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Messrs. C. S. Dennis, W. L. Wells and Eddie Pope 
shot last Tuesday on the grounds of tlie Jasper County 
Club, near Wheatland, Ind. They had bad weather and 
were out for only about three and a half hours, shooting 
over Charlie Seidler's dogs. They found six bevies of 
birds, and bagged forty-eight, coming back enthusiastic 
over the outlook of the new club. This is a preserve 
mentioned early in these columns as recently begun 
under the preserved farm idea. About 3.000 acres of 
land, owned by one man, are leased by the chib, the total 
amount of shooting country being about 5,000 acres. 
NoQ-Residcnts Fined. 
Here is a piece bf news which ouglit to be cut out 
and framed, and hrmg up in the office of the State Game 
Warden of Wisconsin. It is the first instance of which 
I have ever had word in which a party has been fined in 
Wisconsin for not having a non-resident deer license. 
The particulars are as follows according to a daily paper 
of St. Paul: 
"William Salmon, Emmons Salmon, ■ George W. Har- 
ness, J, William Galesberry and Dr. Haight, of Kokomo, 
Ind., this week went into Vilas county to hunt deer. 
They made all the necessary preparations for the trip, 
taking guns, ammunition, food and camping outfits, but 
they either forgot to buy licenses or believed it did not 
make any difference in a wild and woolly county. But 
tlie game wardens are vigilant, and the hunters who pay 
licenses are also vigilant, consequently when a hunter 
discovers that some one is killing game when he has no 
legal right to do so, a warden is informed, if one can be 
found. The Kokomo party contributed $250 to the ex- 
penses of the game warden's department of the State 
Government, the fines being $50 each, together with the 
costs'." ' ,i — * ■ 
Lacey Law ia Chica.go, 
Stat-e Game Commissioner Harry''W. Loveday in an 
interview this week told me that he considered the Lacey 
law a splendid measure, but he declares that it by no 
means has stopped the shipping of game. Contrary to 
the reports industriously spread by our game dealers, Mr. 
Lovedav says there is no scarcity of game in the market, 
and that there is just as much this year as there has ever 
been. This means that the laws of some State have been 
violated, and the the Lacey law has also been violated. 
Warden' Loveday points out the fact that the Lacey law 
is necessarily weak, just as most game laws are weak, 
namely, upon the executive side. If the State Warden 
of IlMnois detects game shipped in packages not properly 
marked and in violation of the Lacey law, he cannot take 
any action hijiiself. since he is an officer of this State 
only. The United States marshals are the executive 
officers of this United States law. Mr. Loveday has 
made application to be appointed a Deputy U. S. Mar- 
shal, and this application is now before the authorities 
in the Department of Justice at Washington. 
Warden Loveday says that there should be a conven- 
tion called before very long of the sportsmen of this 
State, for the purpose of discussing the proper measures 
to bring before the Legislature in the way of a game law. 
There are several different particulars in which he would 
like to see the present law improved. It is possible that 
such a call may be issued inside the next thirty days. 
Illinois Game Preserve. 
Mention has been made of the. game preserve which 
was started by some prominent men in Sangamon 
county, near Springfield, 111. Hon. James R. B. Van 
- Cleave. Warden Loveday and others are interested in 
this preserve, and the report is that it is doing well. 
There will be several hundred Mongolian pheasants 
turned down next spring. The quail are doing splen- 
didly. 
Now comes Deputy Warden F. E. Scotford, of Hins- 
dale, Ills., with a still larger game preserve idea. Mr. 
Scotford says that inside of the coming year he Avill have 
pulled off the biggest preserve scheme ever sprung in 
this State. He says that there will be a preserve with 
large acreage established in each of the following coun- 
ties: Dupage, Dekalb, Grundy, Kane, Kendall and Mc- 
Henry. The ball is set rolling by Mr. E. M. Barton, of 
Chicago, who owns two square miles of land near Hins- 
dale, and who has agreed to preserve and stock it. Mr. 
Scotford thinks he will have no difficulty in getting addi- 
tional large bodies of land thus put under protection in 
every co-unty of the Eighth Congressional district. 
Keep Ihe Old Wisconsin Law. 
