June 27, 1903.] 
FOREST »AND STREAM. 
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The Gfeenwood Lake Mwscalong'c* 
LocKPORTj N. Y., June 19. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
The muscalonge reported in this week's issue of Forest 
AND Stream taken from Greenwood Lake must have 
been a monstrosity, or, in fishing parlance of fifty years 
ago, "a slinky." I remember more years ago than the 
above taking from the St. Lawrence River a "pickerel" 
(pike) with a large head and long lank body which the 
oarsman called a "slinky," and which came to boat more 
like a stick than a fish. 
A fish of the species of Bsox nobilior measuring fifty- 
eight inches should weigh at least fifty pounds. 
In November, 1899, you published a picture from a 
photograph (I sent you) of a muscalonge measuring 49 
inches in length and 23K inches around the middle which 
Aveighed 42^^ pounds. This was a fine proportioned speci- 
men, the head, including the gill covers, was one-fourth 
the length of the fish. 
I am not an angler, but am always interested in pisca- 
torial matters. I have lived in Lockport nearly forty-one 
years, and never, until last Tuesday, June 16, the first day 
of the open season on black bass, put a line in Niagara 
county waters. I caught one fish, a rock bass, and that 
was taken on the Erie county side of Tonawanda Creek. 
I did most of the rowing of the boat. I am too lazy to 
fish. J. L. Davison, 
San Ffancisco Fly-Casting Qui). 
Medal Contest— Saturday, contest No. 7, held at Stow 
Lake June 13. Wind, S. W. ; weather, windy. 
'h^ Mmnet 
Event Event 
'No. l, No. 2, 
Distance, Accuracy, 
Feet. Per cent. 
Acc. 
88.4 
89.4 
89.8 
86 
88.4 
90.4 
S.- 
W. E. Brooks., 110 86 
A. Tones 105 88.4 
F. H. Reed 85.8 
C. R. Kenniff... 114 86 
T. \V Brothcrton 128 87.4 
G. C. Edw.-)rds. 99 90.4 
Sunday, contest No. 7, held at 
Wind, S. W. ; weather, fair. 
C. G. Young 
T. W. Brothertonl36 
Dr. W. Brooks.. 114 
H. C. Golclier.. 133 
II. Ballu 108 
A. M. Blade.... 105 
C. R. Kenniff.. 116 
J. B. Kenniff... 133 
Dr. C. Stephens ... 
Net 
87 
86 
84 
85 
87, 
88 
Event 
No. 4, 
— , Lure 
% Casting < 
.6 
-Event No, 
% Del.X 
86.8 
83.4 
80 
85.10 
86.8 
85.10 
Stow Lake June 14 
,4 
10 
,11 
6 
1 
85.9 
98.1 
93.7 
96.1 
88.4 
89.8 
84.2 
86.11 
88 
90'. 4 
85 
87.8 
81.4 
88.4 
75.10 
82.1 
90 
85.4 
82.6 
83.11 
86.4 
85.8 
80 
82.10 
81.4 
73.4 
77.4 
89.4 
86.8 
86.8 
86.8 
88.8 
92 
88.4 
90.2 
75.4 
81.4 
68.4 
74.10 
96 
97.4 
Time to gfo Fishing:. 
Enough is more than a million, and the Floridian who 
cultivates contentment is richer than Pierpont Morgan, 
and happier than King Edward. 
When the phosphate boom was in its infancy, the 
lamented John Dunn paid one of these home-loving peo- 
ple $16,000 for a tract he had tried in vain to sell for 
five hundred. The sum conveyed only a vague impres- 
sion to the recipient— he wanted the cash in hand. "Don't 
do that," said Mr. Dunn ; leave it in the bank and tell me 
what you want." lie wanted another farm of sixty acres 
with a house on it — the whole to cost a few hundred. 
"What else?" "Can I have a horse and saddle and 
bridle?'" "Certainly." "And a rifle?" "Yes." "And some 
provisions?" "Yes." His eyes began to bulge. "And a 
keg o' whiskey?" "Yes." There was a pause. "What 
else?" "Oh," said the rich, "give me $50 for the 
old woman to buy things for herself and the children." 
"All right." He turned to walk away. 
