r FOREST AND STHEAM. 
EPT, 2, 1899. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
The Chicken Season. 
CHlfcAGO, 111., Aug. 26. — The chicken season comes on 
as the fishing season draws to a close. Of the two sports, 
shooting and angling, 1 presume the latter will have the 
longer life in the Western country. Our better fishing 
waters seem to hold their own much better than the shoot- 
ing covers, which once had a reputation. Nowadays if 
you ask a shooter where he is going after chickens, his 
face will wear one of two expressions. He will either 
look blank or he will look cunning! Probably he does 
.not know where he can be sure of getting some sport 
on chickens, but if he does he is apt to prefer to tell 
you about it- after he has come back. I do not think 
there is in the West to-day any extended stretch of 
country which can be truthfully called a safe and practical 
chicken region. To-day the sport comes in patches, here 
and there, as there happens to be a few coveys which 
have been overlooked, a few farms which have been pro- 
tected, or a region which has been shot down so close as 
tc be abandoned, and which has hence had time to recover 
itself. Of course there will be some large bags of chick- 
ens made in the Dakotas and in Minnesota, I should 
consider that the crop in those States this year, from all 
reports I can obtain, is fully as good as it was last year. 
I am told that northwestern Iowa is good this fall. From 
Nebraska and Kansas I have not heard sufficiently to form 
an opinion. Illinois will as usual furnish some sport here 
and there, in localities which have been carefully pro- 
tected. Lower Wisconsin, more especially that part of 
the State where the hardwood begins to touch the pine 
belt, and where the farms are crowding into the marshes 
and woods, is for this year, as it has been for several years, 
very well worth watching. I have a quiet tip that Bab- 
cock, Wis., on the Milwaukee & St. Paul roid, can this 
year show a few birds, and I know of one or two parties 
who are going in there on the first of September. I am 
asked to join a party there, and may get out for a day's 
shooting on opening day at this point. From Babcock 
on west across the .State there are some birds scattered 
here and there, but it is risky business to name any 
definite points, for one does not like to send inquirers 
into a country which has been devasted by sooners. 
There is sometliing peculiar about the prairie chicken. 
A man will wait until the opening of the duck season, and 
he would lose caste even among fellow criminals if he shot 
quail before the law was out, but over a great part of the 
chicken country the offense of early illegal shooting is 
winked at and condoned. It is difficult to explain this 
fact, but it is true, and owing to its truth it is a very 
risky matter to attempt in these days to name any local- 
ity which is sure of offering good sport on prairie chick- 
ens. To be sure, one can go to such points as Fargo, 
N. D.; Pembina, N. D.; Hallock, Minn., and depend 
on getting directions there for fairly decent chicken ^ 
shooting. He could do as well by going to Ruthven, la.; ' * 
Algona, la.; Emmetsburg, la., or other points in the i 
natural chicken country. For those asking for territory J 
where they can be reasonably sure of sport on this gamej/n I 
bird, the best advice, and really about only the practical f J 
advice, is to go oitt to some point, in the best chicken |j 
region, and there get local advice for the hunt. The time 
is coming very rapidly when the twenty-five birds a day 
limit will not be necessary in any State law, for it will 
rarely be the case that one will kill so many birds as that 
in any one day. Yet he can have sport in killing a dozen* 
birds, if he hunts in September in a cornfield country.! 
The prairie chicken is becoming educated, and is a warier] 
bird to-day than he was twenty years ago 
especially in the low grounds near Trempeleau. There is 
good woodcock country also down the river from La 
Crosse. If any sportsman will write to Asher Spicer at 
La Crosse, the latter will take him out, and I think will 
give him a little shooting on woodcock, as he is thor- 
oughly posted in that country. 
The Kankakee River in Indiana is of course a good 
woodcock country, but we do not hear of very many bags 
of woodcock made there now-adays. The fact that we do 
not hear of them has nothing to do with the fact that 
they are made. The early woodcock and the early wood 
duck are still considered legitimate sources of revenue 
for quite a class of population, resident and non-resident, 
who hunt in Indiana. E. Hough. 
480 Caxton Building, Chicago, 111. 
The Sultan of Johore and His Tiger. 
When a young Sultan goes a-tigering in the jungle and 
gets the striped pig-thief, he deserves to see his picture in 
print. We copy it from the London Illustrated Sporting 
and Dramatic News, which says of him: The young 
Sultan of Johore is distinguishing himself as a shikari. A 
well-built and manly young fellow, His Highness fre- 
quently goes on big game expeditions on foot, and de- 
pending almost entirely on his own skill with the rifle. 
THE SULTAN OF JOHORE AND HIS TIGER. 
