Jan. ii, 1902.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
■^.Blackwood, who had their horses and the famous pack of 
hounds belonging to R. E. Bobo, of Bobo, Miss. Mr. 
Bobo has the reputation of being the best bear hunter 
Hi in the State of Mississippi, and keeps the only pack 
of bear hounds in this country. His sons and son-in-law, 
Mr. Blackwood, accompanied us, and all are expert hun- 
ers of both bear and deer. We arrived at the club house, 
which is on the bank of the river in Arkansas, at the 
mouth of the Arkansas River, at 2 P. M., Nov 12. 
All the boys were as lively as crickets, and such yell- 
ing, joking and laughing from old settled, dignified men 
<j| you never heard. To see governors, judges, chancellors 
of universities, eminent physician's and attorneys, and men 
of all callings laughing and playing like school boys, 
and mingling with each other in unrestrained social en- 
joyment was extremely pleasant; for it showed that each 
exterior contained a warm heart and joyous soul, ready 
to go out toward its fellow beings and commune with 
them in untrammeled social intercourse. 
At a meeting held that night, Captain John H. Mc- 
l| Dowell was unanimously chosen captain and director of 
' the hunt. 
Nov. 13 dawned bright and cold — ideal hunting- 
weather. All were in the saddle early and the men were 
soon on their proper stands. F. G. Bobo, R. E. Bobo, 
Jr., Harris and Blackwood did the driving with about 
twenty of their hands. The drivers had not gone a quar- 
ter mile from the club house when the dogs jumped a 
large doe. R. E. Bobo, Jr., and Harris both got snap 
shots, but did no harm. The doe ran through D. A. Ed- 
wards' stand and he fired at her three times, but did not 
stop her. She continued on her way and was killed by 
out, the threat was sufficient to bring them to terms, and 
they brought in a verdict of "guilty, with recommenda- 
tion to the mercy of the court." The court announced 
that it possessed no such qualification, and proceeded to 
sentence the prisoner. The sentence was "all cost," 
which the court assured the prisoner would break his 
back, and the very worst punishment that could be in- 
flicted on a hunter. However, as Capt. John H. Mc- 
Dowell is strictly temperance the sentence did not hurt 
him. 
Nov. 14 dawned bright and clear. Frost enveloped 
the earth like a mantle of snow. The twigs snapped 
under foot with a gingery twing, the geese honked as 
they flew from river to lake, and all nature smiled upon 
as ardent a lot of hunters as ever emulated the example 
of the Goddess Diana. 
All were on stands early, waiting in expectancy for 
the cry of the hounds, and did not wait long. Old Rock, 
belonging to_ Uncle Joe Jones, opened on trail before he 
was out of sight of camp. Then the combined packs of 
Uncle Joe, Bobo and Geo. Lacey broke into full cry. 
The deer was up and running for its life. It jumped up 
so close to the line of standers that all heard the music. 
And music it was. All the Euterpean strains of enchanted 
music, melodies from throats of songsters like Calve, 
Eames and Sembrich, sounded harsh when compared to 
this. 
Oh, if I could drag some of you hide-bound business 
men into the forest, and let you hear such melodies as 
these, the scales would drop from your eyes, the marrow 
would warm in your bones, the young blood would go 
coursing through your veins again, and you would go 
when it realized its position." We had lots of fun at the 
Doctor's expense. 
Some of the boys brought in geese and more ducks 
and quail. 
Next day Philip Fransioli and Uncle Joe , Jones each 
killed a deer. 
Mr, J. M. Avent. of Hickory Valley, Tenn., had come 
down on the last trip of the steamer with his horses and 
with fifteen fine hounds. Mr. Avent has the reputation 
of having the fastest fox pack in the State. 
Our luck continued to be as good as could be desired, 
We had three or four chases every day and seldom failed 
to kill a deer. We started five deer the last day we 
hunted in less than one mile of the club house. We had 
been gone about eight days and all declared the hunt a 
grand success; as we had killed twelve deer, twenty geese 
and many ducks and quail. Our culinary department had 
been under the able supervision of Mr. Philip Fransioli, 
who is a hotel keeper of many years' experience, and the 
club was unanimous in extending him a vote of thanks 
for his able service. 
Our club owns in its' own right S>ooo acres; and we are 
making arrangements to buy 10,000 acres more. We are 
in the center of an uninhabited wilderness, sixty miles 
long by twenty wide. The lands are all wild and valuable 
only for the timber on them. We own the exclusive 
hunting privilege on a large section of country, in the 
center of which is a lake seven miles long by one mile 
wide, with smaller lakes here and there. We have made 
arrangements to sow the small lakes with yonkapins and 
wild rice, and the open places with wheat and peas. So 
we shall soon have the finest place for wildfowl as well 
THE OZARK CLOT HOUSE, 
AFTER THE HUNT. 
