FOREST AND STR^^aM. 
Proprietors of shooting resorts will find it profitable to advertise 
them m Forest and Stream, 
I Los Angeles County Association. 
The citizens of Los Angeles county, Cal., have 
organized a tish and game protective association, v^hich, 
starting with twenty-three members, has m a month 
grown to a membership of 250. Secretary L. Herzog 
thus explains the character and purpose of the assoication 
in an address to tiie residents of the county ; 
' "Realizing that all wad birds and animals, mcludmg 
game birds and fish, are being rapidly exterminated, ow- 
ing to the non-observance of our Jaws, and believing it is 
right to do that which will conduce to preserve our animal 
lite for the benefit of the many, a meeting was called some 
months ago and responded to by many citizens who ad- 
m-re nature for nature's cause, and which has resulted 
in the organization of what is known as the Los Ange.es 
C«unty jfish and Game Protective Association. I'his 
organization has no connection with any gun club, nor is 
it organized for any purposes of hunting or sport; it is 
non-political and was conceived and will be conducted 
solely for the purpose of protecting all harmless animals 
and all game during its lawful close and breed.ng season. 
' Also to introduce more game birds in our fields and foot- 
hills and more game fisli in our streams. This Associa- 
tion is maintained solely by private money obtained by 
membership fees, which are $1 per year. This Association 
is only one of manv of the same character in this State 
and which have convicted almost every guilty man who 
has been arrested through its or other agencies, and who 
have in return for their misdeeds paid fines ranging from 
$20 to $250 each. This Association can and wiil convict 
those who may be brought before its prosecuting board 
with the necessary evidence. But one of the greatest fac- 
tors to promote this good work, in the judgment of its 
present membership, is the hearty, enthusiastic and honest 
assistance of those living in the game districts. Just as 
soon as it becomes known that the farmers, cattlemen, 
large ranch owners and all persons living in the game 
sections are aroused and declare they will assist us by 
inform-ng upon violators, and in all ways work in har- 
mony with our efforts, then the objects of this Associa; 
tion will be attained and violations become a thing of the 
past. , 
"This Association has no desire to make arrests or cause 
friction in any way. but hopes to begin an education ot 
the general public in regard to the self-government of 
game and other useful and ornamental wild animals. We 
also wish to w^arn all persons not to resist or interfere 
with the deputy commissioners of this Association m the 
discharge of their duty, as they are working under author- 
ity of the California Fish and Game Commission, and 
have all the authority and pdwer to make arrests, vvith 
or without warrants, that are vested m any sheriff. Our 
deputies are all furnished with proper papers aiid badges. 
"Kindly note that all game and otlier wild life belongs 
to the State of Californ'a, and not to those property 
owners upon whose land it may roam, and neither does 
the possession of suCh land invest any special privileges 
in regard to shooting out of season. If every man wiH do 
his duty in now protecting the game during its breeding 
season there will be ent)ugh game for all, and the many 
w'll have their chance of sport in the proper time, instead 
of the few, as is now the case. 
"And further, it is our aim to prevent wanton destruc- 
tion of 'harmless birds and animals by parties when out 
hunting game. In other words, when hunting rabbits kill 
rabbits; if quail, kill quail, but do not make, as a side 
issue, a mark of all the harmless birds and animals cross- 
ing your path. " ' 
"Realizing the people hold the key to the situation we 
ask you to help us— and that means all the people, ihis 
can be done by you joining our organization andj5nlisting 
m the work as above suggested. We wish it distinctly 
understood, however, that this Assoc-ation is only organ- 
ized for the purpose of enforcing the State and county 
laws treating all alike, for the purpose of protecting and 
increasing the supply of all game, fish, song .and in- 
sectivorous birds, and for this purpose only. 
'We give the by-laws as a useful guide to others : 
BY-LAWS, 
of the 
LOS ANGELES COUNTY FISH AND GAME PROTECTIVE 
ASSOCIATION. 
Following are the by-laws adopted by the Los Angeles County 
Fish and Game Protective Association: * i„ r„„„*„ 
1. This organization shall be named the Los Angeles County 
Fish and Game Protective Association. 
2. Its object shall be to protect the hsh and game of the country 
by enforcing the fish and game laws, as passed by the Legislature 
of the State of California, and all ordinances passed by the Board 
of Supervisors of Los Angeles county California, . 
