Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 4, 1894, Page 20

THE OMAMA DAILY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1894, NOVEMBER'S CHILLY SPORTS Whit £ball Be Done for the Preservation of | Our Fish and Game? FIELD TRIALS FCR NEERASKA Wheel Whisperings—The and Base Ball Flelas—The Hunters Return -8 Ing Tournament—A Long Walk and Sporty Roundap, oot oote VERYWHERE there is a manlifest revival of interest on the part of the lover of the dog and in the welfare our fish and and as all and legitl- sportsmen the Ne- gun ot game, honest mate throughout great state braska are well aware that the law designed, and now presumably in torce, for the protection, propagation and of [ LR T T LR preservation of our game birds and ani- mals, fish and song and Insectivorous birds does not fill the bill by a long ways, why not be up and doing to bring about a change? Our laws are lame in regard to divers open and close seasons, too bioad and too lax, and wholly Inadequate as to fullness and detail; strong in platitude, and weak in penalty and in fact In-numerous respects about as effective as a blank page In our statutes would be, h There is buf ‘one remedy, which, under the prevailing circumstances, should be easy of acquirement, and that is the formulation of a new and sound law and its passage by the legislature which sits in January next. Cne of the chief objections to the existing measure fs thet it is directed too much to game which exists here only in myth and fable, and to mhtters wholly irrelevant and inconsequential. For instance, chapter xi, of our reviced statutes charge that “it shall be unlawful person to kill, ensnare or trap any wild buftalo, elk, mountain sheep, deer or ahte- lope (except for the purpose of domestica- tion) between the first day of January and the first day of September in each year.” Again, section 5665 of the same chapter makes it “‘unlawful for any person to enter upon the premfses of another without his consent, and destroy, tear down, or in any manner injure the muskrat heaps or house on such premises.” These are among the absurdities of the present law, and while others could be men- tioned, they are not sufficiently aggravated to justify the-space. Many sportsmen, who have had to contend with the nefarious mar- ket hunter, who shoots and slaughters al- most Indiscriminately in and out of season with Impunity, seem to think that the open- ing of the grouse or prairie chicken shoot- ing, September 1, is too late to give them a fair chance at the young birds against the ruthless pot scavengers. In this, however, 1 do not agree with them. If the law is en- forced strictly, September 1 is ample early it not a trifie premature, to begin chicken shooting. By that time a large majority of the birds are two-thirds grown and strong enough of wing to give them a chance to save themselves from the onslaughts of the gunner.. Then, instead of continuing the open scason from September 1 to January 1, @ greater justice would be rendered the birds by curtailing this from September 1 to De- cember 1, making it lawful to shoot these royal birds only in the months of September, Oc- tober and November, an abundance of time for all but the insatiate and mercenary. market hunter. By thus lopping oft the last month of the present open season tho wholesale slaughter of the birds in the deep snows of December would be obvidted and the left over crop afforded & good opportunity to start out on the new year In force suficient to guarantee a good crop the succeeding fall. Make the law from September 1 to December 1, without consideration of the Interests of the market hunter, then euforce it rigldly and vigor- ously, ‘and I'll warrant its duration would be sufticient for the most inveterate chicken shooter in the state. But before going into the requirements and necessities of a new law for Nebrask: allow me, in courtesy to a suggestion from that gentlemanly sportsman, Mr. A. C. Con- nor of Central City, to succinctly touch upon the sallent points of a new bill prepared by the state game warden to be presented to the mext Iilinols legislature Accovding to th's new law the open season on all game birds, fowl and squirrels begins Beptember 1, with the exception of quail, which may ‘be shot a month later. Wood- cocks are included, for the reason that I they are allowed to be shot in July and August -the hunting of them will disturb and drive“away other birds which may be nesting, and therefore it 18 proper that the be left alone tll September 1, for the better protection and corresponding Increase of the other birds. Quail will be through breeding by Seglember A, but should have another month-in. which to mature. By this e:tab- & unfform opening date for all game, pted ~confusion will be a thing of mgl birds will feel at home dur.ng tho breeding season. A fine. pf:; Is provided for, to restain the Killluge ol “song or plumage birds for other than sclentific purpose One tection provides for the protection of nests and eggs, Another provides that three- fourths of all fines collected shall go into the townslip school fund and one-fourth to the warden or Informer. The law. gugrantees to every owner