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ere they were registered: A. S, Wattles, Miss E. 
ties, C. C. S. Stinchfield, O. L. Belcher, John 
S. L. Foote, J. L. Roberts, F. J. Newell, F. S. 
E. C. Chesterfield, R. O. Framfore, W. E. Ed- 
JV. H. Thompson, J. F. Mills, J. W. Lntz, W. H. 
, J. W, Penniman, F. W. Pulney, Charles Strout, 
Loomis, John Foster, John Jinkinson, S. B. 
f. B. Carpenter, Robert Glover, S. B. Lane, A. W. 
, John F. Priest, Harry D. Priest, A. B. Harlow, 
G. A. Alton, W. A. Alton, L. E. Anderson, 
Merritt, Lynn; H. D. Brown, I. H. Pomeroy, 
ter; E. G. Curtis, West Newton; E. R. Saunders, 
S. B. Miller, Lawrence; G. Brooks, C. K. Falks, 
■gs, H. L. McDonnald, Wm. Harley, Haverhill; 
iitnam, Fitchburg; A. D. Monteith, Dedham; M. 
ley, E. E. Hawker, Chelsea; C. Howe, Leomin- 
J. Bigelow, Worcester; G. Williams, Newton; A. 
ston, Dr. R. Magee, Cambridge; W. D. Noyes, 
Tones, Woburn; T. B. Currier, M. A. Turner, 
:e; E. H. Whitehead, Medford; J. Moore, Ply- 
R. H. Nickerson. Dorchester. 
" Mr. D. H. Blanchard yesterday, a gentleman 
. be remembered as having done much for the best 
md game legislation. He is much concerned in 
0 the all too frequent shooting of men mistaken 
game, particularly in Maine. With many others 
/es it to be the duty of the Fish and Game Com- 
of that State to take the matter in hand and to 
erybody who shoots carelessly to justice. If the 
IS not law enough already, let the Legislature 
pecially stringent laws, sufficient to punish those 
ure or kill others by careless shooting; punish 
r manslaughter or murder. I have talked with 
lorting gentlemen, and they heartily agree with 
nchard. Special. 
If It Is Born in One. 
Springs, Kan. — Editor Forest and Stream: I have 
count my success in hunting and fishing not by 
unt of fish or game secured, but by the associa- 
d surroundings which attend the taking of the 
\nd so I look back upon a hunt, the result of 
d far as game was concerned, was the securing of 
muskrat, as one of the pleasantest of many pleas- 
es in Kansas. Muskrat hunting was, as with most 
;.ecticut River boys, one of my old-time pleasures, 
i-e very scarce on my old hunting grounds at 
1 and I had watched and waited for a bit of the 
sport in vain. 
ne winter morning I awoke to find everything 
■with a soft snow. At noon it stopped coming, 
air was full of fog and all things were dripping 
isture. Such a day is common in New England, 
in Kansas. It was too wet for my work in the 
so I decided to take a stroll. Of rabbits we had 
no one cared for squirrels; it was too late in the 
'or quail and too early for ducks. But a tramp 
the gun would be only hard work, so I shoul- 
iUd started down toward the river. Along a hedge 
that way I found where a couple of coyotes had 
e the snow had fallen, so I started after them, put- 
a couple of shells loaded with coarse shot as I 
followed them down to where they had been 
rabbits, but soon found where they had left at 
<d and it was useless to follow them, 
ed back down the river to where a great cotton- 
aned out over it, some 30ft. above the water. 
>r was mostly ice-bound, but under and below the 
an open place; so I sat down here and waited 
:ever might come, for it is one of my day dreams 
hall yet secure a beaver or otter in one of these 
streams. The melting snow kept up its soft spat- 
s chickadees came and asked me what I was wait- 
the fox squirrels barked from the timber across 
r; the crows scolded at the silent form of the 
and gradually my mind went back to my old New 
I home, to the sandy plains of New Jersey and 
ck again to the great trees that grew along the 
hey had seen the deer and buffalo, the Indian and 
boy ; it may be even Leather Stocking and Hard 
ad' camped in their shade. Surely they had seen 
cave loaded with rich ' furs from the hunting- 
of the upper prairies pass down to the markets of 
souri, while now they looked only upon the white 
o-called "improvements." So musing, the mo- 
rew into hours, until the premonition that game 
r came over me. I had seen nothing as yet that 
to shoot; but glancing to the lower end of the 
Iter, there I saw the v-shaped ripple so familiar 
and soon I saw the head of a muskrat. It was a 
Dt at a small moving target, but the old Reming- 
e to my shoulder, the sight came in line with the 
ry head and the silence was broken by the sharp 
the report. A moment later the little body floated 
n the water. I had made a long dead shot and 
ud of it. 
