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FOREST AND STREAM 
[Sept. 6, 1902. 
Non-Residents. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Having read articles in your columns on non-resident 
licenses and thinking that it is a question which deserves 
some investigating, not in regard to any one State, but 
to all, I wish to ask of the readers three things: 
First — Is a non-resident State license law a law which 
would prove constitutional in the United States if it 
were tried or tested? 
Second — Would a non-resident license law be one of 
the most effectiial laws with which to protect the game? 
Third — Does a non-resident law add to the welfare of 
a community in which it is enforced or not? 
I wish to see all game protected by laws or 1 incenses 
or whatever is best and fair to all persons concerned. 
In regard to my first question, does any person know 
of a case where this law was tested or Avill some person 
who knows explain what is meant in the United States 
Constitution Avhcn it saj's in Article IV, Section 2, Clause 
I, "The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all 
privileges and immunities of citizens in the several 
States," and again in Article XTV, Section i, "No State 
shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the 
privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States." 
I have heard of cases where persons were fined for not 
taking out the license, but they, like many others I sup- 
pose, were more willing to pay the fine than risk send- 
ing the case to higher courts, especially so when in 
one case where the license if taken out would have cost 
$25, and the fine for not taking it was only $10. Laws 
are a puzzle to me, particularly in some States where 
count}^ licenses exist, and you pay taxes to keep up the 
game, stock streams with fish and pay $10 to $20 every 
time you cross a line where all the laws have been 
changed and altered for the especial benefit of the game 
in that particular locality. 
Virginia has a law which allows no persons from 
Maryland to shoot wild fowl in certain parts of the State 
of Virginia unless they first pay for a license, but, again, 
it allows all Marylanders who belong to a certain asso- 
ciation to shoot without a license. Is this constitutional 
and can laws be made to deal differently with dififerent 
persons simply because they belong to an association 
or not? A smaller matter than being a resident of the 
State or not, I think. Let us suppose two hunters, both 
from Maryland or any other State, are arrested in Vir- 
ginia for hunting without a license, and both are found 
guilty of precisely the same violations, but the one 
states to the court that he is a member of a certain as- 
sociation and is acquitted, while the other, because he 
does not belong to it, is convicted. 
Now, is a non-resident law the best to protect the 
game with? I know that ducks by the thousand are sent 
to the market from the State of Virginia. They have 
the law on ducks. Some species are hunted there the 
year around legall}', and I do not believe any are near 
so well protected there as they are in some other States 
that have no non-resident license. In some States the 
game is protected to a certain extent, but in no case do 
I believe it is the non-resident law which does it, but 
some other law, such as one which does not allow game 
to be shipped from the States, only a certain amount 
to be killed by each hunter or no sale of game, and 
various other and better laws could be made, I believe. 
,In. some instances the non-resident law never was 
passed for the protection of game, but wholly for the 
protection of the people, that they in their district could 
kill all they wished and do with it as they pleased with- 
out being afraid some other fellow would get in and get 
some for his own use and enjoy a vacation, for I don't 
believe very many persons who travel any distance to 
hunt could be classed as a game hog or market hunter. 
In Maine I have thought the game better protected 
than in most any other States; yet they have never 
passed the non-resident license law, and I have always 
looked at Maine as saying to her neighbors, "Come with 
us to hunt or fish and we will treat you as if you were 
one of us, giving you all the .show we can." Some other 
State laws read about the same as, "Raus mit em!" and 
I am much like the Irishman who once had an experience 
at a German picnic; always afterward he used to say. 
"If you ever go to a German picnic and they begin to 
yell 'Raus mit em,' get out!" 
I hear that the game in Maine is decreasing, and if 
it requires a non-resident license to protect it, I say 
put it on, and if my coming with a gun and $20 will 
help the game increase more than coming with the gun 
alone would, I'll be willing to bring both. But I say 
try to show by your laws that you wish to be as fair 
with all as you can and that you wish them to come; if 
you do. 
In regard to the third question, I know very little, 
but we may safely say that the men in general who travel 
to a distant State to hunt will leave from $25 to $75 in 
that State, and many of the same class will cease to visit 
a_ State if they think a law exists M'hich is intended to 
give them a slight hint not to come or a good pull at 
the leg simply for the purpose of making money. 
