FOREST AND STREAM. 
mg traps; nets, djmamite, poisonous and stupefying sub- 
stances, snag hooks and trot lines in fishing; killing of 
quadrupeds not suitable for food on account of rutting; 
night hunting and use of steel or hard-pointed bullets, or 
anything but ordinary firearms in hunting and killing of 
elk, deer or antelope not having horns. 
Permitted t The use of dogs, blinds and decoys in 
hunting birds only. 
Open seasons : Deer and antelope, Aug. 15 to Oct. 31 ; 
elk, Oct. 15 to Oct. 31 ; turkeys, sage chickens and grouse, 
Aug. 15 to Oct. 31 ; water fowls, Sept. 1 to April 15, 
except in altitudes over 7,000ft., where season does not 
begin until Sept. 15 ; pigeons, "doves and curlews, July 15 
to Oct. 31 ; fish, June 1 to Oct. 31, 
The taking of game and fish limited to food purposes 
and to twenty-five birds and solbs. of fish per man per 
day, and no more than fifty birds and 4olbs. of fish in 
possession at any one time; one elk, one deer or one ante- 
lope only per man in one season. Five days after close of 
open season allowed for transportation and use. 
Division C. 
HUNTING LICENSES. 
Every hunter must have a license, either county or 
State. County license issued by commissioner or county 
clerk on blanks furnished by commissioner, fee 75 cents, 
good for hunting in county only. State license issued 
only by commissioner, fee, $5. No discrimination against 
non-residents, and authorizes hunting in all counties. 
Licenses good only for one year, not transferable; pro- 
curement of more than one forbidden and renders both 
void. Each license must state name, age and residence of 
licensee and bear his signature ; three coupons attached to 
each license, one for an elk, one for a deer and one for an 
antelope. When such animal is killed the proper coupon 
must be dated and signed by the licensee, and attached 
to the animal, and so remain as long as any considerable 
portion is unconsumed, and kept attached to head, horns 
or hide if preserved. License must be shown on de- 
mand of any officer. All licenses must be- accounted for by 
county clerks, and those not used returned to the com- 
missioner, with one-third of the fee received therefor. 
Every license and coupon is numbered and bears the writ- 
ten or lithographed signature of the commissioner, and 
no others are valid. 
Division D. 
GUIDES. ' 
Every guide must be licensed; fee, $5. He must also 
have a State hunting license. Guides must report to com- 
missioner as to number of persons guided and game and 
fish taken each yeaf. 
Division E. 
PARKS, LAKES AND PRESERVES. 
No game or fish shall be kept in any park or lake, pub- 
lic or private, unless the same is licensed. Licenses may 
be for two years or ten, and the fee is fr6m $10 to $100. 
Fee not required for parks' or lakes controlled by a muni- 
cipality, and to which the public is admitted free. Parks 
and lake 1 ; wholly or in part on private land arc 
Class A, and the proprietors may kill and sell game and 
fi i h at any time of year on attaching thereto an invoice 
showing number of license and name of consignee, which 
authorizes transportation, use, etc., for thirty days only. 
Copy to be mailed to commissioner. If such parks or 
lakes contained any game or fish belonging to the State 
the aggregate number must not be lessened by killing or 
sale, and the State shall be entitled to 10 per cent, of the 
natural increase of game and of fertilized fish eggs each 
yeaf to stock other parks and waters. Permits to add to 
game and fish in parks and lakes by capture can be pro- 
cured of the commissioner in proper cases, also to ex- 
change for game and fish from other States. 
All invoices must remain attached to the game and fish 
until prepared for consumption, and then kept thirty 
days, or delivered to commissioner on demand. 
Parks and lakes wholly on public land can only be 
licensed when the protection of game and fish will be 
advanced thereby, and in them the public may hunt and 
fish for a compensation, to be fixed by the commissioner, 
half to go to the State and half to the proprietor, but no 
game or fish can be sold therefrom, and hunting and fish- 
ing therein is subject to the restrictions as to seasons, 
number and quantity, in Division B. Such lakes are 
Class B. 
Bird shooting privileges on lakes and fishing privileges 
on streams on private land and leased from the owners by 
clubs and others are called preserves, and must also be 
licensed, fee from $10 to $25, but hunting and fishing 
therein is subject to the restrictions as to seasons, num- 
ber and quantity in Division B. 