Gov. McMillin is on the right of the picture. 
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Mr. Albert Swind about two miles from where she had 
started. Mr. Swind had gone down the river hunting 
geese, and heard the dogs coming and ran in ahead of 
the pack and killed the. deer with No. 5 duck shot. 
The dogs soon had two more deer on the run. One, 
a large buck, swam the lake a mile wide and escaped. 
The other, a yearling buck, almost ran over Capt. John 
H. McDowell and was killed. Capt. McDowell now 
started with the drivers, and soon the dogs treed some- 
thing in a brush pile. When we reached them we found 
it was a coon. Capt. McDowell dismounted and shot 
the coon to get the dogs away, but in doing so he laid 
himself liable to Judge Smallman's court, as it was against 
the rules to shoot small game when deer hunting. We 
now started to camp, and on the way an otter ran within 
thirty yards of Mr. Blackwood, and went into the lake 
before he could shoot it. When we reached the club 
house we found that Oscar Clemmons and Frank Cald- 
well had brought in ten mallard ducks, which they had 
killed on the lake. Two deer, ten ducks and quite a num- 
ber of quail made up the first day's bag. 
We found that^ Uncle Joe Jones and his son, Luther, 
had arrived during the afternoon, bringing their fine 
pack of dogs with them. They live about twenty-five 
miles from the club house, and own a number of fine 
dogs, and also keep some of the club dogs; for we do not 
allow a dog to be kept on the preserve. We now had 
quite a number of skillful hunters in camp, and plenty of 
good hands. 
That night we had lots of fun at Capt. John H. Mc- 
Dowell's trial for killing that coon. As soon as the busi- 
ness meeting was over and the day's record written up, 
Judge Smallman appointed big Frank Caldwell, who is 
six feet two inches tall and weighs 250 pounds, as sheriff. 
He is the exact counterpart of Polyphemus the Cyclops, 
excepting that Polyphemus had one eye in the middle 
of his forehead, and Frank has two natural eyes and good 
ones. Anyway, he is fierce looking, and it takes that to 
be a good sheriff. 
Capt. John H. McDowell was arrested, charged with 
the crime of killing a coon in front of Mr. Bobo's dogs, 
which was very injurious to the mental, moral and phys- 
ical qualities of the hounds. Now, anyone who has hunted 
knows that the moral character of a hound is one of his 
main attributes, and to sully his character in such a 
manner is a crime indeed. Anyway, the court thought 
so, and what the court thought had to go. Dr. Duncan 
Eve, Dr. J. Y. Crawford, Dr. W. W. Core, John Mores 
and Ws J. Flatt were appointed jurors. 
Capt. McDowell made a noble defense of his case, and 
brought in such unimpeachable testimony as Uncle Joe 
Jones to prove that he had not injured Mr. Bobo's dogs 
by killing the coon. He even proved that the character 
of Mr. Bobo's "Black Gyp Venus was no good anyway." 
However, with the able prosecution of Attorney-General 
A. H. Murray and the copious suggestions of the court, 
a very damaging case was brought against him. The 
court instructed the jury to bring in a verdict of guilty. 
They, however, could not agree and were ordered back 
with the injunction "to agree in five minutes or go to 
jail." Now, as the jail is one of the dog pens, and a 
juror is liable to have to be disinfected when he comes. 
back tweny-five years and be young again. There would 
be no ^ more Ponce de Leon's seeking the "fountain of 
youth." You would all be young. Uncle Joe Jones is 
seventy years old, and he rides his horse in the chase 
like a man of thirty. 
The deer passed near Mr. Fulton Howard, who fired 
at it, but failed to stop it. It then ran so near the club 
house that one of the colored servants named Bob Ed- 
wards grabbed up a rifle and killed it. It was a magnifi- 
cent buck, and weighed over 200 pounds. Page M. 
Patterson got the horns, which had eight points and a 
very wide spread. 
We soon had another deer on the run, which proved 
to be a large doe. She ran through D. A. Edwards' 
stand and he killed her. 
R. E. Bobo, Jr., and A. H. Murray killed a goose 
each, and a number of ducks and quail were killed by 
members during the day. 
Nov. 15 dawned beautiful and clear, frosty and calm. 
