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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Nov. 3, 1906. 
son the deer are mostly in the swamps. 1 he 
other is that the anti-hounding law is being en¬ 
forced as never before, and the popular sentiment 
is surely gaining in its support. 
All this is very hopeful for the deer 'supply and 
for the future success of law abiding sportsmen. 
J. F. Smith. 
Wisconsin Deer Hounding. 
Buffalo, N. Y., Oct. 23 .- — Editor Forest and 
Stream: I have just returned from a fishing 
trip on some of the small lakes near Townsend, 
Wis. We were after bass and they were not 
biting very well, so our party were offered the 
opportunity of catching trout or hounding deer. 
While we were there the hounds could be heard 
in different directions, on the trail of deer, and 
we were told that they were getting them every 
day, although it was closed time and hounding 
against the law. There was no effort of conceal¬ 
ment on their part, although we were strangers 
to them, and refused to break either the game 
or fish laws. The candor with which we were 
told of deer being shipped out in hollow logs, 
and trout shipped in sealed jars, was surprising. 
The settlers told us that residents were not 
molested, and that they had venison to eat at 
all times. One man in Townsend, however, who 
had been killing deer for their hides, during the 
past summer, was arrested and fined. The war¬ 
den did a good piece of work by putting up at 
the man’s house, and catching him with the goods 
on. The people around that locality catch trout 
off the spawning beds, and told us so._ 
There are undoubtedly untold difficulties in en¬ 
forcing the laws in these backwoods places, as 
none of the natives would give any assistance, 
and a warden would have pretty hard picking, 
unless he knew the country and had plenty of 
courage. 
While there is a disposition to overlook viola¬ 
tions among the old settlers of the out of the 
way places, there should not be when they are 
all ready with the suggestions to visiting sports¬ 
men of ways and means to hunt and fish illegally. 
We all know that work which counts is being 
done in different localities for game protection, 
but it is a shame that better work cannot be done 
where game is still plentiful — in the backwoods. 
Dixmont. 
An Invitation from Virginia. 
Clarksville, Va., Oct. 15 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: There is the largest crop of partridges 
and quail here and adjacent to the town of 
Clarksville that we have had for many years. 
There is plenty of game of all kinds along the 
Staunton, Dan and Roanoke rivers, and the sea¬ 
son for all varieties of game will open Nov. 1. 
We have mild winters and the shooting is good. 
It is not an unusual thing for a good hunter to 
bag thirty partridges or quail in a day. Besides 
others mentioned we also have some wild turkeys 
and deer, foxes, oppossums, raccoons, muskrats, 
otter, beaver, mink, ducks and geese. As I am a 
hunter myself, I am glad to have other sports¬ 
men enjoy the sport, and invite all those who 
want to hunt the game mentioned above, to come 
to Clarksville. L. H. Yancey, 
Game Warden. 
Buffalo Bill’s Party Snowbound. 
When William F. Cody came home from his 
European tour recently, he was accompanied by 
several prominent Europeans who had accepted 
his invitation to visit him at his home in Wyo¬ 
ming. Arrived here, several other sportsmen 
joined the party, and on Oct. 14 all left the Cody 
ranch on their way into the Big Horn moun¬ 
tains where they were to hunt bears. Since then 
no word had been received from them by the 
colonel’s people at Cody, and there is anxiety 
over their safety because of the blizzard that 
passed over the Big Horn mountains on Oct. 17. 
This was one of the most severe storms ex¬ 
perienced in a long time, and fears are enter¬ 
tained that the Cody party may have been un¬ 
prepared for it or that its members were away 
from camp when it came on. It is probable, how¬ 
ever, that the colonel’s party is merely snowed 
in, and waiting until it is safe to return home. 
County Wardens’ Meeting in Washington. 
The County Game Wardens’ Association, of 
the state of Washington, will hold a meeting at 
North Yakima, Nov. 20, when the various ques¬ 
tions that have been coming up in reference to 
the game and fish laws, will be discussed and 
remedial measures provided for. It is evident 
there is dissatisfaction over some of the fishing 
laws, and the opponents of deer hounding are 
urging the total prohibition of the practice 
throughout the state instead of in a few of the 
counties, they claiming that if still-hunting alone 
is allowed the deer will increase rapidly, but un¬ 
less a law of this sort is passed and enforced the 
deer in the state will soon be few in number. 
Another matter to be brought up relates to mag¬ 
pies, which are believed to be responsible for the 
failures to propagate quail in the eastern part 
of Washington, and it is proposed tO' ask the 
legislature to place a bounty of five cents or more 
on magpies’ scalps in the hope that they can be 
exterminated. It is charged that those birds, 
notorious thieves, as everyone knows whose camp 
has been invaded by a number of them, eat the 
eggs and young of the game birds. They are 
common in the Rocky mountains, where they are 
frequently seen in small flocks. 
Wholesale Poaching in Scotland. 
In advocating the prohibition of the sale of 
game in Great Britain a Scotch sportsman has 
sent the Field a statement showing how two men 
successfully evaded the game keepers on an 
estate near Glasgow all summer, killing during 
that time over 1,600 rabbits, which they sold in 
the markets, earning about $3.25 per night each. 
The British laws are very strict as to- poachers, 
but permit the sale of game. In this case the 
men were sentenced to two months at hard labor. 
