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Mainel Deer. 
Boston, Oct. 13. — It takes only a few days of Maine 
open season to put deer into the Boston markets. They 
come right along, spite of all the restrictions on shipping 
them out of that State^ Two handsome does were hung 
up in a Boston Market Saturday. Asked where they 
came from, the marketman answered : "I dunno ; som'ers 
in Riaine, I guess. The express brought them here." The 
record for Ihe week of deer transported through Bangor 
was 2n. The second week of last year showed a record 
of 254; second week of the season of 1900, 145. The total 
sliYpments for the season thus far have been 298; same 
time last year, 348. It w.ll be seen that the number is 
considerably short of last yeat\ Writers and all othefs 
anxious to boom the game supply will not admit that the 
fjilling off is due to a lack of game, but claim that the 
weather is entirely to blame, though admitting that the 
number of hunters in the Maine woods is greater than 
ever. It ought to be whispered low, but there is no record 
yet of a serious shooting accident, though two hunters 
have been wounded in the hand and one in the leg by 
carelessness. There is a claim that an outlet for game 
from the Moosehead region is by the late morning train 
from Greenville, which does not go by way of Bangor, 
where there are careful wardens stationed, but by way Oi 
Dover and Foxcroft to Newport Junction, where there is 
no warden supervision. Another outlet that should be 
watched is at Jackman, by way of the Canadian Pacific. 
At both these outlets almost anything in the way of game 
passes. From the Rangeley region a rather unsatisfac- 
tory hunting season is reported, though some deer have 
been killed. The weather is blamed entirely, rather than 
any lack of game. It is true that it has rained about all 
ihe time, with the air full of falling leaves. Twenty-five 
or thirty Boston sportsmen have returned from the Maine 
v/oods the past week w^tli deer, while it is a curious fact 
that few return without one or two. Is this a credit to 
the Maine game supply, to the skill of the hunters, or to 
the guides? It is very certain that many of them know 
little or nothing about hunting, "couldn't hit a barn door," 
as the saying goes, but they bring back deer, shot by (?). 
Considerable disappointment is felt concern ng the ac- 
tual scarcity of partridges and woodcock in Maine, and 
the same complaint comes from New Hampshire towns. 
The old theory is advanced, "Cold weather and rain in 
Uie early season killed the chicks." Gunning on the Cape 
was not up to expectations last week. St.ll, the flights of 
shore birds have continued small. Old gunners at Chat- 
ham and other points say that the season so far has been 
the poorest in years. Black duck shooting has opened at 
the Pleasant Lake blinds. Herbert Poole shot nine black 
duck there Fridaj'. Mark A. Harding succeeded the 
other day in getting several quail out of some flocks at 
Morris Island. These, added to a number of shore birds 
lie had secured at Chatham Beach, made one of the best 
bags of the season. 
At Stratton, Me., several deer have been shot since the 
open season begun. Mrs. Bert Soper shot a nice buck 
Oct. 2. In the v.cinity of Phillips, Me., several deer have 
been taken. Mr. Henry C. Taylor, of Manchester, N. H., 
nhot the first deer of the season at Black Brook camps, 
Pead River, Me. Will Holman shot the first deer of the 
season at Carthage, Me. Deer are reported plenty in that 
section, but partridges scarce. Capt. Billy Soule shot the 
first deer of the season at Pleasant Island Camps, Cup- 
suptic Lake, bringing it in at 5 o'clock on the opening day. 
Senator W. P. Frye closed his camp, Mooselucmaguntic 
Lake, Oct. i. He is a great lover of angling, but never 
shoots. At Carry Pond Camps, Mr. WJl Swan, of Bos- 
ton, was the first lucky hunter, bringing in his deer Oct. I. 
The next was taken by W. E. Souther, of Boston, Oct. 2. 
The Maine moose season opens Oct. 15, Wednesday, of 
this week, and it is claimed that prospects are good in 
several sections. At this writing the Boston hunters who 
have been in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia after 
moose for several weeks, have not returned. It is certain 
that they have had a good deal of cold and rainy weather, 
conditions not favorable to moose calling. 
Boston, Oct. 11. — The hunters are gett ng some deer in 
Cumberland count}', Me. It will be remembered that 
this county was under continued close time till a year ago. 
Dr. Wallace Snow, of Portland, shot a fine buck last week 
at L. C. Spaulding's camp, near Sebago Lake. L. M. 
Johnson, of Sebago, shot one near the head of the lake 
the first days of the open season. A gentleman, just 
returned from the Rangeley region, says that the woods 
are full of falling leaves, while it had rained nearly all the 
time for a couple of weeks. Hunting is extremeh' difficult. 