_e next thing was to get my game. The river bank 
y high and steep and slippery, or "slick" as the 
ion is here, as only Kansas 'dobe can be, and a 
lisstep would send me down into the deep strong 
of the river and very possibty to be drawn under the 
ny death. But my hunter's blood was up and I 
that specimen. A moment's delay, and it would 
:r the ice and lost; so risking all, down I went, 
f course or I should not now be writing this; 
the water and drew ashore my prize, the first 
lost the last muskrat I have shot in Kansas. To 
I I had risked as much as many a hunter does for 
?ame. It was worth on the market 10 cents, and 
' my friends who do not care for the hunt, if they 
n me would have called me gentle names, but to 
) is born with the hunter's blood in him it matters 
be the great bear of the north, a muskrat in Kan- 
single red squirrel in Eastern woods, if to obtain 
ticuiar game is the object in view. The same risks 
run and successful pursuit be just as gratifying in 
ance as the other. Altogether that pleasant after- 
iiriinger in my mind as long as eye can sight a 
my finger press a trigger. Pine Tree. 
r»EST AND STREAM IS put tb press eSch week on Tuesday, 
ndence intended for publication should reacTi us at the 
Monday and as much ^artier as praeticable. _ 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST 
The Hfiaois Test Case. 
Chicago, III, Oct.. ig.— Imefouf State game warden, 
Harry W. Loveday, yesterday evening, and be tells tne 
that the fight is now oft- under which the Illinois game 
law is to be tested ' by the nOn-reSident shooters who 
come over from; Iowa- to shoot ducks in the neighbor- 
hood of the preserves of the Carthage Gun Club, the 
Crystal Lake Gtan Club, etc., in Illinois. Mr. Loveday 
showed me a letter from ' Mr. J. W. Gordon, State's 
Attorney of Henderson county, who said that Warden 
De Hague had just made an arrest which would test the 
law. Mr. Gordon wrote that the case would be taken at 
once into the Circuit Court, and that the first phase 
of the fight would be habeas corpus proceedings. War- 
den Loveday says the matter will be pushed, and Mr. 
Gordon will have all the assistance he requires. Col- 
lections have not yet been made on the subscription 
paper which was a couple' of months ago passed among 
Chicago- sportsmen for the purpose of raising funds to 
help prosecute this fight. 
Buffalo Jones, 
I ran across Buffalo Jones by accident to-day in an 
office near my own, and learn that the author of "Buf- 
falo Jones' Forty Years of Adventure" is now on his way 
home from New York, after delivering his consignment 
of buffalo at that city. Mr. Jones picked up these ani- 
mals at dift'erent places, 'mainly the Goodnight ranch, of 
Texas. Mr. Jones is looking very well, and he tells me 
that bis book is proving a great success. It contains the 
record of what has certainly been a life of more than 
ordinary activity, restlessness and adventurousness. 
The newspaper clipping says that there were four buf- 
falo bulls, two cows and a yearling in the shipment which 
came from the Goodnight ranch of Texas. Each animal 
was sold at $500. It appears that Mr. Jones has an in- 
terest in the Goodnight herd. The original completed 
Buffalo Jones herd numbered 120 animals. It is said that 
the total of semi-domesticated buffalo is now nearly 600, 
including all the animals in captivity, and not any of the 
few supposed to be still in wild state. Mr. Jones re- 
gretted he would be too late to head the Dewey parade 
with a team of buffalo. 
Death of Robert D. Schultz. 
Mr. Robt. D. Schultz, of Zanesville, O., died at that 
city, Oct. 14, from a sudden attack of neuralgia of the 
heart. Mr. Schultz was a millionaire, largely interested 
in business enterprises in that city, and was one of the 
most prominent sportsmen of his State. He was a large- 
minded, large-bodied man, the soul of honor and char- 
itableness, and his loss is mourned by hundreds of friends 
in all parts of the country. Mr. Schultz was just back 
from a two months' trip to Colorado with his friend, Mr. 
