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Another case: A shipment started from Staples, Minn., 
and was going to New York by way of West Superior^, 
Wis.; I was notified that the shipment would take place 
and tried to make the seizure before it left the State, but 
was prevented by the train crew. I boarded the same 
train and when I "told the express agent at West Superior 
who I was, and made a demand on him for the game, he 
was very agreeable, but declined to recognize my author- 
ity in Wisconsin. I hunted up the game \yarden, Mr. 
Elackadder, and told him my troubles, and in less than, 
one hour had the game back in Minnesota ; another ex- 
ample of practical co-operation. I could cite at least a. 
hundred cases where, I have received assistance from; 
the authorities of other States, but these two show the 
practical workings of reciprocity between the States. In. 
every case we have brought the guilty parties to justice 
with the additional loss of their game. 
In my estimation, co-operation is the best system that 
can be devised to bring the lawless element, the game 
•dealer and the people who want to make merchandise out 
of our game and fish, to time. For years the lawless ele- 
ment on the boundarj'- of our State and the Dominion of 
Canada has had full sway, and when our officers got after 
them they simply went over to Canada, and wlien the 
Canadian" authorities tried to apprehend them, they came 
back to us. To show you that men are thinking along the 
lines of co-operation, I had a letter from the Hon. F. 
Gourdeau, Deputy Minister of Marine and Fisheries for 
the Dominion Government, suggesting an alliance between: 
the two departments for the better protction of the fish- 
ing interests along the boundary, and in a very short time 
we hope to have such a system in good working order 
that it will be impossible for the law breaker to be har- 
Ijored in either country, when he attempts to violate the 
laws respecting game. 
A very interesting case is now pending in the Wis- 
consin courts, which will bear materially on this ques- 
tion. That is, the right of the wardens of one State to 
make arrests and destroy property when being used ille- 
gally on waters that form a common boundary between 
the several States. You know that the State of Wiscon- 
sin lies east of Minnesota, and that the Mississippi River 
and Lake Pepin form the boundary between these twO' 
States for 150 miles. Lake Pepin is the great breeding: 
ground of the upper Mississippi. We have endeavored to 
keep the net fishermen from destroying the fish and in our 
raids have got over on the Wisconsin side of the. lake 
and more or less trouble has resulted, guns being trump 
Tiiore than once. But I am glad to say that the matter is. 
before the courts now and we are going to have a settle- 
ment that Avill last for all time to come. Our contention 
is that the wardens of one State have the right to arrest 
and bring to justice all law breakers on any waters be- 
tween their own State and that of a State bordering: 
thereon, and that the arrest can be made at any time be- 
fore the violator reaches land; and our Attorney-General 
Douglass has given us an opinion, with which Attorney- 
General Hicks of Wisconsin has coincided, that accord- 
ing to the Enabling Acts, admitting the States of Minne- 
sota and Wisconsin to the Union, both States have con- 
current jurisdiction on all waters which form a common, 
boundary between the States. Of course, to bring this 
about we must have the most thorough co-operation be- 
tween the diif erent State game wardens and their deputies, 
and assistance must be rendered to each other if necessary 
to bring the offenders to justice. We know that there 
are cases on record where requisition papers have been 
asked by the Governor of one State from the Governor 
of another to bring back men who have violated the game 
laws of that State, and under proper conditions this is to 
be commended. 
One of the best agencies ever put in force to help carry 
out this reciprocity is the Lacey Law. None of us yet 
realize how far reaching this law is, because it is only in 
its infancy, but in my humble opinion it will be the 
strongest agency we can employ in stopping the illegal 
marketing of game, and will make it so unprofitable that 
in ten years the market-hunter and game dealer will be 
a thing of the past. Mr. Lacey, member of Congress from 
Iowa, is entitled to the respect and gratitude of every 
lover of game protection. Mr. T. S. Palmer, Assistant 
Chief of the Biological Survey, stationed at Washington, 
is one of the best men who could be found to carry out 
the provisions of this law. He and his assistants are 
doing a great work by seizing every shipment coming 
from any State where the laws of that State prohibit the 
shipment of game out. They are not only doing this, but 
each congressional game warden is provided with blanks 
like the one I hold in my hand. This is filled out with 
the shipper's name or nixmber, the station shipped from 
and the date; then a copy of the way bill or express re- 
ceipt is secured and the tag on the shipment. These 
are all pinned together and forwarded to the State author- 
ities, where the shipment is made from, and conviction 
usually follows when such evidence is furnished. An- 
other example, only on a larger scale, of the benefits of 
co-operation. 
