May 5, 1906.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 

By the way, for the ordinary sportsman, who 
wants a new experience, nothing could be better 
than a trip to the seal fishery. ‘The voyage lasts 
from two to six weeks, and is crowded with ex- 
citement and experiences. Besides, it offers the 
photo hunter another chance to get a unique pic- 
ture of hundreds of thousands of seals—white- 
coats, hoods and harps—a chance obtainable no- 
where else, except in Newfoundland in March. 
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Death of Lieut. C. C. Pulis. 
In San Francisco, April 19, Lieut. Charles C. 
Pulis, Commander of the Twenty-fourth Com- 
pany of Light Artillery, was killed by the ex- 
plosion of a charge of dynamite while engaged 
in fighting the fire. The charge of dynamite set 
to destroy a building did not explode as soon as 
was expected. Lieutenant Pulis went into the 
building to relight the fuse, and the charge ex- 
ploded while he was there. 
Mr. Pulis was a keen sportsman, and when in 
the Philippines used to go out after ducks and 
snipe whenever there was a lull in the movements 
of natives. The following tribute is paid him by 
his commanding officer in the Philippines, and 
gives a good idea of the nature of the man. We 
believe the writer to be Capt. Luther S. Kelly, 
better known to the older generation of our read- 
ers as “Yellowstone Kelly.” The letter appears 
in the Times of Los Angeles, Cal., and is dated 
San Carlos, April 22: 
“In the loss of Lieut. Charles C, Pulis, Com- 
mander of the Twenty-fourth Company of Light 
Artillery, who was blown up by a charge of dyna- 
mite recently in San Francisco, the army has suf- 
fered a severe blow. 
“Lieut, Pulis was an ideal soldier. He served 
in the Second Nebraska Regiment in 1898, and in 
1899 was appointed First Lieutenant in the For- 
tieth Volunteer Infantry, being later assigned to 
Company A, which I had the honor to command 
in the Philippines. 
“Pulis was a bright, brave and capable officer, 
not reckless but impulsive and daring, and when 
our battalion adjutant was killed in the fight at 
Libmanan, in the Camarines, Pulis was assigned 
to the place much to my regret; but I was al- 
ways fortunate in my officers and soon made good 
the deficiency. 
“When our regiment landed in the Philippines, 
in 1899, we were stationed for awhile not far . 
from Manila, in order to get a little field service 
experience to fit us for campaigning. 
“Our battalion was stationed in the convent 
at San Felipe, right across from the Santa Mesa 
Hospital, and our outposts extended about a mile 
out to the north. We relieved Maj. John Parker’s 
(‘Gatling Gun’ Parker) battalion there. 
“One night, my company being on outpost duty, 
I followed the usual custom of visiting the out- 
posts at midnight, which involved a lonely tramp 
along a rock-bound road deeply cut with ruts 
made by the native carts that had traversed it . 
probably for hundreds of years. 
“Arriving at the outermost post the soldiers 
called my attention to a brightly illuminated tree 
a few hundred yards in advance, and stated that 
he was positive that he saw people moving about 
it. I told him that it was only fire-flies, but I 
would go down to investigate. While standing 
under the tree and contemplating the beauty of 
the tropical night, and musing on the ease with 
which soldiers at times will work up a little ex- 
citement, Lieutenant Pulis, who it appeared was 
making the rounds of the outposts also, ap- 
proached the tree with a view of investigating 
the light and reassuring the soldiers, and, seeing 
a stranger standing motionless where no stranger 
should be. rushed up with cocked revolver, and, 
presenting it to my breast, exclaimed: ‘What are 
you doing here?’ In almost the same moment 
recognizing me, he was very much put out. 
“But it shows the impulsive nature of the man 
that finding himself suddenly in the presence of 
the supposed enemy, he should rush - single- 
handed to the encounter. 
“Tt is my keen regret that such a promising 
officer should be lost to the service. 
‘U. S. Inptan AGENT.” 
Death of George B. Eaton. 
Tue older generation of Forest AND STREAM 
readers will learn with keen regret of the death 
of George Boardman Eaton, who passed away a 
Mr. Eaton, who 
few days ago at Waterloo, Wis. 

