Oct. 14, 1905] 
FOREST AND STREAM, 
scarcity of game, as compared with the large number 
of animals we had seen in that same region the day 
before. Apparently the shooting on all sides had 
driven the deer further into the barrens. We finally 
turned back, discouraged, and circled so as to take a 
different route to camp. After going about a mile, we 
saw a light colored stag feeding at some distance. 'The 
cover was good and the wind right, so we had no diffi- 
culty in stalking and shooting him at easy range. He 
had a large head, and was unusually white. It was 
always easy to distinguish the stags from the does, the 
former being light colored, while the latter are of a 
seal brown, with white belly and legs. I had now 
killed the three stags allowed by law, and my hunting 
was at an end, so we returned to camp. A little .later 
Smith and the guide put in an appearance with a fine 
large bead. The Senator was still to be heard from. 
Just before dark, he hove in sight, followed by his 
guide, whose shoulders were adorned with a massive 
caribou head, while a large jack rabbit was slung from 
the end of the Senator’s rifle. They reported a hard 
tramp of fifteen miles, but felt amply repaid for their 
exertions. They related that during their lunch diver- 
sion was afforded in the shape of a doe with a large 
bump of curiosity, which stood nearby, and with un- 
abated interest watched them eat. The caribou have 
this trait of character to an abnormal extent. On one 
Occasion, while the entire party was on the march, a 
yearling came . within fifty feet, and took to its heels 
only when one of the guides threw a stone at it. 
The next day. Sept. 7, must be put down as the most 
disagreeable of our trip, for a heavy rain set in and 
continued all day, while we sat huddled in our small 
tent, which was not entirely waterproof. But it was 
far harder on the guides, who had little or no shelter 
and could only keep warm by hugging the roaring fire 
which they kept going. 
As if to. atone for the bad weather, the following; day 
w'as perfect, without a cloud in the sky and little or no 
wind. But the time had come to begin the homeward 
journey. One of our bags of provisions had not been 
put off the train at Grand Lake, but had been carried 
through. Consequently our supply of grub, with - the 
exception' of venison, was getting low. The five miles 
back to our former camping place on the edge of the 
barrens were covered in good time, and the Senator 
and Smith hunted there the balance of the day in a 
vain effort to get another good head. Next day we 
1 eturned to the lake and journeyed by dory to Grand 
Lake station, a favorable wind aiding the rowers. 
The mixed train was due that night, and we intended 
to take.it to Spruce Brook, but we had further proof 
of the eccentricities of Newfoundland railroading when 
the telegraph operator at the lonely station informed 
us that the train had been cancelled. This meant a 
wait of two days until the expres should come along. 
How'ever, we had .some good trout fishing in the 
outlet of the lake, and the time passed pleasantly. ' We 
recovered the missing bag of provisions, and so had 
plenty to eat. On Monday afternoon the express, duly 
arrived and conveyed us to Spruce Brook. 
Mr. Dodd’s Log Cabin is well known to sportsmen, 
both hunters and anglers, and it has sheltered rnany 
men of prominence. Among the names to be found on 
the register is that of the Hon. Elihu Root, who last 
September had a very successful caribou hunting trip 
in the same region which we invaded. Mr. Root re- 
turned this summer with his son for the salmon fishing 
w'hich is to be enjoyed in that vicinity. 
However, we would advise those who contemplate a 
hunting trip to that section of Newfoundland to go to 
St. George’s Bay. There is a good hotel there, and 
tents, provisions and reliable guides can be obtained in 
the village. By hiring the guides direct the middleman’s 
profit is saved, and the hunter is sure of having what he 
likes in the way of grub, and plenty of it. 
The caribou heads were boxed and forwarded by 
express to a taxidermist at Vancebore, Me. We also 
sent the feet, -which are to be made into inkwells, match 
safes and guii racks. 
On Wednesday, when we boarded the tri-weekly ex- 
press, it was only two and one-half hours late, and we 
were' confident that we would make good connections 
right through to Montreal. But we should have learned 
by that-time not to put our faith in the Reid Newfound- 
land Railroad, for the engine broke down about half 
way'.to' Rort-aux-Basque, and two hours were lost in 
making repairs. 
At 2 A. M. the steamer Bruce left Port-aux-Basque 
in a pouring rain and a gale of wind. The 
sea was far from resembling a mill pond that 
night, and most of the passengers looked pale' and 
shaky when they landed at North Sydney, B. C., about 
10 A. M., to find that they had missed the Montreal 
connettion. We managed to get as far as Truro, N; S., 
thqt night, and the next morning boarded the Inter- 
colonial’s Ocean Limited and reached Montreal with- 
out further mishap. Gardiner Keine. 
