a trip through the southwestern portion of the 
State in the interest of the enforcement of the 
fish and game protection laws. They report an 
abundance of game in the sections they visited 
and said the streams of that section are literally 
alive with fish. 
The men started at a point on the Wabash 
River opposite Mt. Carmel, Ill., traversing Gib¬ 
son, Pike, Dubois, Crawford, Harrison and Floyd 
counties. Mr. Gleason, who has been under the 
State Game Warden for a number of years, said 
he never has seen as many quail in the fields of 
Southern Indiana as there are at present. 
GAME POOR AUTO DODGERS. 
Oil City, Pa., Oct. 31.—That game is prolific 
in this immediate vicinity seems demonstrated by 
the fact that drivers of automobiles killed one 
rabbit and three pheasants within two days, the 
slaughter being unintentional on their part. 
When William Baughman was taking one of 
the Democratic campaigners from the Oil City 
meeting to speak in Franklin the machine ran 
crown and killed a full grown rabbit near Reno. 
The animal made the mistake of attempting to 
get from one side of the road to the other when 
it heard the automobile coming. 
Millard Kohlman, who was driving the truck 
of the Petroleum Telephone Company into the 
country with a gang of linemen, ran into a flock 
of pheasants that had huddled in the middle of 
the road, killing three of the birds. 
SAW A SILVER GREY FOX. 
Moriah Center, N. Y., Oct. 25. 
While bunting at Boreas River last week a 
Moriah Center hunter is confident that he saw 
a silver grey fox. The fox swam the river near 
the hunter but, after shaking himself on the 
shore, slipped into the bushes before the hunter 
realized that it was a silver grey. A few minutes 
later a mink swam the river and a red fox also 
showed up. The dazed hunter, while standing 
on this same watch, caught a glimpse of what he 
thought was a bear and a deer also came into the 
river. It seems to have been a case of too much 
game for the hunter went home empty handed. 
KILL 5 BEARS AND 3 MOOSE. 
Ticonderoga, N. Y., Oct. 22. 
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Witherbee and son, Silas, 
and daughter Louise, and Reed Kilpatrick of 
New York, returned Sunday from a three weeks’ 
hunt in the Canadian wilds, Great Bear Lake, 
Ontario. They killed five bears and three moose. 
Silas M. Witherbee got the largest moose in the 
party. Its head had 43 prongs and a 68-inch 
spread. - 
KING FISH AT CORSON’S INLET, N. J. 
Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 9. 
There has never been a commercial fishery at 
this point, but it has long been visited by sports¬ 
men. Among the fish sought Menticirrhus sax- 
atilis holds a prominent place. The remarkable 
variation in numbers of this fish in different 
years is as noticeable here as at other points 
the species occurring in great abundance for one 
or two years and then gradually decreasing from 
year to year until few are caught. For the last 
fifteen years, however, which is as far as re¬ 
liable accounts go, it has never entirely disap¬ 
peared. 
The year 1907 began the latest period of maxi¬ 
mum abundance. During the previous August 
FOREST AND STREAM 
and September large numbers of young fish, less 
than two inches long, were seen along the sandy 
marshes of the Inlet and many hauls of the bait 
nets contained little else. 
The fish usually makes its appearance early in 
May, the 4th being the earliest date of which I 
have a note, and remains until October. In 1909 
the last seen were October nth. After the mid¬ 
dle of September a northeast storm is usually 
followed by their disappearance. 
Menticirrhus americanus was first noted by me 
June 27th, 1909, when 8 examples were found in 
a catch of 95 king fish. July 26th there were no 
examples in a total of 25 of the two species. 
They were noted during August and Septem¬ 
ber and until October nth, when one example 
was seen. In 1910 they were noted from May 
22d to September nth. In 1911, 1912, and 1913 
they were found in July and August, in very 
small numbers compared with Menticirrhus sax- 
atilis, which continued abundant. 
Young and half grown examples of Menti¬ 
cirrhus saxatilis are common in the Inlet during 
summer, but I have never identified any but full 
grown specimens of Menticirrhus americanus. It 
is probable that the latter spawn here, however, 
as the females frequently contain large and ma¬ 
ture ovaries. 
R. J. PHILLIPS. 
RIO GRANDE INDIAN FISHERMEN. 
Most of the Southwestern Indians will not eat 
fish, but the tribes along the Rio Grande have 
gotten over this prejudice if they ever had it. 