or oc- cupant ¢f land the right to control his own premises) and provides that every person who hunts shall’ fitst obtain a license, for th double/ purpose of establishing a fund for the payment of wardens and the propagation of Bame, sald"liceuse to coct §1 Section 10.opens a way for increasing the game of the by establishing game pre. serves, which in time will overflow and stock the surrounding countr If enacted deer will once more be an object sought for by the sportsmen of Il noi: Section 11 prohibi section specific for 1y any the use of the rifle on tho waters of the ctate, for the reason tha many humen lives are constantly endangered Section provides that game shall not be sold before the fifth day after the opening of the season and Lot after the fifth day pre. ceding the closo of the soason. It is noped to thus check the illegal killing of game before the fir day of the open season and have none on hand when tie also to give those residents of the state who carnot find time to shoot, or who never shoot, a ehance to some of the game Which they would be denied, and unjustly, it the sale of game was prohibited entirely, This section provides that the game conflecated she en to charitable in- stitutions and not again offered for sa which would be cqual to compounding feiony. The flual scction prohibits exportation of game, thus insuring sport to any one who wishes to shoot within the state, but pro tects the game by not m king it profitable o ship out of the state While the above law will doubtless strike & large majority of our sportsmen as a decldedly sensible and wholesome document it is not in its entirety what Nebraska w Ants and needs. In the main I concur cordially in the provisions of the above, but there are & number of S not in accordance With the necessities of our case In the first place, it is not in with the fitness of things as the tha Antelopé state, that tho open sc I gashe birds, wild fowl and squirrel begin _an Septentber 1 at - it woollcock and quail soason all righ knotelodged, bul out hLevo, as Tilinols, a'larko proportion of sportsmen ar more Interested in wild fowl shooting than any other brauch of sport, and in Qealing with This species of game much car: ful study and Judietous provision is absolulely recessary. Of this, however, 1 will anlmadvort further on. As to song and plumage birds, the above' is not sufciently strovg. - The clause touching upon the rights. of land owners Is correct, and the IERovation I the way of a shooter's licenso excellent. ; harmony exist in son on shall the has Is they are closes; | in | states where game birds and animals thrive The section prohibiting. the use of rifies on the waters of the state Is another good one and will commend ftself favorably to the gunners throughout Nebraska. Sec- tion 12 has its good and bad features. The | provision that game shail not be sold before | the fitth day after.the opening of the season and not after the fifth day preceding the | cluse of the senson Is sound preaching. By this it is hoped to check the illegal killing of game before the first day of the open soason and have none on hand when the season closes. That confiscated game should | be turned over to the charitable Institutions is also all right. But, according to my ideas of natural law, game protection and the marketing of game are incompatible an impossible. The absolute abolishment of al game markets, If that were advisable, would be conducive of more good than all the measures mentioned combined. The money | vaiue of game must be destroyed some time | or it is goodby game But let us consider what would be an im- provement on_our present law. To draft |a new and effective bill we must be con- sistent and practical, as well as just to all | parties concerned and interested, | V | _As a starter, the proposed three months, September, October and November, is ample %0 far as the chicken and gromse are con- cerned, and I have little fear but what th majority of sportsmen In the state will agre | with me. |~ The killing of deer should be strict] | hibited for a period of at least six years. Such action would once more assure the sportsmen, In a measure, of the stirring sport of a decade ago. In that period of time the supply would increase wonderfully, even from the seed now left in the remote fandhills and untenanted prairies. The open season for quail should be con- | fined to the months of October and November |alone, What holds good In this case with grouse and chicken, would prove equally so | | In behalt of Bob White. For wild fowl, vigorous measures should be adopted. They have been but illy pro- tected in this state, notwithstanding they | constitute the choicest class of all our game Thero is no open and ciose season for gees and ducks in Nebraska. Think of that, lovers of the gun and honest sportsmen, It is as lawful in this state to shoot an old duck on her nest as it is in the middle of the winter. They are gccorded no protection save that embodied In a meagre clause ex- plaiping how and by the use of what instru- ments they may be kifled. Wilson snipe, curlew, low legs, avocets, sandpipers, rail and the rest of the waders are not even 0 much as