Our illustration shows the Sultan standing beliind his 
latest kill, a magnificent full-grown tiger. The beast had 
been after a Chinaman's pigs at a place about a couple of 
miles from the palace at Johore (the south of the main- 
'land of the Malay Peninsula, and only fifteen miles from 
ISingapore). The Sultan went after him and turned him 
' out of some jungle about 30yds, off, his first shot break- 
CoL C?''KF"eltonr oVthircity^^^^^^ week for al / f/, the spine and his second piercing the skull. The 
chicken shootmg trip near Sprmgheld, b. D., and i am 
sure I hope he will have good success. Col. Felton is one 
of our best known Chicago sportsmen. He is sixty-eight 
years of age, and gets younger every year. "I am sorry 
to see the Forest and Stream take up this idea of shoot- 
mg licenses," said he to-day. "The license idea is all 
wrong. You sporting newspapers have killed off all the 
game in the country, and now you want to fix it so we 
have to pay a big license to get even a little shooting at 
what game there is left." "Are you going to pay your 
license out in Dakota?" I asked Col. Felton, and he re- 
plied, "Of course I am, and I am going to respect the 
twenty-five birds a day limit. If you see any communi- 
cation coming in about some one killing 125 birds a day 
you will know that I wrote it, but only in my character 
as a sportir\g writer. I am president of the local branch 
of the Ananias Club." 
A Few Sooaers. 
Chas. Van Drew, residing near Sterling, 111,, was this 
week fined $15 by Justice Weaver, of that city. Mr. Van 
Drew was seen to discharge his gun toward some prairie 
chickens, and was fined for trying to kill them. I would 
hate awfully to be fined for shooting chickens if I couldn't 
hit them, and this same view seems to have been taken by 
the justice, who remitted the fine. Mr. Van Drew should 
practice a little before going after game. 
At New Ulm, Minn, (which in Minnesota is pronounced 
"Ny Ullum"), Mr. Gust. Brandt, son of the publisher of 
the Fortschritt, was arrested last Monday by Warden 
Geiger, who found five prairie chickens on his person. 
Justice Hennigsen fined Brandt $53, and did not remit the 
fine. A great deal of previous shooting has been going on 
for some time in that part of the country, but this is the 
first arrest up to this time, proof Ueing difficult to secure. 
Quail. 
As the prairie chicken disappears the quail may fairly 
be said to increase, in spite of all the enemies it has to 
encounter. In Minnesota the quail is abundant this fall 
as far north as St. Paul. It is more generally abundant 
in Iowa than it was in the time of my boyhood. In 
Wisconsin it is doing very well, and in Michigan it is 
marching steadily northward in great numbers. Illinois 
never had a better quail crop than she has this fall, and 
I think the same is practically true of Indiana, where 
the conditions are nearly identical. 
"Woodcock. 
One of the best woodcock grounds in the West is along 
th,^ Mississippi River bottoms, above La Crosse, more 
Malays are naturally very proud of their plucky young 
sovereign. 
Canadian Game Export. 
By Customs Department Memorandum No. 1063 B, 
dated Aug. 16, 1899, deer killed by sportsmen may be ex- 
ported under the following conditions, the term deer com- 
prising deer, caribou and moose : 
The deer may be exported only at the customs ports of 
Halifax, Yarmouth, Macadam Junction, Quebec, Montreal, 
Ottawa, Kingston, Niagara Falls, Fort Erie, Windsor, 
Sault Ste. Marie, Port Arthur and such other ports as 
shall from time to time by the Minister of Customs be 
designated for the export of deer. 
The exportation of deer in the carcass or parts there- 
of (except as to cured deer heads and hides of deer) shall 
be permitted only during or within fifteen days after the ' 
open season. 
No person shall in one pear export more than the whole 
or parts of two deer, nor shall exportation of such deer be 
made by the same person on more than two occasions 
during one calendar year. A non-resident exporter must 
show his Hcense to the collector of customs. 
Nova Scotia Moose. 
I AM sending you a short article about Nova Scotia as 
a hunting ground, because I know Forest and Streaivi 
has the largest number of readers among the sports^ 
men. My particular object is to bring to the notice of 
sportsmen the fact that we have the best hunting grounds 
for moose in North America. I have been in the woods 
for ten or twelve years every fall. With your kind per- 
mission I shall give our American (we are all Americans) 
United States sporting men some idea of how they may 
reach the greatest moose grounds on this continent. 
Sportsmen can leave New York or 'Boston and be on the 
hunting grounds in two or three days — we shall say three 
days at the outside. 
There are different routes : The all rail, the Plant 
steamship line, the Yarmouth steamship line, all of which 
leave Boston directly for Nova Scotia. 
In purchasing tickets, I should advise buying a return 
ticket on either of these routes for New Glasgow, which 
will be the same prjce as if purchased to Eureka Junction, 
Nova Scotia. 
