Oct. s, 1912 
FOREST AND STREAM 
429 
NOTE THE SEVERAL “BREEDS” OF DOG USED IN A BEAR HUNT. 
Hunting in California. 
BY GOLDEN GATE. 
Deer hunting in this State is now at an end, 
except in the northern and northeastern moun¬ 
tainous sections where hunting is permitted until 
the 1st of November. Taken as a whole the sea¬ 
son now closing has proved to be a very satis¬ 
factory one from the point of the number of 
deer killed, but it has been demonstrated more 
clearly than ever that some marked changes in 
the law are necessary. The early season shoot¬ 
ing in the coast counties demonstrated the fact 
that nowhere are bucks in shape to be hunted 
as early as July 1, and it is believed that the 
season will be changed to open a month later 
with more uniform seasons for all the game dis¬ 
tricts of the State. Protective organizations are 
being formed in all sections of the State, and 
it is expected that the demand for a change in 
the law will come from the people themselves. 
R. H. Duke, legal adviser for the California Fish 
and Game Commission, has been spending con¬ 
siderable time assisting in the organization of 
these associations, the membership of which is 
now well above the 10,000 mark. 
Another change in the game laws that will 
be considered by the Legislature next year will 
be that of imposing a heavier penalty on a per¬ 
son for killing a doe. This will not only be for 
the purpose of conserving the game, but for the 
protection of human life. If a hunter realizes 
that he is liable to be called upon to pay a heavy 
fine or to languish in jail for a good stiff term, 
he will be more careful to wait until he is abso¬ 
lutely certain that he is shooting at a buck, and 
that he is not drawing a bead on a fellow man 
or a doe. 
During the month of August, seventeen 
mountain lions were killed in eleven counties 
of California, upon which the State bounty of 
$20 was paid. 
Violators of the game laws have been taken 
by surprise in Plumas county of late, and five 
convictions have been made there within a short 
time. Fred Wilson, of Southern California, was 
fined $50 for killing a doe. “Bob,” an Indian, 
was fined $25 for hunting without a license and 
three others were arrested by J. E. Nail, of 
Cromberg, and made to pay $25 each for their 
offenses. 
Ontario Moose and Deer. 
The following letter was received last fall 
by our information department after the close 
of the Ontario season. It mentions a locality 
worth hunting: 
My thanks are due your department for in¬ 
formation received some months ago. I have 
just returned home from a very successful three 
weeks’ hunt in the Wahnapitae Lake country, 
where I found moose, and the most remarkable 
section for deer and partridge. I hunted twelve 
full days and in that time saw twenty-one deer, 
and it would be easy for a shotgun to get fifteen 
to twenty birds daily. Kindly register a new 
guide for that section, Robert Brady, whose ad¬ 
dress is Wahnapitae, Ontario. He is in every 
respect a first class young woodsman, fine in 
a canoe and an excellent all around guide. 
J. A. Melsheimer. 
The matter in Forest and Stream is proof 
and guarantee of its class of readers. 
A Bear Story. 
The following narrative is an extract from 
a letter written to one of our subscribers and 
forwarded to us: 
I was out on a good hunt last spring and 
we were fortunate enough to bag three of the 
furry brutes, all of them black. Saw innumer¬ 
able elk and could have gotten some sheep or 
goat had we been so disposed, as there was quite 
a few of them where we went. They were plen¬ 
tiful enough, so that we could watch them at 
play on the mountain with a pair of strong 
binoculars. One of the bears we captured in a 
trap, and the other two we caught fair with dogs, 
and talk about a grand fight! We certainly had 
one with the largest of the bear. By the way, 
when I had left and came home I received a 
letter from one of the boys from where I was 
hunting. He said that a fellow who had been 
trapping grizzlies had got severely chewed up 
by one of the brutes. This fellow it appears 
had a set gun for bear, and during the night he 
heard the report of the gun, and going out to 
see what had happened, encountered a large 
grizzly and her cubs, one of which had been 
wounded when the gun went off, and the old 
mother being very mad about it, gave chase to 
him and ran him into the cabin. She not being 
able to get through the door or windows, went 
up on to the roof and tore a hole through it 
and let herself down and killed this man and 
ate him. His skull and shin bones were all that 
was found when his partner returned home the 
following day. The boys said that they could 
not cover the footprint of the bear with a pair 
of a number nine shoes. Some bear, eh? How 
would you like to have been there with your .35 ? 
I am planning to take a good hunt this fall after 
the big fellows. M. M. Pond. 
Forest and Stream is a magazine for sports¬ 
men. If you feel that you are getting more than, 
$3 a year in value out of it, please square ac¬ 
counts with us by recommending some of your 
friends to subscribe. 
Old Friends. 
Somerville, Mass., Sept. 10.— Editor Forest 
and Stream: Sorry to have read of the inclina¬ 
tion of the Haverhill correspondent, who has 
been for so long a time a member of the Forest 
and Stream family, to drop out. I trust that 
he has been persuaded to alter his inten¬ 
tions. Must he lessen the rank of old friends? 
We need them all and many more. 
Should think his feeling the necessity of 
laying aside the gun all the more reason for 
holding on to Forest and Stream. Most of my 
best outing trips are spent in its columns. Nor 
is there the muzzle of a gun to be chased around 
in every instance. Trust that I misunderstood 
his impression of a real present time outing. 
And are conditions really so bad in his locality? 
His letter recalls to me what was perhaps the 
most productive few hours’ shooting I ever ex¬ 
perienced only last fall not far from Haverhill, 
a bag which I could have doubled had I taken 
full advantage of the opportunity. What I saw 
and heard of that country convinced me that I 
should like to revisit it some time. It looked 
very inviting to me. 
I believe that there is yet enough game to 
furnish an incentive to be out in the open which 
after all is the real thing. C. H. S. 
You fellows all have heard of the Irishman, 
newly arrived, who when shown a giraffe in 
the Bronx Zoo and told its name, said: “There 
ain’t no such animal.” Well, read what Randy 
Hearst’s American says: 
“Venice, Cal., Sept. 18.—One of the queerest 
deep-sea creatures ever seen here was brought 
in to-day by a fisherman. It is five feet in length, 
black and green mottled, with a tail like that of 
a shark. 
“It has a dorsal fin and four feet shaped like 
those of a parrot. Its mouth resembles that of 
a Gila monster, while its head is a replica on a 
large scale of that of a California horned toad.” 
The next time you go fishing, leave home the 
“hip disease” or you may see one “av thim things.” 