Now, to carry out this system of co-operation more 
successfully between the States, we want the hearty co- 
operation of all common carriers, the railroads and ex- 
press companies. The railroad and express agents have 
to be appealed to because without their aid the fight is an 
uphill one. I am very glad to-day that the different car- 
riers in our State of Minnesota render the Game and Fish 
Commission great service, and none of the higher officials, 
if they know of it, will allow any game to be carried 
contrary to law. We have more to do with the two great 
iranscontmental lines, the Great Northern and Northern 
Pacific, than with any others. The management of both 
roads, from the highest to the lowest, are in hearty accord 
with game protection. Then we want the co-operation 
of the public, especially the farmers and pioneers. I need 
not tell you that a strong and vigorous public sentiment 
is the best help we can secure, and will often deter a law 
breaker where wardens fail. 
I want to see this meeting, that has beeen called on a 
Spot for which nature has done so much, accomplish 
much. I don't w"ant the different States' representatives 
sim-ply to meet here, have a pleasure trip and go home; 
but hope that each of us will go back to our several States 
with additional enthusiasm and added knowledge, as well 
as with a firm determination to not only protect the 
'game of his own State, but to render every assistance in 
'his power to his neighbors. If we do that,- this meeting 
will be a success and will be a lasting benefit to the States 
ihere represented. 
Some Nee<ied Legislation. 
Now Mr. Scott has asked me to point out some needed 
legislation. I should have preferred that this be dele- 
gated to abler hands than mine, but Montana and St. 
Paul are quite a ways apart, and for that reason I obey. 
In the first place, I think every State in the Union 
ought to declare and have it incorporated in its game 
laws, that the game and fish of the State belong to the 
State — i. e., to the people in their sovereign capacity, and 
tthat no one can acquire any right in it except as the Legisla- 
ture gives them permission. Then we will have some- 
thing uniform and a basis for all the States to work on. 
Then every State should have a non-export law, strictly 
forbidding the shipment of any game bird, animal, or 
game fish outside the limits of the State. Then when a 
shipment is found by the authorities of any State in the 
Union that has come from a neighboring State, every war- 
(den will know that it has to be seized because it has been 
:shipped contrary to law. Then every State ought to in- 
■corporate in her laws a limit to the killing, say twenty- 
five birds, two or three deer, and one moose. The law 
ought to be clear and specific in regard to the hides and 
'heads of animals, making it just as much of an offense to 
have the hides and horns in possession as it is to have 
the carcass. This will put out of the business the hide 
and head hunter, because we all know that he does a 
great deal of damage, perhaps more than the meat hunter. 
Then, above everything else, every State ought to have a 
clause prohibiting the sale at any time of all game birds, 
animals and game fish. 
When Forest and Stream first proposed this measure 
years ago, they were laughed at from one end of the coun- 
try to the other. Strong editorials were written on the 
■subject by the leading newspapers of the country, accus- 
ing Forest and Stream of working in the interests of the 
"dude" sportsmen and trying to deprive a large ma- 
jority of our citizens of the privilege of buying their game 
in the open market. But sentiment has changed since 
•then, and I bring you a message from Minnesota vouching 
for the benefits we have received from that excellent sec- 
tion in our game laws stopping the sale of all game. 
We ought to incorporate in our laws a section (we have 
it in Minnesota) declaring contraband all devices used 
or maintained for the purpose of violating the law; that 
if a man went fishing contrary to law, with a net, to 
make that net liable to seizure and destruction. The 
same with a man's dog and gun ; declare both contra- 
band when being used illegally. It is a splendid law and 
ought to be put in practical operation. Such laws have 
been held valid by the Supreme Court of the United 
States; see Lawton vs. Steele, 152 U. S., 133. 
