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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Dec. 8, igo6. 
A Warden’s Predicament. 
Spokane, Wash., Nov. 25. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: Miles from his hunting camp in north 
Idaho, suffering from three fractured ribs and 
several gashes in the back of his head, 'and 
unable to help himself, was the predicament in 
which W. E. Mason, of Grangeville, Deputy 
Game Warden of Idaho, found himself the 
middle' of November. The heavy snow was 
falling in the mountains, and the warden’s 
wounds were so painful he dragged himself 
under a fallen tree. In this desperate condition 
a mongrel dog—homeless, deserted by his 
taaster, probably a miner, who abandoned his 
cabin to reach another prospect—found him. 
The dog licked the prostrate man’s face and 
bands, staunching the blood and snuggled close 
to him during the night. The dog vanished 
with the break of day, when Mason dragged 
himself to his camp, where a searching party, 
headed by his partner, William Abbey, found 
him unconscious on the floor. The party had 
been out three days and was about to abondon 
the search, when one of the men suggested go¬ 
ing back to the camp. Mason has been taken 
to his home at Grangeville, the journey being 
made with a cot strapped to the backs of several 
cayuses. He was unconscious most of the time. 
It has been learned that he fell from his cayuse 
while climbing one of the hills and rolled down 
the decline, nearly 100 feet, before, stopped by 
a tree. The attending physicians do not believe 
the skull is broken or that the brain is injured, 
and say with rest for two or three weeks, he 
will recover. However, Mason sustained com¬ 
pound fractures of the ribs. 
Trappers of north Idaho are laying ill 
provisions for a long and' hard winter, declaring 
that beaver and other wild animals are gathering 
extra supplies of foods and making their haunts 
more cozy. The hunters and trappers in these 
parts believe in the beaver as a prophet for fore¬ 
casting weather conditions, and the colony on 
the little creek where the north fork of 
the Coeur d’Alene river receives its waters, 
is putting in lots of work on its dam. 
building it higher and making it stronger. 
The animals are also gathering food supplies, and 
this, it is the opinion of J. S. Safford, who has 
been* closely associated with outdoor life the last 
twenty years, means plenty of snow and cold 
weather in the mountains. 
“Tom” Hopper, the. veteran Spokane bear hun¬ 
ter, has established a new record, having bagged 
six big bears in ten days, all within twenty miles 
of Spokane. Four of them were black, the others 
brown, and the smallest weighed 150 pounds, the 
largest 325 pounds. He sold their flesh and pelts 
for $350. 
Hopper has made many friends of farniers in 
the Spokane valley who telephone to him at his 
Spokane home when they get track of bruin, and 
Tom starts out at once with his hounds and a 
.30-30 rifle. He has eight dogs, the breed being 
a cross between a fox and a stag hound. Tom 
shoots for the head. “I aim to hit ’em low be¬ 
hind the ear.” he says, “if I can’t get ’em between 
the eyes. They can’t get away when I’ve got 
the dogs with me.” August Wolf. 
Michigan State Game and Fish Pro¬ 
tective League. 
Monroe, Mich., Nov. 20.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: The following circular letter to mem¬ 
bers, if published, may attract the attention of 
Michigan sportsmen: 
“Nearing the time of the meeting of the next 
State Legislature the true sportsmen of Michi¬ 
gan must again get together and agree on game 
bills. 
"Last session our meetings were very produc¬ 
tive, and we have a good strong organization now 
and must continue it. Any suggestions in refer¬ 
ence to our organization, game laws, changes, 
etc., please send to the secretary at Monroe, and 
he will tabulate all of them ready for our first 
meeting. We can do considerably more good bv 
acting as an organization than individually, and 
as an organization we must have harmony among 
our members and agree to leave the game bills 
as they are or to any changes we may want be¬ 
fore meeting the game committee. 
"Dues of our organization are only $1 per 
year and this income is used by the officers; es¬ 
pecially the secretary for stationery and postage 
in getting circular letters out and keeping the 
members and sportsmen acquainted with the sug¬ 
gestions of the shooters and fishermen of Michi¬ 
gan. They are asked to correspond with the sec¬ 
retary and all correspondence will be kept on 
file for our meetings. Have your friends join 
us. Kindly send dues, $1. 
“W. C. Sterling, Jr., 
“Sec. and Treas.” 
The Adirondack Deer Season Again. 
Editor Forest and Stream: ' 
I am glad to note that so many substantially 
agree with the position taken in my recent article 
on our deer season. Now, however, just a word 
in reply to Columbia in your last issue. 
■While it may be true that some deer would be 
killed by “jacking,” the 95 per cent, he names 
is in my judgment entirely out of proportion. I 
do not believe that 50 per cent, would be low 
enough. There are too many devotees of the rifle, 
men who aside from legal questions would rather 
kill one deer with a rifle in daylight than three 
in the dark with a scatter gun. But suppose 
Columbia’s estimate of 95 per cent, correct, 
still the total number killed would not decimate 
the deer supply, for as a rule there is but little 
September weather favorable to “jacking.” The 
deer come to water late, if at all, and the nights 
are cold. Rarely, as this fall, the weather is 
warm, but usually during most of the month 
September weather effectually prohibits Septem¬ 
ber jacking. Juvenal. 
Game Bird Propagation in California. 
San Francisco, Cal., Nov. 7. — Editor Forest 
and Stream: Thus far the number of quail 
shipped from California to other points in the 
United States, has not exceeded three hundred 
per annum. In most cases, they have been offered 
in exchange for Bobwhites. 
