FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 



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and had killed one deer. They were fully 



equipped for slaughtering deer and curing the 

 venison. They had teams, a boat with u large 

 headlight, a liberal supply of provisions, and a 

 number of dogs and guns. The parties were fined 

 $500 each, and, in default of payment, went to 

 jail for 60 days.-. The game wardens confiscated 

 their outfit.-- -St. Paul Dispatch. 



Fullerton is a cracker jack. When he 

 strikes the trail of a game law violator 

 the same might just as well come in and 

 throw up his hands, for Fullerton is sure to 

 run him to cover sooner or later. The 

 money these fellows were going to make by 

 selling venison and skins will not buy each 

 of them a pound of crackers after he gets 

 out of jail; and the diet of bread and 

 water which they will have to live on mean- 

 time will put the men in good, healthy con- 

 dition for earning a living by honest work 

 hereafter. — Editor. 



GAME NOTES. 



I believe in having a gun law with nomi- 

 nal fee, but requiring applications to be ad- 

 vertised and protests allowed the same as 

 is done with liquor licenses ; all carrying of 

 firearms without license to be illegal ; no 

 license to be issued to an inveterate game 

 hog nor within 5 years after the discovery 

 of offense by any game law violator ; any 

 violation of game law to include in the 

 penalty, besides the fine, the forfeiture of 

 license and weapons and a term of impris- 

 onment. Make a legal limit, so that a game 

 hog would also be a law breaker. 



Sunday shooting I am not in favor oV. 

 Almost any one can get off for at least a 

 day or 2 in the season, if at all anxious. 



Let the shooters try trap shooting on 

 English sparrows in place of pigeons, and 

 they will make sparrow shoots a regular 

 thing, sparing the pigeons, getting better 

 practice and helping to exterminate the 

 sparrows. 



L. A. S. 4022, Philadelphia, Pa. 



At the last session of our county grand 

 jury, Judge Barton S. Higgins, of the Cir- 

 cuit Court of Boone county, called the at- 

 tention of the jury to the destruction of 

 birds and the consequent injury to the 

 farmers of the county, and quoted the law 

 of Indiana on the subject. Since that time 

 there has been no complaint by the farm- 

 ers of the county, and the Judge's course 

 has been universally commended. 



C. D. Daily, Lebanon, Ind. 



Another Daniel come to judgment. The 

 great movement instituted by the League 

 3 years ago :.s still sweeping over the coun- 

 try, and in the near future every judge and 

 every law maker in the country will be a 

 game protector. — Editor. 



Dr. T. S. Palmer, assistant chief of the 

 Biological Survey, Department of Agricul- 



ture, and 3d Vice-President of the League, 

 has in press a pamphlet giving dates of 

 open and close seasons on game of all 

 kinds in all the states, and including a 

 great deal of other information of value 

 to sportsmen. 



The iniormation given in the pamphlet 

 is summarized in a series of tables which 

 are the most complete and convenient 

 ever published on this subject. These 

 tables have required months of hard work, 

 and I am sure the pamphlet will be thor- 

 oughly appreciated by thousands of people. 

 It can be had free b- r addressing the doctor 

 at Washington, D. C. — Editor. 



Fish and Game Commissioner Nathaniel 

 Wentworth and Detective Ezra Martin, of 

 Hudson, went to Stoddard, Monday, to look 

 up some complaints made about the violation of 

 the game laws. H. E. Messenger, chairman of 

 the board of selectmen of Stoddard, and A. A. 

 Barnes were each arrested and fined $50 and 

 costs for poisoning a fox. John Dubois, of the 

 same place, was fined $10 and costs for shoot- 

 ing a black duck. Charles Sholbert, Leonard 

 Needham and Fred Veno were fined $50 and 

 costs for shooting 2 blue herons. — New Hamp- 

 shire paper. 



It seems this is a bad year for pot hunters 

 in New Hampshire. Commissioner Went- 

 worth is a painstaking and conscientious 

 officer and sets a hot pace for other State 

 fish and game commissioners and wardens. 

 They should all follow — Editor. 



In the opinion of the Attorney-General 

 of this State, Section 10 of the new game 

 law, which covers the open season on 

 grouse, quails, woodcock and spruce hens, 

 is unconstitutional, and the old law cov- 

 ering these birds is continued in force, thus 

 making the open season on these birds the 

 same as last year, viz : October 20 to 

 November 30, both inclusive. 



Frank M. Morse, 

 State Game Warden, Portland, Mich. 



Anybody can keep on shooting all day, 

 but it takes a gentleman to quit when he 

 gets enough. 



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