All the game laws of the United States and 
Canada, revised to date and now in force, are 
given in the Game Laws in Brief. See adv. 
Canadian Game Notes. 
Mr. C. G. Cowan, of St. Augustine’s, Lon- 
dondery, Ireland, has returned to Montreal and 
is on his way home. Mr. Cowan states that he 
has killed a new kind of sheep on the Skeena 
river, which might be called Ovis cowani, but 
which he modestly suggests should be named 
Ovis lairdensis ■—after the Laird river slope, 
where it was killed. Mr. Cowan has been shoot¬ 
ing in Alaska and British Columbia for a num¬ 
ber of years and has a magnificent collection of 
trophies. Warburton Pike is one of the first 
among outside men who have killed the mis¬ 
called Ovis stonei, and says that many of the 
local sportsmen and hunters have killed Ovis 
lairdensis and Ovis stonei for a number of years. 
Mr. Cowan had an outfit of many guides. He 
had rather an exciting time at the start. One 
of his guides, who was a good-for-nothing man, 
got into a row with some Indians, in which he 
was the aggressor. Indians generally are reli¬ 
able and well-behaved. In the revenge that 
ensued after the fight Mr. Cowan’s head guide, 
a very good fellow, was killed, as well as the 
aggressor. The Indian who did the killing es¬ 
caped. He killed four of his own horses at the 
door of his camp in case they should be used to 
follow him. Mr. Cowan engaged men of the 
same band of Indians as guides and found them 
to be very good, reliable men. It is the old 
story of the white man wishing to impose upon 
the Indian. 
Mr. Cowan’s sheep is all black, except a little 
white on each side of the tail. It is rather a 
larger animal than the Ovis montana, he thinks. 
He had the carcass of the sheep, with the hide 
on, dried and sent to Mr. Walter Rothschild’s 
famous museum in Europe. 
There are parties going out from almost every 
station on the main line of the Canadian Pacific 
Railway. The tourist department scatters them 
so thoroughly that as yet there has never been 
one fatality in the district. There is room to 
shoot, so that there is no danger of hitting a 
man instead of a moose or deer. 
Cartier, Ont.. is a division point on the Can¬ 
adian Pacific Railway, north of Lake Huron. 
Last week No. i Express struck a moose. The 
moose, bravest of all animals, charged the train, 
the result being a broken back, two broken hind 
legs and a carcass not very much hurt. The 
carcass was taken to Cartier, skinned and the 
meat divided among several citizens. Game 
Warden Burgess and a hunter named Williams 
interviewed Police Magistrate Brodie to have 
several persons summoned for having moose 
meat in their possession illegally. The magis¬ 
trate refused the case. 
A Canadian guide of wide experience writes 
the following: “The hunting around Chapleau, 
Ont., is not very good. Almost any place be¬ 
tween Cartier and Bisco is good for moose. 
Good deer hunting can be had also. Metagama 
and Eureka stations are the best for moose. 
Forks, Pogamasing and Stralak are very good 
for deer.” All these are on the north shore of 
Lake Superior. 
Wolves are doing great mischief in northern 
Quebec. Deer have almost disappeared in some 
places. Yesterday I met a man who had been 
out eight days—an old hunter—who had gone 
on his annual trip, and to his amazement he 
did not see a single deer. He attributes this to 
wolves. He says the scarcity of partridges is 
marked; partly owing to wolves and partly to 
a bad season. 
The trout fishing has been particularly good 
in the lakes just north of Montreal. The 
French-Canadian population has become edu¬ 
cated to the necessity of protecting brook trout. 
This is very gratifying to one who has been 
working for a good many years to bring about 
this result. Attainment is gradually ap¬ 
proaching. 
The agent at Wanapetie station, Ont., on the 
Canadian Pacific Railway, reports moose plenty, 
and guides ready to take parties up Wanapetie 
river and down the Sturgeon. The season 
opened on Oct. 16, and ends on Nov. 15. Very 
good reports are coming in from New Bruns¬ 
wick and Nova Scotia. Mr. W. S. Tory, of 
Bigby, came out of the woods with antlers 
measuring over 60 inches. It is a little early 
yet for caribou. L. O. Armstrong. 
Slate of Washington Game Notes. 
Fifteen hundred rabbits were killed during the 
one day drive on Blalock Island on the Columbia 
river, south of Spokane, by sportsmen from var¬ 
ious parts of Washington, Oregon and Idaho, at 
the water’s edge, where they were knocked over 
by the hunters armed with shotguns. Dr. N. G. 
Blalock, owner of the island, was the host, meet¬ 
ing his guests at Coyote, Ore., taking them to 
the island in his steam yacht. Mounted drivers 
were provided for the hunters, who had a day 
of real sport. The hunters were joined by the 
farmers and Indians of the Umatilla tribe, the 
last named taking with them hundreds of rabbits 
in wagons and canoes. Blalock Island is a large 
one and a number of farmers live on it. Rabbits 
have found an ideal home there and overrun the 
fields, doing a great deal of damage. Once a 
year the residents of the island find it necessary 
to hunt down the destructive animals, and on 
these occasions the rabbits are slaughtered by 
hundreds. 