Seib, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and both men reported a fine 
time, and Mr. Schultz was looking well. His death 
was a great shock to his friends. Mr. Schultz Was one 
of the original "Saginaw Crowd," and he had taken a 
trip with that fine body of amateur sportsmen out into 
Dakota every year, with one of two exceptions, since 
1884. His warm friend, Mr. W. B. Mershon, says that 
he thinks Mr. Schultz's death will put an end to the 
Dakota trips. This is the second death within three 
years in the membership of the Saginaw Crowd, the 
first one to drop out of the ranks being Mr. Fred A. 
Ashley, of Saginaw. All business seemed to be stopped 
in Zanesville on the day of Mr. Schultz's funeral, and 
the streets were packed with friends. Many came from 
New York, and other distant cities, and there was ap- 
parently no one in town who did riot share in the deep 
sorrow at his loss. As a sportsman Mr. Schultz was 
liberal, unselfish and justice loving — one of those who 
really believe in fair play in every walk of life. 
Chicago Sportsman Goes Gold Hunting* 
Mr. Victor L. Cunnyngham, a young gentleman quite 
prominent among the sportsmen of this city, left this 
week via New York on an expedition to South America 
in search of gold. He goes as the representative of a 
Chicago syndicate who propose to invest in that country 
on the strength of stories told by a returned miner. Mr. 
Cunnyngham will cross Colombia and seek out a distant 
valley in the Andes, which is reputed to be very rich 
in the precious metal. His. many Chicago friends wish 
him the best of fortune. . 
Not Peaceful. 
It is understood that the word "calumet" in the Indian 
language signifies the pipe of peace, but peaceful is the 
wrong name for the Calumet Lake region along the 
southern edge of Chicago. As I frequently have occa- 
sion to report, this is the scene of more illegal shootmg 
and fishing than almost any district of equal size in the 
State of Illinois, being infested by all sorts of foreign 
law-breakers, as well as a few who are not foreign. This 
week wardens Ratto and Kleinman arrested three pris- 
oners and had them fined. Henry Thomas was charged 
with shooting before sunrise. He was fined $15. Louis 
Jackson and Henry Marion were shooting song birds, 
and it cost the two $15. Hardly a Sunday goes by with- 
out a half-dozen arrests in that busy neighborhood. 
Movements of Western Sportsmen. 
Hon. Carter H. Harrison, Mayor of Chicago; Hon. 
Hempstead Washburne, ex-Mayor of Chicago, and Hon, 
Bill Haskell were all down at Maksawba Club last week. 
They had nothing very startling in the way of luck, but 
o-ot a few snipe and a few ducks. They tried the fishing, 
and caught a very decent lot of bass, one wenching 
4a41bs. The same party will go down to Maksawba the 
latter part of- this week„ - ^ , , . 
Mr R. B. Organ, of Maksawba Club, advises me that 
friends of his have found unmistakable evidence that the 
natives have been dynamiting fish in the Kankakee 
River. Several fish— carp, bass and pickerel— were picked 
up as they floated down stream dead'- or stunned. 
Mr. R. A. Shaler,' of this ' city, is now at Hbricon Club 
in Wisconsin, duck shooting. This makes his second 
trio of the fall, and he has had very good luck. 
Mr. Joel Kinney, of this city, is back from a three 
days* trip on the Horicon marsh. He got forty-eight 
ducks and a lot of snipe and rail. 
Mr. L. R. Brown, of Chicago, is absent at Horicon 
marsh for his second trip of this season. He had very 
good luck in September. 
Dr. H. C. Buechner, of Chicago, is another member of 
Diana Ckib, who is this week shooting 011 the Horicon 
marsh. 
Mr. F. R. BisseU, of this city, who usually shoots at 
Water Valley, Ind., reports the water low and duck and 
snipe shooting poor. He says that a great many quail 
are being killed in that country now. 
Mr. William Werner and Mr. W. P. Mussey, of this 
city, had planned a quail shooting trip to Holland, Mich., 
this week, but Mr. Mussey was unable to get away, and 
the enterprise had to be abandoned. 
Dr. J. D. Hammond, of this city, is back from a shoot- 
ing trip on the best of the club marshes of Lake Erie 
near Toledo. He went as a guest of some of the members. 
The party met clear, warm weather, and did not have 
so good sport as they might have had, but made some 
very decent bags of black mallards and teal. 
Mr. A. Roth, of this city, has returned from Neepee- 
nauk Club, of Wisconsin. He met pleasant weather, 
but not so many ducks as he would have liked. 
Messrs. Charles L. Hutchinson, Chauncey Blair and 
Robert Forsyth, all of this city, returned last week from 
a bass fishing trip at Pelee Island, of Lake Erie. They 
report very good luck and a pleasant time. 