"What else?" "Is there more yet?" "Yes." "Well, 
give me a plug ©' tobacco and set me down where the 
fish will bite all day and you can have thfe rest." — 
Florida Times-Union. 
Ouananichc at the Grand Dischafgfe. 
Mr. W. M. Donaldson, of Harrisburg, Pa., has the 
year's .record fish for Lake St. John, a ouananiche weigh- 
ing five pounds, length 28 inches. It is the largest taken 
in five years. The rod used weighed 5% ounces; it re- 
quired forty-five minutes to land the fish, which jumped 
out of water eight times. It was caught below the Grand 
Discharge in Lake St. John. 
Colorado Bass* 
Greeley. Colo., June 18. — Some good catches of large- 
mouthed black bass are being made at Windsor Lake, 
Windsor. Colo. This lake, which covers 240 acres, has 
been well stocked with black bass by Vernon McKelvey, 
of Greeley, Colo., and has already become quite a popular 
fishing resort of the West. X. 
This was Different. 
The shades of night were falling fast 
When I hooked a noble fish at last. 
My pliant rod had something to do, 
As I plaj'ed that "devil" the dark night through. 
But when morning lit the eastern haze 
And this noble salmon was exposed to my gaze, 
I woke up. 
Consul A. L. M. Gottschalk writes from San Juan del 
Norte, Nicaragua, in regard to the use of shark fins for 
industrial purposes in the United States. He says: 
"Sharks exist in large numbers on this coast. The 
Nicaraguan fishery laws seem to permit of their being 
caught as vermin. A number of persons here believe that 
they could deal with the United States in shark fins or in 
shark backbones and skins. The former are used e.x- 
lensively in some countries in the making of walking 
■canes ; the_ latter are made into a leather employed for 
sword grips and fancy articles. Large quantities of these 
products could be sent to the United States were there a 
market for them." 
Two bull buffalo calves have been caught out of the 
Yellowstone National Park wild herd on Pelican Creek 
and brought to the tame bunch at the Springs. There 
were three calves in the wild herd. Five- calves have also 
heen dropped in the Springs bunch, wit!] rnore to come. 
Flztores. 
Oct. 6-9.— Danbury, Conn., Agriculturar Society's show. 
Nov. 3-6.— New York.— Annual show of Ladies' Kennel Associa- 
tion of America. . , , ^- .. , „ , 
Nov. 9.— Fourteenth annual beagle trials of the National Beagle 
Club of America. Charles R. Stevenson, Sec'y. 
Man-Trailing Dogs* 
Portland, Ind.— Editor Forest and Stream: We have 
had bloodhounds in this town for sorne years, and my 
observations may answer in part the inquiries of your 
Paris correspondent. They are kept here solely _ for 
the purpose of trailing human beings, and are trained 
for the work while young. The dogs are of small build, 
somewhat larger than a water spaniel, with short hair 
and long ears. The resemble our oldtime 'coon hound 
ill all particulars except stature. They were worked 
here in pairs, and when about half grown were trained 
by some one of their keepers sprinting off a short dis- 
tance and hiding. Then they were put on the trail and 
encouraged by their trainer until they found the game. 
From play at first, the chase becomes to them a_ mat- 
ter of business, as they grow in age and experience. 
Officially, I think the courts hold their evidence gen- 
erally only circumstantial. Once they are put upon 
the right trail, it is necessary for the pursued to get 
off the earth, literally, and there is no question^ as to 
their value in furnishing clues under favorable circum- 
stances. 
The following is a brief account of an actual occur- 
rence: A few years ago a widow living alone in the 
northeastern part of this city, was one day found mur- 
dered in her home. Before a conple of young blood- 
hounds, owned by members of the fire department, 
could be put on the trail, several hundred people had 
tramped in and out of the house. However, foot prints 
were found in a truck lot at the side of the house. The 
prints were those of a small man and of a large-footed 
man. The tracks had been made after a light shower 
that had fallen some time in the evening; and here the 
dogs gave tongue and trailed around the stave yards 
and out to North Meridian street a quarter of a mile, 
where they lost the scent in the street. 
