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into the Moosehead region, in Maine. They found the 
partridge shooting very good indeed, getting all the 
birds they could want reasonably. But Mr. Foss is more 
particularly proud ot the success of his boy. Last 
Christmas one of the boy's presents was a rifle, which 
naturally made him long for his fall trip to .Maine. Tie 
has shot a line buck deer. Mrs. Eugene Lynch, of Rox- 
bury, Mass., has recently returned from a hunting and 
fishing trip in the Rangeley region with her husband. 
She brought down a deer with a rifle, at a distance that 
almost staggers Mr. Lynch himself, who is a good 
marksman. Prof. J. F. Moody, of Auburn, Me,, gun- 
nning at Hebron, in the same State, last Saturday, se- 
cured three partridges. He reports the birds very scarce 
in that part of the State. Mr. A, G. Bearsc, gunning in 
the same town, has shot only two birds. 
Miss Florence Lowell, of Brooklyn, N. Y., has had an 
experience in attempting to photograph a cow moose. 
The party was camping on Mud Pond, Chesuncook 
Lake. Miss Lowell was out in a canoe with a guide, 
wlien the monster cow wheeled out of the woods and 
into the muddy water 3 or 4ft. deep. Here she stopped, 
evidently willing to be photographed. "Focus for 6ft.," 
whispered the escort, evidently intending to try for a 
near picture. The canoe was wheeled around, the lady 
rnaking one or two snap shots; but before the right 
distance was reached the moose disappeared up the bank, 
making the mud fly in every direction. The plates when 
developed had only a distortion on them. The focusing 
was too short. Another report says that the cow 
charged on the canoe, bringing her hoofs down within 
i8in. of the gunwale before she whirled. But everybody 
would rather hear that part of the story from Miss 
Lowell herself than to take a doubtlessly exaggerated 
report for the truth. Special. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
Mr. J. D, Ke dall is Alive. 
Many years ago, in the times of Eddie Price, and "be- 
fore the Kankakee was finished," there lived in this neck 
of woods a gentleman by the name of J. D. Kendall, who 
was well known and much respected by many of our old- 
tim.e shooters in this vicinity. In course of time Mr. 
Kendall moved out West, located at Salt Lake City, and 
got tangled up with a gold mine which has made him so 
much money that he burns wet dogs with it instead of 
fire crackers when he wants to celebrate the Fourth of 
July. -Some of our old-timers remember Mr. Kendall 
very Avell, and a while ago Roll Organ, of this city, while - 
in the West, met Mr. Kendall in person and was invited 
to take a fishing trip to the latter's trout preserve in Ore- 
gon. It happened that soon after this . time the news- 
papers printed the account of the death of a Mr. Ken- 
dall, of Denver, Colo., and Bill Haskell, another old- 
timer of this city and a friend of l\Ir. Kendall, saw this 
notice and told Mr. Organ that his friend Kendall had 
passed away. This was denied by ilr. Organ, \y.ho said 
he had just left Mr. Kendall. "Well. I don't caiicif you 
did," said Mr. Haskell; "he's dead, for 1 saw, it, rin 'the 
paper." Of course, anybody who knows Bill MaskelL 
knows that it is no use arguing with him when he has 
once made up his mind. Several days were passed at tiie 
Maksawba Club, during which Air. Organ tried to prove 
to Mr. Haskell that Mr. Kendall was still living, but it 
was no use. As a last resort, Mr. Organ wrote to Mr. 
Kendall himself, asking him to tell Bill Haskell that he 
was not dead, hoping that this might prove to the latter 
that he had been mistaken. This morning Mr. Organ 
received the following communication from Salt Lake 
City, signed by some of the most prominent sportsmen 
of that city, and attested hy a notary public: 
To Old Roll Organ, Fred Taylor, "By Crips" Brown, Bill Has- 
kell, of Cliicago. 111., and others of their ilk: We, the undersigned 
citizens of good repute, and residents of Mormondom. do hereby 
declare that the report so industriously circulated at Chicago by 
the above named and other ill-disposed persons to the efJcct that 
"J. D. Kendall, of this place, "an old sport' who formerly was so 
careless of his reputation as to associate with them at and about 
Chicago, -is dead. ' is untrue; and we also certify that he is not 
only alive, but very much alive, and able to cast a fly or pull a 
trigger with any old sport that comes along. 
S. McDOWALL. [L.Sn 
T. M. DART. fL.S.I 
'u. CHISHOLM. rL.S.1 
C. STATNE.S. [L.S.I 
1. P. WOODMAN. . fL.S.] 
WM. M. BR.\DLEY. [L.S.] 
