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with rocks and boulders like the bed of a dried up 
stream. 
Kennan, in his work upon Siberia, gives a graphic 
description of the "post station" or roadside hostelry in 
the Trans Baikal, which description, somewhat toned 
down, will give a fair idea of a "stopping place." In this 
sparsely settled country no hotel or tavern could exist. 
The long stretches of lonely road, however, make some 
place of shelter or rest a necessity, and, upon roads 
leading to the lumber camps, the lonely settler enlarges 
his log shanty and stables so as to afford accommodation 
for man and beast during the busy season. The com- 
forts of these stopping places are rendered endurable only 
by absolute necessity. Mine host is invariably a hunter 
as well as a farmer, and his table is generally supplied 
with all kinds of game, but not always served up to the 
"queen's taste." You would prefer to do your own 
cooking, but that is not always practicable. Doubtless, 
however, on a dark and stormy winter's night the friendly 
light of a stopping place gladdens the heart of both driver 
and team, and some of these places are all that could 
be desired, and possess that air of tidy cleanliness and 
comfort so welcome to the tired traveler. 
The road from Maynooth to the Madawaska abounds 
with ever varying scenes of beauty , and grandeur peculiar 
to the Laurentian region. At one time you are traveling 
over a range of mountains trending off to the south and 
west and northeasterly, with wooded hills rolling away 
like billows upon your vision, here and there broken 
by the sheen of some pretty lake; at another you come 
upon some sylvan lake surrounded by evergreen hills 
and dotted with wooded islands, all mirrored upon the 
dark green surface. Here and there is heard the babble 
of mountain brooklets as they speed their gleeful course 
toward the placid water, and the fitful soughing of the 
gentle breeze through the towering pines — sounds so 
pleasing to the ear, so lulling to the senses, that you 
in fancy hear some fair wood-nymph, apprized of your 
approach and wooing you to her enchanted grotto in 
dulcet, mellow cadence — 
"Come with me and be my love." 
You would fain linger and listen or take your rod and 
try your flies upon the trout splashing and rippling the 
glassy waters. Again passing through some dark laby- 
rinth of virgin forest where the air is laden with resinous 
odors from the pines and balsams, and where at every 
breath ihe lungs take in health and vigor. 
We, however, were not permitted to enjoy the beautiful 
scenery, nor were we in a mood to indulge in poetic 
fancies. Traveling in this country after the stormy sea- 
son has once set in is rather more prosy than poetic. 
Mists or blinding snow contracted our vision. Clamber- 
ing over boulders or wading through slush occupied our 
attention, while the possibility of having, at any minute, 
*a tree or a limb come crashing down upon our heads 
gave us a lively sense of our position. 
E. B. Fr ALECK. 
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CHICAGO AND THE WEST 
The New Brunswick Moose Record. 
The largest New Brunswick moose head of the season 
was killed by a Boston man, Mr. Edwin B. Holmes, on 
the northwest Miramichi, Mr. Arthur Pringle, of Stan- 
ley, being his guide. The antlers were shapely and had 
a spread of 62P2 inches. Mr. R. H. Armstrong, of New 
Castle, killed a moose of 62 inches spread, this being one 
of the heads which will appear at the Boston show. 
Non-resident hunters killed more than 300 moose in New 
Brunswick last fall. An exact list is difficult to compile, 
but there may, perhaps, be a certain interest attached to 
the appended partial records of sportsmen who visited 
New Brunswick. It may be seen that the greatest num- 
ber of sportsmen who go into New Brunswick are resi- 
dents of the East, Western sportsmen not having yet 
fully realized the full extent of the game resources of this 
old but still unexploited wilderness. 
F. M. Smith, San Francisco, Cai., 1 moose. 
C. B. Zabriskie, New York, 1 moose. 
F. E. Benjamin, Maiden, Mass, 1 moose. 
H. Hewitt, Cambridge, Mass., 1 moose, 1 caribou. 
. J. Flanders, Boston, Mass., 1 moose. 
Charles Fox, Boston, Mass, 1 moose. 
Dr. E. B. Holmes, Boston, Mass., 1 moose, 1 caribou, 1 bear, 1 
deer. 
E. A. Slack Boston, Mass., 1 moose, 1 caribou, 1 bear, 1 deer. 
Dr. F. W. Whidden, Portland, Me., 1 moose, 1 caribou. 
Eugene Warren, New York, 1 moose. 
Eugene Svkes, New York, 1 caribou. 
Alfred Weed, Providence, R. I., 1 moose, 1 caribou, 1 deer. 
John Mclntyre, Dayton, O., 1 moose, 1 caribou, 1 deer. 