The regular business of tinkering with the game laws 
of our Western States is now coming on apace. Wis- 
consin, as is well knowm, has a pretty fair game law, and 
one of its best features, one obtained only after long and 
hard fight, is its prohibition of the spring shooting of 
ducks. For a long time Wisconsin had a statute on her 
books which in effect said that she would stop spring 
shooting w^hen Illinois did. I pDesume a more puerile, 
undignified and dog-in-the-manger act never was put on 
the statute books of any Western State. The good 
sport.smen of Wisconsin were finally able to replace this 
act with one which stopped all spring shooting, excepting 
that of geese, the latter being allowed to go in as a com- 
promise measure. Now comes the old wide-open, game 
hog sentiment of the State, Avhich is trying to kill one of 
the most sensible game laws Wisconsin ever had, and to 
throw open the State once more to spring .shooting. 
This agitation, it is learned from competent authority, 
comes almost solely from market shooters and owners 
of hunting resorts, who get a pecuniary benefit from the 
spring shooters, The majorit}^ of the better sentiment of 
the State is in favor of continuing the present excellent 
law. A prominent and intelligent sportsman of Mil- 
waukee furnishes the foUownng facts on this subject, in 
the hope that Forest and Stre.am will add its voice in 
favor of retaining that feature which all sportsmen are 
trying to get into every Western game law, namely, the 
prohibition of spring shooting. He goes on to say: 
"In order to pass the present duck law we were "forced 
to allow geese to be shot in the spring, but as you well 
know, three hundred ducks can be shot in the spring for 
each goose killed. What few geese are killed are shot 
by farmrs on their own fields, who certainly are entitled 
to what sgort and birds they- get. 
"Tn tny Qpinion, it would wt be wise to try ^n4 stop 
spring goose shooting, as the -duck law was beaten last 
Legislature by a few who wanted the privilege of shoot- 
ing geese; this change was made and next day it was 
reconsidered, and those who wanted to shoot geese and 
were now allowed to do so, changed, and instead of vot- 
ing for spring shooting on ducks, voted against it; so 
yatt see how close it was. 
"Wisconsin has one of the best game laws in the Union, 
and it shows the wisdom of her lawmakers. She has also 
an excellent lot of deputies, all probably equally good. 
Mr. yVugust Zinn, possibly the best known, and a terror 
to game law violators. Our present laws, if enforced, will 
guarantee us game for years to come." 
As the intelligent element of Wisconsin has once been 
able to win in its fight for intelligent game protection, it 
is to be hoped that it will win again, and kill this move- 
ment for: the abolishing of the present law. It is not 
merely a movement of sportsmen which wants spring 
shooting stopped. It is broader and bigger than that. 
It is the movement of intelligent citizenship, of business 
men, many of whom do not shoot at all, but who vote, 
although ihcy do not shoot. The thinking men of Wis- 
consin do not want their wild birds all killed off for the 
gain of a few individuals. It is indeed class legislation 
which will open spring shooting in Wisconsin. It is not 
class legislation, but broad, fair and wise legislation 
which stops that same spring shooting. If it is stopped 
for one, it is stopped for all. If it is opened for all, it 
is used by but a few. 
The legislators of Wisconsin have this game, this 
property of their State in their charge. It is difficult to 
think that they will abuse the trust reposed in them and 
fail to conserve the right of the people in that game in a 
wise and business like way. It requires but the least ob- 
servation to reali?,e that we have not the numbers of 
game that we once had, that Ave ought to take care of 
what there is left, and that stopping spring shooting is 
the best way in the world and the fairest way to do that. 
The record of the State of Illinois on this head is a 
black one. We have never been able to pass a spring 
shooting law, and perhaps we never will be able. Warden 
Loveday says the fight will be taken up at the n^xt Legis- 
lature, and we will do all we can to fall into line with our 
wiser sister, the State of AVisconsin. 
.Mr. Bennett tells me that Major Miles has not yet made 
good his threat of buj-ing a new shotgun as soon as 
cotton has reached a certain price. This is not to be 
MOOSE CALF IN THE LAKE. 
construed as the fault of Major Miles, but simply as 
the fault of cotton. Asked why he does not raise more 
cotton, instead of waiting for the rise in price of that 
commodity. Major Miles replied that it has been his life- 
long practice to raise a certain acreage in cotton. He 
says that he does not care to deviate from this practice, 
and that if the price of cotton does not reach a certain 
figure which he has set in his mind, he will continue to 
shoot the old gun. And how I would like to see Major 
Miles and the old gun once more ! 
