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Chabot where land will be donated and a cash 
bonus offered. The Sacramento Chamber of 
Commerce is working to have the farm removed 
to Folsom on the prison property where ample 
room is available, and how the San Jose Cham¬ 
ber of Commerce has come forward with a 
proposition to have the farm located on Alum 
Rock Canon where land will be donated if this 
choice is made. Several hundred pheasants, 
turkeys, quail and other birds will have to be 
moved, and it is desired to make the change as 
quickly as possible if it is to be made this year. 
The lease on the present property is faulty, and 
a suit is now on to eject the commissioners, the 
owner, H. G. Bedford, desiring the use of his 
land. 
The Niles Bluejay Club, of Niles, Cal., or¬ 
ganized for the purpose of exterminating the 
destructive bluejay, held a shoot recently at 
which prizes were offered for the largest bags. 
S. O. Higley was high gun with 104 birds to 
his credit and was awarded a medal. The offi¬ 
cials of the club, which has a membership of 
nearly one hundred, are: President, A 1 Mayers; 
Vice-President, J. B. Barnard; Secretary, C. A. 
Logan. 
Salvatore Colla, J. Colla and I. Graziona were 
arrested recently on the San Francisco water 
front and brought before Judge Deasy on the 
charge of cruelty to animals. They confessed 
they they had cut the fins from several live 
sharks and released them, giving as an excuse 
that the sharks had ruined their nets. Each 
was fined $10 by the police judge. 
Golden Gate. 
Cooler Days for Hunting. 
New Orleans, La., Dec. 2. —Editor Forest and 
Stream: The prevailing cold weather of the 
last few days has given an impetus to hunting 
in all parts of Louisiana. The markets were 
well supplied with wild ducks, wild geese, some 
turkeys, quail, doves and other game. The 
numerous sportsmen have brought back ducks, 
deer and turkeys. Thanksgiving Day many hunt¬ 
ing parties went out to spend the day at Lake 
Catherine, the Barataria section, the Jump at the 
mouth of the Mississippi River, and other sec¬ 
tions where ducks, geese and other game abound. 
Ducks are plentiful this season, and they are in 
very good condition. Many deer are found in 
the Barataria section in Jefferson parish. On 
the whole, wild turkeys have not been quite so 
abundant as formerly up to this time, although 
turkeys will be in better condition and more 
easily found later on in the season. Quail and 
doves are fairly abundant in the central portions 
of the State. Several of the hunters in New 
Orleans accepted the hospitality of the Calca¬ 
sieu Gun and Rod Club and enjoyed a duck hunt 
Thanksgiving day near the town of Lake Charles. 
Some of the local sportsmen were also guests 
of the Opelousas Gun and Rod Club. 
During the recent convention of the American 
Bankers’ Association here a few of the dele¬ 
gates went over to the fishing places near New 
Orleans and fished or participated in a day’s 
hunting of ducks. The cold weather of the last 
three or four days has put an end, at least tem¬ 
porarily, to fishing, and the sportsmen are turn¬ 
ing their attention to hunting. 
While hunting deer a few days ago in Jef¬ 
ferson parish, George Linden, Jr., fired at a flee¬ 
ing deer and one of the buckshot struck John 
Ehret behind the ear, inflicting a slight wound. 
The shot was a glancing one and did not do 
serious harm. Ehret was kneeling behind an 
ambush or barricade when he received his 
wound. Linden missed the deer in his excite¬ 
ment. Both men are well known hunters. 
The winter tourists are beginning to arrive 
and will remain in the city some time. Visitors 
are stopping in the city en route to Panama 
Canal and several parties are arranging for duck, 
turkey and deer hunts. The largest number of 
visitors, however, are not expected until after 
MR. PRESTON AND HIS OUTFIT. 
the Christmas holidays and just prior to the 
annual Mardi Gras. 
