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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Dec. 31, 1898. 
"I have always admired a fighter, but he takes the cake. 
We made another nice seizure at Brainerd yesterday, con- 
sisting of fifteen saddles of venison, six deer heads and 
one moose head. They killed this stuff up in the wilder- 
ness, where it is almost impossible to go after them, and 
they then run the risk of getting it out the best way they 
can, but we are glad to be able to say that they are hot 
meeting with very good success thus far." 
E. Hough. 
1200 Boyce Building, Chicago, 111. 
New Brunswick Notes. 
Fredericton, N. B., Dec. 23. — Mr. James Turnbull, of 
Halifax, who has been hunting with Henry Braithwaite 
for the past three weeks, reached Fredericton yesterday. 
Mr. Turnbull brought out a very handsome moose, with 
a cross section of 5oin.; also his legal allowance of cari- 
bou. On the trip he saw thirty moose and hundreds of 
caribou. The Miramichi and Cain's River country seems 
to be alive with caribou this fall. In view of this fact 
many sportsmen advocate raising the limit to each 
shooter from one to two animals. Hunting caribou on 
the snow has always been a popular form of sport in 
this province, but where only one animal is allowed to 
each rifle few parties will go to the expense of fitting 
out for this "purpose. 
On Thursday evening last the Maritime express on the 
Intercolonial railway, near Rogersville, ran into a herd 
of thirty caribou. Three of the animals were killed out- 
right and several others injured. 
It looks as though some of our rifle manufacturers will 
have to pay more attention than they have yet done to 
the action of frost upon the magazine. I know of sev- 
eral cases occurring within the past fortnight where the 
magazine of a certain popular make of small-bore rifle 
has utterly refused to work under cold weather con- 
ditions. 
General Hutton's party is still in the woods. During 
their first day on the hunting grounds Captain Bell, the 
General's aide-de-camp, brought down a moose with a 
58m. spread of antlers. 
Two of the youngest guides in the Tobique country 
are Aleck and Dave Ogilvie. The latter had a very ex- 
citing experience with a monster bull recently. He was 
going over a line of traps about two miles from camp 
when he struck a fresh track. This he followed about 
200 yards, when he came upon an enormous moose, 
across a windfall, about 25yds. away. His rifle twice 
missed fire. At the third attempt he hit the moose in 
the shoulder and the animal staggered, then galloped 
away, leaving a trail of blood on the snow. Dave fol- 
lowed him about half a mile and then saw him watching 
his back track, about 70yds! away. He again fired, when 
the moose snorted and rushed straight for him, with, his 
mane on end and shaking his head. Dave retreated and 
got behind a big tree. Wh :n • the moose came within 
30yds. he snorted and humped his back up as though in- 
viting his enemy to close combat. Dave fired again, but 
another snort and shake of the head were the only visible 
effects. The boy then leaned his rifle against his tree 
of refuge and aimed straight at the breast of the moose. 
The immense animal then reared on his hind legs, made 
a futile attempt to charge, fell backward against a tree 
and was dead before Dave could reach him. The horns 
have a spread of 58m., and but for an injury done them 
when in the velvet would have gone over 60. They have 26 
points, the plate of one horn measuring 14 and the other 
I2in. The moose was very gray in color and showed 
many signs of old age. Dave's brother Aleck has killed 
a moose with a spread of 53in., and at Island Lake found 
a dead moose with a spread of 5iin. It is thought by 
Mr. W. Garrison Reed, of Boston, that this is the moose 
that was wounded by Dr. Heber Bishop when hunting in 
that locality. 
Adam Moore, of Scotch Lake, has shot a bull moose 
on Tobique weighing r,25olbs. The horns measured 
over 5ft. Henry B. Eaton, of Calais, guided by William 
Griffins, on the first day on hunting grounds shot a very 
large moose, with 54m. spread. W. H. Carnall, of St. 
John, has received a fine specimen of locked antlers of 
two bull moose, killed while fighting on Canaan River. 
So far as known, up to Saturday last no moose had 
ever been shot on Miramichi waters with a spread of 5ft. 
