ing rights to those outlaw buffaloes, and declared that 
they ‘would go out anyhow.” The reply was “If you 
go, I will be obliged to send an officer with each man who 
goes, to see that he does not shoot a buffalo, and to arrest 
him if he attempts to do so.” 
This was sufficient. The hunt did not come off; 
but naturally there was much disappointment among 
those present from Canada. 
At this time, the seventy-five ‘“‘outlaw” bison still 
are outlawing, in the rugged mountains surrounding the 
old Flathead reservation. Pablo claims them, and I 
believe he still offers to sell hunting rights at $250. Pablo 
is said to assert that the animals are “dangerous” to the 
Indians who live on the reservation, and it is reported 
that one bull has been shot at and wounded on that basis. 
The fear and consternation on the reservation is said to 
be serious; but we think that it will be long before either 
life or property is endangered by the outlaws that are so 
wild that they cannot be rounded up. 
Just what the future has in store for those wild 
bison, no one knows. Inasmuch as they are fully under 
the protection of the sovereign State of Montana, it is 
safe to predict that some of them will survive, and multi- 
ply. In the wild country surrounding the old reservation, 
there is food, water and shelter for 10,000 buffaloes. 
That some of the outlaws will be killed on the sly, and 
contrary to law, is reasonably certain. No doubt some 
of them will be slaughtered by Indians, practically in 
revenge. But State Game Warden Avare is very much 
“on the job” regarding those bison, and if there is any 
killing it is reasonably certain that some one will be 
punished to an extent that will exercise a salutary effect 
on the public mind. It is our prediction that those 
buffaloes will not be safe from molestation until at least 
one white man and one Indian has been haled to court 
and shown that an infraction of the game laws of Mon- 
tana is a serious matter. 
Since the above was written, the Secretary of the 
American Bison Society, Mr. W. P. Wharton, has received 
from Mr. Henry Avare, State Game Warden of Montana, 
a letter which contains the following rather startling 
paragraph: 
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