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Now, to be honest, I never expect to own an¬ 
other dog as good as Donald.” 
And then we talk of the crops or the war, or 
we visit the pen of fattening hogs and guess at 
their weight; take a peep into the tobacco barn; 
I am shown the new baby, very likely the 
married daughter’s or son’s who is home for a 
day with the old folks. 
But it was about shooting days in Carolina 
quail fields I started to write! And am I not 
writing about them? The quail are there and 
so are all these folks—not much different from 
other folks, perhaps. They are born, they 
marry, they bring forth children, they die, as do 
all other folks—and yet, somehow, they are 
different. I think they are different because 
they have not rubbed elbows so intimately with 
the hard side of the business world; that they 
are a little bit more home folks, neighbor folks, 
hospitable folks, kindly-feeling folks. They 
have no trained nurses. If one is sick the 
neighbors help, and if one is born Mie neigh¬ 
bors again help; if one is in trouble the neigh¬ 
bors sympathize and help; if one is hungry the 
neighbors feed; if he dies they bury him. 
I guess that’s why they are different—they are 
neighborly. G B. 
New Alaska Game Law. 
The new Alaska game bill, H. R. 14789, passed 
the House of Representatives March 16 last, and 
coming before the Senate the next day was duly 
referred to the Committee on Forest Reserva¬ 
tions and the Protection of Game. Briefly its 
provisions are these: 
Wanton destruction of wild game animals or 
wild birds, the destruction of nests or eggs of 
such birds or the killing of birds, other than 
game birds for the purpose of selling them or 
any part of them unlawful, but eagles, ravens 
and cormorants are excepted. Game is defined. 
This act does not affect any law relating to the 
fur seal, sea otter or fur bearing animals, or 
prevent the killing of game for food or clothing 
by natives or miners or explorers when in need, 
but game animals or birds so killed shall not be 
shipped or sold. 
Seasons: Lawful to kill brown bears at any 
time north of latitude 62 degrees where other 
game may be killed from August 1 to December 
10, both inclusive. South of 62 degrees brown 
bears may be killed from October 1 to July 1, 
other game from August 20 to December 31. 
Deer and goats from April 1 to February 1, and 
game birds from September 1 to March x. Cari¬ 
bou protected on the Kenai Peninsula until Au¬ 
gust 20, 1912. Secretary of Agriculture author¬ 
ized to establish rules prohibiting the sale .of 
game in any locality, modifying close season, 
providing different close seasons, further re¬ 
stricting the killing, or entirely prohibiting kill¬ 
ing for a period of two years. 
Limit: No female or yearling moose to be 
killed, no one to kill in any one year more than 
two moose, one walrus or sealion, three caribou, 
three mountain sheep, three brown bear, or to 
kill or have in possession in one day more than 
25 birds. 
Restrictions: Unlawful to hunt game animals 
with dogs or use a shotgun larger than No. 10 
gauge or any except a shoulder gun, to use boats 
other than those propelled by oars or paddles. 
Sale of game animals or birds or parts thereof 
prohibited during close time, save that dealers 
may have fifteen days in which to dispose of the 
game legally killed. 
Licenses: License is required by non-residents 
of Alaska. Fee for alien $100, for citizen of the 
United States, $50. License authorizes the ship¬ 
ment of a legal amount of game. Residents of 
Alaska desiring to export heads or trophies re¬ 
quire a shipping license, $40, permitting shipment 
of one moose, if killed north of latitude 62 de¬ 
grees ; four deer, two caribou, two sheep, two 
goats, two brown bear; or shipping license, $10, 
permitting the shipment of a single head or 
trophy of caribou or sheep; or shipping license, 
$5, for single head or trophy of goat, deer or 
brown bear. To ship moose killed south of lati¬ 
tude 62 degrees requires a special license, $150, 
permitting shipment of one moose. Not more 
than one general license and two special moose 
licenses can be issued to one person in one year. 
DESCENDING THE UPPER MISSOURI. 
