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phy and Stephens, recently raided a camp 

 of poachers who are said to have operated 

 a tannery and taxidermist shop in the 

 woods North of Red lake for 2 years past. 

 The wardens did an exceedingly clever 

 piece of work. They visited the tannery 

 in the guise of land hunters and found 

 the poachers busy. The officers secured 

 photographs of the butchers mixed up 

 with skins and heads of deer and moose. 

 The wardens even got a picture of 2 of 

 the men skinning a moose they had just 

 killed. Then the officers returned to 

 Crookston, got reinforcements, went back 

 to the camp and arrested Henry Cook, 

 Fred Cook and George Wilcox. They 

 started with their prisoners to the railroad 

 and before reaching there were intercepted 

 by a constable from Thief River Falls, 

 who was armed with a writ of replevin 

 sworn out by a brother of the thieves. 

 The constable made a big bluff about 

 taking the skins and heads away from the 

 game wardens; but the -latter denied his 

 authority and a fight ensued in which sev- 

 eral shots were fired. Nobody was hurt, 

 but the constable and his 2 assistants were 

 handcuffed and taken to jail with the skin 

 hunters. 



A few days later Mr. Fullerton raided a 

 restaurant and a cold storage house in 

 St. Paul and captured a number of ruffed 

 grouse, quails and ducks, held contrary 

 to law. W. G. Carling, proprietor of the 

 restaurant, and R. E. Cobb, president of 

 the cold storage company, were taken into 

 court and were compelled to pay heavy 

 fines. 



On another occasion Mr. Fullerton ar- 

 rested F. L. Parshall, a St. Paul game 

 dealer, and found in his possession a sad- 

 dle of vension. Parshall was duly tried, 

 convicted and fined. 



Deputies Phillips and Green, acting 

 under the orders of Chief Warden Fuller- 

 ton, recently captured one Del Linden, 

 who had been hunting and trapping in the 

 vicinity of Grave lake, near Grand Rapids. 

 They found in his possession 137 deer 

 skins, 14 moose skins and a quantity of 

 venison. Unfortunately, he was fined only 

 $124, which amount he paid. He should 

 have been sent to prison for 5 years. 



Mr. Fullerton also reports the arrest, by 

 deputy Phillips, of a notorious poacher 

 named Murphy, who was convicted and 

 fined $119. 



George Magee was arrested and 7 ruffed 

 grouse were found in his possession, for 

 which the Judge required him to pay a 

 penalty of $70. 



On still another occasion Fullerton 

 seized a box containing 100 pinnated 

 grouse, at the Union Depot in St. Paul, 

 which had been shipped from the North- 

 ern part of the State, and the shipper, if 



found, will be invited to walk up to the 

 captain's office and settle. 



Mr. Fullerton is a member of the L. A. 

 S. and a game warden after my own heart. 

 I trust every League member in Minne- 

 sota will co-operate with him in his ex- 

 cellent work. 



ANTI-HOUNDING LAW GOOD. 



It takes all kinds of people and things 

 to make a world, and here is one of the 

 other kind. Dr. J. P. Gilmer, of Louisville, 

 Ky., writes Secretary Rice a letter in which 

 he announces his withdrawal from the 

 League "on account of the utter indiffer- 

 ence of the editor of Recreation to the ef- 

 forts of myself and others to prosecute 

 violators of the game laws of Kentucky." 



I have no idea what the doctor refers 

 to. I may have had some correspondence 

 with him a long time ago, but as I handle 

 hundreds of letters every day can not re- 

 member every case that passes through 

 my hands. If the Doctor ever asked me to 

 help him enforce the game laws of his 

 State I did all in my power to comply with 

 his request. 



The Doctor adds : " Another thing about 

 Mr. Shields: He has openly encouraged 

 the shooting of dogs which are used to 

 run deer. When Mr. Shields knows dogs, 

 our truest friends, he will perhaps think 

 it better to shoot the man who puts the 

 dogs on the trail, and spare the dogs, who 

 only obey those in authority over them. 

 Mr. Shields will then say with me that 

 whoever shoots a dog for obeying orders, 

 and does not meeu the owner is not only 

 a killer of man's most faithful friend, but 

 a coward. The man who shoots a dog of 

 mine had better look out, for I will hunt 

 him down and kill him." 



The doctor refers to remarks I have 

 made on the work of certain game hogs 

 in the Adirondacks, who run deer with 

 dogs in violation of law. Here is the sec- 

 tion of the State law to which I referred. 



"Dogs that are trained to or will pur- 

 sue deer, shall not be permitted by the 

 owner or person harboring the same to 

 run at large in, or be taken into forest 

 inhabited by deer before August 15, 1902. 

 If any such dog be found hunting, pur- 

 suing, or killing deer or running at large 

 in forests inhabited by deer, it shall be 

 presumptive evidence of a violation of this 

 section by the person owning, using, hav- 

 ing, or harboring such dog. Any person 

 may, and it is the duty of every game 

 protector to kill a dog found in a deer 

 forest, and no action for damage shall be 

 maintained against a person for such kill- 

 ing." 



I regard that as good law and would 

 always do my part toward enforcing it. 

 Of course the owner of the dog should be 



