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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[March 2, igoi. 
"Besides, everybody knows that President Lotibet, how- 
ever left handed, is a fir.'^t-ratc shooter, and so much the 
worse for the game which venture to come in ihe range 
of his gun. The generals also vied with each other in 
the trueness of the aim. and in a short time there was a 
general massacre of fowls, roe deers, pheasants, which 
strewed the ground, victims of the never-tired guns of 
clever marksmen. 
"Every hunter was followed by a game keeper in attend- 
ance to carry ihe gun between two battues, and supplies 
with a good number of cartridges. The game was taken 
up by men, and put in carriages led to an appointed 
place. 
"The first battue lasted about five minutes, and every 
guest played his little part in the general slaughter. 
"After a moment's res;, the Prc-udent and his guests 
made for the rabbits' place, and the tiring began again. 
"At a quarter past four the President of the Republic 
gave the s'gnal to put an end to the hunt." — ^London 
Sporting and Dramatic News. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
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Governor Roosevelt Talks of Trip. 
Chicago, Til., Feb. 22. — There have been published 
within the last month or more scores of alleged inter- 
views with Governor Roosevelt regarding his 'Western 
hunting trip. It need not be stated, in view of the absurd 
statements of most of the stories, that the bulk of these 
interviews has consisted of malicious or riiliculous mis- 
statement of the facts. That this sort of thing was not 
relished by Governor Roosevelt may be inferred from the 
tact that he declined to discuss his hunt with ihe daily 
reporters of this city. He did say something, however, 
for the benefit of Forest and Stream, when I3illy Hofer 
and I called on him at the Union League Club yesterday 
afternoon, 
"How many lions did you really get, Governor?" asked 
Billy. 
"Twelve," was the reply. "Yes, we got twelve, nice 
lions." 
"And how big was the biggest one?" 
'The biggest lion weighed just 223 pounds, and it 
measured an even 8 feet from lip to lip " replied Governor 
Roosevelt. "Of course, I do not need to tell you gen- 
tlemen that all this talk about nine and ten feet lions was 
only folly. But we did get twelve lions — I had a rattling 
good time." 
Michigan Game Law Matters. 
There seems to be increasing dissatisfaction in Michi- 
gan over the condition of the game warden service in 
that State. Much criticism is made upon the adminis- 
tration of the warden's office during the past term, and 
the newspapers have lakcn up the fight for a more busi- 
ness like regime. The Saginaw Evening News of Feb. 
18 contains editorial mention, as follows: 
The indignation being expressed all over the State with regard 
to the exposures in the office of the State game warden is per- 
fectly righteous. If llirre ever was a clear case of tlie hold up 
game, here is the instance 'J he State game warden and his State 
deputies are the ones lo blame, and not the system of game pro- 
tection and inspection. Tiic people of Michigan must be given to 
understand this, too; for it is highly important that the State 
should continue in its effort to protect the game and fish of the 
Commonwealth. It must be done, however, with honest endeavor, 
and not with a view of giving men with political pulls fat jobs, 
whereby they draw good salaries and bilk the treasury out of ex- 
pense money even to a greater amount than their salaries, as has 
been the case of lale. The figures show that the last year the 
game warden and his depul'es drew $7,361 in salaries and $9,G18 in 
expenses. This is of couse a mere farce, and the halt called by 
Auditor-General Powers 'S a proper one. 
Game protection is needed, 't he people approve of it, but it 
must be placed in the luiiids o( men who have a conscientious 
regard for the interest? of the .State and the taxpayers, Tlie pres- 
ent regime has been a disappnintment; but a cleaning up of the 
record and a reform in ailininislration will clarify the situation and 
pave the way for eflfective work on the lines intended by the 
protective laws. 
I make bold to quote from a private letter at hand 
from a very prominent sportsman at Saginaw, upon these 
same matters. This gentleman has given the subject of 
game protection a great deal of thought and a great deal 
of practical assistance. He remarks; 
"I have advocalerl the abolishing of these high-priced 
ofhcials who did their game protecting from their office 
and ran up a big expense account; and having instead 
one State game warden, with a salary of $1,200 or $i.500> 
and allow him- a stenographer and reasonable expense 
account. Under his charge have twelve or fifteen deputy 
State wardens, doing work in all localities o-f die State, so 
they are not influenced by local favoritism or prejudice. 
