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larger counties of the state and sections where 
the greatest amount of game has been found 
usually. 
To-day hunting with a dog is prohibited in 
Allegheny, Washington, Frederick, Carrol, Har¬ 
ford, Baltimore, Prince George’s, Howard, Mont¬ 
gomery, Anne Arundel, Cecil, Queen Anne’s, 
Talbot and Caroline counties. For many years 
these have been paradises for gunners. In them 
game of almost every kind has been found in 
greater or less abundance. The hunter caught 
prowling around with a dog this season is sub¬ 
ject to a fine of not less than $100. 
This will mean, of course, a considerable dimi¬ 
nution of revenue from hunters’ licenses, as many 
gunners, especially those from the cities, wait 
until they have arranged a hunting trip to secure 
the necessary legal permit. But, more than this, 
it will mean a tremendous increase in game next 
year. 
Reports from various sections of the state at 
the beginning of the season indicate that the sup¬ 
ply of game was larger than for years. This 
great parent stock, if left to propagate, will pro¬ 
duce a stock next year that will prove a record 
breaker. 
For years the proposition for a closed season 
of a year or more has been urged on legislators, 
but the demand has fallen on deaf ears. Now, 
because of the unexpected trouble, this closed 
season has come. It is bound to result in the 
greatest game season next year in the memory 
of the oldest hunters, is the opinion of those 
who realize the situation. 
J. GARVIN HAGER. 
SNOWY OWL OR -? 
Game Protector Kinter B. Rodgers recently 
said that he was positive the strange bird shot 
by William Peaoh of Ebensburg a few days ago 
is a snowy owl. Mr. Rodgers said that he has 
not yet received a reply from Dr. Kalbfus of the 
state game commission as to what disposition 
shall be made of the bird, but says it will either 
have to be killed or be well cared for, as one 
wing is useless. 
Mr. Rodgers has no desire to keep the bird 
himself. Several school teachers have asked for 
it, to exhibit the fowl to the pupils for a day 
or so, but upon the reply of Dr. Kalbfus depends 
the answer. Mr. Peach, who shot the bird, told 
Mr. Rodgers that he did not care to keep it and 
was rather glad that the game protector had 
taken it off his hands. Mr. Rodgers says the 
complaint that emanated from Ebensburg regard¬ 
ing the game protector’s action was needless, as 
it was only from a sense of duty that he acted. 
If Dr. Kalbfus grants permission, Mr. Rodgers 
says he will turn over the specimen to any per¬ 
son Mr. Peach may designate. 
SLAUGHTERED 5,000 RABBITS. 
Sunbury, Pa., Nov. 20.—Four thousand five 
hundred and thirty-five hunters’ licenses have 
been issued in Northumberland county to date- 
Last year 5,000 were issued. From the reports 
of hunters received here it is believed that more 
than 5,000 rabbits have been slaughtered since the 
first day of the season. 
NON-SALE OF GAME WINS IN SOUTHERN 
CALIFORNIA BUT LOSES IN THE NORTH. 
The official vote on proposition No. 18, the non¬ 
sale of game, in Los Angeles city and county, 
shows that the Wild Life Protective League, 
which led the fight for conservation and the pro¬ 
tection of wild life, won its fight by the large 
majority of 57,565. The actual vote here was— 
Yes 112,345, No 54,780. The negative vote in 
Northern California, particularly around San 
Francisco bay, was so large that the measure was 
defeated throughout the state. Southern Cali¬ 
fornia placed itself on record for wild life and 
its protection by a splendid vote, most encour¬ 
aging to conservationists. 
To more easily carry on the campaign through¬ 
out the state, it was divided up into halves. Dr. 
Taylor of the University of California took 
charge north of Fresno, while Dr. Charles F. 
Holder of Throop College of Technology, presi¬ 
dent of the Wild Life Protective League, and Mr. 
Henry W. Keller of Los Angeles as treasurer, 
had the work in hand in the South. Dr. Taylor 
carried on a remarkable campaign, but he could 
not stem the tide against the active and alert 
enemy around San Francisco bay. 
