FOREST AND STREAM. 
The awful list of accidents of the first week seems to 
have had small influence upon others in a cautionary 
way, although to be perfectly honest, the accidents re- 
ported have been among those who are naturally unlikely 
to see the daily papers and other publications that are 
continually urging caution upon those who have the 
handling of firearms. So far as known nO' proceedings 
have been instituted against those who have apparently 
“carelessly or negligently shot at or wounded a human 
being,” although the chairman of the Fish and Game 
Commission, in an interview with a reporter in this city 
the present week, characterized the shootings as the re- 
sults of carelessness. 
Perhaps the warmest praise which the. lawmakers of 
this State have received in many years _ from , visiting 
sportsmen is being pronounced by the latter as they pass 
through this city on their way to the woods. One and 
all, so far as heard from — and your correspondent has 
talked with a goodly number — they declare their delight 
that the hunter is to be permitted to take home some 
partridges on his return, the new law permitting a total 
of ten of each variety of game bird to accompany the 
sportsman’s big game shipment. According to reports 
there is, this season, a positive abundance of the birds, 
which means that the sportsman who gets no big game 
may at least have something to show for his outing in 
the well stocked woods of Maine. Whether the grouse 
will stand the probable drain of ten to a person for ex- 
port or not remains to be proven. As a matter of justice 
tO' the non-resident, who is paying for what protection 
the game of all kinds gets, one cannot but hope the sup- 
ply shall pi-ove equal to the demand. 
Herbert W. Rowe. 
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Wbehalf of this vanishing migrant,- and while we canilot 
||hope to see a retn.rn of the good old shooting conditions 
||, we may nevertheless expect to see a day of better things 
II in the days to come. 
I® Advices from those who have been much afield are to 
I the effect that ruffed grouse are, if anything, more plenti- 
j ful than last season. And this statement applies to- south-, 
-j ern New York counties quite as accurately as to northern 
,1 Pennsylvania. Rabbits are everywhere abundant, and 
;• when the chill winds of November echo across the hills, 
y: bunny will be readv for the race of- his life.. M. Chill. 
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Sqofrrels in Maine Woods. 
Freedom, Me. — Chapter 397, of the private and special 
laws_ of Knox county. Me., provides that “Whoever, 
within the limits of Knox county, kills or has in his pos- 
session, except alive, -any gray, red squirrels or chip- 
munk, forfeits $.5 for each of said animals so- killed or 
had .in possession, to be recovered on complaint.” 
It is a pity there are not more such laws, and that 
where they arfc found they are not carried, out better. 
Hunters in general seem to think that when they fail to 
find larger game to occupy their attention there is no 
hurt in “practicing up” on the innocent little creatures 
skipping fearlessly about them. This practice may not 
be a crime, e.xcept where the law forbids it, and yet it 
is not right. Take these little animals out of the woods 
and how -the very hunter who is helping to- exterminate 
them would long for their signs of life. The desolate 
stillness of the forest would be oppressiv^e. W. R. S. 
Canadfan Camp. 
T. airiQOSJ! 
n Monday an Italian who was brought before Judge 
y at Abington for shooting robins on Sunday, al- 
!gh claiming that he was ignorant of the law, was 
I $20, the judge declaring that he had not only vio- 
1 the Sunday law but the alien license law as well, as 
ad not secured naturalization papers. 
, Henry, of Wayland, and B. Amireault, of Sudbury, 
; put into court at South Framingham for Sunday 
ting by Deputy J. L. Mills, of Ayer, tienry’s case 
placed on file while Amireault was fined $10. 
ammissioner Wentworth appeared before Judge 
es, at Plaiston, N. H., against A. G. Whittier, of 
qoUj N. H., who was arrested by Constable Tucker 
killing a deer. The judge imposed a fine of $100. 
ne of the prominent summer residents of Cohasset 
been summoned to appear in court to answer to the 
ge of using a power boat in pursuit of wildfowl. It 
eported that one day this week he shot sixty-seven 
. Another gunner, a well known resident of Scituate, 
larged with the same offense. 
is reported that foxes are more numerous than they 
1 been for years in many outlying towns in Norfolk 
Plymouth counties, and are becoming very bold and 
ing havoc with henneries as well as birds, 
eer hunting in Maine is in full blast, and Wednesday 
the record day of the present season in receipts at 
gor, the footing being forty-six for the day. 
mong those brin.gin.g out deer were Messrs. F. E. and 
)y Kelly, T. H. Bride, J. E. Parmenter, A. D. Rogers, 
D. Sullivan, W. B. Sawyer and E. F. Taft, of Boston; 
Hi.^cox, of Worcester, and F. M. Arnold, of Haver- 
besides Maine hunters from Rockland, Hartland, 
ibou, Houlton, Bangor and several other cities and 
ns of the Pine Tree State. 
is reported very dry in the woods. There has been a 
h exodus this week from Boston, hunters going in to 
prepared for the moose hunting, which will be legal 
Dct. 15. H. H. Kimball. 
the Maine Game Country. 
