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fires. On the handle it had the letters U. S., and about 
the rim there was a bit of wire still entwined. The cost 
of this cup was, as I personally know, only about six 
cents in the first place, but as it stood I would not have 
taken a few hundred dollars for it. In short, this was 
the same tin cup which, more than a year ago, I lost 
in the snow in the middle of New Brunswick. 
Originally this cup started on its travels when Billy 
Hofer and I discovered the Yellowstone Park in the 
winter of '94. Capt. George S. Anderson, now a 
colonel in the Army, stationed in the Philippines, was 
then superintendent of the Park. He made me a pres- 
ent of this cup. which was then fresh from the sutler's 
store. I tied it to my belt with a piece of cofifee sack- 
ing, and at the belt it remained through every winter 
trip, and a good many summer trips which I have 
made since that time long ago, the old cup getting 
gradually blacker and blacker. It was along when Mc- 
Chesney and I discovered the Two Medicine country 
of the Blackfeet. It was along with me, as we have 
discovered, when I went with Adam Moore on my first 
moose hunt out from Nictor Lake, in New Brunswick. 
At last, when finally the rotting coffee sack string 
parted, I lost my tin cup high up in the big hills, six 
miles from c^mp, just where none of us could tell. 
With it went my luck, as I told in our storj'' of the 
New Brunswick trip with Adam Moore and Henry 
Braithwaite. Last spring, as I have already mentioned 
in these columns, Adam, stumbling around in the 
woods, where all our snowshoe paths had long since 
disappeared in the spring, blundered on this old tin 
cup of mine! Adam thought to sequester this as a 
souvenir, and indeed I hated to rob him of it, but 
could not find it in my heart to part with my old mas- 
cot. This fall Mr. Geo. Henneberry, of Chicago, was 
out with Adam, and Adam gave him the tin cup to 
bring back to me. Mr. Henneberry, after several calls, 
finally left the cup on my desk. I do not know what 
further adventures this ancient vessel may yet encoun- 
ter, but I think I must leave it to Adam Moore in 
my will. 
Moose and Gnzziy. 
Speaking of New Brunswick reminds me of my oft- 
time repeated assertion that if you stand in the middle 
of Chicago, you will presently see pass by every living 
soul you ever met in any corner of the world. 1 was 
sitting at my desk the other evening when in stepped 
Mr. Fred Irland, of Washington, who, so far as I 
know, has not been West for some time. Mr. Irland's 
many hunts with Henry Braithwaite in New Brunswick 
have often been chronicled in the columns of Forest 
AND Stream and in the monthlj'- magazines. He is an 
old and experienced moose hunter as any that go into 
that province, and retains that fondness for the New 
Brunswick wilderness which seems to be carried away 
by everyone who ever visits that country. Mr. Irland 
was in Chicago but for a few brief moments. He says, 
however, that in the spring, about April, in all likeli- 
hood, he will start West from Washington for a 
grizzly hunt in Siskiyou County, California, where he 
has a friend who thinks he will get a grizzly well worth 
while. As Mr. Irland will have a couple of months 
off, the chances are that he will meet his grizzly and 
take him into camp. If he does, I am sure we will have 
a very interesting story about these California bears. 
Old hunters of the eastern side of the Sierras always 
said that the grizzly bear wa§ never found east of Cali- 
fornia. Scientists divide the bears into all sorts of 
species, and even the hunters themselves now do like- 
wise. Formerly they were of only two species, the 
grizzly and the black. The hunters were more liberal 
in the past and had all sorts, the silver tip, bald face, 
roach back, etc., although the most widely experienced 
oi them always agreed that the California bears were 
bigger than those of the Rocky Mountains. Mr. Irland 
thinks that in Siskiyou County he may perhaps be for- 
tttnate enough to meet with one of the bears which 
sometimes kill cattle among the ranches out there. 
It takes a good-sized grizzly to kill a steer. My own 
new grizzly country, which I am holding in reserve for 
myself until times get easier, is another one where the 
grizzlies sometimes kill cattle. Now, if only I could 
visit my country at the time Mr. Irland goes to Siski- 
you, what notes we might have for comparison along 
about the first of June! At any rate, good luck to a 
good fellow. 
Changes in "Western Game Laws. 