While the Sou'west country seems to be fully equal in 
point of game supply to either the Tobique or the Resti- 
gouche regions, yet exceptional heads have rarely been 
taken there. Tbis no doubt is a purely accidental circum- 
stance, as the Miramichi and Tobique hunting grounds 
really merge into each other at the watershed, and moose 
are found everywhere on the hardwood ridges and around 
the lakes. Still it remained for Dr. Heber Bishop, of 
Boston, to prove that 5ft. heads could be found on the 
eastern side of the divide. The Doctor, with his friend, 
W. A. Ross, of New York, hunted for five days on the 
snow in the Sister Lakes and Rocky Brook country. They 
had as guides Ed. Norred, Jim Paul and Herb. Heal. Old 
bulls were found to be plentiful, and many were started. 
On the third day a very large moose was shot with a 
spread of 53m.. The fourth day was chiefly taken up in 
packing this moose to camp. On Saturday, while the Doctor 
and Ed. were setting out for a tour of some of the adjacent 
lakes, they suddenly came upon a monster bull plowing 
straight toward them through the snow-laden firs not 
15yds. away. The Doctor's first shot brought the bull to 
his knees, then he got up and started, but fell after going 
a few rods, and a second shot finished him. The Doctor 
was naturally in high spirits when he discovered that the 
antlers measured a fraction over 6oin., and as the bull 
was a noble specimen in every way, determined if possible 
to have him taken out whole and mounted for the New 
York exhibition. As the animal was killed within a 
quarter of a mile of a logging road, this proved to be a 
feasible scheme. The entrails being "removed, the 
moose was neatly sewed up in canvas and then hauled to 
Boiestown and placed aboard the train. In going down 
the portage road, one of the points was damaged slightly, 
reducing the spread. Tn crossing the swift water of the 
Sou'west, Ed. Norred devised a novel scheme to keep the 
moose from being wet He placed one sled on top of an- 
other, with long poles projecting from the sides, apd the 
whole firmly bound together with fop§s and hay wire, 
WnM) WW MWl threatener] to ii"p nr\ |f» ihf>net'V Mfifa II 
was kept on an even keel by these outriggers. The cross- 
ing was effected without a drop of water being shipped. 
Ed. also concocted a kind of sledge, to which the moose 
was lashed, and which greatly facilitated its being handled 
safely on the cars and steamers on its way to New York. 
The Doctor says the moose in New Brunswick are much 
larger than those he has seen on other hunting grounds. 
This monster weighed a trifle over i,ooolbs. after all his 
inwards were removed, and must have gone close to 
i,30olbs. when he met the Doctor. 
A moose has been shot near Nictau Lake, on the 
Tobique, which is claimed to have the finest head ever 
taken in this Province. Though the spread (63m.) is 4m. 
less than Mr. F. H. Cook's head, the blades are ioin. wide, 
and there are thirty-two perfect points equally divided on 
either side. The fortunate sportsman was Capt. Chauncy 
P. Williams, of Albany, N. Y., who had as guide George 
Armstrong, of Perth Centre. This head is being mounted 
by Mr. S. L. Crosby, of Bangor, who, by the way. has 
received up to date 103 moose heads, besides 450 caribou 
and deer. 
If Mr. Emerson ' Hough, of Chicago, could only spare 
the time to visit Chatham or Richibucto this bracing win- 
ter weather, he would make haste to disown the Kekoshee 
fish story as a very commonplace yarn indeed. The fisher- 
men there are now hauling up through the ice from 100 
to 200 tons of smelt per day. These are sold on the ice 
.at from 3 to 4 cents a pound and shipped to the States by 
the trainload. Frank H. Risteen. 
Chat. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
■ I don't want to subject myself to the charge of growling 
top much, but I hope you'll gratify me by inflicting a 
fine of $5 (to be used for the suppression of market 
shooters) on any one of your correspondents who pokes 
an angle of 45 degrees at you, for it's getting to be a very 
tiresome angle, and proves that the person who uses it 
doesn't know an angle from a wagon wheel. If he must 
use something near that slope, let him say 45 or 46. 
I would also like a fine of that amount collected from 
the thoughtless scribbler who goes fishing for "speckled 
beauties," to be used for the same good purpose. 
And while I am at it I want also to indulge in a growl 
against the editor of the Detroit Evening News for pub- 
lishing an outrage like the "Michigan Hunting Record" 
without a word of condemnation. 
Speaking of the feat of ''Young Sam Cable, of Sulli- 
van," he says: "Since Oct. 1 .he has bagged more than 
1,000 quail and partridges. He was out every day." 
