174 ABOUT THE GAME LAWS, ETC. 
White might properly be termed actors in a farce com- 
edy. During his first administration the governor ap- 
pointed a party from Devils Lake as warden and in jus- 
tice to the governor it is said the appointment was the 
result of a ‘‘political deal’’ in which the governor was 
expected to make good by this appointment of the 
game warden. During this fellows incumbency of the 
office of game warden, he took no interest whatever in 
the duties of the office beyond drawing his salary,which 
amounted to about $2000 per annum. Even in the 
appointment of deputies he evidently followed random 
recommendations, as these officers were not of the ac- 
tive or alert kind, nor were they ever able to get sight 
of offending poachers who advertised rather than hid 
their crimes and misdeeds No one ever reported the 
presence of the State game wardenin any part of the 
State other than his own town, as far as the writer could 
learn. In plain English he was properly a ‘‘stoten 
bottle” as far as the administration of the office of game 
warden was concerned. 
During the interim of Governor White’s second ap- 
pointment the law had been changed in the division of 
the State into two districts instead of the one as before 
that date. But the service did not improve with the 
induction of the new regime. A personal follower of 
the governor at Valley City received his appointment 
as one of the wardens and a Mr. Hale of Grand Forks 
received the appointment for the northern district. Not 
one citizen in five hundred in this State know the name 
of the first appointment—off hand—without consulting 
his State directory. And if he has made any effort to 
secure a single arrest for the many offences committed 
