FOREST AND STREAM 
289 
Fur, Fin and Feather 
Nubbins of News From “ Forest and Stream’s ” Duffle Bag for the Information and Pleasure of Readers 
CALIFORNIA ANGLERS ANTICIPATE GOOD 
SEASON. 
Following two unusually dry seasons Califor¬ 
nia has been visited by a series of storms that 
insure an ample water supply during the present 
year. Already the precipitation for the year is 
about equal to that of the two previous seasons 
combined and the snowfall in the mountains has 
been very heavy. Steelhead trout fishermen are 
already looking forward to the opening date, 
which is the first of April, and it is expected 
that sport in the Coast streams will be good from 
the beginning. In Alameda and Contra Costa 
counties no fry were planted last summer, as 
most of the streams were practically dry and 
the prospects are that but few fish will be taken 
there, but in Marin, Mendocino, Santa Clara, 
San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties a heavy run 
of fish is expected. In the Sierras the season 
will probably commence a little later than usual, 
as high water will be the rule until well along 
in the summer. 
At the annual meeting of the California 
Anglers’ Association held a short time ago at the 
San Francisco headquarters, officers were chosen 
for the ensuing year as follows: Dr. L. T. 
Cranz, president; V. C. Howe, vice-president; 
Ed Cohen, second vice-president; Herman Cohn, 
treasurer; Floyd Spence, M. Uri and Frank 
Duryea, directors. Dr. Cranz is one of the most 
enthusiastic anglers in the Bay district and is an 
authority on steelhead fishing. He is the type of 
fishermen that makes for better sport, and under 
his leadership the California Anglers’ Associa¬ 
tion is looking forward to a very successful year. 
The annual banquet of the San Francisco 
Striped Bass Club was held a short time ago at 
a prominent restaurant, J. C. Wallace presiding. 
In the absence of the late James Watt the prizes 
won by anglers during the past season were pre¬ 
sented by George A. Wentworth. The medal for 
landing the largest striped bass was awarded to 
Al. Thornton, whose thirty-five pound fish was 
high hook. 
BILL FOR COMBINATION PERMIT. 
A combination hunting and fishing license at 
$1.25 is the proposition embodied in a bill re¬ 
cently prepared by the Massachusetts fish and 
game commissioners. The fee is to be the same 
for residents and non-residents. No license will 
be required of women and children under 17 
years of age. Others who are exempted under 
the provisions of the act are the owners of land 
through which a stream flows or on which a body 
of water borders. These may fish in the waters 
mentioned without having to take out a license. 
Other provisions of the bill are: Unnaturalized 
persons actually residing in the state and owning 
real estate assessed for $500 or more shall pay 
for such license $1.25; other aliens shall pay 
$15.25; except for a fishing license only they shall 
pay $1.25; non-residents $10.25; except residents 
of other states according similar privileges shall 
pay $2.25; and except for a fishing license only 
$1.25; residents shall pay for a license $1.25; 
Twenty-five cents out of each license to be re¬ 
tained by town clerks issuing same. 
Sportsmen backing the bill hope that the reve¬ 
nue will assist the state in remedying the sadly 
depleted condition of the rivers and woodlands 
of the state. 
FINED FOR SWEARING FALSELY. 
Eight violators of the game laws of New York 
State, Italians, who swore that they were natu¬ 
ralized citizens in order to obtain hunting licenses 
at a low rate, were arrested recently and fined 
from $25 to $50 apiece. The law provides that 
if the applicant for a hunting license be a non¬ 
resident of the state, or a person who has not 
been a resident for at least six months, or an 
unnaturalized person or an alien, resident or 
non-resident, he shall pay twenty dollars, with 
fifty cents as a fee to the clerk. If a resident 
of the state for over six months and a citizen, 
he shall pay only one dollar for the license and 
the fee is only ten cents to the clerk. If a non¬ 
resident of the state and a taxpayer therein 
he shall pay ten dollars for the license and fifty 
cents fee. 
Another non-resident who was hunting under 
a resident's license was detected on account of 
the Connecticut tag on his automobile. He 
pleaded guilty, and paid $75. Game Protector 
Ginder, of Schenectady, is reported to have the 
support of the better class of sportsmen in his 
campaign for the enforcement of game laws. 
HUNTER IS FINED $1,000- 
Eugene Griffiths of Pascoag, R. I., one of the 
most widely known. sportsmen and hunters of 
New England and a winner of the great Ameri¬ 
can Handicap on live birds and targets, was found 
guilty by a jury in Superior Court at Worcester, 
Mass., recently of assault on Deputy Game 
Warden Elmer A. Macker of North Graf¬ 
ton in South Douglas on December 22, when the 
deputy attempted to arrest him on a charge of 
shooting partridge out of season, and was or¬ 
dered to pay a fine of $1,000. 