^Eolus had his winds confined to his segean caverns, and 
Solaris smiled upon us. In fifteen minutes after the start 
the faithful hounds of Jones, Bobo and Lacey jumped 
a large doe. She ran near Gov. McMillin, but not suffi- 
ciently near to shoot. He turned her to Dr. J. Y. Craw- 
ford and he fired both barrels. Then such yells of tri- 
umph you never heard. The whole crowd knew what 
had happened. Gov. McMillin and Capt. John H. Mc- 
Dowell rushed to his assistance, as they were afraid he 
would hurt himself. Gov. McMillin said he was afraid 
to approach at first. With arms waving and body ges- 
ticulating he was brandishing his bloody hunting knife 
aloft, and crying at the top of his voice: "I got him! I 
got him !" It proved to be a she, however, a big, fat 
doe. The proudest man in the State of Arkansas at that 
moment was Dr. J. Y. Crawford. The hounds were now 
taken to the north end of preserve and soon had a large 
buck on the jump. After some chasing, which afforded 
great pleasure to the listeners, he was finally killed by 
the combined efforts of F. G. and R. E. Bobo, Jr., Frank 
Harris and Mr. Blackwood. He was a big fellow and 
had eight prongs on his horns. 
The hunt continued, and you know in deer hunting the 
unexpected always happens. The dogs soon jumped an- 
other deer and _ ran him across the Arkansas River, 
clear out of hearing. All standers were patiently waiting 
and Dr. Duncan Eve was sitting on a log musing, with 
his gun on the ground near him. He was thinking of 
those virile students at Vanderbilt University, who were 
all rejoicing because he was deer hunting down in Arkan- 
sas. When Jo! a monarch of the forest with a "chair 
on his head" walked calmly out within twenty steps of 
our sedate chancellor. The buck looked at the Doctor 
and the Doctor at the buck. The Doctor thought that 
Orpheus was near with his lyre and that the sweet strains 
had " caused the beasts of the forest to forget they were 
wild, and the streams to cease to flow." The buck took 
a different view of it, and with one bound sprang into 
the bushes and was gone. 
The Doctor managed to fire* both barrels of his shot- 
gun and cut a sapling in twain fifteen feet from the 
ground. He explained this high shot by saying "that he 
had under-shot the deer as it jumped twenty feet high 
as for large game. Deer, turkeys, and quail are very 
plentiful, with some bear on the north end of the preserve. 
Geese fly over by the thousands, and also ducks, and 
when our lakes are sown down with their natural food, 
our club will excel for fowl the famous Wapanocki Club 
near Memphis. 
Our members are limited to sixty. We now have fifty 
enrolled on our books. We have ten more shares, one 
share to the man, to sell to the right parties. All money 
paid for stock goes to the purchase of land and hunting 
privileges. We require reference from those desiring to 
buy stock, as we are compelled to have a majority vote, 
of members to elect a member. We do not run on long 
lineage ancestry, but must know that a man is a gentle- 
man, because this is a club composed exclusively of that 
sort of people. If you desire any information I will send 
you a copy of constitution and by-laws and treat you as 
courteously as you could wish. We are not begging for 
members, as the man who gets into this club will make 
handsomely on his investment, as well as break into the 
finest hunting club in the South. 
The outing terminated and all took the steamer for 
Memphis, scattering to their homes from this point We 
brought six large deer back with us, having consumed six 
at the club house. All departed for their homes declar- 
ing the hunt a grand success, and swearing by all that is 
sacred to meet again, if possible, next year. 
Thus terminated the second hunt of the Ozark Lake 
Hunting and Fishing Club, and all were benefited and 
more strongly cemented in the eternal bonds of "Fidus 
Achates." A, B. Wingfield, Sect'y. 
California Quail for Stocking:. 
San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 16.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: Owing to the fact that there are many requests 
made by people living in various parts of the Eastern 
States for California quail, to be used for purposes of 
propagation, and these requests or inquiries are seldom, 
made to the State Board of Fish Commissioners, who 
have the sole authority to grant requests, or issue permits 
of this character, may we request that you give the matter 
publicity through the columns of your paper. We do 
not mean by this to invite applications, but to call the 
attention of those who desire California quail, that they 
make their applications to this Board, where they will be 
given careful consideration. 
California Fish Commission. 
Chas. A. Vogelsang, Chief Deputy. 
An Iowa Prairie Chicken Case. 
Algona, la., Jan. 2. — Editor Forest and Stream: On 
Aug. 31, 1901, ex- Judges Hubbard and Trimball, of this 
State, were caught by our game warden, Riley, with three 
prairie chickens. They had just come into Ledyard in 
the north part of this county from a morning's shoot. 
They contested the case in the justice court, The justice 
fined them, and they appealed to the District Court, but 
did not let the case come to trial. It has cost them 
about $i$o, John G. Smith. 