Dr. J. D. Lance, Providence, 1 moose, 1 caribou. 
Charles E. Mann, Providence, R. I., 1 moose, 1 caribou. 
Edwin McKisson, New York, 1 moose, 1 caribou, 1 deer. 
H. K. McKirkland, New York, 1 moose, 1 caribou. 
I. W. Morton, St. Louis, Mo., 1 moose. 
Miss Alice Morton, St. Louis, Mo., 1 moose. 
Count Von Arnim, Washington, D. C, 1 moose. 
W. M. Kidder, New York, 1 moose, 1 caribou. 
George D. Pratt, New York, 1 moose, 1 caribou. 
Dr. D. W. Greene, Dayton, O., 1 moose, 1 caribou. 
J. R. King, Dayton, O., 1 moose. 
Lambert Sydnam, Jr., New York, 1 moose. 
N. T. Depauw, New Albany, Ind., 1 moose. 
F. E. Hutchinson, New York, 1 bear. 
Lyman Bass, Buffalo, N. Y., 1 moose, 1 caribou. 
Evan Hollister, Buffalo, N. Y., 1 moose, 1 caribou. 
C. W. Feigenspan, Newark, N. J., 1 moose, 1 caribou. 
Dr. F. Schavoir, Stanton, Conn., 1 moose. 
Mrs. F. Schavoir, Stanton, Conn., 1 moose. 
George T. Bishop, Cleveland, O., 1 moose, 1 caribou. 
Owen Scotten. Detroit, Mich., 1 moose. 
Fred Irland, Washington, O., 1 moose. 
Chas. W. Small, Portland, Me., 1 moose. 
Emerson Hough, Chicago, III., 1 moose. 
B. R. Houghton, Boston, 1 moose. 
William Angel, Detroit, Mich., 1 moose. 
Eward Ward, Worcester. Mass., 1 moose. 
N. C. Nash, Boston, 1 moose. 
Major Hinman, Boston, 1 moose, _ 
Dr. G. A. Robison, Sayville, N. Y., 1 moose. 
Major John Dunlap, Hackensack, N. J., 1 moose, 1 caribou. 
Charles Wade, Knoxville. Tenn., 1 moose. 
The Shrinking of Sheep Horns. 
If anyone is desirous of establishing a record for size 
in mountain sheep horns, it may be well for him to do 
his measuring as soon after the death of his specimen as 
possible. While I am not ready to say that ordinary do- 
mestic conditions will dry out the horn and reduce its 
dimensions, I can affirm that steam heat such, as is cus- 
tomarily found in a city residence, will effect a pro- 
nounced change in the horns of the bighorn shep. 
It may be, perhaps, borne in mind by a few that, at the 
New York sportsmen's show of 1897, there appeared the 
largest bighorn head which anyone present had ever 
seen, and which was called by the measuring committee 
quite the largest specimen ever recorded to their know- 
ledge. My recollection is that the committee was com- 
posed of Theodore Roosevelt and George Bird Grinnell, 
of New York, and Thomas Fraine, of Rochester, N. Y. 
It is difficult to measure the horn of a bighorn exactly, 
and if memory serves correctly, the committee did not ex- 
actly agree upon the measurements of this specimen. 
Billy Jackson, the Piegan half-breed who brought the 
head from' the St. Mary's country of Montana, stated 
that he and the hunter Norris, who probably killed the 
animal, made out the horns to be 20 inches. The com- 
mittee could not make it so much. Mr. Fraine measured 
it to be slightly over i8^4 inches, and declared that he 
was satisfied to call it a 19-inch head. I do not recollect 
the measurements of either of the other two gentlemen 
of the committee, but believe that one set the figure at 
18^2 inches. The horns of this specimen were very mas- 
sive, indeed, measuring even now 17 inches clean without 
following the curve of the base, and 16 inches clean well 
out toward the curve of the horn. Much broken at the 
ends as these horns are, they measure to-day 40 inches 
fair. 
Billy Jackson gave me the above head and it was 
mounted' by Fraine, of Rochester, and has since remained 
one of my much prized possessions. Seeing recently a 
statement that the record bighorn head was i6?4 inches," 
I bethought myself this week to measure the old ram's 
head once more. In this I was assisted by J. B. Monroe, 
of the Blackfoot reservation, who was of the Montana 
party at the New York show five years ago. We did not 
remove the head from the wall, and therefore could not 
make so perfect a measurement as we desired. Jack Mon- 
roe held the tape, and with two measurements he checked 
on the circumference at i7?4 inches, or fully one inch less 
than the same head measured five years ago. Jack told 
me then that he knew these horns would shrink when 
continually exposed to dry air. We, perhaps, did not 
quite do justice to this mammoth head in our crude meas- 
urements, as we could not get down under the hair, and 
hence could not follow the curves of the horn at the 
base, yet we were both satisfied that the measurement to- 
day is much less than it was at the time this specimen was 
in the hands of the committee at New York. Even so, 
this head maintains a supremacy of a good strong inch 
over that recorded as record size. 