Have them meii'who will get out and hustle and do good 
hard detective and practical work in the interest of game 
protection and fish protection, on a salary ntit to exceed 
$750; and I think that good men with anip'e caliber and 
good workers could be had at $600 a year, allowing them 
an expense account, aud'ted by the State game warden. 
In other words, keep track of their expenses just the same 
as a businessman does of his traveling ' salesmen', and 
keep them at work ail the time. Eliminate all politics 
and favoritism from this, and you wiir have good game 
protection." ' f 
Senate Committee Coming West. 
The agitation of the questions of the Indian' reservations 
and the proposed National Park in Minnesota has been 
going on at Washiiigion steadily, though little has been 
made public, and it is to be said to-day that the agitation 
has done great good, whether or not we shall ever have 
the park. It is not known (hat the prospect is flaltering 
for the appointnicrt of a House Committee, but it can 
be stated that the Se;nate Committee, whether or not 
joined by the committee from the House, will during the 
recess of Congress make a trip to this Minnesota country 
for the purpose of getting information at first hand, re- 
garding the actual state of affairs. The whole question 
is very much involved. Part of the timber land has been 
ceded to the Government and some good tracts of pine 
lands Still continue to be held by the Indians, some under 
allotment, and others by Indians living in tribal relations. 
The Senate Committee does very well to go out there to 
look at the thing itself. A committee from the Hpuse 
might very well do the same. Then the facts would come 
out. and if the facts were knowii the Minnesota foi^est 
park would be ahtiost a certainty. 
Qjii Feb. 20 something of a surprise was sprung in the 
House by the discovery that the conference report on the 
Indian appropriation bill carried a quiet amendment 
authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to dispose of 
the timber on the diminished Chippewa reservations in 
such manner and at such prices as he may see fit. This 
puts the whole matter of handling this timber in the hands 
of Secretary Hitchcock, who is, in the main, safely to 
be depended upon by the friends of the park, or at least 
10 be counted upon as strongly opposed to the hurried 
and wasteful denudation of these Indian lands. Naturally 
a certain number of the Minnesota Congressional Asso- 
ciation are a bit startled to find themselves in this 
sort of a situatiorr. They want the white men to 
get all the timber, and to put up their mills on the reser- 
vation. Secretary Hitchcock favors having the work 
done by the Indians themselves, and he intends to exer- 
cise his influence for the benefit of the Indians, and no 
doubt for the benefit of the pine. This is the most favora- 
ble turn the checkered history of the Minnesota park has 
had for months. The conference report carries an ap- 
propriation of $4..320 to establish a fire patrol on the 
Red Lake and White Earth reservations. 
Getting Used to It. 
This week I was talking with a man who has been 
much among the Indians, and I asked him how the In- 
dians managed to get along without freezing their feet in 
the winter, when the snow wa« sloppy and slushy and 
capable of easily soaking through their moccasins. 
"They get used to it," said he, "because they have to 
get used to it. I have seen an Indian come out of his 
tepee, many a time, and stand in the snow talking to 
me, apparentlv not thinking his feet were cold." 
In the South I have often wondered how the negroes 
in their open cabins and their poorly covered beds keep 
from freezing in severe weather. "They get used it it," 
said a planter to me. "What a inan has is always enough 
for him." 
This morning it was below zero in Chicago, yet as I 
passed down State street I saw walking up and down in 
front of a woolen goods house a man dressed in full High- 
land costume, which, of course, leaves the knee and a 
good part of the leg absolutely bare. It was nearly cold 
enougli to freeze one's ears in a short walk, and one could 
feel the cold wind cutting through his heavy clothing. 
The brawny Scotchman who was doing this act looked 
a bit blue about the nose and very thirsty, but his knees 
seemed to be standing it all right. I suppose he was used 
to it. It is a well known fact tliat sportsmen will endure 
hardships out of doors which they could not think of 
sustaining at home. The human system adapts itself to 
almost an}'^ sort of surroundings. If you tell your friend 
that you can sleep comfortably in a snowdrift he is apt 
to disbelieve you, yet the assertion is entirely true. 
Alaska Dog Train. 
