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Game Company,, and had him fined $ioo for illegal ship- 
piilg o{ game. 
Two Side Huflts» 
The Leander, Tex., Gun Club, numbering some forty 
mernbers, held a side hunt last week, T. H. Griffin and 
E. C. Perkins choosing sides. The net results of one 
da.y were 133 quail, 309 doves, 30 jack rabbits, 67 cotton- 
tails, 17 robins, 13 hawks, 10 crows, 3 owls, 7 opossums 
and 15 squirrels. Cash prizes were paid for first, second 
and third high bags. At the banquet which followed the 
hunt some 200 guests were present. 
The Methodist Church of Jericho Corners, a point 
nine miles west of Aurora, Ills., this week neld a side 
hunt for sparrows, captained by William Johnson and 
John Calkins, the party being made up of yoimg men 
belonging to the church. Johnson's side during the 
week killed 1,674 sparrows and Calldns's 3,200. The 
bounty on these, at 2 cents a head, was paid to the 
church. The ladies of the church had an oyster supper, 
the Calkins side paying the bill. The church "rejoiced 
over the replenishment of its treasury." 
Two Deer Hunts, 
The St. Louis Republic describes the hunt of a party 
of St. Louis men, who have returned from the Devil 
River countrj' of Texas. The story says, among other 
things: "Several extraordinary pot shots were made on 
quail, one hunter claiming to have slain fourteen at a 
single shot." The paper prints a picture shoAving the 
hunters' wagon full of deer. Six deer are shown, and not 
one has horns. 
A friend of Forest and Stream sends me a copy of 
the Wave, a handsomely illustrated San Francisco pub- 
lication, marked at an article headed "Hunting for Deer, 
a Foxirth of July Experience in the San Hedrin Moun- 
tains." This article is written by Carl Furdy, and 
describes the killing of nine deer in one morning by the 
party of four, "not a tenderfoot in the crowd," the hunt 
occurring on the Fourth of July, when "Mendocino 
county is not a i-efrigerator." At first sight it would seem 
that such a season must be the close season for any 
country, but on looking up the law I find that it states 
in general that no deer can be killed from Oct. 15 to 
July 15 of the following year, only males to be killed at 
any season. This party, therefore, only broke the law 
by about a week or so, not being tenderfeet. And what 
an odd deer law from all cmr Eastern standpoints! Deer 
hunting on the Fourth of July! 
Jack Packing, 
And now they are packing jack rabbits for shipment 
to Liverpool. At Clay Center, Kans., there is a corpora- 
tion known as the Kansas Jack Rabbit Packing Com- 
pany, which has six carloads of jacks ready to ship 
across the sea. 
"Wolves Endanger an Institution. 
And still another institution is in danger, out in Min- 
nesota, this time no less than the ancient and honorable 
institution of matrimony. The Duluth News-Tribnne 
flies into the breach with the following note of warning: 
"There should be a bounty of from $10 to $15 for each 
full-grown wolf killed, and the killer should also re- 
ceive the skin. Such an arrangement would likely re- 
sult in a heavy death rate in the wolf family, and make 
it possible for a bridal couple to make a tour through 
St. Louis county without being compelled to spend the 
wedding night in a tree, with a dismal yelping chorus for 
a serenade." 
North Dakota Wardenship. 
Mr. George E. Bowei'S, of Fargo, State Warden for 
North Dakota, is up for reappointment for tne ensuing 
term. Editor Bassett, of the Valley City Alliance, is 
also a candidate. Mr. Bowers knows his work well, and 
has proved efficient in it. He knows his State, and 
he has his corps of deputies appointed and broken in. 
He is a good man, and no one has a word against him. 
What reasonable purpose couM be subserved by chang- 
ing wardens? Does a good merchant break in new 
clerks just for the sake of change, after he has one good 
set educated in the business? Why change wardens when 
you have a good one now? By all means Mr, Bowers 
should be retained. 
Cleaning the Territory, 
J. F. Wisdom, Chief of the Territory Police, and J. 
S. Hammer, United States Marshal, have decided to 
raid all the unlicensed market shooters now operating in 
the Chickesaw country, and drive them out of the Na- 
tions, where no one is authorized to hunt without a per- 
mit. The pot hunting has become an outrage. 