Deputy Game Warden McHarbaugh has re¬ 
turned from Orofino, Ida., east of Spokane, where 
he stocked a fifteen acre lake belonging to Dow 
Snyder with 15,000 black bass taken from the 
slough near the Lewiston waterworks. Snyder 
is one of several farmers in that section who are 
building up fish preserves. There are a number 
of lakes, which farmers are stocking with fish 
and guarding so that in a couple of years they 
may derive revenue by issuing permits. 
Wild geese by the thousands are on the islands 
at Plover, south of Spokane, but hunters have 
been openly violating the law, not only in broad 
daylight, but at night as well, by hunting on the 
islands, and as a consequence great flocks of 
the fowl have already flown to other places where 
they will be safe from hunters. 
August Wolf. 
Game Bird Propagation in Illinois. 
Springfield, Ill., Oct. 31.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: We purchased over 16,000 quail in the 
southern States during the winter of 1905 and 
spring of 1906 for propagating purposes. Owing 
to a mild winter and a very favorable hatching 
season, I am getting extremely good reports 
from every county in the State where these birds 
were planted, our wardens reporting that there 
are more quail in Illinois at present than there 
has been in the past twenty years. 
A great many sportsmen in the State found 
fault with the department for bringing southern 
quail in this climate. The department contended, 
and still contends, that if these birds can be 
planted so that they can secure proper protection 
and food, they will stand the weather many de¬ 
grees below zero. 
On our State game farm I had a number of 
birds in a large house with southern exposure, 
the entire front of the house being of glass. 
These birds did not do extra well penned up 
in this house. I took fifty pair of the birds and 
threw them out in the coldest weather we had 
in an open pen with only a shelter built of corn 
stalks. The birds were fed once a day during 
January, February and March and not one of 
these birds perished from cold, while of the 
birds cooped up in the house we lost quite a few. 
The department is importing this season 1,000 
pairs of Hungarian partridges to distribute 
throughout the State. We have also just begun 
to distribute our English ring-necked and Chinese 
pheasants. Will probably send out about 5,000 to 
the various counties. One thousand pheasant 
hens will be kept on the game farm next sea¬ 
son. From this number of hens we expect to 
hatch and rear in the neighborhood of 15,000 
young pheasants. We have had exceptionally 
good results with our English pheasants, they 
being comparatively free from disease. The worst 
enemy of these birds that we have on the farm 
is the house cat. These animals sneak in the 
enclosure in spite of all the precautions we can 
use, and carry away a number of the birds every 
day. We have them pretty well caught up at 
the present time, but it seems as soon as we dis¬ 
pose of one supply another comes along. Dur¬ 
ing the last few weeks the hawks have been 
giving us considerable trouble and it takes two 
or three men most of their time shooting these 
birds. On the whole, however, we cannot com¬ 
plain of the results obtained, as we have had ex¬ 
ceptionally good success. 
J. A. Wheeler, 
State Game Commissioner. 
Snipe Shooting in Washington. 
Seattle, Wash., Oct. 24.—Cold weather in the 
far north has driven graceful but erratic jack- 
snipe from his summer home. He has now 
reached the marshes along Puget Sound, and 
the hunters who have been lucky enough to be 
on the ground during the past few days have 
had great sport. The flats in the immediate 
vicinity of Laconner and Stanwood have been 
fairly alive with jacks. Duck hunters have 
given up their favorite sport for a fling at the 
spiral flyers. They did not need dogs to hunt up 
the birds in their hiding places, as the bands 
were large and it was an easy matter to walk 
around kicking them out from the hillocks and 
tufts of tall grass. 
“It has been a long time,” said W. A. Hardy, 
a well-known Seattle sportsman, “since the 
Stanwood flats had so many snipe. They came 
from the north in large numbers, and the hunt¬ 
ers tell me they had no end of fine chances at 
the zig-zag targets.” 
Similar reports come from Laconner. W. 
S. Phillips was there after ducks. He had his 
decoys out, and the birds were coming in nicely. 
“This looks good for a fine day’s sport,” he 
said, and about that time some old fellow, who 
knew naught of the instincts of a sportsman, or 
who was maliciously inclined, rowed his boat 
into open water near the decoys and cast anchor. 
As the ducks came in they set their wings, but 
suddenly sighting the boat, sheered off and 
made Phillips use language that was not com¬ 
plimentary to his unbidden guest. Disgusted 
with the outlook. Phillips went ashore and 
bagged the limit of quail. 
It is an old saying that the snipe is here to¬ 
day and there to-morrow. For this reason the 
hunter who gets the best shooting is the one who 
happens to be on the ground when he comes 
along. A marsh that is destitute of game one 
day may afford fine sport next morning. 
A record made by R. S. Cox, and the late 
Jack Ruppe. both of Seattle, several years ago 
on one of the down-sound marshes is hard to 