Arriving at Eureka Junction on the Intercolonial Rail- 
way, the sportsman will change cars and take the train 
going over the Nova- Scotia Steel Company's road to 
Sunny Brae, where, after a beautiful drive through ten 
miles of fascinating scenery, he will arrive at the West 
River, St. Mary's. Here the sportsman can make his 
headquarters at the Pictou House, kept by the ever-oblig-- 
ing Mr. Angus McDonald. Arriving at St. Mary's the 
guide will have to be looked up, for I should advise al' 
sportsmen to secure a guide before he leaves home. 
The West River of St. Mary's is beautifully situated, 
with high hills on either side. Here, in the woods over the 
mountains, on the flatlands, which are dotted with beau- 1 
tiful large lakes, is the home of the moose. These animals 
have a vast extent of territory, but it will not be un- 
likely that with a good guide the hunter will not be 
many days in fetching down the king of the forest. The 
season opens in Nova Scotia Oct. i. The time will quickly 
arrive. The prospects were never better than this fall. I 
am told that moose have frequently been seen dashing 
across the path of prospectors during the past few weeks. , 
There are several good callers, but probably the man 
who was most successful in bringing up a moose in the 
past years is Mr. David Smith, of Smithfield, West River, 
St. Mary's, Guysboro county. Nova Scotia. He is a man 
who has been trusted in every particular, and if Dave 
cannot get a moose no other need try. 
I feel confident that if sporting men in the New England 
States would give the hunting grounds of Nova Scotia a 
fair trial they would not go home disappointed. 
- K. M. S. , 
Vermont Law Enforcement. 
North Ferrisburgh, Vt., Aug. 18— Editor Forest and 
Stre&m: Last Wednesday night the Burlington Free 
Press reports: "Wednesday night Deputy State Warden 
Ramsey (better known in Ripton and Rutland as the 
"Tramp Warden,' from the fact that some of the officers 
of those places some time ago came near arresting him 
for a tramp while he was working up cases there), ar- 
rived at Vergennes from Little Otter Creek with two dis- 
tinguished prisoners — Dr. Henry Furman, of Malone, 
N. Y., a former Vermonter, who is also an expert on 
insanity cases, and who figured in the Mildred Brewster 
case, and Rev. Andrew U. Ogilvie, of Elkhart, Ind., 
formerly chaplain of the State prison at Windsor, whom 
he caught in the early evening engaged in breaking the 
game laws of the State by shooting ducks out of season, 
and in whose possession he found one duck as the result 
of their united skill. They were brought before Justice 
Moulton and pleaded guilty, and were fined $10 apiece 
and costs, amounting to $28.17. 
"It is a shame that such men are so unprincipled as 
to break the laws of the State. The sentiment of every 
law-abiding citizen that such conduct, especially by one 
of the cloth, who of all men should carefully avoid conduct 
so much at variance with his profession, is severely de- 
nounced. The humorous side of this disreputable affair 
came out when the doctor and the reverend gentleman 
bought back the duck, which was 'only a little one,' pay- 
ing for it 25 cents." 
This is the first arrest made for illegal shooting on 
the Little Otter which has come to my notice, and 
Warden Ramsey is to be congratulated on convicting 
these sooners. 
If a little more such work 'was done here that class of 
campers who camp along the shores of Lake Cham plain 
and decorate the shade trees in front of their camps with 
the pelts of minks and other fnr-bearing animals killed 
in July and August and sneak in on the flocks of young 
ducks, just a little sooner than is legal, would soon 
conclude to respect our State laws or stay at home. 
Messrs. Furman and Ogilvie have no doubt come to 
the conclusion that Vermont ducks are a little high, but 
the better class of shooters here feel they have paid little- 
enough for their game, and got a free advertisement in 
our leading local dailies thrown in. Ferris. 
West Virginia. 
Wardensville, W. Va., Aug. 23.— The hunting season is 
coming on. We have plenty deer, turkeys, pheasants and 
quail. Black bass and trout in season. Capon River is a 
beautiful stream. T. B. W. 
The Choristers. 
[From the Philadelphia North American."] 
There's a little band of singers 
Everj' cA^ening comes and lingers 
'Neath the window of my cottage in the trees; 
And with dark they raise their voices, 
While the gathering night rejoices. 
And the leaves join in the chorus with the breeze. 
Then the '^twinkling stars come out 
To enjoy the merrj^ rout. 
And the squirrels range themselves upon a 
And the fireflies ftrrnish light, 
That they read their notes aright — 
The katydid, the cricket and the frog. 
log; 
All the night I hear them singing; 
Through my head their tunes are ringing — 
Strains of music straight from Mother Nature's heart; 
Now the katydid and cricket. 
From the deep of yonder thicket; 
Then the croaking frog off yonder drones his part. 
By and by the moon appears, 
As the midnight hour nears, 
And her smiles" dispel the low'rlng mist and fog; 
Then the mirth is at its height. 
And they glorify the night — 
The katydid, the cricket and the frog. 
5 
S DON'T SHOOT 
g until you SEE your deer — and see that * 
2 it is a deer and not a man. X 
