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are to be sent to the club in a few days. All 
fishermen have been asked to aid the Berwick 
organization in its work of restocking the streams 
around that section by being careful not to take 
any fish under size and, if any are hooked, to 
carefully slip them back into the water. 
The Mauch Chunk Rod & Gun Club has 
adopted a new schedule of work which will place 
it in the foreground as the chief promoters of 
sport in Carbon County. A membership commit¬ 
tee was named to secure the non-member sports¬ 
men of the county. Frog stocking is being 
planned by the club now. Pretty soon the ponds 
and lakes will be “planted” with the young frogs 
and a new branch of sport will be open to Carbon 
County hunters. ——-- 
Bear should be plentiful for the sportsmen in 
the section of Hazleton if advance reports are 
any indication. 
At Marysville, on the Susquehanna River, a 
big Bruin was seen disporting in the river at the 
heat of the day. 
J. Beminghoff and John Jackson both of 
Clarendon, found a bear cub that was almost 
starved. The little animal weighed almost 30 
pounds and had evidently strayed from its 
mother. 
Along the Lehighton-Ivresgeville-Kunkletown 
sections, workmen report meeting bears in the 
woods frequently. 
A. P. Green, of Kresgeville, while walking to 
Middle Creek to work, was confronted by a big, 
black bear, which did not show willingness to 
give the right of way to Green. The latter was 
unarmed and made a detour to get around Bruin. 
A California trout, which was slightly over 24 
inches in length and which weighed over five 
pounds, was caught in the Lehigh River below 
Gouldsboro by O. E. Sherman, of Hyde Park 
Hotel, near Scranton. 
The big trout was landed on a fly. It has 
been exhibited at the hotel and is to be mounted. 
William Trunk and William Trumbauer, of 
Spring City, two well-known anglers, caught 64 
spreckled trout in a fishing expedition to streams 
near Allentown. 
- J. W. KRAFT. 
RACING PIGEON CONTEST. 
Lancaster, Pa., June 8.—On Sunday the Colum¬ 
bia District of the American Racing Pigeon 
Union held the fourth fly of their series from 
Reidsville, N. C., the 300-mile station. Joseph 
Bard, of Ironville, won first diploma with a veloc¬ 
ity of 1094.21 yards per minute. H. A. Baker, of 
Columbia, won second with velocity of 1007.74 
yards. Five lofts from Ironville and Columbia 
competed in the race with 76 birds. 
NET FISHERS PUNISHED. 
Uniontown, Pa., May 22.—Fayette county au¬ 
thorities are rigidly enforcing the state law prohi¬ 
biting fishing with nets after April 15. Four ar¬ 
rests were made in Connellsville, this county, last 
week and fines aggregating $70 were imposed. 
The cases were prosecuted by Frank C. Sturm, 
a state constable. 
Two coops of homing pigeons, each contain¬ 
ing about seventy-five birds, were released by 
Dispatcher E. F. Dougherty at the Baltimore & 
Ohio station at Connellsville, last week. The 
birds came from Washington, D. C. Dispatcher 
Dougherty telegraphed the owners of the birds 
the time they were released. Last week’s ship¬ 
ment was the third lot of homing pigeons to be 
sent here and released this summer. 
Cooper Patterson is the champion groundhog 
hunter of the West Side Camping Club, and be¬ 
cause he enjoys that distinction, his fellow hun¬ 
ters gathered at his home in Sixth street recently 
and presented him with a medal in honor of the 
reputation he has attained as a groundhog 
hunter. During the outing of the club at Guard, 
Md., last August, Mr. Patterson, killed 25 ground¬ 
hogs in 10 days. This was some record, so the 
club designed a medal engraved with the image 
of a groundhog and a suitable inscription. 
OHIO CORRESPONDENCE. 
Norwalk, O., June 10.—The old Norwalk Gun 
Club has been reorganized and it starts off with 
sixteen members. It is expected this number will 
be considerably increased soon as all of the trap 
shooters of the vicinity are not yet enrolled. The 
following officers were selected: C. F. Steward¬ 
secretary; treasurer, G. F. Titus; Captain, Carl 
D. Manahan. 
The club will continue to make its headquar¬ 
ters on the old Underhill farm, west of the city, 
where it has been located for many years. Weekly 
shoots will be held each Wednesday afternoon. 
A committee composed of Leroy Burton, C. F. 
Steward and G. F. Titus will arange for the first 
tournament. 
WATCHING QUEMAHONING DAM. 
