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our game laws will keep us well supplied for 
years to come. The law has been amended re¬ 
ducing the season to twenty-eight days and the 
bag to twelve birds. J. P. B. 
Detroit, Mich., June 22. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: The Michigan Legislature has ad¬ 
journed without taking any action on the pro¬ 
posed fish and game laws. Even the bills for 
the better regulation of the commercial fisheries 
were allowed to die unborn. 
Men who are in a position to judge attribute 
the inaction of the Legislature to a matter of 
too much politics. As an illustration, some of 
the friends of the present game warden at¬ 
tempted to secure legislation which would give 
him entire control of the collecting of all spawn 
from the commercial fishes in the waters of the 
State. Whereupon the federal authorities served 
notice that if such course were taken the Michi¬ 
gan hatcheries of the United States Government 
would be closed indefinitely. It is needless 
say the attempt was abandoned. Jay Beebe. 
Spring in the Yellowstone Park. 
Yellowstone Park, June 21.— Editor Forest 
and Stream: Our season for travel opened 
officially June 1, but the snow was so deep and 
water so high in the streams, while the snow 
on the lower levels was going off, that not 
until the 16th did tourists get over the con¬ 
tinental divide from the Tapper Basin to the 
lake. The Government had fully sixty men 
shoveling snow, getting the roads open. 
June xo the snow had only begun to melt in 
the higher mountains. .There was quite a fall 
in the temperature at this time, otherwise there 
would have been great damage by high water. 
As it was, several fills were washed out. 
Even the game could not get out on to the 
summer ranges as early as usual. On a trip 
from the Yellowstone Lake to Gardiner (two 
days) I saw beside the road and drove within 
ten feet of two young elk calves and two full 
grown beaver. I saw many elk and their young 
close by the road. In the Gardiner canon were 
two mountain sheep ewes with three young and 
another three with four young lambs. This is 
very unusual to see the sheep with young so low 
down at this time of the year. 
There are quite a large number of young ante¬ 
lope with those in sight of Gardiner. At this 
date it can be said that the National Park is in 
full bloom and it is very beautiful. The tourist 
can enjoy wild flowers, snow banks and all the 
wonderful sights to be seen at this high altitude. 
A number of visitors are in the park, but the 
hotels can accommodate a great many more than 
are coming at present. The nights are cold and 
the days cool. t. p jp 
New Publications. 
The House in the Water, by Charles G. D. 
Roberts. Cloth, 301 pages, illustrated by 
Charles Livingston Bull and decorated by 
Frank Vining Smith, $1.50. Boston, L. C. 
Page & Co. 
In every respect Prof. Roberts’ latest book 
is in keeping with his other volumes of animal 
stories. This one is about a colony of beavers 
and other animals and the narrative is enlivened 
by incidents connected with rambles in the 
woods by a boy and his friends. 
Quail Protection. 
Roswell, N. M., June 19.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: I was delighted with the “Handful of 
Quail” on your cover of June 12. The work of 
Prof. Hodge should be known to every owner 
of land where quail can be domesticated. New 
Mexico and Texas will not supply naturally more 
quail than are needed to feed the cat and hawk 
tribe. If sportsmen want quail to shoot, artificial 
means must be provided for their care and in¬ 
crease, just as the large poultry farms are com¬ 
ing to the farmers’ assistance to supply the pub¬ 
lic with poultry. When sportsmen know these 
facts and learn how easy it is to tame the quail 
and assist in artificial production, then we will 
have plenty of game for those who desire to 
shoot. No laws can be relied on for the quail's 
increase. Forty odd years’ hunting in Texas 
have shown that man is not alone the quail’s 
destroyer. Some writers have spoken of shoot¬ 
ing tame birds. * My experience in a preserve 
in England was faster birds than the wild birds 
of Texas that had never heard a gun before I 
pulled a trigger. 
My experience as a game warden shows that 
lawless men and boys are more afraid of a 
woman than of a man as a warden. I have 
stopped many who, had I been a man, would 
have employed very bad language. So far a 
request to stop has always been taken with 
“Yes, marm.” Mrs. B. R. Buffham, 
Deputy Game Warden. 
Wyoming Elk. 
Lander, Wyo., June 21.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: As the sportsmen of the United States 
have received the impression through the press 
that it will be unlawful to kill elk in Wyoming 
during the next two years, I desire at this time 
to call the attention of your readers to the fact 
that hunting licenses will be issued permitting 
the killing of elk and other large game in cer¬ 
tain counties (Fremont, L’inta, Carbon, Park and 
a portion of Big Horn) of the State. 