State of Utah, ( . . 
County of Salt Laice. ( i 
Before me, a notary public, appeared the above named affiants, 
who are personally known to me to be active members in good 
standing of the Ananias Club, and whose word is usually good if 
sufficiently corroborated, who state that said J. D. Kendall reports 
himself as alive, and they don't think it prudent to dispute tlio 
word of an athlete. Personally I have mv doubts. 
fL.S.] HARVEY J. JONES, 
Notary Public. 
It would seem that while the notary public has his 
doubts about the matter, Mr. Kendall is convinced him- 
self that he is still alive. But will this statement con- 
vince Bill Haskell that Mr. Kendall is still alive? Cer- 
tainly not, Mr. Haskell having made up his mind that 
Mr. Kendall is no more, the incident in his opinion is to 
be regarded as closed. I have never met Mr. Kendall 
myself, and hence hardly feel qualified to express an 
opinion in this matter; but I have met Mr. William M. 
Bradley, the Salt Lake attorney whose signature I see 
appended to tlie above statement, and hence am inclined 
to think that Mr'. Kendall is correct in his own -inference 
that he is still alive. 
Sporting Grounds and Civilization. 
Among the great old-time sporting grounds adjacent to 
Chicago, as every one knows, are those along the Kanka- 
kee and Illinois rivers. Tliese marshy lowlands were for 
years thought irreclaimable, and it certainly took con- 
siderable foresight to undertake m.aking of them anything 
but a feeding ground for ducks and a spawning ground 
for fish. I have earlier mentioned the work of drainage 
which has been slowly nrogressing along the Kankakee 
Marsh for several years, but now it seems that the work is 
to be pushed so extensively and by mean'i of such immense 
ditches that it seems likely the great Kankakee marshes 
will soon be but a memo^5^ Certain rnen have long 
owiTed great tracts of this marsh ground, where they have 
pastured great numbers of cattle during dry seasons. It 
laas been feared by some- of these men that should the 
FOHESt AND STREAM. 
marsh be drained the pastures would be ruined. They 
liave now concluded to reclaim 500,000 acres of this 
marsh land, and if this be successful we shall soon have 
little marsh left. Messrs. John Brown, Nelson Morris, 
B, J. Gilford, J, B. Carmen and others are joining for 
these operations, which will go on in Lake, Porter, New- 
ton and Jasper counties, in the State of Indiana. 
Everybody knows the great drainage ditch by which 
Chicago is to be connected with the Mississippi, by way 
of the Desplaines and Illinois River systems. Not liking 
the idea of the city sewage being turned into the Illinois 
River, ii great many citizens of the Illinois Valley have 
taken legal steps to prevent the turning in of the water 
into the canal. A mass meeting of many hundred resi- 
dents was held the other day at Whitehall, III, and a 
formal appeal has been sent to Governor Tanner and 
President ^rcKinle}^, protesting at the completion of the 
canal and the turning in of the water until after the great 
Government dams on the Illinois River shall have been 
removed. It is thought that the sewage would collect in 
the back water above these dams and cause a prevalence 
of disease. If the dams arc blown out we shall surely 
have a better waterway for the ascent of fish into our 
angling waters in northern Illinois, but the question 
remains whether the Illinois River will be a stream fit for 
game fish after it begins to receive the Chicago sewage. 
Thus it is that civilization and sporting grounds prove 
incompatible. 
The same sort of thing comes up in the mooted town 
site of Ca.ss Lake, Minn., which is located on an Indian 
reservation. At last accounts Secretary Hitchcock had 
stopped the eviction of these settlers, and proittised the 
platting and opening for sale of a half-section of land on 
which the town is located. This is construed to be a 
further victory for the squatters, for they will have an 
undertsanding about the prices they will pay for their 
town lots when the auction begins. Home building, town 
building and city building man has a very hard heart when 
it comes to questions of rivers, lakes and forests. 
At Johnson City, Tenn., there is a shooting club called 
the Barn Door Gun Club, whose president is ex-Governor 
R. L. Taylor, whose sympathies are known to be divided 
between a shotgun and a fiddle. This unique shooting 
organization will hold its first tournament on Sept. 4, and 
it issues art invitation which says: "Nobody is barred 
unless he is unable to hit a barn door." The worthy 
president does not state on which side of the barn, the in- 
side or outside, the shooter is to stand while qualifying 
for admission. 
