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NEW NEPIGON REGION OPEN. 
Fishermen, hunters and outdoor lovers who 
like to get into virgin territory, but who still 
desire the comparative comforts of civilization, 
will be glad to know that a great new country 
extending north of Lake Superior to James Bay 
will be opened for travel this spring, summer 
and fall. Messrs. King and Armstrong of Jack 
Fish, Ontario, write Forest and Stream that this 
country is especially adapted to speckled trout 
fishing and h'as numerous rivers that teem with 
trout, and which have not yet been fished by 
outside sportsmen. 
There are two transcontinental railroads run¬ 
ning by the heads of these rivers, and excellent 
canoe trips can be made from one to the other 
with the best fishing en route, and with very 
little portaging to make; the speckled trout 
average in weight in these rivers from four to 
seven pounds, and the sportsman will be fishing 
virgin waters in any of these places. 
Everything except personal equipment is fur¬ 
nished for a certain rate per day, and either Mr. 
Armstrong or Mr. King accompanies each party 
to see that satisfaction is given them in every¬ 
thing. There are camps on Lake Nepigon and 
a motor boat service which enables sportsmen 
with their families to take a two weeks’ trip 
around this lake, fishing the many big rivers and 
streams that flow into it. Sportsmen who bring 
their families will be provided with a low rate 
per week or per day, everything furnished. 
These places can be reached direct by through 
trains on either the Canadian Northern, Grand 
Trunk or Canadian Pacific Ry., thus enabling 
sportsmen to reach the fishing rivers by one 
railroad, fishing the river down to the other 
railroad, returning home by a different route, 
and not covering the same country twice. 
For big game hunting, the Lac Seul regions 
have been opened. This lake is ioo miles long. 
Sportsmen can leave the train and step into a 
motor boat and take from ten to thirty days’ 
trip around this lake, with a guaranteed chance 
at moose, caribou, deer, geese, ducks, grouse, 
and as for fishing, there are muskalonge, picker¬ 
el, pike and lake trout. There are no portages 
to be made on this route. It affords an ideal 
trip for ladies, although it is in new country. 
F. C. Armstrong has operated a chain of 
hunting camps near this region for the last five 
years and there never has been a sportsman at 
his hunting camps who returned home dissatis¬ 
fied or without a chance to get game. 
HE CATCHES ’EM ALIVE. 
In all the annals of huntsmen nothing so re¬ 
markable has ever been recorded as the hitherto 
unheralded feat of Emil Friesz of East St. Louis. 
Mr. Friesz went out the other day and brought 
back eighteen rabbits without firing a shot—with¬ 
out so much as carrying a gun. He did it with 
his hands, his bare hands, caught them in the 
deep snow, that abounds in the vicinity of East 
St. Louis. It is reported that M. Friesz did not 
even wear gloves when he turned this trick. 
Fleet of foot and nimble is the rabbit, but not 
so fleet as to escape the wily Frenchman, who, un¬ 
armed, captured the white-tailed host. Mr. 
Friesz is now called “catch-’em-alive Emil.” 
AUTOMATIC PISTOL SHOOTING. 
The baby gun, otherwise known as the auto¬ 
matic has been put into book form by Walter 
Winans, who a few years ago brought out a 
treatise, the best yet done, entitled Hints on Re¬ 
volver Shooting. This work had a wide sale 
and seems to have called forth the present 
volume. An usual Mr. Winans holds a brief for 
the Smith and WLsson revolver and agrees with 
all revolver men that the automatic is too ‘‘un¬ 
certain for handling by any one but an expert 
m gun matters. The only excuse for this sneak 
weapon is the fact that it easily may be con¬ 
cealed, thus making it a handy killer for the gun 
toter and illicit gun handlers. The author recom¬ 
mends the Colt automatic as adopted by the 
United States Government, which is the man’s 
size variety. The book contains much general in¬ 
formation on revolver and pistol handling, with 
a chapter on stage tricks in shooting, dueling 
and some other things of interest but not im¬ 
portance. G. P. Putnam’s Sons are the publish¬ 
ers and the price one dollar. 
On the North Shore of Superior. 
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