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REUIEA TlON. 



GAME NOTES. 



I have spent a great deal of my time for 

 the past 20 years among the fish and game 

 on the plains and in the mountains and 

 have had a line opportunity of studying the 

 decrease of the same and the cause of 

 it. It is high time something was done to 

 stop the cruel and wanton slaughter of 

 game and fish, and I am with you. Go for 

 the game hogs. Do not attempt to handle 

 them with kid gloves ,as I see some of the 

 readers suggest. Give it to them straight 

 from the shoulder. You can not handle 

 them nearly so roughly as they deserve. 

 When handling the .ish and game they 

 have no mercy. Why should you show 

 them any? Give it to them. 



These are my sentiments. If it hurts 

 them, let them become civilized and act 

 like real sportsmen. I can remember no 

 time in my life when I cared to kill or 

 catch more than I needed to eat, and I 

 can not understand the construction of a 

 human being who kills for the sake of 

 killing. The most appropriate name I can 

 give him is the one you have adopted, 

 hog. W. S. G. Todd, 



Coleridge, Cal. 



Watchfulness for months on the part of 

 the State Department for the Protection 

 of Game was rewarded last evening, when 

 Executive Agent Beutner and Deputy 

 Game Warden Henry Myerding arrested 

 Fred Duimond in this city after a chase of 

 40 miles and confiscated a lot of slaught- 

 ered game, comprising 22 saddles of veni- 

 son and one moose carcass. The game 

 seized is valued at $300. It is claimed that 

 the load of game represents the killing by 

 a crowd of pot hunters who, it is alleged, 

 have established a camp at Cross Roads, 

 30 miles west of Brainerd. Executive 

 Agent Buetner says he has been keeping 

 cases on the hunters for a long time, and 

 has made 2 raids on the camp without 

 finding any game — Minneapolis Times. 



Here's hoping Buetner may get the rest 

 of them before he quits.— Editor. 



Deputy U. S. Marshal Toseph Pinkham 

 has done great good for the cause of game 

 protection by arresting William Courtney 

 and Jay Witman, two notorious law- 

 breakers and poachers, who have been car- 

 rying on their work in and about the Na- 

 tional Park for years past. The men were 

 found near Henry's lake, and are now in 

 jail at Blacdoot, Idaho. The specific 

 charge against them is killing elk in the 

 National Park, though that is only one 

 of their many crimes. It is earnestlv hoped 

 the United States court, before which these 

 men will be arraigned, will send them to 

 prison for a long term. 



Mr. A. Leeds, Darby, Mont., is a guide 

 who has the right code of ethics with re- 

 gard to hunting. In a letter to Mr. E. W. 

 Little, of this city, dated March 23d, he 

 says, 



"Bear in mind I will not allow any one 

 hunting with me to shoot female elk, deer, 

 goats, or any other kind of game, ex- 

 cept bear. No game hog can eat with 

 me, or sit with me at the same camp fire. 

 I never allow game to be slaughtered by 

 anyone whom I take out, and if anyone 

 who is going into the mountains has dif- 

 ferent views he would better look for 

 some other guide." 



Word was recently received that Gus Akers, "Chic" 

 Edelman, Dan Schnabel. and Ben Seigh, members of 

 the Gray Wolf Hunting Club, who have been in West 

 Virginia shooting;, had been arrested for violating the 

 game laws of that State and fined heavily. 



Last year, it is said, a law was passed in the State 

 providing that non-residents must take out a license in 

 each and every county they visit to hunt. Fishing may 

 be indulged in after procuring the license without any 

 further permit. 



The existence of this statute is supposed to have been 

 unknown to the members of the Gray Wolt Club until 

 they ran up against it. They were cutting and slash- 

 ing among the game in that vicinity, when a local con- 

 stable arrived and took the party into custody. 



The boys had not calculated on an experience of that 

 kind, it is said, and were compelled to call by wire on 

 Johnstown friends to help them out financially. — 

 Johnstown Tribune. 



The boys of the Gray Wolf Club knew 

 all about the West Virginia game law be- 

 fore they went camping. 



L. G. Hornick, Johnstown, Pa. 



I recently made 6 arrests for hunting 

 deer by the method known as crusting. 

 One man was discharged on account of 

 lack of evidence, one escaped to Canada, 

 but the other 4 were tried before Justice 

 Parsons, at Island Pond, Essex County, 

 Vt., and were obliged to furnish bonds to 

 the amount of $200 each to appear at 

 county court in September next. State 

 Commissioner Titcomb has pushed mat- 

 ters to the best of his ability, not sparing 

 himself or money in the effort to stop this 

 beastly slaughter of deer which has been 

 going on in the backwoods for some time. 



E. G. Moulton, Warden, Derby Line, 

 Vt. 



Governor Roosevelt has signed the bill 

 which passed the Legislature, appropriat- 

 ing $250,000 to continue the purchase of 

 land in the Adirondack Park, and in the 

 Catskills. This is a most worthy and 

 commendable action on the part of the 

 Assembly and the Governor, and will 

 meet with the hearty approval of every 

 intelligent taxpayer in the State. 