Division F, 
, TAXIDERMISTS. 
All taxidermists for hire must procure licenses for 
one or ten years, fee $10 to $25. The commisisoner is re- 
quired to immediately examine all specimens and affix a 
tag to each without charge if lawfully held, otherwise 
may charge $1 for each tag or confiscate specimen. 
No specimen of a game quadruped to be hereafter 
mounted unless it has a proper hunting license coupon at- 
tached. In case, of loss of coupon proven, commissioner 
may furnish a duplicate. Scientific societies may also 
be granted permits to collect specimens. Coupons or 
tags must remain attached to all specimens. 
Division G. 
HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS. 
The use of game and fish allowed only in following 
casfes : At any time of year, when sold by an officer who 
seized them under the law, and having his sale invoices 
attached; or when .procured from a licensed private park 
or lake with invoice attached; or when lawfully imported 
and sold under Division H. Also during the open season 
and for five days thereafter for the use of the person 
killing the same and his guests. 
Division H. 
IMPORTATION, TRANSPORTATION, STORAGE, ETC. 
No game or fish can be imported (except alive for pro- 
pagation) from any State whose laws forbid importation 
and sale therein of Colorado game and fish. Importer 
must not sell except in original package, number and 
condition until he has procured a certificate of lawful im- 
portation from the commissioner (fee $i) 3 which must be 
kept publicly exposed with article, and which authorizes 
storage and sale for thirty days. If not then sold, storage 
permit (fee $1) good for thirty days more must be ob- 
tained. Importer selling must make and give purchaser 
an invoice showing date and number of importation cer- 
tificate xir storage permit. Transportation is allowed only 
in case proper certificate permit, coupon or invoice at- 
tached, or under charge of officer, or warden, or com- 
missioner of other State of United States, except birds 
and fish in open season, and five days thereafter in lawful 
number and quantity and possession- 
All game and fish seized must be sold and invoice given 
purchaser, good for thirty days' possession, use or sale. 
All packages must have proper document attached to the 
outside and the contents marked. Amy person in law- 
ful possession of game or fish killed in the State may pro- 
cure a storage permit good for ninety days after close of 
season. Storage is allowed on coupons, certificates and 
permits signed by the commissioner, and during the 
periods authorized by them only. 
Division I. 
UNLAWFUL DEVICES, OBSTRUCTION AND POLLUTION OF 
WATERS. 
This division contains the usual prohibitions against 
nets etc., the erection of dams without fishways, also 
against the pollution of water by mills, placer mines and 
reduction works. In relation to the latter, which are con- 
nected with the mining industry, there is a provision to 
submit to the court the relative importance to the State 
of the industry concerned compared with that of the fish. 
Courts are authorized to require means to be adopted to 
lessen the pollution, if practicable, or they may order the 
industry, to suspend, or permit it to continue under re- 
strictions or without, and an order so permitting bars a 
criminal prosecution for the pollution. In case of changed 
conditions, the decree may be changed on application. 
This is an entirely new feature in game and fish laws, and 
is on account of the great importance of the mining indus- 
try in Colorado. 
The rest of the act, consisting of Divisions 1 and J, re- 
late to the methods of prosecution, penalties and fees. The 
penalty for killing bison, mountain sheep and using dyna- 
mite, etc., and baiting traps with game, is from S500 to 
$1,000 fine, and thirty days to six months imprisonment; 
other penalties from $10 to $500, and imprisonment ten 
days to six months. All fines are divided, one-third each 
to the informer, the county and the State. All fees, ex- 
cept for county hunting licenses, go to the State, and all 
moneys received by the State constitute, a game fund for 
the enforcement of the act. Fees are to be charged by the 
commissioner for licenses, certificates, permits, etc. 
Licenses for parks, lakes, preserves and taxidermists may 
be renewed from time to time for smaller fees than 
originally charged. Moneys collected by the commission- 
er go into the game fund. 
This act is expected to produce sufficient to pay all 
salaries and expenses under it. 
Complete forms of every kind required by the act are 
printed in full in it. and every form shows on its face 
whether possession, use, transportation, storage or sale, or 
any of them, is authorized thereby, as well as the time 
for which it is valid, and each one must bear the written 
or lithographed signature of the State Game and Fish 
Commissioner, except invoices from private parks and 
Jakes and importers, and they must refer by date and num- 
ber to the license or certificate under which they are 
issued. 
