FOREST AND STREAM 
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Live Notes From The Field 
Being Weekly Reports From Our Local Correspondents 
CATCHES AT SUNAPEE. 
Concord, N. H., May 16.—Twenty-five thou¬ 
sand young brook trout were placed in various 
brooks this week in Merrimack County, under 
the direction of the state fish and game depart¬ 
ment. An allotment of landlocked salmon fry 
is to be placed in Webster Lake, it having been 
arranged by Fish and Game Commissioner Beal 
to send them from the Laconia hatchery. 
Webster Lake is one of the few lakes to show 
good results from being stocked with salmon 
by the state a few years ago. Each season’s 
catch confirms the claim that this lake is one 
of the most satisfactory of any of the small 
lakes of the state for cultivating salmon. 
For several seasons it was considered useless 
to restock it with salmon, because there was 
no satisfactory screen to keep the young salmon 
from leaving. Last fall a new screen was in¬ 
stalled and it is now predicted that there will 
soon be some excellent salmon fishing there. 
“Ground covered with snow to a depth of two 
inches, freezing temperature and navigation and 
fishing in Sunapee interfered with by ice,” was 
a dispiriting mid-week report of weather condi¬ 
tions, which forced a suspension of sport in all 
northern waters of the state. 
At Sunapee, however, the few days following 
the going out of the ice were improved to the 
utmost by sportsmen with record salmon catches, 
partially reported as follows: 
W. P. Roach, Sunapee, two, total weight, 19% 
lbs.; Shirley Colby, Boston, one, 3V2 lbs.; R. 
Jones, Claremont, two, 7 lbs. each; Mrs. Baker, 
Newbury, four; Mr. and Mrs. Brett, Somer¬ 
ville, three; Mrs. Brockway, Newbury, four; 
W. H. Proctor, Newport, one, 6 lbs.; Fred 
Thompson, Newport, one, 3V2 lbs.; Miss Har¬ 
rington, Somerville, one, 7 lbs.; Flanders Clif¬ 
ford and party, Somerville, Mass., five; C. L. 
Treadway, New York, one, 7 lbs.; W. P. Roach, 
Sunapee, one. 4V2 lbs.; Mrs. Blake Brightwood, 
Bellows Falls, one, 5 lbs.; Fred Noyes, three, 
total 15% lbs.; Ed. Nadeau, two, total, 10% lbs.; 
Jacob Whitney, Claremont, one, 3V2 lbs.; Arlan 
Boyce, three, total, 11% lbs.; F. Butterfield, one, 
5 lbs.; Irwin Sleeper, three, total 12% lbs.; Ber¬ 
nard Carey, Newport, two, total 8 lbs.; un¬ 
known, three, 15% lbs.; John Law, New Lon¬ 
don, three, total 15% lbs.; F. Andrews, New¬ 
bury, one, 3 lbs.; A. Goings, Sunapee, one, 7 
ibs.; Joel Simpson, Sunapee, one, 3V2 lbs.; J. 
Lawler, Newport, six, total 25 lbs.; Sid Bick¬ 
ford, Boston, one, 5 lbs.; Richard Jones, Clare¬ 
mont, three, total 16 lbs.; Dana Hadley, Suna¬ 
pee, three, total, 15 lbs.; Eli Eastman, Newport, 
one, 5 ibs.; Reuben Putney, Sunapee, one, 4V2 
lbs.; Thomas Morse, Sunapee, one, 4 lbs.; C. L. 
Morgan, Sunapee, one, 2 lbs.; Mr. Leeds, Con¬ 
cord, one pickerel, 4 lbs. 
A. H. ROBINSON. 
BEDIENT, CRACK SHOT. 
Danbury, Conn.—Trapshooting is one of the 
most popular sports, and one that some learn 
quicker than a good many others. A good many 
think you have to start in from a boy to become 
an expert at trapshooting. This is not so, as 
proven by D. F. Bedient, of Ridgefield, Conn., a 
man past fifty and never having had any experi¬ 
ence with a gun. Mr. Bedient, a prominent 
business man of Ridgefield, conducted a hard¬ 
ware store, and he came in contact with the gun 
club members, as .he had the sale of shells on 
the grounds. 
