The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-02

bur office records" and turning to his
lies he pulled out letter from Barnum
IN the Duluth road addressed to the game
commissioner, which said
Il am law abiding man, but | want
10 give you notice that some of your big
animals (moose) come into my garden
every night, and if you don't have the
state of Minnesota take care Of them
something is going to happen. l don't
want the meat to Spite, if it does happen
that some of them get against my gun,
and don't want to eat the meat, as me
any my family live on vegetable diet"
well, l can tell you,' said Commits
sioner Ferris, that the moose are fast
moving down from the North, or else
they are becoming much more plenty. A
few years ago they were never nearer us
than Leech Lake, and now they are all
around there"
A magnificent head and neck of a
large male moose lay in the center of
the office. 1T was sent in from La
Prairie, Itasca county," said Mr.. Fuller
ton, "by one of our deputies. He took
it in a raid for violation of the game law
The accused party is charged with hav-
ing slaughtered a whole family-thiS
male, female and two calves. A war
rant is out for his arrest"
"The moose are no doubt increasing
fast said Mr.. Ferris, "and will do so
under the state protection, in spite of the
Indians killing them. They do this near
to the reservations, sneaking off and on,
before our agents can catch them. But
as the reserves are chased by the Indians
in the process of running them to White
Earth, this trouble will decrease"
The moose are reported to be not only
plenty, but in greatly improved condi-
ton. Being less hunted they have wide
range and better feed. Such as they are
range and better feed. Such as are seen
are very fat,and with sleek, dark coats.
When harrassed and chased they get
scrawny and thin coated, poor and gray.
Fourteen hundred pounds dressed car
cases, would be nothing unusual.
Agent Fullerton stated that he had
hunted for years all around Duluth and
never saw a moose, and now they are
plenty close by.
did you ever eat the meat dried or
jerked?" asked he. "You put piece OF
it as big as your fist in to boil and it will
swell up and fill the kettle
"You remind me-" said the penny
Press" man, ''of my experience on the
Mississippi headwaters, just below Itasca
rake, lew years ago. l was running
a railroad survey line, on part of which
the Brainerd & Northern Minnesota, has
since been constructed to Leech lake
With party of Is men we had made a
crossing of the Mississippi, but were alb
solutely out of provisions. Bill Seelye
of Brainerd, taking a man with him
struck out to Park Rapids to bring some
in, but having to bring them 80 miles OF
more by OK team, and swamps most OF the
way through the forest, he was delayed
and we were in hard row of stumps
Tea and sugar were absolutely everything
\. we had left, and apparently there was no
game. l called in my Indian packers
and made them understand that if they
would go and kill a deer they would be
paid S. extra or $40 for moose. Two
Of them set out at daybreak on dog trot
There was no sign from them till just al
dark, when there was crack of a rife
far away, and then another shot. In al
hour more the Indians came in bearing or
their shoulders a moose calf few weeks
DID,
"Got 'em big moose, Omah, (there
way) holding up three fingers for three
miles, said one. Then he motioned ou
the size of the mother moose they haG
killed, and that there was another calf
twins-left with the dead moose.
Expectation of moose meat in plent,
brought the camp out as soon as da.
broke. We set out, 10 men in all, beside
the Indians, who were to bring in thu
moose hide and the other calf. The In