GEORGE BOARDMAN EATON, “JACOBSTAFF.” 
was best known by his pen name of “Jacobstaff,” 
was born in Georgetown, Scott county, Ky., in 
1832, but the following year his father was called 
to a professorship in the Hamilton Literary and 

“TACOBSTAFF.” 
After his last deer hunt in St. Lawrence County, N. Y., 
January, 1904. 
Theological Institution—afterward Madison Uni- 
versity—and the boy was brought up in the vil- 
lage of Hamilton, Madison county, N. Y. Ina 
contribution to ForEST AND STREAM, printed in 
1895, he tells the story of his earlier years and 

how it was that he became so enthusiastic a 
sportsman, as he always was. Among the play- 
mates of his boyhood days were Samuel Still- 
man Conant, the son of another professor, who 
afterward became city editor of the New York 
Times and later the editor of Harper’s Weekly. 
In 1852, when he had finished his sophomore 
year at college, Mr. Eaton went West, and for 
two years taught school on the prairie not a hun- 
dred miles from Chicago, then a new country. 
Returning to Madison University in 1854, he fin- 
ished his college course, again went West, where 
some time was spent as a member of a surveying 
party, and it was from one of the implements 
of this profession that he took his pen name. 
The panic of 1857 broke up the improvement 
companies for which he was working and he re- 
turned to the East and entered the Government 
service, where for many years he was an in- 
spector in the Custom House. He came to know 
ForEST AND STREAM almost as soon as it was 
started in 1873 and at once began to contribute 
to its column, one of his earliest contributions 
being a series entitled “Loose Leaves from a 
Surveyor’s Journal.” 
All through the many years that have elapsed 
since that time, “Jacobstaff’’ has been a frequent 
contributor to these columns, and it was in Janu- 
ary, 1904, that we printed a long account of his 
last deer hunt in northern New York. It is but 
a few weeks since we had from him one of his 
old-time spirited and cheerful letters, and the 
thought of his death was far from the minds of 
any of those who knew him best. A year or two 
since he left Jersey City, where he had resided 
for many years, and went out to Wisconsin to be 
near his son, and recently he has been the natural 
history editor there of a local monthly magazine. 
“Jacobstaff’s” writings had in them much that 
was inspiring. They were vigorous rather than 
graceful, but were full of the feeling of the woods 
and hills. He was a man of most kindly nature, 
and had, during his long life, known many of the 
best and most accomplished sportsmen in the 
land. 
Massachusetts Game Prospects. 
Boston, Mass., April 28.—Editor Forest and 
Stream: A Massachusetts fish and game protec- 
tive association received its last shipment of suail 
to-day, making a total of 314 dozen that have 
been sent out “this season, The birds have been 
quite widely distributed over the quail section of 
the State, having been sent to at least roo different 
towns. 
The Commissioners on Fisheries and Game have 
received several dozen with which they propose 
trying an experiment in propagation. A few nairs 
were sent to Prof. C. F. Hodge, of Worcester, 
for a similar purpose. 
From a town in Worcester county I learn that 
there have been observed some indications of the 
quail beginning to mate up, although most of the 
coveys that have been regularly fed are Keeping 
together, 
Mr. Andrews, of Hudson, relates that a brood 
of young partridges were destroyed the 25th by a 
brush fire out in his section of the State. 
Mr. S. W. Burgess, reporting on birds liber- 
ated this week on land of Mr. Augustus Hemen- 
way, says one has been captured by a hawk al- 
ready, and he fears most of them will be killed by 
the foxes. 
The senior class of the Yale School of Forestry 
has been transferred for field work to Waterville, 
N. H.. a charming resort on the Pemigewasset 
Valley Branch of the Boston & Maine Railroad. 
Heretofore this work has been done at Milford, 
Pa., where the summer camp of the school is 
located. This change will give the class the ad- 
vantage of instruction on subjects pertaining to 
the northern forests and may prove a stimulus in 
awakening deeper interest among citizens of the 
Granite State in forest preservation. ’ 
At this office representatives of clubs at Taun- 
ton, Georgetown, Rockland and Fitchburg have 
reported verbally on conditions in their respec- 
tive localities, 
Several reports of the shooting of robins and 
other insectivorous or song birds have come 
through the mail from various places. 
H. H. Krmsatt. 
