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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[May 12, igoa 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST, 
Michigan Notes, 
Alpena has trout anglers, as might very well happen, 
and it seems that they go fishing and have very good 
luck. The local paper has the following regarding the 
trout trips of Alpena citizens; , 
Burt TurnbuU, John Corbin, Richard Legatzki, Ed 
McGee and Roy F. McKim look the south train to-day 
for a fishing trip. 
Harry R. Morse, Jr., Dr. Godfrey, Dr. Cameron and 
H, F. Wilson arrived home from a two days' fishing trip 
along the Little Wolf last night. They claim 400 brook 
trout. 
Aldermen Wyman and McGregor and Dr. Carr are 
home from a day's fishing at the Upper South. Dr. Carr 
was sick all day. Alderman McGregor fell into the water, 
but Alderman Wyman caught 100 brook trout and »was 
generous, so that each of them had enough to take home. 
Warden Morse, of Michigan, is making a good record in 
his work. His department investigated 184 cases in April 
and secured 64 convictions ; fines collected, $734.88. With 
seasonable weather a good increase in the game and game 
birds is expected. 
Death of Jas. Slocum. 
One of the best known figures of the St. Clair Flats 
country passed away this week at Detroit. Jas. Slocum 
had for many years been manager of the Star Island 
House on the Flats, which was aonually visited by thou- 
sands of sportsmen from all over the country, especially 
from the South. Mr. Slocum was a gentleman and a 
sportsman, and was loved by all who knew him. He was 
sixty-one years of age. He was born at Troy, N. Y., 
moved to Wisconsin when a young man, and enlisted 
in a Wisconsin regiment for the Civil War. When he 
took the Star Island House it was one of two houses then 
to be seen in all that country now occupied by the Venice 
of America. Since then it has been intimately connected 
with the history of that unique region, and its proprietor 
will be keenly missed by many who knew him in the past. 
Death on The Flats. 
Mr. Chas. Feckler, of Detroit, while out in a boat on the 
St. Clair Flats this week, imdertook to draw a gun to- 
ward himself, holding the gun by the muzzle. The ham- 
mer _ caught, the gun was discharged, and Mr. Feckler 
receiving the charge in his side, fell and died almost in- 
stantly. It is the old, sad story, and the painful fruit of 
the violation of the commandment of never allowing a 
gun to point toward any human being at any time. 
Around Chicago. 
State Game Commissioner Harry Loveday tells me that 
the new Illinois non-resident license law is working 
mighty well, and has been of the greatest value to him in 
his labors, as it has thus far produced over $3,opo in cash 
from non-resident shooters who have taken out licenses 
in this State. Mr. Loveday does not pretend to say that 
there have been no evasions of the law, but simply says 
that it is good anyhow, and will be especially good should 
the State ever pass a law requiring every shooter, resident 
or not, to carry a license with him in the field. This he 
thinks would prevent outside shooters if cm posing as 
residents. 
Mr. Lovedajf says that he has secured, at last reports, 
.12$ convictions under the new law, and reports coming 
in show about four convictions daily. He caught W. 
Wiegard, of St. Louis, without a shooting license, and he 
was fined. Max L. Wolf, of 122 Clark street, this city, 
sold ducks after the season, and was fined $15 and 
■costs recently. S. Dempster, of Forty-third street, was 
fined an equal amount. Warden Ratto complained in 
each case. Moses Ligelman, of Newton, 111., served illegal 
quail at his' hotel. It cost him $75, with costs. Mr. Jas. 
Woodall, of Jasper county, for a similar offense was 
fined $100 and costs. Both the above are very penitent. 
. Mr. Loveday ought by this time to be a bit hardened in 
his business of seizing all kinds of unseasonable game, 
but this week he got a case which caused him the greatest 
.indignation. He caught on South Water street a box of 
game shipped in from a Nebraska town, and it contained 
the strange assortment of plover, teal, quail and prairie 
chickens. Think of killing quail for market in the 
spring ! Think of shooting down the noble prairie grouse 
while on the booming grounds and in the love dance of 
springtime ! The man who will do that must be pretty 
•low, and the man who will buy such gam.e is not any 
better. Some of the prairie chickens were hens, and 
their breasts were naked, and they were unfit for food, of 
course. It is no wonder the v/arden was angry, no wonder- 
that anybody with any knowledge or any compassion 
should join him in his anger. What is Nebraska doing 
out there, and why can she not stop this sort of thing by 
stopping all shipments of her gam,e? It is the market 
which makes the temptation. 
