Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-08
. ROD AND GUN


The San Francisco Breeder and Sports
man. which for many years has been the
stanchest advocate of legitimate
game protection in California, has
recently exposed the designs OF
certain game law thinkers, there
by drawing down upon itself IN
favorable criticism from the said thinkers.
However, that journal largely owes
its popularity to the determined policy it
has so consistently followed out of cast
ing its influence in the balance with
that of fair-minded sportsmen, and it has
the best wishes not only Of Californians,
but Of all true lovers Of legitimate sport,
no matter where they may be located. 4
The following article from last Satur-
days issue shows that the paper is still
on the alert:
killing wild ducks during the hours
Of the night is not confined to the bay
shore marshes south Of this city. Re-
ports from the Suisun district credit some
of the members of several OF the princi-
pal and exclusive shooting clubs with in
dulging in this unsportsmanlike practice.
Bunches Of canvasback ducks have been
seen to swing into the ponds over which
these gunners We're stationed in the
morning, seemingly from the fusillade of
reports it would appear that a dozen men
We're in the blinds at each pond. This
could be hardly possible as some Of the
clubs do not contain that many members
nor would the ponds allow of so many
men shooting at the same time. TIL sup
position is hat two pump guns per
man is the battery used. If SO, this &C
cunts for some OF the big bags of ducktss
:11 80 q - 49, ~11 -
and only the records on the club game
books show the amount of slaughter ac-
complished with the repeating shot gun.
These birds are generally shipped to this
city by express in sealed packages, every
effort being made to maintain rigid Sc
crecy as to the amount of ducks killed."
The scarcity of Holsters in the eastern
coast waters makes the supply for no.
tells and restaurants rather uncertain.
One ingenious, if INSCRIPTIONS restaur
ant keeper in New York, seems to have
solved the problem in the following man
ner:
He was a man with long, red whiskers
and a suburban cast of face. He shed
no hayseed as he walked, because he was
not a stage countryman, but a real one
II want one of them broiled live lob
%sters," he said to the waiter. IT am tired
Of eating them out Of the can, as I can
do down where l live. Id like to see the
creature, too, before I eat 1t. I want to
have it crawl round the table so as to
be sure that it is not taken out Of a cam.
I know all about that game of stuffing
lobster shells with preserved stuff. The
hotel man down home showed 1t to me-
SO the waiter showed him a real live
black lobster, With vicious claws and q
savage face. 1t walked about among the
knives and forks and glasses on the ia
BILE and made frantic efforts to bite the
customer, who, it knew had designs upon
it's life.
That's the real thing" said the man
with delight, as the waiter took it
squirming and fighting in the direction
of the kitchen. When the water appeared
appeared twenty minutes later with a
lot of chopped Goldfish and picked lob
ster dexterously inserted IN a papier-
mache shell made to initiate the real
thing, the farmer rubbed his hands with
glee, convinced that he was eating the
lobster he had seen in real life only a
short time before.
II v had that same lobster for three
months" said the restaurant man. II
$3.50 " SooH 40 ~ q AaAlAs L an
siHers to his name when 1 call him and
is thoroughly domesticated. When some
doubling Thomas who does not believe
We have live Holsters here asks me to
see one, I produce Little Johnny the
lobster you have just seen. He jumps
around the room for awhile like the good
performer that he is, and then the wait
Ell him back and puts him in his
tank until he is called for again by the
next hayseed. ii
Sometimes I put him in the window,
and he seems to know what Is expected
of him there. He regards the window as
his stage and dances about for the pub
lie. whenever he sees a hungry looking
man coming down the street he begins
squirming to attract attention. If the
man comes in and orders lobster the
waiter ostentatiously goes to the window
and gets him. This makes a great bluff
and leaves a lasting impression upon the
patron, who eats canned lobster with a
great deal more satisfaction than he
would otherwise. After the patron has
gone Jimmy is put back into the window
to repeat the show"
S then the head waiter came I'D and
got a mallet and a chisel with which to
open a fresh case Of canned lobster Just
received from Nova Scotia.
Market hunting for quails is carried on
In different ways in various localities.
One method pursued In a hilly district is
for three men to proceed up a ravine or
anyon a man on each side of the can-
yon, and the third fellow In the bottom.
Each is armed with a 10 bore cylindez