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the Supreme Court heLd that all game is 

 really the property of the State ; that sports- 

 men kill animals only by sufferance and 

 that the Legislature in granting favors can 

 make what qualifications may seem proper. 

 It is stated that the prohibition in refer- 

 ence to the sale of game does not destroy 

 a property right, because no such right 

 exists. 



was paid into court and the prisoners were 

 allowed to depart. The climate of Minne- 

 sota is exceedingly unhealthful for game 

 and fish law violators. 



NEWFOUNDLAND LICENSE LAW 

 AMENDED. 



The lawmakers of Newfoundland have 

 amended the game law by imposing a li- 

 cense of $100 each on all non-residents 

 who may see fit to hunt on that island. I 

 am informed by a subscriber in St. Johns 

 that this is purely the result of the swin- 

 ishness displayed by many American hunt- 

 ers who have gone there in years past. It 

 is well known that the old law provided 

 for 3 classes of license : one costing $40 

 and allowing the hunter to kill 3 caribou ; 

 another costing $60 and authorizing the 

 killing of 5 caribou ; and still another at 

 $80, under which the hunter might kill 8 

 caribou. Many of our American game 

 hogs, however, went over there, took out 

 the cheapest license and then killed 10 

 to 20, or 30, or even 50 caribou each. 

 The intention of the Legislature in pass- 

 ing the present law was to keep such men 

 off the island entirely, and there the ac- 

 tion of the lawmakers will meet the hearty 

 approval of hundreds of decent men. Few 

 can afford to pay the present license, and 

 some honest men who would like to go 

 over there and kill 3 caribou must suffer 

 because of the devilish greed of the other 

 kind ; but it was always thus. Honest men 

 have, from time immemorial, been op- 

 pressed by laws that were only intended to 

 restrain thieves and cut-throats. This is 

 another instance of it. 



Aenholt Stoick, Albert Paul, Henry 

 Bohlman, John Kunde, Leopold Stoick and 

 John Schlosser, farmers, living in Lac Qui 

 Parle county, Minn., were arrested near 

 Big Stone lake, in that State, in April last, 

 with a seine and 3 sacks of fish in their 

 possession. The sacks contained about 300 

 fish, among them being a number of black 

 bass. Mr. A. E. Austin, game warden, of 

 Montevideo, who made the arrest, lined the 

 prisoners up in court, when they demanded 

 a jury trial. This was accorded them, and 

 the men swore they had not been seining; 

 that they had found the 3 sacks of fish on 

 the river bank, and that they had simply 

 been spearing suckers. The story was al- 

 together too fishy for the jury, and the de- 

 fendants were all found guilty as charged. 

 The court fined them $25 and costs each, 

 the total amounting to $192. The money 



The fish pirates about the Lewiston, 

 Ohio, reservoir, were on the warpath 

 again a few weeks ago. Messrs. Norvell 

 and Trevison, Deputy State Game War- 

 dens, raided and destroyed certain nets be- 

 longing to the pirates, and the next time 

 the wardens appeared on the scene 8 

 shots were fired at them by men con- 

 cealed in the brush about the reservoir. 

 The officers were unable to get sight of the 

 men so as to return the fire, but assert 

 that in future they will be prepared for 

 these law breakers, and if any more shoot- 

 ing is done they hope to have a hand in it. 

 I trust the officers may succeed in getting a 

 line on the lawbreakers, and that they may 

 make good, quiet corpses of them. 



Two years ago Charles Hoffman, of 

 Alps, Rensselaer county, N. Y., violated 

 a State game law by snaring 2 ruffed 

 grouse and killing a rabbit in close season. 

 The game warden got after him and Hoff- 

 man left the county. A month or 2 ago 

 he turned up again supposing, of course, 

 the complainant had forgotten all about 

 the case; but not so. Officer Brown and 

 Stephen Horton, representing the Rens- 

 selaer County Rod and Gun Club, swooped 

 down on Hoffman, took him into court 

 and a fine of $59.40 was imposed on him, 

 which he paid. It would be well for Hoff- 

 man to remember that law keeps a long 

 time in Alps, 



A subscriber sends me a clipping from 

 a Concord, N. H., paper, stating that Fred 

 Higgins, Adelbert Smith and Jas. H. Du- 

 rant, of North Sonbornton, assisted by 6 

 dogs, killed a doe near that town in March 

 last. The men were arrested, taken before 

 a justice and fined $100 each. My only 

 regret is that the good people of North 

 Sonbornton did not then take these men, 

 horsewhip them soundly, and run them out 

 of town. No game law ever enacted is 

 sufficiently severe on a lot of brutes who 

 will run down a deer and kill it in mid- 

 winter, simply because the poor brute gets 

 so hungry as to come into a settlement to 

 get food. 



Frank Reszka and Frank Bruski, of Wi- 

 nona, Minn., have been in the habit of 

 hunting in Wisconsin opposite Winona in 

 close season. In March last Mr. Schultz 

 game warden of Wisconsin, went after 