I think most persons go to the States which have no 
license and their money goes to the private citizens, 
making them better off, but it does not go toward the 
game. I also think a lesser number of persons go to 
States with the license, but the decrease favors the game. 
The money has also decreased especially with the pri- 
vate citizens, some of it has gone to the State, but 
whether it will ever help the game or not is in many 
States a question and in some, I am sure, it never does. 
I may be mistaken in a number of ways, but will some 
person with more experience and knowledge please 
write. ^ WooDHAWK. 
Iowa Ptaifie Chickens* 
Humboldt, la., Aug. 23.— About a week is left now 
before the season opens in Iowa on chickens and ducks, 
and sportsmen have been preparing for some time. From 
the best iiaformation_ the chicken shooting will not be 
above the average this year in Iowa. Storms have done 
much damage to tiie young birds in southern and cen- 
tral Iowa, and the shooting there will be poor. In the 
northern part and especially the extreme northern part 
the shooting -jyilji l;_e quite good.' Majiy Ip^yai spoftsfne» 
are looking toward Minnesota to give them their chicken 
shooting this fall. Reports are coming from all parts 
of that State telling of an unusual abundance of chickens, 
and as the non-resident license of $10 is somewhat reason- 
able, many will journey north. 
The usual large amount of "sooner" shooting has been 
done this year in Iowa, and State Game Warden Lincoln 
has had little tiioney to cope against it. Farmers and 
town sportsmen have been blazing away at the half-grown 
birds ever since the first of August, as though there was 
no law prohibiting it. 
Every year which opens the chicken shooting in Iowa 
finds the poor man set back a notch further in the line of 
successful chicken shooting. The farmers are getting 
more and more strict about who hunts upon their lands, 
and a bird dog has become almost a necessity, although 
when one is lucky enough to know farmers who will 
pilot him to the birds it is a great help, but even then one 
needs a dog to find the birds which have been shot. A 
friend writing to me from southeastern Kansas has the 
following, among other things, to say about conditions 
there : "There are a few chickens around here, but about 
two weeks ago some parties were out killing them off. 
We have a few game laws in this State, but there is no 
State game warden and very few others. There- is no 
effort being made to enforce the game laws, and quail are 
shot all winter and summer, too, for that matter." 
Commencing September first turtle doves can be shot in 
this State, and I hope to- have something to say about 
these birds later on. G. J. Bicknelt.. 
Proprietors of fishing resorts will find it profitable to advertise 
them m Fokest and Stbeau. 
No Yowng: D«cfcs in Montana. 
Shelby Junction. Mont., Aug'. 26.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: This year there are no young dvtcks in this 
region. The high prairie in this part of northern Mon- 
tana, close to the mountains, is dotted with a thousand 
little lakes, on each of which usually breed ducks of 
various kinds, and all through the summer two, three 
or half a dozen broods may be seen swimming in these 
lakes. This year, however, there are none. 
The spring and summer, up to mid-July, were extra- 
ordinarily cold and rainy, and it is belieA^ed that the en- 
tire absence of young birds is due to this fact. Since this 
portion of Montana is commonly so great a breeding 
ground for ducks the failure of ducks to breed here is 
really a serious matter to Western duck shooters gen- 
erally. Whether the same weather conditions and the 
same absence of breeding took place north of the 
boundary line along the mountains, in the Provinces of 
Assiniboia and Alberta is not known. 
Ducks are already migrating in northern Montana and 
people are beginning to shoot them.. F. p. 
Connecticut Rail Opening, 
^^MiLFORD, Conn., Sept. 2. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
The rail season in Connecticut opened Sept. t, and what 
its early days will bring forth no man yet knows. The 
experience of two shovers on the Housatonic River the 
day before the season opened was not encouraging. One 
man passing through the grass of one of the best pieces 
of ground on the river, and covering territory that it takes 
an hour to pass over, started but a single bird. Another 
man covering another large strip of grass started only 
two birds. 
