 
Judge Whipple at Westerly Friday. There was not sufii- 
cient evidence to convict the defendants. Hereafter the 
THE NIGHT HERON. 
From the Original Portrait by John James Audubon. 
try of Alaska. They carry along a diamond drill and a suc- 
tion dredge, with a year's" supplies to each man. Mr. Can- 
field, who is an old shooting companion of Oscar Guessaz in 
Texas, has written the latter and asked him to join the 
party. It is not unlikely that Mr. Guessaz and his Alaska 
partner, Dick Ware, will modify their existing plans and 
join the Diana party. I am aho asked to join and I am try- 
ing very hard not to do so. 
Mr. C. A. Bramble, of Buffalo N. Y., often known as 
"St. Croix" in the columns of Forest and Stream, has 
come to Chicago, and will probably engage in journalism 
here 
Exclusive In "Forest and Stream." 
Mr. Stanley Waterloo, author and jom'halifst., of Chicago, 
farmers propose to fight every case in court. They assert 
that they have a perfect right to hunt and shoot upon their 
own land in whatever manner they wish, and they consider 
the interference of the special officers as uncalled for. This 
view of the matter will be vigorously opposed by the Game 
Association, for upon the decision in a ^reat measure de- 
pend future prosecutions and the preservation of game under 
the existing laws. One thing, however, is positive: should 
the present law prove inoperative in this respect, the coming 
session of the Legislature will be called upon to enact suit- 
able laws to cover the loophole. 
This State is getting quite a reputation for freak adven- 
tures in the game line. A week ago a deer was seen in the 
pasture land about Limerock, and later it was found dead on 
the banks of the murky Moshassuck, a bullet having struck 
it and killed it after it had escaped from the hunter who 
was loth to allow a deer to be roaming in this little State. 
Then two fishermen off Newport found a deer off Goose- 
berry Island, about two miles out to sea, and after two 
hours' hard work succeeded in capturing it alive and took it 
to Newport. Not to be outdone, George Johnson, a hunter, 
of Kenyon, succeeded in killing two black otters in Great 
Swamp, Shannock. With the persistency that game is fol- 
lowed in this State, there is no fear that it will become over- 
stocked in the near future. 
Frank Hines, a well-known Cumberland huntsman, with 
two companions, have returned from a two weeks' hunting 
trip in the Maine woods. They brought home with them 
three deer and two caribou. This did not represent the en- 
tire capture by them^ as they claimed to have killed nine 
deer, three caribou and a moose. 
The Roger Williams Park, of this city, has recently been 
presented with a valuable addition for its menagerie, the 
famous collection of rare East Indian animals from 0. H. P. 
Belmont. This includes a herd of sacred cows (zebu), In- 
dian deer, muntjack deer, white ring-tailed monkey, black 
Indian monkey, Reese monkeys, Egyptian storks, jungle 
fowl, mongoose, Mongolian ring-necked pheasants, macaws. 
In addition to the Belmont collection, the menagerie in- 
cludes an elephant, three moose, twenty seven deer, a tiger, 
three lions, pair of leopards, pair of jaguars, pair of pan- 
thers, pair of ocelots, a black bear, striped hyenas, raccoons, 
monkeys and a peccary. 
The first snowfall of the season set the fox and rabbit 
men on edge, and for a couple of days the woods were 
merry with the music of the hounds. It was rather a dry 
snow for tracking, and the day following the storm was too 
cold. Nevertheless the hunters were on hand for the first 
snow-hunt. A warm spell followed, and those who cared 
to run their chances of getting wet on Friday succeeded in 
having the best day of the season thus far. Edgar Roterts, 
a former resident of Pawtucket, and Jason Lawrence were 
out one day, and secured seventeen rabbits. On Friday Mr. 
Smith, of the Protection Beagle Kennels, of Woonsocket, 
and John De.nuet, of South Attleboro, had a day with their 
crack dogs and killed ten rabbits. W. H, M. 