The Fish Commission of Minnesota is having trouble 
this season with its planting operations. As is well 
known, the State work includes seining the cut-off pockets 
in which large numbers of small fry are found each 
year along the Mississippi River. This fall, just as work 
^vas beginning on the pockets, there came a rise in the 
big river, whicii flooded the low grounds and made it 
difficult to get fry in any quantity. ' Equally hard luck 
was experienced in the gathering of the wall-eyed pike 
spawn. 'J^hc pike spawned in the Pike River this year on 
the rajiids, leaving the customary spawning groutids where 
thoy have usually been taken for planting purposes. The 
best efforts of the Commission in collecting spawuers did 
not meet with the sitccess which they deserved. 
The Minnesota Fish Commission has been obliged to 
put wire vietting over some of its tanks, more especially 
tho.-e containing the much prized albino 'trout, which art 
the pride of the Commission. The kingfishers have shovv-n 
a special fondness for the albino trout. Avhich can be seen 
so clearly in the water that they offer a shining mark, 
Game Around Chicago. 
Our shooting season at Chicago is under way. The 
snipe are in, and the early teal and wood duck shooting 
is developing fairly well. There is not mttch water in the 
shrunken Kankakee, but wherever there is some wet 
marsh there are birds this week. I hear better reports 
from the Maksawba Club than anywhere else, but a great 
tnany parties are going otit at the close of this week for 
the favorite points along the Kankakee. There are some 
snipe in along the Little Calumet. The fall bass fishing 
is now about at its be.st along the Kankakee River, and 
although T have not heard from tlic Fox River I think 
the bass ought to be biting there also now. Reports 
continue to liold up the original belief of a booiti year in 
(Hiail all over the middle West, especially in Illinois and 
Indiana. Lower Illinois is alive with quail. 
Chicken Coontry. 
Mr. Fred M. Stephenson, of Menominee, Mich., tells 
nic that he found .splendid chicken shooting this month 
■Ti Mhmesota along the Roseau ridges, some thirty-five 
milts northeast of Thief River Falls. He and his brother 
were in there with a good supply of dogs, and they had 
good sport. They killed forty birds in two hours and 
a half one morning, and- one day killed even fifty, the 
legal limit for two guns, without any trouble. 
E. Hough. 
I.'-O Caxton Buii-dimg, Chicago, 111, 
Plucky Michigan Game Warden, 
Harti'ord, Mich. — Thanks to the pluck and energy of 
niir deputy game warden, we have a promising outlook 
for quail shooting, and have had a fair supply of the 
toothsome wood duck. 
Wm. Palmer-, of Hartford, has fhe proper grit for a 
game warden. In August last he heard the frequent dis- 
charges of guns in the direction of the Pau Pau River, 
Tliinking the '"sooners" were getting in their work on the 
young wood ducks, he proceeded to the river and found 
the young ducks flying up and down the river in wild 
confusion, while every little while some one fired at them 
from down the stream. Following the sound of the guns 
a short distance, he found they were on the other side of 
the riveVi but he was determined to identify the tres- 
passers. Hastily undressing, he swam the stream and 
struck out on tlieir track. He could hear them tearing 
through the bushes, and thought to overtake th^em, but 
Billy found that a man clothed only in his complexion was 
no match in the race through the hrusli f^^r thni^p clothed 
in the regulation garb of civilization. But their fright 
had been effective, and no further menace was offered the 
defenceless young ducks, Sullivan Cook. 
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The Opening of the Season in New Hampshire. 
Again we can legally kill all the grouse, woodcock and 
such game that we are able to. The market-shooter still 
has his way, and is fully aware of it, and to all appear- 
ances will keep on as long as he can sell birds enough to 
pay for the killing. 
I started out on the morning of the opening day with 
the same companion as on the first day of last yeai'. 
This year our opening day did not resemble as nuich as 
last year, a typical, old-fashioned Fourth of July. Stilt 
we heard a number of shots in different directions. In one 
locality, some two miles west from where we were hunt- 
ing, we heard quite a rnnnber of shots. Rowdand Robin- 
son, in his description of Granther Hill's comments, when' 
hearing a number of shots, says: "There goes his gun 
again, but he hain't killed anything I know, by the way 
his gun sounds." This is about what my companion and 
T thought, perhaps not so much from the way the gun we 
h(?ard sounded as from our opinion of the skill of the 
person we thought was doing the shooting. 
