Nov. 22, I9O2.J 
FOREST AND STREAM, 
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shooting end of tlie lifie. Warden Fallefton, learning of 
the arrival of one big butich of ducks from North Ua- 
kota, instructed his deputy warden to seize them, and he 
did so, 176 ducks being seized, which had been shipped 
in trunks aiid in a carry-all bag. It had been the Custom 
of the Messl-s. Thompson to send their ducks to cold 
stoi-age ih St. Paul, and hardly had the warden confis- 
cated these birds before the wagon of the cold storage 
firm called for them. The warden refused to give them 
up A short time after this an attorney by the nanie ot 
Griegs called upon Warden Fullerton and stated that 
these ducks had been seized without due process of law 
and asked Fullerton if he would give them up. ^ Mr.^^l-vll- 
lerton's answer was short and direct. He said iNo. 
"If I get a statement from your district attorney here 
in St. Paul stating that the Lacey Law is no good in this 
case, will you give them up then?" 
"No," was the answer. 
"If -I get a statement from the attorney-general ot tne 
State of Minnesota to the effect that the clause ^of the 
Lacey Law is invalid, will you give up the ducks 
"No," said Mr. Fullerton. . 
To several other hvpothetical questions he returned the 
same answer, and Mr. Griggs, a far less pompous lawyer 
than when he came in. left tire oftce having fai ed to 
make Mr. Fullerton turn over the ducks to the Ihomp- 
sons bv means of a straight bluff. r ^1 
Mr ■ Griggs then went to the gevernor of the btate, 
seeking to bring the highly commendable agency of polit- 
ical pull into play. The governor wa.s not accessible, but 
hi'; right-hand man stated that he always thought Mi. 
Fullerton an able officer, and he declined to niterfere 
Mr Griggs then called upon a certain U. b. ^betiatm, 
and the Senator called Mr. Fullerton up. Sam,_ said he 
to Mr Fullerton. "vou know I don't want to mterlere, 
hut I iust thought I would ask you niy personal ca- 
pacity f you would give up these ducks." Mr. Fullerton 
Lid no, and the U. S. Senator replied that it was all ng^it^ 
Upon this Mr. Griggs brought suit against the State 
Fish and Game Commission, and the case will come. up 
for trial later on. It is in many ways an ^"t^resting one^ 
Mr Fullerton wrote to the authorities in North Dakota 
and asked their co-operatisji in the prosecution ot the 
suit He received no reply. He wrote yet again to the 
attorney-general of the State, and at this writing has had 
no answer. While it is not within the bounds of courtesy 
or of knowledge to accuse the State warden of North 
Dakota of any criminal knowledge of ^his violation of the 
North Dakota law. the fact remains that North Dakota 
had not at the date "of two day s ago^ taken any stens to aid 
in the fiehtina- of the suit. Mr. Fullerton got ittle as- 
sistance from 'Mr. Palmer, at Washington who has most 
to do with the enforcement of the Lacey Law. The case 
of the Thompsons will be fought upon a technicality which 
may show a weakness in the Lacev Law vvlnch ought 
soon to be remedied. It is claimed that the birds were 
killed legally in the State of North Dakota, and hat he 
Lacev Law acts only in the case of birds killed illegally. 
The question of illegal shipment, accordmg to Thompson s 
lawyers, cuts no figure if the birds were kdled legallv. It 
i. admitted that the birds were not properly tagged as 
the Lacey Law stipulates, but it is held by the plaintiffs 
in this case that this 'does not onerate, since the birds 
were killed legallv. The intent of the law and the con- 
struction of the law will all come up m this trial. Even 
if Mr Fullerton shall eventually be defeated on this 
technicalitv, too much nraise cannot be giyen him for 
the courage with which he resisted all this pressure 
brought to bear noon him and stood out for the unnolrt- 
ino- of the game laws even when he was not sure that he 
had absolute footing beneath him. This case will, there- 
fore, be an interesting one. If it shall bring into pub'ic 
contemnt the wealthv men who onenly and deliberately 
bfeak the oame laws of this and a sister State, it will have 
a good effect, no matter what the result of this suit may 
be. 
Cobb Caught. 
One Mr Cobb a cold storage man in St. Paul, has at 
different times figured in game law incidents m the city 
of St Paul We mav remember that last summer a little 
convention of ^amc wardens was held out at the Yellow- 
stone Park. Here is one of the results of it. The State 
s-ame warden of Oreson had a decov letter sent m to 
Mr Cobb of St. Paul, renuestincr that the latter ship 
him out a' couple of dozen ducks forthwith. The ducks 
were sent throush all risrht from St. Paul, all the way out 
to the Pacific coast. There was not much profit m two 
dozen ducks, and there will be still le-^s b- the time the 
Minnesota wardens set through with Mr. Cobb, who thus 
so easily nut his head into what might have been called 
a pretty obvious sort of a tran. c 
Some the above little incidents T learned from Mr. ^. 
