The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-11-28
ALBINos IN NATURE.
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Continued from Fourth Page) themselves lucky if they escaped the onslaught of the stampede
 But when the white giant stopped, hesitating, I leveIed my rife and pulled the trigger, there was an instant charge, stagger and the white prize was mine. The great herd swept on and the skin of the white buffalo adorn- ed my tent until we reached Fort Union, when sold it for $125, probably the largest price ever paid for a buffalo hide up to that time. This hide was subsequently, made Into rug. I was told that he had refused an offer of $5,OOO for the rug"
 The white brook trout of Minnesota, which the officials of the Fisheries De- partment of the United States govern ment consider the most interesting fish discovered, have grown in numbers from a single specimen to a school of upward of three thousand.
 Several tanks of the albino trout are shown at the fish hatchery at St. Paul, the fish ranging in size from a pound and 8 half trout to tiny minnows hattched this year.
 The white brook trout was an acci- dent. In haching brook trout spawn in the spring of 1893 tiny white minnow developed. The minnow was carefully guarded. When full grown it's spawn was saved and matched separately, and practically all the minnows were white. These fish were also carefully raised. Each year the white trout were kept separate from the others, and three years ago the work of distribution to other States began.
 The fish are perfect brook trout in form, and have the tiny red spots along their side found on the gamey fish that is so much loved by sportsmen. The body of the fish vary in color from pure white. to cream color. The fins are pinker than those of the ordinary trout, and are edged with a strip of pure white.
 One strange freak of piscatorlal is that, wherever these fish are planted they become leaders of the schools of fish found in large ponds. This was forclbly brought to the notice of the
 
 He was on a trip to the wilds of Northern Wisconsin. There was one small lake emptying into a creek, in which some of these white trout fly had been placed three years ago. This lake was perhaps two acres in size and fed by thousands of small springs, which bubbled up through the sandy bottom, in size all the way from the diameter of a teacup to that of wash tub. There being no bottom to the lake it was necessary to construct a raft of logs, and this was ''poled' out for some distace and anchored with the pole.
 It was bright, sunny day. and the sandy bottom of the lake was plainly discernible. A long cast of the line brought an instant strike from somewhere, and this was followed by others. But shortly there appeared a black, solid body, three feet under the surface, moving slowly, like floating or sunken bog. It came toward the writer and appeared to cover a. space about ten by fifteen feet, moving broad side ahead. It t'required but moment to discover that this mass was a closely packed school of brook trout, very even in size. They moved as on object, backward, forward and sideways slowly but the strangest sight in connection with this strange scene was the appear ance of a snow white trout, about ten inches in length, which appeared to be acting as scout, or captain. This albinO trout would dart out in advance, disappear and return, swimming over the school, to the rear evidently signal ling a warning to retreat, for the entire school would back and wait for an- other demonstration, which might be an order to advance, when the school would again move forward.
 Casting to the edge of this school