Then we ought to have embodied in our laws, and every 
State ought to have it to make it effective, a section giving 
the wardens the right of search, when, in their judgment, 
a. package contains game illegally shipped. It ought also 
to be made an offense for any one to ship game without 
having the contents plainly marked on the package; this 
■would do away with a great many of the sneaking methods 
employed by the game dealer and market-hunter. 
As for spring shooting, no true sportsman will kill 
ducks or geese in the spring of the year and the other 
fellows ought to be prevented by a rigid law, backed by 
strong public sentiment. 
Then every State ought to have a license law, which 
should be uniform, or as nearly so as possible. Person- 
ally, I have never been in favor of a license law, but in 
self-defense every State must adopt it; for if one State 
allows free shooting, it will be made the dumping ground 
of all the shooters from the East, and its game will soon 
disappear. As I said before, personally I am not in favor 
of it, but when we come to study it we find that it is not 
:so bad as it at first appears. In the first place, it helps 
to raise revenue to protect the game of that State, and 
it is a check on the hunter who may come to that par- 
ticular State and not be particular whether he obeys the 
law or not. 
Now no one realizes better than I do how imperfect 
this paper is. I want this convention to take it for what it 
is worth, and if there is any good in it, to adopt it; the 
bad is easily gotten rid of. 
"Wigf-Waggfing^js'fof [Pigeons. 
Pigeons are necessary for the squab market, but that 
does not seem to be the reason why there are so many 
flocks of pigeons in the city. Small boys have them 
for pets— it just answers the small boy's idea of having 
fun: the doing with great pains of something which can 
have no possible value. As soon as a pigeon-keeping 
boy is out of his own bed, he hurries down into the back- 
yard to let his pigeons loose. Then he bolts his break- 
fast, and rushes out to tole his flock back to their coop. 
It's nip and tuck whether he can succeed before school 
time, and up to the last moment he keeps up his en- 
deavors, yielding only when the birds have come home 
or his mother calls out of the window that if he doesn't 
leave at once he'U be late. To tole a flock of pigeons 
needs unlimited patience, and a fishing pole with a rag 
at the end. When the boy begins operations, the pigeons 
are usually perched in a row on the eaves of some house 
far down the block. He begins by whistling monoton- 
ously through his teeth. That seems to have the effect 
of causing the birds to snuggle up together. Then he 
begins to wave his rag at the end of the fish pole in 
circles over head. At once the pigeons leave their perch, 
and begin to fly compactly in wide circles, which may be 
a block or more in radius. Without resting, they fly 
this Way for a long time about the place where the boy 
is waving the rag like an army signalman. All of a 
sudden, and it may be after an hour of such circular 
flight, they swoop down into the coop ana begin to pick 
up the grain as though they had never left confinement. 
Llewella Pierce Churchill. 
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Newfoundland Tuna* 
SydneYj C. B., July 2&.— Editor Forest and Stream: 
I read with a great deal of interest an article in 
Forest and Stream by Mr. J. L. L. Waddell on tuna 
fishing in Nova Scotia. This gentleman evidently pos- 
sesses the soul of a sportsman and is to be commended 
for his exhaustive descrixjtion of the habits and haunts 
of this noblp fish. He says: "Several times in the last 
two years I have heard the statement that the reason 
nobody fishes for tuna on the coast of New Brunswick, 
Nova Scotia and Newfoundland is because of the stormy 
weather, great waves and consequent danger." I pre- 
sume the gentleman's information is local, as in dealing 
with the comparative dangers to be met with in the two 
former places when engaged in tuna fishing, nothing is 
said about any dangers to be encountered while in pur- 
suit of this ocean beauty in Newfoundland waters. I 
will be glad to fill in the gap about this latter place, and 
with your permission furnish your readers with some in- 
formation about the opportunities for good and safe 
fishing there. 
The waters all round the coast of Newfoundland is the 
resort of the horse mackerel, as it is locally called. 