They ran the trail a second time with the same result, 
then were brought uptown, and while going toward the 
crossing of two railroads, gave tongue at the back of 
a brick block, where the weeds were trampled down 
under the shadow of a high board fence. From this 
point they ran south and west across the railroads into 
an old wooded brushy cemetery, then turned east, re- 
crossing the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad, through 
a lumber yard, then south across a street, through a 
sawmill yard, through the backyard of a small resi- 
dence, and right over a wood pile, then circling east, 
stopped at a dwelling for a moment, then took up the 
trail again, ran it to the coal sheds on the Lake Erie 
& Western Railroad, and lost the trail on the railroad 
track. Now for the sequel: Where the dogs stopped 
at a doorstep before proceeding to the railroad, where 
the trail ended, lived a small man, quiet in manner, 
plain in dress, with few if any associates. He was con- 
sidered a cripple, as he carried his left arm in a sling, 
but was looked on with suspicion on account of certain ■ 
petty thefts that were laid at his door. The police 
brought him to headquarters, but could get no evidence 
from him. However, they were not satisfied with his 
manner and his evasive answers and called again to see 
him. His aunt, who was mistress of the house, said 
in reply to their inquiry, that he was upstairs in his 
room, and she would go up and call him. The officers 
stepped inside as she started up the stairs. Hearing 
an unusual noise in his room, they hurried up, to find 
he had cut his throat with a razor, and was breathing 
his last. 
A freight train had left the coal sheds about 11 P. 
M. the night of the murder, going west. A man was 
arrested in the central part of the State and tried for 
the murder. It was proven that he had told a friend 
the day before that there was an old lady living alone 
up the road and that he was going up to "pull a 
peach." He had no money before the murder, but quite 
a sum after. He was sent to the pen. 
I went to the scene of the murder about 4 P. M., and 
to my eye a plain panorama opened before me. The old 
lady had brought kindling and laid it on her little 
box stove, then possibly had been attracted out of 
doors by some unusual noise. She had stepped on a 
narrow board walk that ran from the front around east 
and north of the house, and was standing on the bare, 
damp earth facing to the, north, where the yard was 
covered with small fruit trees. A small man had 
slipped up to her right side or back of her, seized her 
by the throat and attempted to throw her backward. 
In his efforts to do so he had set his right foot out in 
front of her, pressing and twisting his shoe into the 
yielding earth, nearly an inch in depth. There was a 
smear on the ground between the walk and the house, 
and there was mud on the old ladjf's dress, where her 
hip struck the ground. She had then been taken into 
the house, either before or after she was dead. One 
carpet slipper was on a foot, I picked the other up 
from the ground in front of where she had stood in the 
soft earth. 
A small man attacked her, a small man ran from the 
place. The dogs trailed hirti to where a small man 
lived. A smair man cut his throat when the officers 
called. A large man was with a small man. The dogs 
trailed them together past where a small man lived 
and to where he could board a freight train. A large 
man was apprehended in another town, arrested, con- 
victed and sent to State's prison. The dogs did not 
convict either, but they pointed the way. 
G. W. Cunningham. 
Portland, Ind. 
as among the many different dogs that I have had from 
time to time I once owned a "bloodhound"— or at least a 
dog that came as near being one as do most of the dogs 
of the South pointed out to me as being bloodhounds. 
This dog of mine, seemed toi be a cross between a fox:- 
hound and a bulldog. I got him from a Mexican who 
had been out west of Fort Chadbourne, Texas, on a 
prospecting trip, but had found no silver or any thing else. 
He wanted five dollars for his dog, but I finally 
got the dog for a dollar, buying him probably just because 
he happened to be a dog. I had as much use for a dog 
of this kind just then as a wagon has for five wheels. 
The dog had never had a name, so I named him Jeff, and 
after he had killed all the cats he could find (I never 
knew him to hunt anything else but cats), he put in 
the most of his time eating and sleeping. He was about 
the laziest dog I have ever seen; but was a good watch 
dog at night, and in the field we used him on picket. He 
would lie at the sentry's feet at night and no ' Indian 
would be likely to crawl up and put a knife in that sentiy, 
as I have known to be done more than once. 