3 The oificers of the organization shall consist of a president, a 
vice-president, a s_ecretary, a treasurer, a prosecuting attorney, a 
prosecuting board of three, to serve for the term of one year or 
until their successors are diily elected and qualified. 
The duties of president, vice-president, secretary, and treasurer 
shall be such as usually devolve on such olficers respectively m 
other organizations. . , i_ ^ ■ . 
5 The duties of prosecuting attorney shall be to prosecute 
vigorously all cases of arrest made by the advice of the prosecutni- 
'*°^'^*^it ■ shall be the duty of the prosecuting board to carefully 
weiKh and consider all information and reports that may be brougiu 
to their notice of violations of any of the fish or game laws, and to 
determine whether or not the evidence produced or obtainable, is 
sufficient to warrant a prosecution in any such 'Case, and to instruct 
the prosecuting attorney accordingly. ^, , 
7. The meetings of this Association shall be held on the second 
Wednesday of each month at 3 P. M. 
Nine members present at any meeting shall constitute a quorum. 
I Order of Business.— 1. Reading of minut;es of the previous 
meeting. 2. Reading of communications. 3. Reports of officers. 
4 Reports of committees. 5. Election of members. 6. Unfinished 
business. 7. New business. 8. Good of the Association. 9. Ad- 
''^g'^T^e^organization shall offer a standing reward of $25 for any 
information of any violation of any fish and game law or ordinance 
that shall result in a conviction of the person informed against. 
10 The initiation fee and dues of this Association shall be ?1 
per 'year, and are payable at time of initiation. 
II The by-laws of this Association shall be amended by a two- 
thirds vote of all the members present at a meeting. Two weeks' 
notice thereof shall be given to the members before amendment. 
Commenting upon the work done by such organizations, 
tl^e Game and Fish Commissioners say in their last report: 
''The formation of clubs and associations for the en- 
forcenaent of the game laws of the State and counties has 
become more generaL "ihe success attending these local 
efforts has been most gratilymg, in several leading coun- 
ties of the State tiiese associations have become strong 
and active, and have so influenced public opinion that any 
violator of the game laws is almost certain of arrest and 
convict.on. Ihe resmts of these combinations plainly 
exemplity that the interested public have a successiul 
remedy tor enforcing these laws. As soon as the peace 
olticers of a county understand that there is a public senti- 
ment back of the game laws, and determined local effort 
to enforce them, they will join in the effort, and not 
before. To fo.ster and encourage this movement has been 
one of our aims. We have issued commissions to men 
named by these associations, and have paid the men for 
services rendered, until such time as the Association 
were able to compensate them. Thus the eltorts first 
made in Humboldt, Fresno, Santa Clara and Mann 
counties have resulted not only in the observance of 
the laws in those counties, but their iniiuence has 
extended to many others, and in time will, avc trust, 
cover the entire State," 
^ , CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
The liliaois Oame Law, 
Chicago, 11., June 29.— A letter just at hand from Stale 
Game Conr^jsioner A. J. Lovejoy, of Roscoe, Jll., ex- 
plains some uf the details regarding the peculiar trans- 
actions which left us in Illinois without protection for 
our quail. Mr. Lovejoy states that the real condition of 
the law is not so bad as was at first supposed. True, the 
statute as it reads now will not prohib.t the shooting of 
quail and of woodcock, but the original clause forbidding 
their being held in possession stili stands under the 
laAV, and this offers a very strong leverage for protective 
' "ivork. Ml-. Lovejoy states that so nearly as can be de- 
termined the blunder in the law is attributable to the 
carelessness of the clerk of the committee which had the 
draft in charge. In the engrossing a whole line was left 
out, including the Avords "quail and woodcock," as well as 
some words of less material importance. The clause re- 
garding the possession and selling of quail was not thus 
changed. 
INow here we have a beautiful example of modern 
civilization. The law as it is printed is not the wish of 
the people, but the wish, or rather the fault, of one man — 
an obscure clerk in a committee room. Yet the courts 
will tell us that this law stands and must be observed 
as it is written. I used to live out in the West in earlier 
times, and if we had had a fool law like that out there 
it would not have had respect enough accorded it to last 
it over night. The sentiment of the people was what made 
the law in that region, and it is what should make it here. 
