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CHICAGO A.ND THE WEST* 
Shot While Hunting, 
The deer season is now approaching its close in our 
northern woods, and we may tell a little something alike 
of the deer and of the hunters that have been killed. In 
Wisconsin there has been no tracking snow of conse- 
quence, and the still-hunters have had very bad luck at 
their sport. The law against , shipping game out of the 
State is gradually gaining weight in Wisconsin, hence I 
presume that more deer were killed , for spoi-t and less 
for the market this season than last, though I- admit 
most of this 10 be mere conjecture. At last accounts 1 
had word, of six deer hunters who had been killed out- 
right or fatallj^ shot this fall in Wisconsin. It seems to 
be of little avail to give good advice on these matters, for 
the man who shoots on-sight still goes into the woods. 
Western QuaiU 
Still more encouraging, and indeed still more wonder- 
ful, are the reports that come in of the quail crop in 
Illinois and Indiana. Every one seems to agree that 
there never was such a season, and the birds are present 
in many localities in such numbers as to cause surprise. 
Down in the Okaw bottoms of Illinois, far down south 
in the State, the birds are to be counted fairly in swarms. 
My friend Ernest McGaffej^ is just back from there, and 
says he killed eighty-seven quail in a three days' shoot, 
and did not w:ork very hard at that. The lower half of • 
Illinois and Indiana is safe country now for any one who 
wants a quail shoot. From all 1 can learn, however, the 
birds are more abmidant along that latitude than they 
are in Michigan and Wisconsin. Michigan has a fair 
crop of quail, but I do not think so good as last year. 
Lower down in Michigan there are more birds than in the 
upper part oi the south peninsula. Wisconsin offers 
much the same conditions of a wet breeding season and 
bad weatlier, so I suppose that the crop there may. be 
classified much like" that of Michigan. Yet this is not 
to/saif that one cannot have line sport in the proper locali- 
ses of almost any of the Northwestern States. Bob White 
is doing his noble best to retrieve the reputation of the 
West as a shooting country. 
Our ducks have now gotten pretty well to the south, 
and I do not hear of any one this week wdio seems to 
care much to go duck shooting. Up at Puckaway Lake 
in Wisconsin tiiere are this week four hunters who I 
presume will not care to go duck shooting for some time. 
They had seyeral busy days which lasted until after 
sunset, and their twilight sport cost them $25 each, witli 
suitable and appropriate cost on tire side. 
The Southefn National Park. 
They seem to be moving with energy in the matter oi 
the Southern Ntaional Park Association, of Asheville, 
N. C, of which editorial mention was made in last week's 
Forest and Stream. The literature put out by the com- 
mittee shows that the preliminary meeting or interstate 
convention is called for Wednesday, Nov. 22, at Ashe- 
ville. I take it that the plan is much that followed our 
this summer by the Minnesota National Park and For- 
dsty Association, and of course it is to be hoped that both 
movements will meet full measure of success. Mr. A. 
H. McQuilkin, chairman of the Park and Forestry com- 
mittee, writes me requesting details on the movement in 
the Northwest. "I have read that there has been incor- 
porated in Chicago," he says, "a national park and fore-vt- 
reserve association, and would be very much obliged ii 
ydu would furnish me promptly a copy of their consti- 
tution and by-laws. The time is short for us to make 
adequate preparation, 'so that any aid you can ofier in the 
way' of literature and suggestions would be very highly 
appreciated." 
I have been forced to. reply to Mr. McQuilkin that 
there has been no formal constitution or by-laws, and 
no permanent organization of the Minnesota National 
Park and Forestry Association. All that was d.e,sired to 
be accomplished by that body was to carry out a Congres- 
sional investigation of the country in question, and Avhen 
this was done it was considered that the main purpose of 
the organization had been obtained. The rest is left en- 
tirely with Congress. This may or may not be the safest 
and wisest plan, btit it is the plan which was pursued, and 
any future organization of the members of the party con- 
cerned with the Northwestern trip, will be for social or 
personal reasons j-ather than with the purpose of prose- 
cuting further the movement toward securing a national 
park in Minnesota. As to the methods pursued in this 
preliminary organization, I can best refer Mr. McQuilkin 
to the files of the Fokest and Stream, dating from the 
first of May till the middle of October, the attempt having 
been made there to record the progress of the movement 
very fully. It would appear that much of the preliminary 
work has been carried out by this Southern organization 
as was done by the Northern body. The Southern men 
have, with them Dr. C. A. Schenck, who was a member 
of the Minnesota party, and whose counsel will prove of 
value. Col. J. S. Cooper, 701 Tacoma Building, Chicago, 
would no doubt be glad to assist in any way he could. 