Deputy Warden Macker and Deputy Warden 
Jay Snell of Worcester told of finding a party 
consisting of Griffith, George Mellor and Charles 
A. Buxton of Burrillville, R. I. shooting part¬ 
ridges. Macker chased Griffith and told the court 
that as they were running through a field Grif¬ 
fith turned on him and hit him over the head with 
his gun. Griffith, who had pleaded guilty to 
shooting partridges out of season, denied he had 
assaulted Macker. 
TOO BIG TO GO THROUGH. 
A four-pound bass that had to have a hole in 
the ice enlarged for his especial benefit forms 
the basis of a recent cold-weather fish story that 
has made its way into the daily press. Homer 
O. Webster, of Wellesley, Mass., caught the fish 
in Quacumquasit lake. He is reported to have 
said: 
“I saw the tilt go up and when I began to pull 
in the line I thought I had hold of the bottom of 
the lake. When at last I got the bass to the hole 
I found the hole was not large enough to pull the 
bass through. 
“I had left the chisel at the cottage so I paid 
out the line a little and wound the rest around the 
tilt and hiked it for the chisel. When I got back 
I chipped the hole out enough to allow my land¬ 
ing the prize bass.” 
HUNDREDS OF BISON FOR SALE. 
Seventy yearling bison, fifty-five 2-year-olds 
and 275 3-year-olds and older, all full-blooded, 
were put on the market recently by the Scotty 
Philip estate. It was reported that this famous 
herd, the largest in the United States, might be 
sent to the reserves in Alberta, Can., where the 
Pueblo herd was taken a few years ago. Fifteen 
of the Philip herd have been sold to the United 
States Government, and will go to Wind Cave 
National Park, near Hot Springs, S. D. 
TEACHING HOW TO FEED QUAIL. 
Residents of Monson, Mass., had an object 
lesson in conservation recently when Deputy 
Commissioner John F. Luman appeared with a 
supply of grain to feed the quail thereabouts. He 
offered to furnish feed for any flocks which resi¬ 
dents might know of in that region. The method 
of feeding which the deputy recommended was 
to knock both heads from a barrel, cover the 
ends with boughs, the barrel being laid on its 
side, and scatter grain outside and within the 
barrel. 
STREAMS WELL STOCKED. 
The streams of Pennsylvania will be stocked 
this season with more than a half million trout, 
the State Department of Fisheries and various- 
fishing clubs carrying on the work independently 
of what is being done by the National Govern¬ 
ment. The work has been begun already and 
will be carried on rapidly during the next six 
weeks. 
CARING FOR CARBON COUNTY. 
The Weatherly and the Hudsondale rod and 
gun clubs, of Carbon county, Pa., are planning 
to stock all the streams in the county with fish 
fry, in co-operation with Commissioner Buffer. 
These clubs exert their influence for the strict ob¬ 
servation of the game laws, and attempt to keep 
the region well stocked. 
GET HUNGARIAN PARTRIDGES. 
Hungarian partridges will be used to stock the 
woodlands of Hancock county, Ohio, the Han¬ 
cock Fish and Game Association, of Findlay, be¬ 
ing back of the movement. The townships are 
entitled to an average of three pairs each. The 
birds will be distributed some time in March. 
$10,000 YEARLY TO CHECK FIRES. 
Forest fire patrolmen and lookout stations in 
such portions of the Potomac, Monongahela, Lit¬ 
tle Kanawha and Great Kanawha River water¬ 
sheds as are most susceptible to fire are to be 
maintained in West Virginia by co-operation, 
state and Government each contributing $5,000 a 
year. 
WANT UNIFORM LAWS. 
The Hunters’ and Fishers’ Protective Associa¬ 
tion of Santa Cruz, Cal., recently presented a res¬ 
olution to the board of supervisors asking that 
the county game ordinances be amended so that 
they would conform to the state laws. 
SAYS PHEASANTS ARE HARDY. 
“The pheasant is as hardy a bird as we have 
got in this state to-day, even hardier than a 
crow,” said Division Chief Charles R. Stapley, of 
Geneseo, N. Y., recently. “The pheasant will eat 
almost anything. You might say the same thing 
of the crows but the crows will go in big flocks, 
sometimes hundreds and sometimes even thous¬ 
ands, which gives them a less opportunity to get 
food, while there may be one pheasant, possibly 
a dozen and sometimes more, in a flock. 
“I have never found or seen a pheasant where 
