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residents illegal shooters, but being situated fourteen 
miles south of East St. Louis, and directly opposite a 
fern- landing, as soon as the quail season opens (and 
before) hundreds of St. Louis sportsmen flock to the 
Illinois side, and carry to St. Louis hundreds of quail 
daily, and as the quail at the opening of the season are 
so small as to be almost helpless, they "pot" them in 
such numbers as to amount to a slaughter. The M. & 
O. Railroad carries train loads of these hunters out 
every Saturday and Sunday, and back Sunday night 
loaded with everything falling in range of their guns. 
If the warden at East St. Louis will walk through a 
M. & O. train at East St. Louis before crossing the 
bridge, any Sunday night during the season, he will sec 
the reason one of the best shooting sections in southern 
Illinois is becoming rapidly depopulated. 
"A great good could be done by changing the opening 
of the quail season to Nov. 1." 
Personal, 
Readers of Forest and Stream may recall that some 
time ago I spoke of a successful mountain sheep hunt 
made by my former hunting partner, Mr. Calvin S. Mc- 
Chesney, of Troy, N. Y., who was with mc in the 
Blackfoot country. I promised the readers of the paper 
a good sheep story by Mr. McChesney. Later I learned 
that Mr. McChesney had gone with his regiment to the 
war. Then he seemed to have dropped into a large, 
dark vacancy, and I did not know what had become of 
him. To-day I am very much pleased to have a letter 
from Lieutenant McChesney, and to learn that though 
he has been sick, he is back home at Troy, and is now 
better, and will some day soon, I hope, be able to ful- 
fill his promise about the sheep story. He writes in a 
very wabbly, shaky hand, and this is what he says : (A 
soldier's letter belongs to his country.) 
"From time to time I have seen my naine in Forest 
and Stream the past summer, and have intended writ- 
ing you, but it was hard work to write from camp, and 
I never got at it. Well, the regiment Came back North 
and went into camp a few miles from here, and the 
next day, four weeks ago to-day, to be accurate, they put 
me to bed with typhoid fever, and I am in bed yet. 
Have not been very sick and am now beginning to eat 
and hope to be out soon. Will write, you when I can." 
You can't kill McChesney, he's too tough, as I know 
from following him in the mountains. 
Sergt. Robert Ansley, of the 161st Regiment »of In- 
diana, is another returned soldier boy who came into 
the Forest and Stream office this week. He is home 
on a furlough from Jacksonville, Fla., is yellow with 
malarial fever, and weighs just 47lbs. less than he did 
when I saw him last. Sergt. Ansley is one of my 
fishing companions at Westville. Ind., and as I look 
at his loose clothes now, it seems very likely that this 
war business was no joke. 
Mr. H. R. Wills, of Alton, 111., one of the best sports- 
men of the lower part of the State, made this office a 
pleasant call this week, and we talked over shooting 
matters in general. Mr. Wills sells gold bricks and type 
metal as a profession, and his success in these matters 
lately induced a trade paper to print a descriptive article 
of him, accompanied with a map. In one respect, how- 
ever, I think the description erred. It states, "Mr. Wills 
Iras traveled widely in America and Europe, leaving 
pleasant impressions and big orders behind him." I 
am persuaded that Mr. Wills takes very many large 
orders with him, and does not leave them behind. 
The Daily Reporter. 
My friend, the daily reporter, is very active in these 
days, and every once in a while prints a long story about 
field sports. Here is what the daily reporter says about 
jack rabbit hunting this week in a Chicago daily. I 
give it because I think it will be news: 
The jack rabbit bunt lias its lovers among women. It re- 
quires unusual skill in handling a gun, and a remarkably sure 
eye, and even long practice will kill only three out of five even 
when the dogs are hot on the track and uncovering the game, 
rapidly. Most rabbit hunts are conducted with a pack of dogs 
that are permitted to run down the cunning quarry, to bring back 
the trophies of the chase in their teeth to the group of panting 
riders galloping in at the finish. But the true hunter wants to 
bring down the leaping rabbit with a swift, certain death shot 
that is, after all, the real dignified form of the hunt. 