Young Sam Cable belongs to a class who arc entitled 
to no respect, and if he had brains enough he'd be 
ashamed of his career. An occasional shooting trip gne- 
infinite pleasure, but no sensible man can enjoy what, ho 
makes a daily business of. 
A market shooter is one who is too lazy to work, and 
if our legislators were made of the proper stuff he would 
be made to work. I will never sleep soundly till he's 
suppressed. 
The bull bat war — as well as the American-Spanish 
war — I am happy to say, is ended, and without the losb 
of a life, though I'm sorry to find that my little joke about 
my piety was lost on my serious-minded friend Coahoma, 
with whom I've been at fierce and feathery war for some 
time past. Dioymus. 
St, AiiGVsriNU, Dec. 15. 
"Hitting vs. Missing." 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Although I am an old gunner. I have read with very 
great pleasure and no little profit Mr. Hammond's de- 
lightful book on the use of the shotgun, entitled "Hitting 
vs. Missing." His instructions are so simple and so 
eminently practical that the most unlearned persons may 
profit by them, and yet all through the book runs a con- 
cealed thread of theory, which teaches the reader more 
than he is aware of as he reads. 
I have a nephew about 12 years old, who is soon to 
have his first gun, and before he receives the gun I 
shall give him a copy of Mr. Hammond's book, in the 
hope that long before he takes his weapon in his hand 
he may have saturated his mind with the wise precepts 
given by that charming writer. Connecticut. 
Bridgeport, Conn. 
Michigan State Game and Fish Protective League* 
Grand Rapids, Mich., Dec. 20. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: The annual meeting of the State Game and Fish 
Protective League will be held at the Hudson House, 
Lansing on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 1899, commencing al 1:30 
P. M. 
The question of changes in the present game and fish 
laws "will be taken up at that time, and the committee 
appointed at the June meeting will present bills for pro- 
posed changes, and action taken at this meeting. Mem- 
bers of both branches of the Legislature who are inter- 
ested in game and fish protection will be present, and 
will address the meeting. Governor Pingree has been 
given a cordial invitation to meet with us, and it is ex- 
pected will be with us at the evening meeting. 
Charles E. Brewstrr, Sec'y. 
Bear Hunting in Pennsylvania. 
Not for many years have bears been so numerous in 
the mountains of central and northeastern Pennsylvania. 
Old hunters have been killing them right and left in the 
mountains of Clearfield and Centre counties. Sheriff 
Bell and party, of Blair county, recently popped over 
three, while three others were killed in the foothills of 
the Alleghanies. Andrew Edgar, of Lonestown, has five 
large bears already to his credit, while John and James 
Schofield, of Dti Bois, killed five inside of ten days. 
Bruin is particularly partial to the beech woods of Cam- 
eron and Sullivan counties, and up near the source nf 
I he Sinnemahonmg one hunter and trapper has killed 
sixteen up to date. In the aggregate no bess than forty- 
five hears haye b&en killed in tbjd P?rf of the State with- 
in the. (Mvf si j? w«ei*?. 
On the Upper Mississippi. 
Ivitta nning, Pa., Dec. 5. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
If you remember last year I made inquiry about hunting 
grounds for large game, and you directed me to write 
to Mr. B. C. Finnegan, at Grand Rapids, Minn., who was 
very courteous, and gave very satisfactory information; 
and at his suggestion we went up the Mississippi in a 
small steamer about seventy or eighty miles above the 
rapids. We had elegant quarters at L. S. Cards', on 
the banks of the Mississippi, where the stream is quite 
small. Mr. Finnegan had arranged for guides and boats, 
and to my surprise we were met by Wm. Tibbets, a 
guide, who had hunted with my wife and me the year 
before on the Brule, in Wisconsin, and knowing him 
we were more than pleased. He took our party, com- 
posed of Joseph Morris, of Pittsburg, and A. C. Bailey, 
of Ford Cit} r , my wife and myself, to the above-named 
place, and strange to say this point was named Gamblers' 
Point before Mr. Cards ever saw it. 
Mrs. Jessop was very fond of hunting and always 
enjoyed going with me on these trips. She showed her 
adroitness and skill as a huntress, as she killed the first 
two deer, one of which was an exceedingly large one. 
