The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-11-11

There Is one section of the country
to which many a hunters eye will be
turned with regret during the crisp
November days of 1898. 1t is to the
far northwest where the Indians have
been OccasiOning SO much trouble.
For it is the ideal country for fishing
and hunting, its lakes and its wood
lands. It's hills and its glades forming
a simply inexhaustible supply of rare
sport.
The region begins at White Earth,
thence east to Leach Lake, one hun
dred miles; thence north thirty miles
to Ravens Point WinnibigOshish
Lake; thence west twenty miles to the
head of Cass Lake ; thence northwest
fOrty-five miles to Red Lake agency;
thence southwest one hundred miles
to White Earth.
OF large animals inhabfting this re-
gion the most plentiful are: First,
deer; second, bears; third, moose;
fourth, reindeer or caribou. OF the
smaller fur-bearing animals I do not
speak. Within this circumference of
three hundred miles, lying together
in the pine country, the above animals
are slaughtered at all seasons of the
year wherever found, and rot only
within that circle. but everywhere
north of it as far as the British line.
First, as to the number of moose
killed annually in the above region
by the Indians, that is hard to esti-
mate, but a few years ago there were
killed, swimming in the water, pur-
sued in canoes, in one bay on the
north shore of the south lobe of Red
Lake, opposite the Red Lake agency,
at a place called by the white people
the Narrows, and by the Indians Wa
bashing, the large number of eighty
seven moose. The animals had taken
to the water to get away from the
flies, and so were at the mercy of the
Indians.
around Cass Lake, Lake Itasca, Win
nibigoshish and Leech Lakes, and a
great many in the Big Fork River
country. To give a rough guess at the
number of moose annually killed by
the Indians in the above region, in
Guiding the Big Fork country, would
say:
By Red Lake Indians .-.-..v. -. 200
BY Cass Lake Indians .......~. %
By Leech Lake Indians ..-...... 20
By Winnibigoshish and Bowstring
Indians ............. 90
BY White Earth Reservation In
dlanS 70
By Sandy Lake and White Oak
Point Indians Observation-Disclosures. ?
Total killed annually ..355
Turning now to deer There were
marketed at Park Rapids about two
winters ago. during the hunting sea
son CNOvember), 600 deer, the greater
part by far of which were killed by
Indians. They kill, of course, at all
seasons and at all times. 1 would say,
therefore, that the amount of deer
killed by Indians in the above de-
scribed range is as follows:
Deer killed around Leech Lake
and wherever the Leech Lake
Indians hunt ......~.... 1, 200
Deer killed by Cass Lake Indians
and wherever they hunt $500. 300
Deer killed by Winnibigoshish In
dams -.~... 300
Deer Killed by Red Lake Indians 900
Deer killed by White Earth In
dlans ..... 1, 700
Deer killed by Sandy Lake and
White Oak Point Indians (esO. 200
Total annually killed by Indians. A, 700
Yet the haunts of the American
sportsman are as extensive as the
country, and cabins, bungalows, hunt
ing boxes, club houses and "dobys''
in every imaginable style of architec-
Sure attest to this fact.
The open season for larger game be-
gins with November first in most of
the states and so the moose and deer
hunter of the Adlrondacks or the
Maine woods is already on the way to
his favOrite haunt while down in
Maryland, Virginia and North Caro-
lima all is in READINGS for a great sea-
sons hunt of wild fowl.
Perhaps the most extensive prep
arations are those being made by the
famous Adirondack League club
which controls 10000 acres or nearly
two hundred square miles in Herki-
mer and Hamilton counties, New
York. Thirty lakes and a hundred
miles of river front make the pre-
serves the most valuable in America.
The hunting and fishing facilities are
probably unsurpassed anywhere in the
Adirondaczs. The hunting of black
bears furnishes a unique and pictur-
esque element to Adirondack hunting,