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Nov. 14, 1908.] 
Death of Dr. S. T. Davis. 
Last week news was received of the death 
of Dr. Samuel T. Davis, of Lancaster, Pa., of 
heart failure, in the Sierra Madre, of Mexico, 
where Dr. Davis and A. C. Kepler had gone to 
hunt. Dr. Davis died Oct. 23 and was buried 
the next day at the camp, five days’ journey from 
any settlement. 
Dr. Davis was born March 6, 1838, in Hunt¬ 
ington county, Pennsylvania, and as a boy learned 
the trade of wagon maker, but subsequently 
studied medicine and taught school for a time. 
At the breaking out of the Civil War, with four 
brothers he enlisted and served through the war, 
being severely wounded, and lying for five days 
on the battlefield at Resaca. He graduated from 
the Long Island Medical College in 1865. In 
1899 he became president of the State Board of 
Health and at various times he was president of 
city, county and other medical associations. As 
a physician he was popular and successful and 
exerted a wide influence for good. At the time 
of his death he was with his old hunting com¬ 
panion, A. C. Kepler, with whom he had hunted 
in the Rocky Mountains of the West, in the 
forests of Canada and in the canebrakes of the 
South. 
Dr. Davis was well known to the readers of 
Forest and Stream as a successful big-game 
hunter, traveler, photographer and an enter- 
i taining writer on big-game subjects. He was 
one of the early American visitors to Newfound¬ 
land and wrote a book entitled, "Caribou Shoot- 
: ing in Newfoundland” which did much to stimu¬ 
late the travel which, in more recent years, has 
taken , place to that island. 
Dr. Davis was a man of great personal charm 
and his death is a severe loss to the community. 
New Regulations in the Sudan. 
There has been a change in the regulations 
affecting the shooting of game in the Sudan, 
in Africa, and the new game preservation ordi¬ 
nance will become effective this fall. Superin¬ 
tendent A. L. Butler, of the Game Preservation 
i Department of the Sudan Government, has 
! written to the London bield from Khartoum, 
pointing out the changes affecting sportsmen 
tourists and others, as follows: 
(1) The fee for an “A” license is raised from 
£ E.40 to £ E.50. 
(2) The animals and birds which are entirely 
protected are wild ass, zebra, ostrich, shoe-bill 
(Balceniceps), ground hornbill and secretary 
bird; and, in the Kassala and Sennar provinces 
only, rhinoceros. 
(3) The animals and birds of which a limited 
number may be captured or killed by the holder 
of an “A” license and the numbers of each 
species allowed will be as follows: 
Giraffe (subject to the payment of an addi¬ 
tional fee of £E.2o), one; rhinoceros (except 
in the Kassala and Sennar provinces), one; Mrs. 
Gray’s waterbuck, one; eland, one; kudu, one; 
beisa oryx, one; elephant, two; buffalo, three; 
waterbuck, four (but not more than two of these 
may be killed in the Kassala and Sennar pro¬ 
vinces and on the White Nile north of Kodok) ; 
; roan antelope, four (with the same restriction as 
the waterbuck); bushbuck, four; Tora harte- 
beest, four; leucoryx, four; white-eared cob, 
four; Uganda cob, six; reedbuck, four (but 
eight in the Kassala and Sennar provinces) ; 
Addra gazelle, six; addax, six; Jackson’s harte- 
beest, four; klipspringer, one; hippopotamus, 
four (but no limit south of Kodok or Sennar) ; 
ibex, four (but only two of these south of Sua- 
kin) ; Barbary sheep, two; and other antelopes 
and gazelles not specified, twelve of each species. 
There is also a limit of two on such large 
river birds as pelicans, flamingoes, storks, herons, 
egrets and ibises. For various reasons, princi¬ 
pally administrative, shooting parties will not 
be permitted to enter the following districts: 
(a) The Kordofan Province south of a line 
connecting Sherkeila, Rahad, Abu Haraz, Abu 
Zabbat, Nahud and El Eddeiya; (b) the Bahr 
el Ghazal Province; (c) the districts south and 
west of a line drawn from Nassar, on the Sobat, 
to Fading, on the Khor Filus, thence to the 
mouth of the Keraf River (which the steamers 
or boats of private parties may not enter), and 
thence to the western end of Lake No. With 
the exception that parties using a steamer or 
boat as a base, and not proceeding more than a 
day’s march inland from it, may shoot on either 
bank of the Nile north of Shambe, and on the 
east bank south of Shambe to the Uganda 
boundary. 
A View of Hawks. 