Here in Chicago we often hear of North Carolina as a 
sporting region or a good resting gi'ound. I have had 
a numbei* of parties write to me asking if I could assist 
them to select certain tracts of wild land for game pre- 
serve purposes. Yet Chicago has always regarded North 
Carolina as out of its natural line of travel, and I do not 
Icnow a great many ' Chicago sportsmen who go there. 
Should there be a strong movement made on the lines 
proposed for a national park, the agitation and advertising 
which would' ensue would no doubt bring North Caro- 
lina into greater notice here as a land for the sportsman 
tourist. - Should. the park be really established it is prac- 
i'ically sure that it would secure for the State a much 
grealter proportion of Northwestern travel than it has 
ever liad hitherto. 
This seems to be a great, year for forestry movements, 
and one peculiar phase of the topic is the prominence in 
Tfiie forestry movenigi.it.s of women's clubs in different 
paltS' of the couuiry. This is said to be especially true in 
the East, where -women's clubs ha.ve taken up the study 
of forestry matters. Attention has already been called 
in the§e 'columm to th? f^ct th^t the Federation of 
Women's Clubs was the prime mover for a national park 
in Minnesota. Minnesota may claim the oldest forestry 
association in the countr5% It also pays out $20,000 an- 
nually as tree bounties in the treeless counties. It has a 
forestry board and a good fire warden law, and is indeed 
a model to all States, East or West, for emulation in the 
little understood and not very popular, yet very vital, 
matter of forest preservation. 
"Just About a Boy." 
It goes without saying that all readers of Forest and 
Stream have read with delight the charniing sketches 
published in the P'orest and Stream, "Just About a 
Boy," and I doubt not they will have remembered the 
name of the author, El Comancho, as connected with other 
good and pleasant reading on the outdoor matters which 
Forest and .Stream has most to do. To all this family 
of friends it is a matter of interest to know that the Boy 
sketches have this week been published in book form by 
the prominent firm of Herbert S. Stone & Co., Chicago. 
The elegantly made little volume is in my hands as I 
write, and I find it very delightful from cover to cover. 
The dedication itself is a pleasant one. 
"There are boys still in this old world of ours," says 
the author, "happy, bright little savages who have still to 
become civilized and learn a language. Until then they 
will love the woods and the wilds, and become friends 
with all the vast population of the wilderness, and so 
learn its secrets. Such a boy is a safe boy if he follows his 
natural bent, for there is nothing vicious about the 
wilderness, and to the boy who loves it tlie world over, 
this little book is dedicated." 
Mr. Phillips gives himself tlie best of examples of his 
doctrine that there is nothing vicious about the wilderness. 
I know of no man who has yielded to the yoke of civiliza- 
tion more grudgingly than he, yet I know none with a 
sweeter and more unspoiled disposition. He has no 
grievance with life or with humanity. Hence he writes 
with that sincerity which is necessary in the best of literary 
art. The very artlessness of this book is its chief charm 
and his chief claim to actual art. A cleaner or more 
wholesome volume was never opened by either boy or 
man, and he who reads it must concede that it was done 
by one who was a manly boy and is a manful man. The 
Forest and Stream readers have already read the book, 
so one need not add anything in its praise, except to say 
that now the whole book can be held in one's hand and 
turned over leaf by leaf. Each story is complete of itself, 
and the only connecting thread is the personality of the 
Boy, whose doings, very wonderful sometimes for a boy, 
it must be admitted, are recorded by the author as actual 
happenings. Indeed they are for the most part actual 
happenings, for the Boy was an actual boy, though now 
grown up. To-day I saw a letter from him to the author 
of this beautiful little book, and I know tliat the author 
and the Boy are friends, in one of those friendships not 
made in the city, but in the woods, by the stream, among 
the mountains, where things are always beautiful, always 
sincere, always abiding. As friends of El Comancho, 
square-jawed, blue-eyed, happy-go-lucky, plucky and un- 
complaining El Comancho, we may all be glad with him 
in the success of his literary venture. We may wander 
with him along the old Blue, and through the thickets, 
and among the mountains of the Black Hills Range; we 
may read the signs of the little things written upon the 
ground, and perhaps we may read of the great things writ- 
ten on the hills. When a good man succeeds, all his 
friends ought to rejoice with him. and it appears to me 
that Mr. Phillips has attained a success worthy the sin- 
cere congratulations alike of reader and of critic. "Just 
About a Boy" is a sweet little book, and well worth 
having. 