I had owned Jeff nearly two years when one night two 
general prisoners, who were serving out sentences in the 
guard house, made their escape, taking a carbine with 
them. The next morning I was sent for by the officer of 
the day and found him ready to hunt the men, but he was 
at a loss to know just where to begin, and asked if I 
thought Jeff could track them. "I can try him, sir," I 
said. "I have never known him to track anything except 
cats, though." 
I called Jeff, then got a pair of red stockings that one 
of the men had left in the prison room, and, taking Jeff 
out on the prairie in the direction we thought the men 
had left, I gave the dog a smell of the stockings and told 
him to hunt them. He began running around in a circle, 
and soon struck their trail and went off on it. I followed 
Jeft" at a gallpp, the mounted men coming after me. The 
dog led us across the prairies parallel with the road but 
half a mile away from it, and after he had gone eight 
miles he turned to the left and led us into the road just 
v.'here the men had taken it. We could see their tracks 
here in the dust. 
He kept on down the road to where a creek crossed it, 
then turned down the creek, and, after he had gone a 
mile, stopped in front of a lot of bushes and began to 
bark. A shot was fired out of the bushes at us. Calling 
Jeff in I got ready to shoot if any more shots should 
come, but one of the men came out, and, holding up his 
hands, came down to me. Then the mounted party com- 
ing up (for Jeff and I had left them far in the rear), the 
other man who had the gun surrendered, and we took 
them home. 
I was criticized afterwards by the men at the post for 
hunting white men with a dog; but tliese men were. of 
the class who, had they been citizens instead of soldiers, 
would have put in the most of their time in some prison, 
so I did not lose any sleep on account of having launted 
them with a dog. Had I refused to do it, I would have 
laeen tried for it myself. 
I kept Jeff a few months after this, then gave him. to 
two boys who were going to Utah, I had too many dogs 
just then, and Jeff was the one I could best spare. 
Cabia Blanco. 
Yachting Fixtures for J903. 
Members of race committee will confer a favor by sending notice 
of errors or omissions in the following list, and also changes which 
may be made in the future. 
JUNE. 
25-26-27. Seawanhaka Corinthian, Y. R. A. of L. I. Sound, annual 
and specials. 
27. South Boston, club, City Point. 
27. New York, special race for 90-footers, Newport. 
27. Boston, club, Marblehead. 
27. Beverly, club, Monument Beach. 
27. St. Paul, cruise, rendezvous St. Paul, Minn. 
27. Chicago^ special. Lake Michigan. 
27. Royal Cfanadian, club, Toronto. 
27. New York C. C, Y. R. A. of Gravesend Bay, 
30. New York, special race for 90-footers, Newport. 
30. Royal Canadian, L. S. S. A. regatta, Oakville. 
29-July 2. Manhasset Bay cup races, L. I. Sound. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
I have read with much interest the different accounts 
of m^p-tracking dogs in the current number, the more so 
For Cruising Yachtsmen. 
With the purpose of stimulating the interest in cruis- 
ing, and the keeping of a detailed log by cruising 
yachtsmen during the season of 1903, the publishers of 
Forest and Stream offer prizes for the best stories of 
cruises submitted to be published in Forest and 
Stream. It is believed that these will form not only 
entertaining records of pleasant summer days spent 
afloat along our coasts and waterways, but will furnish 
information of practical value to other yachtsmen mak- 
ing subsequent cruises on the same waters. . .. 
Prizes will be awarded to the three best stories as fed- 
lows: 
First prize, $75.00. 
Second prize, $50.00. 
Third prize, $25.00. 
Contributions are invited under the following condi- 
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1. The cruise must be made in waters of the United 
States or Canada in the season of 1903. 
2. The cruise must be made in a sailing yacht, power 
to be used only as an auxiliary, if at all. 
3. The story must be prefaced by a description of the 
boat. Cruises should be treated in as interesting and 
readable a way as possible, but should be practical and 
contain all possible information and data that would 'be 
of value to men going over the same route. A descrip- 
tion of the handling of the ship in all weathers will be 
regarded very favorably in making awards, and it is 
suggested to writers that an accurate account be kept 
of all incidents happening while under way. 
4. Photographs of the boat and of the country passed 
through, not smaller than 4x5, should, if possible, ac- 
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