Technicalities did not go in New Mexico, and they ought 
not to go in Illinois. In the good old' times men used to 
meet and size up together about what they thought was 
right, and then everybody had to do about what everybody 
else thought was right, and if he did not he had no 
standing in the community, because he was pretty apt to 
get hung. We have changed a good many of these things 
in this high geared modern civilization of ours, but I am 
not sure that we have improved upon the old ways very 
much after all. 
Of course with the men who are really law abiding, this 
error in the law will not make the slightest difference in 
the world. Many so-called sportsmen of the swinish sort 
will avail themselves of this slip of the committee clerk 
and will feel themselves free to shoot quail at any time in 
this State. The facts having been made generally known 
in the sporting press, the shooters of the country are not 
so badly off as they might be. All the decent shooters will 
bear in mind the intent of the law and not its letter. They 
will hold their own quail dates just as the law intended 
they should be printed. If you know any shooter who 
goes out without regard to dates simply because there is 
this blunder in the law, you may set that shooter down 
as anything on earth but "a sportsman. 
The Roar of Wild Beasts. 
The daily newspaper has a vocabulary of its own. Such 
words as "roar," "flash," "shock," "thud," etc., are essen- 
tial to the get-up of a daily. We shall always have the 
"blinding flash of the revolver." the "crash of the bullet 
through the brain," and we shall always hear about the 
"roar of wild beasts." regardless of the fact that revolvers 
do not flash and wild beasts do not roar. Now here was a 
Chicago woman, a Miss Mason, who, with a friend, got 
lost this week in the mountains back of San Bernardino, 
Cal. "From midnight to daybreak," the story reads, "the 
young women struggled through the forest. At times, ex- 
hausted, they would sink to rest upon a bed of sagebrush, 
only to be aroused again by the roars of wild beasts about 
them," etc. There are a few sportsmen in the United 
States who would be tickled to death to know just what 
sort of wild beasts these were which roared in the night 
time just back of San Bernardino. A grizzly does not 
make a business of roaring. A coyote does not roar. A 
mountain lion screams once in a while, and so perhaps 
does the wildcat, but they do not roar. The p-'ne squirrels 
do not roar, and neither does the horned frog of Cali- 
fornia. Prithee, what were these roars? 
Hollow-Points for Greenland's Icy Mountaias. 
Chicago is not usually rated as of first consequence as 
an outfitting point for parties intending to visit Green- 
land, yet this week a large outfit was bought here with 
the intention of use in the latter named locality. Mr. A. 
W. Church, of Elgin, 111., is to be one of the members of 
the Peary expedition which will sail from New York a 
week from next Monday, and Mr. Church has, after 
counseling with Mr. Hirth. of Spaldings. decided to get 
most of his outfit there. He has determined also upon a 
.36-40 rifle and the hollow-point nickel-jacketed bullets 
which have recently been found so successful in that arm. 
Mr. Church laid in a quantity of this ammunition In the 
belief that it would prove serviceable among the_ big game 
of the Arctic country to which the party is going. 
Mountain School* 
Gen. E. V. Sumner, U. S. A., retired; Col. Schuyler 
Crosby, of New York, and W. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) 
have established a singular sort of school out at Cody, 00 
the Q. Railroad in Wyoming. It is called the Cody Mili- 
tary College and International Academy of Rough R.ders 
— certainly a circus-like appellation enough. Ytt carried 
out in proper fashion, the purposes of this school are not 
so bad. I he buildings are to be made of logs. It is not of 
special interest to state that they will contain baths, 
gymnasiums, reading rooms and library, but they may 
be something in the fact that rough r.ding, as well as 
practical camp life in the mountains, will be taught. As 
to the school which will teach big-game hunting, the thing 
has its humorous aspects. No school can approach the old 
free life which was once natural to the West. But if 
even its ghost can be revived or perpetuated, perhaps so 
much the better. 
Big Silver-Tip, 
Mr. F. M. Stephenson, of Menominee, Mich., is in 
town to-day, and leaves for the Gaylord Club, of Wiscon- 
sin, to-morrow. Mr. Stephenson and a friend had the 
luck to kill a big silver-tip bear in the mountains of 
Mexico this spring. The bear was found eating at the 
carcass of a cow which had been mired down in a bog 
holloM'. The skin of the bear, w^hich was a silver-tip. was 
so long that when hung on the wall with the feet just 
touching the floor, Mr. Stephenson could not reach up to 
the tip of its nose. Mr. Stephenson is about 6 feet 4 inches 
in height himself, hence one mav imagine what a height 
this was. E. Hough. 
