
Dec. 14, 1907.] 
FOREST 


The Collection of Hunting Arms. 
Tue collection of arms of American hunters, 
as has already been pointed out, will naturally 
include the arms and equipment of the real 
{American, that is, the Indian. 
! Since the Indian lived on the country and in 
|many parts of North America subsisted chiefly 
Jon flesh food, such a collection would include 
\pretty much all the implements used by the In- 
\dians. There would be bows, arrows, knives and 
\the cases in which all these were carried, lances, 
ltraps, saddles, cooking utensils; in fact, almost 
Jevery article that the Indian used had a con- 
{nection, more or less direct, with his hunting, 
that is to say with the way in which he pro- 
‘cured his subsistence. 
| A noteworthy and very interesting addition to 
‘the Boone and Crockett Club’s collection is a 
‘California bow and some arrows of early times 
\presented by Mr. Geo. H. Gould, Santa Barbara, 
'Cal., a member of the club. 
| These arms were collected between the years 
1860 and 1870 by Dr. Lorenzo T. Yates. The 
bow was procured from the chief of the Lake 
Indians, who in 1869 lived on an island in Clear 
Lake and worked in a neighboring flouring mill. 
The bow is wound in the middle with rawhide, 
but is what the toxophilites call a “self bow”; 
that is, it depends for its force on the elasticity 
of the wood, not on any backing. The wood 
of the bow is a species of California yew. When 
strung the bow had its curve reversed. It would 
bend in the direction opposite to that it now 
has—when at rest. 
| The arrows are compound. The shafts are 
hollow reeds with a stone head bound to an 
adjustable piece of wood that fits into the hol- 
low stem and can come off in the wound. 
With the arrows goes a little story: In 1865 
Dr. Yates made a camping trip into the Yosemite. 
\On his way in the valley he met a party of Bull 
Creek Indians returning from a raid on the 
Yosemites and bringing with them a sister of 
the Yosemite chief as captive. From the Bull 
Creek Indians Dr. Yates purchased ‘some arrows 
and went on camping in the valley. 
He found that the Yosemites, including their 
last living warrior, had camped on the meadows 
by the Merced and had been attacked by the 
‘Bull Creek Indians at daybreak. Several of the 
'Yosemites were killed and the last warrior was 
wounded in the groin and died while Dr. Yates 
was in the valley. The captive woman escaped, 
and avoiding all trails climbed back over the 
mountains and finally took refuge in the doctor’s 
camp. Her clothing was torn to pieces; she was 
badly lacerated by brush and so exhausted that 
for some days she lay there resting before she 
‘could move. 
Mr. J. H. Kidder, of Boston, well known as 
ithe Alaska traveler and bear hunter, whose most 
interesting contributions on Alaska hunting were 
published in the fourth volume of the Boone and 
iCrockett Club, “American Big Game in its 
\Haunts,” has promised arrows and lances used 
jin hunting sea otters, seals and whales by the 
‘Aleuts of Alaska. These implements, which, 
since the white settlements of Alaska have be- 
come very rare, possess the greatest interest. 
The Jance head is of slate and the weapon was 
deadly. 
Game in North Carolina. 
RareicH, N. C., Dec. 3.—Editor Forest and 
Stream: The Audubon Society is certainly do- 
ng good work this season. There are now sixty- 
five wardens in the State. Wardens are being 
posted along the State line of Virginia. 
So far it seems that there will be fewer sports- 
nen from the North in the State than in several 
years, due to the money stringency. Those who 
some will find great sport. News has been 
brought to me from at least two score counties 
of the marked abundance of quail. The coveys 
are large and the birds well grown. The re- 
ports show that there was less killing of birds 
just before the season opened than ever before. 
The country people themselves are helping about 
this matter. The Audubon Society is protecting 
farmers by prosecuting trespassers who have 
ziven some trouble by hunting on lands with- 

