FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Jan. I, 1898. 
railroads like that, the whole question of game supply 
would be settled for this country in twenty-four hours. 
If no game were illegally shipped from the Northwest, 
the Northwest would be a perpetual haven for sportsmen. 
On Same Train will do. 
The Circuit Court at St. Paul has decided that if the 
hunter be upon the same train with the carcass of liis 
deer^ he is legally "accompanying" it to its destination, 
and need not be in the presence of the carcass. This is 
in the case of Phelps against the State Commission of 
Minnesota. The case will be taken up. 
Elk NumefotJs. 
Elk are reported very numerous this winter in the 
Jackson's Hole country, in spite of great mortality last 
winter. 
In the Sun River country of Montana skin hunters 
have been butchering large amounts of game for the 
hides, more especially elk, but some deer and sheep, the 
latter having been driven down by heavy snows. Plenty 
of game is reported near the boundary line between 
Lewis and Clarke and Teton counties. This is just 
.SiOUth of the Blackfoot Reservation country, where Mc- 
Chesney and I went in last winter. Many mountain 
sheep are reported to be in that region now, 3ft. of snow 
having fallen in the mountains. 
Will Test Law in Michigan. 
W. O. Holden, of Traverse City, Mich., served venison 
killed legally, but served after close of the season. 
He was prosecuted and waived examination and will 
make a test case. One of the greatest principles of the 
la'W as applied to game protection lies under this ques- 
tion. It means that the cold storage man may ply his 
trade the year round, if Holden may sell his legal-iUegal 
deer. There are legal precedents on both sides. Illinois 
has the Magner case, declaring it illegal to have such 
game in possession after the close of the season. Let 
us hope Mr. Holden loses his contention. 
Along the Mississippi. 
A great deal of illegal fishing has been going on along 
the Mississippi RiveY in this latitude. One lot of 
20,ooolbs. of illegal fish was taken near La Crosse in two 
days this month. This week the wardens and county 
sheriff raided the spear and net fishermen and broke 
up their shanties. Nine men were arrested, but the jus- 
tice let them go Avith a rebuke. This was at La Crosse. 
At Prairie du Chien, a week earlier, two wardens cap- 
tured 4,ooolbs. of illegal fish and burned two nets, arrest- 
ing M. Wing, Charles Kimball and D. Sapington. 
CaJls a Halt on Deer. 
Major Baldwin has issued, at Guthrie, L T., orders 
forbidding the further hunting of deer in the Kiowa, Co- 
manche and Wichita reservations. Offenders will be 
prosecuted. A large amount of venison came to Chi- 
cago market when this Indian Nation country was in- 
vaded by the white hunters, but of late the supply has 
dwindled very much, and the Territory has been pro- 
nounced shot out by many men who formerly found it a 
superb game region. If the order above noted shall 
serve to bring back a portion of the old abundance it is 
a good thing. 
M&K Middlctori^s Preserve. 
Years ago I reported in Forest and Stream a quiet 
hunt in Indiana, where Fred Donald, of the C. & E. 
Railroad, took a party of us down to Servia in his 
special .car. We had an aAvfully good time, and I wish 
we were all there right now. Our guide at that time 
was Max Middleton, a tall and hard-walking Hoosier, 
who took us around and showed us where the birds 
were and how to get them. Now I read in a local news- 
paper that Max is going to start a quail preserve down 
there, putting out about fifty dozen quail, which are to 
be supplied by E. V, Patterson and C. C. Hess, of Chi- 
cago, two sportsmen who have for a long time been 
shooting about Servia, and who have viewed with dis- 
ma5^ the decrease in the supply of birds at that point. 
Max is going to take charge of the work in hand, and 
will put a copper band on the leg of each quail, and 
asks each man who kills one of his copper-fastened craft 
to report the fact to him so that he may have a notion 
about the progress of the experiment. The region about 
Servia is a good natural quail country, and 600 birds 
added to the native stock ought to make it well sup- 
plied within the next two years, unless one of the capri- 
cious Indiana winters should make trouble. 
Last Thing on Non-Residents. 
The last thing on the non-resident shooter question 
comes from Attica, Ind. Down there the local men are 
much troubled with outside hunters, who come in to 
shoot and ship game. An organization has been formed 
which will ask the next Legislature to make it a misde- 
meanor for any person to kill game in any county of 
which he is not a resident. The Attica Ledger says in 
regard to this: 'AH legislation has thus far been for 
the professional sportsman, and it is time now for the 
common people to have a chance." 