Delaware Indians in Oil. 
This is a swift and singular country. The tribe of the 
Delaware Indians were once known as the Leni Lenape, 
prominent in the great Algonquin confederation of the 
East, and they used to own the country where Phila- 
delphia and a few other cities now stand. Two hundred 
years ago or so they made their treaty with William Penn, 
said to be one of the few Indian treaties which ever 
"stuck." From then till now is a wide step in the history 
of the Delawares. Shrunken to a little body of less than a 
thousand souls, the Delawares were practically amal- 
gamated with the Cherokees some twenty years ago. 
They bought lands of the Cherokees down in the Indian 
Nations, and oil has been discovered on these lands. 
Chicago' capitalists naturally have gone after these oil 
lands, and have obtained leases from the Cherokees which 
the Delawares claim the latter have no right to give. 
Here you have it. Leni Lenape, Chicago, oil, Indian 
Nations. And this in a country which a few years ago 
was one of the best hunting grounds in the world. When 
the oil men and timber men and mining men get through 
with the West there will not be many Indians nor many 
liunting grounds. 
E, Hough. 
480 Caxton Bhilding, Chicago, 111. 
Quebec Game Fields. 
The hunting season has been an extra good one in the 
vicinity of Sherbrooke, Que., this fall. Grouse have been 
more plenty than for several years. Probably twenty-five 
deer have been shot within ten miles of the city. 
During the ten days' open hounding season the fox 
hunters tried their hounds on the deer, but with poor suc- 
cess, only one, an extra good 220-pound buck, being se- 
cured. Lack of experience in this particular branch of 
sport was undoubtedly the trouble. The general verdict is 
that it can't compare with fox hunting, and we don't 
care how soon the ten-day law is repealed. 
Foxes are very plenty, but little hunting has been done 
yet, as other game has occupied our attention. Three 
foxes have been accounted for in five morning runs, and 
each time the boys were home for breakfast by 9 o'clock. 
The first snow^ came on the iith inst. and the deer 
hunting was perfect. Three deer wre^ killed, all within 
a few miles of town. .T- E. W. 
The FoMST AND Stream is put to press each week on Tuesday. 
Correspondence intended for publication should reach us a,X the 
latest by Monday a»4 mnck wrUcr M practicab^. , . 
fin N e w Eng land* 
Boston, Nov. 18.— Local gunners continue to find 
some sport and often in unexpected quarters. Mr. G. H. 
Morse, of the Boston Herald reportorial staff, has lately 
succeeded with quail better than he had anticipated. In 
one instance he located the birds when out on his bi- 
cycle, and least expecting them. It was among the 
cabbage fields between Arlington and Lexington. He 
saw from the road about a dozen quail alight among the 
cabbages, evidently to feed. He calculated that they 
would be there another day, and immediately applied 
to the farmer whom he supposed owned the field. He 
says: "Have you got a gun?" "Yes; there are some quail 
down there almost every day." Readily he consented 
that Mr. Morse should hunt the field with dog and gun. 
As soon as possible Mr. Morse, a friend, a camera and 
his setter dog were there. They did not have to range 
the field but a little while before the dog came to a hand- 
some point, all of which was duly secured with the cam- 
era. Then three of the quail were secured, and then 
another good point by the dog, under the camera, Mr. 
Morse is pleased with such success in an open field, and 
so near the big towns. He proposes to be there; again 
after the rest of the quail, there being eight or ten left, 
and that is the reason he does not want me to tell ex- 
actly where he found them. 
Maine has had a big fall of snow for so early in the 
season-^ to 8 inches near the towns and nearly a foot 
in the north woods. This has set the deer and moose 
hunters almost crazy, and a great many deer have been 
taken. The trains are bringing a good many already, 
and there are more to come. Still the Boston mar- 
kets are disappointed that they are not getting more 
deer — not half as many as a year ago. It is understood 
that the extra exertion of the wardens at Bangor and 
other points is keeping the deer away from the mar- 
kets here. 
