EDITOR’S CORNER. 
WISCONSIN WARDENS BUSY. 
The deputy game wardens of Wisconsin 
have been making more trouble for law- 
breakers in that State in the past few 
months than could be told of in 2 pages of 
REcREATION. I should like to enumerate all 
the arrests and convictions these officers re- 
port, but can not spare space for it. Here 
are a few: 
L. Eld, Oscar Larson and C. Wickiton, 
of Bayfield county, evidently did not ap- 
prove of the law which requires each resi- 
dent of that State who wishes to hunt to 
take out a license at a cost of $1. These 
3 men, therefore, shouldered their guns and 
went into the woods without complying 
with this formality. Game Wardens John 
Buckley and H. Lund followed them, ar- 
rested them and took them into court, and 
the Judge fined each of the offenders $50 
and costs. Think of it! That sum would 
have provided these men with resident 
hunting licenses for 50 years to come; yet 
they had to put up that amount for hunting 
without a license one day. Some people 
have strange ideas of economy. 
Another man who went hunting without a 
license is Julius Stinke, of Sauk county. 
He was also fined 50 and costs at the sug- 
gestion of Deputy Warden H. H. Hilbert. 
Stinke should add a final R to his name. 
Charles Miller, of Brown county, under- 
took to evade the local license law and was 
arrested by Deputy Warden Wm. Haslam. 
He made a big fight in court, and was fined 
$50 and costs, amounting to $80. Mr. Mil- 
ler should now sell his gun and devote the 
rest of his life to sawing wood. 
Several men were arrested and fined for 
shooting ducks at night. It is all right 
enough for a man to work overtime at any 
legitimate occupation, but a decent man can 
always get fun enough with a gun between 
sunrise and sunset, and it is better to quit 
at sundown, even if you have not secured 
as many birds as you would like to have. 
J. P. Jones and Henry Finn, of Mil- 
waukee, went to South Dakota to shoot 
ducks. They brought home a lot of the 
birds in a telescope grip, but unfortunately 
left some of the wing feathers sticking out. 
Valentine Raeth was at the station when 
the men alighted from the train. He im- 
mediately made a point on the grip, 
took charge of it and of the men who car- 
ried it. The local Justice of the Peace 
charged the men big prices for bringing. 
their game into Wisconsin without comply- 
ing with the State law which requires all 
packages containing game to be tagged as 
such, and Jones and Finn did not get to 
eat their ducks after all. The game warden 
sold them and applied the proceeds to the 
State Game Protective Fund. 
Valentine Raeth, of Milwaukee, made 9 
seizures in November and 11 in December 
of game that was being shipped out of that 
State in violation of law. Several offen- 
ders were caught and heavily fined. Some 
other cases are pending in the courts at this 
writing. 
FAIR PAY "FOR GOOD WORK. 
For obvious reasons public servants can 
not be expected to increase their own sal- 
aries. No advance has been made in the 
pay of members of Congress and general 
officers of the government to keep pace 
with the heavy increase in cost of living 
and the universal increase in wages through- 
out the country. It costs approximately 
double to live in Washington as compared 
with the same standard at the home of 
members of Congress. The people are the 
employers and expect a high grade of abil- 
ity in their public servgnts, but pay them 
less than such servants can generally earn 
in private life. Neither political party dare 
take the initiative to fix salaries on an equit- 
able basis commensurate with the grade of 
service expected. 
A petition signed by citizens without re- 
gard to politics will go to Congress recom- 
mending a revision. This is intended as an 
acknowledgment, by the people, of their ap- 
preciation of the value of the public ser- 
vants and will furnish some reason for Con- 
gress to treat the subject and avoid criti- 
cism from either political party, particularly 
in view of the fact that no advance is to 
be made until after the next election, the 
result of which can not be foretold. 
Readers favoring the movement can cut 
out, sign and mail this petition to “Sentry 
Box” 825 Vernon avenue, Washington, D. 
C., a non-partisan bureau not conducted for 
profit. The integrity of its act is guaran- 
teed by its founder, a man of international 
repute in commerce and finance.—EprTor. 

We, the undersigned, respectfully petition 
the 58th Congress to fix the salaries of the 
following government officials at the amount 
indicated under the column headed “Pro- 
posed Salary” to take effect December Ist, 
1904. PRESENT PROPOSED 
SALARY. SALARY. 
Present og ia ih cots $50,000 $75,000 
Vice President... 5.2... 8,000 15,000 
Each Cabinet officer..... 8,000 10,000 
OS Ms. 10,500 15,000 
Associate Justices....... 10,000 12,000 
United States Senators.. 5,000 10,000 
Members of House of 
Representatives ....... 5,000 7,500 
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