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catch them faster is that you cannot get out 
your line faster, you feel well repaid for the 
time spent in seeking the school. The red snap- 
pers have certain places in the stream where 
they live, and where some of them can be caught 
any time. Our guide told us that he had caught 
106 trout and red fish in one day. We did not 
have such luck, but we thoroughly enjoyed the 
sport. In the evening, Dr. Walker came down 
and he and I tried fishing at night, but we were 
not successful. 
The weather here, to a Northerner is especi- 
ally attractive. This is the middle of January, and 
we have sat on the porch most of the evenings 
until Io or 11 o'clock in our shirt sleeves and bare 
heads. It is certainly very enjoyable to us; the 
people here, however, think it is only natural. 
They claim the climate in summer is not more op- 
pressive than it is in the North, and that they 
have no mosquitoes nor bugs. I do not know 
what it is in summer, but it suits me in winter. 
We leave here to-morrow, and I am sorry 
the spell is broken. When [think of how poor 
people live in the older settlements, and the 
disadvantages under which their children grow 
up, being surrounded by all kinds of vice and 
uncleanness; and then contrast that condition 
with this, it makes me think that higher civil- 
ization and education and accumulation of 
wealth have not done so much for the human 
race as we sometimes think. Surely the children 
raised in a good, moral atmosphere will make 
better men and women than those reared in the 
slums of large cities. CAGE 
Colorado Notes. 
Denver, Colo., April 10—Mr. James Woodard, 
State Game and Fish Commissioner, declares that 
the mountain sheep of Colorado is in the same 
class as the sacred bull of India. It must not be 
touched, If the animal is seen browsing upon the 
mountain side, the gun of the hunter must not be 
pointed in its direction. The animal may, there- 
fore, be called the “sacred sheep” of Colorado. 
There are not many of them left, but under the 
protection of the law they are increasing every 
year. There is a band of them on the hills be- 
tween Florence and Victor, and Mr. Woodard 
has a photograph of a bunch grazing on a hill- 
side a short distance from Florence. But for the 
passage of a law which heavily fines those who 
kill this animal, the species would have been ex- 
tinct long ago. 
A letter recently received in Mr. Woodard’s 
office tells of the arrest and conviction of Fred 
Klantzsky for killing a mountain sheep. Klantz- 
sky was fined $300 and costs in the County Court 
at’ Canon City Jast Saturday, —~He is an) old 
offender, having been arrested before for killing 
mountain sheep. He shot the animals for profit 
and not for pleasure, and on one occasion re- 
ceived $50 for the head of one of the sheep. 
“Klantzsky is an old hermit,’ said Mr. Wood- 
ard yesterday, “and he sent out word that any 
game warden that captured him would have to 
get him dead. Game Warden Givens got on his 
trail and followed him into an abandoned miner’s 
tunnel, where he had taken refuge and gone to 
sleep. When the old man awoke he was looking 
into the muzzle of a .45 and he made little re- 
sistance, though he tried at first to reach for 
his gun.” 
Fifty thousand Eastern brook trout are to be 
placed in the Eagle River, near Berry Station, 
next Tuesday by a representative of the State 
Game and Fish Commissioner’s office. 
Near Longmont, Colo., March 24, Mr. M. A. 
Rowen killed a large swan flying in a field. The 
bird measured seven feet from tip to tip and 
weighed fourteen pounds. Mr. Rowen presented 
the swan to the University of Colorado at Boul- 
der, and Mr. Junius Henderson, Curator of the 
Museum, had it mounted. The taxidermist has 
made a splendid job of it. It was a fine speci- 
men to start with, in good condition, and he took 
great pains to finish it nicely. It is the whistl- 
ing swan (Oler columbianus). There is only 
one other species of swan found in _ interior 
North America, the trumpeter (O. buccinator), 
though the whooping swan has been noted in 
southern Greenland. The University of Colo- 
rado is rapidly completing its collection of land 
FOREST AND STREAM. 