Great indignation is expressed at the shooting of the 
State's buck deer at Marshfield. Last spring a doe was 
caught off Brant Rock swimming in the salt water and 
nearly exhausted. The animal was picked up by Albert 
W. Phillips. The Fish and Game authorities were at 
once notified, and they liberated the deer in the woods in 
that v.cinity. Soon after a buck was obtained — one of the 
Sportsmen's Show animlas, I am informed. The ani- 
mals were expected to breed, under the protection of the 
law. Rabbit hunters found the buck's carcass Monday 
hung up to a tree. The animal had been dressed in Maine 
woods style, with all the best of the venison carved off the 
bones. The animal had not been killed more than two 
pr three days. The doe has been seen wandering about 
after nightfall since the slaughter. The inhabitants of 
the town are very ind gnant. and the State Fish and Game 
Commission has offered a reward of $100 for evidence 
that shall lead to the arrest and conviction of the guilty 
person or persons. That part of the State is under per- 
petual close time on deer, but considerable lawlessness has 
occurred at times along the South Shore and the Cape. 
The Lake Auburn, Me., Fish Association has repeatedly 
complained to the State Fish and Game Commissioners 
that the salmon and trout hatched in the hatcheries there 
and turned into the lake have been escaping down the 
outlet and into the Androscoggin, never to return. The 
Association has been granted permission to erect and 
maintain a screen at the outlet, and the members are con- 
tributing funds toward the screen, as well as asking the 
friends of fishing in that lake to do the same. The screen 
experiment will be anxiously watched. Hitherto it has 
been found very difficult maintaining screens at the outlets 
of Maine lakes and ponds, by reason of ice and freshets. 
A winter freshet that raises tli£ ice is pretty sure to take a 
Y^rj? strong screen with it, ' ' §PEgjAfc» 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
Proposed Big Club C'^mblcytfoa. 
Chicago, 111., Oct. 11. — Mention has been made in these 
columns of the organization of the Undercliff Sports- 
men's Association, which for some time has been quietly 
leasing ground on the famous Senachwine Lake marsh 
of the Illinois River country. This part of the Illinois 
River Valley has_ long been famous for abundance of 
waterfowl. That is to say, it was famous in the past, and 
it is to-day perhaps the best ef the duck country left in 
this State. Swah Lake Club preserve is an old one. Ad^ 
joining these gfounds lie the leases of the Uridercliff 
A.ssociatiottv The latter club has a part of the ttiarsh at 
the lower end of the famous "Goose Pond." At the ether 
end of the Goose Pond he the grounds of the Blue W ng 
Club. Not far firohl this are the big Hennenin preserves. 
Thus it will be seen that practically all the marsh of de- 
sirable nature is now under preserve, and the open shoQter 
has little or no chance to have a day's sf)Oft on these once 
popular marshes. ' 
The last talk is that there may possibly be a big com- 
bination of perhaps three or four of the above-mentioned 
clubs. I should think that Swan Lake would be opposed 
tO' this, yet some of the Swan Lake members have already 
taken out memberships in the Undercliff Club. If this 
whole stretch of country were under one club organiza- 
tion, the members of that club would be free to shoot at 
any place Upon the whole marsh. Hennepin and Swan Lake 
w^ould not seem to have much to gain by an arrangement 
of this kind, yet were parts of the Undercliff marsh strict- 
ly preserved, it wolila in time come to be good shooting 
countrv, perhaps under certain conditions, better on some 
da.ys than the marshes of these older and more wealthy 
clubs. These are days of mergers and combinations, and 
although I should personally doubt the likehhood of this 
combine being made, there is at least rumor of it with 
something better than guesswork under the rumor. 
Sea£on Slew. 
The season still continues slow. Very few jacksnipe 
hunters are going out to-day, as there is no flight re- 
ported. It is thought that the middle of next week will 
see some jacksnipe on the marshes. Duck shooting has 
not yet begun, as the weather is now mild and fair. Some 
good bags have been made on Tolleston marsh near Chi- 
cago, but nothing interesting comes from the open coun- 
try. The birds are now reported to be in Wisconsin ii; 
the neighborhood of Lake Poygan, and others of the bet- 
ter Wisconsin marshes. It is not thought that there will 
be any very good shooting in Illinois this fall. The feed, 
such as wild rice, etc., is all missing in the Senachwine 
and Swan .Lake countrj', the high water probablj' having 
cut it down. Where there were big beds of wild rice 
last fall there is open water or mud to-day. Some think 
the Chicago Drainage Canal has been the cause of th s. bul 
the more likely explanation is that of the high waters 
which were so general this summer. 