It makes these waters its hunting ground and finds it 
can always appease its voracious appetite on the old, 
middle-aged and young silver herring, which are to be 
found at all seasons, and to be had for the catching; 
and as this is a case where the race is always to the 
swift, the tuna is invariably the winner. At all seasons 
some of the feeding grounds of the tuna are certainly too 
rough to make fishing for it anything but safety and 
pleasure. This would apply to the places unprotected 
from the rough waves of the Atlantic. But the great 
bay of Notre Dame and Bonavista, which may be said 
to be the choice habitats of the tuna, are certainly the 
places where, if anywhere, this aquatic sport can be in- 
dulged in with the least peril and the greatest immunity 
from rough or dangerous seas. Especially is this true of 
Bonavista Bay. Here within the great bay extending 
from Cape Bonavista to Cape Freels, are nine smaller 
bays and sounds whose waters are almost landlocked, 
and so completely fenced with islands as to form a nat- 
ural barricade that marks the bounds of the angry At- 
lantic. Within these almost inclosed but extensive 
smaller bays, some of them running inland from twenty 
to forty miles, is to be found the tuna from May till 
October, sporting in their placid waters, feeding in 
spring and early summer on the herring which go into 
those bays and arms to spawn, and later in the season 
making its menu of choice young fry, which become its 
easy prey. In many of these places, which are the re- 
sort of the tuna, the fishermen who live there in the 
month of September and early part of October, catch 
them and salt them for food, and indeed, when fresh 
and properly cooked, it is a dish that would tickle the 
palate of an epicure. 
I have never engaged in the pursuit and capture of one 
of those scaly beauties, but I have watched the fisher- 
man from my boat when so engaged in what must be 
to them a most exhilarating sport and a grand contrast 
to their ordinary prosaic fishing for cod and herring. 
The mode of capture by our local fishermen is the har- 
poon, and this in many cases of a very primitive make. 
Great caution has to be exercised when a fish is struck 
not to allow too sudden a strain on the line, as there is 
tfee danger of both giving the fish its death blow and 
still losing it by jerking out tlie harpoon. But when 
a good "holt" is made then begins the real sport, and 
the shouting of the captors become as contagious as the 
enthusiasm of the race course, and sometimes bets are 
taken by the onlooking fishermen — small coin and tobacco 
plugs — on the size of the fish fastened, and some of the 
older gamblers make shrewd guesses as to the size of the 
fish from the rate of speed it can tow the boat. I have 
seen a skiff twelve feet keel with three men in it towed 
for thirty-five minutes by one of those fish before it be- 
came exhausted. This fish measured from tip of nose to 
tip of tail five feet nine inches (many have been taken 
much larger), and was the most beautiful denizen of 
the sea I ever beheld. The morning sun playing on its 
glittering scales, tinted the great fish in rainbow colors 
and displayed such a picture as could only be produced 
by the hands of nature's own artist. 
For any of your readers wishing to engage in a few weeks' 
tuna fishing I can bespeak good sport and an ideal spot 
among the hundred islets, sounds and arms of Bonavista 
Bay, Newfoundland- There are good and safe sporting 
grounds to be found both in White Bay and Notre Dame, 
but at Bonavista I have seen the fish taken and know 
that nowhere can greater natural facilities be found to 
warrant the safety of the sport than here. Parties com- 
ing here to fish for this big game would require to bring 
along their tackle with them. I mean the rod, line and 
reel outfit. I would advise going prepared with camping 
equipment; this can be got at St. Johns. There are . 
houses in nearly all the fishing villages where lodging * 
could be had, but for a party taking an outing in August, 
I should think the camp preferable. Fresh meat, vege- 
tables, milk, butter and eggs can be also had in these 
places. Men could be hired in the different places who 
are veterans In the chase, and boats also could be fur- 
nished by these men. I do not think a steam or naph- 
tha launch can be obtained on the bay, but if notice were 
given with sufficient time, one could be got ready, and 
certainly to make the fishing a success, a pleasure with- 
out pain, a launch is indispensable. 
It would be as well for any parties coming to bring 
along their shooting outfit. Sometimes there is rare 
sport in shooting seals. This is not the kind of seal, 
taking of which is one of our famous industries. This 
kind first referred to does not belong to the families of 
the harp and hood seal, which have its young on the ice 
floes in March, but this kind has its j^oung on the shores 
in the month of June, and is not migratory. Being pre- 
pared with a shooting outfit would enable any who 