Hartford Building, Chicago, III. 
A Lost Chance at Elk, 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
It sometimes happens in the course of human events 
that a blunder which causes a keen, disappointment and 
lifelong regret to the blunderer is extremely ridiculous 
and laughable to all but the blunderer. 
Three young men, acquaintances of mine from Fort 
Collins, drove to my ranch in the mountains of northern 
Colorado, a distance of 140 miles, for a little outing. 
They were all tenderfeet and inexperienced in ranch - 
life and hunting, but were enthusiastic to kill something. 
Deer were so abundant that scarcely a day passed with- 
out some being seen from the house, out in the meadow. 
While I was getting breakfast in the morning, just at 
break of day, which was too early for the city chaps to 
be up, I would generally see deer in the meadow. I 
would call the boys and report deer in sight. Then 
there would be a wild scramble for "duds," and they 
would be out with eyes half open, groping around in 
the early dawn like chickens scared from their roost at 
night; and shivering in the chill of the morning. 
Then my attention would be all taken up watching 
their tactics in the effort to get a shot. It was like 
watching a •'sight unseen" trade when you know the 
property of both traders. I could see both the hunted 
and the hunters from the house, which was on a bluff 
overlooking the meadow, through which flowed a creek 
heavily borderetl with willows, which afforded cover for 
stalking. Such morning escapades would always ter- 
minate in an overdone" or burnt breakfast, and the exit 
of the deer from the meadow in their usual health. 
One of the boys, Frank, claimed to have killed deer, 
and was not so enthusiastic over them, but his whole 
heart was set on getting a shot at an elk. He thought it 
would be the crowning effort of his life if he could only 
kill one, and he was confident that a chance was all he 
needed. 
I proposed going to Big Creek Lake, a beautiful sheet 
of water one by one and a half miles in size, situated high ' 
up in the mountains, about six miles from the ranch, and 
surrounded by heavily timbered mountains, where elk 
were always to be found, with several bear and plenty of 
deer. Frank was especially anxious to go, thinking he 
might get a shot at an elk. We drove as far as we could, 
then picketed our horses and proceded on foot. All the 
way Frank was training his gun on objects and picturing 
himself shooting an elk. 
The country was rough, and I picked out the smoothest 
possible way of getting through, and yet the bovs were 
loud in their imprecations against such'a rough trail, and 
asked in a sort of "you-don't-know-the-country" way if 
I couldn't take them back by a rougher trail. I said I 
certainly could and would. While two of the boys and 
myself were wandering leisurely along near the edge of 
the lake Frank had taken a circle further out in the 
woods, and had come around ahead of us, but all the 
while in our sight. We were sitting on a log, and saw^ 
him get up on a log which was lying up several feet 
from the ground and gaze steadily ahead into a little 
swampy park for more than a minute; then he jumped 
down and came on toward us, and when he got about 
half-way to us he called out in a loud voice. "Say, do 
any of you fellows want a shot at some horses?" The 
situation was plain to me like a flash. There were no 
horses within several miles of there, and I said to the 
boys in a "stage whisper," "It's elk." We jumped to 
our feet, and just then we saw two cow elk trot through 
the little park and then stop about 100 yards away and 
stand long enough for several good shots. I urged them 
to shoot, but the excitement was running too high 
through their nerves, and, with all their aiming and efforts 
at self-control, not one of them fired a shot, and the elk 
left in disgust. 
Then Frank came and made full confession. All the 
lime he was standing on that log looking, he was within 
close range, of the elk, and it never occurred to him that 
they might be elk, but he thought they were horses. The 
scene which followed is easier imagined than described. 
Later, while we were strolling along the shore of the 
lake, and while one of the boys was off a short distance 
in the woods looking for deer, we made some artificial ' 
bear tracks in the sand and put a little muddy water in 
them to make them look very fresh. Then we called the 
fellow out of the woods to see them, and soon had Iiim 
worked up to a high state of excitement. He was never 
enlightened, so far as I know, and he had the story well 
circulated. I heard it long afterward in town, he 
had told it. 
I fulfilled my promise to show them rough country as 
we went back. I knew a place directly on our way 
back which was as nearly impassable as I cared to 
