ABOUT THE GAME LAWS, ETC. 173 
twenty years steadily opposed every measure likely to 
interfere with his annual hunting trips to which he seems 
personally so fond. While these game laws as placed 
upon the State statutes read well and their language 
plain, yet in some manner—no odds how direct the evi- 
dence for prosecution—there is seldom a conviction for 
enfraction of its provisions. This is owing tothe pre- 
vailing opinion that such an act like the temperance law 
was apart from the general statutes and not taken so 
seriously in the matter of their enforcement as with 
common law infractions. 
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Many of the more thoughtful and law abiding citi- 
zens of North Dakota are advocating the procedure of 
the penal code direct in dealing with the destroyers of 
our insectivorous birds and herbivorous wild animals. 
In other words, while keeping laws upon the statutes as 
before except as to their enforcement which should be 
placed with the sheriff or his deputies, or constables of 
the county in which the law is being violated; the pros- 
ecuting witnesses to make complaint and appear in jus- 
tice or district court under the same procedure that gov- 
erns any other infraction of our common law and be 
subjected to its prescribed penalties without fea r 
favor. 
This change in the law would mean the dismissal of 
the present useless appendage to the State of North 
Dakota known as the State Game Wardens and their 
deputies. The first game warden under the present law 
—Bowers of Fargo—had some interest in his work and 
done fairly well but the game wardens appointed and 
serving under the two State administrations of Governor 