Minnesota Chickens. 
Last fall when I was out in Minnesota I had a pleasant 
little shoot with Deputy Warden Jones, near Campbell, 
Minn., as I believe I mentioned at the time. There is a 
good strip of chicken country in there which Mr. Jones 
not only tries to protect, but does protect. This fall 
Attorney-General Edgerton, Mr. Roberts and Mr. 
Jones, with another gentleman, had a little shoot over 
this same country, and they had great sport, bagging 
over 100 birds the first four days of the season. At a 
second trip, it is stated, Mr. Fullerton and Mr. W. S. 
Timberlake, president of the State Commission, got 
forty-eight birds in the course of their shooting. It is 
gratifying to state that there were really more prairie 
chickens in Minnesota this year than for several years 
previous, and both they and ruffed grouse seem to be 
increasing, thanks to the law prohibiting the sale of 
ruffed grouse. The deer law is also in very satisfactory 
shape in Minnesota. A man cannot ship a deer by ex- 
press in that State, and many believe that this feature of 
the law will knock out the marketing of venison eventu- 
ally. 
Squirrel Year. 
This is a squirrel year for central Illinois, more 
especially in the neighborhood of Bloomington squirrel 
shooting is reported as fine. 
E. Hough. 
1200 Boyce Building, Chicago, 111. 
Southern Sportsmen's Association. 
The Louisiana Sportsmen's Game and Fish Protective 
Association is discussing plans looking toward organi- 
zation permanently, the incorporation of the Associa- 
tion, the appointment of game wardens, and the amal- 
gamation of the game protective interests throughout 
the State. It is proposed to call the Association legally 
the Southern Sportsmen's Association for the Protection 
of Fish and Game, but colloquially it will be known as 
the S. S. A. It is the intention of the president to have 
the Association organized and working effectively this 
season. There are now about 175 members, and 
thirty-five gentlemen submitted their applications 
last night to be passed upon at the meeting on Oct. 
4. Those sportsmen who are in accord with this move- 
ment are heartily invited to help push the good cause 
along. 
New Hampshire Fish and Game. 
Hudson Center, N. IL, Sept. 29. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: The open season on trout and salmon (ending 
Sept. 15, 1898) has been one of the most profitable ones 
to the angler we have had in New Hampshire for 
years. Dr. George Fowler, of Bristol, tells me the fish- 
ing at Newfound Lake, Bristol, has been excellent from 
the opening to the close of the season. It is only 
within the last two or three years that deep-water trolling 
has been tried with any degree of success there. The 
Doctor going three times in August caught twelve fish 
— seven lake trout and five salmon, a total weight 
of io/lbs. Many others have had good luck. 
At Lake Winnepesaukcc excellent lake trout fishing 
was had for some time after the ice went out. Fine 
strings of large bass were caught: during the open sea- 
son. The landlocked salmon are also commencing to 
show up in this lake. There isno question in the mind 
of vour correspondent that this body of water in the 
near future will be the best landlocked salmon lake of 
Nov Hampshire, if not of New England. The Belknap 
County Fish and Game League; many of whose members 
are located near this magnificent body of water, are 
enthusiastic in the protection of fish and game, and are 
doing all in their power to assist the commission to stock 
this lake and protect the fish in the close season. 
At Sunapee Lake the landlocked salmon fishing has 
been excellent. Isaac Rawson — one of Sunapee's best 
g in( jes — tells me there has been caught from his boat 
thirty odd salmon and three Loch Lev en trout. The 
brook trout and aureolus he kept no record of. The 
black bass fishing has been more than good here, two 
of my acquaintances catching 65lbs. in one day. In fact 
good fishing has been had in nearly all the lakes in our 
State. 