Aitkin, Minn., Oct. 28 —Editor Forest and 
Stream: I feel just now as though I should 
like to have the protectors of the wild things 
of nature—such as hawks, for instance—spend 
some of their time in protecting the barn yard 
fowls. Just now a hawk came into the yard, 
and in spite of all the commotion I could make, 
picked up a two-pound chicken from in front 
of the chicken house and flew off, with the 
chicken squawking. The boy followed with the 
gun, but the hawk got away with the chicken. 
I have seen the hawks take more than a dozen 
this year; different varieties of hawks. 
I, too, love the wild things, but object to 
giving half of my effort in production to their 
support, and if I could clear the earth of them 
at one swipe I certainly would do it in spite 
of the societies that want to protect (?) the 
farmer. I should leave the mice for the cats. 
Emma J. Jaques. 
Game in Saskatchewan. 
Duluth, Minn., Oct. 29. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: I just came back from Saskatchewan, 
where I found very good duck shooting; grouse 
scarce; a fair amount of gray greese and a good 
many sandhill cranes; saw three white cranes. I 
also saw one flock of swans, but they were out 
of range. It was very easy to make a good bag 
of ducks at any time. They are not as good as 
our native rice-fed birds, but are good just the 
same. I saw one small flock of partridges in 
the Touchwood Hills. The settlers and Indians 
say they are scarce. Antelope are all gone in 
that section of the country, but a few blacktail 
deer and bear are left. Fred Chase. 
Long Island Game. 
Reports from the south shore of Long Island 
indicate an abundance of rabbits but a scarcity 
of grouse and quail. On some of the club pre¬ 
serves small bags of quail have been the rule 
since opening day. 
In Western Washington. 
Seattle, Wash., Nov. 5.— Editor Forest tifcid 
Stream: The quail season opened here the first 
of October, and since then the hills and valleys 
have been overrun with all sorts and conditions 
of shooters. There was certainly a good crop 
of these birds, for they were seen everywhere. 
The spring and summer were unusually dry and 
warm, so that no young chicks were drowned or 
chilled by cold and rainy times. Two and three 
broods were hatched in this, the White River 
valley, and the latter flocks were not more than 
half grown when the season opened. 
Unfortunately for the quail, the game laws 
here allow shooting of grouse and pheasants on 
the first of September and when that season 
opened the woods, meadows and valleys were 
swarming with gunners, ostensibly to shoot 
these birds, but most of them shot everything 
in sight—quail, robins, larks, flickers and other 
protected birds. Many quail were too small to 
be shot, but that made no difference to these 
lawless hunters; all was meat that came to their 
pockets. A few arrests and convictions were 
made, but it would take a game warden to every 
square mile to make any impression on the num¬ 
ber of rowdies with guns who flock out from 
the larger cities of the coast, Tacoma, Seattle, 
Everett and Bellingham, besides' large contin¬ 
gents from the smaller towns. 
Most of this valley is settled with market gar¬ 
deners, Japanese, Chinese, Indians, Italians and 
other foreigners who regularly shoot song birds 
for meat; so when the legitimate sportsman goes 
out for a few birds he finds them so scared, wild 
and scattered that’he does not have much chance 
for a bag unless he goes further out and back 
from the cities where the cheap hordes cannot 
go. On Sundays, especially, the workmen and 
other city chaps crowd the trains to nearby places. 
The same conditions prevail as to fishing. All 
streams near the cities are fished out so soon 
after May 1 that to get a decent mess a man 
must go away back to the less accessible sti earns 
and lakes where the one-day crowds cannot go. 
All the trout waters are fed from the melting 
snows and glaciers of the Cascade Mountains 
and the best fish are found in the far-up streams 
in the foothills and their valleys. 
Over in the Olympics, conditions are some¬ 
what better, as it takes several days to make the 
trip there and back and do any fishing at all, so 
the multitudes cannot go there. 
Efforts will be made the coming winter to have 
the Legislature change the game laws so the 
quail, grouse and pheasant season open together 
the first of October. This would allow quail 
to become fuller grown and keep out of the 
country the lawless hunters mentioned above. 
During next summer, while the Alaska-\ ukon- 
Pacific Exposition is on hand, doubtless many 
Eastern hunters will expect to come out here 
and hunt big game, elk and deer particularly. 
Do not do it, for the only elk in the State are 
about four hundred in the Olympic Mountains, 
a national forest reserve, and the animals are 
protected till 1915. Deer can be shot in portions 
of the Cascade Mountains in season. Bears, 
mountain lions, wild cats and wolves are always 
in season. Senex. 
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