Mr. Wisdom says that the migration of Indians 
from the Nations to Old Mexico is to be a fact, under 
the leadership of his father. Col. D. M. Wisdom. He 
says: 
■'A commission of Indians representing the Five Civil- 
ized Tribes has just returned from Mexico, where they 
examined the State of Chihuahua. They reported that 
the country was everything that they could desire, and 
recommended its purchase. The commission expressed 
the opinion that there would be little difficulty in closing 
the deal with the Mexican Government. I think it prob- 
able that a large number of the Indians will migrate." 
Larks. 
At this season of the year the meadow lark is sup- 
posed to be a good way south of this latitude, but at 
Kankakee, III., only fifty miles south of here, meadow 
larks are this week noticed in great numbers. The 
winter has not yet been vei^y severe, but those meadow 
larks would better look out. Old settlers say it, means a 
mild winter. 
Texas Deer, 
Col. Jeff Johnson, Col. George Walton, Judge F. G. 
Morris and Mr. Will Hart^ all of Austin, Tex., returned 
last week froni' a' camp htmL They^got twelve dfic^ fLiul 
many^ wild lurkeyS. "-J^ • ""• r^^i j y . 0- ; . 3,. 
The Southern migration of sportsmen is smaller fhis 
winter than usual. Hard times, yellow fever and Klon- 
dike interest are aU alleged causes. E. Hough. 
Shooting and the Golden Rule. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
I consider it rather mean for a man to get up in a 
tower, where he's out of reach of common shot, and 
then throw bricks on people down below. This Tower 
man says "a complainant should come into court with 
clean hands," so I've been and gone and washed mine, 
though I can't imagine how I got them soiled. If he 
had put on his spectacles he inight have seen that I am 
not gunning for legal but for moral game. 
If "selfishness is the basic principle of society," then 
society has a false and weak support, and it ought to 
be knocked away and replaced by something more in 
accord with the golden rule. I don't deny that a man 
may legally hoard lucre to the amount of $50 or- $200,- 
000,000, but I flatly deny that he has any right to call 
himself a Christian, because "it is easier for a camel," 
etc. When the young man who had lived a model life 
was advised to sell all that he had and give to the poor, 
the young man, if he had lived in a Power, would have 
answered that he had as good a right to his cash as 
others had, and the poor niight go to thunder! 
Mine enemy wants to know if I considered that A, B 
and C would not have bought up half the county, in- 
cluding half a dozen lakes, iniless they had use for thpm. 
Like the cow in Mother Goose, I "considered very well," 
and it led me clearly to the conclusion that no man, or 
set of men, can make Use of half a dozen large lakes, and 
that pure selfishness was the "basic principle" of their 
purchase. 
I don't care to be constantly repeating that I do not 
object to a club's owning any reasonable amount of 
land or water, but I have about the same respect for a 
"game hog" or a "trout h'og" as I have for one of that 
class who want to monopolize all the shooting and 
fishing. The war is almost universal agahist the men 
who slaughter game by wholesale. Yet they have a legal 
right to do it, and suppose my enemy in the Tower 
would sanction it, because they have that right. 
DiDYMUS. 
St. Augustine, Fla. 
"Warden Loveday and the Chickens. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
In your issue of Dec. 25 I notice an article by E. P. 
Jaques, headed "Those Henry County Chickens." If the 
writer of the article is correct in his statement that on 
Sept. I there \vere just seventy chickens in Henry county, 
they must be all killed off, and the prospects in Henry 
county are very poor for next fall. 
H. W. Loveday, our efficient State Game Warden, is 
a thorough sportsman, a remarkably fine field shot, and 
has never been accused of being a "game hog." "Those 
Henry County Chickens" were killed by a party of four 
in two days — H. W. Loveday, William Werner and Ed 
Dillon, of Chicago, and Mr. McAuley, of Atkinson — by 
special permission of Samuel W. AUerton, of this city, on 
his farm of 4,000 acres. The seventy chickens represent 
an average of less than ten birds a day to each gun, and 
the members of the party claim that the birds were wild, 
and that they did not kill one bird where they put up 
forty. It is evident that your correspondent's statistics 
are off, and that he has neglected his job of chicken 
census compiler of Henry county. It is possible that 
the poor success attending the efforts of Mr. Jaques 
during the past thirty years is due to poor shooting. It 
is a pity your correspondent was not with the party. He 
might have learned something. 
