THE LEAGUE OF AMERICAN SPORTSMEN. 



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LAWS WILL BE ENFORCED. 



A representative number of members of the 

 League of American Sportsmen of Hobart town- 

 ship held a meeting last Tuesday evening and dis- 

 cussed matters pertaining to the enforcement of 

 the new game and fish laws. Deputy Game 

 Warden Westergreen and G. F. Peterson were 

 present from Millers. Hobart now has enrolled 

 about 30 members of the League, Hobart town- 

 ship has about 50, and nearly every week new 

 members are taken in. 



A member of the League is in duty bound to 

 respect the laws governing game and fish, and he 

 is therefore interested in knowing that all others 

 also respect the same laws It has come to the at- 

 tention of the League members that some Hobart 

 sportsmen have openly violated the law against 

 Sunday shooting, and the League members propose 

 to see that from this on violators are promptly 

 prosecuted. Anyone violating the Sunday law may 

 be fined not less than $10 nor more than $50, 

 to which fine and costs must be added $20 that 

 goes to the State. Who can afford to violate the 

 Sunday hunting law when a conviction will cost 

 $40 to $90? 



To show that the League is in earnest about 

 enforcing the laws, we here append a resolution 

 that was unanimously adopted at the meeting 

 Tuesday evening: 



Inasmuch as it is the sense of members of the 

 League of American Sportsmen and all law-abiding 

 citizens that the game and fish laws be rigidly en- 

 forced; therefore be it 



Resolved, That we as members of said League 

 pledge our support to all game wardens in seeing 

 that the laws are enforced; and a warning is 

 hereby given all those presuming to violate the 

 Sunday shooting law that they do so at their own 

 peril. — Hobart (Ind.) Gazette. 



ANTELOPE PROTECTED. 



At the solicitation of the League the 

 South Dakota Legislature has also passed 

 a law prohibiting the killing of antelope 

 until June 1, 191 1. This now puts 8 of the 

 antelope States on the right side of this 

 important question. These are Texas. 

 New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, 

 Utah, Montana and North Dakota. 



And the League did it. 



The only States that have any antelope 

 and that still allow the killing of them are 

 Colorado, Wyoming and Idaho. The 

 sooner these States pass 10 year prohibi- 

 tory laws, the better. Idaho did pass a 5 

 year law last winter, but for some strange 

 reason her governor vetoed it. 



The sportsmen of Colorado, Wyoming 

 and Idaho should agitate this question 

 every day from now until their Legisla- 

 tures convene again, and should make such 

 strong demands on their representatives 

 that the latter can not possibly ignore 

 them. Men who are shortsighted enough 

 and greedy enough to want to kill an an- 

 telope in these modern days will flock in- 

 to the 3 States last named and wipe out 

 the few remaining antelope in a hurry, 

 unless prohibitory laws are enacted in the 

 near future. 



Sportsmen. We now have the Governors 

 of 7 States on our membership roll, and 

 hope to get all the others in time. The 

 game found in any State belongs to the 

 people thereof in their sovereign capacity, 

 and the Governor is its legal guardian. In 

 many States the game is one of the valu- 

 able assets, and is a means of producing 

 large revenue, as well as providing an im- 

 portant food supply for the people. It is 

 eminently proper, therefore, that the Gov- 

 ernors of all such States should feel deeply 

 interested in protecting their game, and 

 that they should be willing to aid this 

 League in its work. Some of the Gover- 

 nors are slow to understand this, because 

 they are busy and have not taken time to 

 investigate. If we can get one of them 

 to take an hour off and learn what 

 the League is really doing, we can get his 

 application for membership. Every mem- 

 ber of the League, no matter where he may 

 live, should make it his business to write 

 •to the Governor of his State and ask him 

 to join this League. 



NEW WARDEN A HUSTLER. 

 Mr. Clarence M. Brooks has just been 

 appointed Chief Warden of the recently 

 organized New Llampshire Division, 

 League of American Sportsmen, vice Mr. 

 E. W. Wild, resigned. Mr. Brooks will 

 begin at once to push the work of the di- 

 vision. He is an enthusiast in all matters 

 pertaining to bird, fish, game and forest 

 protection, and the Division thus secures 

 one for its Chief Warden well qualified in 

 every way for the promotion of L. A. S. 

 interests. The New Hampshire Division 

 has more than doubled its membership in 

 the 9 months of its existence, and has 

 already begun to make itself felt in the 

 State in stimulating to high ideals of 

 sportsmanship, in placing new stumbling 

 blocks in the way of law breakers, and 

 in promoting progressive legislation. It 

 may not be generally known that Hon. 

 Stephen S. Jewett, of Laconia, the author 

 of the new fish and game code law, is a 

 member. Other- names of prominence are 

 included in the membership list. Mr. 

 Wild's resignation was due to a lack of 

 time to devote to the cause. — Keene 

 Evening Sentinel. 



SEVEN GOVERNORS IN THE LEAGUE. 

 Governors Bliss of Michigan, Van Sant 

 of Minnesota, and Brady of Alaska, have 

 recently joined the League of American 



LIFE MEMBERS OF THE L. A. S. 

 W. D. Ellis, 136 W. 7 2d street, New York. 

 Geo. L. Carnegie, Fernandina, Fla. 

 G. 0. Shields, 23 W. 24th street, New York. 

 A. F. Rice, 155 Pennington avenue, Passaic, N. J. 

 Dr. W. A. Valentine, 5 W. 35th street, New York. 

 A. A. Anderson, 6 E. 38th street, New York. 

 A. V. Eraser, 478 Greenwich street, New York. 



E. S. Towne, care National Plank Book Co., 

 II ol yoke, Mass. 



F. G. Miller, 108 Clinton street, Defiance, Ohio. 

 T. F. Pierson, 20 W. 52(1 street, New York. 



E. S. Thompson, 2 W. 36th street, New York. 



