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came to his quarters a private, whose name I regret to 
nave forgotten, and who actually shed tears when he 
learned that he could not get a chance to join the in- 
glorious enterprise of walking loo miles in the winter on 
skis, and working like a packhorse. It wasn't much of a 
chance, but it was, according to the notion of this pri- 
vate, better than lying in barracks. They all seem to 
be that way. crying to go. If the young kinglet of Spain 
reads Forest and Stream, as I hope he does, for it is 
the next best thing, I should like to advise him, in the 
language of Chicago, that he is up against it bad. 
A Gdvernor's Good Example. 
May 28. — Gov. John R. Tanner, of Illinois, has been 
a busy man for the past few weeks, while the volunteer 
troops have been encamped at Springfield, but now that 
all the regiments have started for the front and have left 
him a little more leisure, he has taken temporary leave of 
the State capital and started for Idaho on a trout fish- 
ing trip of a couple of weeks or so. He goes in com- 
pany with Messrs. J, W. Gates, I. L. Ellwood and John 
A. Drake, of this city, and the party will be joined at 
Cheyenne by Mr. T. S. Wood. The destination is 
Weiser, Idaho, whence the party will take horse for a 
long journey to the fork of the Snake, where they will 
camp. This gubernatorial example is not so unworthy of 
imitation, showing as it does that this country does not 
stop all the clocks because there is a little war on hand. 
Gov. Tanner says he will be back in time for all the 
duties of his office, and meantime will be better off for a 
little fishing trip. 
Mongolian Pheasants. 
Chicago, III., May 28. — The State pheasantry of Ohio, 
at Van Wert, under the charge of A. J. Hazlett, will, ac- 
cording to all indications, turn out at least 4,000 young- 
pheasants this year. Some 6,000 birds are expected to 
hatch, and the per cent, of survival is about two-thirds. 
At Centralia, Wis., Mr. Geo. N. Wood has received 
iiftv-five eggs of ring-neck pheasants, which eggs are 
now under hens for hatching, and from which a nice re- 
turn is hoped. It is the intention to stock the region 
about Centralia. 
Mr. J. S. Swan, State Commissioner of Fish, Forestry 
and Game for Colorado, is much interested in the ques- 
tion of Mongolian pheasants, and has asked ihe gun 
clubs of the State to assist him with funds so that he 
can purchase a stock of the birds in Oregon and plant 
them in the proper parts of Colorado. Commissioner 
Swan has very satisfactory replies to his inquiries in Ore- 
gon as to stock. 
Indiana Geese. 
It is not common for us to hear of very many wild 
geese in this part of the country nowadays, but Mr. C. H. 
Ames, a Boston gentleman, who has been about this city 
for a few weeks on a visit, and who took a short snipe 
trip down along the old Kankakee marsh, which he knew 
well very many years ago, but had not seen for some 
time, was so lucky as to discover the roosting place of 
several flocks of Canada geese, which came in every 
night. I speak of his being lucky, but this has nothing 
to do with his getting a shot at the geese, for it was 
after the law was up on wildfowl. He tells me that these 
geese came in always quite late, and alighted out in the 
center of the marsh, where they would be most secure 
from molestation. Even thus they were not able to out- 
wit the native hunters, who cared nothing for the .eame 
laws, and every now and then got a few of these big and 
unusual visitors. The method was to take live geese 
decoys and go out before night into the marsh at the 
place where the geese came in, here building a Wind and 
putting out the decoys. The geese came in low and 
late at night, and hearing the honking of the tame de- 
coys, would make for the spot where the canny native 
lay hid. In this way, Mr. Ames says, a very great 
many of the geese have been killed. There were several 
hundred that roosted on the marsh earlier in the spring. 
Mr. Ames used to live out in Illinois some twenty 
years or more ago, and he says that he is eager to hear 
once more that wild and strange sound once so_ com- 
mon to his youth, the booming of the prairie chickens 
in the spring. I fancy he was too late in the spring and 
too late in the century. He had not shot a gun for 
twelve years, he says, having been drawn aside from the 
gun to the rod in later years, yet he found he could 
shoot, killed his first three jacksnipe straight, and did 
his share in the nice bag of snipe and rail which he got 
in the marsh country of the Kankakee. But he did not 
hear any chicken boom. 
• Illicit Minnesota Moose Meat. 
I have recently made mention of Attorney Bell, of 
Roseau county, Minn., the gentleman who is alleged to 
have bought moose meat in Minnesota and entered it at 
the custom house as Manitoba moose. It seems Mr. 
Bell has had his trial and is not yet discharged, but has 
ample time to meditate over what will perhaps happen to 
him in the sweet by and by. Mr. S. F. Fullerton, the 
State executive agent who got Mr. Bell into the toils, 
has the following to say about the case: 
•T have just returned from a trip up to Roseau coun- 
ty, where we indicted County Attorney Bell, of Roseau 
county, for having moose meat in his possession, and 
also for giving advice to the butchers to sell it. 