ANGOR,'Me., Oct. 1,3 . — Editor Forest and Stream: The 
game season, thus far, has scarcely been up to the 
>rd of the corresponding fortnight of 1904. Yet the 
iitions have been exceedingly difficult for good sport, 
ng to the lateness of the falling of the leaves, which 
n to have held on remarkably well, and to the great 
less of those which have already fallen. As one guide 
ressed it to “the writer, the “only way to hunt now is 
irush off a likely place large enough to- permit one to 
'e a little without noise, sit down there and spend the 
, or until such time as a deer comes to you. Still- 
ting in any other way is absolutely out of the ques- 
.” That his judgment was sound is proved by the 
t run of game through this city for the two weeks of 
open season. 
et there is an abundance of game, large and small, 
lughout the hunting regions, according to those who 
e come down thus far. In but a single instance has 
. writer seen anyone disappointed with the supply of. 
le, and they could find neither deer nor grouse in the 
;ion they hunted, although a hunter who came from al- 
3t identically the same region twenty- four hours ahead 
them, reported an 'abundance of all kinds of game 
re. 
Fore gunning, which was rather poor the earlier part 
fie inonth, appears to be picking up, and large bags are 
ig secured by gunners in the favorite places for the 
rt. In Merr3'-meeting Bay and along the coast adjacent 
that popular gunning region, the fowl are reported 
idedly numerous, and the sport will be at its height 
remaining two weeks of the month. The birds are 
orted large and fat. 
Game in Pennsylvania. 
Sayre, Pa., Oct. 6. — Across the low lands and up the 
face of the hill country the illuminating touch of a great 
artist is discernible. Early October has. never displayed 
prettier colors in nature’s show window than now. The 
soft, warrn -tints of yellow, orange and vermilion lend a 
gentle variety to the landscape to be observed at no other 
season of the year. And over all the charm of the mel- 
low, restful autumn days broods above the land, making- 
life out of doors something good to be lived for. 
The squirrel season opened Oct. i, which fell on Sun- 
day. Monday morning a small army of gunners was 
earl}^ astir, but so far as learned, the wily grays were 
found to- be scarce. And reports later received serve to 
confirm the first day’s verdict, namely, that the crop of 
gray squirrels is limited, so far as this section of country 
is concerned. Across the line, in New York, where the 
season opened a_ fortnight in advance of the Pennsyl- 
vania season, squirrels are found quite plentiful in some 
sections and exceedingly scarce in other sections. The 
Pennsylvania law provides that no- gunner shall shoot 
more than six squirrels per day, which is expected to 
materially safeguard the supply for future seasons. The 
woodcock season opened Oct. i, and while the birds are 
far less numerous than they were a few years ago, reports 
nevertheless come to hand that a good many fine, strong- 
birds may be picked up in the swamps and bog lands 
hereabouts. The elimination of the July shooting clause 
from the lav/ covering woodcock is sure to benefit the 
race of longbills. 
It is almost impossible to locate a really extended 
woodcock cover in this part of Pennsylvania, the shooting- 
territory being confined to stray bits of wet land out of 
which the birds arise singly, and rarely ever as in the old 
days. The law provides that one may kill only ten wood- 
cock in a day, twenty in a week and fifty in a season. 
This provision, in connection with the limitation of the 
season in which the birds may be shot, and a closed mar- 
ket against the sale of the game, will work beneficially in 
Harry V. Radeord, Secretary of the Canadian Camp, 
announces that the. third semi-annual dinner of that 
organization will be given at the Hotel Astor, New 
York, on the evening of Tuesdaj'-, Nov. 14. The Rev. 
Dr. Wilton Merle Smith will be the toastmaster, and, 
as usual, the speakers will include a number of very 
distinguished sportsmen. 
The present officers of the camp are; President, G. 
.Lenox Curtis, M.D., New York; First Vice-President, 
Ernest Thompson :Seton, New York; Second Vice- 
President. Henry Yan Dyke, D.D., Princeton, N. J.; 
'Third Vice-President, Hon. Grover Cleveland, Prince- 
ton, N. J.; Secretary, Harry V. Radford, New York; 
Assistant Secretary,- C. C. Chatfield, New York. 
Penrsylvania Quail. 
Philadelphia, Pa . — Editor forest mid Stream: Last 
spring it was the feeling of sportsmen in this vicinity that 
the hard winter of 1904-5 had about used up- the quail in 
this part of the country, but a walk among the farms 
about thirty-five miles north of here discloses a different 
condition. In two farms, aggregating 400 acres, I found 
three coveys of strong, full-grown birds containing twelve 
birds, fifteen birds and seventeen birds respectively, and 
I was advised of two more coveys within a mile, one of 
which contained twenty'-one birds. 
If this condition exists generally throughout eastern 
Pennsylvai-iia we should have some good shooting in 
November. Tohickon. 
There is on'y One Brief/' 
There is only one complete, up-to-date, accurate, reliable, 
recognized authority on the Game and Fish La-ws of this country 
(-which includes Canada), and that is the Game Laws in Brief. It 
is sold by sporting goods dealers everywhere, and is mailed by 
Forest and Stream Pnbli.shing Co. for 25 cents. 