There are many large farms in this State where chick- 
ens and quail are plentiful, because the farms are posted, 
and the birds soon learn to congregate where they are 
not molested. 
Mr. Loveday has done more to protect game and bring 
violators of the law to justice during the past season than 
any of his predecessors have done during their entire 
term of office; but he can hardly be expected to lay 
aside his trusty shotgun because he has been appointed 
game warden, nor should ill-advised attacks upon his 
standing as a sportsman go uncontradicted. 
Geo. T. Farmer. 
Ring-Neck Pheasants in New Jersey. • 
Cranford, N. J., Jan. i.— I have read with much inter- 
est your article on English ring-neck pheasants in New 
Jersey, and would like to state my experience in the 
same line. 
Last spring I purchased some plieasant eggs from a 
noted breeder, and hatched out fourteen birds from 
thirty eggs. I raised eleven of them until they reached 
the size of about xJ4lbs. each, and then I turned them 
out to hunt for themselves. For several weeks they 
would return to the yard every evening at feeding time, 
and feed with the chickens. But as soon as they had 
finished they would return to the fields and a wild hedge 
and not show themselves again until the following night. 
This performance was kept up until one day my Irish 
setter caught four of them and killed them outright. 
From that time the others never returned to feed with 
the chickens. This was in Augu.st. On Oct. i I took 
my dog and gun, and back in the fields behind the house 
found all seven birds. I shot two of the males and left two 
males and three females, and on Christmas Day I saw 
four of the birds and should judge by the tracks in the 
snow that they are still in the same vicinity and are do- 
ing well. I intend leaving the balance out for breeding, 
and may add another brace to the lot in the spring, as I 
still have quite a few in my runs for breeders for next 
year. 
From my experience with the few birds turned out, I 
should judge that they are the coming game bird of the 
country, as they can be raised with very little trouble, 
and they lie well to the dog. In fact, my experience is 
that they will let a person pass within 5ft. of them, and 
never move, and without a dog they cannot be -hunted 
Successfully: A=S the land they- occtipy is'> all > posted,'- J 
feel thiii Hheiy will -p'as.s the -winter- -in" safety*,- ''and ■•bjeed 
n'^xtyi^h""''' v~iJt .sa-jji,.', €\fjt fcj.i jivad 
'^tmy' sktti W'W Vei^-'teay ''^bi?#? 4nd''#^da(*i 'setf 
where they stand on the corn stacks and pull the corn 
from the ears. Of course, if there is very much snow and 
ice, I shall feed them through the winter, but think iliey 
can get along very nicely if let alone. 
If you so desii-e, I will let you know how they pass the 
winter, and also write you an article on breeding aid 
raising pheasants. C. W. Jotinson. 
Photographs at the New England Show. 
Boston, Mass., Jan. 7. — It has been decided by the 
management of . the New England Sportsmen's Associa- 
tion to set apart a portion of the building as a gallery 
for the display of a loan exhibition of photographic art, 
and this department promises to become one of the most 
interesting features of the exhibition. Ample and well- 
lighted space will be devoted to the display of photo- 
graphs pertaining to sportsmanship, viz.: live game ani- 
mals and birds, shooting, fishing, canoeing and camp 
scenes and views of athletic and field sports and contests. 
Enlargements of such subjects are particularly desired. 
The co-operation of all amateur photographers and 
others who may be interested is cordially invited. All 
expense of transportation will be defrayed, and such con- 
tributions as may be received will be promptly returned 
at the close of the exhibition. 
Conditions. 
1. Views may be of any size and framed or uuframed, but must 
all be moiuited, no single mount to be less than SxlOin. 
2. Mounts may bear the title of each subject upon the face; but 
in every case the title, also full name and address of the exhibitor, 
must appear distinctly upon the back of each mount or frame. 
Any printed or written descriptive matter, it sent, will be dis- 
played if deemed of sufficient interest. 