Amsterdam, N. Y., Oct. 2. 
The Delawate Game Outlook- 
. Wilmington, Del., Oct. 5 . — Editor Forest and Stream: 
.As you know, the enforcement of the game laws in Dela- 
ware are peculiar, being given over entirely to the Dela- 
ware Game Protective Association, each member of 
which Association is made a warden, so that we have to 
look but for law-breakers. _ ■ 
The- prospect for quail throughout the lower counties 
of the State is good this year. A great manj" birds .are 
reported. We are expecting quite an influx' of non- 
residents when the shooting season opens Nov. 15, but as 
our law prohibits taking quail out of the State for Jahy 
purpose, only sportsmen who come here for the pleasure 
of shooting are likely to visit us, as they will nbf-i'be 
allowed to take any game out. ■ 
We have had teal duck here for a month, and a few 
mallard and black ducks have appeared in the marshes 
near Wilmington. Black ducks generally nest around 
Leipsic Marsh, but I have had no report from them this 
year. 
There was an unusually large number of railbirds on 
the Delaware River early in September, but I was out 
rail-shooting on Tuesday and found them far from 
J. D. Bush. -■ 
In Maine Woods. 
Bangor, Me., Oct. 6. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
The season for hunting big game in Maine has been 
open but four days and part of the fifth, and up to date 
there has been an alarming amount of accidental shoot- 
ings in consequence of the heedlessness of those shot, 
or the carelessness of some others who showed criminal 
negligence in the use of firearms. At this writing there 
have been reported six shooting accidents in the State, 
two of which have resulted fatally, one. other of which 
may result in loss of life, while yet another may have 
very serious results in the crippling of the victim. 
To be sure, not all of them, in fact, few of them, are 
of the mistaken-for-a-deer class of accidents, and , one 
occurred a week ago- to-day, on the last Friday in 
September, yet as all of them took place in the hunting 
regions, ami were intimately associated with hunting, 
they may properly be classed together. In at least two 
cases, the victims were mistaken by comrades for deer,, 
and contrary to the too-frequent fatality attending such 
mistakes, neither of these men was killed by the blunder, 
although one is in a critical condition. 
Ralph L. Todd, of Newport, while traveling over 
a tote road beyond Pemadumcook Lake with some com- 
panions, was fatally shot by the rifle of his friend, who 
stumbled in the rear of a tote team, and his rifle struck 
the wheel with such force as to- break the hammer, the 
ball entering the body of his camp mate walking just 
behind. The wounded man died the next night in the 
hospital in Bangor. 
John Glidden and his 16-year old son, while carrying 
two canoes across a carry near their, home in Burling- 
ton, rested their guns against a stump on the carry. 
While the two were returning across the carry to get a 
second load the boy passed too near the stump, the 
loaded rifle was knocked down or slipped, and in its 
fall was discharged, the bullet fatally wounding the 
young fellow in the head, so that he died the same night. 
Near Caribou two brothers were hunting, when Lee 
Smith mistook his brother for a deer and put a bullet 
through his shoulder. The injured man may recover, 
although his condition is reported as serious. 
Near Wytopitlock Lorenzo Weir was hunting, and 
the circumstances would seem very similar to those in 
the Todd accident, a comrade’s rifle, carried behind the 
victim, being accidentally discharged as they were travel- 
ing through the woods, the bullet passing through his hip. 
At Great Pond, one of the Belgrade lakes, Linnie N. 
Morrill, a well-known guide of that vicinity, after prac- 
ticing target shooting with his rifle, stood it against a 
tree. Later it slipped, or was jarred from its position, 
and the discharge drove the ball through the young 
man’s knee, and will make him lame for life, if no worse 
results occur. 
In Chapman plantation, two young fellows. George 
Grey and Joe Leavitt, were out together, and the rifle 
carried by one went off, the bullet passing through the 
fleshy part of the other’s thigh. He, fortunately, will 
recover without serious injury. 