PIG-STICKING. 
From a drawing by Lionel Edwards. 
out license; in fact, there is more co-operation 
with the farmers than ever before. 
The protection of game birds has been extended 
admirably to song and shore birds. In a num- 
ber of counties what are in North Carolina 
known as pheasants, but which are really grouse, 
are by law protected until 1910, the Legislature 
last spring having made this provision for coun- 
ties which particularly wished it. Reports as 
to ducks in the coast counties show that there 
are already a good many in Currituck and Core 
sounds where it is said the law is being much 
better enforced against night shooters. Sixteen 
of these have already submitted, pleading guilty 
to this offense. Warden Haynes’ reports indicate 
that he is doing good work in Currituck. He 
says the people there are better satisfied with 
the law than ever before. 
Reports as to deer show that in Granville 
county a good many died last year from an epi- 
demic disease, but that they are numerous in 
several counties, notably in Craven and Bruns- 
wick. In the course of a hunt of eight miles 
between two railway stations near here Thanks- 
givink Day, fifteen coveys of partridges were put 
up, and three sportsmen got seventy-eight birds. 
Frep A. OLps. 
The Sportsmen’s Exhibition. 
At the sportsmen’s exhibition, to open Dec. 
23 at the Grand ‘Central Palace in this city, the 
following associations are to be represented— 
many of them as exhibitors: 
The United States Forest Service will par- 
ticipate to the extent of sending all the Govern- 
ment forestry transparencies, colored and un- 
colored; the National Association of Audubon 
Societies will have an exhibit and an oppor- 
tunity to project their lantern slides for the 
public benefit; the Appalachian Mountain Club 
and the Society for the Protection of New 
Hampshire Forests, the Arctic Club, the Camp 
Fire Club. There will be an exhibit from the 
United States Fish Commission, the Association 
for the Protection of Adirondack Forests, and 
the Massachusetts Fish and Game Commission. 
The New York Zoological Society is to have an 
exhibit, and it is believed that it will show a 
number of birds and possibly some elk. 
Among the fish to be exhibited are salmon, 
weighing up to eight pounds, male brown trout 
from 8 to 10 pounds, Rangeley trout from 3 to 
6 pounds, speckled trout from 2 to 3 pounds. 
There are being held for the Society at the New 
York Aquarium pickerel, trout, bass, white 
perch, pike, whitefish and many other sorts of 
fresh-water fishes, while others are constantly 
being collected. Of the living wild animals to 
be shown there are the red deer, sambur, fallow, 
sitka, blacktail deer from Oregon—presumably 
columbianus—blacktailed deer from Wyoming— 
macrotis—five others from Denver, Colo., beaver 
from Wyoming and Texas, mink from Illinois, 
antelope from Massachusetts, three silver foxes 
and a black fox from Forsyth, Mich. 
From the farm of Mr. Frederick Gallatin, Jr., 
will be sent his splendid collection of wild 
waterfowl, covering nearly forty species. of 
geese and ducks. Prof. C. F. Hodge, of Wor- 
cester, Mass., is to bring to New York the 
ruffed grouse and quail which he has reared in 
captivity, and to many sportsmen these will be 
a most interesting thing in the exhibition. 
Other gallinaceous birds will be pheasants of 
seven or eight species, California quail, Oregon 
quail, and Gambel’s quail, and spruce partridges. 
Trappers are out trying to secure a number of 
other species of wild mammals, which may or 
may not turn up. 
Interesting and curious to very many visitors 
to the show will be the biograph photographs 
of live caribou, moose, logging operations, 
quail shooting. duck shooting, and salmon fish- 
ing. These will certainly be most extraordinary 
pictures, and we venture to say that everyone 
will wish to see them. 


Game Protectors Meet. 
Tue annual meeting of the New York State 
Game Protectors’ Association was held at Syra- 
cuse on Dec. 4. It was the sentiment that the 
game laws should be changed to prohibit hunt- 
ing ruffed grouse and quail for one year, in order 
to give these birds a chance to increase for two 
breeding seasons. It was also voted to recom- 
mend that whitefish and lake trout be protected 
in Lakes Ontario and Erie during the month of 
November, which is the spawning season. These 
fish are already protected in the inland lakes of 
the State. 
The following officers were elected: Presi- 
dent, Chief Protector John B. Burnham, of 
Essex; Vice-Presidents, Spencer Hawn, ot 
Cicero, and Robert Nichols, of Indian Lake; 
Secretary, George Fayles, of Troy. 
Commissioner J. S. Whipple, of the Forest, 
Fish and Game Commission, addressed the pro- 
tectors. He pointed out their duties and urged 
them to perform these honestly. He reviewed 
the fish and game laws and talked of many mat- 
ters affecting his department and the protectors. 

All the fish laws of the United States and Can- 
ada, revised to date and now in force, are given 
in the Game Laws in Brief. See adv, 