3. Exhibits too heavy for mailing should be sent in one package 
by express. Prepaid postal or express charges will be refunded 
and return expenses prepaid. 
4. For purposes of classification, etc., all such exhibits should be 
sent to tiie association's receiving room. Pierce Building, Copley 
square, Boston, Mass. (Room 6), as per inclosed label, not later 
than Feb. 1. In cases where it is found impossible to prepare 
exhibits by this date, they may be received later. 
5. The right is reserved to reject advertising photographs, also 
subjects inappropriate or not sufficiently interesting .for siich an ex- 
hibition. 
6. The association will take the utmost care of exhibits, but can- 
not be held responsible for any loss or damage either in transpor- 
tation or during the exhibition. 
This department will be personally in charge of Mr. 
Joseph Prince Loud, president of the Boston Camera 
Club, who will welcome correspondence from any per- 
son desiring to contribute, together with suggestions as 
to reaching any photographer who might be interested 
in this feature of the exhibition. 
All coivununications relative to this department should 
be addressed to Mr. J. P. Loud, 8$ Water Street, Bos- 
ton, Mass. 
News from the Yukon." 
From a letter written by Mr. J. B. Burnham from Fort 
Selkirk, on the Yukon, under date of Nov. 24, we make 
these extracts: 
I have written you by the regular mail, which still 
costs $1 per letter from here, and may cost the same 
all winter, but have a chance to send this out by parties 
going up the river. I wrote of the loss of two of oui 
boats. Thank God, we have recovered both, and, in- 
stead of just having barely enough provisions to get 
through with, have enough to last us a year. The boats, 
which were carried away by ice from a point, where we 
were about to camp, on Nov, 7, were found frozen in 
six miles below here on Nov. 17, having drifted in all 
about fifteen miles. 
We have two stoves now, one having been given us 
yesterday by parties going out short of grub. 
There is undoubtedly a great scarcity of provisions at 
Dawson, but plenty at Fort Yukon. We have had it 40 
degrees below zero here twice, Jbut don't mind it at all, 
feet, hands, faces and ears well protected. It is dry and 
crisp, and makes one feel full of ginger. The coldest 
last winter was about 60 degrees below, so we are con- 
fident that we can stand any degree of cold with comfort. 
The early winter seems to be about as cold as later here. 
Forty degrees below is called very cold weather here 
for any time of the winter. All going well and in best 
of health. 
An Ohio Game Ground. 
With three friends. Dr. J. S. Phillips, Dr. R. J. Phil- 
lips and Mr. William Littell, the genial secretary of the 
Duquesne Kennel Club, I spent two days hunting in 
Columbiana county, Ohio, about fifty miles from Alle- 
gheny, Pa., on Dec. 7 and 8, and this was the result: 
Forty rabbits, one squirrel, five pheasants and seven 
quail. I think this is a good lot of game for two half- 
days' hunting in a place I thought there was no game. 
There were plenty of birds, the dogs flushing about nine 
different coveys of quail and numerous pheasants. If 
this winter shall not be too severely cold, there will be 
plenty of birds next year, as the game laws are very 
well observed in that section of the country. 
Phil. F. Simons. 
The Sportsmen^s Exposition. 
The Sportsmen's Exposition opened in Madison 
Square Garden, New York, last Thursday night, and will 
continue until a week from to-day. There is the usual 
extensive and varied display of those things which de- 
light the sportsman's eye, and the show is full of in- 
terest throughout. There are tliis year new competitions, 
the list now comprising fly-casting, rifle shooting, bowl- 
ing and billiards. 
A Cuvier Reward. 
The Cuvier Club, of Cincinnati, offers a reward of $10 
for any evidence that will convict for violation of the law 
■forbidding possession or .sale of game in close season. 
President Alex. Starbuck or Secretary J. B. Scheide- 
m^ntje wiJl j3e-.jg,roragt t(^ ^giye ^is attehtipn to .any sttch 
j..;.icM -i.. -j^.aui^c : , ; 
The FoKKST AKD Stream is put to press each loeeTi on 
Tuesday. Correspondence uinpnd^^^J'QZ MUW9Mipn 
should reach us at the latest hy Monday, and as vmch 
earlier aa pracbicable. 
