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science and humane efforts to increase the fast 
Recent Publications. 
Sept, 19, 1908.] 
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Hunting in California. 
San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 10.— Editor Forest 
and Stream: The deer hunting season has now 
opened in earnest in southern California and 
the change in the weather has made the game 
much more plentiful in the accessible hunting 
country. Dr. C. A. Kuns recently returned to 
Los Angeles from a hunting trip to the foot 
of Mt. Gleason where his party of five averaged 
one buck per man in three days’ shooting. The 
doctor himself had splendid luck, dropping two 
bucks one morning within a space of about 
fifteen minutes. The party saw a total of twenty- 
two deer and killed five of these. A short time 
before two men killed four deer in two days 
at the same place. What is believed to be the 
largest buck that has been killed in southern 
i California for many years was killed by William 
M. Clingan in the foothills of the Chico Lopez 
Mountains recently. The buck carried a beau 
tiful pair of seven-point antlers which will be 
mounted. 
Two Alameda hunters, W. J. Rogers and Dr. 
E. R. Schroeder, last week broke up a game 
that had been practiced for a number of years 
by a guide in Mendocino county. When they 
went out with th£ guide the latter gave a signal 
to his assistant who had been hidden in the 
forest and a goat with its hair dyed brown and 
with real deer antlers on its head was released. 
The frightened animal tore down a cliff at a 
terrific speed, but the hunters managed to head 
it off and intercepted it .at a steep pass. Instead 
of rushing away from them the goat came on 
at full speed and knocked the doctor over. 
Rogers fired and succeeded in wounding the 
animal, but it made its escape and both the guide 
and his assistant have also disappeared. It is 
claimed that the same guide has practiced the 
deception for several years. 
The California Game and Fish Protective As¬ 
sociation has been holding its convention at 
Santa Cruz during the past week and represen¬ 
tatives from about forty-five associations were 
in attendance. A number of good suggestions 
regarding amendments to the game and fish laws 
were made and referred to the proper commit¬ 
tees. The meeting has been made a very pleas- 
i ant one by trips around Monterey Bay and to 
| tfl e nearby points of interest, including the fish 
hatchery at Brookdale. A. P. B. 
A Game Warden’s Work. 
Merely to show the gratifying change in 
public sentiment toward the one-time despised 
game warden, as well as to endorse what is said 
of these men as a class and Game Warden Smith 
in particular, we quote from the Bridgeport 
j Telegram as follows: 
j “Several owners of extensive tracts of mea- 
f dow and woodland in the town of Norwalk have 
generously agreed to lend their combined prop- 
! -rties to Game Warden Wilbur E. Smith for 
he space of two years in order that he may 
Form a large State game preserve in which wild 
'reatures whose ranks have been thinned by the 
constant persecution to which they have been 
objected may flourish unmolested. The propa- 
; ? a tion of the rarer kinds of fish and game is 
dso contemplated and the new preserves will 
j ,ff er an unusually satisfactory field for experi- 
j nent. No hunter will be permitted to enter 
hese peaceful shades which are devoted to 
diminishing races of beasts, birds and fishes 
which were once so common in Connecticut. 
‘The obtaining of such unusual facilities is 
a high tribute to the excellent work which Mr. 
Smith has done in this comparatively new and 
often dangerous field. Few people realize the 
seriousness of the game warden’s duties or the 
heavy risks they involve. Such officials take 
their lives in their hands when they endeavor 
to protect the wild creatures of field and forest 
against the pot hunters or plumage seekers who 
try to exterminate them. Several brave men 
have already fallen in the work and others have 
barely escaped death after months of suffering. 
The game wardens of the United States are 
men of great intelligence and approved courage 
whose efforts should have the aid and sympathy 
of every good citizen. 
“Fairfield county has been remarkably fortu¬ 
nate in securing the services of Mr. Smith who, 
in addition to being thoroughly zealous in his 
labors, knows how to discriminate in his deal¬ 
ings with the new comers to this country who 
are the most remorseless hunters he has to con¬ 
front. He understands that most of them sin 
in ignorance of the laws, and his attempt a year 
or two ago to induce their better instructed 
countrymen to explain the game laws to them 
excited general approval. Mr. Smith is as tact¬ 
ful as he is resolute and is never eager to pro¬ 
voke trouble. When it arrives he is ready to 
meet it and invariably meets it successfully. 
“Besides his actual care of the game Mr. 
Smith does an immense amount of educational 
work among adults and young people. His lec¬ 
tures are training children in the love and 
knowledge of animals and are paving the way 
for the rising generation to become more 
humane than the present one. The new oppor¬ 
tunities which have been accorded him are a 
deserved tribute to a faithful and untiring pub¬ 
lic servant.” 
The Forest and Stream may be obtained from 
any newsdealer on order. Ask your dealer to 
supply you regularly. 
Inter-Ocean Hunting Tales, by Edgar F. 
Randolph. Cloth, illustrated, 173 pages, $1. 
New York, The Forest and Stream Publish¬ 
ing Company. 
This is a collection of the best of the series 
of articles that have appeared over Mr. Ran¬ 
dolph’s signature in Forest and Stream from 
time to time. The subjects are: “A Reminis¬ 
cence of the Rockies,” “Expense of an Outing,” 
“A New Brunswick Hunt,” “Rounding Up Cats 
in Colorado,” “Duck Shooting in Calcasieu 
Parish,” “Outing at Two-Ocean Pass,” “Camp 
Life Near the Tetons,” “Bloodless Spurt,” 
“Western Camp Life,” “Elk Hunt in Wyoming.” 
Air. Randolph has hunted in so many regions, 
and acquired so thorough a knowledge of wood¬ 
craft and the ways of wild animals—game and 
other sorts—that this volume is destined to be¬ 
come a standard reference work to which sports¬ 
men may turn with confidence when they are 
seeking knowledge. The narrative is pleasing, 
but never dull, and is interspersed with anec¬ 
dotes and tales of the camp-fire, trail and shore. 
The illustrations are from photographs. 
A Caribou Comes to Camp. 
Riley Brook, N. B., Sept. 1.—Editor Forest 
and Stream: I am sending you a photograph 
of a small bull caribou that has been around 
here all summer. He has so little fear of man 
that he will allow one to walk directly up to 
him, although seemingly in good health, but 
rather poor in flesh. The photograph was taken 
while father and I were driving him out of an 
oat field. We drove him into the pasture among 
the cattle where he remained for some time. 
When the photograph was taken he was shed¬ 
ding his hair, which can be seen on the lower 
part of the body. 
Chas. L. Barker, Guide. 
All the game laws of the United States and 
Canada, revised to date and now in force, are 
given in the Game Laws in Brief. See adv. 
THE BARKERS’ CARIBOU VISITOR. 