mentioned In our unique law. There prob- able exists no where in creation a game bird equal to our common jack snipe in its quali- fications for the table, while there are by few that surpass the upland plover and the yellow leg. It strikes me that4t would be a good thing to limit spring wild fowl shooting to March 15 Aprif 15, inclusive That is ample time. Many @livocate the absolute pro- hibition of spring shooting, but as yet I have not been won over to such a measure, If a | uniform law could be adopted in the Dakota Minnesota, Towa, Missouri, Kansas, Col rado and Wyoming, I would most heartily recommend the change. At present, with the | lax laws in surrounding states, an abrevia- tion of the open season for Nebraska would be the thing. Give us one month of spring shooting, as above mentioned, 1 two months in the fall, October and November, and all temporary requirements for the pro- tection and preservation of the birds, would be amply met. Make it legal to snipe, from March 15 to April 30, and from October 1L to November 1, With Corresponding wise and protective provisions for curlew, upland plover, sandpipers, rail and yellow legs. Squirrels have 'as yet been denied tection in this state, but they should neglected no-longer. From July 1 to cember 15 inclusive would ba about proper thing for the squirrels Woodcock are all but exterminated in this state, but prompt and efcient legal inte vention in their behalf might yet be the means of restoring them to something like their pristine plentifulness. From September to November Is the provision in states in this latitude where the bird abounds. Doves should be included in the list of game birds, and the open s:ason made to inc'ude the time between July 16 and October 15, Nonresidents should be shut out Inconti- nently by the most stringent kind of legis- lation, and to render the, same operative and effective all members of local gun clubs and socleties for the protgetion of game and fish should be impowered to make arrests of any person or pergons found violating the pro- visions of this clause, or infringing in any way on any of the laws of the state made for the protection of game and fish. This is a provision that shomld not be overlooked Many states have adopted similar laws, and in each instance the results have been of a most beneflclal character. The shipment of game to the market should recelve lavish attention, and refrigerators tolerated om no grounds in the state, In- vest the hunter with the right to take home his own game, not ship in advance, and curtail the number of head of all kinds f game per gun & day, and wonderful and surprising, as well as most gratifying re- sults, will follow. The license of the gun is another move that has much to recom- mend It,.and $2 a year, payable semi- annually, would be a nominal assessment Some sportsmen think it would be heaping it on a trifle thick to tax a guaner, as long as guns are taxed as personal property, but it would be the means of creating a fund to pay game wardens and game pro- tectors and cut down the standing army of pot-hunters, to some extent anyway. hooting geese and ducks after sunset or bafore sunrise should be absolutely discoun- tenanced. Swivel and punt guns should not be tolerated, as ghobld also nets and all other instruments_ and degices other than the com- mon shoulder gun, ‘nd even this should be limited to the ten-guage and under. Floating batteries or blinds, &luk boxes and all such unsportsmanlike deviees should be rigidly for- bidden. The law governing fish and the fish inter- ests of the state are much fuller and more satisfactory than the ofie governing game, but this, 100, is a fit subject for much change and improvement, and as deserving of equal attention at the hdnds bf sportsmen as the matters alluded to. B The cbiect of this article, which will be followed by additional papers, is to arouse A proper spirit among sportsmen gencrally over the state, and not given with the hope ot sceing ts suggestions followed out to the letter, but for the purpose. of opening up an | tmportant and vitg) question for discussion among the large element intérested he | | Bee is always intérested 11 any project that | good to the genmeral people and its columns may now be considered open to those who have eco ients, criticlams, or suggestions to make. The sporting editor will be pleased (o recaiva personal letters, or letters for publication, from his hund of sportsmen friends throughout the state, from the officers and members of gun clubs, 4 all others who deem themselves quali- | | fied to be heard from on this subject. All | will be treated allke, and. after the matter | has been thoroughly 'gene over, a meeting, | which 1 hopa to have called by the president | of the State Sportsman's association, backed up “and endorsed by" every legitimate or- | ganization in the state, fixed for this city, at | a date early in Doogmber, It will be the | business. of this meeting to sift from the mass of testimony, which 1 will be plsased | 1o preserve, all that is solid and good, and | the immediate drafting of a new game and | fish lav to be presented and passed, if pos- | sible, by the legislature that convenes in | January. l SIOUX CITY, I, Nov. 1.