Reference has already been made in regard to the 
proposed monke}nng with the Wisconsin game laws. 
No one can tell what will happen up in that part of the 
world in these days. One of the planks of a late guber- 
natorial campaign — happily an unsuccessful one — was a 
flat-footed opposition to all game laws, and the declar- 
ation that a wide open policy in regard to shooting 
was the only one which ought to be tolerated in the 
State. There is a proposition to change the deer law 
of Wisconsin, to add 10 days to the shooting instead 
of cutting 10 days off. The great loss of life in the 
deer hunting field moves one legislator to forecast a 
bill limiting the charge in rifles, "so that the rifle 
will not shoot over 200 yards." This is a very wise 
measure indeed, as will be readily seen by all sports- 
men! I am glad to add, however, that there will be 
an attempt made in Wisconsin to pass another bill 
limiting the bag of game birds to 25 per day. There has 
been a great deal of talk over the outrageous slaugh- 
ter of ducks carried on along the Illinois River by the 
Powers boys and their friends, and one result of this 
may be the gradual growth of the limited bag idea. 
These outrages bring their own remedy with them in 
the course of time. If Illinois would put a limited bag 
clause in her laws, straighten out the quail and wood- 
cock season, and insert a Stop the Sale of Game 
clause, she would have a pretty good law; at least a 
better one than she would enforce. 
From Michigan also come reports of troublous 
times in the Legislature. One writer says: "There are 
all sorts of foolish notions being advanced. The fact 
is, the politicians do not take enough interest in this 
matter to give it the correct attention it deserves." 
The trouble with the politicians is that not all of them 
are sportsmen and not all of them are men of real 
breadth and grasp of affairs. They are supposed to 
represent the people, but they sometimes do so by 
means of views based on a very narrow personal hori- 
zon. 
Down to Rabbit Hu ting. 
As for sport in this part of the country, we. are ptetty 
near down to rabbit hunting now. Indeed, it is an 
easy guess that molly cottontail will become more re- 
spected in this State as the years roll by. _ The latest 
thing in rabbit huiiting is a possible expedition of the 
Wishininnic Club, some time within the next ten days, 
for a big rabbit hunt, probably in the neighborhood 
of Custer Park, in this State. It is said that a few 
beagles can be obtained, and local guides say that as 
many rabbits could be killed as the visitors cared for. 
E. Hough. 
Hartford iSuiLDiNG, Chicago, 111. 
Good Work of the California Game 
Commission. 
While the case of Corriea, the San Francisco com- 
mission merchant, who, as told in Forest and Stream 
of Dec. 20, circularized the market-hunters of the State, 
offering them weighty inducements to violate the game 
laws, is dragging out its slow length in the police court, 
the California Game and Fish Commission is making 
it decidedly sultry for his dupes. Mr. T. E. Craighill, of 
Paso Robles, received one of the Corriea ciixulars and 
yearned with a yearning that surpasses words to gather 
in the $2 a dozen and expenses which the worthy com- 
mission merchant was offering for illicit quail. Mr. 
Craighill garnered twenty dozen, and is out of pocket on 
the transaction the quail, expenses of packing and ship- 
ping them, the costs of his trial and $50 fine. He 
stated that he preferred to be tried b\ jury, as he ex- 
pected to receive "substantial justice" from their hands. 
He got it. Mr. McPherson, of San Luis Obispo, also 
received a circular and thought that a little Christmas 
money would not come amiss. His shipment was thirty 
dozen, and the deputy caught him just as he was about 
to move with his entire family to Los Angeles. He 
pleaded guilty and was let off with a minimum fine 
of $25. The decision in the Corriea case is looked for 
now any day. 
A Trial by Long Distance 'Phone, 
Mr. Frederick Rabb is the superintendent of the Rals- 
ton Mine, which is situated in Placer County about 
30 _ miles from anywhere. The nearest hamlet is 
'Michigan Gulch. Mr. Rabb killed a deer the other day 
and shipped it to a friend in this city as a Christmas 
present. Chief Deputy Vogelsang appropriated the pres- 
ent, and wrote to Mr. Rabb, giving him an option of 
appearing before the nearest justice and pleading guilty, 
or having a deputy sent up to the mine to arrest him. 