The act is quite voluminous, as it is intended to cover 
every condition that may arise, and it seems to do so. 
It appears to furnish a frame upon which game and fish 
laws suitable to every inland State may be constructed. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
A Pair of Shoes. 
Chicago, 111., Dec. 3. — At first thought there may not 
seem to be very much in a pair of shoes, but such is not 
always the case. There is often a great deal in them. 
Besides other things, there may upon occasion be a great 
deal of discomfort irr a pair of- shoes, as I presume pretty 
much every ' shooter has at one time or another found 
out for himself. 
A year or so ago I was over in Canada, reporting 
some field trials, and I think it was then that, finding 
I had left behind me the proper footwear, I purchased, in 
a moment of desperation, a pair of shoes which have 
been making personal history for me ever since. They 
were the only pair of shoes 1 could find which I thought 
were long and broad enough, and also waterproof 
enough. They were represented to me to be of sturdy 
Canadian fabric, but I have since found blown into them 
the trade mark "Made in Germany." They were not 
wooden shoes, but much heavier and less waterproof 
than wooden shoes. I think that each one of these shoes 
would weigh somewhere between 4 and 5lbs. net, with- 
out any mud on them. I compromised by wearing them 
three or four hours and then taking to a pair of rubbers. 
After that I sat on the fence. 
I am the. most forgetful man in the world, and so it 
happened that when I was over in Canada again this 
fall I found that same awful pair of shoes again in my 
kit. It occurred to me that perhaps they needed break- 
ing in, and so I tackled them again. I noticed that there 
was a nail sticking up in the heel about a half-inch 
or so long, but didn't think it could hurt me very much, 
especially as I believed myself no longer a tenderfoot. 
I walked on the nail all day, and it is all a mistake about 
my not being a tenderfoot. At night I got a hammer and a 
piece of iron and operated on the. shoe, with the result 
that I tore the inside leather lining loose and disfigured 
the counter in such a way that it hung down dejectedly 
in front, and made a nice ridge for the soft part of 
my foot to lean against the next day. I took to rubber 
boots then, but resolved to take up the matter later with 
this pair of shoes if I had time. The next day I found 
a shoemaker at Chatham, who said he came from New 
York, and had traveled all over the world, but who 
also said he had never seen a pair of shoes like that 
in all his journeys. He said he could fix them up for 15 
cents, if I thought the shoes were worth it, and I told 
him to go ahead. He sewed the damaged interior of 
the shoe together and hammered a nice large seam up 
and down the middle of it, so as to catch my heel in 
another place, which had not yet been damaged. I paid 
him his gold, and he forgot to put back my leather shoe- 
strings, which were worth more than the'shoes, though 
'we will let that pass. 
Now it happened that I had been asked by my friend 
the Mayor, likewise sometimes known as the Pirate, to 
go shqoting with him over in Michigan, but had just 
received word that it 'would be impossible for him to 
get away for the shoot. .At the field trials there was a 
nice young man by the name of Mr. E. E. Bliss, who 
had come over to see about how much better or worse 
field trial dogs were than good shooting dogs, and who 
had seen. Mr. Bliss was wearing about the homeliest 
pair of shoes that I ever saw, and on the strength of that 
I tried to trade shoes with him, but couldn't. His shoes 
were built to order on his own design, rather broader 
in front than at the back, and tapering gradually to a 
point behind the heel. He said his shoes were water- 
proof, and I told him so were mine; but he explained 
that they kept his feet dry, and at this I had to quit 
talking trade, for I had discovered it to be the peculiar 
property of my own prizes that they let all the water in 
and kept it there. Mr. Bliss said his shoes were not 
lined, but were made of good leather. He also showed 
me that the soles had around their edges a straggling 
line of spikes. I thought at the time that the shoe- 
maker had been pretty stingy with his nails, but as I had 
only known Mr. Bliss a day or so, I thought I would not 
mention it at the time. In regard to these spikes and 
oth'er things I shall have more to say presently. 