Thus, in nearly every instance, there was a very evi- 
dent carelessness, without which no untoward incident 
would have marred the happy trips of ambitious hunters 
to the woods, or ended the lives of. useful members of 
Maine communities. While small, if. any, blame is to 
be attached to some of those who did the several shoot- 
ings above, yet it is a fact, that if loaded rifles are not 
placed where a slip or a kick or a jar will cause their 
discharge, no one can be hurt by them, and if the rule 
never to carry a weapon in front of, or behind, in the_ 
vicinity of any human being when it is loaded is made 
universal, there will be less loss of life in the Maine 
woods. No man is able to' know when he will stumble 
on a stone, or step into an unexpected hole, and if his 
gun or rifle has no ammunition in the. barrel, it cannot 
harm him or others. That “eternal vigilance is the 
price of safety” is as true of the woods of Maine, and 
e.‘^pecially between members of the same party while 
hunting, as it can be of the soldiery of armies drawn up 
in array against each other, where they know there are 
opponents just waiting to pick them off. In the one 
case one knows where the enemy is and may avoid him 
— in the other he is an unknown -and oft-unexpected 
quantity, and should be watched for with even greater 
care; while on the part of the man with the gun person- 
ally, he should see to it that his gun is always in a, safe 
condition, • that untoward circumstances may not cause 
its premature discharge, and death or misery to him- 
self or some comrade. 
Every train through this city brings sportsmen from 
the cities and towns west of Bangor, as well as non- 
resident hunters, who are bound for the many com- 
fortable log cabin resorts of the north, or will canoe 
and tent in the very haunts of the big deer and moose. 
Many will have their expected moose trophies all 
picked out before the 15th, and on that morning, if 
obedient to the law, will slip out at dawn to round him 
up and bring him down, if they can still locate the 
monarch. It is sincerely to be hoped that hunters will 
be sportsmen enough to permit to live and develop, the 
hundreds of big mOose with small, antlers now roaming 
the woods, and which if left to grow, will in a very few 
years furnish magnificent sport for the sportsmen who 
come after them. There are plenty of nice heads, even 
if there are but few of the best to be found by the 
hunter (for few reach the top notch of perfection, even 
among moose) in the Maine woods to-day, and a 
proper application of time and energy, in the right 
localities, is certain to result in a fine specimen. 
The bringing out of moose heads that are ugly, 
hideous and to say the least impetfect. with perhaps 
only one horn, and that none too. attractive, usually 
malformed and unsightly, should be discouraged by 
sportsmen and guides alike, and the man who will kill 
a giant of the forest, bea.ring a set rot -antlers, in which 
neither he nor any one else can take any . proper pride, 
ought not to have the chance to. say, a,s many of them 
. do: “Well, I wanted a moose bad, and to tell the 
truth, hated to- kill this fellow, but ’twas my last chance 
to kill a moose, and I just up and let him have it.” If 
the moose isn’t a desirable specimen, let him have another 
chance to grow good horns— he’s certainly worth some 
sportsmanlike sasrifice, or he isn’t worth the years of 
protection the. laws have accorded him. 
Herbert W. Rovv'e. 
Bears in Pennsylvania. 
Williamsport, Pa., Oct. 10 . — Editor Forest and 
Stream: And after all it was the much-maligned Penn- 
sylvania Legislature, boss-ridden and graft-tainted as 
alleged, that listened to his tale of woe and enacted a 
“closed season” for b’ar. At its recent session it was 
enacted, “It shall be unlawful to kill, take or capture 
any bear, of any description, save only from the' first 
day of October to the first day of March next follow- 
ing. Each and every person' who shall kill, take or 
capture any bear, contrary to the provisions of this act, 
shall be liable, on convictiori, . to a penalty of $50 for 
each bear or cub taken, killed or captured contrary to 
the provisions of this section,” So for six good round 
months Bruin may hike hither and yon unmolested in 
search of the succulent ant hill, huckleberry and. black- 
berry, picking up an occasional wo'olly lamb or squeal- 
ing shoat. To my benighted way of thinking, this is 
but giving “br’er bar” only the “square deal”; but there 
are, I am sorry to record it, small souls who call it a 
“whitewash.” However, it bears out t.he contention of 
those of us who have, been bear defenders, that Bruin’s 
intentions are good, even though his attentions be not 
so , desirable. Of,, course, my friend, the grazier who 
recently lost half a dozen lambs.- — there could be no 
mistaking the evidence as to the culprit — is not so 
enthusiastic over a closed season for bear. But right 
here the law steps in . and. says, “and. to kill a bear, of 
any description, when in the act of inflicting injury to 
either the person or property of any individual in this 
Commonwealth, or upon proof made by affidavit of one 
or more persons that the bear -in question has, in any 
manner injured or damaged the person or property of 
any individual in this State.” Therein lies the rub; 
catch him with the goods or answ^er to the game warden 
— it’s harder than to prove an alibi, don’t you see? 
