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against game and fish hogs. Here is what 
Mr. Wild says editorially: 
Fish and game hogs everywhere will do well 
to take warning from the fate of Harry Winters, 
of Helena, Mont., who recently was fined $400 by 
Judge Henry C. Smith, in the district court, for 
dynamiting fish, Judge Smith said: ‘“‘A man who 
wiil dynamite fish must be absolutely devoid of 
sportsmanlike qualities. People who dynamite fish 
have been~characterized in journals relating to 
cutdoor sports as hogs; and that is an appropriate 
designation. One man is limited by law to catch- 
ing fish with a hook and line; another man comes 
a.ong, clandestinely drops a stick of dynamite 
into a hole and kills not only the large fishes 
thot are good to eat but every fish that is in the 
hoie, and the fish food besides. Not only that, 
but the fish are mutilated and some of them ren- 
dered unfit for food. I am surprised that a man 
of your intelligence and standing in this com- 
munity should do such a thing. You knew it was 
‘against the law; it is the worst possible infringe- 
ment of the game law, in my judgment. There 
is no excise for it whatever.” 
The foregoing is a splendid endorsement of the 
relentless campaign being waged against fish and 
game law violators and hogs by Recreation, the 
magazine edited by G. O. Shields, President of 
the League of American Sportsmen, and is evidence 
that the real sportsmen of the country recognize 
the necessity for the strictest possible enforcement 
of all written laws and the enactment of im- 
proved legislation, if the preservation of fish and 
of the game, song and insectivorous birds is to 
be effective. Furthermore, there is an increasing 
sentiment in favor of the observance of certain 
unwritten laws, chief of which are those reason- 
ably limiting the number of fish caught or game 
birds or animals killed, irrespective of greater 
privileges permitted by statute. The day has 
passed when a man may capture more fish or 
slay more game than meets the consensus ap- 
proval of true sportsmen, without danger of being 
branded by Mr. Shields as one of the hogs, with 
a special number attached to his name and perhaps 
his likeness published. The pen now contains a 
full one thousand men, who are thus held up to 
the ridicule and contempt of the many thousands 
of the magazine’s readers. 
43 SNIPE IN 3 SHOTS. 
For a week past thousands of frost, or gray- 
back, snipe have been arriving on. the beaches 
of Cape May county. The birds are feeding in 
flocks ef a score to several hundred, and they 
are tamer now than they will be later in the 
month, 
The birds are as fat as butter. They 
together and the sportsman who 
fly close 
uses shells loaded with 3% drams of smoke- 
less powder and 1% ounces of No. 7 shot will 
find it easy to bring down 6 to 1o birds at a 
shot. 
Former Councilman Crawford Buck, of Sea 
Isle City, did some good _ shooting Tuesday 
morning. He went up the beach 2 miles from 
town and killed 43 snipe in 3 shots.—New Jersey 
paper. 
Your letter of inquiry received. The 
truth of the matter is as follows: I came 
up to a flock of what we call frost snipe, 
and with the first 2 barrels picked up 17. 
With the second 2, I secured 20; so with 4 
shells I bagged 37 birds. 
Crawford Buck, Sea Isle City, N. J. 
You are entitled to a place in the game 
hog register if ever a man was, and your 
name goes down opposite the number 1,008. 
—EDiTor, 
RECREATION. 
OREGON WARDENS DO GOOD WORK. 
A. W. Nye, a deputy game warden of 
Eastern Oregon, recently captured 17 of the 
notorious game butchers who for several 
years have been killing deer in that State 
for the market. In many cases these men 
have taken only the hides of the animals 
they have slain and have left the carcasses 
to rot. Mr. Nye succeeded in convicting 
16 of the men, who were fined $25 each. 
This is a paltry sum, and an inadequate 
punishment when the enormity of the of- 
fense is considered; but the lesson will no 
doubt prove valuable to these men and to. 
their neighbors. 
Mr. L. S. Fritz, of The Dalles, Ore., who 
is a member of the L. A. S., captured an- 
other man and convicted him of having 
killed an elk in close season. 
Hon. J. W. Baker, the Oregon State Game 
Warden, has determined to break up the 
gang of market hunters who have been 
slaughtering deer and elk in Eastern Ore- 
gon, and every good sportsman in the land 
will wish him Godspeed.—EnbrrTor. 
ANOTHER EDITOR ON MY SIDE. 
In a recent article entitled “Down With 
_ the Game Hog,” the editor of the Canyon 
City, Ore., Eagle, says: 
“A law against the use of the deadly and 
destructive pump gun is necessary for the 
game interests of the State. There is no 
excuse for the use of a weapon of this char- 
acter. It results in wanton destruction of 
game and is of no possible advantage 
to anyone. It should be borne in mind 
that adherence to wisely enacted law for the 
protection of game is essential, if in the 
course of a few years there is to be any 
place in the State where the sportsman can 
find recreation. It should not be the aim 
of the law to interfere with the hunter 
whose methods will not work the extermi- 
nation of game, but for hoggishness there 
should be no toleration.” 
GAME NOTE. 
Hon. H. S. Huson, Probate Judge, Grand 
Rapids, Minn., whom I have before had oc- 
casion to commend for his sturdy and fear- 
less enforcement of the game laws, writes 
me that one Christ Biggerstoff was recently 
‘brought before him charged with having th: 
meat and hide of a deer in his possession 
in close season. The judge fined the de- 
fendant $55.90, and being unable to draw a 
check for the amount the culprit is serving 
a 60 days’ term in jail. Biggerstoff is an 
old market hunter and the wardens have 
been after him for several months. He 
will now have ample time in which to think 
it over and I trust he may make up his 
mind to adopt some legitimate means of 
making a living. —EDITOoR, 
