Dec. 18, 1897.J 
FOREST ANt) STREAM. 
we heard them returninp;. Jusl as we were expecting a shot 
we heard the report of a gun, and in a minute the dogs 
hushed. We knew some one had our deer. Leaving the 
horses where they were, we went for that deer, expecting 
the fellow would sneak off with it, as is often done. When 
we reached the place, as near as we could judge, we blew 
our horn and were answered by W., a friend of ours, who 
was out squirrel hunting, and by chance was just in the 
right place to shoot the deer, which was a fine buck, with a 
beautiful set of horns. 
We lost so much time in getting our deer out that we 
failed to reach the bear until after he had been killed. 
It was a beautiful, glossy black bear, weighing 1751bs. 
dressed, and was very fat. 
He ran twelve miles and did not attempt to climb a tree. 
When he had run as long as he could he simply dropped 
down and allowed himself to be killed, with no show of re- 
sistance. I cannot imagine where he came from or where 
he was going. 
We have no bears in this immediate country. I know of 
one being killed near here about twenty-five years ago. 
A. S. K. 
NOTES FROM NEW BRUNSWICK. 
One of the most deservedly popular of American sports- 
men who in the autumn months seek for variety and venison 
in the New Brunswick woods is Mr. Frederick Irland, of 
Washington. Each hunting season for the past four years 
has seen him boarding the "bull-moose express," as he calls 
it, at Detroit, his place of residence, with his baggage 
checked through to the Crooked Deadwater. Each season 
has also witnessed his triumphant return from the woods 
with one or more bull moose and a generous sprinkling of 
caribou. Fred is not only greatly appreciated here because 
he always does the square thing by everybody, but because 
of the generous and sympathetic interest he takes in all mat- 
ters Canadian. Perhaps there is no other American, and 
certainly very few Canadians, who know as much about 
Canada, its early history, its form of government, and its 
natural wealth of forest, lake and river as, Mr. Irland. His 
recent contributions to Scribner's Magazine, under the titles 
of "An Untouched American Wilderness" and "To the 
Shores of the Mingan Seignory," are ably written and de- 
scribe most faithfully and graphically the material, historical 
and scenic features of the localities to which they refer. 
This fall Mr. Irland has been building his camp-fires where 
those of Champlain were lighted nearly three centuries ago, 
on the shores of the Upper Ottawa and the Gatineau, and 
we may expect ere long to read with interest and delight the 
story of his researches in that region as portrayed by his 
facile pen. 
Mr. Irland states that the Upper Ottawa, though consid- 
ered a good moose country, is not nearly equal to that of 
New Brunswick; neither is the Mattawa country, though 
moose are there abundant. He thinks it ^rould not be ex- 
ceeding the fact to state that where he was recently hunting 
with Henry Braithwaite in the Miramichi country a section 
of five miles square contains, at the present time, not less 
than 250 moose. He was only on the hunting grounds five 
days, and still hunting was then very difficult olving to the 
crust. The first day that the conditions were favorable he 
shot a moose with ttie best set of antlers he had ever secured. 
They measured 5dm, across the points, had twenty prongs, 
and were a very handsome set in every way. To-day there 
arrived from Boston, for a three weeks' hunt with Braith- 
waite, Dr. Heber Bishop and his friends Charles Williams 
and Seth Perkins. They leave for Boiestown to-morrow. 
Some of the local guides are in favor of reducing the num- 
ber of moose and caribou which the sportsman is now 
allowed by law to shoot. Two moose, three caribou and 
three deer is the limit at present. The suggestion is to re- 
duce the complement to one moose, two caribou and three 
deer. 1 think it not improbable that this proposition, if 
brought before the Legislature, may be favorably enter- 
tained. 
Blanchard Phillips, of Bristol, Carleton county, has re- 
turned from a hunting trip in which he secured an unusu- 
ally large specimen of a moose. 
Capt. Moir, of Halifax, who has been hunting with the 
veteran Indian guide Joe Mitchell at Gaspereaux and Salmon 
Eiver, brought in three caribou yesterday as the fruits of the 
chase. 