An explanation for the former non-use of fish 
is as follows: When the people came up out 
of the underworld through a lake in the north 
they wandered about looking for good places to 
live. When they came to the Rio Grande the 
leader made a bridge of Guacamayo feathers. 
Those persons who refused to cross are now the 
nomadic Indians, those who crossed safely are 
the Pueblo Indians, and those who fell in are 
the fish. 
The methods of fishing are various, although 
snares and traps seem to be the most ancient 
The snare is made of a horsehair loop tied to the 
end of a short stick. Lying on the bank the 
fisherman maneuvers this snare till it is directly 
in front of the fish, and then draws it up with a 
jerk. The fish, startled, shoots straight ahead 
and is caught. The Indians of Taos Pueblo are 
very skillful at fishing in this manner. The fish¬ 
hook has been acquired from the white man and 
is called a “pointed fish snare.” Bone ones are 
sometimes made. 
BAD FOR NEXT GENERATION. 
Health Board Puts Ban on Roosters. 
The Board of Health ruled yesterday that 
chickens must not be allowed to run at large in 
New York City. This ruling was contained in 
the final amendment to the Sanitary Code regulat¬ 
ing the keeping of chickens. The amendment 
provided further that roosters must not be kept 
in the city; that runways and coops must be 
whitewashed and sanitary, and that chickens must 
not be kept within 25 feet of any inhabited or 
public building other than that of the owner. 
None may be kept in tenement houses. 
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DUCK HUNTING AVIATOR FINED. 
Atlantic City, N. J., Nov. 6.—Charged with gun¬ 
ning for ducks from a flying machine, in viola¬ 
tion of State law, Aviator Jaquith of Chicago 
was arrested here to-day, arraigned before Mag¬ 
istrate Sontheimer and fined $22.50, which he 
paid under protest. 
The prosecutor was Game Warden Tallman, 
who alleged tbat the aviator bad used a Curtiss 
flying boat. Jaquith was represented by the law 
firm of Bolte & Sooy, who argued that the Mag¬ 
istrate and game warden were giving a wrong 
interpretation to the law, as the so-called boat 
had no dimensions and was without specified 
draught. 
Sportsmen recently sent to Trenton a petition 
in which it was charged that ducks were desert¬ 
ing this locality because of the machines employed 
in hunting them. The petition was looked upon 
as a joke, but apparently the State official is 
serious in making a test case to cover flying boats. 
ROBIN REDBREAST COST $100. 
They protect the birds in New Jersey. A man 
who had in bis possession a dead robin in that 
state was fined $100 and costs. 
LONG ISLAND GAME FARM. 
Babylon, L. I., Nov. 3.—Owing to the high 
prices asked by owners of land on Long Island 
the Conservation Commission has been unable 
yet to locate the Long Island Game Farm au¬ 
thorized by the last Legislature. The Com¬ 
mission says that it hopes to have a site selected 
before long, and is anxious to have the farm 
in operation in time to provide game birds fo 
re-stocking covers next season. 
BIG LYNX KILLED ON SEVEN MOUNTAINS. 
Woodland, Pa., Oct. 30. 
The king of beasts of the Seven Mountains, 
a mountain lynx, fell a victim of the prowess 
of one William H. Hassinger, of Woodland, a 
small suburb of Reedsville, a few days ago. 
The beast was killed in the wild mountain coun¬ 
try about Cooper’s Gap, four miles from Reeds¬ 
ville. 
While rambling about the adjacent territory 
early Hassinger came upon the feline feeding 
upon the carcass of a deer which it had evidently 
killed. The beast slunk away at the approach of 
the huntsman. 
The latter returned to his home and procured 
a large steel trap, which he set and covered with 
leaves near the partly eaten deer carcass. The 
next night he visited the trap and found the 
victim raging about with a paw snapped fast 
in the steel jaws of the spring trap. A shot 
did the rest. 
Numerous deer have been reported killed dur¬ 
ing months past and the depredations were at¬ 
tributed to dogs. It is now generally believed 
that the lynx was the one that had played havoc 
among the deer. This view is strengthened by 
the fact that a number of dogs which entered 
the mountainous district never returned and in 
some instances their skeletons were found. 
The lynx tipped the scales at twenty-five 
pounds and was one of the largest of the species 
captured in this region in recent years. The 
animal was clever enough to elude the bands 
of hunters which work Seven Mountains each 
fall. It measured four feet. 
