EDITOR'S CORNER. 



HOW SOME PHILADELPHIA ROOTERS 

 WERE CAUGHT. 

 Late last fall a large party of hunters, 

 not sportsmen, went to Clearfield county, 

 Pennsylvania, and engaged in hunting deer 

 with dogs. Several deer were run into the 

 water and killed, thus effecting a double 

 violation of the State law. Deputy State 

 Warden Joe Rightnour went after the 

 bristlebacks, rounded them up and took 



them before Justice , of Car- 



thaus, who persistently refused to hear 

 any evidence against the men and dis- 

 charged them. Their trial was set for a 

 certain hour in the day, and Dr. Josephus 

 Kalbfus, secretary of the State Game Com- 

 mission, started to Carthaus to attend the 

 trial. On arriving there he found the men 

 had appeared before the Justice several 

 hours before the time set for the trial and 

 had been dismissed. 



As every sportsman in Pennsylvania 

 knows, Dr. Kalbfus does not quit a case 

 when he starts on it until he has exhausted 

 every resource. He followed up these mis- 

 creants, arrested 6 of them, took them be- 

 fore another Justice and had them bound 

 over. Meantime, several of the men weak- 

 ened, pleaded guilty and paid fines of $100 

 each and costs, the total amounting to 

 nearly $1,200. One of the other men caught 

 cold while breaking the law and died. 



The names and addresses of the poach- 

 ers, so far as learned, are : Alois Oslertag, 

 a hotel-keeper of Philadelphia; George D. 

 Kelley, Philadelphia; O. S. Bailey, J. D. 

 Burkhart and J. D. Wolf, of Sinnemahon- 

 ing, and William Shultz, of Carthaus. 



The lesson taught by Dr. Kalbfus and 

 Mr. Rightnour has proved a most salutary 

 one, and has aroused the indignation of all 

 friends of game protection in Clearfield 

 county. It is certain that not only the 

 sportsmen of that county but the farmers 

 as well, will keep a sharp lookout for game 

 law violators hereafter, and it is not^ likely 

 these Philadelphia swine will again invade 

 that neck of woods. 



HOW 2 CHICAGO HUNTERS CAME TO 

 GRIEF. 

 John Baumgartner and Henry Cidjake, 

 of Chicago, went to Escanaba, Mich., last 

 fall, got a team, drove to Round lake, made 

 a camp and went to hunting deer without 

 going through the formality of taking out 

 a license. Game Warden Aaronson, of Es- 

 canaba, camped hear them and ostensibly 

 went hunting deer also. He, however, 

 spent all his time while in the woods in 

 getting evidence against the 2 non-resident 



hunters. He finally became friendly with 

 them, and when they told him what day 

 they would leave the woods, he announced 

 that he would go out about the same time, 

 so they invited him to ride with them. 

 The Chicago hunters packed a lot of veni- 

 son in a big trunk they had brought in 

 with them, locked it up and told their 

 neighbor they intended to have it checked 

 home on the pretext that one of the own- 

 ers was a commercial traveler. When the 

 outfit arrived at a half way house and the 

 owner came out, he recognized the game 

 warden and innocently called him by his 

 title. This sprung the trap and the 2 Chi- 

 cago men asked the warden what he was 

 going to do about it. He told them he was 

 going to take them to court. They put up 

 a bluff and threatened to fight. He told 

 them that was useless and that he should 

 take them, dead or alive. Then they weak- 

 ened and were finally landed in Rapid River, 

 where they were arraigned before a magis- 

 trate and fined $50 each and costs of $22.85. 



MISCALCULATED THEIR DEPTH. 

 Four whales entered the mouth of the 

 Sislaw river, Oregon, in April last, on a 

 high tide. The watchman at the Govern- 

 ment jetty took a rifle, got into a boat and 

 went after them. They started out to 

 sea, but in shying around the boat 3 of 

 them ran aground and were unable to get 

 off. The 4th started up the river, when 

 the watchman shot it. It turned over 

 and appeared to be dead. The watchman 

 put a rope around its tail and attempted to 

 tow it down the river but was unable to 

 move it. A steam tug came along and 

 hitched on, when the whale revived and 

 started up the river again, dragging the 

 boats with him. The tug struck a shoal 

 and her line parted. The whale turned and 

 headed for the ocean, struck the watchman's 

 boat, breaking it into splinters and pitching 

 the man about 20 feet into the air. He suc- 

 ceeded in swimming ashore, but did not 

 relish the cold bath he got. When the tide 

 went out the 3 whales were left high and 

 dry and the people of the neighboring town 

 of Florence cut them up and converted 

 them into oil. Two of the whales were 42 

 feet long, each, and the other 40 feet. 



MANITOBA KNOCKS OUT THE AUTO- 

 MATIC. 



Section 14 of the game law recently en- 

 acted by the Legislature of Manitoba, reads 

 as follows : 



"None of the contrivances for taking or 



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