The stream brook trout fishing, especially m the 
southern part of the State, where we have had plenty of 
rain, has not been so good for years. 
The open season for deer commenced Sept. 15 in 
Carroll, Coos and a part of Grafton county. The rest 
of the State is closed until tooi. We have heard of quite 
a number of deer being killed up to date, but the foliage 
is so thick that it will be impossible to hunt with any 
degree of success until the frost comes. Deer are in- 
creasing wonderfully all over the State. 
It is impossible to tell at the present time much about 
the ruffed grouse shooting. I have heard of but few 
being killed. All hunters that I have talked with 
prophecy a good woodcock season. 
I agree with my friend Stark, of Dunbarton (who is 
one of the best all-round sportsmen New Hampshire 
ever produced), that the State of New Hampshire should 
pass a law endorsing the Forest and Stream Plank 
and stop the sale of game at all seasons of the year. 
This would surely put a check upon the market hunter 
and snarer. I think the close season should commence 
Dec. 15, instead of Jan. 1. For thousands of grouse are 
killed all over the State while budding in December. 
While talking with one of the trustees of the Corbin 
Park the other day, I learned they are contemplating 
in the near future— this fall, I think— forming a club 
with a limited number of members — say from fifty to 
seventy-five — giving each the privilege of killing two 
elk, two deer, a wild boar, or whatever they may de- 
cide upon. This method, as I understand, is taken to 
get rid of the increase of game in the park, which is 
wonderful. It is estimated there are in the park at the 
present time 2,000 elk, 2,000 deer, 100 moose, and the 
largest known herd of buffalo in existence. The red 
fox and Northern hare are very plentiful. The park also 
contains hundreds of acres of the best woodcock and 
ruffed grouse covers New England can produce. Some 
of the best brook trout streams and ponds in this sec- 
tion are inside the park limit. With its beautiful moun- 
tains, forests and streams, it is an ideal hunting ground. 
The Corbin family have done much for New Hamp- 
shire. This last season they have given to the State, to 
be liberated, a number of pairs of deer. 
N. Wentworth. 
Vermont Game Notes. 
Milton, Vt, Sept. 26. — Game in this section of the 
State is a scarcity. As has been the case during the 
last few years, partridges are few and far between. Squir- 
rels are far from numerous, and ducks are thus far com- 
ing in lesser numbers than for years, although the late 
flights may perhaps be more encouraging. Plover and 
grass birds are fairly plenty, and are furnishing good 
shooting at the marshes. The outlook for ducks is most 
encouraging, many having been seen, particularly in the 
southern and eastern portion of the State. If the Ver- - r 
mont shooters desire to have partridge shooting ^n. 
years to come, why not make a sacrifice and demand^ j 
law that will protect them the year round for say five 
years? Of the success of such a measure there can be no 
doubt. A case to point here in this State is that of the 
English pheasant. Introduced some years ago and pro- 
tected by legislation, they have rapidlv increased un- 
til now they cover a territory of large extent, and promise 
at no distant day to be Vermont's leading game bird. 
Owing to the fact of their building their nests on the 
ground, the grouse has great difficulty in rearing her 
family. Foxes, coons, skunks and mink I have found 
prey upon the eggs and even at times capture the mother 
bird. Crows also have a hand in its persecution, and 
make short work of the eggs. Nesting as they do, it is 
indeed a wonder that so many partridges reach maturity. 
If the sportsmen of "Vermont w r ould take the matter in 
hand and see to it that such a statute was made that 
would save these noble birds from total extermination, 
the result in a few years would thrice repay them for 
their sacrifice. Kenewah, 
Quail in the Santiago Campaign. 