Fremont, in his second expedition across the Rockies, 
speaks of seeing mountain sheep, but does not write as 
though his statements were the results of exact measure- 
ments. He says the horns are "often 17 inches about 
the base, and three feet long." If anyone has ever seen 
a 21-inch or indeed a 20-inch bighorn head he has seen 
something that is not authentically recorded anywhere. 
I have always believed and still believe that the record 
bighorn head of America is in my own possession. 
Wlshinfnnes will Organize. 
The Wishininne Club of Chicago sportsmen, about the 
busiest club of its size, I imagine, that may be found in 
the length and breadth of the land, held a warm session 
to-day. It was decided that the club should adopt a pin 
or badge consisting of a* miniature of the skull of old 
Chief Wishininne, the Sioux warrior. There were 
originally only five members of the Wishininne Club, but 
it was decided to increase the number of badges to ten. 
There was where the trouble began. The club is gen- 
erous with its invitations, and many sportsmen who have 
sat at the Wishininne table for some months are covet- 
ous of owning one of these club badges. The president 
of the club says ten are to be made, no more, no less. 
The waiting list beyond that is a large one, and will con- 
tinue to be large. Just who the lucky ten will be can- 
not, at this writing, be stated. One of the original five 
is no longer in the club, and his place will be filled with 
one friend to be chosen by each of the charter members. 
There will be great doings when the club badge is ready, 
and the membership will then be announced. 
The Wishininne Club, to the extent of nine members, 
attended the sportsmen's show Thursday evening of this 
week, and enjoyed themselves very much, Mr. W. B. 
Mershon, of Saginaw, Mich., was another distinguished 
sportsman to honor the entertainment with his presence 
on the same evening. 
Lake County Quail Stock. 
A' few sportsmen of Waukegan, 111., are endeavoring to 
stock Lake County, 111., with Bob White quail. A fund 
of more than $100 has been raised, and early this spring 
there will be 300 or 400 birds put down, in the hope that 
they will flourish and take the place of the quail which 
were formerly found there, but have been gathered to 
their ancestors. 
Hard to Tell. 
Mr. J. Garry Waltemeyer asks for a trapping country. 
I should dislike the responsibility of advising him if he 
expected to make a living for four persons. There is 
some trapping country in Arkansas, for instance on the 
White River, but one' would need to be careful about go- 
ing there, and he would not find the region heathy at all 
times of the year. Parts of the Rocky Mountains,, of 
course, still have some fur-bearing animals, and in Mich- 
igan and Wisconsin, near the dividing line between those 
two States, the trappers manage to pick up a little fur 
every winter. It is a far call, however, from Maryland to 
those localities, and the undertaking is so risky nowa- 
days that I should not like to counsel Mr. Waltemeyer 
to undertake to live chiefly by hunting and fishing in the 
West. 
Buffalo Jones and the Musk-Ox. 
Buffalo Jones passed through Chicago yesterday on his 
way to Topeka, Kas., after a visit of some days at Wash- 
ington, D. C. Mr. Jones, as may perhaps be not gen- 
erally known, is the holder of a permit from the Can- 
adian Government to go into the Arctic and sub-Arctic 
country and to bring out 20 musk-ox and 20 wood bison. 
Jv is stated that this permit h,a§ pot been granted to any 
other person, and certainly there is no other person who 
would be able to handle it with the same success as 
Buffalo Jones himself. I understand that Buffalo Jones 
is making arrangements for another expedition, and if so 
we may look forward to a record of complete success. 
Alaska Traveler Interviewed. 
I had the privilege of a long interview with Mr. Chas. 
A. Woodruff, formerly of Chicago, and now owner of a 
number of claims in Alaska located near the Forty-Mile 
district in the lower Yukon. Asked as to the game on 
the Yukon River, Mr. Woodruff stated that there was 
verv little there, but that the hunter must go up the side 
streams such as the Pelly or the Stewart, which make 
back 75 or 100 miles behind the high plateaus. The 
Yukon itself is a dead country, so far as game is con- 
cerned. Mr. Woodruff says that better shooting can be 
had on the Pacific Coast. He says that Barinoff Island 
is almost unexplored, and that only one or two miners 
have crossed its interior. He says that the Taku Inlet 
is another good game country. All this western slope 
of Alaska is hard to get through, but when one has once 
gotten over it to the east side of the big mountains it 
is easier traveling. Mr. Woodruff says that within twleve 
miles of Juneau there is good shooting on sheep and 
goats. The biggest bear, he says, are to be found up in 
the mountains near the glacier regions, and he says the 
Muir Glacier, easily accessible by steamship, is not far 
from good bear country. He declares that there is no 
slaughter of game being made in interior Alaska. Bill 
Lee, a government corral man, on Oct. 12, 1901, killed 
106 caribou in one day, and did not go out of his steps 
more than 500 yards. He was killing for meat. This 
was near Eagle City, about 150 miles from Dawson. 