In a country which abounds with, moose and caribou of 
course deer are at a discount ; and the local sportsman who 
went after moose and only bagged a deer or two would con- 
sider that his trip had been a failure. It may be said, how- 
ever, that since the snow fell these animals have been in- 
dustriously hunted, and probably 200 or 300 deer have been 
shot this season in the river counties. 
I saw a buck deer weighing about 1601b8. shot yesterday 
with a .30-30 rifle. The bullet passed fair through the body 
from a point about Sin. back of the right shoulder. The 
hole made was somewhat larger than I would expect from 
80 small a caliber; still it was a clean hole on both sides, the 
bullet having failed to strike a bone. The deer ran SSOyds. , 
and though shot through the lungs left very few traces of 
blood on the snow. Had there been no snow, he would 
probably not have been found at all. 
In this connection perhaps the following extract from a 
letter, which I recently received from an American friend, 
will be of interest: 
"The .30-30 is a beautifully accurate weapon, and has the 
flattest trajectory of any rifle I ever used. The general con- 
sensus of opinion among my friends is that it is the 'only' 
big-game arm ; but I occasionally find it absolutely con- 
demned on big game by men who ought to be able judges. 
Last night I met a gentleman in whose opinion 1 place 
great reliance, and that was young Mr. Austin Corbin, who 
has shot more large game in his late father's park than you 
and I together ever saw. At first, he says, he was carried 
away with the .30-30, but after shooting a few moose (he 
has over 200 in his park), elk, wild boar, etc., he condemned 
it, and went back to his .45-70 (Gould); and he says most 
emphatically that the latter is the greatest 'stopper' for big 
game. His opinion, it seems to me, ought to carry some 
weight." 
The well-known lumber operator, Timothy Lynch, near 
his camp on the north branch of the Sou'west Miramichi, 
last week shot a moose weighing l.lOOlbs. The horns were 
not especially large, but were nicely formed, and measured 
46in. across the points. Fkank H. Risteen. 
Fredebioton, Dec. 3. 
The FosEST and Stream is put to press each, week on Tuesday 
Correspondence intended for publication should reach tts M tne 
atest by Slonday, and as much earlier as practiable. 
HE WAS A WISE GRANDFATHER. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
It makes me sick whenever I read of some idiot's having 
shot a man in mistake for a deer. Mistake a man for a 
deer! Stuff and nonsense! All that's, needed is for a few 
of those killers to be prosecuted for either voluntary or in- 
voluntary manslaughter. It doesn't matter much whether 
they're convicted or not; the mere fact that the man that ac- 
cidentally kills another in the woods must pose as a defend- 
ant in a criminal prosecution, must reach into his pocket 
and pay out his dollars to lawyers for his defense in the en- 
deavor to avoid fine and the penitentiary, will be wonder- 
fully detergent. Why don't the gun clubs take the initiative 
and prosecute a few of those imbeciles? The man that goes 
into the woods these days does so at the risk of his life. _ In 
Pennsylvania the penalty for voluntary manslaughter is a 
fine not exceeding $1,000, and imprisonment by separate or 
solitary confinement at labor (which means in the peniten- 
tiary), or by simple imprisonment (which means in the 
county jail), not exceeding twelve years, and, in the discre- 
tion of the court, to give security for good behavior during 
life, or for any less time, according to the enormity of the 
offense. 
For involuntary manslaughter there is the same fine, and 
imprisonment not exceeding two years, and the district at- 
torney may charge both willful and involuntary manslaugh- 
ter in the same indictment, in which case the jury may ac- 
quit of the one and find him or her guilty of the other 
charge. What is carelessness and what is due care are mat- 
ters of fact to be determined by a jury in each particular 
case as it arises. — See 1, Brightly's Purdon's Digest, 12th 
Ed., p. 513, pi. 235-6. 
I suppose that the other States have similar statutes ; if any 
of them have not, they should have them as soon as they can 
REWARDS OF SPORT NEAR HOME. 