birds, but is decidedly short on water birds and 
shore birds. The hutners of this region could 
greatly aid Mr. Henderson in completing the col- 
lection of the latter group. 
Dr. Stone, W. L. Ryan, E. F. Livernast and 
Hood Waters went ducking Sunday near Fort 
Collins. They killed eighty-six mallards, red- 
heads, canvasbacks and teal. The ducks were 
flying unusually high and shooting was difficult. 
Had they been nearer more could easily have 
been killed. 
Mr. Samuel Hines, of Glenwood Springs, Colo., 
and S. H. Velie, of Kansas City, have just gone 
out on a bear hunt. They will hunt on White 
River in the vicinity of Buford. This is the first 
party to go out this year after bear, but several 
others are scheduled to go out in the near fu- 
ture. A Socrat TRAMP. 
Ontario Game and Fish Protective 
Association. 
Boston, Mass., -April 21.Editor Forest and 
Stream: Meeting Capt. W. C. Dunham, of Nan- 
tucket, yesterday, House chairman of the legisla- 
tive Committee on Fisheries and Game, he in- 
formed me that the Governor had signed the so- 
called “Dunham bill” and presented him with the 
quill, of which he seems to feel very proud. This 
bill forbids the use of live decoys in pursuit of 
black ducks on the island. The captain says the 
people there are quite willing visitors should kill 
ducks after the manner pursued by the natives, 
who, he says, do not make use of live decoys. 
Captain Dunham has charge of the so-called 
“search” bill in. the House, which was defeated 
in that branch on Monday. In the opinion of the 
captain the latter part of the bill authorizing the 
warden to call on any citizen to aid in the making 
of an arrest proved fatal to the bill. Without 
that he thinks it would have passed. It will be 
remembered that the bill had but one majority 
in the Senate. 
Since the meeting of the North American Fish 
and Game Protective Association in Boston the 
last week in January, I have been in communica- 
tion with Hon. A. K. Evans, of Toronto, secre- 
tary-treasurer of the Ontario Fish and Game Pro- 
tective Association, organized last June. AIl- 
though less than a year old, under the leadership 
of Mr. Evans, assisted by Vice-President Adams, 
it is making for itself a record unparalleled in the 
history of such organizations in America. Before 
March 1 it had already organized a round dozen 
local branches in important cities and towns of 
the Province. So philosophical and comprehen- 
sive is the scheme mapped out by the Society that 
it seems worthy of space in your columns. 
In brief, its objects are (1) to act as an auxil- 
iary to aid the authorities in their prosecution of 
offenders; (2) to conduct organized observation 
of the habits, propagation and seasons of all fish, 
game and birds in order thereby to be able to 
suggest to the authorities suitable regulations for 
their preservation and increase; (3) to encourage 
the protection of the non-game birds and educate 
the children, especially the boys, accordingly; (4) 
to oppose the sale-or export’ of game or game 
fishes at all times and under all circumstances; 
(5) to take steps to prove to residents along the 
waters and in the forests that their financial in- 
terests will be best served by the protection of fish 
and game; (6) to cultivate more friendly rela- 
tions between sportsmen and residents of dis- 
tricts visited by them; (7) to produce a wide- 
spread sentiment toward preserving the large dis- 
tricts set aside as public game domains, and, 
where possible, further extension of the system. 
The plan outlined contemplates a headquarters or 
central organization at Toronto, with subordinate 
branches in every important place in the Prov- 
ince, not less than thirty in number. Salaried 
wardens, inspectors, etc., may become associate 
members without fees or votes in the meetings. 
Ministers and).school teachers may become asso- 
ciate members with full rights as members. 
In addition to the usual officers each branch 
shall endeavor to form sub-committees which will 
take up such subjects as the study of different 
forms of fish, bird and game life, breeding sea- 
sons, artificial hatching of fish, and all other sub- 
jects to develop such knowledge as will enable the 
[APRIL 28, 1906. 

Association to exert a wholesome influence in 
legislation. Provision is made for a legal com- 
mittee, whose duty it shall be to keep itself in- 
formed as to the laws, the action of the courts on 
enforcement of game laws and to obtain advis- 
able amendments and additions to the existing 
game laws. Provision is made for at least one 
meeting yearly of each branch, and a yearly con- 
vention meeting of officers of headquarters, and 
of each branch, to be held in Toronto. 
Each branch is required at least once a year to 
send the headquarters’ secretary a list of its mem- 
bers and a report of any action by direct com- 
munication with the Government. Complaints of 
neglect of duty by officials of the Government re- 
ceived by a branch must be forwarded to head- 
quarters forthwith. 
Any information, experience, literature, news- 
paper clippings or reports of prosecutions, which 
might be of use to the Association generally, if 
filed at headquarters, are expected to be sent by 
each branch to the headquarters’ secretary. Head- 
quarters solicits recommendations, suggestions 
and advice from the branches. The printing and 
circulation of a complete list of the members of 
the whole Association and of the branches, with 
officers of each, is provided for. All information 
of every sort is to be kept on file at headquarters 
for use of the entire Association, which, as will 
be seen by the plan as outlined above, includes the 
control organization or headquarters and all the 
branches. 
The headquarters is made the intermediary for 
advice, assistance, complaints against officers, or 
of law-breaking reported by branches, and shall 
assist objects named by any branch when consid- 
ered for the good of the whole Association, It 
shall also prepare and print pamphlets for the 
farmer, guide and sportsman, thus distributing 
general information, statistics and facts looking 
toward the general advancement of the aims of 
the Association. 
The labors of these two apostles of protection, 
Messrs. Kelly and Adams, are meeting with a 
hearty response in the communities where meet- 
ings have been held, and the sportsmen and 
others are rallying to their standard by hundreds 
and even thousands. Their plan of organization 
and of proselyting, in the best sense of that some- 
times abused word, might be followed to advyan- 
tage, it seems to me, in more than one of the 
States of the Union where there has not been de- 
veloped that concert of action among sportsmen 
so essential to the advancement of the cause of 
game preservation and the propagation of game 
and fish. 
The first salmon taken at the Bangor Pool was 
secured on April 8 by Messrs. C. S. Batchelder 
and D. H. Perry. At Sandy Beach, Sebago, Ar- 
thur Wood, of Westbrook, has landed a 7-pound 
salmon; F.A. Berrill also one of the same weight, 
and smaller ones have been taken by two Port- 
land anglers. At the mouth of the Songo River 
Joseph Brigham got a 12-pounder. Others have 
taken several. CENTRAL. 

A Wildcat that Turned. 
SPOKANE, Wash.—Henry Lazinka, a prominent 
cattleman in northeastern Oregon, had an excit- 
ing contest with a large wildcat last month in 
Walla Walla county, Wash. He finally killed the 
animal, but it was only after a hard fight. He 
was riding through the country on horseback and 
his only weapon was a large riding whip. He 
saw a big wildcat and gave chase on horseback. 
The animal ran for a short distance then turned 
and savagely attacked the man on his horse. She 
tore his clothing and even his “shaps’”’ and sad- 
dle, ana’ made desperate attempts to reach his 
face. He defended himself with his whip, and 
after a long fight succeeded in landing a blow 
which stunned the bobcat and knocked her to 
the ground. The man sprang from his horse and 
kicked and beat the animal to death. It was a 
beautiful large cat about six years old, with fine 
fur, which he removed and is keeping. 
Tue North Dakota State Sportsmen’s Asso- 
ciation will hold a convention in Fargo in 
June, to consider the improvement of the 
game laws of the State. 