Big-Game Hunters and their Outfit. 
Picture by Samuel W. Lippincott. 
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Shipper must make affidavit before customs offi¬ 
cer at port that this shipment is being legally 
made, and not for the purpose of being sold. A 
resident of Alaska prior to Sept. 1, 1908, may 
without permit or license ship head or trophy, 
on affidavit that said head or trophy was killed 
prior to the passage of this act. Licenses shall 
be issued by the Governor of Alaska, and appli¬ 
cants shall state through what port of entry the 
game is to pass and customs officers at that port 
shall be notified. 
Enforcement: Game wardens are to be em¬ 
ployed by the Governor who shall register and 
license guides, who are required to make affidavit 
to report violations of law. 
Penalties: Forfeiture of game, guns, traps, 
nets, fine of not more than $200, or imprison¬ 
ment of not more than three months, or both. 
Marshals, deputy marshals, collectors of cus¬ 
toms, officers of revenue cutters and game war¬ 
dens are to assist in the enforcement of this act. 
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. 
A Mysterious Disappearance. 
Okmulgee, Okla., March 8. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: In the ’80’s, with four or five others, 1 
went into the short grass region of Southwest 
Kansas and took up a claim. As water was 
scarce in that region our first job was to make 
a well. While at work we ran out of meat, and 
as it was 125 miles to town, Dodge City, the 
other boys decided that I should go out and see 
if I could get an antelope. 
I saddled one of my wagon mules and left 
camp early in the morning. After going eight or 
ten miles I sighted two antelopes about a mile 
distant, but they soon took to flight. They 
separated, one turning to the right and one to 
the left, and as the one to my left seemed easier 
to approach I followed it, but it went into a 
range of sandhills and I lost sight of it. I fol¬ 
lowed on and after a while I saw lying down in 
the grass what appeared to be an antelope or 
coyote; just which I could riot make out, as it 
was half a mile away. 
I took a circuitous route and approached to 
within about 150 yards of the object, when it got 
up, looked at me and shook its head. Then 1 
dismounted and dropped on my knee and said : 
"Antelope, I guess you are mine.” 
As it was standing facing me, I took aim at 
the sticking place and when I touched the trigger 
I had that peculiar sensation that a person some 
times experiences, which seems to tell you so 
positively that you can feel it, that you are go¬ 
ing to hit the mark. I pulled the trigger and 
saw the bullet strike the exact point aimed at, 
and the animal jumped, reared up and fell down. 
When it fell I did not see it as the grass was 
knee high or more, but I felt no uneasiness and 
mounted and rode straight to the spot. When I 
got there where I fully expected to find my ante¬ 
lope dead-dead-dead! lo! and behold it was not 
there. I looked for blood and found none. I 
looked for tracks and found none. I looked for 
some time and found no sign of an antelope. 
Finally I thought I must have been mistaken 
in the place where the antelope was and went 
back to where I had shot from, there finding my 
tracks and the empty shell to prove that that 
place was where I shot from. Then locating the 
place where the antelope was, which was on a 
little knoll and none near like it to fool me, I 
went back to the place where the antelope was 
standing when I shot. But no antelope—no 
blood and no tracks. So very certain was I 
that I had shot and killed an antelope there that 
I put in an hour or more trying to find it or 
some trace of it, but I never found anything, 
not even a track. If the antelope had run away 
I should have seen it, for there was nothing to 
obstruct my view. And failing to see it I should 
have found tracks, as the ground was sandy. 
Now, I would like some one to explain to me 
how this could have occurred. I did not notice 
that I was unduly excited or had buck-ague, or 
anything of the kind. I was just as confident of 
meat when I touched the trigger as I was sure 
I did not have any meat when I got there.- 
I hunted for this antelope until I got mad at 
myself and went back to camp and told the boys 
of my luck. I also told them that a fellow who 
would do such things as I had done that day 
had no business out after antelope. They 
agreed; but I got many afterward. 
E. W. C. 