It was conceded that the fight for the non-sale 
of game was won, up to a few days before elec¬ 
tion; but in some way the San Francisco Exa¬ 
miner secured a photograph of the president of 
the Fish & Game Commission, Mr. Newbert, 
standing with some of his friends behind a string 
of ducks, which the Examiner claimed exceeded 
the legal limit. This was published by the Exam¬ 
iner on the Sunday previous to the election and 
was exploited to the full, thousands of copies 
being sent around the state costing No. 18 
thousands of votes. It was an illustration of 
“Rum, Romanism and Rebellion,” applied to 
game, and most disastrous. 
Dr. Holder received a letter from President 
Newbert in which he denounces the incident as a 
malicious lie. While the incident has created a 
very unfavorable impression in Southern Cali¬ 
fornia among conservationists, of course no one 
believes for a moment that Mr. Newbert was 
caught breaking the law, as he is known as a 
strong conservationist and one of the framers of 
the law. The incident is one of those unfortu¬ 
nate things that a wily enemy can use at the last 
moment to defeat a good cause. 
AGED INDIAN FIGHTER DIES. 
Seattle, Wash., Nov. 22.—Winfield Scott 
Jameson, one time companion in arms of Joa¬ 
quin Miller, the “Poet of the Sierras,” died in 
Port Gamble, where he has resided for the past 
fifty-four years, recently. He was a veteran 
of several Indian engagements and the Califor¬ 
nia gold rush of ’49, being among the first to 
make the journey from the East via the Isthmus 
of Panama. He was buried in Port Gamble. 
The aged lumberman, who was 84 years old 
when he died, was born in Sebec, Maine, and 
came from old New England stock, which num¬ 
bered among its members many whose names are 
prominent in the early Colonial and later Revo¬ 
lutionary history of the country. Before he had 
reached the age of 20 years he left home to 
make his way in the world, and went westward 
to Wisconsin and Minnesota. Here he worked 
until the news of the finding of gold in Califor¬ 
nia precipitated the rush of 1849. 
In 1858 he moved northward, settling near 
Portland, but one year later was attracted by 
the gold fever and joined the rush to the Fraser 
River and Cariboo County, in British Columbia- 
Returning from the gold fields in August, i860, 
Mr. Jameson settled in Port Gamble, where he 
lived until his death recently. The Society of 
Colonial Wars and the Pioneers of Washington 
and Oregon had Mr. Jameson’s name on their 
membership rolls. 
He is survived by his widow, two sons, Edgar 
Jameson of Port Gamble, and Fred P. Jameson, 
deputy state auditor at Olympia, and two daugh¬ 
ters, Mrs. R. W. Condon of Port Gamble, and 
Mrs. Harold Fred Hunter of Kingston. 
A mountain lion recently killed in the Grand 
Canyon game preserve, which adjoins the Tusa- 
yan national forest, measured ten feet from nose 
to tail. Mountain lions and other beasts of prey, 
such as wolves, coyotes, and wild cats, are killed 
by forest officers and game wardens because they 
are a menace to stock and to game animals. 
A HANDSOME CALENDAR. 
Steady! Got 'him! Twenty-ffive minutes with 
a four and a half pound black bass fighting for 
liberty, are a supreme test of nerve, muscle, eye 
and rod. 
The "last act in the struggle is graphically de¬ 
picted by the artist and the portrayal, so accurate 
and life like in every detail, must stir the blood 
of every sportsman, who counts Isaac Walton 
as his patron Saint. 
May many such experiences be yours in the 
year to come. 
Phillip R. Goodwin, whose brush is responsible 
for this stirring picture, is well known in the 
United States and Canada. He was born in Nor¬ 
wich, Connecticut, and was a charter member of 
Howard Pyle’s sdhool at Wilmington, Delaware- 
He spends a great part of each year in the 
Canadian Rockies and other parts of Canada, 
fishing, hunting and sketching. Thus his mate¬ 
rial is acquired direct from nature and his mas¬ 
tery of his art crystallizes his work into perfec¬ 
tion of scene, action and detail. One of these 
calendars will be sent Forest and Stream readers 
upon receipt of 15 cents. 
The Horton Manufacturing Company, 
Bristol, Conn. 