Deputy fish wardens of Johnstown, Pa., Camp 
No. 76, United Sportsmen of Pennsylvania, re¬ 
cently made seven arrests at the Quemahoning 
Dam for violations of the fish laws and more 
are expected to follow. The majority of the 
offenders got off by paying fines of $30 and 
costs. Some of those arrested had caught bass 
out of season. George Spangler, the caretaker 
at the dam, is also a deputy fish warden, and is 
doing good work in preventing illegal fishing. 
The United Sportsmen are determined to break 
up any depredations at the dam, and their se¬ 
cret wardens will be on hand almost constantly 
for some time to come. 
NEW HAMPSHIRE FISHING NOTES. 
Concord, N. H., June 13, 1914. 
With greater and more efficient activity than 
ever before has the Merrimack County Sports¬ 
men’s Asociation striven this season toward at¬ 
taining the purpose for which it was created. 
An appreciative community of state and county 
sportsmen realize the practical benefit accom¬ 
plished by the organization during its short life. 
The association was organized two years ago 
to create and foster a public sentiment in favor 
of the protection of fish and game in the county 
and state, to enforce the fish and game laws 
and to stock streams and woods with fish and 
game. 
It is affiliated with the American Game Pro¬ 
tective and Propagation Association and has 
operated as an auxiliary to the state fish and 
game commission. Unsatisfactory conditions ex¬ 
ist through fish and game laws of the state. 
The chief injustice is in connection with the 
funds realized by the state from the imposition 
of hunters’ licenses. When the law was- passed 
providing for the collection of such a tax there 
was a general understanding of the law that the 
amount collected should be devoted to the fish 
and game interests. After the bill became a law 
the original idea of its disposition was regarded 
as fatuous by certain authorities and a sort of 
sifting through a ladder scheme was resorted to 
by which fish and game interests received a small 
portion of the amount and the lion’s share was 
converted into the treasury for public uses. 
The president of the Merrimack County Asso¬ 
ciation is the Rev. A. Wright Saltus, an Episcopal 
clergyman of large wealth, an enthusiastic angler 
and hunter, whose knowledge of fish and game 
habits is wide and thorough. The services which 
he is able to render the association through his 
familiarity with all that pertains to the activities 
of a sportsman are inestimable. 
To Superintendent D. H. Carpenter of the 
Concord & Manchester Street Railway, who is 
chairman of the executive committee of the asso¬ 
ciation, more than to any other individual is due 
the success which the association now enjoys. 
From the nursling stage to its present condition 
of influence, Mr. Carpenter’s peculiar genius has 
enabled him to act as guide, mentor and friend 
to the organization. 
Through his personal efforts a restocking of 
waters has been accomplished which cannot be 
considered otherwise than remarkable. This sea¬ 
son 75,000 trout fry have been planted in the 
county waters, while Penacook Lake and Con- 
toocook river have been most liberally stocked 
with white perch and wall-eyed pike. 
Chairman Carpenter is an ardent sportsman, his 
quest for fish in spring and summer and for 
game birds and deer in fall always finding gen¬ 
erous rewards. He is a stranger to none of the 
streams and lakes of the state, but his favorite 
pilgrimage is to Russell pond in Woodstock, 
whence he never returns empty handed. 
This pond, which is reached by a mile climb, 
straight up a mountain side, is located between 
Russell mountain and Russell crag, covers an 
area of yi acres and abounds in trout ranging 
in weight from a half to a pound and a half. 
It has a maximum depth of 90 feet and the best 
fishing is found in the center of the pond, which 
is reached by boat. It is necessary to use worm 
or some other bait to sink, as the trout will not 
rise to a fly. “Russell pond is certainly a beauty 
spot of New Hampshire,” declares Mr. Carpen¬ 
ter, whose love of nature is never lost in the 
excitement of sport. 
HUNTING LICENSE FEES DIVERTED. 
Concord, N. H., May 28.—At the annual meet¬ 
ing of the Elkins Fish and Game Club at Birch- 
croft, it was declared that it might be good 
policy for the State to issue licenses to anglers 
under certain liberal conditions, on the same 
plan as licenses are issued to hunters, with the 
provision that the funds received from such 
licenses should be used to promote the fish and 
game interests of the State. 
It is perhaps not generally known, that the 
sum received by the State from hunters’ licenses, 
fines and amounts paid by guides is not wholly 
used to promote the fish and game interests, and 
that in some years a large amount of this money 
is diverted to other purposes. It is understood 
that the receipts for the current year will amount 
to about $40,000, and the expenditures for fish 
and game purposes will be only about one-half 
that sum. 