Rabb thought it over and telegraphed to Vogelsang that 
it would be very inconvenient for him to leave the mine 
just at present, and inquiring if the business could not 
be done over the long distance telephone. The Fish 
and Game Commission were willing to accommodate 
him. The justice of the peace at Auburn was connected 
with Mr. Rabb and read the complaint to him over the 
wire. "How do you plead?" inquired the justice. 
"Guilty," replied the mining superintendent. "Very 
good," aswered the justice; "the court accepts your 
plea and finds you guilty and fines j'-ou $25 and the costs 
of this trial, including telephone service, $6.45." Mr. 
Rabb remarked that the next time he wanted to send 
a Christmas present to a friend, he would send him a 
nugget, as he thought it would come cheaper in the 
long run. 
Meat Hunters Bagged, 
Despite the game laws, for many years it has been 
the custom for the owners of mines, lumber camps and 
other industries in the unsettled portions of this State 
to contract with professional hunters to supply their 
crews of men with venison during the winter. In many 
of the camps this is the only fresh meat consumed dur- 
ing this season, and the slaughter «»f deer to supply this 
demand is simply appalling. Neither age nor sex is re- 
spected, and every wild thing on four legs represents 
just so many cents a pound, usually twelve, to the illicit 
meat contractor. To this occupation he adds that of 
hide-hunting, as there is a ready market for green deer 
skins since the law went into effect prohibiting their sale. 
Owing to the remote field of operation of these gen- 
try, it has in the past been extremely difficult to obtain 
evidence against them; but the California Fish and Game 
Commission this year is better organized than ever be- 
fore in the history of the State, and it has its trusted 
deputies practically everywhere. Mr. W. R. Walsh, the 
deputy at Red Bluft', in the Shasta Mountains, succeeded 
last week in effecting the arrest of eight of these meat 
hunters. Mr. Welsh surprised the gang of doe hunters 
red-handed, in their camp in one of the most remote 
canyons of the Tehama wilderness, the second dav after 
they had got to work. They promptly admitted killing 
two deer, and, in fact, a denial was out of the question, 
as the carcasses were in the camp when the deputy ar- 
rived. Several of the men concerned have hitherto 
borne good reputations. Their names are J. D. Cameron, 
Guy Cameron, Ed Cameron, Peter Cameron, Walter Gos- 
ney, John Schultz, Albert Sykes and J. D. Barber, all 
residents of Red Bluff. As usual in such cases, they 
have all pleaded not guilty and demanded a jury trial, 
which will commence on the 6th of January. In speak- 
mg of the occurence Chief Deputy Vogelsang, under 
whose personal direction Deputy Welsh was acting, said : 
"I have determined to stamp out this meat-hunting busi- 
ness, and I am glad to see that the citizens of Red Bluff 
an^ sufficiently aroused to the necessity of protecting 
the game to hold a mass meeting denouncing the viola- 
tions of the law which have taken place in Shasta and 
neighboring counties." After securing his men Deputy 
Welsh penetrated further into the mountains and dis- 
covered a well-built camp containing ten fresh deer 
hides, five deer heads and a portion of a carcass, like- 
wise a new .30-30 Winchester rifle, a set of spurs, roll of 
blankets, etc. The occupant had fied. Mabin. 
San Francisco, Dec. 27, 
New York League Amendments^ 
The New York State Fish, Game and Foresti' 
I,eague, Syracuse, N. Y., Dec. 30.— At the annual meet- 
ing of The New York State Fish, Game and Forest 
League, the following amendments to existing laws were 
proposed. Eveiy sportsman and thinking man appreciates 
the need of more stringent laws and better enforcement 
to prevent the absolute extinction of the game of the 
State. Each one of the amendments proposed by the 
State Association is designed to better protect the rem- 
nant of our game and make it possible to secure the 
enforcement of all existing laws. 
The interests involved demand of every sportsman that 
he give his most earnest efforts to advancing these sev- 
eral measures. Will you take it upon yourself to see 
that your representatives are fully acquainted with the 
conditions as they exist, and that an important element 
of the community demands their favorable action? 
The sportsmen of the State can control conditions if 
they will make their aggressive force felt. Will you dO 
your part? Ask your friends to see members of the 
Legislature at once and urge them to further these 
amendments. ^ 
C. H. MOWRY, 
C, Eddy, 
W, S. Gavitt, 
R. P. Grant, 
Legislative and Law Committee. 