F. Fullerton himself in the course of a call made at this 
office dnrino- the week. Mr. Fullerton was in to\ynjTii 
private business. 
Bv the way, in regard to the charsres made bv n local 
snorting paper here ap-ainst the honestv of Mr. FuHerton 
nnd his associate wardens. T think T violate no confident- 
in pointincr out that, in view of the personal reroi-ds o^ 
+he ex-'f-utivp nfRcers "of the Minnesota State ""^ish md 
name Commission, there will be no rrtroce-ssion haw Mr 
Fullerton's earlier statement that the Ameriran Field 
would either have to retrnct its charfes of dishonest--' 
or have a chance to nro''"'" them in rourf. A" honest and 
fearless a man as Sam 'P'lillprton would hardly he ant- to 
rect under malictons vilification, such as that in aucstinn. ^ 
The onlv wonder is that anv naoer '^Taiminc to apopal tn 
the <;nortsmen o^ the rountrv rould ev^r find it wtthm 
-tios'i'bilitv to m?t-p such nhsurd and un^oimded rharo-es. 
Al'iirh of tliis avi'11 no doubt romr out in lega]_ develop- 
ments, which will ensue in proper course. 
Sportsman Receives Honor. 
George Shiras, IIL. the well-known natural ist-photog- 
ranher. whose beautiful flash-light pictures of deer have 
become classics, was in the late election cho^^en as renre- 
sentative in Congress for the Twenty-ninth District of the 
State of Pennsvlvania. The Pittsburg Times prints com- 
ment- upon this election in th^- following terms: 
"The infroduHion of Mr. Shiras into th*" National hal' 
of leffl-^lation will brine to the statesmen of th*^ country ?>- 
inode-^t, unicn'e and interesting fienre. Mr. Shiras i'; six 
feet four inches tall. He eou'Dped for statecraft in 
every nossitJe way. but % incliuatloti, Natiiret^^- ' : ■u.rn? 
to the fttgged in life. The woods and water ways, wild 
animals and big game delight him more than do the con- 
fusing problems of law or legislation. Yet withal he has 
an ar'tist's nature. He has rare capacity as a lawyer, and 
he is experienced in legislation. On account of the pe- 
culiar tastes and disposition with whicli Mr. Shiras is 
endowed, he has often been likened to President Theo- 
dore Roosevelt, and when he finally reaches Congress it 
it practicallv certain that the President will not have a 
more ardent supporter or advocate than the new Alle- 
gheny representative. He comes of a family of lawyers. 
His father, George Shiras, Jr., is now serving as a justice 
of the United States Supreme Court, while his uncle, 
Oliver P. Shiras, is United States district judge for Iowa. 
From boyhood' Mr. Shiras has been an ardent hunter, 
and big game has been the attraction. When he was but 
12 years old he shot his first deer on a small lake in north- 
ern Michigan about eight miles distant from Lake Su- 
perior. He now owns that particular lake and about 
.3,000 acres of forest surrounding it. Within the week, 
likely, Mr. Shiras will go to his preserve, where he will 
entertain a party made no of members of his own farnily. 
Don M. Dickinson, ex-Postmaster-General of the United 
States ; Harry Russell, president of the Michigan Central 
Railroad ; W. H. Drummond, the poet laureate of Can- 
ada and a distinguished sportsman and writer, and others 
of the same class. 
The flashlight photographs of wild animals taken by 
Mr. Shiras have commanded the admiration of civiliza- 
tion. He was the pioneer in that skillful work. While a 
fairly large class followed Mr. Shiras into that artistic 
school his work is said to lead them all and is alone in 
it« kind. _ Mr. Shiras contends that the sight of a wild 
animal \A'ithin photographing distance shows the necessarv 
huntins' skill and is just as- thrilling to the hunter as is 
the killino- of the animal and his school of sportsmen no 
longer raid the woods^with their guns. 
Meat in the Family. 
Afy friend Powel writes me as below: "T went out the 
o+her afternoon at P. M. from a place in the country 
where T was ';topping, and took Dolly along. Found a 
Iwnch of nupl' in the cover, had four points, four shots, 
four quail. Then I "^aw d. little bunch of mallards on a 
pond, a"d Dollv and T made the sneak of our lives to 
them. Got three nice fat mallards. Then some of the 
bovs from town came down, and aft^r supner we took the 
hounds and sfot thrpe 'possums. We surelv are poinp- to 
have meat p^ our house for the next few davs." Mr. 
Powel adds that the weather is still warm in his part of 
the world, but the prospect is for cooler days before long. 
Saginaw Lucfc. 