THE F> MOU^ MAWY-USE OIL 
Polishes the stock, cleans foulness from -gun barrels. — Adv. 
Fish and Fishing. 
I The Late Autumn Trout Fishing. 
|-\fter a long spell of very bad weather, which made 
anything but pleasant for anglers in the northern 
)ods, the three last days of September brought an 
ireeable change of temperature, and a consequent 
sh to the accessible trout waters, of those end-of-the- 
ason fishermen who had been kept at home by the 
'in and mist and sleet of the previous week or ten 
y^s. The extent of the change in temperature may 
judged of from the fact that on the 27th of Sep- 
mber, some of the Quebec anglers, with whom I 
mped and fished in the Lake St. John country, for- 
irded by express to their friends in town, a box con- 
ining freshly caught trout, packed entirely in snow, 
hile on the afternoon of the 30th we had the windows 
the car open when traveling back to Quebec, in older 
■ let in the fresh balmy air. Fully two inches of snow 
II ninety miles north of Quebec, on the early morning 
; Sept. 27, and during the two following nights there 
ere quite sharp frosts. These were suc.ceeded-. by 
Hght sunny days, and though there was not suff^ient 
pple on the water to make the fly-fishing what it aught- 
- have been, yet the trout rose very well, off and' on, 
om early morning to late at night. 
The Iroquois C ub Limits. 
Though I have passed by the waters of the Iroquois 
sh and game club scores of times, I never fished any 
i them until last month, having generally gone fultfier 
n to Lafie St. John or to some of the many othej: 
ub limits of the district. The gport to. b'e -had o^ .the 
'•oquois reserve- is equal to that offe're’d by any other 
club in the district. The club limits border upon those 
of both the Triton and the Stadacona clubs. The waters 
are close to the railway track, and all trains stop for 
the accommodation of members and their friends, when- 
ever signalled so to do. The portages are short, and 
the lakes not as large as ' some of those leased by 
• other clubs, which I consider rather an advantage, be- 
cause it is not so difificult to locate the feeding places 
of the fish. Most of the lakes are surroun-ded and 
hemmed in by beautifully wooded mountains, and while 
there is quite a luxurious club house at the railway sta- 
tion, a number of comfortable camps have been con- 
structed on the shores of the principal lakes. 
There is river as well as lake fishing on the Iroquois 
reserve. The sport is excellent, both in the discharge 
of Lake Gowen and also in the Batiscan River, which 
bounds the territory of the club toward the east. The 
outlet of Lake Gowen is an exceedingly pretty stream, 
which it is quite a treat to wade and fish. Trout are 
abundant in all the rapids, and they also rose very freely 
in the end of September, in shallow-portions of the lake 
toward the outlet. 
-i A portage of a little more- than'-' a fiiile brings one 
. from Lake Gowen to Rickaby rapids on the' Batiscan 
-River, near which Mr. Nathan Bill-,; of_ Springfield, has 
built himself a splendid camp, in which; he spends a 
good part of the summer with his family. These rapids 
are too heavy to be waded, but splendid sport is al- 
most always to be had in them h}/; fishermen who are 
content to cast over a portion of, the riyer among the 
rocks from the shore. Most of the members of our 
party hooked and -killed two trout' at a tirne upon more 
than one occa.sion. The ; roar -.oF-jthe rapids and the 
entrancing beauty of the view' addj .very m-uch to the 
enjoyment, of tiie sport. ^On the .ogpasion our recent 
visit, several partridges Heyi' -and us while 
we fished, and the fresh tracks of large moose were 
seen on all the portages. 
Found in a Trout's Stomach. 
In the camp at Lake Gowen I was shown a Jarge 
cod hook, which was found only a winter or two ago 
in the stomach of a brook trout taken out of the lake. 
It was recovered during the winter season. Some of. 
the members of the club were caribou hunting in 
January. Being short of fresh food, they cut a hole in 
the icy covering of; Lake Gowen and set a. night line. 
In the morning it was found that the hook had dis- 
appeared. The same thing occurred during the follow- 
ing night. x\ big fish had undoubtedly carried off both 
bait and hook. For the next night a cod hook fastened 
upon a wire was baited and placed at the end of the 
line. Next morning this hook had similarly disap- 
peared. A few nights later, another hole was cut in- 
the ice, quite a long distance from the other, and 
nearer to the center of the lake, upon which a similar 
hook was used. In the m.orning a 7l4-pound trout was 
taken upon the line. The guide, who was cle-a-ning the 
fish for breakfast, suddenly gave a cry of pain. He had 
run into his hand the large cod hook in the belly of 
the fish, which he had hitherto unnoticed, co'ntealed- 
as it was in the cavity containing the intestines. It was 
a similar hook to that upon which the fish had been 
caught, and wa-s undoubtedly that which had been lost 
a few nights previously. We did not. catch any fish 
even nearly as large as that above referred to, but some 
of our party, including both Mr., John S. Thom, and 
Mr. Chas. Shaw, of Quebec, took them over three 
pounds each in weight. It i$ really, wonderful how the 
big fish lived and' .attempted to Teed with so .enormous 
a book in his inside. The stomach's ‘'of- |Qtn'e trOUt 
