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Jackson does not confirm or deny the 
statement that he killed the moose, but the 
fact that he encloses a clipping from the 
Bangor Commercial which says he did, is 
equivalent to saying yes. 
Here is a case that should be covered by 
international law, or by treaty. In the 
first place it appears Jackson went into 
the woods without a license, stating to the 
game warden that he was not going to kill 
any other game than bear. The laws of 
New Brunswick do not require a license to 
hunt these animals. It is clearly shown in 
the correspondence and the evidence pro- 
duced in the New Brunswick courts, that 
Jackson killed 3 caribou and 2 moose, 
though he did not gather the first moose. 
It further appears that he sawed the skull 
of the big moose in 2 and secreted the head 
and horns in his trunk, bringing them out 
without letting the game warden know of 
his having them. William Gray, Jackson’s 
guide, was a party to this fraud. 
Then as soon as Jackson crossed the in- 
ternational boundary into Maine he com- 
menced to boast to the newspaper report- 
ers of having killed an unusually large 
moose. On his return to New York the 
Evening Telegram was furnished with 4 
photographs, ostensibly made on this trip. 
One of these shows Jackson sitting behind 
a big moose head, which he claims to have 
killed. Another shows Frank Hays hold- 
ing up a big salmon, which he is supposed 
to have caught. 
Here is an extract from the Telegram’s 
report of an interview with Frank Hays, 
a member of the Jackson party: 
Jackson had a great adventure. He 
killed the biggest moose that has ever 
been taken out of New Brunswick. 
Don’t know how much it weighed, but 
it looked as big as an elephant, and you 
can tell the size of the antlers in the 
picture by comparing them with the 
size of Jackson’s head. It was a big 
bull. Jackson fell across him one day 
when he strayed away from us to get 
a record, and he got it. 
I got a couple of moose, and when- 
ever the gang wanted fish for break- 
fast it always fell to my lot to do the 
hooking. The picture would indicate 
that the fish I am holding is a salmon, 
but salmon were out of season while 
we were there; so it is not a salmon, 
but it was just as good as a salmon.” 
Jackson’s number in the swine record 
is 957. F 
It is unfortunate that we have not’a 
treaty with Canada which would allow an 
officer to come here, take Jackson across 
the line and try him in court for this fla- 
grant violation of the New Brunswick law. 
—Eprtor. 
RECREATION. 
KERR AND POOLE ARE CONVICTED. 
I hand you herewith a clipping from the 
St. Paul Globe, which details the finish of . 
the Lakefield case. The sportsmen of Min- 
nesota have been following this care- 
fully, as it means great things for the pres- 
ervation of game in this State. The war- 
den shall receive the encouragement and ap- 
probation that are due him when he makes a 
good haul like this. RECREATION, the sports- 
man’s best friend, will also be interested. 
I trust that, while you are getting all 
kinds of abuse handed out to you by the 
conscience-stricken game hogs, you will re- 
member that every right minded sportsman 
is with you, and that you will keep on 
roasting the hogs. 
Chas. E. Scofiesu, Ortonville, Minn. 
The clipping says: 
Twenty thousand dollars in fines is 
the most favorable outlook that con- 
fronts William Kerr and Robert Poole, 
of Lakefield, convicted of complicity 
in the recent attempt to smuggle 3,000 
wild ducks from this State into Iowa. 
That estimate of the penalty assumes 
that the court will impose the minimum 
fine of $10 for each bird; but if the 
maximum fine, $25 for each bird, were 
to be exacted, the aggregate would be 
SSD000. wad 
The officers of the commission had 
known for some time that a wholesale 
business in smuggling game from this 
State was being carried on in the vicini- 
ty of Heron lake. Finally definite in- 
formation came of a proposed shipment, 
and Captain William Bird and other of- 
ficers of the commission located a large 
number of ducks and other game birds 
in warehouses at Lakefield controlled 
by Kerr, and watched them several 
nights, until final preparations for the 
removal of the birds were completed. 
Then the officers of the commission, 
with the sheriff of Jackson county, fol- 
lowed the wagons in which the birds 
were being conveyed, until they had 
nearly reached Montgomery, Iowa. At 
that point they halted the drivers of the 
wagons, who were induced to return 
across the State line into Minnesota, 
and then they were placed under arrest 
and the birds were seized. The con- 
fiscated game was shipped at once to 
this city and placed in cold storage. It 
was found that there were nearly 3,000 
ducks in the lot. 
In the indictments returned against 
Kerr and Poole, they were charged 
with having tried to ship illegally from 
the State of Minnesota 2,000 wild ducks, 
although the number seized was more 
than 3,000. 
_The case was tried at Jackson in the 
district court. It was earnestly contested 