"Mr. Bell's attorney demurred to the indictment and 
Judge Ives, of Crookston, took the matter under ad- 
visement until the next term of court, which gives Mr. 
Bell a whole year in which to appreciate bemg mdicted 
for violating the game laws. I hope there is no other 
county in any State in the Union like Roseau countv, 
or at least a county that has such an attorney. A man 
who takes the oath of office to prosecute law-breakers 
and then goes out and violates the law himself, and ad- 
vises others to do likewise, in my judgment, is not fit 
to hold a public office. 
"What do the readers of Forest and Stream think 
of such a man?" 
Mr. Fullerton goes on to add other news, and i 
trust he will pardon me for taking it from his personal 
letter, coming as it does from so interesting a country: 
"We are just distributing our fish," he says, "and have 
been successful beyond our fondest expectations. The 
fish are going out in splendid shape, and I am satisfied 
good results will follow in the increased supply of food 
and game fish in the different waters of the State. 
"The prospects never looked better for our chickens 
than they do this spring. Our feathered game have all 
wintered in splendid shape, and if we have no ex- 
traordinary heavy rains we will give you the best chicken 
shooting in Minnesota this fall that you could get in any 
State in the Union. 
"My friend, Mr. Howard Eaton, of Medora, N. D., 
has made me a present of one of the finest elk heads 
you ever saw. When you come to Minnesota to pay us 
a visit you must not fail to call and see it. I should 
like to send Forest and Stream a cut of it. It is al- 
most a perfect head, 
"I have not yet wet a line after fish, except one day in 
Wisconsin for trout, where I went with Dr. Arnold and 
State Land Commissioner Flynn. The lion's share, as 
usual, fell to the doctor's unerring skill as a trout fisher. 
The figures were 80, 60 and 55 nice trout, your humble 
servant getting the lowest number, but I managed to 
have as good a time as the balance." 
E. Hough. 
1206 BoYCE Building, Chicago. 
A Little Story of Luck. 
IrontoN, O., May 28. — I have been reading your paper 
so long I feel that I must continue to do so. I have 
lost my health and cannot go on my usual hunting trips, 
hence I greatly appreciate the regular weekly visits of 
the Forest and Stream. 
I must tell you of a little luck (as Mr. Hough puts it, 
"Forest and Stream luck"). Last November I felt that 
I must go out for a day or two anyhow, so I made ar- 
rangements with Jean, my brother-in-law, to go out to 
our old camp ground. We got there all in good shape; 
but oh, how weak I was! Jean went ahead and I followed 
on as best I could. After a tedious climb I got up on 
top of the ridge and sat down on a fallen tree to rest. . I 
looked long and eagerly for some sign of game, and 
finally saw something moving in the brush, A second 
glance showed it to be a wild turkey. It was only an 
instant more until the faithful gun came up and a dead 
turkey lay at my feet, and I a proud, sick irian. It was 
the only game sighted that afternoon. Lucky, wasn't 
I, to get run up on by a wild turkej- in a country where 
the birds are scarce. The next morning we killed a 
few squirrels, and I had to come home. I love to read 
over my old Forest and Stream, and hope yoti will 
live long and be prosperous. James Dupuy. 
Wild Turkeys for California* 
Redlands, Cal., Majf 25. — Since the breaking out of 
the war sporting matters have been on the wane. Many 
of our shooters have gone to apply their marksmanship to 
the best of all purposes, the defense of our country. Such 
as have been left, however, have kept the ball rollin,g. 
Elsie Boger recently returned from the mountains 
with a very important capture, a large mountain lion. 
The lion has eaten one house cat, besides almost every- 
thing else at Boger's place. 
J. M. Whittemore and J. L. Brown rode over to "The 
Wash" on Sunday last. They killed about thirty rabbits. 
W. D. Andreas writes me from Grapeland that the 
trouting is poor in that section. The largest taken by 
him would hardly reach the 6in. limit. He says there are 
lots of red-horse and other suckers of fine size. He also 
mentions seeing the hides of three grizzlies taken by a 
Mr. Turk, of his place, recently, 
Mr. L. G. Haight, of the big fruit company of that 
name, has set on foot a movement to stock the timbers 
of Mill Creek Canon with wild turkeys. It is pro- 
posed to buy the birds from parties in the Middle West 
and liberate them in the mountains here. Can anj' of 
the readers of Forest and Stream tell me if this has 
been tried before, and with what success? The matter 
has been left largely to me; hence any advice that the 
editor or any reader could give would be thankfully re- 
ceived. Reelfoot. 
[The birds should do well provided there is a sufficient 
food supply for them.] 
A Good Shot in Korea* 
Seattle, Wash. — I quote the following extract from a 
letter received from a friend residing near Pyengyang. 
Korea; are you able to recognize the species of the bird 
mentioned? 