—My Dear Gris- | | wold: I want to thank you in the first place | ur uniform treatment of us as a mem- | | ber of the Western league during the entire | | season Just past, but particularly must I con gratulate you on.§our general conception of | the present situation as. published in last Sunday's Bee. Yeu struck the keynote ex- | agtl; [he facts are the constitution of the Westorn Idague provides that at the end of the playing season the annuwal meeting shall be held in the city winning the pemmant Now, two or three days before the meeting we got a telegram. from: President Johnson as follows: “WMl yon consent to annual nieeting ir. Chicago? “Qnly requires your vote te make it uninimous.” We did not care to decide in m hurry, but before they got our reply President Johuson sent out notices. So in this, the first lustance, they ignored the winners of the pennant. As L could not go | on, our treasurer, Mr, Beyer, ‘went, and the | principal and only -business (hey did was to vote that Sioux Qity ‘8hould be dropped and | some other town substituted, but who it | should be, as there were no appiications only pro- upland plover, yel- to pro- be De- the | On the Sleux City Situntlo Seotion 10 is ighly laudable and | those through J. Hart fob Chicago and Comis- | ball and it is very evider | they voted down, and he said | do without | the | very bright seems that Mr. Brush, who was there from Indianapolls, had a good many resolutions to offer on a variety of subjects, but the peo- ple there were afrald of a “nlgrer In the wood plle” from the Brush standpoint. So monotonous did this become for Brush that he realized that nothing could be done and moved to adjourn till November 20, This ‘Gentlemen, I will bid you good-day. There i apparently no effort being made to do business,” gether with Gott, the treasurer of the In- dianapolis club, left. After they had gone the others, realizing that anything they might Indlanapolls would be of no ad vantage, moved the same resolution that they had just voted down and carried it unani- mously. Now when 1 heard from Boyer on his return 1 told him this, and it s the standpoint I have taken. We were, (nxrlh”r‘ with seven others clubs, regularly incorpor- ated as a league; had the same property inter- | ests as any one of the others and had bound ourselves for one year from next March and are partners tod We each pald $75 to the National league for protection, which means, if anything, that the National league rules govern us as well as they, Now, what right have they or we to drop any one of our part- ners without taking care of the property in- terests in which the whole league should con- sult. Of c se we do not care to stay in a league composed of men not in sympathy with us, but we don't propose to be fired bodily if we know it. They must disband and if they do then what becomes of t claim reserve, etc, they have on their players? meeting President Johnson has notified me of all claims and transfers and 1 have heard from two of the eastern chibs asking terms of different men. If we have-ho claim on these men, why go to this troutle?’ The fact is, Sandy, we will be very much repre- sented at the meeting this month, W. H. BECK. the Omaha friends can extract from the very atment accorded her ball club the magnates of the Western League I that she may be induced, after demanding and securing a full and satisfactory settle- ment from her baseball partners, to grac fully withdraw from such undesirable com- pany and apply and receive a franchise in the Western association, the only successful minor baseball organization ever operated in the west. This was made possible by con- fining expe to an actual living standard and operating on the most economic lines in everything that pertained to the business It is the only safe way, as Omaha's season's work abundantly demonstrates, We had good ball here, as good as ever before, so far as interest in the actual playing was con- cerned, and made money. Past experie has been costly, and incontrovertibly pro that the standard of baseball enthusia: the growing cities of the west Is not of such a robust character as to justi competition with such cities as Boston, New York, Phila- delphia, Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louls This has always been the ambition of the Western Leagie, and year after year she has taken the worst of it in doses, always being found at the close of each season floundering in the last throes of dissolution, disconsolate, disgusted and all but busted. Sioux City will make accession to the Western complete & compact and profitable Western circuit and contribute more than she ever did before toward the advancement and prosperity of the great game in this section of the busy world. So step up, gentlemen, vou need not knock twice, the doors will be promptly thrown open to you. ON THE The only co; of Sioux City unjust tr lation most desirable ociation's ranks, a o Town State T and Breezy General Local Goxsip. RSITY OF I0WA, Nov. 2.