One day he said to some of the boys, "I have 
been around here helping run the shoots and sell¬ 
ing the shells. Now I am going to see what I 
can do on the firing line.” The squad was made 
up of the cracks of the Ridgefield club, Hal San¬ 
ford, Cyrus Cornen, Dr. Van Saun, J. Finch 
and Mr. Bedient. He took one of the guns out 
D. F. Bedient, Ridgefield, Conn. 
of the stock he had, in the store, and the way 
he broke the targets was marvelous. When they 
counted up the score he was not far behind the 
rest of the squad. 
After that he wanted to shoot all the time, 
and now is one of the best shots in the club. 
It was only six months ago that he shot his 
first target. Mr. Bedient is also a member of 
the Pahquioque Gun Club, of Danbury. At the 
telegraphic matches Mr. Bedient was high gun 
for the series of five shoots, breaking 117—125. 
an average of 93 per cent. If any of the young- 
shooters can beat this record they will have to 
go some. 
E. H. BAILEY. 
FOX CHASE IN INDIANA. 
Greensburg, Ind., May 17.—One of the great¬ 
est fox-chases made in recent years in southern 
Indiana, was held nine miles northwest of this 
city Friday night. A large hunting party started 
from Hope and traveled to Norristown, joining 
the automobile hunting party in an ideal fox¬ 
hunting territory. The dogs brought the fox 
within thirty feet of the hunters. This was an 
unusual chase, and owing to the ideal weather, 
the dogs could be heard at all times. Two of 
these dogs, owned by George Hess, of St. Paul, 
and B. Middleton, of Hope, and called Nellie 
and Diner, carried the national championship 
fox-hunt title in the meet two years ago, forty 
miles southwest of Lexington, Ky. These dogs 
remained on the trail for more than seventeen 
hours. In this race there were more than 140 
dogs, and these dogs stayed on the chase seven 
hours longer than any others. The following 
were members of the party: A. B. Carter, of 
Indianapolis; J. D. Pence, C. I. Fishel, Martin 
Essex, John Shore, Roscoe Haymond, of Hope; 
George Hall, Geneva; Joseph Nail, L. H. Miller, 
Flatrock; Joseph Middleton, Norristown; James 
Nicholas, Edinburg; Samuel Hogie, of Shelby- 
ville; and E. D. Vangorden, of Norristown, Ind. 
Col. Joseph Middleton, of Norristown, was the 
promoter of the chase. 
C. H. PARRISH. 
A SNAKE STORY. 
Centralia, Ill., May 20.—An interesting story 
of bird and animal life comes from Rockford, 
where two small boys were exploring the ruins 
of an old mantel factory. An immense chimney 
was standing, and the boys started a fire, using 
a large amount of dead wood. With the first 
whiff of smoke from the big chimney out flew 
a pair of brown owls, followed by a loud squawk 
and much flapping of wings, when a huge cor¬ 
morant appeared from the depths of the chim¬ 
ney and perched on its top. The boys piled on 
more wood, and soon the chimney was heated 
to the topmost brick. Ominous sounds were 
heard within. The entire structure seemed to 
be alive, something was coming down, then 
squarely on the fire fell a big coil of snakes. 
Snakes of all sizes, some torpid, some big, some 
little, but to the astonished boys they appeared 
as big as boa constrictors. The reptiles wriggled 
out of the opening near the fire and scurried 
away in many directions, most of them going 
toward a nearby stream, but swift as they were 
the time they made was not nearly that of the 
frightened boys, who made a “bee line” for 
home. 
Breaking records has become a habit with 
local fishermen, and a day or two ago J. A. 
Shanks, of the European Hotel, who was fish¬ 
ing in the Okaw, landed a Mississippi cat which 
weighed fifty-two and a half pounds. Mayor 
Fred Pullen, himself an enthusiastic fisherman and 
hunter, was one of the party, and helped draw 
in the big catch. Several buffalo which weighed 
from ten to twelve pounds were among the day’s 
catch, as was a turtle which tipped the beam 
at twenty pounds. 
In Cook County is a large flock of prairie 