The non-resident ordinary license will permit 
the killing of one elk, one male mountain sheep, 
two deer and bears in addition to the game birds 
of the State. A special license will be issued to 
holders of an ordinary license permitting the 
killing of one additional elk. Each of these 
licenses costs $50 and is issued by any justice of 
the peace, assistant game warden or will be for¬ 
warded upon receipt of the above amount from 
this office. D. C. Nowlin, 
State Game Warden. 
Four Indian Tigers in a Day. 
The machans were about sixty yards apart, 
one on each side of a small but deep nullah, and 
I having first choice, took the right-hand one. 
as it commanded the nullah for nearly twenty 
yards, and I judged the tiger would go down 
it. Unfortunately, there was a very bushy tree 
just in front of me, which completely screened 
my front view, but, as there was no time to 
to alter existing arrangements, the sun getting 
very low, I took my chance and climbed in. 
After what seemed a very long wait, says A. T. 
L. in the Field, the beat began. The men got 
nearer and nearer, till I could almost see them, 
and I had just given up hope and had lighted 
a cigarette when, looking up after throwing the 
match away, I saw a tigress about sixty yards . ! 
to my right front, and well clear of the ob¬ 
structing tree. She was standing quite still, 1 
end on, looking back at the beaters. I covered i 
her and waited, hoping that she would come 'j 
nearer or give me a broadside shot. Some-1 
thing moved, and, looking a few yards to her 
left, I saw another tiger. This last moved be¬ 
hind my obstructing tree, and that was the last :j 
I saw of him for the time being. Still watching 1 
the tigress, who remained perfectly still, look¬ 
ing back, I debated with myself whether I 
should fire or not, and was still undecided when 
I heard a shot to my left and a roar. The ani¬ 
mal I was watching gave a bound in the air and fl 
went off at a gallop. I was very cramped in my 1 
rnachan, but turned sideways and took a snap- I 
shot, as one would at a snipe, as she crossed 
through a bit of open ground still about sixty j 
yards away. A low growl was the only re¬ 
sponse, and I fired the second barrel, somewhat 1 
despairingly, at her stern as she disappeared 
in the bushes. Immediately afterwards B. fired 
again, but, as I could see little or nothing in 
his direction, owing to the bushy tree, I was ] 
quite in the dark even as to what he was firing 
at. Then I heard an animal moaning and 
groaning, apparently in great distress, behind 
me and out of sight in the bushes, but took it 
for one of B.’s, as I could not hope that either 
of my shots had taken effect. The only thing 
that helped me to bear up was that she had 
giowled when I first fired. The beaters came 
on, and yet another tiger appeared, as if out of 
the ground, to my right front, and then disap- t 
peared behind that same protecting tree, which 
hid everything. 
I heard B. fire twice, and looking towards 
him, I saw a tiger, still on its legs, staggering 
about in front of him. He fired again and 0 
again, and the animal disappeared. The beat¬ 
ers came nearer and nearer, and I called out to H 
B., “What have you got?” He answered, “Two ffl 
certainly and I think a third.” I climbed down 
and went off to B.’s tree, and found that he had 
three tigers stone dead within thirty yards— ( 
two males and a female. I then went off to jj ; 
look at the tracks of the animal I had fired at, 
and to my great joy found plentiful bloodmarks. .j 
One of the “stops” under whose tree she had fflj 
passed said she was badly hit as she staggered ||| 
after the first shot, but this I did not see my- iAI 
self. I went back to B. and asked him if he .ffl 
would follow up for a short way, as I thought Hi 
she would not go far, for she was bleeding 9.1 
freely. B. was willing, and we followed the 
tracks carefully for a hundred yards, and found j 
her lying dead on an open piece of ground, ’fll 
The bullet had taken her a little bit far back j9| 
and had smashed the liver to pieces, the second 
shot being a miss. B. had killed two of his with 
single shots,’ the third having four bullets in 
him. 
The Glorious Fourth. 
Just at this season vast numbers of revolvers 
are sold to celebrants of “the glorious Fourth.” 
What becomes of them is a problem no one can 
solve, for next year as many if not more will 
be purchased. Firing a revolver on the Fourth 
appeals with almost irresistible force to Young 
America, even if other means of celebrating are 
more noisy. s 