A Massachusetts tag ot three quail, three woodcock and a partridge, 
the result of one day's shooting. 
be passed. If they have them, then there is no lack of law 
to protect sportsmen, and to punish the ignorant fools that 
kill them. 
I remember the first time I ever started to the woods with 
a gun. I'll never forget it. 1 had a muzzle-loading rifle, a 
good one too, and as I was about leaving the house my 
grandfather, who had been of the race of Nimrod, and was 
as fine a shot as I ever saw put a muzzle-loader to his face, 
called me to him and said : 
"My son, you are a little boy, a very little boy to go to the 
woods in these days alone with a gun; and I want you to 
hold up your right hand in the presence of Almighty God 
and promise me a few things : 
"First — That you will never point ^ firearm at any living 
creature, beast, bird or man, unless you wish to kill that 
creature. 
"Second — That you will never aim or shoot at anything in 
the woods or the fields unless you certainly know what it is, 
and that it is surely what you think it to be 
"Third — That you will never shoot at what you think a 
vacant building of any kind, nor aim or point a firearm in 
the direction of a human habitation or town, 
"Fourth — That you will never point or place any firearm 
in such a position with reference to your own perspn that, 
should it be discharged, you would be wounded or killed 
thereby, 
"Fifth— That you will never hunt, nor go to the woods, with 
anyone as a companion who is fool enough to do any of these 
things ; and that if you should see anyone point a firearm at 
you, loaded or unloaded, you will strike him, if possible, 
with anything you can get hold of. 
"Sixth, and lastly — That you will never keep any firearms 
in condition to shoot, by which I mean put together as a 
gun or pistol, about your house or office, or any place over 
which you have control, unless the same is fully loaded ; 
and that you will inform all about you that this is your 
rule." 
I made the required promise and went on my way rejoic- 
ing. 
The sixth may seem odd, but I have often seen the wisdom 
of it. I always" detach the barrels of my guns when I put 
them away. I break down my pistols and put them away in 
^hat shape. If a gun or pistol is found about my house in 
^uch condition that it can be jointed as a weapon, every one 
of my family and friends knows that it is loaded. There 
are no "didn't think it was loaded" accidents around me, 
I believe my old grandfather's rules of conduct with 
regard to guns and all firearms to be the best I have ever 
heard, and if everybody knew and observed them those hor- 
rible "accidents" would cease. When one did occur it 
would be an accident, and the unfortunate that caused it 
would not be blamed as no better than a murderer. 
What do you think of it, Mr. Editor? Amateur. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
Tolleston Club Goes to Supreme Court of U. S. 
Chicago, 111., Dec. 10. — Yearly the litigation over sport 
and sportsmen's interests becomes more frequent, more 
weighty and more important. The latest move of the Tolles- 
ton Club, which has quietly made the most gallant fight in 
the West for the rights of sportsmen, is covered by the fol- 
lowing dispatch from Indianapolis (the club grounds are 
located in Indiana, though the membership is made up of 
Chicago men): 
"Indianapolis, Dec, 8, — The Tolleston Club, of Chicago, 
to-day filed bond in the State Supreme Court, and on a writ 
of error carried the case — involving titles to land along the 
Little Calumet River, and recently decided against the club 
— to the United States Supreme Court. The ownership was 
brought into controversy by the suit of John Clough against 
the club, the latter claiming title to a large tract of land, 
under a survey by the Government in 1870. The iract was 
known as marsh land, and the high land contiguous to it had 
been sold years before, but the channel of the river becoming 
narrow, it left land between the tracts originally surveyed 
and sold and the river. Under the survey by the Govern- 
ment the Tolleston Club bought this land, and Clough and 
others sued for possession. The Supreme Court held that the 
deeds carried title to the middle of the Little Calumet River, 
and the question now goes into the United States Court." 
A Mere Jag. 