The search for the missing young hunter Knight, lost 
in the woods at Bemis, was not continued last Sunday, 
as planned; the earth was covered with nearly a foot 
of snow in that section, rendering the search entirely im- 
practicable, even if men could have been found ready to 
undertake it. Opinions have changed in regard to the 
case. Prominent men, well acquainted with that region 
and having full knowledge of what has been done to find 
him, begin to believe that Knight is not lost in the 
woods at all. A noted detective has taken up the search 
and says that he expects to find that Knight is alive. 
Mrs. J. Parker Whitney, the lady whom I mentioned 
a .couple of weeks ago as watching for a deer on the 
shores of a pond in the deep woods, secured a good buck 
at last. Pluckily she watched the shore of the pond 
where she was sure that deer were coming down for 
five days and two nights. The first night a deer came 
down, but her aim was unsure. Later she did better. 
She was accompanied by a guide and her son. Women 
can hunt deer and can secure them, but it takes courage 
and determination. Mrs. Whitney was bound to shoor 
a deer herself, and she did it. At Mr, Whitney's beauti- 
ful camps, on Molechunkatnunk, they caught a .deer 
alive in October and kept him for several days. At first 
it was very wild, but soon began to tame rapidly — so 
tame that it was deemed best to release it, since its life 
would be endangered by having no fear of hunters, 
Nov. 20. — Odd moose and odd moose stories are in 
order. Mr. A. D. Shipp, of Boston, brought from the 
woods last week an odd set of moose antlers. One was 
perfect, but the other was distorted in a curious manner. 
It began to curve a little above the skull, and then turned 
downward till it entered the right eye, rendering the 
moose blind of that eye. Mr. Shipp will have the head 
mounted as a curiosity. An odd moose story has got into 
the papers: Mr. Fred Houseman, of Springfield, Mass., 
has been arrested for having parts of two moose in his 
possession, brought out from the Allagash region. Be- 
fore the trial justice, Houseman's story was so con- 
vincing that he was suffered to depart on his pledging 
himself and signing a bond to appear before the Supreme 
Court in the spring. He claims that he saw two moose 
at battle, one a small bull, light and agile, with un- 
desirable antlers, the other old and scraggy, but having a 
fine set of horns, which he wanted. After butting heads 
and goring each other for several rounds, the little bull 
got the advantage over the old one, and tipped him over 
in the mud. Then the small moose reared on his hind 
legs and brought the sharp hoofs of his fore feet down 
on the throat of his antagonist, completely cutting the 
arteries and windpipe. -This, the hunter says, he stood 
and saw the younger moose do; still goring and mutilating 
the body of the fallen moose till he feared the antlers 
would be broken. He shot the , victor moose. Then 
he saw that he had broken the law, or rather feared that 
he would be accused of breaking it. But he decided to 
bring out the dressed quarters of the young moose and 
the antlers of the old one, and with these in possession 
he was "arrested by the warden. 
The hunters are getting lots of deer on the snow, which 
has covered the ground in the Maine hunting regions for 
over a week. Railroad men have been successful, as well 
as merchants, preachers ; everybody, in short. But Maine 
hunters have done most of the hunting and killing since 
the snow. D. J. Flanders, Dr. H. F. Libby, W. E. Baker 
and Eugene Nelson, of Boston, are just out of the woods 
in the vicinity of Ashland, bringing four handsome buck 
deer. John E. Clark and C. G. Simpson, of Boston, have 
been hunting in the Millinocket region, and have secured 
their two deer each. Messrs. O. W. Whittemore, N. J. 
Hardy and G. A. Gushing, of ArHngton, have just re- 
turned from a deer hrmt, being quartered at the Monotony 
Club camp on the Northeast Branch of the Penobscot. 
They had the good fortune to secure six fine deer, and 
the novel experience of coming out of the woods in 
a driving snowstorm before the middle of November. 
Over fifty deer are set down to the credit of Boston 
hunters for the weelc. Still the number of deer recorded 
at Bangor this season is ahead of Vdft year, while the 
number of moose is not equal to that of last autumn. LTp 
to Nov. 18 the number of deer shipped through thai 
city was 2,301 ; last year up to the same date, 2,046: in- 
crease, 255 deer. The number of moose shipped up tt' 
the same date was 95 ; same time last year, 105 ; decrease, 
TO moose. Special. 