A black bear weighing 360 pounds was shot 
a few days ago at Pass Manchac, thirty miles 
from New Orleans, in a canebrake on the prop¬ 
erty of E. G Schlieder. The big bear was dis¬ 
covered by the keeper on Mr. Schlieder’s place 
just about daylight and he was quick to use his 
rifle. The bear was brought to this city and 
the meat distributed, while the shiny black coat 
of the bear will adorn one of the rooms in the 
residence of Mr. Schlieder in this city. Mr. 
Schlieder and some friends have gone to his 
plantation near Pass Manchac for the purpose 
of hunting bear, and they hope to be success¬ 
ful in capturing the mate of the one killed a 
few days ago. This is the first bear to be taken 
in many years so near to New Orleans, although 
many deer have been killed within the corporate 
limits of the ci f y, which covers the entire parish 
or county. F. G. G. 
A Cold Weather Outfit. 
Duluth, Minn., Nov. 24.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: llaving been a reader of your very 
interesting publication for the past several years 
and noting the many illustrations showing the 
“life strenuous” and being much given to the 
use of rod and gun and particularly fond of the 
outdoor life generally, I thought perhaps the ac¬ 
companying photograph of myself arrayed for 
a snowshoeing trip would prove interesting to 
others of the “ilk” providing you deem it worthy 
of reproduction. 
The entire suit is of skins, the shirt and 
breeches of buck and the coat and moccasins of 
moose skin. The cap and gloves are of musk¬ 
rat skins. The deer which wore the skins used 
in making shirt and breeches were killed by me, 
and the moose out of whose skin the coat was 
made was killed by my guide and hunting com¬ 
panion on many pleasant trips, Eugene Hans- 
comer, one of the best fellows in the world and 
the greatest “Indian in the woods” for a white 
man that it has been my good fortune to know. 
The shirt is made on the coat-shirt plan, the 
breeches along the lines of the old-time bicycle 
knickerbockers, and the coat was patterned after 
the English box coat and made large enough to 
permit wearing under it coat, sweater, flannel 
shirt and the necessary underwear demanded 
by this climate, where the mercury sometimes 
falls to forty degrees below. Shirt, breeches and 
coat are all fringe trimmed. G. W. Preston. 
Massachusetts Fish and Game Protec¬ 
tive Association. 
Boston, Mass., Nov. 25.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: The executive committee of this asso¬ 
ciation and the legislative committee will meet 
on Dec. 13. Preliminary to this meeting all 
clubs and societies in the State interested in the 
preservation of wild life in the fields and covers, 
and the fish in our streams and ponds, are in¬ 
vited to send one or more delegates to a gen¬ 
eral conference at 4 o’clock in the Tremont 
Building. At 5 o'clock the State association will 
hold its December meeting. 
On Wednesday, the 22d, the Northampton Rod 
and Gun Club held a banquet in South Deerfield. 
Ex-Senator W. H. Fecker presided. The speak¬ 
ers were M. C. Bailey, president of the club; 
Mayor Coolidge, Capt. R. B. West, F. W. Twiss, 
W. J. Reiley and T. J. Hammond. This club 
has had many years of usefulness. 
On Nov. 23 the Springfield Fish and Game 
Association held a meeting and banquet at the 
Highland Hotel in that city. Dr. W. T. Plorn- 
aday, of New York, delivered a lecture on 
“Practical Results in the Preservation of Wild 
Life.” He explained the Bayne law passed last 
winter by the State of New York and urged his 
hearers to work for such a law for Massachu¬ 
setts. 
W. L. Finley, of Oregon, lectured on “Wild¬ 
fowl of the Pacific Coast,” illustrated by numer¬ 
ous lantern slides. He urged the importance of 
setting apart of numerous areas of wild land 
and said that after multiplying there, the birds 
would spread out and the hunters would be able 
to find something to shoot. He also advocated 
the purchase by the State of isolated ponds as 
resting p'aces for wildfowl. 
Henry H. Kimball. 