1. Prohibiting the sale of grouse and woodcock that 
are killed within this State. 
2. Closing the season for killing gray and black squir- 
rels same time as grouse and woodcock, viz: Novem- 
ber 30. 
3. Closing the season for killing quail same as grouse 
and woodcock, viz., November 30. 
4. Special Game Protectors appointed by the State 
Forest Fish and Game Commission, shall have the same 
power of search as the regular protectors, if in the em- 
ploy of Boards of Supervisors or incorporated asso- 
ciations for the protection of fish and game. 
5. Closing the season for killing grouse in the coun- 
ties of Ulster, Sullivan and Greene at same time as the 
other counties, viz., November 30. 
6. Prohibiting the spearing of fish in Seneca Lake. 
7. Prohibiting the sale of web-footed wild fowl after 
March i in every year until the open season. 
8. Web-footed wild fowl not to be killed earlier than 
September 16 or after December 31, but not to provide 
an open season where none exists, or to extend an open 
season in any locality where it is less than above. 
9. Prohibiting the sale of venison in the Adirondack 
Reservation, viz., that territory within the "Blue line." 
10. Strike out the exception to right of search in New 
York and Kings counties by protector without warrant. 
Some Observations* 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
I observe that my esteemed antagonist Coahoma is 
still in court with his contention "That the procurement 
of something useful is an essential element of true sport." 
My sympathy goes out to him in his hopeless struggle, 
for persistent and heroic effort like his deserves success. 
Unfortunately for him, the court having jurisdiction in 
the matter is the noble fraternity of sportsmen, and this 
court has rendered its decision adversely to him, and is 
constantly reaffirming its decision; witness the many 
forms of diversion which offer no opportunity for the 
"procurement" of anything which ia. "useful" which are 
recognized and pursued as sport by the members of this 
fraternity. 
I regret that my worthy opponent has got himself into 
hot water, and trust he will not hold me responsible for 
the predicament in which he finds himself, but will realize 
that it is the result of his efforts to controvert the logic 
of facts. 
I will review briefly the evidence presented in his latest 
appeal. 
He objects to a suggestion of mine as irrelevant on 
the ground that the owner of pork would not refuse to 
sell it at 25 cents per pound, which is the sum B said 
he Avould not accept for his quail. 
I think the court will overrule this objection on the 
grounds. ^ ist. The current market quotations on pork 
and quail fixes the price of a quail at about the price 
of three pounds of pork. 2d. There is no evidence in the 
case to show that B regarded the quail he killed as more 
"useful" than other quail Avhich he could buy in the 
open market, therefore, it may be assumed that, other 
things equal, he would sell his quail just as quickly as he 
would his pork at regular market quotations. 
3d. The suggestion objected to did not refer to selling 
either quail or pork, but to wasting or throwing away 
these articles of food, and was offered to show that the 
killing and possession of game divorces it from the 
realm of sport and places it on a level with other articles 
ot comnierce, therefore the suggestion must be relevant 
to the issue. 
Coahoma is evidently nnjust to the Swan lake sports- 
men when he attributes mercenary motives to them, and 
is clearly wrong in his deduction from the Swan lake 
"circumstance." As well might he say there is no sport 
111 shooting clay pigeons which cannot be had in posses- 
sion after breaking as to say there is no sport in shooting 
ducks which cannot be had in possession after killing. 
The Swan lake sportsmen are no doubt sportsmen in 
fact as well as in name, and prove the fact by refraining 
from sport which occasions a waste of game. 
I am pleased to assure Coahoma that he need have no 
fear of more "hot water," so far as I am concerned, be- 
cause of bis observations on the different modes of fox 
hunting. I can fully indorse all he says in regard to 
this kind of sport. But what pleases me most is his 
reference to fox hunting as sport. Fox hunting' from 
which little or nothing is "procured" that is "useful," and 
which exacts the expenditure of so much that is useful 
Coahoma, accept my congratulations and my hand I 
am proud of the progress you are making and predict 
that you will soon be numbered with the great majority 
of sportsmen who pursue sport solely for sport's sake. 
Jos. W. SHUKTEft, 
GANSBvpoBT, N. Y,, Jan.ll., 