MINNESOTA MOOSE. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Knowing your many readers would like to hear something 
of the results of the Jive days' open season on moose in Min- 
nesota, I have taken the trouble to inquire how many have 
been killed and brought into Duluth. The first day seven 
were offered at the markets, showing that the wily hunter 
must have known just where the moose called for breakfast; 
and each day uritil the season closed every butcher had 
moose on sale. One morning as I came by the market, two 
moose, one large black bear and twelve deer hung out in 
front, 
1 find that thirty-one moose in all have been killed^around 
Duluth, eleven at Grand Rapids, and eight at Tower. But 
the majority were two and three year olds, and very few 
good heads have been secured ; seven were all I saw that one 
could call first class, one of them a very fine one. The weath- 
er maker must have been in with the moose, as the fall has 
been .simply ideal, with but little suow, and so dry that it 
was next to impossible to still-hunt. 
The many parties from other States, together with the 
local hunters, have been reinforced by every boy big enough 
to carry a gun'; so that hunting has become more a game 
of looking out that you don't get shot than of shooting the 
game. A man from Indiana was killed by one of his own 
party at Grand Rapids, and an old sportsman told me he 
had twelve rifles pointed at him in less than a mile while 
walking up an old trail, and finally he shouldered his gun 
and sneaked back to camp. With so many hunters, they 
have kept the game moving, and those familiar with the 
crossings and trails have been the lucky ones. 
I have no idea of the number of deer killed, but it must 
have been enormous. I have changed somewhat in my 
opinion of the law prohibiting the shipping of game out of 
the State, and don't see just how it could be managed. So 
many sportsmen come in here from the East, spend their 
money and time, and after killing game are unable to take 
any of it home, that it does not seem right. All of us here 
would be in favor of having the law read that each sportsman 
should be allowed at least one deer to ship to his home ; and yet 
the trouble would be that that market hunting pest would 
get in and spoil all. A physician friend of mine who lives 
in Wisconsin came in from the Bow String country with a 
lot of game, and although, as I know, he would sooner cut 
off somebody eke's leg than sell a head of it, he had to leave 
it behind. 
And another change of opinion I have, and that is that 
the 30-30 is plenty big enough to kill any game in America. 
Last Sunday I saw Dr. Magie kill a buck at 340ycl8. with the 
htlle popgun, and it made me feel a little cheap after lugging 
around a . 40-65, and the buck turned sideways and seemingly 
smiled after I had plugged away at him four times. And I 
vowed right there that I would never carry a heavy gun 
again. ' Dr. N B . McNdlty. 
In Virginia. 
Wolf Trap, Va. — Editor Forest and Stream: The article 
of A. D. McCandless in Forest and Stream of even date 
reminds me of the condition of game protection in Vir- 
ginia. The Virginia Legislature of 1S96 saw fit to stop the 
killing of Virginia quail for two years in order that they 
should not become extinct; but, as usual, there being no 
one to file information, the killing goes on just as if there 
was no law on the statute books. 
While the law is very rigid, it is impossible to fi.nd any 
one who will file the necessary information, as no one 
wishes to get in a fuss with his neighbor; and those who 
do not shoot because of conscientious scruples, misses aU 
of the sport. 
AU true sportsmen the country over should club to- 
gether for game protection, we might then find game in 
abundance in countries that have as much waste and idle 
land as is found in Virginia. 'Possum and coon are very 
hard to find in this country, but then there are men here 
who do nothing from Oct. 1 to March but tramp through 
the woods after them. 
Over one-half of the land here is woods and fields laid 
out, and game of all kinds should be here in abundance 
was it not for the constant work of the poachers. If they 
do not get overbold some true sportsman may have a good 
day's sport here after Oct. 15, 1898. I know now of three 
coveys of quail within gunshot of my door, each composed 
of from twenty to forty birds. These I shall endeavor to 
protect, enemies or no enemies. H. P. W. 