—(Special Correspondence of The Bee)—One week ago a letter on the pros- pects of the foot ball season in the Univer- sity of Towa would have been far different from what it is now. Then the team was in most excellent condition, and their play- ing gave rise to the hopes that they would win the championship of lowa, the cham- plonship of the Interstate League, and take a place in the west that would not be far from the top. Now all of that bright future has been changed to one where defeat is staring us in the face. Captain Sawyer, who, by the way, is one of the pluckiest players in the west, was stricken down with pneu- monia during the week just past, and will probably not be able to don his uniform again this year. The following good likeness of Captain Sawyer, who is w UNIVE I0WA CITY, | known to the people of Omaha as one of the best quarter backs on the gridivon. CAPTAIN PRINCE SAWYER. In addition to the loss of the captain, Gun- saulus, one of the ends, has a bad leg. Littig, the other end, is also badly crippled in his running gear, Willlams. the left tackle, has a severely bruised head and Con- verse, the left half, is not in good playing condition. Anyone ‘who has even a fair knowledge of foot ball will readily see that the team is in bad shape and that nothing short of a miracle will put it back in its old position of excellence. OF course all the positions can be filled by substitutes, nearly as good as the regular men, but it is im- possible to fill the place of the captain this late in the season with a man who knows the men and the plaving abilities of the team as well as did Prince Sawyer. The team started out this season with prospects, and had it not been for the past week of hard luck it would have made an enviable reputation, The well known trainer, Edward W. Moulton, took the men in hand early in September, and, as Stagg sald in Chicago on October 27, “that team (s in the best physical condition of any in this part of the country.” Roger Sher- man, an old Ann Arbor man, has coached the team for two months and with Moulton deserves a great deal of credit for what he has done for them. We opened. the .season October 1 with Ames college, and were de- feated by a score of 16 to 8. The Ames boys had the advantage of longer training asd won the game in the second half, when our team was fagged out. This game has been re- matched and November 13 we will mest them in Cedar Rapids. On October 13 w defeated Cornell by a scgre of 60 to 0, and on the 20th bested Augustana college at Davenport 34 to 0. On the 27th we played the University of Chicago and really wos the game, but the score was called 18 to 18 Stagg admired our team greatly and ad- mitted our superiority over his eleven, On the 20th we played the University of Wis- consin at Madison and were badly defeated 44 0 0. F e substitutes played in this game and from that time dates our story of hard luck. The Interstate league November 3, but we are in no shape to meet | ‘our friends the enemy” and do not expect to | win. We have games yet with lowa college, Belolt, Missouri, Nebraska, Ames and Kansas and although we will make them all fight hard to win we will ot ach the cham- pionship, which until lately every one had BO grounds for believing we would win. The following is the way the men have lined up in the majority of games so far Littig, left end; Williams, left {ackle; Allen, left guard; Iverson, center; Lelghton, rignt guard; Collins, right tackle; Gunsaulus, right ond; Sawyer, quarter; Converse, left haif; Herrig, right half, and Keppler, full back The team Is rather a heavy and will run | pretty close to 180 in the line. Joa Allen is playing & great left guard and with a helght of six feet inches and 200 pounds of active muscle he is “quite a be Iverson is a fine center and a smash on the ¢ not go far after it strikes him. Leighton at right guard is the most powerful man in the | college. He is a six-footer, with 193 pounds | of weight to back him up. Keppler at full back 15 playing hia first year of college foot- | and to- | The funny part of it is that since | allopathic | is a fairly | nter does | | Ave reet ten inches tan and welgns 18 | pounds. He runs very fast and low, punts like an Indian and can emash the line very bard F. P. CLARKSON The Doane college team was organized for the express and fell purpose of downing the Nebraska University eleven, and as they succeeded in accomplishing this after the | most pronounced style, it is probable now | that they will disband for the season. Jensen, the big Dane, says that he is going | to play foot ball again, and that he will show the boys who have the not in It against watching. Had the Doane college team played here yesterday they would have met with a right royal reception at thewbands of the local alumnl. They were tay have been given a tally-ho ride to and from the park and ban- quetted after the game. The probabllitics arer that the cream of the High school and Y.iM. C. A. teams will be barded together in-one strong organization under the name of thi fermer, Johnson is playing :ona of the best games { of any man on the High School team. It is very seldom that a gward can be found who does as much tackling: as the dark horse trom North Omaha Cowgill and Tukey make r of tackles that are very hard ta heat better men | will be found in the Jdeague as ground gain- | ers than they. Ayres, who played tackle for the last two years, has returned to school and will prob- ably play end hereafter, He is a well bult youth weighing about 166. Purvis is showing mew life in his position as end, and s tackling better than ever be ore. Glant Cross and Pigmy Whipple are the long and short of it. Both are playing a great game in their positions as center and quarter. Burdick is playing & wonderful game at half, but his worth is neutralized by a ten- dency to individual play, the day for which has gone by. Still he is one of the greatest of all our local players. Waltemeier of the ¥. M. C. A's. is not only a hard but a great player. He is al- | ways aggressive and a man of great strength, | makes a formidable center. The standing of the scholastic League up follows | umes | strength. Jens will bear a teams in the to yesterday Inter- was as ayed. Lost. Won 3 0 3 1 T R o The Southern cireuit finall to Beatrice standing that game should und have the ly simmered down @ Falls City, with the under- the team which won the first be considered the champions right 1o go against the cham- plons of the Northern circuit in the final game for the Interscholastic championship. Beatrice turned the trick and will, con quently, play either Ashland or Omah | the premier homor. If Omaha beat Lir 1d the result may be ascertained phic columns, by a bigger score than Ashland beat her, then Omaha will be Beatrice's opponent. Ashland worsted Lin- coln 12 to 0, and if this remains higher than the score made Omaha yesterday, than Ashland takes a shy at Beatrice for the champioiship. As Omaha beat Nebraska City 36 to 0 and Ashland only beat her 12 to 0, it looks ver: better Ashland’s work at Lehmer is playing a strong, steady game as full back, notwithstanding the fact that he has been unable to play for several games, Gardner, as of the outflt. Lincoln left half, is the He can run, kick, tackle, buck and block. His most wonderful plays were m in the Nebraska City game when he ran down Prie: nd when he made a gain of about 100 yards. He also, with Burdick did startling work against Neligh a week ago. Clarke is playing as general utility man One day he plays end, the next quarter, and finally will land as a half or as full. Mo is a steady, earnest, intelligent player, quick to sec a point, and quicker to profit by it. McKell, end man, is another one of the High school team who s putting up a mas terly game. Collet, one of the sub tackle is also doing nicely, while Humphrey, the man with the fractured proboses, promises to develop into a star.at quarter. Hopkins doesn't get down to business as he ought to, tackles too high, but will round to in fine shape with proper coaching. Morsefian, with a trifle more animation, would fill the bill as guard, and Gsantner,'in a like position, is | that could b expected. Gardner and Cowgill are two of the great- est kickers in the state. Ashland, Lincoln, Nebraska City, Beatrice and Falls City all carry a surplus of b Omaha fs the lightest team in the org tion. She has but two men tipping scales over 160, Cross'191 and Jensen 185, Charlie Thomas, manager of the Y. M. C A's, is a hard man tomatch. He was one of the famous Michigan 'varsity team, and a coach is unexcelled: Brown, who was atsub on the great Yale team last year, and who has recently figured as Neligh's coach, is thd captain of the Y. M C. A’s. He is an excellent all-round man and possibly one of the best kickers in the country, Lik the baseball pitcher, who throws a curve, Brown performs the same feat with his feet—that is, he kicks a verita- ble curve, a deceptive ball and extremely difficult to catch or handle, Flold Trils for Next Year. OMAHA, Nov. 2.—To the Sporting Editor of The Bee: star player i the HE state of Ne- braska has many a sportsman who de- lights. in the pages of the various jour- nals devoted 1o figl | ports and the re- views of fleld tria's always receives ex- tra attention Many expressions have been made relative to the possibility of holding trials in this section, but no on to have the energy to start the ball rolling. That the trials can be held in Nebraska successfully at ‘least from a local standpoint, 1s a cer- tainty, and the opinion is endorsed by some of our most level-headed sportsmen of “this vicinity. Why not start a fleld trial club and have the initial “go” early in December for local competition only? Suppose you pub- lish this communication in next Sunday's issue, with the request that every sportsman Intereated write you his willingness to co- operate and help the formation of a field trial club. Feel certain the Commercial club will permit the use of one of their rooms for a meeting. The duss need not be heavy and tho trials will develop a rivalry among our seen = sclenco that they are | much as if Omaha ought to | sportmen that cannot but be of advantage to | cur four-footed friends Let every sportsman Interested reply to you Iimme stat hig willingness to attend a4 meeting for the purpose afcresald, so that notices may b2 ent accord y. Those eportsmen out of the ity who cannot attend migat write their views with the idea of having