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FOREST AND STREAM 
Jack Long, Son of the “King Hunter” 
and tags to the several county treasurers, so 
that there is no need of hunters not being 
equipped. We want all hunters to understand 
this matter, so that we will have no cause to 
trouble or annoy them. 
JOSEPH KALBFUS, 
Secretary, Game Commission, 
State of Pennsylvania. 
Harrisburg, Pa., 
October 16th, 1914. 
CONFLICTING GAME LAWS, MARYLAND 
AND MASSACHUSETTS. 
Center Marshfield, Mass., October 15, 1914. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
In your last issue (Oct. 10) Mr. Anson S. 
Howard of East North-field, Mass., says: “In 
the making of ill-considered and unbalanced 
laws it would be difficult to go beyond our pres¬ 
ent game legislation.” 
If Mr. Howard will read over the Game 
Laws of Maryland he 'will find the Maryland 
legislators can mix things up ’till no one really 
knows what the law is. 
I have before me a copy of the “Game and 
Fish Laws of Maryland; and Federal Regula¬ 
tions, 1914 and 1915,” arranged, published and 
distributed by Jas. P. Curley, State Game War¬ 
den ; also a letter from the best posted game 
lawyer in Maryland, and a newspaper clipping 
from a Belair (Harford Co., M'd) paper. 
The Game and Fish law book (page 60) says: 
“There is a uniform season for the following 
game in Maryland, (being the Act of 1914, Chap. 
472 and applies to all counties), partridge, quail, 
pheasant, rabbit, squirrel, woodcock, from Nov. 
10 to Dec. 24, both dates included.” 
The Harford Co. law (for in Maryland each 
county makes laws to suit itself), page 33, same 
book, says: “The Act 'of 1914, Chap. 365, pro¬ 
vides a closed season from Dec. 10 to Nov. 10.” 
The Belair, Harford Co. paper, supposed to 
be correct on local law, says: “There has been 
considerable legislation on the subject (game- 
laws) during the past year, resulting in a nat¬ 
ional, a state, and a county law. When these 
conflict with each other they prevail in the order 
named. The open season lasts from Nov. 10th 
to Dec. 24th.” 
Now about license: The Fish and Game book 
referred to before says (page 62) : " Guests of 
landowners require no license,” except in certain 
counties named. Harford county is not in this 
list. 
The Belair paper says: “All non-residents of 
Harford must pay a license fee of $3.00. Resi¬ 
dents of Harford may gun in their own property 
without the payment of a license, but must pay 
$1.00 for gunning on other property.” 
I could show a number of other “discrepancies” 
where the laws conflict, but these samples are 
sufficient. 
A PUZZLED GUNNER. 
P. S. The Governor of Massachusetts issued 
a proclamation on Wednesday, Oct. 14, stating 
that “on account of the extreme druoght now 
existing, the open season for upland game is 
suspended in this Commonwealth until further 
notice.” 
No one disputes the advisability of this “proc¬ 
lamation,” but how about the 65,000 hunters who 
have paid for hunting licenses expecting the 
season to last from October 10 to November 10 
inclusive ? 
Few of the present generation have any idea 
of the enormous amount of game and “varmints” 
which settlers of now populous states encounter¬ 
ed in opening the country. The articles which 
this paper has been reproducing of late, and in 
which “Nessmuk” talks in off-hand fashion of 
herds of deer and elk and packs of wolves, 
read like fiction. Nevertheless, these stories are 
true in detail. 
Readers of Forest and Stream had the pleasure 
last winter of perusing a series of articles con¬ 
tributed by Dr. W. J. McKnight, the well known 
Pennsylvania historian, dealing with early 
northwestern Pennsylvania hunters, and the ac¬ 
count of game which these men shot. One of 
the best kno-vn of these characceis was Bill 
Long, who received the well earned title of 
the “King Hunter.” Dr. McKnight has since 
sent to Forest and Stream the following article 
which tells about Jack Long, the son of Bill Long, 
who also was a mighty Nimrod. Describing 
Jack Long, Dr. McKnight, who enjoyed a per¬ 
sonal acquaintance with that survivor of the 
Natty Bumpo type, says: 
Andrew Jackson Long, a son of William 
Long, the “King Hunter,” was born in Jeffer¬ 
son County, Pennsylvania, in 1829. on what is 
known and now called the Horn farm- He 
moved with his father to the neighborhood af 
Falls Creek, in Clearfield County, when he was 
about twelve years old. I knew him from my 
boyhood, and visited with him in his home for 
two days in 1899, when he gave me the follow¬ 
ing facts in regard to his hunting career: 
“I have killed six deer in a day, often foul 
or five in a day. I have killed four pan hers 
in a day, and twenty during my life. The last 
panther I killed was in 1872. It was the largest 
one, and measured eleven feet from tip of nose 
to end of tail. I have killed about three hun¬ 
dred and fifty bears. In 1898 I killed nine bears. 
I have killed about fifteen hundred deer. I 
have killed about one hundred and fifty wolves. 
The last wolves—two in number—I killed in 
1881. I have killed foxes, wild-cats, catamounts, 
etc., without number. I caught in traps twenty 
otter and one black fox. 
“When hungry, wolves and bears will eat one 
another. A bear will fight for its cubs even 
to death; a panther will not. Wolves make some 
fight for their young but not a close one. A 
large bear will kill a panther in a fight. Bears 
have wallows, and have paths for miles to and 
from their dens. These paths are usually 
blazed on hemlock-trees- Each bear, big or 
little, traveling the same path, will bite the 
Summer Plumage. 
blazed trees. Wolves have their paths too. 
Wolves will kill a deer for their young, cut 
it up, and bury it along their paths. Panthers 
usually have from two to three cubs in Septem¬ 
ber of each year- A panther will eat only fresh 
meat. 
“I have tamed panthers until they were about 
two years old, when they become vicious and 
had to be killed. I have tamed wolves and 
used them for the same purposes as a dog. 
They would follow me as dogs, and hunted with 
me, but at the age of two years I generally had 
to kill them. For bear-traps, I used venison, 
groundhog, and beef, for bait. A bear will pa¬ 
tiently dig a whole day for a groundhog. I 
have found many deer horns in the woods, that 
were locked by combat, each deer having died 
from this fight. In 1853 my father and I killed 
five grown panthers on Medix Run. In March 
of the same year Peter Smith and Erasmus 
Long-Tailed Duck, 
