FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 
on both sides, and every point was hard 
fought. The jury found Kerr and Poole 
guilty as charged in the indictments, 
and a stay of sentence was granted 
pending a motion for a new trial, with 
the ultimate purpose of an appeal to the 
supreme court. 
The fine can not be less than $20,000 and 
may be $50,000. 
This is one of the most important 
game cases ever tried in this country, and 
it is earnestly hoped that the Supreme Court 
of Minnesota may sustain the decision of 
the Jackson Court. It is not likely that 
Kerr and Poole are well enough fixed to be 
able to pay a $20,000 fine. If not, they 
should be compelled to go to jail and serve 
out that portion of the sentence which they 
can not liquidate in cash. This might mean 
a long term of imprisonment, but they men 
deserve it. They knew the law and knew 
the risk they were taking. They are known 
to be intelligent men, and if they see fit to 
carry on such a disreputable and destructive 
piece of business as this, with their eyes 
wide open, it is only fair and right that they 
should suffer the extreme penalty.—Eb1Tor. 

SOME BRITISH COLUMBIA BUTCHERS. 
My duties as deputy returning officer 
for the electoral district of Richmond, B.C., 
took me, during the recent elections, up 
Howe sound, a stretch of water some 40 
miles long, running in from Georgia, at 
the head of which the Squamish river en- 
ters. At its entrance from the gulf the 
river is wide and dotted with many islands, 
some settled and more still covered with 
heavy forests. 
The shores of all, as also those of the 
sound, are rocky and precipitous. The 
‘channels between the islands and between 
them and the mainland vary from:a mile to 
several miles in width. Deer swim from 
one island to another or from the main- 
land to the islands or vice versa. 
I had chartered a good sized naphtha 
launch and my father-in-law, Mr. Den- 
mark, accompanied me on the trip. While 
passing up the channel between Gambier 
island and the mainland we saw a deer 
swimming with just its back and head 
above water. It was within 75 yards of 
shore and we put on all steam to head 
it off. We had no firearms and no rope 
but the anchor rope. 
There happened to be a spare oar aboard, 
Mr. Denmark grabbed this and stationed 
himself in the bow to deal the deer a blow 
on the head as the boat passed. Mr. D. 
did not get in ‘his work in good shape. 
The deer gained the shore and scrambled 
on a ledge of rock in the face of the 
cliff. Full speed astern soon took us 
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back to the place where the deer had land- 
ed and there, to our unbounded satisfac- 
tion, we found there was no way in which 
he could get out of his nook except by 
the way he went in. He backed into his 
corner and stood facing us about 30 feet 
away. Our rope was too short to lasso 
him and we dared not land and tackle 
him with the oar as he was a big buck 
and evidently meant business. 
Suddenly the deer jumped for a small 
ledge higher up, missed his footing, and 
went headlong into the water again. That 
was our chance. We forced the boat in 
between him and the _ shore, dropped 
a noose of the anchor rope over his head 
and secured him. When we tried to haul 
him aboard he struggled furiously. We 
finally hauled his head over the side of 
the boat and cut his throat with a small 
pocket knife. 
While resting after the capture we saw 
another deer swimming in mid channel. 
Having learned a thing or 2 while cap- 
turing the first, we knew how to go to 
work. We got our rope ready and steer- 
ing alongside, quickly dropped our noose 
over the deer’s head and despatched him 
in the same way as the first. They are 
both bucks in prime condition. 
J. Burton, Steveston, B. C. 
You are a disgrace to the Government 
that employs you. British Columbia is 
making or amending laws every year to 
protect its game, yet you, an employee of 
that Government, go out and butcher 2 
deer in the most cold blooded, hideous, 
repulsive manner that could possibly be 
devised. You and your friend should go 
to Chicago or Kansas City and apply for 
work in a slaughter house. You would 
certainly be able to earn good wages there 
and could satiate your thirst for blood 
by butchering domestic animals which can 
be reproduced by the thousands each year. 
It would be much more manly and decent 
to hang up a steer by the heels and smash 
his skull with a sledge hammer than to 
rope a poor, defenceless deer that is swim- 
ming in the water, drag it aboard a launch 
and cut its throat. Your number in the 
game hog book is 958 and that of Wil- 
liam Denmark is 959.—EpIrTor. 

A CALL TO OHIO SPORTSMEN. 
The enclosed article from the Cincinnati 
Commercial Tribune of December 11, 1903, 
gives the sportsmen of this State warning 
to prepare for a fight. 
_ The Ohio Hotel Men’s Association, in conven- 
tion, appointed a committee to work for the re- 
eal of the Ohio game laws. The present State 
sgislature will be asked to carry out this prop- 
osition. 
The hotel men state that the game laws are 