But, howbeit, as yet there comes no report of a bear 
bagged in this neck o’ the woods, though the season 
opened Oct. i. Bruin seems a little shy over his newly 
acquired importance, and kept pretty much out of sight 
during the past summer, although “bear signs” are not 
unseen when traveling over his habitat. Bear traps, 
bear pens, etc., are now things of the past in Pennsyl- 
vania, and as the taking of a likely bear dog into the 
woods is pretty sure to involve one in the mazes of the 
deer law, and few they are. who go for bear alone, 
U . americanus seems destined to grow fat and sassy and 
multiply greatly. 
The new game laws are quite restrictive", in rnost 
cases shortening the open season and limiting the num- 
ber to be taken of a kind daily, or, during the season. 
Deer can only be taken from Nov..., 15 to Dec. i, and 
but a single one to the man, while the use of buckshot 
or of a gun emitting more than one pellet is for- 
bidden. Deer have certainly been on the increase for a 
number of years past, and the new law should be of 
considerable value in conserving the existing herds. 
Dogs pursuing deer are declared nuisances, per se, and 
may be killed by any one, while game wardens may 
kill dogs known to make a practice of deer chasing. 
Squirrels came in on the ist inst., and proved to be 
scarcer than for. several years past. Ruffed grouse, 
■ which will be seasonable on the. 15th inst., are to be 
seen in goodly numbers, in spite of the wet and cold 
spring and summer. Quail are practically extinct in 
Central Pennsylvania, owing to the great depth of the 
snow during, the past two winters. 
The late bass fishing has been good, although ir- 
regularly so, owing to the frequent small floods in the 
streams. William Walters Champion. 
North Dakota. Notes. 
Galesburg, N. D., Get. 5. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
Having seen nothing from North Dakota in your paper 
.lately, and remembering the Forest and Stream call, 
report your luck, I may say that the chicken shooting this 
year in this State has been poor. We had a very wet, late 
and cold spring, and many nests of eggs were chilled and 
^spoiled. I have been out several times and found the 
birds very much scattered and very , few young birds 
among them. The largest bag I have made in one day 
was twelve birds, and I am high gun in town at that. I 
hunted hard all day to get even so many, and I have a 
meat dog, tdo. But ducks, gentlemen, hush. I have been 
here over twenty years and I never before saw local 
ducks so, numerous. The reason is not far to seek, for 
every low place and marshy slough has been bank full all 
summer. They are not hunted till the season opens, the 
game law being quite well observed, consequently they 
have stopped here on their way north, and finding the 
conditions Jo their liking, have remained and bred in 
large numbers. I see many bunches on the wing every 
day. Not many have been shot, though, . for they are not 
very tame, and the sloughs are hard to bunt in. 
I noticed a few weeks ago a complaint from one of 
your corre-spondents in California about the damage done 
out there by the poisonous fumes of the ore smelters. I 
inclose a clipping taken from the Minneapolis Tribune of 
Oct. 5, showing how the farmers of Montana get square 
wuth the gentlemen of the poison gases. Let the Cali- 
fornia farmers go and do likewise, and good luck to them. 
I say hang a man who tramples on other people’s rights 
and defaces beautiful country at the same time, and hang 
him high enough so bis co-partners in such business will 
. be glad to quit and no longer poison the land with gas 
nor the waters wuth saw'dust and sludge. 
I also inclose a clipping from the Minneapolis, Minn., 
Tribune showing the kind of wolves they catch in that 
village. This wolf evidently belonged to- the genus “hobo,” 
not “lobo,” as some w'riters call him^ for be came into 
town in a box car in regular hobo fashion. 
Joseph P. Wh'ittemore. 
Butte, Mont, Oct. 5. — Three more big smoke suits, in 
which the damages aggregate $1,500,000, were filed by the 
Kirk & Clinton Company against the Anaconda Copper 
Company and the "Amshoe Copper Company. Ten smaller 
suits are now pending in the State and Federal courts 
and other suits are promised. The amount of damages 
already alleged aggregate more than $2,000,000. 
Suit for an injunction has already been begun,, and ?eeks 
to close th? srnejfe'ts, the large&f 'in th'e iyqr|d, ' 