A great many men will at first thought decry this ac- 
tion of the Attica men, and say they are selfish and only 
want it all for themselves. Suppose that is true, we are 
but little better, for we only want it all for ourselves. 
That is about the situation in all game law matters. We 
are all striving and scheming to get game laws which 
will keep the other fellow out and let us in. This Indi- 
ana measure, should it ever be put in force, as it of 
course never will, would be 'really a good one, and all 
sportsmen ought to encourage it, not for unselfish but 
for purely selfish reasons. A great many men want to 
break into the Yellowstone Park and kill all the game 
there, but they are not allowed to do so, and the Park 
remains one of the biggest elk hatcheries in the world. 
Every posted farm in America is a good thing, and no 
shooter ought to kick at it. Every posted county is a 
good thing, and we are foolish if we kick at it. Every 
posted State is a good thing, and we ought to be wise 
enough to see it, and selfishly wise at that. The most 
selfish thing we can do is to make the game laws as 
strict as possible in every locality possible. The trouble 
with us all is that we spend too much time herding the 
grasshoppers off of the other fellow's farm for fear he 
will get a shade. tet ef tis m the benefits of nature. 
It would be. . better to allow any fellow to batch more 
hoppers. 
Grizzlies and Buffalo. 
Mr. J. W. Schultz writes me from the Blackfoot Reser- 
vation that he has struck a snap in bears, grizzlies at 
that, and moreover the "white grizzly," the sort that 
Lewis and Clarke describe as having been strictly bad 
medicine in their time. He says an old trapper has put 
him on to this locality, and that he thinks it good for 
several grizzlies before he gets done with it. 
Mr. Schultz also advances the sti-iking news that cow- 
boys have seen eight buffalo in the Bad Lands near the 
Round Butte this summer. The Round Butte is about 
sixty miles below the mouth of the Musselshell. Noth- 
ing is said about any having been killed. This sets me 
thinking about the statement made by Gokey at Dawson 
last fall, that he knew where he could find four buffalo. 
There may be a few such head hidden in the Bad Lands 
region. 
A New Wolf Poison. 
Mr. Schultz has a word to say about a new sort of 
wolf poison, which I think will be a novelty to even the 
average old-timer. He goes on to say: "Antelope are 
quite plenty again on the eastern part of the reservation. 
Wolves are plenty, or perhaps more numerous than ever. 
Saw three to-day from the house, and yesterday my son 
saw seven. Every one in the country is getting rid of 
the hounds — and you know we had as fine ones as were 
ever bred— and going back to strychnine. A wolfer on 
Cutbank is using a new poison — simply the paper wrap- 
per which comes on dynamite sticks. His brother, a 
Butte miner, sends him any quantity of them, and he 
scatters them out around old carcasses, etc. The wolves 
eagerly eat them, as they are greasy, and soon "turn up 
their toes." 
Big Game from the Bad Lands. 
The press dispatches of Dec. 10 announced the dis- 
covery in the Bad Lands of Dakota, fifty miles east of 
Rapid City, of an elotherium, found by Prof, O. C. Far- 
rington, of the Field Columbian Museum, of Chicago. 
Since that date the head of the elotherium has really 
been brought to this city by Prof. Farrington, who is 
preparing it for mounting. The head is about the size 
of that of a rhinoceros, and the jaws are large, heavy and 
full of strong, sharp teeth. The eyes are set well back 
and are large and prominent. The trophy is much valued 
by the museum. For a long time ranchmen in that part 
of Dakota have been missing sheep and cattle. 
E. Hough. 
I2OG BoYCE Building, Chicago. 
Notes from New Brunswick. 
The hunting season of 1897 in New Brunswick is now 
on its la!3t legs. Old Father Time has plugged it in 
the ribs with his .30-30, and it has only eight more days 
to run. 
-Dr. Heber Bishop, the wclLknown American sports- 
man, founder of the Megantic Club, and friend of the 
human race, returned to-day from a fortnight's rambling 
in the region of the Crooked Deadwater. With him came 
the carcass and head of a large bull moose, which the 
guide estimated to weight i,ooolbs. For a moose of this 
size the horns were small, measuring 43in. from tip to tip. 
