ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
In that region Mr. M. S. Garretson, Secretary 
of the American Bison Society, and Dr. Geo. 
W. Field of the U. S. Biological Survey, say 
there are probably 300 antelope. Their figures 
have some value, because they are based upon 
investigations made on the spot. 
The Warner Lake region was the theatre of 
the remarkable sage grouse observations that 
were made last year by William L. Finley and 
R. Bruce Horsfall, and graphically described 
and pictured by the latter in the Zoological 
Society Buttetin for January 1920. 
It is the desire of many American zoologists 
that the sage grouse region in Lake County, 
Oregon, should be made a federal bird reserva- 
tion, and at the same time provide a sanctuary 
for the prong-horned antelope remnant still liv- 
ing there. 
Mr. Grant’s attention was fixed by stories of 
the illegal killmg of antelope; and these ac- 
counts were abundantly confirmed by Dr. Field 
and Mr. Garretson, who found the carcass of an 
antelope actually in use as wolf bait, beside 
which Mr. Garretson was caught in two wolf 
traps ! 
Finding that no proper officers of the game 
laws were located within easy striking distance 
of the antelope range, and that unusual efforts 
were called for in the punishment of antelope 
killers, Mr. Grant informally stated that the 
Zoological Society would be asked to offer a re- 
ward of #200 for the arrest and conviction of 
any men guilty of killing antelopes. 
From that moment onward certain events 
moved swiftly. It seems that the reward was 
regarded as fair compensation for the labor in- 
volved in journeying to the seat of war, mak- 
ing an arrest and carrying the case through 
the court to a verdict. 
Before the award had been formally posted 
by the Oregon Game Commission, and also be- 
fore it had been really authorized by the Zoo- 
logical Society, another antelope killing occured, 
and was reported to the Game Commissioners 
at Salem. The case was placed in the hands 
of two competent men: George Tonkin, U. S. 
Game Warden, of Boise, Idaho, and E. E. 
Woodcock, Sheriff of Fairview, Oregon. Forth- 
with those two officers foregathered, outfitted 
themselves for a long field trip, and took the 
road. They traveled over the desert 130 miles 
from Lakeview, and Warden Tonkin thus writes 
of the camp experiences of the trip: 
“The sheriff once was a cowboy, and he can 
turn off about as good a meal as I ever ate in 
a camp. He has a regular pantry and kitchen 
ur 
or 
attached to his Ford. The evenings spent with 
him by the campfire have left with me a pleas- 
ing and lasting impression. The revolver and 
rifle practice during the day on the coyotes, 
the mirages in the dry lake valleys, the herds 
of antelopes and flocks of sage hens and the 
night music by the coyotes’ desert choir were 
only a few of the incidents that make such a 
trip indescribable.” 
The real business of the trip was consum- 
mated in the arrest of Arthur Thomas, of Lake- 
view, Oregon, one hundred and fifty miles from 
Lakeview, and James Baldwin, also of Lake- 
view. They had been trapping coyotes and 
killing antelopes for food and for wolf bait. 
The accused men were taken to Lakeview, 
tried before Judge H. J. Angstead, found 
guilty, and each one was fined $200. 
It is the expectation of all the game protec- 
tors concerned that this demonstration of the 
workability of the antelope law will tend to 
discourage further killing of Oregon antelope. 
Concerning the payment of the reward, which 
was gratefully acknowledged by Game Warden 
Tonkin and Sheriff Woodcock, the following 
letter tells the Zoological Society’s part of the 
story: 
May 20, 1920. 
Mr. George Tonkin, 
Game Warden, Boise, Idaho. 
Dear Sir: 
At a meeting of the Executive Committee of 
the New York Zoological Society held on May 
13, 1920, it resolved that the 
$200 offered by the Society on December 11, 
1919, should be paid as follows: 
$100 to George Tonkin, U. S. Game Warden, 
Box 1531, Boise, Idaho. 
was reward of 
$100 to Sheriff E. E. Woodcock, Lakeview, 
Oregon. 
The Society in doing this has waived the 
failure of the Oregon Fish and Game Commis- 
sion to comply with the requirements in post- 
ing notices and also has waived the fact that 
the arrest and conviction took place before the 
reward was authorized. 
The Treasurer of the Society has been directed 
to forward a cheque to you, which will probably 
be sent from here in the course of the next two 
weeks. 
Very truly yours, 
Manpison GRANT, 
Chairman 