There appeared on the streets of Chicago this morning 
a novel and interesting sight, 110 less than a dog train 
and sled of the genuine Alaska sort. There were four 
beautiful huskies or Esquimaux dogs, astonishingly big, 
heavy-boned and powerful brutes, yet with the shrewdest 
and most knowing faces imaginable, and under perfect 
control. This dog train is part of the Craine exhibit, 
under the auspices of the Alaska Geographical Society, 
which exhibit has been sent down to the sportsmen's 
show by the White Pass & Yukon Railroad. That 
enterprising and pleasant sportsman, Mr. J. Francis Lee, 
formerly district agent at Chicago for the Canadian Paci- 
fic Railroad, was th^"s winter apopinted general passenger 
agent of theWhite Pass & Yukon Railroad, whose line now 
practically extends from Skagtiay to Dawson City. It 
was Mr. Lee who secured this exhibit, which will be one 
of the most fetching at the show. There were more than 
three car loads of the Craine exhibit unloaded at the 
Coliseum to-day. 
To-day I saw Oscar Jarvis, who has charge of the 
team of husky dogs. Jarvis is hardly more than a boy, 
yet with this team of dogs he has carried mail for a long 
time between Uawson and Skaguay and between Dawson 
and Nome. He says that the dogs average about fifty 
miles a day, or about forty miles wi.h a heavy load. They 
go on a steady trot, and will cover their fifty miles the 
last day of a week as easily as they do the first. He says 
that these dogs are from half to three-fourths wolf. They 
have the shrewdest face in the world, and are very gentle 
and lovable creatures. The lead dog is called Hunker, 
No. 2 is, called Nome, No. 3 Yukon and the wheel dog, 
so to speak, or the one next to the sled, an enormously 
powe-f-ful, brute, which will weigh about one hundred and 
twenty-five pounds, is called Hootch. 
There is a young black bear which goes along with 
the dog. team, and which is sometimes hitched up as rear 
dog, instead of Hootch. This bear is called Mack, and 
is a plavful fellow enough, though a bit rough in his 
sport wi h a bystander. ' Mack can go otit on the trail 
hitched with the dog teatii. but he is too fat to last for 
m'ore than' an hour or so. Mr. Craine does not take him 
'but on the streets' here for the reason that the sight and 
'srhell of the bear causes too many runaways among the 
horses. Mack'is going to be a big card at the show. 
Freak Legislation in Indiana. 
• Ideas in regard to • garne laws and game protection 
have always been a bit_ vague down in our sister State of 
Indiana, one of the best sporting grounds of the middle 
West. Most of the more popular Chicago shooting clubs 
have had the'r preserves located along the Kankakee 
iRver of Indiana, and up to the beginning of the present 
decade these clubs had good sport. They had it in the 
midd'e of a region which for a generation had known 
no such thing as game protection, and which had ei'her 
an entire ignorance or entire contemot for game laws. 
The mar.=h dwellers of Ind'ana toiled not, neither did 
they spin, and neither did they plow to any great extent. 
They made their living ofT the marsh, and all seasons 
were alike to them, each contributing its own share of 
one wild product or another. 
Time has passed, and to-day an entirely different senti- 
ment prevails in the big and prosperous State of Indiana. 
Better game laws- have, found their place upon the statute 
books, and though the enforcement has not always been 
perfect, the tendency has been constantly toward better 
things. Yet always there has been determined rebellion 
on the part of local shooters against the preserve idea, 
and against the wealthy clubs which have taken up large 
holdings of land in the State. 
The history of the Toile.ston Club is that of a con- 
tinuous battle, and at times this battle has meant human 
blood and human lives, over a dozen men having been 
killed or injured on one side or the other in the wars 
around that marsh. The old American spirit dies hard, 
and our people are loath to believe that the old days of 
plenty cannot continue forever and for everybody. This 
winter there appeared before the Ind'ana Legislature the 
Lindley bill, which in effect lakes up the cudgels for the 
Indiana resident as against the club man. This measure 
is ambitiotis. It seeks to do nothing less than abolish 
the ancient common law of trespass. It makes it lawful 
for any one to hunt on marsh lands without asking the 
consent of the owner. The land holder may keep ihe 
hunter out of his crop, but he cannot forbid him entry 
on the wild land. 
The Lindley measure has already passed the Senate, 
though there exists considerable doubt that it will become 
a law. Should it do so, all the club holdings of sports- 
men would become entirely valueless, and there could 
not be any such thing as a duck preserve, or -indeed any 
other kind of preserve. The exact animus of this measure 
is difficult to gather. That it will be fought goes without 
saying, and there is not much likelihood that it will be- 
come a law. 
There is, or was formerly at least, a law in Texas for- 
bidding a man to fence in more than 10,000 acres of land 
to the exclusion of the public. There was necessity for 
this law in a country of long distances, few settlements, 
and infrequent cainping places. This same necessity dues 
not exist in Indiana to-dav, and the Lindley bill, is intro- 
duced for an entirely different purpose. 
