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tion, stating what facts the protectors knew about 
the case and thereby giving the grounds for the 
arrest. The county judge held that this is plainly 
the law, and therefore reversed the justice court. 
E. A. Spears. 
Game Matters. 
Berkeley, Cal., June 12.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: The announcement has been made that 
a number of sportsmen from Los Angeles, headed 
by Walter Armstrong, had secured on option on 
a tract of land east of Oroville on the North 
Fork of the Feather River, and that this would 
be used as a game preserve. Deer and quail 
abound there and a fine trout stream runs through 
the property. Old placer diggings are also lo¬ 
cated on the property, and it is the idea that 
those who tire of hunting and fishing can find 
amusement in working these. 
The board of supervisors of Alameda county 
has just passed an ordinance opening the deer 
season in that county on July 16. In the past 
the season has opened on July 1, but the deer 
there are fast disappearing, and 
the season has been curtailed as 
a result. The season will close 
there on Aug. 1. 
Miss Libby, of Southern Cali¬ 
fornia, the members of the Audu¬ 
bon Society, who rendered good 
service at the recent session of 
the State Legislature, and whose 
influence saved the meadow lark 
from wholesale slaughter, has 
been made a deputy by the Fish 
and Game Commission and is 
spending her time lecturing on 
bird life before the pupils of the 
public schools. 
Visitors to the great bird reser¬ 
vation in Northern California and 
Southern Oregon, established by 
former President Roosevelt, state 
that more birds are now breeding 
on Bird Islands in Lower Kla¬ 
math Lake than ever before, these 
including ducks, geese, pelicans, 
cranes, cormorants, gulls and 
small birds in great numbers. 
One small island has been taken 
by the Caspian tern, said to have been a rare 
bird in that section formerly. Last year some 
Klamath Falls parties staked out guano claims 
on certain of the islands, but they have not been 
allowed to take the guano away. 
The Government is planning to establish a 
game preserve in Trinity county and the lava 
beds of Northern California. Cattlemen have 
objected to this, but have been informed that the 
grazing privileges would not be curtailed. 
The game farm of M. G. Crellin, near Hay¬ 
ward, is to be stocked shortly with elk, a herd 
of twenty-five young ones to be brought here 
from Southern Nevada. There are now on the 
farm over 800 pheasants, many mountain quail, 
and next season several other varieties of game 
birds will be raised. 
In Fresno county, and several of the counties 
of the San Joaquin valley, crusades have been 
commenced to exterminate the ground squirrel, 
this work being in charge of the Federal officials. 
It has been definitely established that bubonic 
plague exists among the ground squirrels in ten 
counties of the State, and the rodents are to be 
thinned out as much as possible. Some objec¬ 
tions have been made to the commencement of 
this campaign on the grounds that the scatter¬ 
ing of large quantities of poison is always dan¬ 
gerous and results in much loss of bird life. 
The Federal officials, however, promise that 
modern methods wiil be used and that wherever 
possible gases will be used to kill the squirrels. 
Golden Gate. 
Depositions Required. 
Utica, N. Y., June 16. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: Judge F. H. Hazard, of Oneida county, 
has handed down two interesting decisions. 
Henry Gardner was caught hunting without 
a license last autumn by Protector Charles 
Worden, of Oriskany. He was tried before a 
justice, found guilty by a jury and fined. 
Henry’s brother, George Gardner, was arrested 
by Worden and Warden John Willis, of Oneida, 
for killing a great American bittern. The de¬ 
fense claimed that the bird was a rnudhen, and 
as it was taken in November during the’ open 
season, that no misdemeanor had been commit¬ 
ted. Two naturalists from Syracuse testified 
that the bittern is sometimes cal'ed a rnudhen 
by those who do not know any better, but this 
bird was a bittern and the jury believed them. 
George was fined $45, which he paid. 
The Gardners appealed to the county court 
and won on a technicality. The lower court was 
reversed in each instance, and the fines ordered 
remitted. The attorney for the defense main¬ 
tained that the warrants were sworn out “on in¬ 
formation and belief” that the alleged violation 
had been committed. He said that this was all 
right so far as they went, “but according to a 
line of decisions through the Supreme Court to 
the Court of Appeals it had been held that such 
a warrant shou’d be accompanied by a deposi- 
African Trophies. 
Denver, Colo., June 1.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: Reading Forest and Streams carries 
me back thirty years to the excitement and pri¬ 
vations of a hunter and prospector’s life in many 
parts of big and silent Africa. Perhaps the ac¬ 
companying photograph of an African collection 
of antelope horns may interest readers. 
1. Gnu or blauw wildebeeste, shot at Mopies 
Post, Kama’s country, N. Bechuanaland. 
16. African buffalo bull, shot on the Pungeve 
flats. 
17. African buffalo cow, shot 130 miles north¬ 
west of Post Beira. 
15. Rei-bok, shot near Bredasdorp, Cape 
Colony. 
18. Hippo teeth and tusks, shot on the St. 
Maria River, north of Delagoa 
Bay. 
Koodoo bull measures (largest 
pair) : Spread, 27 inches; curve, 
53 inches; straight, 39 inches; 
base, 10J/2 inches. 
Eland bull measures: Length, 
28 inches; base, inches. 
Eland cow measures: Length, 
31 inches; base, jY 2 inches. 
Gemsbok measures: Length, 
37 1 /2 inches; base, 7 inches. 
Roan antelope measures: Curve, 
30 inches; base 9 inches. 
7. Koodoo bulls, shot in Letaba 
district, Zoutpansberg, Transvaal, 
South Africa. 
5. Eland bull, shot near Lake 
Kunua, near King Kama’s old 
town, Mangwater, North Bechu¬ 
analand. 
5A. Eland cow, shot at She- 
padza’s Kraal, Mazoi district, 
Rhodesia. 
3. Oryx or gemsbok, shot north¬ 
west of Mafeking, on border of 
Kalahari Desert. 
13. Roan antelope, shot at Cassenga, Portu¬ 
guese West Africa, Post Mossamedes. 
14. Water-buck or Kringgaat, shot on Pungese 
Flats, ninety miles northwest of Post Beira, 
Mozambique, East Africa. 
2. African bush buck, shot at the Limpopo 
River, North Transvaal, also at Buzi River, 
Mozambique. 
12. Springbok, shot near Mafeking, Bechuana¬ 
land. 
9. Blesbok, shot near Kanya, Bechuana¬ 
land. 
Bontebok, species of blesbok, is royal game, 
and license must be had to shoot these bucks. 
Shot near Bredasdorp, Cape Colony, South 
Africa. 
6. Rooibok, shot at Letaba River, Zoutpans¬ 
berg, North Transvaal. 
11. Reidbok, shot at Koodoos River, Zoutpans¬ 
berg, North Transvaal. 
19. Rooi hartebeeste, shot near Mopies Post, 
Kama’s country, Bechuanaland. 
Aubrey Danyers, 