This seems very discouraging as to the breeding of rail 
on this particular groimd. If it is true that no birds Avere 
bred there this season, the reason is probably to be found 
in the wet weather of the early summer which may have 
destroyed the eggs or the young birds. It will be in- 
teresting to have reports from the shooting at various 
points and thus to leam whether similar conditions pre- 
vail elsewhere. We shall look with interest for reports 
from the marshes at North Haven and at Essex, Conn., as 
V/'ell as from other points. F. P. 
■Tfibble Remembeted How. 
Rifle, Colo., Aug. 18.— W, E." Tfibble is the hero of 
a desperate hand-to-hand encottnter with two bears, and 
that he escaped with his life was due in part to the visit 
of President Roosevelt to this part of the country two 
years ago. Mr. Roosevelt showed the old guide just 
how to give the coup de grace to a bear with the knife. 
Tribble. while in the mountains, was surprised by a griz- 
zlv. and succeeded in dispatching him a la Roosevelt. 
When confronted by another big bear, he dispatched it 
in a like manner. Tribble was covered with wounds, but 
managed to crawl to his horse, and ride to camp, wherei 
he lost consciousness. S 
At Moldanga, a village in the Bankura district, a poor 
old ryot \yas sitting one morning lately in the front of his 
hut. A tiger, which had been committin.g havoc among 
the sheep and cattle in the neighboring villages, suddenly 
made his appearance and coolly walked into the hut. A 
little child, a grandson of the ryot, was in the hut, and 
the old man at once rushed inside and was coming out 
v/ith the child when the tiger fell upon them. There was';' 
a country-made axe close by, and with this weapon the 
man fought the tiger for a time, and then stepping out, 
shut and bolted the door of the hut from outside. So 
"Master Stripes" was made a close prisoner in the 
peasant's hut and Avas kept there for several hours until 
he could be shot. The old man and his grandchild, who 
were severely mauled bv the brute, expired a few days 
after the occurrence. — -Asian. 
j£ Take inventory of the good things in this issue 
» of Forest and Stream. Recall what a fund was 
given last week. Count on what is to come next 
|f week. Was there ever in all the world a more 
jf abundant weekly store of sportsmen's reading? 
All corritnunications intended for Fosest and Stream shnald 
always be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Co., Nct* 
York, n9( %9 mj mdividusl consected with tlic yaper. 
Fish and Fishing* 
Some Monster Masfcfnonge, 
The present seeins to be a record year for large maski- 
nonge. From the vicinity of the Thousand Islands come 
reports of catches of very heavy fish. Having no me'ana 
of authenticating the stories of these big fellows, I had 
determined to pass them by unnoticed until a possible 
opportunity should offer for verifying them. In the mean- 
time, however, come two stories of even larger fish, about 
the verification of which these is no' possibility of doubt. 
On Aug. 2i_ the Ontario Department of Fisheries at 
Toronto received a magnificent specimen of maskinonge, 
over five feet long and weighing fifty-two pounds. It 
was caught in the branch of the Rideau River which 
passes through Kemptville, by Sam. J. Martin, of Kempt- 
ville. Big as this specimen was, it has been cast alto- 
gether in the shade by a capture by a French-Canadian. 
Mr. Alphonse Allard, at Chateauguay, on the border of 
the St. Lawrence, a little west of Montreal. This monster, 
which Avas sixty pounds in Aveight, had a girth of twenty- 
seven inches. The length of the head from the tip of the 
snout to the back of the gill, Avas exactly a foot. It was 
sold to a Montreal dealer, and Avas exposed to view in the 
shop of T. Charbonneau & Co., of Bonsecours Market. 
There have undoubtedly been larger maskinonge caught 
than that just reported, but it is claimed that no larger 
one has been seen for many years past in the Montreal 
markets. 
The Philology cf the Masfcioonge. 
