THE LEAGUE OF AMERICAN SPORTSMEN. 



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to secure a conviction whenever we could 

 obtain the necessary evidence. 



Mr. H. Rief, L. A. S. No. 9,151, our coun- 

 ty game warden, also special deputy State 

 game warden, reports as follows : 



Number of arrests during the year, 57. 



Number of convictions, 49. 



Number of dismissals and acquit- 

 tals, 4. 



Number of forfeited bails, 2. 



Number of cases pending, 2. 



Amount of fines collected, ....$845.00. 



This includes only King county. 



The State Game and Fish Commissioner, 

 Hon. T. R. .Kershaw, who is also a League 

 member, "has given us all the assistance 

 within his power. I am pleased to state that 

 the game wardens in various sections are 

 rendering us valuable assistance in the ap- 

 prehension and conviction of violators of 

 the game laws. 



Among the arrests and convictions we 

 have secured, I mention only a few, as fol- 

 lows : March 28, 1903, 5 Italians convicted 

 of dynamiting trout in Cedar river ; fined 

 $50 each. One paid his fine, the others 

 going to jail. 



April 23, 1903, proprietors of 3 restaur- 

 ants convicted and fined for having in their 

 possession a large number of fresh water 

 perch, it being against the law to sell game 

 fishes at any time. 



May 5, 1903, Southern Mill Co. fined $100 

 for dumping sawdust in Lake Washington. 

 May 23, 1903, J. D. Hoover was arrested 

 in the act of fishing with a Chinese sturgeon 

 line, fined $25 and costs. This was a set 

 line, about 300 feet long, with several hun- 

 dred hooks attached. 



A man by the name of Orr was fined $25 

 for trapping and having in his possession 

 a number of grouse and quail. When War- 

 den Rief made a search of the woods near 

 his place he found 7 traps, 2 of which con- 

 tained 10 grouse. He berated these and 

 destroyed the traps. Several convictions 

 were secured, of proprietors of restaurants 

 for selling game. 



Several of the adjoining counties have 

 also secured convictions of persons for kill- 

 ing deer out of season. 



Our game warden is at present doing all 

 he can to obtain evidence to convict elk 

 tooth, hunters, who killed a number of elk 

 on the Humptulips river, 22 miles above 

 Humptulips City, in the Olympic Forest Re- 

 serve. These elk, 8 in number, are now 

 lying where they were killed, the teeth only 

 having been taken. Th elk remaining in 

 this State are principally to be found in the 

 Olympic Forest Reserve. The League mem- 

 bers in this district, and all other sportsmen, 

 are strongly in favor of making the entire 

 Forest Reserve a game preserve. 



While we have a number of forest rang- 

 ers who are ex officio jgame wardens, we 

 fail to find that they have ever made an ar- 

 rest for violation of our game laws, on this 

 Reserve. 



Our game warden has in his possession 3 

 elk heads that were killed in the Olympic 

 range by a wealthy hunter who came over 

 from Wales, England. Our laws prohibit 

 the killing of more than one bull elk in 

 one season ; also prohibit the shipping of 

 same out of the State. This man is making 

 a fight to get possession of the heads, claim- 

 ing they cost him over $1,000. This case is 

 cited only as an instance of the game viola- 

 tions on this Reserve. 



Our game warden has been making a hard 

 fight against the custom of shipping in 

 game from Alaska, on steamers landing at 

 this port, Seattle. A number of seizures 

 of game heads, hides and horns have been 

 made. 



In this work Mr. Rief has co-operated 

 with Dr. Palmer, of Washington, D. C. At 

 first there was some opposition from the 

 steamers which received shipments of game, 

 hides, etc., but, on the matter being taken 

 up with them by Dr. Palmer we have had 

 little trouble. 



Frank A. Pontius, 

 Sec.-Treas. Washington Division, 



GOOD WORK IN OKLAHOMA. 



L. H. Haskins, of Fort Sill, Oklahoma, wis 

 recently arraigned in probate court on the charge 

 of having placed dynamite in Cache creek and 

 killed nearly 200 fish. Haskins pleaded guilty 

 and was fined $50 and costs. 



Judge Hussey, in imposing the fine, said that 

 the next guilty man brought before him on a 

 similar charge would get the limit of the law as 

 a fine. 



This conviction is one of a number secured by 

 Mr. A. C. Cooper, of Fort Sill, game warden for 

 the government and Rear Warden of the Fort 

 Sill Chapter of the League of American Sports- 

 men. Mr. Cooper has spent much time and money 

 in searching for violators of the game and fish 

 laws and in bringing them to justice. — Lawton, 

 Oklahoma, paper. 



The mills of the gods grind slowly, but 

 they grind exceeding fine. In this case 

 Cooper is one of the gods. — Editor. 



Mother (severely) — How many straw- 

 berries have you eaten out of this basket, 

 Violet? 



Violet — Only 2. One to see how it tasted, 

 and the other to take the taste out of my 

 mouth. — Exchange. 



The Czar of Russia reviewed 50.000 

 troops the other day. The dispatches say 

 they presented a fine appearance. They had 

 not met the Japs. — Chicago Record-Herald. 



