Commissioner of Agriculture. 11 



Case No. May U, 1901. 



People v. Courtney 4635 Casb *Jo. 



People v. Davis Bros 2727 People v. Brock 4351 



People v. Derenthal 4310 People v. Keeler & Hogan 4336, 4317 



People v. Berwind 4320 People v. Bradley & Warren 4341 



People v. Brasch 4618 p e°Ple v. Smith 4331 



People v. Meyer 2466 Map 25, 1901. 



People v. Cooper & Cooper 4329 peoplQ y> BlseU ^ glg> ^ 4032 



People t. Doe & Roe 4314 People v . Anselem 4003,4004 



People v. Doe 4318 people y Block ... 4 o50, 4049. 4048, 4047, 4046 



4045, 4009, 4008 



May 17, 1901. People v. Douglass 3111, 3112, 3113, 3114 



People v. Willis 4337 p y Ward 4028> ml< m ^ 4025 



People v. Forepaugh & Sells' Circus , 



People v. Frankel 4342 September 10, 1901. 



People v. Strunck 4321 people v. LaVoe 4608 



People v. Van Zandt 4340 people v. Van Arsdale 8780 



People v. Davis 4302 = 



People v. Zeisenitz 2734 September IS, 1901. 



People v. Hughes 2738 People v. Lentz 4365 



People v. Hayes 2733 People v. Ling 4364 



As an illustration of some of these clandestine methods per- 

 mit me to state they operate somewhat as follows: An agent 

 comes into the State from New Jersey on a ferryboat, quietly 

 canvasses boarding-houses and restaurants, selling his goods as 

 and for butter, claiming to represent some large dairy or cream- 

 ery in a neighboring State. The orders are taken, goods to be 

 delivered at a given time. At the time the goods are to be 

 delivered a covered wagon appears, with some mark on the 

 wagon to indicate that it represents an entirely different kind 

 of business. For instance, in one of the cases we know of the 

 wagon bore the words, " The Eureka Wringer Company." In 

 delivering the goods there are usually two men. One drives 

 the horse, staying in the wagon all the time, the other watching 

 his opportunity to deliver the goods when nobody, concerning 

 whom he has the least suspicion, is looking. It is with much 

 difficulty we manage to detect these men, as after a. time they 

 learn to know our agents by sight. Several of the persons 

 who have been caught violating the law of the State in this 

 way have, as I am informed by the Attorney-General, been sen- 

 tenced to a term of imprisonment by the court as a penalty. 

 From the information we have been able to ascertain relative to 

 these vendors, we are strongly of the opinion that they never 

 give their correct names, and the same agent does not cover the 