Kinne Creek. 
Kinne Creek Club, of Michigan, wrhose membership is 
mostly made up in Detroit and Saginaw, had a very suc- 
cessful opening day last Tuesday, the take of trout 
being fulty up to the average. 
Chicago Bass and Trout. 
■ Our Chicago folk are going out all the time now after 
bass, and the fish are rising in the Fox Lake Chain, as 
well as in prolific Cedar Lake, of Indiana, wher^ the first 
big catches were reported last week. Mr. Edward G. Tay- 
lor, of the Taylor system, departs for the' Prairie River, 
and: others are to join him soon, possibly Chas. ■ Antoine 
this, comiiig week. No very extraordinary takes of trout 
are yet recorded. The big trout exodus to Michigan, 
more especially the Pere' Marquette region, has not yet 
taken place, but will come off about the 10th of the 
■month. 
From Minnesota* 
Kabbekona Camp, of Minnesota, has changed hands, 
Mr. H. G. McCartney selling the property to Mr. Sturde- 
vant, .of Chicago. . The came will be open June 1 as before. 
\i W * ( -1 ■ E. Hotj-SH: 
SAn Franoisco Fly-Casting Ckb. 
Medal contests, series 1900 ; contest No. 6, held at Stow 
Lake, April 28. Wind, southwest, gusty; weather, damp 
and cold. 
Mmnet 
Event Ev»n» 
No. 1, No. 2, 
Distance, Accuracy, 
Event No. 
Feet.' Percent.' Acc,% Del. ){ 
Battu 91.6 89.8 88 60 
Brooks 91 73 78.8 59.2 
Brotherton .... 115 78.8 88 65.10 
Everett 106 89.4 88 70 
I^ovett 118 87.4 89.8 74.2 
Muller ......... 107 92.4 87 73.4 
Mansfield 92 92.8 70.10 
Keed 90 92 91 67.6 
Young 100 92.8 90.8 74.2 
Netjt 
74 
68.11 
76.U 
79 
81.11 
80.2 
81.9 
79.3 
82.5 
Event 
No. 4, 
Lure 
Casting* 
70.1 
65.3 
91 
96.2 
93.1 
59.1 
85 
77 
84 
66.8 
75.4 
62.3 
86 
77.4 
78.4 
60.10 
69.7 
80.3 
104 
79.4 
61.8 
70.6 
83 
112 
84.4 
88.8 
70.10 
79.9 
80 
98 
86.8 
89 
73.4 
81.2 
82 
81 
80.8 
65.10 
73.3 
84 
89 
81 
66.8 
73.10 
90 
89 
88.4 
70 
79.2 
88 
84.8 
86 ' 
65 
75.6 
59 
119 
89.8 
92.8 
70 
81.4 
91.2 
91.4 
86 
78.4 
82.2 
84. 4 
ioo 
91.8 
87 
70.10 
78.11 
53 
83 
86 
83 
66.8 
74.10 
68.3 
84 
91.4 
90.S 
75.10 
83.3 
Judges, Everett, Muller, Lovett; referee, Mansfield. 
Medal contests, series 1900; contest No. 6, held at Stow 
Lake, April 29. Wind, southwest; weather, fair. 
Daverkosen ... 
Everett , 
Foulks 
Haight 
Huyck 
Klein 
Lovett 
Mansfield . . . . 
H F Muller... 
Judges, Lovett, Muller, Daverkosen ; referee, Mansfield ; 
clerk, Huyck. 
Pennsylvania Streams. 
Sayre, Pa. — Clinton Swain tells me that a fortnight 
ago he was down in the Monroeton country mentioned in 
my item in last week's Forest and Stream, and in four- 
teen hours' angling took 183 trout from the Level Branch 
and Rights Creek streams. Swain is the owner of a 
farm located along Level Branch and has just left Sayre 
to begin anew rural life. He declares that he is to Wnce- 
forth dig the ground up some, "eat the fruit of the vine," 
catch trout, hear the grouse drum and live to the age of 
the ancient wise men. The country down there is very 
much cut up with small trout streams that go brawling 
to larger waters, and while the angling is hard work, it 
affords the experienced fisherman able to be mauled about 
roughly some inspiring creels. 