Curiously enough one of the men had in his pos¬ 
session a diary in which the number of rabbits 
caught each night was religiously set down, and 
this was used to convict the men. They began 
on June 27, when they killed 45 rabbits, and out 
of the 71 nights ending with their arrest on 
Sept. 5. they poached during 47 nights, their 
largest bags, consisting of 83 rabbits on Sept. 1, 
and 80 three nights later. 
Italians Fined in Massachusetts. 
Three game wardens recently caught four 
Italians hunting in the woods near Westfield, 
Mass., and not only confiscated their “game,” 
but the court fined them $70 in all for violating 
the game laws. They had killed a crow, a num¬ 
ber of chipmunks and red squirrels, rabbits, 
grouse, yellow-hammers, bluejays, woodcock and 
song birds. All but one of the men claimed they 
lived in New York city. As usual in cases of this 
sort, they paid their fines from fat rolls of green¬ 
backs. 
Venison in August? 
In St. Joseph’s Hospital, in Yonkers, N. Y., a 
Tarry town woman is being treated by the skin- 
grafting process for severe burns received while 
she u'as in camp with her husband in the Thou¬ 
sand Islands three months ago. While cooking 
venison over an alcohol stove, it is said, she 
upset the sfove and was so badly burned that 
only by obtaining large quantities of skin from 
other persons can the surgeon effect a cure. How 
venison got into camp three months ago, or in 
August, does not appear. 
Carter Harrison Hurt. 
A press dispatch from Montreal says that 
Carter H. Harrison, ex-mayor of Chicago, was 
hurt while on a moose hunting trip in Canada in 
company, with J. W. Winter, W. H. Haskell, 
Demile Demmee and E. B. Tolman, all of Chi¬ 
cago. Mr. Harrison fell while crossing a portage 
and sprained his back. Fearing that he might 
have been hurt internally, he was taken front 
Ridout to Toronto and thence to his home in 
Chicago. 
African Game Reserve Troubles. 
One difficulty that has been encountered in 
maintaining the Elephant Marsh game reserve, in 
the British Central African Protectorate, is found 
in the fact that while large and small game has 
increased at a satisfactory rate, lions and other 
predatory beasts have been attracted to the region, 
where they have learned that wild food is abund¬ 
ant, and an increase in the number of natives 
killed by lions in the vicinity of the reserve is 
being used by the opponents of the reserve idea 
to show that the latter is a menace to the native 
population of the region in which this open marsh 
lies. 
The Elephant Marsh in the Chiromo district 
was made a game sanctuary primarily because it 
was the natural home of one of the few remain¬ 
ing herds of buffaloes, and of countless other 
varieties of deer, antelope, etc., as well, and it 
is stated that, should an attempt be made to 
drive the game away from the marsh, it must 
fail, although it cannot be denied that in time 
the large increase of game within the reserve 
will be directly traceable to the fact that it is 
not disturbed while there and will remain. 
Where the animals it is desired to protect are 
found, there will lions be found also in increasing 
numbers, and this is disturbing the local govern¬ 
ment officials, for the Chiromo district is an im¬ 
portant one in a commercial sense, and the record 
for the first six months of the present year—100 
deaths caused by lions—is discouraging to the 
promoters of business enterprises in the district, 
they claiming it is difficult to employ natives, or 
to retain their services if they are employed. 
Protective Organizations. 
The Bungalow Hunting and Fishing Club has 
been incorporated in Shreveport, La. Its objects 
are “to promote skill, health and pleasure and 
social intercourse among its members by their 
competition, and indulging in fishing, hunting, 
rowing, gun practice and other kindred legitimate 
social exercises, and to lend its aid and influence 
toward securing the enactment of suitable laws 
for the protection of game and fish, and the en¬ 
forcement of such laws as now or which may 
hereafter exist, for that purpose.” 
The organization of the Dallas County Game 
Protective Association had not quite been per¬ 
fected at the initial meeting, held recently in 
Selma, Ala., when a proposition to offer $25 re¬ 
ward for proof of each violation of the game 
laws was adopted. 
The Harrison County Game Protective Asso¬ 
ciation has been organized in Marshall, Texas, 
and these officers elected: President, John H. 
Pope; vice-president, L. H. Spellings; secretary, 
H. W. McGee; treasurer, W. C. Pierce, Jr. 
Game wardens are to be employed to look after 
the sportsmen’s interests. 
Pennsylvania Grouse and Turkeys. 
Centre county, Penns3dvania, is evidently well- 
named, as it seems to be a center for the turkey 
shooters. Muncy mountain and the rugged hills 
around it are reported to be the most favorable 
places in which to find the big birds, and Union- 
ville, Pine Grove Mills, Boalsburg and other 
villages equally favored as starting points. Tur¬ 
keys are abundant and have been seeen in flocks 
of goodly size since the season opened. Grouse 
are equally plentiful, but complaints of the diffi¬ 
culty experienced in shooting them were frequent 
up to the last of October, the leaves still being 
too thick then for accurate shooting. 
Another Warden Shot. 
Last Monday Deputy Game Warden Stokes, 
of Paterson, N. J., found an Italian shooting 
small birds on the grounds of the Mount Pleas¬ 
ant Gun Club, and attempted to arrest him. 
After a struggle the Italian broke away and fired 
at Mr. Stokes, the bullet entering the forehead 
and making an ugly but not a dangerous wound. 