The result of our talking trade was that Mr. Bliss in- 
vited me to go home with him and have a shoot over in 
Michigan. He said he had a dog, and although he 
couldn't run as fast as some of the dogs we had just seen 
sprinting, he allowed that maybe he could find a bunch 
of quail or a partridge now and then. This was awfully 
good of Mr, Bliss, and so I told him I would go along 
with him, and we would talk over that matter of trading 
shoes from time to time. 
Now it happened that this fall was the very worst fall 
that ever struck the lower peninsula of Michigan. About 
the end of the first week in November there came the 
worst snowstrom ever known in that section so early 
in the year. The woods were already filled with water from 
heavy fall rains, and when the snow filled in all the holes 
it made things about as bad for walking as could well 
have been asked. Mr. Bliss and I went to his home 
and took an early morning train out some twenty or 
thirty miles to the little village where we intended to do 
our shooting. He chose this country because he thought 
it was dryer than most sections, and he said he thought 
we could get along with our shoes all right and would 
not need to wear rubber boots, which latter both of us 
despised. 
We started out early in the morning on foot, in the 
middle of a heavy fog, so thick that one could almost 
hang his hat on it. In the low places the grass was cov- 
ered with a white rime. Now ' and then there were 
patches of soft wet snow. At times we came to running 
streams and wide patches of water, such as one would 
expect to find in a spring freshet, but hardly in Novem- 
ber. Here and there were slashings and burned districts, 
where stumps had been pulled out and where the. holes 
had been filled up nicely with water and snow. Between 
these slashings lay soft, black fields, where one would 
not strike bottom until he got in over ankle deep. 1 
could not imagine a more thorough test for my shoes, 
nor could I imagine a pair of shoes in regard to which I 
had already more thoroughly made up my mind. Mr. 
Bliss took it calmly, and by noon I was still more eager 
to trade with him, for his feet were dry and mine were 
filled with ice water, which kept my toes in a perfect state 
of preservation. We went into a farmer's cabin for 
lunch, but though my feet at that time thawed out par- 
tially, I cannot state that the circulation was fully es- 
tablished until about half-past eleven that night. All that 
day Mr. Bliss went along as comfortable, as you please, 
and he shot as well as he walked. It is a comfort to 
go out with a man who is a good shot. I don't mind 
missing a bird now and then, and I don't want to kill a 
wheelbarrow load every day, but I don't like to shoot 
badly enough to feel disgusted with myself at the close 
of the day. My recollection is that Mr. Bliss and myself 
both shot pretty well that day; indeed, I think he only 
missed one shot all the time. The dog of which he had 
spoken so deprecatingly was a setter, Keno by name, 
and he certainly did his work well, under conditions 
which were enough to take the heart out of any dog. 
He found us several bevies of quail and about a half- 
dozen partridges. Also he retrieved, and I loved him 
for it. Field trial dogs do not retrieve ; but then they are 
not intended for hunting, but only for show. I don't 
recollect just' what our bag was: but think we had about 
eighteen or twenty birds. Mr. Bliss apologized for the 
smallness of the bag, but it seemed to me that we had 
had pretty good fun, in spite of the weather, which was 
such as to unsettle all the habits of the birds and make 
it hard to get much shooting. 
I was now a very sincere admirer of Mr. Bliss' shoes 
as well as of his dog, but I could not get him to part 
with neither the one or the other. One time during 
the afternoon I was obliged to sit down and take off 
my shoes and make readjustment. They were large 
shoes, what might indeed be called copious shoes; and 
I wore two pairs of socks, in order to fill the demand. 
The shoes were made very broad in the heel, so that 
one's foot might work up and down, and miss nothing of 
the seams, knots, bumps, nails, etc., of the interior. 
Naturally a loose heel means that one's stockings will 
crawl forward. Occasionally I found that one of my 
stockings had thus crept off my foot and was nestling 
comfortably in the toe of the shoe, whence it could only 
be recovered by a long stick. I explained these things 
to Mr. Bliss, and he said that he had thought I looked 
like an intelligent man, and that he had rarely been 
more disappointed. His own shoes, he explained, fitted 
him neatly, but easily, did not slip up at the heel, did not 
creep and did not leak. He moreover explained to me 
what I wish here to call to the attention of sporting 
readers, that the sparseness of nails in his soles was not 
due to economy, but to design. He said that, having 
tried all manner of spikes and hob-nails, he had learned 
that the best enforcement of the sole was a line of 