As to quail, it is not yet time' to concern ourselves over 
much. Of ruffed grouse, we never have very many in 
Illinois. A friend tells me that he is inv.ted to a Alichigan 
point, where a resident sportsman tells him he can put up 
from thirty to seventy grouse any day he likes. This 
would seem to be well worth' watching. 
The Norlhwcsl. 
Mr. James K. Boyd, of Hempstead, N. Y., who wrote 
earlier in regard to shooting country in the Northwest, is 
good enough to write as below regard. ng his trip. I wish 
all the sportsmen who avail themselves of the Forest and 
Stream Information Bureau would be kind enough to tell 
what luck they have. Mr. Boyd says : 
"1 have just arrived home from our Western trip in 
Nortii Dakota, after one of, if not the most enjoyable, 
chicken slioots we ever had. Although birds were all 
strong and active, requiring a real 'get there' motion, our 
two guns flagged twenty-odd daily, showing how many the 
early shooters left. We witnessed some of the finest work 
by the dogs possible, and although the northern ducks and 
geese had not 'come in' up to the time of our leaving, we 
were well repaid for our l6ng trip, for we had good 
chicken shooting every day, and picked up a few native 
ducks. 
"There seem to be various interpretations of Minne- 
sota license for shooting, as regards those coming from a 
State not requiring a non-license tax." 
In regard to the prospect for ducks in South Dakota, I 
have the following to offer from Dr. J. C. French, of 
Webster, S. D. : 
".'Vs a duty I may owe my fellow shooters, I want to 
liave it known how dry it is here. When I see parties 
from way south and cast coming long miles and spending 
good money for an unsatisfactory and disappointing trip, 
I feel it's time you got out your big pen, bare j'our arm 
and write it big and bold, 'This part of South Dakota is 
all dry.' Not water enough for a duck to drink, let alone 
swim. I know this country for 100 miles as a man knows 
his own front yard, and I speak within bounds when I 
say there is less water and less ducks than any white man 
ever saw at this time of tie year. Fire is burning to- 
day, where I have seen enough water to float a big steam- 
boat in other years. It's dry as a Vermont Sunday school 
picnic, that's what." 
Reports from North Dakota are less distressing than 
the above. Friends who recently met shooters from the 
l3evirs Lake country of North Dakota say that the duck 
shooting there was very heavy indeed. Of course the Devil's 
Lake waters are more permanent than the shallow sloughs 
of South Dakota, which have always been more or less 
capricious in their nature. 
The Game Law as Eof creed. 
I was interested in the comment of Mr. Boyd, as stated 
above, upon Minnesota licenses. About all I can say in 
regard to the Minnesota game law is that you can see how 
it works if you want to try it on. I get more fun watch- 
ing the working of the game law in Minnesota than from 
almost any other of my employments at this writing. Here 
is another instance of it. Mr. Frank Stone, of Chicago, is 
jt^st back from a shooting trip in North Dakota, where 
lie had good success. It is against the law to bring birds 
out of the State of Nq^^I* ^^^'.kQt^x but Mr, Stone dida't 
[Oct. 18, igo2. 
mind that. He had a brand new trunk which he took 
along with him for this very purpose. It was perhaps 
not a very expensive trunk, but was very bright and shiny, 
and strong enough in his opinion to carry an abundance 
of b rds for the loved ones at home. Into this new trunk 
he threw, beside an extra pa r of socks or so, his illegal 
game. Mr. Stone duly arrived in Chicago with his dress 
suit case and one of his trunks. The new, shiny trunk 
failed to appear, and keeps on continuing to fail to appear, 
in spite of Mr, Stone's agitation over the matter. Send- 
ing out a tracer for the trunk, he discovered that it was 
detained at the fatal Union t)epot in St. Paul, Minn., 
where, in spite of the allegations of the protective author- 
ity, the Chicago sporting newspaper which criticises Mr. 
Fullerton and his men, the Minnesota game laws seem 
to have worked once more. That is to say, it was in this 
instance the Lacey law which worked, the seizure being 
made, as I understand it, by a deputy U. S. marshal, who 
had authority to sfeiie game shipped oUt of North Dakota 
contrary to the law of the latter named State, Were 
I in Mr. Stone's place I should not worry about the new 
trunk or the pair of socks, or the loss of the game birds. 
There is a time for disappearing. 
How to Do It. 
This is the way to do if you want to go shoot"ng in 
Minnesota. Sam F. Fullerton, the State warden of Minne- 
sota, in handing me this correspondence, says: "The 
inclosed letter is sUch an unusual one, that I send it to 
you for your perusal, It is the kind of letter one would 
expect to get from a sportsman." The letter follows. 