letters read at first meeting, There ara several sportsmen who will subscribe liberally for privilege of attending the trials, even though they have not dogs of thelr own 1o run jentlemen, owners and lovers of the setter and pointer in Nebraska, will you co-operate with this effort to establish a field trial club in Nebraska? If you will, drop a card to the sporting editor of The Bee with your name and address for notice of meeting to be held immediately. FIELD TRIAL. This has been one of the pet schemes of | the sporting editor of The Bee for a long | time and three years ago was quite vigorously advocated in these columns, For a these efforts promised abundant fruition, but interest finally flagged and-for the time the project was dropped. The suggestions em bodied in the above, however, are all good and will undoubtedly neet with the approval of a large majority ob our sportsmen, from whom The Bee will be pleased to hear in the manner sugeested by Fleld Trial. The forma- tion of a club is surely!the proper way to go about it to bring about the desired result, and there is little question but what this can be promptly accomplisheds Naturally, there is no section in the country better adapted for fleld trials than our own glorlous state, with its broad prairies for chicken and grouse and limitless cover for quadl, and as there s at present a very decided manifestation of re- newed interest in thoroughbred hunting dogs by our local sportsmen,ithe venture would un- | tne New York Seaside club. doubtedly eventuate oin a grand There are more good dogs in Omaha and the that in & year or | immediate vicinity just now than at any AR sxample to be commended to all western | key for Bt Paul, they could uot decide. "[lwn he will have very few superiors. He ul“m within its history, and & general and e in | | knowledgem'ents fc time | | hardening success. | 1¢ the elub runs short of taleat on any ocea tavorable response to the proposed enterprise will certalnly be forthcoming. The Battle of the Pasteboards. The Omaha Whist club tournament is ere- ating no end of enthusiasm and enjoyment, The contestants are all wrought up to a most exciting pitch and each team Is exerting itselt in & manner that is as vigorous as It is re- freshing. Messrs. Hawks and Mickle still present an unbroken front, with six straight games, while Wilbur and Allee are at their heels with four won and one lost. The stand- ing, including the games of October 31 Played. Won. i g 2 .6 8 Lost, Wheeler and Small Wilbur and Allee Mickle and Hawks. r and Zug. and Garner. nn and Ludlow Tilsay and Stebbir Reed and Rinehart ordan and Musseima enger and Sheehan. nnell and Shipley. Baxter and Risk i Funkhouser and Web r. Teets and Harkness. Heth and McCague.. McGrew and (¢ Marsh and Peas SISO e £ 250 DS B ¥rom Chics Harry Bethune, the world, spent week, and m: ald to Omaha Vee. ex-champion sprinter of several days In Omaha last de the sporting editor a number of pleasant calls. He Is at Lovilia, Ia., at present and writes that he will match his portege, Thompson Baker, against Old Sport | Campana, who fssued 'a challenge last | Wednesday to walk any man In the world from Chicago to Omaha, for $250 a side. | Harry says if the match is made, and he thinks it will, the men will start from in front of the Herald office in Chicago on the ing: of the 20th, their destination being The Bee building in this city, Forest, Fiold Hardin, Dr. H. S. West, August and Julius Zunnerlie of Council | and Harry Hardin of Gretna, this | state, have returned from a highly successtul duck and grouse shoot in the sandhills of Dakota. They bagged something like 1,100 wild fowl and 400 chicken in the course of three weeks. Mr. Hardin is one of the best known of all the Council Bluffs sportsmen, Is a fine shot, a genial gentleman, of course, and the possessor of the best broken setter the west. to W. D. Bereshein Bluffs nd Stream. mpany, of which Frank < the head and front, has moved into spacious new store rooms at 1316 Fa nam et. The establi:hment embra three floors, with an immense new stock on h 1 a forty-yard rifie range in the basement. J. H. McFarland of the Elkhorn's graphic department, returned Friday ing from his favorite ducking grounds in the | northwest. He brought in with him a su- perb bag of mallards, and he has had matchless sport during the past week. N. BE. Money, the E. C. Powder the guest and for The Collins Gun e S. Parmelee tel even- merican agent of the company, England, will be of Frank S. Parmelee tomorrow, the three succeeding weeks. Mr. Money, together with a party of English friends, wil leave for the Kansas quail grounds Wednesday morning under the effi- cient chaperonage of Colonel Parmelee. Judge B. B. B. Kennedy, Goodley Brucker and John Gwin have the sporting editor's ac- r valuable hints and sug. gestions anent the proposed new game law. These gentlemen are very much intereste in this work, and will lend every assistance toward pushing the matter through. J. C. Morrison and H. B have been hunting guests of utenant Cri ger of Rosebud agency, returned carly last week., They drove as far north as Lake Le Mareneaux, some 140 miles north of Valen- tine. While they