My friend, Mr. Warren Powell, of Taylorville, 111., 
writes to-day that he and his friend, Mr. Horner, have 
bought a set of wagon bows and a cover, and have started 
from their point on an overland trip to Ramsey. "It is 
utterly iinpossible," writes Mr, Powell, "for me to leave 
my business, but I am going anyhow. Come down and 
help me kill these quail." That surely has the right 
sportsman ring to it. The only way to get off on a hunt 
is to slam shut your desk, kiss everything and every- 
body a hurried good-by, and then run for the train, or 
for the wagon, as the case may be. Mr. Powell is the 
finest fellow in the world, and his dog Dorothy is not to 
be surpassed. I might do very much worse than take 
the Illinois Central train and meet him at Ramsey some 
time early next week. We ought to be good for two or 
three dozen birds apiece daily over Dorothy down there. 
Meantime there comes from Michigan the invitation 
of the Saginaw Crowd to come and shoot quail and 
partridge. I wish I had a desk that never had to be 
opened at all. If some will invent that kind of a desk he 
will confer a boon on shooting humanity. The Saginaw 
car will be somewhere west of that city on the Pere Mar- 
quette road mo.st of next week. 
Meantime, like the little busy bee, I have been im- 
proving each shining hour, and this week managed to 
extract a couple of days' business in shooting quail, as 
well as the plea,sure of the weekly grind. Billy Wells, w-ho 
is the head of the art department of the Chicago Tribune, 
is the- hardest Avorking man I knoAv of. He works four- 
teen hours a day. Sundays, holidays and Fourth of Julys. 
He is supposed to rest one day in the week, but he never 
feels Avell enough to rest. It was Billy Wells and my- 
self who conspired to go south to a little country village 
in the lower oart of Illinois known as Walsingford. Mr. 
Hempstead Washburne told us to go there, and gave us 
the naroe of a local itian who had a wind-splitting, rec- 
ord-breaking meat dog. We sneaked aAvay last Monday 
night, and with us went the well-knOAvn landscape artist, 
Mr. Hardesty G. Maratta. and Mr. H. R. Reed, of the 
RevicAV of Reviews, of New York. The two latter we 
christened respectively the Pup and the Student, becatise 
neither of them had CA^er fired a gun at quail. Mr. 
Maratta developed great traits as a meat dog hintself, and 
if we had not had him along our bag must have been 
much smaller, for the wind-splitter, etc., proved a dismal 
failure, and the gtiide Avas so glad to see 11s that he 
bought three bottles of poor whisk}^ and promptly acquired 
a jag which lasted him for twO' days. As Mr. Reed had 
never seen any quail, we hired a guide for him Avho 
looked strong and able to stand any incidental or acci- 
dental discharge of a shotgun, and we turned those tAVo 
loose together. Mr. Reed was instructed to let six bcAdes 
get up in front of him. before he fired his gun. This Avas 
to steady him down. Unfortunately the dog owned by his 
guide proved unable to find six bevies in a hundred years, 
so Mr. Reed is still Avaiting to shoot, and by this time 
is in a fair degree of steadiness. Billy Wells and I in- 
dulged in a riot of cornstalks, brush and briers. The 
total bag was sixty quail for the two days, and if we had 
had one or two good dogs I think Billy and I would haA^e 
killed fifty birds between us had we cared to. We had 
about the funniest trip any one ever did liave, but once 
and awhile Ave bltindered into some good shooting. .\t 
one time the main guide and mj'sclf had a nice bunch 
of birds scattered along an osage hedge. Avhile others o£ 
the party were oft' the road about a quarter of a mile 
away. They could see the birds drop before they could 
hear the report of the gun. I killed nine birds in that 
skirmish, and had five down at one time before any were 
picked up. As evidence of the nose of our dog. T may 
say that out of the nine we got only four birds into the 
pockets. As for Billy Wells, he proved to be a peach 
with the shotgun. lit one little flurry I saw him kill 
four birds .straight, once stopping almost in a run and 
killing a bird Avhich sprang behind him. Mr. Maratta 
had never seen much qttail shooting before, but both he 
and Mr. Reed are now reported to be looking at the price 
list of shotguns. 