Meat is worth 50 cents a pound, but it is hard to pack, 
and moreover cartridges cost too much to be wasted. 
Mr. Woodruff killed one fine moose near the head of 
the Forty-Mile River, and he brought out the antlers 
600 miles by dog team. They were worth it, for the 
spread is 69^2 inches. 
Asked what a dog team could do, Mr. Woodruff stated 
that he and his companion averaged 42 miles a day on 
their way out to the Pacific Coast. They both rode in 
their sled, and the weight of the load carried averaged 
600 oounds. The sledge used was eight feet long and 
shod with iron shoes. Mr. Woodruff says the brass 
shoes wear out too easily. Mr. Woodruff says that Sitka 
is a good country for grizzly, bald faced, blue or brown 
bear. That is to say, one can get into good bear country 
from that point. 
Contrary to the popular opinion, Mr. Woodruff says 
that the interior of Alaska does not have a very heavy 
snow fall, not over two feet on the average. The ther- 
mometer, however, goes very low. January 16, 1901, 
snowed the thermometer at 76 degrees below zero at his 
camp, and there were 16 days when the thermometer was 
never above 47 degrees below zero. He says the old- 
timers have a rule that when the thermometer freezes it 
is better to stay indoors, and he thinks it is a good rule 
to follow. As to provisions, a year ago Mr. Woodruff 
paid $2 for four cans of milk, with other supplies in about 
the same ratio. He paid $2.50 for a pound of tobacco, 
$4 for a sack of flour, and $1.05 for three pounds of beans. 
Grub is taken into his camp by means of Indians and 
dogs, the Indians putting about 25 pounds in each dog 
pack. For a distance of 85 miles Mr. Woodruff paid 
$168 carrying charges, on grub which had originally cost 
him $118. He says Alaska is an expensive country to live 
in, but that there is plenty to do, and he believes the 
country will be better ten years from now than it is to- 
day. E. Hough. 
Hartford Building, Chicago, 111. 
That New York Law Again. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
The discussion in your paper concerning the construc- 
tion of Section 33 of the Forest, Fish and Game law, in 
the storage case, by Judge O' Gorman, has been of inter- 
est to me, and as I have formed an opinion as to how 
that section should be construed, and as it seems too bad 
to have gone to the trouble of forming an opinion and 
then not be able to do anything with it, I have been 
moved to inflict it upon you. 
The correctness of the following proposition will prob- 
ably be conceded, i. e., "All wild birds have an open 
season the year around, except as such season has been 
restricted by legislation." 
Now, Sections 20-32, both inclusive, of the game law 
provide for certain close seasons, but those sections^ still 
leave all wild birds an open season, except that there is no 
such season for quail, grouse and woodcock in certain 
counties until 1903, and for pheasants until 1905. 
We come to the constructiin of Section 33, therefore, 
with this proposition still in mind, i. e., that all wild 
birds have an open season, except quail, grouse, wood- 
cock and pheasants in certain counties. 
Section 33. "Wild birds other than the English spar- 
row, crow, hawk, raven, crow-blackbird, common black- 
bird, kingfisher, and birds for which there is no open 
season, shall not be taken or possessed at any time, dead 
or alive, except under the authority of a certificate issued 
under this act. * * *" 
As I understand it, the intent of the lawmakers must 
be gathered from the context, if possible, and such a 
construction should be put upon the statute as will carry 
into effect that intent, unless such construction is in 
plain violation of the ordinary meaning of the language 
employed. 
Let us look first at this construction, "Wild birds (other 
than the English sparrow, * * * and birds for which 
there is no open season), shall not be taken or possessed 
at any time, dead or alive," etc. 
Under that construction no wild bird could be taken or 
possessed at any time, alive or dead, except the birds 
enumerated in said Section 33 and birds for which there 
is no open season. 
In other words, all of Sections 20-31 would be ren- 
dered utterly meaningless and useless. Birds which the 
Legislature had provided might be killed and possessed 
during part of the year could not be taken or possessed 
at any time, whil^ birds whi^h it had been the special 