did not meet with a super- abundance of shooting, they enjoyed the trip beyond expression, and are emphatic in their praises of the hospitality of the lieutenant. Frank Lawrence, who is presiding over one of the most popular sporting goods houses in the country, at 88 and 89 LaSalle street, Chicago, has won a most enviable reputation with his loaded shells, which have been pro- nounced perfect by experts in shotgun am- munitions. He does all the loading by hand, and possibly no house in the country comes within many thousands of his yearly stand- ard. OF course this statement does not in- clude the big factories where machine-loaded shells are turned out. Mr. Lawrence is one of the best posted and most skillful field sportsmen in the western country. He has made a special study of loading shotgun shells, and has a patronage that extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Great Lakes to the gulf. He is the ad- vocate of no particular shell or powder. You an order what you want, and when you get it, you can bet your pile you have got just what you ordered, in as complete and satisfactory condition as it is possible for a scientific loader to make it. He takes a pride in his work, slights none, hence the enor- mous proportions of his business. He Is ex- tensively known to both frap and field shoot- ers throughout the great west, and today stands with but few peers in his line of business. Kennedy, who J. J. Dickey and Willlam Salisbury, who were with J. H. McFarland during the first two weeks of his recent duck hunt, returned several days ago, brown as berries, and in fine condition to assume the duties of a long and cheerless winter. They did not get the cream of the shooting, leaving the country ten days too early. Drs. Bryant and Coulter spent the day in the brush and stubble out on the Plalte last Wednesday. and_came back with a hand- some bag of quail. Judge Tunnecliffe and Stocky Hith, over old Spot, checked the careers of thirty-seven auail, three chickens and three rabbits out on the Elkhorn last Monday. Hugo Brandies is entitled to the pennant He bagged sixteen ducks in one hour's shooting at Kelley's lake last Tuesday. A number of deer have been seen in the woods north of Florence during the past week. Sauirrel shooting on the bottoms is reported to be than for a long series of y lower Missouri better this fall rs. J. A. R. Elliott of Kansas City, and cham- | plon pigeon shot of America, has received a letter from Captain John S. Brewer of New York declining to shoot five ra for the champlonship of the world on Elliott’s terms, but accepting Elliott’s proposition to shoot five races for a money consideration. The first two races will be shot at Kansas City, to follow with one at Pittsburg, and the | other two on some grounds near New York city. Messrs, Brewer and El will meet at the Amerfean Field office in Chicago within ten days for the purpose of signing | contracts, A livé bird tournament under the manage- ment_of Frank 8. Parmelee, will be held on (he Omaha Gun club grounds across the river next Tuesday, election day. There will be a number of sweepstake events and several special matches, A fine lot of good, strong birds have been secured, and an-excellent afternoon’s sport is antici- pated. There will be a number of prom BOSTON STORE. UNLOADING WEE Furniture, Carpets and Stoves. For the first week in November. beginning tomorrow, we will have a great Clearing Sale on Stoves, Carpets and Furniture. We will quote prices which have never been heard of before. Below we can mention but a few of the Bargains which will appear at thijs sale. Come and see us and you will find hundreds more. estry, Th“l“idl Loun, 0, pnliieref \ Buby's Iligh Chair, only Large Polished Oak Rocker, Plush or Tapestry, gant Hand-Carved Bxtension Table, well made and finely finished, il : sy k Polished, Finished Book-Case, French Plate Mir rge Sizo Cook Stovi very heavy, guarantbel to glve sa'lifactlon, nent visitors from abroad present and a gen- eral invitation is extended to the shooters of this city to be on hand and take part in the | sport. Colonel Lew May of the State Fish Com- mission, togethgr with Mrs. May, leaves for southern Alabama Wednesday morning for their winter sojourn. The four Freds—Fuller, Heft, Mengadoht and Schrader, have returned from their bear | hunt in the Big Horn mountains. They killed two bear, thirteen elk and a number of both white and blacktail deer, Chat About the Ball Players, Billy O'Rourke s back in Omaha and prom- ises to stay with us until the robins bloom again. In the spring he may once more de- velop as a young blood Billy Harrington, the old Western league baseball manager, 1s dying at Milwaukee of of the liver, He gave several | minor league towns champlons and has been at the head of afairs in Indianapolis, St | Paul and numerous other places. | Scrappy Timothy Hurst, the Natlonal league umpire, has been appointed officiul referee of This Is good sion they can run Tim in, #and 1 want the long end of the betting of any fight he may make. He's a rum 'un, Tim is, BOSTON 29 - Zinc Board Goal Hod 13c. Elbows 4o. 16th and Douglas Streets, STI]HE. FURNITURE, CARPETS AND STOVES. .