1 seldom put in a whole da}^ during the early part of the 
season, and on the opening day this year we were out a 
little over half a day. We covered a good many miles of 
ground, and did not find birds at all plenty. Notwith- 
standing the usual report of "partridges being thick," wq 
started but two broods of grouse — eight in one lot and six 
in the other — with an occasional single bird here and there. 
Our bag was exactly the same as last year — eleven grouse. 
— not quite so evenly divided as on the previous titne, a,s. 
I killed seven of the number. The time has been when 1 
would consider seven grouse for half a day rather medium 
results. To-day I thitdc that number a pretty good bag,, 
and am satisfied with a smaller number. 
Our woodcock shooting during the middle of Septem- 
ber never amounted to anything in my experience of over 
twenty j'cars in this section. Occasionally a bird is found, 
but almost always in some very unlikely looking place. 
Last season we had quite a heavy fall of snow much 
earlier than usual. , This snowfall saved the lives of a 
good many of our grouse — fully one hundred in thi.s im- 
mediate vicinity. One well-known market-shooter said to 
me that "That snow knocked him otit of at least one 
hundred more grouse last season." 
Our grouse are pretty wild, and can look after Iheir 
safety pretty well, but two or three expert market-shooters 
hunting systematically together will take in many a wary 
old grouse who would easily escape from a single gunner. 
C. M. Stark. 
DuNBAftTON, N. H., Sept. 28. 
Massachusetts Association* 
Boston, Sept. 26. — Editor Forest and Stream: The 
work of enlightening the general public as to our game 
laws has been prosecuted vigorously by the Massachusetts 
h'ish and Game Protective Association, and has resulted m 
many letters being received by the secretary disclosing 
the existing state of things in the Old Bay State in 
teference to fish and game protection. 
Take for example the following, received yesterday, 
from S. Dennis: "'I address you in behalf of the fish and 
game of this section of the State. A general lawles.sness 
has prevailed in this neighborhood for years. Quail and 
other game birds are shot in defiance of law. Smelt are 
taken with nets. Seines -and nets are used for perch. 
F'ykes are set in Bass River and the ponds and stream > 
connected therewith." This is a very clean-cut statement 
of conditions in one locality, and other letters of similar 
tenor show that it is not an isolated case. The board of 
management of the Association have long believed that 
more vigorous work should be done hy the State, not onl\' 
in the line of prosecutions, but in putting out native qu.ail 
and stocking streams and ponds. 
At a meeting of the board last evening the following 
resolution was unanimottsly adopted, viz., "That the 
Massachusetts Fish and Game Protective Association 
earnestly desires a more efficient administration of the 
Department of - Fisheries and Game," and the secretary- 
was instructed to inform the Governor of its adoption by 
the meeting. 
It is proposed to call another conference of representa- 
tives of sport.smen's and fanners' clubs similar to that of 
last year within a few weeks. 
At the meeting last evening, Mr. A. B. F. Kinney, 
president of the Worcester County Game Protective As- 
sociation, made a report of the successful work of that 
Association in liberating quail, but said in hi.s opinion 
there would be no game birds in his county five years 
hence itiil ess more stringetit measures were adopted to pre- 
serve them. I inclose clipnings from the Boston Herald, 
which may contain items of interest to your readers. 
I send under another cover, sample of posters we have 
sent to postmasters. H. H. Kimball. Sec'y. 
Quail in Southern Virginia* 
. Chase City, Va., Sept. aS.-^There seems to b'e an im- 
pression throughout some sections of the North that there 
is a scarcity of game — especially quail — in Virginia this 
season,, presumably on account of the . cold §pell, of last 
winter. 
I cannot speak in behalf of the entire State, but in this 
section — Mecklenburg county — ^there seems to be more 
than the usual amount of quail. Many coveys were late 
in hatching, hence they are not fully grown yet, but they 
will be all O. K. by the opening of the season, Oct. 15. 
I saw one of our local hunters, who was out last even- 
ing at the request of a lady, who wished him to kill a 
few on her own farm, and he reports the following re- 
sult of a hunt of one hour and a halt: Flushed from ten 
to twelve coveys, in which were from' twenty to thirty 
quail each; killed twenty-three birds with twenty-five 
shells (all he took with him). This is nothing excep- 
tional in the way of a game preserve. The same result 
could have been obtained in many other fields around 
here. There is also the usual supply of deer, wild turkey .s 
and smaller game. W. D. Paxton, 
"I iVi.sh we had a horseless carriage," said the farmer's son. 
"We have," replied the farmer; ''and now that you speak of it, 
vou might as well orei it and bring a load of potatoes np to the 
house/'— Christian Register, 
