SOME NEW LEAGUE MEMBERS. 



Ex-Gov. Levi P. Morton has recently 

 become a life member of the League, on 

 the invitation of Vice-President Hornaday. 

 Thus we are strengthening our lines day 

 by day. The Governor is President of the 

 New York Zoological Society, and is at 

 the head of one of the most important 

 banking institutions in this city. He has 

 been invited several times in the past 

 to become a member of the League, but 

 has refrained from endorsing it, because 

 he seemed to doubt its permanency. As 

 soon as we showed our strength by se- 

 curing the passage of the Lacey bill the 

 Governor said he had no further doubt as 

 to the staying qualities of the men compris- 

 ing the League, and so sent in his check 

 for $25, for a life membership 



Until recently the sportsmen of Iowa 

 have been slow to recognize the League as 

 a valuable factor in the saving of game, 

 but now they are waking up. An Iowa di- 

 vision has recently been formed, with D. 

 E. Stuart, of Council Bluffs, as chief war- 

 den. He is a brilliant young lawyer and 

 a thorough sports- 

 man. He does not be- 

 lieve that the only 

 way to have fun in 

 the fields or in the 

 woods is to be con- 

 stantly killing game. 

 H e realizes that 

 there is more pleas- 

 ure in allowing an 

 occasional bird to es- 

 cape than there is in 

 d. e. stuart, killing all of them. 

 Chief Warden Iowa Div. He appreciates the 



songs of the birds, 

 the odor of flowers and the rustle of the 

 leaves quite as much as the smell of gun- 

 powder. In other words, he is one of the 

 modern type of sportsmen, and he invites 

 all others who believe as he does and who 

 are anxious to see the game of the Great 

 Prairie State protected, to join the League. 

 Iowa is pre-eminently the home of the 

 prairie chicken. Furthermore, it is the 

 home of John F. Lacey, the greatest 

 friend the birds ever had. On these ac- 

 counts, the Iowa division of the League 

 should have 1,000 members, and I trust it 

 soon may have. 



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Oregon is another of the Western States 

 that has recently be- 

 come awakened to 

 the importance of the 

 work of this League. 

 R. F. Kelley, of The 

 Dalles, is the chief 

 warden of that divis- 

 ion, and is a hard 

 worker. He has also 

 organized a local 

 chapter of the League 

 at that point, and an 

 L. A. S. Gun Club. 

 He thoroughly ap- 

 preciates the prestige 

 r. f. kelley, an d the fitness of the 

 Chief Warden Oregon Div. League badge, and is 



making it familiar to 

 lawbreakers as well as to sportsmen in all 

 parts of the Big Red Apple State. 



Michigan is another great game State, 

 but the army of hunters that live there 

 and that go there every year from other 

 States has rapidly swept away the game. 

 There are a few pro- 

 gressive sportsmen in 

 that State, however, 

 and it was the first in 

 the Union to pass a 

 law abolishing spring 

 shooting of wild 

 fowl. J. Elmer Pratt, 

 of Grand Rapids, the 

 chief warden of the 

 Michigan division 

 was one of the prime 

 movers in securing 

 the passage of this 

 law. A year ago the 

 market hunters and J. elmer pratt, 

 game butchers over- Chief Warden Mich. Div. 

 whelmed the progres- 

 sive men and repealed this anti-spring 

 shooting law ; but their victory is only 

 temporary. The right will again prevail, 

 and Mr. Pratt and the many other mem- 

 bers of the League in Michigan will soon 

 fence out the spring shooters again. 



It is noticeable that nearly all the men 

 who come into the League are from the 

 ranks of thinkers and workers. For in- 

 stance, Dr. Nicholas Senn, of Chicago, one 

 of the greatest surgeons in the world, one 

 of the ripest scholars and one of the most 

 humane and progressive of physicians, has 

 recently sent in his application. 



