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FOREST AND STREAM 
May 24, 1913 
thirty days in jail.” Amid much protestation 
I parted with the $46.80 in this way to satisfy 
justice in the person of Mr. O’Brien. Of course 
O’Brien is not a lawyer. 
1 took an appeal from the decision and the 
case was called in the Court of Common Pleas 
yesterday (my lawyer, William M. Rysdyk, Jer¬ 
sey City, N. J.) The State, through its assist¬ 
ant attorney general, Mr. Stryker, made no de¬ 
fense as the charges were admitted entirely with¬ 
out warrant, and consent was given by the of¬ 
ficial metioned to this manner of settlement. 
Judge Sullivan thereupon stated he would sign 
an order of the court, directing the return of 
the fine imposed. The deep reverence and awe 
we had entertained for Justice O’Brien, the 
author of our difficulties, gave way to feelings 
of surprise and amusement when we met that 
gentleman in full uniform and cap, running the 
elevator in the court house. In Jersey City an 
elevator man and at night and Sundays in 
Hoboken, a Justice of the Peace. I would like 
you to give this case space in your valuable 
publication to serve as a warning to others who 
may be trapped in the same manner as I. 
Wm. Rutter. 
Trenton, N. J., Nov. 26 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: Any New York gunner shooting game 
in the State of New York and reaching his home 
in New York State via a railroad which traverses 
New Jersey, should not be held up or fined for 
carrying such game, provided he exhibits a New 
York hunting license and can satisfactorily prove 
that such game was not killed within the State 
of New Jersey. 
If there is any question about such gunner 
satisfactorily proving his right to carry such 
game through our State at the time of his being 
prevented, I think in all justice to the Fish and 
Game Commission of New Jersey he should 
leave a deposit in a suitable amount which de¬ 
posit should be returned to him when he fur¬ 
nishes such proof by affidavit or otherwise that 
the game was killed without our boundaries. 
It is not the intention of this commission 
to persecute anyone, and we do not propose to 
allow any warden or deputy to extort unjustly 
any fines that are not perfectly proper, and at 
any time we are glad to take up and carefully 
examine into any cases that may occur about 
which there is any question. Attempts are made 
so often to infringe and impose upon our laws 
that we simply in self defense must throw every 
possible safeguard about them, and I can assure 
you that no injustice shall be done anyone if 
it is in the power of this commission to avoid it. 
Ernest Napier, 
President New Jersey Fish and Game Com. 
[Reprinted from issue of Dec. 7, 1912.— 
Editor. ] 
Notes from Orchard Lake Club. 
Fishing this spring has been very good. 
The first three days in the season twelve rods 
took 340 fish. The following week one rod took 
165 fish in five days. A man cannot really want 
much better fishing than that. None of these 
fish of course was wasted. They were either 
used or returned to the water unharmed. Pos¬ 
sibly that principle is one of the causes of the 
good fishing in Orchard Lake. 
Canandaigua Sportsmen’s Club. 
At a meeting of the Canandaigua Sports¬ 
men’s Club, held May 8, steps were taken with 
a view to reorganizing the club. The important 
changes made in the constitution were the 
amendment limiting the membership to sixty- 
five, which was increased to a hundred; initiation 
fee and annual dues were increased $1, making 
membership fee $3 and annual dues $2. 
A committee will take measures to incorpo¬ 
rate the club at once, so that it may acquire 
and own property in view of club house plans 
which contemplate securing a desirable site for 
an ample home of the bungalow type for the 
club, additional traps and an up-to-date shoot¬ 
ing ground and equipment. 
Many new members have expressed them¬ 
selves ready to take advantage of the oppor¬ 
tunities of this arrangement, and it is planned 
to have the new quarters ready for the annual 
tournament in August. 
For the present, the club shoots, beginning 
Friday, May 16, and every two weeks through 
the season, will be held at the Lakeside Park 
traps. 
A fine gold medal trophy, donated by J. H. 
Chamberlain, has been inscribed for the club 
championship emblem for 1913. The shooters 
will also compete at each regular shoot for 
silver and cut-glass prizes, and high average 
for the season will win imported, hand-painted 
china, five prizes in all. The club this season 
will use White Flyer targets exclusively and 
obtain a new trap to throw “doubles,” regarded 
as the best practice for the game hunter. 
Present at the meeting were C. A. Soule, 
W. J. Kibbe, A. A. Sterling, M. L. Frone, 
Louis Briggs, J. H. Goodno, W. L. Reed, A. 