The Sacrinaw Crowd was out four davs at the beginning 
of the Michifran shootine season, and had nlentv of 'suc- 
cess, half a dozen e-ims averaging six or eieht partn'dees 
and several onail to the dav. the trip being one of the 
most .successful the car party ever took, in spite of wet 
weather. 
Long-Bo-wed Snowshoes. 
Mr. W. W. Rrown. of Snringfield, Vt.. writes: "T have 
iust completed vour 'Trip Acro=s N^w Brunswick on 
.Snow.shoes.' There is just one thinsr I don't like about 
vour tales. Thev are too ouick. Othcwise thev are all 
risrhf. T ha""e tried throusrh stores her- in the East to eet 
tv'o n^ir of the Ions turned-up snov ,;hoes used in the 
Klondike co'mtrv. and which you fnoKe of in the above 
storv In the Eorest anp Stream. Will you aid me in get- 
ting them? I saw som^ onre in a sportsmen's show." 
This is a funiiy world. Onlv the other rlav I got a nostal 
card sie-ned Manv Readers, and dated at Worrf>t;ter, Mass.. 
chronicling an opinion directh-- the reverse of Mr. Brown's, 
and intimating that mv storv M-as "hot ^ir" and oup-ht to 
be discontinued at once. I thank Mr. Brown and Manv 
l^eaders. As to the snowshoe. if Mr. Brown will write to 
Metz Sr Schloerb. Oshkosh. Wis., he can. I think, get a 
pair of these lone-bowed snowshoes known as their 
"Alaska model." These sh^es are. however, not filled in 
Alaska, but in A^on^real. The round-toed Alaska snow- 
shoe, made a litfle fuller in front than the model earlier 
mentioned, but filled in front of the toe bar in such wav 
that the fillin? curves up and does not stretch fla*- across 
the bow. can be had in a shoe made in Montreal. T do not 
know the nnme of the Montreal firm makinqr these .shoes, 
thoi-ieh I beli'^ve thev are s*-rung b->^ the St. Reo-is Indians. 
Perhans AL F. Kennedv & Bros., of St. Paul, Minn., could 
g'vf» advice in this matter. 
Thesf. shoes above mentioned would be as good as any 
trade shoes and far better than the average snowshoe 
made in the so-called Montreal pattern. Of cor-rse. if one 
could get the lonsj bows and have them strung snecially 
with caribou fillin*?, and done bv a man rather than bv 
a woman, he would eet a better and more durable shoe. I 
do not know whether Arthur Pringle. of Stanlev, N. B.. 
would 'ill one of these lon.g bows or no*-, as he would 
naturallv have a leaninQ: toward the New Brunswick shoe 
"■ith which he is .so familiar. The filling in this New 
Brunswick shoe is too close for travel in the Rockv Moun- 
t-ains. ivdiere the snow is so moist and heavv. My own 
idea of a shoe for comfortable travel would be one of 
these Alaska models which would come about to the chin 
when one .stands up bv the shoes : these filled with meshes 
of not less than a half-inch in the bodv of the shoe, not 
qu'te so coarse in the toe filling, but mad» with a curved or 
convex toe. as is done by the Alaska Indians in their light 
and long- "tripping" sno->vshoes. In these shoes the toe 
l-'ole is long- and amr>le. Thev are not comfortable for get- 
ting over logs and climbing through cedar windfalls, as the 
New _Brun«^wick hunters and trappers are obliged to do 
very lar^elv in the'r snowshoe work: but for .straight- 
..(vav travel on a fairly open trail, I nersonallv prefer 
Ihc'^e long-bowed shoes to the shorter and wider "codfish" 
patterns. 
Trapping Luck. 
Mr. Geor.a-e T. Farmer, of this city, shook off the cares 
of business for ten davs this month and went trapping up 
near Long Lake, in Wisconsin. Mr. Farmer used to be an 
employee of the Hudson Bay Co., so he knew something 
about Retting traps. In ten davs he caught seventy-six 
i>inskrat-=. seven good black mink, one raccoon and one 
skunk. Mr. Farmer tells me that he sets his skunk traps 
on a soring nole. so that \vhen the animal springs the steel 
trap it is' thrown into the water anc} drQWt^^d, This 
renders it odorless. Mr. Farmer also established connec- 
tions for a few brief moments with an otter. He found 
a couple of the toes of this otter in one of his muskrat 
traps. The otter had cut down the brush to the full length 
of the chain and the little trap had apparently held him for 
quite a while. 
Called. 
Mr. Miles Taylor, an old-time Kansas shooting com- 
panion of mine, whom 1 have not seen for twenty years, 
called at my office one day this week, and I was unfortu- 
nate not to meet him. Mr. Taylor has for many years 
been the private secretary of Senator Marble, of Mon- 
tana, and his residence has beeen for the greater portion of 
the time at Washington. W used to shoot ducks and 
geese together on the Arkansas River, and I would like to 
see him to talk over old times. 
