THE LEAGUE OF AMERICAN SPORTSMEN. 



OFFICERS OF THE L. A. S. 



President, G. 0. Shields, 19 W. 24th St., 

 New York. 



1st Vice-President, Dr. C. Hart Merriam, 

 Washington, D.C. 



2d Vice-President, E. S. Thompson, 144 

 Fifth Ave., New York. 



3d Vice-President, Hon. W. A. Richards, 

 Cheyenne, Wyo. 



4th Vice-President, W. T: Hornaday, 69 

 Wall St., New York. 



5th Vice-President, A. A. Anderson, 93 

 Fifth Ave., New York. 



Secretary, Arthur F. Rice, 155 Pennington 

 Ave., Passaic, N.J. 



Treasurer, F. S. Hyatt, National Exchange 

 Bank, 90 West Broadway, New York. 



NEW YORK DIVISION. 

 A. E. Pond, Chief Warden, 124 5th Ave., 

 New York City. 



PENNSYLVANIA DIVISION. 

 Hon. J. O. H. Denny, Chief Warden, 

 Ligonier. 



NEW JERSEY DIVISION. 

 T. H. Keller, Chief Warden, Plainfield. 



MASSACHUSETTS DIVISION. 

 Dr. Heber Bishop, Chief Warden, No. 4 

 Post Office Square, Boston. 



CONNECTICUT DIVISION. 

 Ralph B. Lawton, Chief Warden, Bridge- 

 port. 



MICHIGAN DIVISION. 



J. Elmer Pratt, Chief Warden, Grand 

 Rapids. 



MONTANA DIVISION. 



Dr.. E. F. Coyningham, Chief Warden, 

 Butte City. 



WASHINGTON DIVISION. 



J. S. Stangroom, Chief Warden, New 

 Whatcom. 



HOW TO ENFORCE THE GAME LAWS. 



A Miles City, Montana, man, who was 

 asked to join the League, writes thus to the 

 friend who made the suggestion: 



" How do you expect to enforce our 

 state game laws? Until the Indians are 

 kept on their reservations, and prohibited 

 from going on hunting and slaughtering 

 excursions, I see no way to preserve our 

 antelope, etc." 



One of the first things the League should 

 do is to secure the enactment of game laws, 

 in the states West of the Missouri river, 

 making the penalty for killing game or 

 taking fish, in close season, punishable by 

 imprisonment. This is the only way in 

 which Indians can be made to obey game 

 laws. 



As a rule Indians are not prepared to pay 

 fines, though they all dread even the 

 thought of going to jail; and when they 

 learn that by killing game in close season 

 they are laying themselves liable to im- 

 prisonment, they will stop it. The Indian 

 would much rather go hungry than go to 

 jail. When this is the penalty for viola- 

 tion of the game law he will hustle for his 

 meat in some other way. 



The League has already made itself felt 

 in Legislative circles in the East, and will 

 soon do likewise in the West. Let every 

 man who has the interest of game protec- 

 tion at heart join the League, and thus aid 

 in its grand work. Let the Montana divis- 

 ion go before the Legislature at Helena 

 next winter, backed by the national organ- 

 ization, and ask for the enactment of a law 

 that will stop the Indians from slaughter- 

 ing game, and such a law will soon be 

 enacted. 



Meantime the Chief Warden of the Mon- 

 tana Division will have appointed Local 

 Wardens in every county of that state. 

 These will, in turn, be aided by Deputy 

 Wardens, and the game district may thus 

 be covered effectively. A law can doubt- 

 less be secured in Montana authorizing the 

 State Game Commissioners to appoint all 

 the League Wardens as state Wardens, thus 

 investing them with authority to make ar- 

 rests. With such laws and such machinery 

 for enforcing them the people of Montana, 

 Wyoming, Idaho, and the other far West 

 states can soon stop the Indians, and white 

 men alike, from killing game in close sea- 

 son. 



TO STOP THE SALE OF GAME. 



The following circular has been sent to 

 all the hotel men, restaurant men, game 

 dealers and cold storage houses in this city. 

 It has also been sent to all the leading 

 newspapers in the State, with a request to 

 the editors that they publish and comment 

 on it. 



To Hotel Men and Game-Dealers: 



You are doubtless aware that the law 

 which permitted the sale of game in New 

 York at any time of year, if shipped in 

 from some other state, has been repealed 

 and that game cannot now be legally sold 

 or served in hotels or restaurants, except 

 during the open seasons for killing same in 

 this state. 

 These open seasons are as follows: 

 Deer, August 15th to November 15th. 

 Hares, rabbits and squirrels, October 

 15th to February 15th. 

 Wild fowl, September 1st to April 30th. 

 Quail, November 1st to December 15th. 



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