Mr. J. Dyer, of the U. M. C. Co., and Mr. Charles 
Sylvester, of the Winchester R. A. Co., met this week 
in their calls on the trade of this city. As witnessing the 
entente cordiale existing between these two gentlemen, I 
may say that I saw the U. M. C. man borrow the lead 
pencil of the Winchester man to write an order with it. 
This was at Spalding's, and the two were at the time 
victims of Pop Hirth. ■ 
One of the Sights of a Great City. 
I am told that one of the sights of the city of Venice 
is the daily congregation of the pigeons at St. Mark',s 
Square, where the birds are regularly ted and not allowed 
to be molested. I have never been in Venice, though I 
expect to go there when I get $5 more saved up; but I 
have often had occasion to remark that one does not 
need to go outside of Chicago in order to see the world. 
The other day I was attracted by a crowd standing at the 
corner of Clark and Madison streets, in this city, and as 
I passed by I found that the center of attraction was a 
busy group of perhaps a score of pigeons, which were 
picking up the grain spilled from the nose bag of a cab 
horse. The birds were in the center of a circle formed 
by the spectators, and wer» apparently perfectly fearless, 
though not 2ft. from the edge of the lined-up crowd. 
It was a pretty sight, and a curious one, and I imagine 
no one there was the worse for it. 
Does It Scream? 
Perhaps the best serial story now running in the Ameri- 
can magazines is the one entitled "To Have and to 
Hold," written by Miss Mary Johnston, of Virginia, and 
now current in the Atlantic Monthly. In the opening chap- 
ter of the October issue there is the description of a heavy 
storm, and the writer says that during the storm matters 
were made more' frightful by a "catamount which 
screamed and screamed." There is some uncertainty as 
to the animal mean by the catamount, and of course every 
one recalls the discussion in the Forest and Stream 
as to whether the panther every really does scream. It 
it difficult to change popular belief, however, and I im- 
agine that the "womanlike wail" of the panther has come 
to stay in our literature. Not but what Miss Johnston 
may have a hundred screaming catamounts in her story 
if she likes, for it is too good to deserve criticism from 
the most captious. It takes one back to the time when 
old Virginny was young Virginny, and full of wild men 
and wild beasts. 
[There is no denying that the panther screams.] 
News from the Gros Ventre. 
I have received to-day the wedding cards of Miss 
Edna Pettigrew, of Jackson, Wyo., and Mr. Wm. Wells, 
of Wells, P. O., Wyo., announcing the marriage as hav- 
ing taken place Aug. 15. Mr. Wells is very well known 
to almost all the men who go West after big game, and 
I am sure all will wish him and his wife a very long 
and happy life in their mountain home. 
News from Minnesota. 
Latest reports from Kabekona camp in Minnesota 
say the weather is fine and duck shooting and bass fish- 
ing good. Mr. Frame, of New York, caught twenty-one 
bass in five hours; total weight, 77lbs. 'Twelve guests 
were in at that writting: Messrs. Geo. P. and Wm. H. 
Miller and Mr. F. Bloodgood, all of Milwaukee; Mr. 
and Mrs. Hepburn, Chicago; Chas. P. Frame, New 
York city; Edward B. Ellicott and Chas. S. Reed, of 
Chicago; C. V. Edmund, Louisville, Ky.; J. M. Kulp, 
Washington, D. C- No muscallunge reported, as the 
parties are all having good time enough at bass and 
birds. J . 
News from the Kankakee. 
The Kankakee River is not much good for bass this 
fall, thouhg a few are being taken. A week ago a few 
woodcock were seen near Davis. Two weeks ago Mr. 
C. C. Hess, of this city, made a decent bag of snipe at 
Lorenzo. There are a few snipe in now, but I cannot 
say much in encouragement of those who expect very 
big bags. Try Shelby and Koutts. 
Movements of 'Western Sportsmen, 
Oct. 21. — ^Dr. J. N. Crouse left for Tolleston Club yes- 
terday evening for a try at the ducks to-day. He says that 
a good many ducks are reported in on the Tolleston Club 
marsh, and he anticipates some shooting. 
Dr. H. C. Beuchner is back from the Horicon marsh. 
He reports thousands of ducks in on that fine preserve, 
but the weather too warm and mild to set them working. 
• Mr. S. E. Young, of this city, says that there are a few 
ducks along the Grand Calumet River near the Calumet 
Heights Club. 
Mr. A. Van Sant, an attorney of this town^ with three 