Decoyed In. 
The largest black bass ever taken in Lake Minnetonka, 
Minn., and one of the largest recorded in the North, was 
captured a week or so ago by a young man by the name of 
Fuller. It weighed eight and one-half pounds, and at the 
same time he caught another one which weighed over six 
pounds. The big bass was taken in to the office of the 
State Fish and Game Commission, and is being mounted. 
This fish was caught not far from Spring Park, m the 
upper lake, and directlv in front of the long cottage known 
as Camp Messasebe, on that water. The cottage was shut 
up, but there were a lot of old numbers of the Forest and 
Stream lying around in it, and I have no doubt at all that 
the fish decoyed in to some of the fishing stories contained 
in the Forest and Stream. 
E. Hough. 
Hartford Building^ Chicago. 
New Brunswick Visiting Sportsmen. 
The Miramicht Advance, published at Chatham, N. B., 
makes this comment upon one of its contemporaries which 
has been indulging in unwarranted criticism of the non- 
resident law : J 1 1. 
The Chatham World appears to have no regard what- 
ever for facts when it undertakes to attack any individual 
or class of men. Its quarry last Saturday was the hunt- 
ers who come here for big game. It represented that each 
hunter from the United States paid a license fee of only 
$20 and killed three moose— "one for himself, one for his 
guide and another for his servant." Everybody knows 
that this is a calumny as mean and cowardly as some 
other slanders for which that paper has been brought 
to book, for the sportsmen coming here from abroad — 
from the United States, as well as from Great Britain- 
are, as a class, very honorable men and particularly care- 
ful in their observances of the law. 
The World further says that in some of the States the 
license for moose hunting is $100, and that a good many 
New Bruns-w'ickers are of opinion that foreigners should 
be required to pay as much as this for the privilege of 
hunting big game in this province. 
There is a lot more of such stuff in the Worlds ar- 
-ticle, which shows that it is ignorant of the game law"? 
of all North America and the conditions attending big 
game hunting, as well as entirely reckles and unreliable 
in making statements on the subject. 
The non-resident hunting license fee in New Brunswick 
is $30 — not $20. 
There is no State in the American Union in which even 
one-half of $100 is charged for a moose hunting license. 
In many states no license fee at all is required. The low- 
est is in Maine. $.=; for owners of hunting camps (guides) 
the highest in Wyoming, $40. With the single exception 
of the last named State, none of them charge as high a 
fee as New Brunswick does. 
It is the pride of New Brunswickers interested in the 
subject that their province has the reputation all over 
North America of having the best code of game laws 
extant, and its oificers command universal respect for the 
efficiency with which they are enforced. The world 
ought, therefore, to apologize for its untruthful and slan- 
derous statements. 
Long- Island Game* 
Long Island City, N. Y., Nov. 13.— Advices from 
Brookhaven report that a party going out there shot 31 
quail in one day. Plenty of ducks, both black and broad- 
bill, are to be had at Brookhaven, and arrangements can 
be made with Shepperd Newey, of that place. 
The Bohemia Club, located at Sayville, shot 25 deer the 
first day of the season. Ducks are plentiful in Great 
South Bay. 
Deer shooting at Ronkonkoma has been remarkabU this 
season— thirty deer having been killed, those having been 
shot weighing between 100 and 200 pounds. A remark- 
able buck taken from this station was shot by J. D. Cros- 
hy, of Lawrence, L. I., and a party of friends. It 
weighed 2=;o pounds, with antlers beautifully formed, each- 
antler having three prongs and about a foot and a half 
long. It was about four years old and the most beautiful 
specimen seen here this season. 
Deer are very few in number in Connecticut, though 
at long intervals it is announced that one has been seen. 
Not infrequently their tracks are found in the central 
part of the State in the town of Killingly. and a year or two 
since two were said to have been seen by residents on 
Stratford Point. Last week. Nov. I4, an antlered buck 
was found gra/'ing in a rye field on Beaver Brook Farm, 
in the town of Mil ford. Connecticut, not very far from the 
Housatonic River. Just where he came from is uncertain. 
It will be renrembered. however, that two or three years 
aeo a resident of a small New York town on the Hudson 
River, not far from Sing Sing, lost a number of deer from 
her park by tlie breaking down of the fence. These deer, 
from all accounts, were never recovered, and it is very 
Jikelv that they scattered themselves over western Con- 
necticut. 
Cuvier CIuVs Banquet. 
, T'rnr < upn( v-nlnth annual bannuet of the Cuviei- Club 
of Cincinnati wilU Ij^-tl?'^ Tuesd?y evening g-f next 