Fort Myer, Va., Sept. 26. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
It may interest some of your readers to know that on 
the Santiago campaign, just finished, we heard the calls 
of hundreds of Bob Whites everywhere, from Daiquiri 
to Santiago, and the answering notes of the female. The 
quail appeared quite tame, but there was always the 
impenetrable jungle in which to fly when flushed — 
and, by the way, there was very little land that was not 
jungle. There was absolutely no cultivated land what- 
ever, if I except a few small gardens on the out- 
skirts of Santiago. It is questionable whether, under 
the circumstances, a hunter would have much sport in 
such a country. 
We also ran across what appeared to be our ordinary 
guinea fowl, which had become wild. It appeared in 
the most unexpected parts of the jungle, and when 
flushed would sail away through the brush with a flap- 
ping of wings very much like that of our Western sage 
chicken. 
With the depleted condition of our larder, it was a 
constant temptation to our soldiers to beat the brush 
and knock over a few of these birds with their rifles — • 
a proceeding which met with condign punishment. 
There was enough shooting in the brush by the mur- 
derous Spanish sharpshooters, without assistance from 
our own rifles; and "guerrilla stalking" became much 
more necessary than wildfowl shooting. 
Charles D. Rhodes, 
U. S. Army. 
New York League. 
Seneca Falls, N. Y., Sept. 24. — To the Officers, 
Trustees and Directors of the New York State Fish, 
Game and Forest League: You are hereby notified that 
there will be a meeting of the said officers, directors and 
trustees of the said Association at T2 o'clock Mr- on 
Oct. 26, 1898, at the Yates Hotel, at the city of Syra 
cuse, N. Y., which you are expected and requested to 
attend. ; 
All clubs, associations and organizations within the 
Slate of New York organized for the purpose of protec- 
tion of fish, game and forests, should become members 
of this League, (successor to the New York State As- 
sociation for Protection of Fish and Game), in order to 
secure united effort in attainment of these objects. All 
applications for membership should be in the hands of 
the secretary (who will furnish blanks and information 
upon request) on this date. 
This meeting is called for the consideration of intro- 
ductory and preliminary work of the annual meeting 
of the League, to be held at the place aforesaid, on the 
eighth day of December, 1*98, for the consideration of 
applications for membership and for such other business 
as may properly come before it. By order of 
W. S. Gavitt, President. 
Ernest G. Gould, Secretary. 
Shooting Casualties. 
Elmira, N. Y., Sept. 26. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
I see that another of those fearful accidents, where the 
shooters lost their heads and killed a boy in place of a 
deer, has happened in the Adirondacks. Is does seem 
as though people would never learn to b,e sure that they 
are shooting at game, not human beings, before they 
pull the trigger. And the guides — what "guides" are 
they who would allow such a thing? 
I used to be a frequent visitor to the Adirondack 
Mountains, but have given up my visits entirely, especi- 
ally since the law has forced people to still hunt. While 
I fully agree with the law as being a good thing, I am 
afraid of getting shot by some careless hunter who 
shoots at everything that moves; and as there are about 
five gunners to every deer, I have not been in the big 
woods after deer for years. In hunting birds and rab- 
bits one uses dogs and makes lots of noise, and even at 
that it will be soon so one will have to hunt with a 
brass band. I also limit my party to two, one being my 
son, and I keep him to the front under my eyes all the 
time, and try hard to keep my gun out of the danger 
line. E. H. K. 
A Florida Game Preserve. 
A correspondent of the Jacksonville Times-Union 
and Citizen writes from Myers: Irvin S. Singletary has 
just returned from a business trip down the coast as 
far as Marco, in company with J. M. Brady, of Bartow. 
Their object was the selection of a site for a game 
preserve of gigantic proportions for New York capital- 
ists and sportsmen. The probabilities are good, and 
there is hardly any doubt of the matter developing into 
a certainty in the near future. Of course, the thing will 
be of untold benefit to this county, and will be the 
means of leaving many thousands of dollars among the 
citizens, besides giving permanent employment to a 
goodly number. If there is any place in the world 
suitable for such an enterprise, this county is the place. 
No doubt other gentlemen will follow suit. 
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