One shot from the .30-30 did the business. The weather 
was moist and clammy all the time the doctor was in the 
woods, which almost made the snow-shoeing synony- 
mous with profanity. On the last day of his stay at tne 
Deadwater the doctor saw eight moose and started a 
flock of fifteen. He says the moose were really too 
plentiful for successful still-hunting, as it was almost im- 
possible to follow a track without running into other 
tracks and jumping the game right and left. The doctor 
adds that he has seen as good hunters as Henry 
Braithwaite, but never as good a woodstnan. This 
makes the fourth party Llenry has piloted this fall to 
gore and glory. The first party secured three moose and 
wounded another; the second brought out a moose, two 
caribou and a bear; the third and fourth scored a njoose 
each. 
It is reported, but I catinot positively vouch for this, 
that Fred Pitman, who went hunting with Arthur 
Pringle in the Northwest country, was summoned home 
before he had completed his hunt, and that he brought 
out two fine caribou. 
Mr. C, C. Hills, of Cleveland, is still encamped in the 
White Wilderness, on the headwaters of Tobique River. 
His guide is Adam Moore, of Scotch Lake, York county. 
At last accounts Mr. LTills had not scored his moose, but 
had obtained his full complement of caribou. 
On Friday last Donald Loggie, of Newcastle, one of 
the finest marksmen in Canada (the only man, in fact, 
who has ever twice carried off the Governor-General's 
prize at Ottawa), boarded the train at Ludlow in a very 
cheerful frame of mind. In his hand was the old Martini 
rifle which had so often led him to victory at the butts; 
in the baggage car was a big moose and a caribou with 
antlers like the nest of a fish-hawk. Mr. Loggie had 
with him as guide Gower Price, of Ludlow. 
Eight men with axes and one man with a Winchester 
rifle stood around a bear den at Scoullar Bi"ook, near 
Blissfield, the other day. The man with the Winchester 
rested his nervous system on top 01 a stump and fired 
twice into the den. He said he could see the glare of 
the bear's eyes. This may have been the truth, for the 
bear soon came out of the den and started nor'-nor'west. 
The eight men with axes started to chase the bear when 
they heard a shout from the man with the Winchester 
and discovered that another bear had come out of the 
den and was making for the sunny South. A warm dis- 
cussion then took place between the man with the Win- 
chester and the eight men with axes as to which bear 
they ought to chase. That Avas seventeen days ago. 
They are still discussing the subject. 
John Howie, of Hanwell, found the carcass of a deer 
in the woods the other day, which had evidently been 
killed by some wild animal. Thinking the guilty party 
might return to the scene of the tragedy, Mr. Howie 
set a steel -trap. The next day he found a lynx in the 
trap that weighed, after he had been pacified with an axe, 
32lbs. 
Among the people who are compiling caribou statis- 
tics in the Doaktown country are Robert Walcott, of 
Cambridge; E. W- Fdrbes, of Milton, and Richard C. 
Storey, of Brookline. All of these places are in the region 
known as Massachusetts. 
Mr. Randall Henderson, of New Haven, Conn., who 
in September last, when camping on Miramichi Lake, 
performed the almost superhuman feat of failing to find 
his moose, has come back for a hunt upon the snow. 
He will make his headquarters at Fullerton's camp on 
the upper Dungarvon. 
Three young men with vigorous imaginations and a 
grudge against the barber — to wit, Ellis Smith, Coles 
Dugan and Humboldt Sharp — have just returned from 
the headwaters of the Tobique and Nepisiguit. They 
brought out a moose head and report that they saw many 
moose and caribou. They also brought out 75lbs. of 
heavy rocks which they say are full of gold. They claim 
to have been where no white man ever was before, and 
to have found a mountain about 6ooft. high which is 
very rich in minerals. They intend to return in the 
spring and commence mining operations. 
Frank LI. Risteen. 
rKEDERICTON, DeC. 24. 
The Jackson^s Hole Elk. 