To members of the glorious Forest and Stream family 
who wish to visit the streams referred to, we may ad- 
vise thus : Towanda may be reached over the main line 
of the Lehigh Valley R. R. Then either drive to Weston 
Station, due west from Towanda, or take train over the 
Berkley R. R. to the above point. Leyel Branch and 
Rights Creek may be reached at Wide Crossing, one mile 
south of Weston. Other fruitful streams criss-cross this 
immediate country, so the angler is prettj^ certain to find 
trout. Swain can be found on Level Branch, and as be 
knows the country thoroughly, and will leave the plow 
standing in the furrow any time to go fishing, he might 
be a good man for the stranger to swap greetings with. 
M. Chill. 
New Jersey G>ast Fishing. 
AsBURY Park, N. J., May 4.— The present week has 
developed remarkable interest in the movements of our 
coast fishes. While but two bass have been taken on the 
hook so, far as I can learn, many have been secured in the 
nets at Barnegat Inlet and other more southern points. 
Weakfish, kingfish. sea bass and plaice have been taken at 
Elberon in the pound nets there, and what is most re- 
markable, four Spanish mackerel were taken at Bradley 
Beach on Tuesday. This is the earliest date I ever knew 
the latter variety to be taken in these waters. Bluefish, 
too, are in evidence at sea, 190 being taken by one boat 
early in the week. Off shore fishermen say the ocean is 
fairly swarming with menhaden, and that fact no doubt 
accounts for the presence thus early of the blues. I saw 
some splendid specimens of kingfish from Cape May in 
the Philadelphia markets the present week, and they 
.should be ready for the hook here within the next fort- 
night. Our earliy fishing, however, very much depends 
on the currents. Anomalous as it may appear, it is, how- 
ever, an indisputable fact that a current from the south 
brings icy temperature, while from the north the exact 
opposite is the case. The pickerel season opened on the 
Tst, and all^the lakes are giving good accounts, much 
above the average, the fish having apparently wintered 
vveJl and being in fine condition. Leonard Hulit. 
Lake Ckamplain Smelts and Ice Fisfe. 
TicoNDEROGA, N. Y. — Editor Forest and Stream. I 
note Mr. B. Harry Morse's recent communication about 
"Smelts or Ice Fish in Lake Champlain." Formerly a 
resident of Essex-on-Lake Champlain, I have caught stv- 
eral thousand smelts, but never one ice fish (according to 
local name). The larger ones were caught in deep water, 
say 40 to 60 feet; some weighed 14 to 16 ounces. Ice 
fishing, I think, is father to the name of ice fish, although 
I have frequently caught yellow perch and bluefish from 
the same hole. I have also caught smelts in summer. My 
impression is that great numbers remain in the lake, but 
do not take bait, as there is so much other food, I have 
also observed that as -soon as surface water runs into the 
lake in the spring, smelts will not bite as readily. How- 
ever, if caught in deep water and properly cooked, they 
are equal to any winter fish caught in Lake Champlain. 
W. M. A. CowEN. 
A Florida Fish Dynamiter*s Hard Luck* 
N. H. MoNCK met with a serious accident near Lauder- 
dale. Mr. Monck rtms a fertilizer factory on New 
River and makes his fertilizer out of fish, which he kills 
by dynamiting. While pursuing his avocation a piece of 
dynamite exploded prematurely; tearing his right hand to 
pieces and injuring his right side considerablj'. At this 
writing the unfortunate man is resting quietly atid getting 
.ilone'as well as could be exoerted.— From Lake Worth 
News, West Palm Beach, f \i. 
Fixtures. 
FIELD TRIALS. 
Nov. 13.— Chatham, Ont.— Twelfth annual field trials of the In- 
ternational Field Trials Club. W. B. Wells, Hon. Sec'y. 
Nov. 18.— Newton, N, C.—Eastem Field Trials Club's' twenty- 
second annual field trials. S. C. Bradley, Sec'y, Greenfield Hill, 
Conn. 
Duke. 
Last fall he was a long, lanky fox hound pup of ten 
months. There was a suspicion of something else besides 
hound about him which it would have been disparaging 
to his mother to mention. But he was a handsome dog 
with a delightful disposition, and his pleasant ways won 
me, so he became mine. 
During the first month of his apprenticeship he showed 
Httle disposition to interest himself in tracks. His greatest 
delight was to lie among the dead leaves and chew 
sticks. Several times the fox came my way and each 
time Duke spoiled a chance by taking too much interest at 
the wrong time. 
It was exasperating. But at last, along in December, a 
fox passed close to us, with three hounds close up, and 
the music one continuous roar. A happy thought seemed 
to strike the pup, "Why, if that's what they're after I'm 
in it," and off he went, and never again lost a minute 
while he believed he had a friend on the hills. 