Northern Deer. 
Mr. George Shiras, 3d, of Pittsburg, Pa., is in town 
to-day on his way home from a trip to his himting camp 
in the Lake Superior region above Marquette. Mr. 
Shiras is the son of Judge Shiras of the United States 
Supreme Court. He is the maker of the famous flashlight 
pictures of deer, which comprise the best series of out- 
door photographs in all probability ever taken. He 
says that there Avas about 2 feet of snoAV in the neigh- 
borhood of his camp last Monday, and a great many 
deer Avere being killed. His party^ had eight bucks hung 
up in camp Avhen he left. Among his friends stopping 
at the camp Avere Dr. Drummond, of Montreal, the 
famous poet of the French habitan ; Mr. Harry Russell, 
of Detroit, Vice-President of the Michigan Central R. R. ; 
Mr. Harry Campbell, of the same city; Dr. Bell, of 
Montreal, and Mr. Duncan, of the Cleveland Cliffs Min- 
ing Company, of ClcA'eland, O. 
Mr. Shiras says that he killed his first deer at this 
same camp tAventy-eight years ago, and he has been going 
there e\'er since. He says the country is not materially 
changed since he first saAV it, though he thinks the south- 
ern migration of the deer is not met just the same as 
it used to be. He thinks tlie opening date is too late, since 
the does and young bucks have all gone south from his 
country by the opening -day, and only the old bucks re- 
main hiding among the swamps and thickets. The latter 
do not run much in the day time, but come out to feed late 
in the evening. Mr. Shiras says the Wisconsin deer 
license laAV is a farce, and that pot-hunting is going on 
to as great an extent as ever known in the history of that 
country._ There Avere 1.400 licenses taken out by "resi- 
dents" in Marquette county alone. Sometimes whole 
families take out licenses, so that thej' can kill numbers 
of deer and ship them Avith the "legal" tags. On the 
opening day Mr. Shiras found four bucks hung up on one 
ridge, which had been killed so long that their tongues 
were black. They Avere only awaiting the "legal" shipping 
day. He thinks that there should be a laAV compelling 
a man to accompany the carcass of any deer going out 
of the State. 
Mr. Shiras' reports tally with the majority of those 
coming down from the deer country. The crop of deer 
is very good, the law is riot much observed, and the hunt- 
ing conditions are exceptionally good. 
E. Hough, 
Hahtford Building, Chicago, 111. 
Injutcd by an Exploded Rock. 
Brewer, Me., Nov. 23. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
As the many friends of the noted guide Joseph Francis 
may Avish to know the particulars of hoAV he Avas in- 
jured, I will state them as he told me yesterday at Old- 
town. He and Joseph Orson Avere hunting moose on the 
south side of Katahdi n near Alol. There A\'as some 4 
inches of snow, and they camped by the side of a granite 
ledge and built their fire against the rock, Avith their small 
tent in front. In the night Orson Avas awakened by an 
explosion, and jumping sidcAvise escaped, but Francis Avas 
not so fortunate. The heat of the fire had caused the 
rock to crack. The crack began some 18 inches above 
the ground, and running up slanting a mass of rock some 
8 feet square Avas detached Avhich slid doAvn till it struck 
the ground, and then fell outward, covering the place 
Avhere the tent stood, the outer edge of it striking Francis 
and pinning him doAvn. Fortunately for him the under 
side of the rock had a projection which bedded into the 
ground, and only the curved "up edge struck him. other- 
Avise he Avould have been instantly killed. As there Avas 
no frost in the ground, Orson Avas able to extricate him 
from his painful position, and procuring help he brought 
him out of the Avoods. The physician tells me that no 
bones are broken, and that he can see no reason why he 
cannot full3'- recover, but he is sever-ely hurt, and it AAdll 
be a good AA^hite before he can leave his bed. I have had 
quite an extensive acquaintance Avith hunters for sixty 
years, and this is the first instance I ever heard of AA'her'e 
any one has met with an accident of thisi kir\d. 
