FOREST AND STREAM 
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Weekly Reports From Our Local Correspondents 
MRS. BURNHAM SOME BEAR HUNTER. 
San Francisco, Nov. 7. 
Mrs. Frederick Burnham returned with her 
husband yesterday from their three months’ 
hunting trip to Alaska and brought with her 
trophies which proclaim her the champion wo¬ 
man hunter of the world. 
In one achievement alone she surpassed those 
of many a famous hunter by killing three huge 
grizzly bears with five shots and within as many 
seconds. 
With a guide Mrs. Burnham was preparing to 
follow the course of a glacier near where grizzly 
tracks had been seen. At the arrete of the glacier 
they suddenly saw three large grizzlies ambling 
down the ice. Mrs. Burnham hurried across the 
foot of the arrete, clambered up the other side 
and found a vantage point facing the three bears. 
Then she fired. The first shot accounted for 
one, and before the other two could determine 
what had happened they both were lying dead 
on the ice. 
Mrs. Burnham’s principal trophies which she 
brought back were heads of four grizzlies, two 
black goats, two caribou, two moose, one black 
wolf and two mountain sheep. Burnham’s list 
included two grizzlies, three black goats, one 
black mountain sheep, one white sheep, one 
moose, three caribou, and five black wolves. 
The Burnham party left here about three 
months ago and sailed for the mouth of the 
Kilchoa river. They went up the river 470 miles 
from Wrangell, much farther than any white 
woman has been before, and penetrated abso¬ 
lutely uncharted country. 
FAIRFIELD COUNTY FISH & GAME ASS’N. 
At a meeting of the Fairfield County Fish and 
Game Protective Association No. 1 held recent¬ 
ly, committees for the year were appointed. The 
matter of amalgamating all the game clubs in the 
state was also broached, but was tabled for fur¬ 
ther consideration at a future meeting. 
A. B. Ford will head the fish committee, with 
Martin Horschler and J. H. Reid as associates, 
While the game committee is comprised of Stan¬ 
ley T. Kellogg, chairman; E. FT. Walker and 
Russell D. Cate. The legislative committee com¬ 
prises G. L. Hammond and Robert Nichols. 
City sealer of weights and measures Dennis 
Kelly will head the publicity committee. He has 
chosen as one of his associates Earle C. Donegan, 
sporting editor of The Post. 
D. A. Finley, game commissioner of Oregon, 
is to be brought here to lecture before the club 
early in the winter. 
A COURAGEOUS GAME WARDEN. 
New Haven, Conn., Nov. 19, 1914. 
On Friday, November 13th, Walter D. Cook, 
under the direction of County Game Warden 
D. H. Clark was sent to the Allingtown woods, 
in response to complaints regarding the shooting 
of song birds in the vicinity. Cook apprehended 
two Italians in the act, and he showed them his 
badge and single handed undertook to place them 
under arrest, but having a little start of him, and 
Cook being heavily dressed, they succeeded in 
getting away, but before doing so, and when at 
a distance of about six rods, they turned and 
emptied the contents of their single barrel guns 
into his stomach, making a very dangerous 
wound but not necessarily fatal. Cook fell to the 
ground, but reached for his gun and fired five 
shots at his assailants, but unfortunately none 
took effect. He managed to reach his motorcycle 
and succeeded in reaching New Haven hospital, 
although in a confused and bloody state. 
His wonderful display of nerve in attempting 
to arrest the violators, and riding to New Haven 
while so seriously injured, certainly makes a very 
creditable showing, and one that the county 
should be proud of. He is very anxious to get 
well and join with the state police in bringing the 
outlaws to justice. The perpetrators of so das¬ 
tardly a deed should receive life sentences if 
caught. 
A GOOD ACTOR A BAD STUDENT OF 
GAME LAWS. 
Having just paid a fine of $75 for shipping 
deer into this state from Maine without the neces¬ 
sary tag, Mr. James K. Hackett said that there 
ought to be more publicity given to new game 
laws of New York State. 
“I was fined $75,” said the actor in his apart¬ 
ment at the Vanderbilt Hotel, “'because I had 
not asked the authorities at a cost of a two cent 
stamp for a shipping tag. It seems that I should 
also have obtained a tag permitting me to ship 
from Maine to this state a doe, because under the 
Maine law one is allowed to kill any sized deer 
of either sex, while in New York one is not al¬ 
lowed to kill a doe. I did not read the New York 
law, because I was not sporting there. 
“But I read and complied with the Maine law. 
Mrs. Hackett and myself and a few friends went 
to Jackman, Me., and brought back to camp at 
Penobscot two does, a buck and two partridges, 
which were consigned to the American Express 
Company to ship to the Lambs’ Club here.”—[Mr. 
Hackett should have had a copy of Game Laws 
in Brief.—Editor.] 
8,000 PHEASANTS LOOSED IN CONNEC¬ 
TICUT. 
Bridgeport, Conn., Nov. 20.—That success has 
been achieved in the effort of the State of Con¬ 
necticut to populate its wooded country with a 
bountiful stock of well-bred game is indicated by 
the announcement of Superintendent of Game 
John M. Crampton that he has liberated 8,000 
birds from the state game farm at Madison. 
This means an allotment of one thousand birds 
to each county, and it is very probable that by 
early spring of next year a larger number will 
be turned loose. Under the supervision of 
Superintendent Crampton, who has proven an 
ideal man for the position he now fills, and 
through the exploitation of needs by the state 
game commission, of which W. K. Mollan of this 
city is chairman, the farm at Madison, at first 
regarded as a rather dubious undertaking, seems 
to have blossomed perfectly and is about to be 
productive of beautiful fruits. 
Pheasants constitute the principal stock of the 
farm, although there is a large number of quail 
upon which visitors to the farm hungrily feast 
their eyes. Game Keeper Frank Hopkins, from 
the estate of Morton F. Plant, the well-known 
millionaire sportsman of New London, conducts 
the farm under the most sanitary and other mod¬ 
ern conditions that is possible. It is not an 
exaggeration to compare the quail house, cover¬ 
ing about an acre of ground, with a newly- 
finished ball-room in so far as immaculate ap¬ 
pearance is concerned. 
Three thousand pheasant eggs have been 
hatched by five hundred hens in a specially con¬ 
structed barn this summer just past. To those 
who understand conditions in breeding game, 
the spotless barn is a masterpiece. The hens are 
kept upon the lower floor, while above is the car¬ 
penter shop where coops for the fledgling pheas¬ 
ants are made. 
On a vast stretch of almost level land just 
west of the quail pen about seven hundred of 
these little coops are located, arranged in lanes 
so that they appear not unlike a miniature vil¬ 
lage. Each coop has a hen as sort of superin¬ 
tendent over a flock of from fifteen to seventeen 
little pheasant fellows, who run about the field 
in such numbers that it is a problem to walk 
through without stepping upon them. Elaborate 
safety measures are provided to prevent depreda¬ 
tions by human hands or from hawks. 
There is an open space set aside for a deer 
park, but as yet this phase has not been touched 
by the authorities. The project of the game farm 