E. Mason, A. C. Brink, E. L. Van Wormer, 
Fred Woollett and Thomas Manning. 
Hunting in California. 
Berkeley, Cal., May 13.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: The efforts of the Spring Valley 
Water Company to rid its holdings in San 
Mateo county of predatory animals have been 
meeting with much success, and since trappers 
have been placed at work there more than one 
hundred coyotes have been killed, not to men¬ 
tion a large number of skunks, weasels and 
other game destroyers. In Mendocino county 
a determined effort is being made to reduce the 
number of mountain lions and several hunting 
parties are out earning bounty money. One 
party killed three of the animals in one day and 
another on the following day. Deer are re¬ 
ported to be very plentiful in that section this 
year. The season opens there on July i, but 
efforts are being made to have the opening 
date a month later. 
The California State Legislature is so 
busily engaged on other matters that game 
legislation is not being given much attention, 
and it is doubtful whether or not there will be 
many changes made in the present laws, al¬ 
though some are badly needed. The non-sale 
of game bill has attracted more attention than 
any other measure along this line and has 
passed the Assembly, but has been amended in 
the Senate to permit the sale of wild ducks 
during November. 
The third serious shooting affray in as many 
months in which State game wardens have 
figured took place late in April near Tule Lake 
in Northern California, when Game Warden 
Frank P. Cady and U. S. Deputy Marshal 
Mellenger were attacked by eleven South Fork 
Indians whom they had arrested. The Indians 
were being taken to Madeline, when suddenly 
they turned upon Cady, seized his rifle and 
shot him in the back. The deputy marshal was 
shot twice through the body and lost two 
fingers. The Indians escaped, but it is believed 
that several were injured. 
Golden Gate. 
Useful African Birds. 
Sir Harry Johnston, the famous African 
expert geographer and zoologist, has been en¬ 
gaged in a lively correspondence with the chair¬ 
man and secretary of the Plumage Committee 
and Textile Trade Section of the London Cham¬ 
ber of Commerce, concerning the enormous 
amount of mischief in different directions 
brought about by the wholesale destruction in 
all parts of the world of insect-eating birds, for 
the sake of their plumage. The plumage officers 
pressed him for facts in support of his conten¬ 
tions, among others, that many of the slaughtered 
birds were the natural foes of the deadly tsetse 
flies, which are responsible for sleeping sickness 
and other maladies. He replies; 
“This argument, of course, only applies to 
Africa, the home exclusively of the detestable 
Glossina genus of blood-sucking jflies. Well, in 
Africa, especially in West and Central Africa, 
the principal—-almost the only—foes of the tse- 
tse are the glossy starlings (and ox-peckers), 
the bee-eaters, the Halcyon kingfishers, the roll¬ 
ers, the white and smaller herons above all (in¬ 
cluding the several species which supply egret 
plumes), guinea fowl, francolin, quail, snipe, 
plover, pratincoles, swallows, swifts, fly-catchers, 
shrikes, barbets, drongos, the smaller cuckoos, the 
trogon and certain rails. Many of these birds 
also prey on the mosquitoes; or, if they are 
aquatic, like ducks, ibises and flamingoes, de¬ 
vour the mosquito larvae in the water. They also 
prey upon the larger blood-sucking gad-flies and 
on the several germ-conveying ticks. Who has 
seen them do this? I have, during twenty-seven 
years’ study of tropical Africa. Who else? 
George Grenfell, the missionary; Sir Alfred 
Sharpe, M. Auguste Chevalier, Alexander 
Whyte, David Livingstone, James Chapman and 
many German, French, Swiss and American 
travelers of trained powers of observation.” 
New Publication. 
Y'ings and Hackle. By Raymond Hill, 8vo, 288 
pages. E. B. Horwood & Co., Ltd., London, 
England. 
A contribution to fishing literature, rather too 
much, as its sub-title describes it, a pot pourri, 
to be of great value to the fisherman’s library. 
Candidly, it is much more interesting than in¬ 
structive. Sandwiched in between things pisca¬ 
torial is a bit about birds, a particularly attrac¬ 
tive chapter being devoted to angler’s birds, 
those commonly observed along streams during 
fishing time. This phase of the work is abso¬ 
lutely unique among anglers’ works. As a de¬ 
scriptive writer, Mr. Hill excels. 