Jackson Hole "Gun Clue, Jackson, Wyo., Dec. lo. — 
Editor Forest and Stream: The inclosed clipping is self- 
explanatory. The questions involved in this elk con- 
troversy are just as you state them. The Moose Head 
syndicate, headed by one Glidden, are thus engaged, and 
evidently backed up by the State officials. I live in 
Jackson's Hole and am one of 300 residents, and 99 per 
cent, of them are against the capture of game or its 
shipment. The organization to which I belong has done 
everything possible and has plead with the State offi- 
cials and those in power, to prevent the capture and 
shipment of game, but with no effect, and Glidden has 
said publicly that he obtained his permits (and he claims 
many of them) by purchase, and these statements of 
Glidden's are now in the forms of afifidavits and will be 
forwarded to the Governor. 
The people of this valley are as a rule against anything 
tending to destroy the game interests. We have fought 
by every power the Moose Head Ranch shipments, and 
shall continue to do so. If we have not any support of 
the county and State oflicials, we have the support of a 
good people at home and the public opinion of the good 
sportsmen of the whole country is, we believe, with us. 
These elk, as others in process of probable capture, are 
so many less of the wild game of Wyoming. I am of the 
firm opinion that any further capture of game by Glidden 
or his subordinates will meet with the resistance of all 
persons in this valley who are opposed, as a matter of 
principle, to the capture of game, and who are opposed 
to the legalizing of the unlawful capture of elk, as in 
the recent case. 
Forest and Stream is right in the matter of protest 
against the capture of wild game for speculative pur- 
poses; and your subsci"ibcrs and friends here give you 
credit for making the stand you have. We feel confident 
that you can do great good to the game interests. You 
voice the sentiment the people of this valley entertain, 
that the Moose Head Ranch syndicate and Manager 
Glidden must quit the business of catching elk, even if 
backed by the State and county officials; and the people 
of this valley will from now on be heard upon this im- 
portant principle of game protection. 
If it was only the number shipped, it would cut small 
figure; but it is the hundreds killed by exposure and 
chasing that threatens the game of the native ranges. 
To-day, as I look out on the immediate hillsides and see 
the bands of elk, and feel confident that the people of 
this valley will not voluntarily disturb them nor fire a 
shot to Idll one of them until another game season 
comes, I can imagine nothing more unjust than that a 
special favorite can procure a permit to capture them, 
Wm. L. Simpson. 
The clipping referred to by Mr. Simpson is from the 
Evanston, Wyo., News-Register of Nov. 20, and is written 
from Jackson: 
"The Jackson's Hole Gun Club had a business meeting 
last evening. The balance of the indebtedness, $269, was 
paid to the contractors, and the club building, valued 
at $850, its cost, now belongs to the gun club. R. E. 
Miller was duly elected president to fill the vacancy 
caused by the resignation of Wm. L. Simpson in June 
last. 
"Strong resolutions were recently passed protesting 
against the recent issuance of a permit to ship elk oitt 
of Jackson's Hole, especially after the reading of a copy 
of a letter to a deputy game warden, which. iji-B^irt is 
as follows: 
"'Fred White, deputy game warden, Jackson, Wyo.: 
Section 15 prohibits the capture of any game animal. I 
shall not give a permit to any one hereafter to ship ani- 
mals for any purpose whatever. If the shipping is 
stopped there will be no object in catching and con- 
fining them. You must attend to the party who has 
confined 150 head of yearlings. If he don't liberate the 
elk at once, arrest him and prosecute him before the 
nearest justice of the peace. You can inform the people 
who are in the shipping business that I will not give any 
more permits to any one under any circumstances. 
Gustave Schnitger, State Game Warden.' 
"The question of a reasonable and proper protection 
of the game has thus received a pretty stiff upper cut 
from the powers that be. But let it be understood that 
notwithstanding the setback the greater majority of our 
people will still continue to hold views which are pos- 
sible for the game's protection, and as time rolls on we 
intend to be heard upon this particular subject, and some 
one will have to explain. We are against legalizing- the 
wanton capture of wild game by the issuance of a 
permit to sell the same. We think that Jackson Hole 
affords the nicest, neatest and most compact organiza- 
tion in time to put some views forward, and let it be 
said now that no one blames a person for pocketing a 
few thousand dollars out of the game, if the officials will 
permit it. It's the principle of the thing we contend 
against, and we say now that until they produce the 
authority by which they are constituted judges we shall 
not plead to their jurisdiction. Hence, doubtless, many 
may conclude we live as honest men." 