A good many attempts have been made to ac¬ 
climatize the Bobwhites in this State, but with 
indifferent success, except in one locality near 
Sacramento, where the birds seem to have ob¬ 
tained a foothold on a large grant, from which 
all ground varmints had been exterminated. Our 
native quail roost in trees, whereas the Bobwhites 
roost on the ground; hence they fall easy vic¬ 
tims to predatory animals. 
We have brought in quite a number of pheas¬ 
ants from Oregon, and also from China. They 
show slight increase in some sections. We are 
now experimenting with Hungarian partridges. 
It is believed that the Bobwhitc and Hungarian 
partridge adapt themselves better to the en¬ 
croachments of civilization than our native birds, 
and in the great stubble fields of this State we 
hope they may find a congenial habitat. 
Chas. A. Vogelsang, 
Chief Deputy California Fish Commission. 
New Jersey Sportsmen’s Show. 
At the Colosseum, 457 Springfield avenue. New¬ 
ark, N. J., Dec. n-15 inclusive, the New Jersey 
Sportsmen’s Show and Athletic Carnival will be 
held. Exhibits of everything of direct interest 
to outdoor people will be the leading feature. 
Game Notes. 
A five-point buck was shot by W. S. Mitchell, 
of Colorado Springs not far from La Veta, 
Colo., last month, which, he says, weighed 356 
pounds when first killed and 240 pounds dressed. 
If the weights given are correct, this was a very 
large buck for Colorado. 
Moorefield, W. Va., sportsmen had good hunt- 
irg the latter part of November. The Rev. Dr. 
Waters of that town brought in a 209 pound 
deer, which he shot within a mile of his home, 
ai d Capt. Jenkins was equally proud of a turkey 
gcbbler he secured in the woods near town. Its 
beard measured 13 inches and it weighed *35 
po mds. 
Atlantis. 
Tradition says there was a continent lying over 
against the Pillars of Hercules, in extent greater 
than Libya and Asia put together, and was the 
passageway to other islands and to another con- 
tirfent, of which the Mediterranean sea was only 
a harbor, and within the Pillars the Empire of 
Atlantis reached to Egypt and Tyrrhenia. 
When she was supreme on both of the greater 
continents and the sea, in the fullness of time 
and her power, an earthquake came, and the great 
island of Atlantis disappeared in the sea which 
we call to-day the Atlantic ocean. 
The writer believes that Atlantis was an 
empire, the heart of which was in South America, 
and that its power spread thence before Egypt 
had a history, across.the Atlantic, from island to 
island, to and beyond the Pillars of Hercules 
(Calpe and Abyla of the long ago, the Rock Gib¬ 
raltar in Spain, and Ape’s Hill in Africa near 
Ceuta of to-day) ; that another line or lines of 
such insular communication, at one time extended 
through the great western ocean to the peoples 
of Oceanica; that seismic quakes destroyed the 
the peoples of the east; and that Atlantis was 
islands of the lines of communication, and, of 
course, the old empire of the west was lost to 
the outgrowth of the oldest civilization of this 
earth, even as geologically speaking, the western 
or North American continent is older than the 
continents of the east and the far east. 
Dr. A. J. Woodcock. 
Vermont’s Deer Season. 
Stowe, Vt., Nov. 26. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: The open season began Oct. 22 and 
closed on the 27th, six days only, and there were 
632 deer reported legally killed. Perhaps there 
will be several more to come in, but the average 
was 106 a day, the largest number ever killed in 
the history of Vermont during that period. The 
largest number killed heretofore in six days open 
season was in 1904, when 531 deer were killed, 
or an average of 88 in one day. Vermont has 
never allowed the killing of does, and the tak¬ 
ing of bucks only does not seem to deplete the 
stock of deer. Woodcock have been very plenty 
this season. 
Mr. Thomas has been reappointed to serve as 
commissioner of fisheries and game for the 
fourth term. H. G. Thomas, Commissioner. 
A New Indiana Hunting Club. 
The Chippecoke Hunting and Fishing Club, in¬ 
corporated at Vincennes, Ind., Oct. 24, avows 
that its purposes are to indulge in the sport 
of hunting and fishing and to co-operate with 
the game wardens of Illinois and Indiana 
in enforcing the game laws of those States. The 
membership is limited to twenty-five, and the 
names of the officers follow: President, A. T. 
Cobb; vice-president, Harry Mitchell; secretary, 
Myron Rindskopf; treasurer, Fred C. Chaney; 
master, A. T. Cobb; sergeant-at-arms, Joseph 
Friesz; directors, W. L. Ewing, J. N. Bey, Harry 
Mitchell, A. B. Williams and Charles Hartigan. 
A club house is to be built on Nine-mile Island, 
in the Wabash river. 
New Jersey Sportsmen’s Convention. 
Newark, N. J., Nov. 28. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: The sportsmen of Newark and of New 
Jersey intend assembling in a public hall some 
lime in December, where radical changes will be 
advocated in the game laws of our State, and 
also once more endorse the Hon. Geo. Shiras 
and to give him our hearty support in his great 
task of bettering the conditions of our migratory 
birds and fishes. ’ Victor L. Hesse. 
New Hampshire Quail. 
Lancaster, N. H., Nov. 29. — Editor Forest 
and Stream: The stocking of the fields and 
woods of New Hampshire with quail from the 
south and west has amounted to nothing. Our 
winters are so 1 severe that quail cannot live here 
to any great extent. 
Merrill Shurtliff, Commissioner. 