Thirteen foxes were killed by three of us during the 
season, including three before Duke began to run, of 
which five were fairly his. One, a specially large one, 
came to rne up a quarter of a mile of bare hillside pasture, 
in plain sight all the way. He spent fully twenty minutes 
picking his way along scattered fence rails, over and 
around knolls and rocks, and, in making criss-crosses. 
When he. finally reached me, and stopped, there was not a 
dog in hearing, but as I commenced to take off his coat I 
heard the pup far below and saw him coming out of the 
wood and covering every foot the fox had taken. I kept 
still and timed him — just twenty minutes. 
He was a surprised looking dog when he came to the 
end of the trail between my knees. The other dogs jcame 
up a few minutes later. 
In March the season was over, and Duke and Drive 
were out of business and shut up. There came one of 
those perfect spring days when one just has to have opeti 
air. I took the dogs for a walk, and while following a 
railroad a short distance, a freight came along. The old 
dog stepped aside, but poor Duke seemed dazed. His 
death was instantaneous. 
You are quite right, I should have known better; jBut 
I didn't, and that is Jthe reason of this writing — that some 
other brother mgiy be warned against taking hi- pup for a 
walk on a railroad track. Jos, 
Sherbrookb, Quebec. 
A Dog Story. 
I WAS much interested the other day in the movements 
of a little dog belonging to my neighbor just across the 
way. I live in a suburban place, and along the street over 
there is a continuous line of picket fence for a long dis- 
tance. I noticed the I|.ttle black and tan trotting up the 
sidewalk until he came to his master's gate. This gatfe 
swings both outward and inward, and often the latch does 
not catch properly, and the gate may be readily pushed 
open. The dog evidently knew this. He put his paw 
against the gate, pushing it, but in vain; the gate was 
latched. As soon as he had satisfied himself of this, he 
started off and trotted along the walk to the gate of the 
adjoining propertj'. This gate, too, .often .stood in sucii 
a way that the dog could open it, as he sometimes did, A 
hole in the division fence allowed him to pass from one 
lot to the other. But this time this gate was also securely 
latched, and his efforts to open it were fruitless. 
He seemed now to hesitate a rnoment, and then, as recol- 
lecting himself, he trotted on up the sidewalk. The next 
gate was one that was always properly fastened. The 
dog seemed to know this, for he did not stop at it nor 
attempt to open it. He knew about that gate — he couldn't 
open it. Forty or fifty feet beyond the gate was a high 
bluff, where the picket fence ended. There was no foice 
along the side of this lot, nor across the rear of llii> 
lot, nor of the adjoining lot. The dog evidently knew 
all about that. He turned the corner of the picket 
fence, trotted diagonally across this lot, turned the end 
of the division fence into the lot adjoining his master's, 
trotted diagonally across this lot to the opening in the 
division fence, crept through and was in his m-aster's* 
lot — was at home and happy. 
I was interested in watching the little fello.w, and have 
been thus minute in relating the incident because I think 
it shows positive knowledge on the part of the dog- 
knowledge that was the product of experience and 
memory. If he had possessed all the mental faculties of a 
man. yet being a dog, he could have done no better than 
he did- He tried the two gates that he had formerly 
opened ; the gate that he never could open he did not try; 
he knew where the picket fence ended | that there was no 
side fence along there; that by entering that lot and 
doubling the first division fence he would get into the lot 
next to his ma.ster's : he knew about that hole in the 
fence^ and all about it. And yet there are people who 
persist in talking about instinct. 
I am satisfied that within certain. narrow limits a dpg's 
intellectual outfit is, much the same as that of a_»nan— I 
mea^ the same in quality and ope.ratioii, b.ut with a Vast 
difference in respect to extent and d^veloprpent. I ^pft'^: 
know that a dog can count three. "One would be ras^^ 
inde.fed," says Dr. Conant, in a recent Smithsonian report, 
"if ^e were to assert that the higher anirnals cannot dis- 
tingjiish between one and two." The Botocudo 5ava.ges 
we are told have n-" . definite, number .beyond one. The 
Purfs and the Watchar^k -^top at t^>*o. But the Botpcudo 
and the Puri could b* sTi^h* to count higher niimlbers. T 
don't know that the dog could Here is a differentiation 
of ihfislite import. 
I^i.fast, I imaf ine -ths* I have discovefsd ssa spprftxtwAte 