"Zanesville, O., Sept. 29. — S. F. Fullerton, E-q., 
Executive Agent Fish and Game Commission, Capital 
Bu.lding. St. Paul. Minn. My deaf sir : A party 6f 
three (one an Invalid) expect to take an outing in Minne- 
sota within the next three weeks, and two of them will 
do some shooting if the occasion presents. As the two 
who will do shooting live in Ohio, and Ohio has a non- 
resident license law, I a.sk of you, where shall we obtain 
our licenses, from' your office or from the county in which 
we expect to do our hunting? What hunting wc do will 
he on small game, as we will not have a rifle in the camp. 
Apropos of your license law, wih state, it is the proper 
thing, and I sincerely hope that every one that carries a 
gun into or out pf your State may be compelled to pay 
same, and the money so obta ned be used exclusively in 
the interest of game protection. While Vice-President of 
the Ohio Fish and Game Protective Association, I worked 
hard and spent my money in the interests of a license law| 
even went so far as to advocate the organization of county 
game protective associations, the elect on of officers fot 
county organizations, and the employment of a competent 
attorney to prosecute, as we find here that prosecuting 
attorneys will not prosecute (they fear they will lose a 
vote or two for so doing). You will readily see that there 
is no desire on my part to evade your license, but I want 
to prepare everything before going, hence write you now. 
One thing more: By pay ng a license are we permitted 
to take from your State any game? We would be pleased 
to have the privilege to take home with us some for our 
families, and as the writer is a member of the local lodge 
of Elks, he would like to give the boys a duck supper, if 
permitted to take from your State enough ducks to do so. 
"Respectfully yours, 
"L. A. MooRE." 
The writer of a letter like the above, who does not start 
in to tell what he is going to do to the game Avardens at 
the place where he is go.ng to shoot, is much more apt 
to get along nicely than one who goes in there and gets 
too chesty about it. I don't think ?.ny man who goes to 
Minnesota will be disappointed if he obeys the law and 
respects the wardens. 
How Not to Do It, 
Mr. H. L. Chandler, of Owasso, Mich., wllO is a candi- 
date for representative in hi-s distfiet, on Oct. I took 
down his little shotgun and started out to bid defiance 
to the game law. He shot a quail in the presence of sev- 
eral witnesses, and sent the game warden full account oi 
the transaction, and invited arrest. Mr. Chandler is an 
attorney and not in the patent medicine business, as might 
be supposed from his evident hankering after advertising. 
There has existed some doubt in the minds of the lawyers 
as to the actual opening this fall of the quail season. I 
don't hear of any of the better class of sportsmen of the 
State who are eager to take advantage of the technicality 
and go out and shoot before the :20th of the month. The 
sentiment is against this sort of thing. It is strange that 
there should still obtain the amazing folly of a certain class 
of people who seem to think that the game laws are in- 
tended as an affliction and outrage upon the people rather 
than as a wise and beneficent means of giving to the 
people what a few of the people would otherwise take for 
themselves. Injustice and unfairness usually defeat their 
own ends. Mr, Chandler's attitude is not an enviable one, 
The Minnesota Lawyer, 
I called attention some weeks ago to the Minnesota 
lawyer, Mr. Stanislaus Donnelly, who was charged with 
shooting ruffed grouse out of season. This case came on 
for trial, as was earlier announced. Private information 
contains the following comment on the matter : 
"We had a very amusing case here yesterday settled in 
the Municipal Court. Two lawyers shooting chickens 
bagged a couple of pheasants (ruffed grouse), t':e latter 
out of season. On the incoming train was the game war- 
den, who saw the pheasants on the string, took them and 
notified the parties to appear in court. Instead of putting 
up the minimum fine of $10 and settling the thing then 
and there, the culprits started in on bluff tactics; threats 
to show up game warden, etc. Well, we had testimony 
that pheasants and prairie chickens interbred. Did you 
ever see a hybrid prairie chicken-partridge? Also we had 
testimony that a prairie-chicken and pheasant got up and 
flew alike, almost similar in habits, etc.; that the birds 
were shot unintentionally and innocently — if they were 
shot, etc. The warden testified — although the evidence 
was ruled out — ^that the pheasants were shot while upon 
the ground. And so it went. I got into court at the tail 
end and enjoyed the hm. Defendants were found guilty — 
and tln,ey iatend to appeal ! T contend they should be fined 
th(^ limit for having the pheasants in their possession, gmj. 
$100 for shooting them on the ground,'- ■■ -• - ' 