E. Hough. 
Hartford Building, Chicago, 111. 
Mr. Tilden's Deer. 
Schenectady^ N. Y., Feb. 20. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: Will you kindljf give the following sta ement a 
place in your next issue? Whatever your personal opinion 
may be of the question at issue, as a sportsman you will 
doubtless concede the privilege of a statement to both 
sides of the question. As the editor of one of the most 
widely read .sporting magazines in the country, I am re- 
questing that you publish this statement, that it may be 
given the widest pubhicity, con radicting and correct'ng 
the garbled reports that have appeared in varioti« news- 
papers. S. W. Tjldek. 
Statement. 
Nov. 17, 1900, John Horstman and myself left Schenec- 
tady, N. Y., for a one week's hunting trip in Maine. We 
were unusually successful, each getting two deer in four 
days' actual hunting, and after accompanying game to 
Bangor forwarded same by American Express to Schenec- 
tady, N. Y. On arriving in Schenectady, a friend having 
expressed a doubt that it was lawful to pos.sess ven'son 
after Nov. 15. I consulted two of the best lawyers in the 
city, who assured me that the law as written was intended 
to apply only to deer shot in New York State, as at the 
time said law was written any other interpretation wou'd 
constitute a violation of the United S ates interstate com- 
merce law (the Lacey law not being in existence at the 
time). On the above assurance I accepted the game from 
the American Express Company, and had it distribu'ed 
among my friends. Some time after his I received a 
communication from Mr. Pond, Chief Game Protector, to 
the effect that Protector Scott was investigating my case 
and making an appointment if I wished to "expla'n the 
ma.ter." I kept appointment and "explained the matter" as 
above, with the result that my next communication from 
Mr. Pond Avas to the eft"ect that Mr. Horstman and my- 
self were each fined $100, We declined to settle the affair 
at this figure, and decided to figh. the case, whereupon 
Mr. Scott oft'ered to accept a $50 penalty from each of us. 
As to contest the case (even though successful) meant a 
sum considerably in excess of this figure, we accepted this 
fine for the very cogent reason that "beggars canno^ lie 
choosers." 
I have always been an enthusiastic advocate of more 
stringent game laws in this State, and I have variotts and 
sundry ideas in regard to the word ng and enforcing of 
same, all of which however, have no place in this a'-ticle, 
but the point I wotild like to i?.iake is this: If. as Pro ec- 
tor Scott claimed (in an attempt to conceal the avarice 
actuating his legal hold-up), the fine imposed in th's ca=e 
was to establish a precedent to a'd in ihe prosecution of 
more flagrant cases, then a nominal fine of $l would have 
answered the purpose as well. If the fine was not imp ised 
for the reason above stated, but rather as a penalty, why 
was not the extreme penalty of $ioo per deer, or why, 
after placing it a $100 each and discovering thnt it woidd 
be contested at that figure, is it reduced to $50, at the 
discretion of the protectors? I infer from my exnerirnce 
in this case that it is the policy of the Ch'ef Game Pro- 
tector to take advantage of every opportunity to impose a 
fine of which they receive half. In this respect they are, 
less considerate than the veriest pot-hunter, who, while 
depriving the sportsman of legitimate sport, hardly pre- 
sumes to filch from his game bag. This is the inevitable 
result of sanctioning a sj^stem which provides for a 
pecuniary reward o any protector securing a convict inn 
instead of rendering him a proper return for the con- 
scientious discharge of his duty. 
Ju.st so long as this system of legal bribery obtains, just 
so long will the office of game protector continue to be a 
lucrative sinecure. 
If it is impossible to secure the passage of a law pro- 
hibif'ng the sale of game at any and all seasons of the 
year, the present law could be tolerated were i- inter- 
preted in the spirit in which it was written, but if inter- 
preted literally it deprives New York sportsmen of en- 
joying a hunting trip into Ma ne for moose or deer during 
the finest part of the season, if he desires to br'ng any 
meat out with him. Those who have experienced a 
similar trip will agree with me that in this respect the 
present law is a failure, 
[Mr. Tilden appears to have acted with good inten- 
tions, btit to have been misled by poor legal advice. The 
law, which reads, "Wild deer or venison shall no" be pos- 
sessed or sold from Nov. 21 to Aug. 31, both inclusive," 
