SOME PROMINENT NEW MEMBERS. 



As I have frequently said. Chief Warden 

 J. H. Ager, of the Nebraska division of 

 the League, is one of the greatest workers 



HON. C. H. DEITRICH, HON. E. P. SAVAGE, 



Ex-Governor of Nebraska, Lieut. Governor,Nebraska. 

 Now U. S. Senator. 



we have in the field. He is a busy railway 

 officer, but is so deeply in earnest in his 

 desire to save the game from extermina- 

 tion, that he sits up nights to do neces- 

 sary work in that direction. He has 

 burned gallons of midnight oil during the 

 past winter in an effort to secure the pas- 

 sage of a good game law; to build up the 

 League membership in his State, and to 

 ferret out, prosecute and convict violators 

 of the game laws; and he has succeeded 



HON. GEORGE MARSH, HON. F. N. PROUT, 



Secretary of State, Nebraska. Attorney General, Nebraska. 



on all these lines. Mr. Ager and the 

 other League members have pushed 

 through the Nebraska Legislature one of 

 the best game laws now on the statute 

 books of any State. 



They have arrested and convicted a num- 

 ber of people for violating game laws dur- 

 ing the past year, the most notable being 

 the representative of the Armour Pack- 



ing Co., at Omaha. These people were 

 attempting to ship quails out of the State 

 in violation of law, when a member of the 

 Nebraska division of the League appre- 

 hended them, broke open a freight car, 

 seized the goods, arrested the Armour 

 Company's agent, and compelled him to 

 pay a fine of $500 in court. The company 

 was liable to a much heavier fine, but they 

 were let off for this sum on condition that 

 they sign a contract not to handle any 

 more game in Nebraska at any time within 

 the next 10 years. That is the kind of stuff 

 some League men are made of. 



Last fall I sent a circular letter to the 

 chief wardens of all the divisions ask- 



HON. WILLIAM STENFER, HON. CHAS. WESTON, 

 State Treasurer, Nebraska. State Auditor, Nebraska. 



ing them to invite the Governors of their 

 respective States to join the League. 

 Several of the wardens acted on the sug- 

 gestion, but Ager acted effectively. He 

 took a handful of blank applications, went 

 into the capitol building, and when he 

 came out he* had the signed applications 

 and the dollars of the Governor, the 



HON. CHAS. D FOLMER, HON. W. K. FOWLER, 



Commissioner of Public Lands, Supt. Public Instruction, 

 and Buildings, Nebraska. Nebraska. 



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