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MR. E. M. WIXON’S DEER HEAD. 
Winning first prize in the Forest and Stream competition. 
Washington Shooting Prospects. 
Spokane, Wash., Aug. 20.—Prairie chickens, 
pheasants and grouse are plentiful in northwest¬ 
ern Washington, where the season opened Aug. 
15, but until the grain is cut there will be little 
or no good shooting in the vicinity of Spokane. 
That is the view of Al. Wiesemann and scores 
of sportsmen in Spokane, who have looked over 
the ground during the last few days. 
Quail and Chinese pheasants were also seen 
in large numbers, but the shooting of these game 
birds is prohibited, the laws of Washington pro¬ 
tecting them until the season of 1908. 
Some good bags have been secured by hunters 
north and west of Spokane, the big ones going 
to Al Wiesemann, John Clark and Andrew John¬ 
son, who bagged fourteen birds the day the sea¬ 
son opened in the vicinity of Reardon near Deep 
Creek, while parties headed by John Condron, 
S. Wittenberg, C. C. Yancey, A. F. Gill, D. D. 
McPhee, C. C. McKay and “Deep Creek’’ Jones, 
made good showings near Medical Lake. Saltese 
Lake, Sprague Lake and Newman Lake. 
“In about two weeks, when the grain is cut 
in the Spokane valley,” said Mr. Wiesemann, 
“there will be all kinds of good sport in this part 
of the country, and I believe, judging from the 
sale of shells at one store alone, where 350,000 
have already been disposed of, every man who 
owns a gun and a dog and is not laid up with 
rheumatism, will be out after chicken and grouse 
in September.” 
Hunters in Clark county are in favor of a 
later season, and it is likely that lovers of the 
gun will join them in urging the coming Legis¬ 
lature of Washington to make the closed season 
for upland birds from Dec. 1 to Sept. 1, and limit 
nimrods to ten birds a day. It is also proposed 
to prohibit deer hunting with dogs between 
Dec. 15 and Sept. 15 following. They also desire 
that a bounty of $20 be placed on cougar or 
mountain lions, and $5 be paid for the killing of 
wildcats and lynx. Five cents bounty is asked 
on crows and one cent for bluejays. The killing 
of wild ducks is to be restricted to forty a week, 
and it is proposed to limit the number of brook 
or mountain trout to seventy-five a day, with 
stricter regulations governing the sale of fish. 
More than 500 hunters’ licenses have already 
been issued by Robert A. Koontz, Clerk of 
Spokane county, and it is expected there will be 
several hundred others before the season is well 
under way. 
*‘A Scarlet Chapter.” 
From Iron Ore, Ishpenning, Mich., Aug. 25 . 
The first tragedy of the deer hunting of 1906 
is indeed a scarlet chapter. A cowardly run 
from a dying victim forms part of the story. 
That Guy Harlowe, who was shot by a careless 
hunter on Warner’s creek, nine miles north of 
Lathrop, on Sunday, was drowned and might not 
have died from the bullet wound which he sus¬ 
tained, is shown by complete reports of the 
tragedy which were received in the city last 
night. 
The man who fired the shot was Ed Shipley, 
a homesteader, and he has given himself up to 
the Alger county officials and is now being held 
in the jail at Munising. Shipley was accom¬ 
panied, when the young fisherman was shot, by 
his brother-in-law. Charles Rabideau, of Rapid 
River, and who fled with Shipley nearly two 
miles down the creek where they met a party 
of fishermen. The men told the fishermen that 
they believed that Shipley had killed a man, and 
accompanied by the party they returned to the 
spot where Harlowe had been seen to fall. 
The body was discovered at once and was 
pulled to the shore, where it was allowed to re¬ 
main lying directly under the hot rays of the 
sun until Shipley and his companions had gone 
to Lathrop for help. The members of the party 
from Lathrop did not arrive at the scene of the 
shooting until early in the evening, and the en¬ 
tire night was consumed by the party in making 
their way with the body through the tangle of 
underbrush back to Lathrop, where they arrived 
early yesterday morning. 
According to the story told by Shipley, he with 
Rabideau had been going through the brush hunt¬ 
ing for deer and struck the creek near a bend, 
where they expected deer would be attracted to 
drink. They had been at the spot for but a few 
minutes when immediately around a bend in the 
creek less than forty feet away, they heard a 
splash in the water which was followed by a 
movement behind the bushes. Thinking that it 
was a deer Shipley raised his rifle and fired. The 
young fisherman, who was standing in the water 
at the edge of the stream, and with the upper 
portion of his body secreted from view by a 
tangle of underbrush, fell forward into the water. 
It is claimed by one of the men that he called 
once for help and then sank in the shallow water. 
Neither Shipley nor Rabideau attempted to go 
to his assistance but, becoming excited, ran in 
the opposite direction, as it was realized by them 
that a man and not a deer had been shot. They 
continued to run along the bank of the creek for 
nearly two miles, until they encountered another 
party of fishermen, and to them related the story 
of the accident. 
Pump Guns and Other Kinds. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
As discussion has been invited as to why peo¬ 
ple will insist on using what some choose to 
call “pump guns,’’ 1 wish to have my brief say 
why I do so. In the beginning of my shooting 
days, when I was a twelve-year-old boy, I used 
a sinele-barreled gun. It was so big and heavy, 
and I was so small that I had to lean it through 
the forks of a sapling, or over a rail fence, to 
shoot at birds. During the late unpleasantness 
down south, when I was a young man, I used 
a single-barreled gun, but for thirty years after¬ 
ward I didn’t do much shooting. When I tried 
to begin shooting again, I took up with the 
double-barreled idea, but found I could not use 
that kind of a gun effectively. I had never been 
accustomed to it. Hence I got a repeating gun 
which is the same to me as a single barrel. I 
did not want to use a single-shot gun. 
As it is very rare that a man can get more 
than two shots at fleeing game, I do not see 
the sense in the cry that the scarcity of game is 
due to the man with a pump gun filling the air 
with lead between him and a whirling bevy of 
quail, or a rabbit doing his best to get away, 
or a flock of ducks cleaving the atmosphere eighty 
miles an hour. They all get beyond the range 
of a second shot. Besides, one shot in the barrel 
and six in the magazine, make the gun too 
heavy to carry all day. 
I have attended target shoots where men ac¬ 
customed to a repeating gun tried the double 
barrel, and could not hit more than half; but 
when handed a repeater, smashed every target. 
It is just simply that a man can do best with the 
kind of a gun he has been accustomed to. If 
a man wants to use a double barrel, it is all 
right for him; but do not find fault with the 
man who uses a single barrel with a magazine 
under it, into which he can shove two shells, 
which are as many as he will need to at any 
time. I am sixty-seven years old, and still as 
fond of a gun as any expert youngster who 
carries a double barrel. Am too old to change 
my habits, as you know, “You can’t teach an old 
dog new tricks.” R. L. Blair. 
Des Moines, la. 
ROUGHING IT 
soon grows tiresome unless the food is good. Good milk 
is one item indispensable to a cheerful camp, and 
Borden’s solves the problem. Eagle Brand Condensed 
Milk and Peerless Evaporated Cream keep indefinitely, 
anywhere, and fill every milk requirement. Beware of 
cheap imitations.— Adv. 