Jim Drumbeeter, her Indian guide, thought she was the 
finest running shot he had ever seen, as she had killed 
both deer running. Four years ago she hunted alligators in 
Florida, killing two, one 5 and the other 7ft. long. As 
a wing shot she did very well. . 
The party killed seven deer and quite a number of 
mallard ducks. I became so infatuated with duck shoot- 
ing that I would prefer shooting ducks than deer. We 
had intended killing one moose, but as we were located 
probably ten miles away from the moose hunting 
grounds, and the weather was quite cold, and we would 
have been compelled to camp out, therefore we resolved 
to defer the moose hunting until next season. How- 
ever, we saw one moose at the mouth of Leech River. 
C. J. Jessop. 
Maine "Wolves. 
A Kingfleald, Me., special says that George Woodcock, 
of Carrabasset. shot a doe deer last Saturday on Stratton 
Brook, that had a well developed set of spike horns. An- 
other hunter, Edward Taylor, shot the fawn that was with 
the doe. Aside from the horns, the deer was exactly like 
any other doe, and weighed I25lbs. 
Again there are reports of wolves in Maine, with their 
tracks followed by old wolf hunters, who "could not be 
mistaken." They do not bring out the trophies, how- 
ever, and until they do the ordinary individual is inclined 
to regard their stories in the same light as that of the 
well-read fable. 
Pickerel fishermen are at it. Reports from Maine men- 
tion big strings taken from Sabattis Pond. Mr. Green- 
wood, of Auburn, took twenty-three in one day, through 
the ice. Fox hunting is also in order. Special. 
m %t\(l Stiver ^mlfing. 
Proprietors of fishing and hunting resorts will find it profitable 
to advertise them in Forest and Stream. 
An Outing on Great South Bay. 
BY FRED MATHER. 
Although we did a little fishing, the season was late 
for bluefish, in the bay at least, and we went mainly just to 
be there. September had half gone when Dr. Bashford Dean 
drifted in on me with the remark: "It will be a fortnight 
before my work begins in the college, and I know a grand 
place where we can go on South Bay, and have good 
rooms in a fisherman's cottage, cook our own feed and 
have a good time. The fishermen will come and go, and 
you will be delighted with them, besides you will ex- 
change the fitful rattle of the street cars for the steady 
roll of the surf." And without more inducement I met 
him at the railway station, and before 11 A. M. next day 
we were at Freeport, Long Island, where we found a 
wagon to take us to the landing. 
Of Long Island's 118 miles in length, the Great South 
Bay occupies nearly half of its south shore, and the bay 
is from three to six miles wide. It is shallow, and sepa- 
rated from the Atlantic by a broad beach of sand, broken 
through by occasional inlets. At Freeport landing there 
is a salt meadow extending out more than a mile, and 
through this runs an inlet, which is as crooked as inlets 
are allowed to be, and a craft of 70ft. would find difficulty 
in making the turns. 
At a little wharf lay a solidly built catboat about 30ft. 
long, which was taking on a seine from a great reel, and 
after this was aboard cakes of ice were put in the fish 
boxes, and bottles of those horrible concoctions known 
as "ginger-pop" and "sarsaparilla," generically called "soft 
drinks," were put on the ice. Then came bread, canned 
goods,, and other necessaries, and I was formally intro- 
duced to the men who were to be our companions when 
they were not away in Freeport, 
First was Capt. Thomas Smith, a great happy giant of 
sixty years, close shaven sometimes, but with a sprouting 
moustache that had only been out in the air for a week, 
and two rivulets of tobacco juice, whose sources were at 
each corner of his mouth, but finally joined in a deep bay 
in the dimple of his chin. Notwithstanding all these at- 
tractions, he was a bachelor. If the maidens of Freeport 
who have passed the giddy stage knew Capt. Smith as 
well as I do, they would hold him in such esteem. that 
there would be a rush to see which would lay siege to 
his heart by eliminating the incrustations of tobacco and 
bossing him just a little bit into shaving more regularly, 
for he is a grand old man with a great big heart. 
Then there was Byron Raynor. quiet and unobtrusive, 
except when he had "a positive opinion about hauling the 
sheet aft or of luffing a little, when he would assert him- 
self and his opinions in spite of being told to "shut up" 
by the man at the helm. This he did not mind, unless it 
was accompanied with advice to bathe his head in milk 
toast or to hand his feet overboard and cool off, when he 
would say no more until he was again moved to give nrj 