There are probably almost as many differelit ways of 
spelling the name of this fish as there were, up to a fcAV 
years ago. of Avriting the name of the fresh-water saJmon 
of Lake St. John. I was induced some time ago to pre- 
pare a paper for the Royal Society of Canada on the 
philology of the ouananiche, giving some tAventy different 
spellings of the name, and contending for the general 
adoption and use of the form of the word which has 
priority in its favor. While upon this free American 
soil we have no academy, as they haA-e in France, to arbi- 
trarily spell for us all our difficult and scientific names, 
but can fearlessly employ as many different orthographical 
forms of the same Avord as may tickle our fancy, convetii- 
crcc would seem to dictate at least an attempt to arrive 
as nearly as possible at uniformity in the spelling of more 
or less familiar names. 
In the case of Esox nohilior, or Lucius masquinongy, 
whose popular title in its original form, like that of the 
ouananiche. comes down to us, as correctly claimed by the 
late Fred Mather, from its Indian noinehclature, an ap- 
parent desire to get away from French orthography has 
produced a somewhat similar confusion of language to 
that Avhich so long existed in the case of the ouananiche. 
The origmal spelling of the Indian name was undoubtedly 
"maskmonge." and such it is still officially called in the 
statutes of Canada, in which country the fish Avas first 
knoAvn and the name originated. According to Bishop 
Lafleche, who _ Avas a recognized authority upon Indian 
customs and dialects, and in his early life a dcA^oted mis- 
sionary to the NorthAvest, "maskinonge" is derived from 
mashk (deformed) and kinonje fa pike), and was applied 
to the Esox nobilior by the Indians, because it appeared 
to them a deformed or different kind of pike from that 
to Avhich they had been accustomed. The river of the 
same name that flows into Lake St. Peter, which name 
has been extended to the town built at its mouth, and to 
the county of which it is the chief place. Avas doubtless 
so called from the number of these fish taken in or near 
Its estuary, and after their Indian name. And it is a 
smgular corroboration of the absolute correctness 'of the 
French orthography "m.askinonge," that no less an au- 
thority than Dr. James A. Henshall, the author of the 
paper on this fish in "American Game Fishes," following 
the nomenclature of Dr. Mitchil, and of De Kay in his 
I Fishes of NcAV York," substittJltes for nobilior. as the 
I name of this particular species, ma-squinongyf, v^hich. is 
about as near as it is possible for English orthography to 
go in representing the correct pronunciation of "maski- 
nonge. Yet Dr. Henshall claims that by common con- 
sent and custom the name is "mascalonge" among the 
majority of anglers, and that "mascalonge" it will be for 
generations to come. Nor does this mongrel name repre- 
sent the full extent of the departure from the original 
name. Dr. Henshall mentions, among other forms, 
'muscalonge," "muskellunge," "muskallnnge," etc and 
a variety of other spellings has been adopted by other 
writers. _ "Muskellunge"— one of the forms already 
quoted — is the name employed to designate the species 
by Dr. Brown Goode. in his "American Fishes," and is as 
far removed from the original name as "Avinninish" is 
from 'ouananiche." It may take some time to arrive at 
unifornuty _ in the spelling of Esox nobilior' s familiar 
name, but it is encouraging to note the general conform- 
ity, m recent years, to the name "ouananiche," which is 
the statutory designation in the country in which that 
fish IS found, and it may be useful to point out that 
"maskmonge" is also the statutory form of the name of 
another Canadian fish, and, like "ouananiche." has in its 
jtavor the undoubted claim of priority of nomenclature. 
'I However, the Bard of Avon, Avhose frequent references 
to hook and line shoAvs that he was quite as Avell up in 
angling as in botany, is authority for the statement that 
"a rose by any other name smells quite as sweet," and 
no matter how Ave spell the name of the great game fish 
ji the St. LaAvrence, the angler who takes it with be- 
coming tackle, will find that he has a foeman worthy of 
his steel. 
Taci'e for Masfciconge. 
t ■ maskinonge are taken with hand line and trolling 
il Bspoon, and hauled in hand over hand, so that the fish have 
*ll Jl''r° <^PPO''tumty of displaying their game qualities at all. 
1 am sorry to say that I have seen the larse brook trout 
of some of the finest of our Canadian lakes"" treated in the 
same unsportsmanlike manner. When, however, one 
J|fishes with an eight-ounce bl^ck bass ro4 an4 brings a 