"A representative of the fish and game commission of 
California," says a Coast advice, "has been in Siskiyou coun- 
ty and southern Oregon to look into the wholesale killing of 
ducks which have been shipped to the San Francisco mar- 
kets in great quantities. As high as l,5001bs. have been 
shipped from Ager in one day." Such a matter as that is 
but a mere jag in a market. But count in all the jags and it 
foots up. What has become of our game? Has it "moved 
further West?" 
Quail Seized In Kansas. 
Dr. Shultz, the live State game warden of Kansas, on Dec. 
7 seized a large consignment of quail shipped from Cun- 
ningham, Kan,, to a St, Lonis dealer. The birds were hid- 
den beneath a top layer of ducks. He will have two counts 
for each bird against the local express agent. 
The Wisconsin Deer Licenses. 
The excellence of the executive side of the Wisconsin deef 
law may be observed by reference to the report on the mat- 
ter from Madison, Wis., Dec. 2; 
"Game Warden Ellarson has received returns from nearly 
all the counties authorized under the new game law to issue 
licenses for deer hunting, and the stubs sent in show that 
over 10,000 licenses were issued. The returns are practically 
complete from most of the counties, and show the number 
of licenses issued as follows: 
"Adams 121, Ashland 600, Barron 582, Buffalo 62, Burnett 
586, Brown 159, Chippewa 1,198, Douglas 488, Dunn 188, 
Eau Claire 268, Florence 97, Forest 91, Jackson 373, Juneau 
15, Langlade 377, Kewaunee 14, Lincoln 427, Marathon 300, 
Marquette 8, Oconto 221, Pepin 68, Pierce 26, Polk 88, Port- 
age [499, Pierce 5S1, Sawyer 149, Shawano 549, Taylor 400, 
Trempealeau 45, Washburn 169, Wood 550, and Door 100. 
"There were also issued to non-resident hunters thirty- 
three licenses at $30 each. Those issued to hunters residing 
within the State brought in a fee of $1 each." 
Now, does anybody for one minute suppose that only 
thirty-three non-resident hunters shot Wisconsin deer this 
fall? Probably 1,000 to 2,000 non-residents hunted there, 
many under resident licenses, this being the favorite way of 
evading the law in Michigan and Wisconsin. Does Chippe- 
wa county turn out 1,193 native hunters? If so, she would 
be a good one for a recruiting officer to watch in case of 
war. American game laws are a by-word, as we Ameri- 
cans must admit. 
How About This? 
How about this, from a Chicago newspaper? How about 
the deer export clause? Who watches the Wisconsin fron- 
tier? 
"The famous 'Dad' Greenley has been making a record 
with his party for deer up near Newberry, Mich. He sent 
down thirty-two deer carcasses and three hides one day last 
week." 
Local Opinion. 
The Marquette Jo'wrnal, Michigan north peninsula, thinks 
thus about the game laws as they are seen in that neck of 
woods : 
"It is about time that the people of Michigan decided to 
either abandon attempting to protect our game from exter- 
mination or adopted an effective system of affording it real 
protection. As it is, the State has laws for the protection of 
game on its statute books and special officers provided for 
their enforcement, but the laws are openly disregarded and 
the State game warden and his deputies get the only material 
benefit that is derived from these laws by anybody, this com- 
ing to them in the form of their salaries. 
"All over this part of the State deer were killed long be- 
fore the season opened this year, and the venison was sold to 
hotels and others who were willing to buy it." 
Let us hope Mr. Osborne will get a good man up there 
next fall and make Marquette sing a different tune. 
White Deer Seen. 
A white deer has been seen by Indian hunters in Jackson 
county, Wis. This is the second one ever known in that 
country. Saw Sommie, a Winnebago chief, is said to have 
killed a white deer in that region many years ago. 
Butter. 
Agent Pullerton, of [Minnesota, has had another scrap. 
H. J. Cornelius was his name, and he fought a-plenty. 
Barrel of partridges marked "butter"; .|10 and costs, and 
birds confiscated, E, Hough. 
1806 BoYCE BurLDiNQ, Chicago, 
