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RECREATION. 



and patience, quick, accurate eyes, habits of 

 observation, a guide who knows the coun- 

 try, and physical vigor enough to stand 

 fatigue and exposure if the weather be 

 stormy. 



LAWBREAKERS IN TROUBLE. 



The following clipping from the Mil- 

 waukee Free Press may interest yoUr 

 readers. 



All the laws of Wisconsin relating to the hunt- 

 ing of deer and even the Lacey act of the federal 

 statutes were broken last week by Mayor A. 

 Bergman, of Freeport, 111., and H. R. Nelson anc 1 

 J. D. Hinds, of Lena, 111. As a result the party 

 lost by confiscation the 6 deer th^t had been killed 

 and about $400 worth of guns and other things 

 which go to make up fine hunting outfits. 



By trying to ship the best portions of 5 deer 

 out of the State in a trunk, they violated that 

 section of the Lacey act which prohibits the ship- 

 ment of game in concealment. By attaching the 

 coupon from a resident license to the carcasses of 

 the deer concealed in the trunk, which was checked 

 to Lena, 111., the State law prohibiting the ship- 

 ping of game out of the State on a resident license 

 w.s violated, and in concealing the game in a 

 trunk the statute providing that all game oliered 

 to the railroads for transportation shall be properly 

 labeled was broken. In addition to this J. D. 

 Hincs, of Lena, 111., laid himself open to prose- 

 cution for hunting without a license, by attempt- 

 ing to use the resident license issued to T. J. 

 Hinds, of Monroe, Wis. Incidentally, T. J. .Hinds 

 is to be prosecuted for transferring his license to 

 the Mr. Hinds, from Illinois. 



Mayor Bergman and his party appeared before 

 Governor La Follette yesterday to explain the situ- 

 ation and to extricate themselves if possible. He 

 turned them over to Deputy G^rne Warden C. D. 

 Nelson. They repeated the story to Mr. Nelson, 

 who said he would investigate and that if he found 

 the facts as they represented he would forward as 

 many deer as they could produce non-resident 

 licenses and would release their guns. Mr. Nelson 

 has investigated and has found that the confisca- 

 tion was warranted and proper. He will not re- 

 lease either the deer or the hunting outfits, and if 

 the party will not return to Wisconsin to stand 

 trial under the State law he will turn them over 

 to the federal authorities for prosecution under 

 the Lacey act. 



The party had been hunting in the Northern 

 part of the State and had secured 6 deer. When 

 they started for home they took the train at In- 

 gram, where they showed the carcass of one deer 

 properly tagged and with the coupon of a non- 

 resident license attached. They assured Game 

 Warden J. W. Stone, who checked them up, that 

 the one deer was all they had. Stone, how- 

 ever, got on the train and went through the bag- 

 gage car, where he found 2 trunks checked to 

 H. R. Nelson, Lena, 111. They contained the best 

 portions of 5 deer and hunting outfits worth about 

 $300. When the train stopped at Cameron, he 

 held both trunks and notified the department at 

 Madison. 



The deer in the trunk were tagged and there 

 was attached to one a coupon from the non-resident 

 license of H. R. Nelson and to the others coupons 

 from a resident license. Deputy Fish and Game 

 Warden Nelson set out to run the whole thing 

 down and he soon found that the resident license 

 had been issued in the name of T. J. Hinds, of 

 Monroe. He went to Monroe and secured from 

 T. J. Hinds an affidavit that he had transferred 

 his resident license to a party composed of H. R. 

 Nelson, J. D. Hinds and A. Bergman. 



The venison will be shipped to the State Hos- 

 pital for the Insane, and the guns and other 

 things will be sold at auction. — Milwaukee Free 

 Press. 



I also seized 2 deer from the train at Mil- 

 waukee depot which were shipped by a 

 Wisconsin hunter to Indiana. Under the 

 Wisconsin law no deer -can be taken out of 

 the State, save that a non-resident who has 

 paid $25 for a hunting license may take 

 home 2 deer if he accompanies them. 



About December 15th I seized, at the 

 Northwestern depot in Milwaukee, a box 

 or venison shipped by A. Radcliff of Eagle 

 River. Radcliff was arrested December 

 24th by Deputy Game Warden James Ober- 

 holtzer and taken before Judge Coleman, 

 where he pleaded guilty and was fined $25 

 and costs. 



December 22nd I seized a bag containing 

 venison in a baggage car of the C. M. & 

 St. P. R. R. Inside I found tags with the 

 names of Dodsworth and Vaughan, 2 high 

 officials of the C. M. & St. P. They ex- 

 pected to have the venison for their Christ- 

 mas dinner, but it regaled the inmates of 

 a State institution. The seizure was re- 

 ported to the Michigan wardens and I hope 

 they will catch the shipper. The same day 

 I seized a lot of rabbits tagged to a Chicago 

 game dealer. 

 Valentine Raeth, State Deputy Warden, 



Milwaukee, Wis. 



Mayor Bergman and his party undoubted- 

 ly had lots of fun hunting and killing 6 

 deer, but how blooming miserable they must 

 have felt when they realized that instead of 

 feasting on their venison at home it was 

 eaten by a lot of unfortunate maniacs in the 

 hospital at Madison. These Freeport fel- 

 lows are also probably heaving many a sigh 

 as they think of their fine guns and hunting 

 dogs, all of which are doubtless highly 

 prized and which are hereafter to be worn 

 and used by plain ordinary sportsmen in 

 and about Madison, Wisconsin. Mr. 

 Mayor I advise you either to comply with 

 the laws of any State in which you may 

 hunt hereafter or stay at home. — Editor. 



AMERICANS AS GAME PROTECTORS. 



W. T. Hornaday, in the Zoological Society 

 Bulletin. 



To-day the people of the United States 

 may be divided into 3 camps. The larg- 

 est contains those who know little of wild 

 life, and are indifferent to its welfare. The 

 next largest contains the persistent destroy- 

 ers oi wild life, market hunters and fisher- 

 men ; persons who pose as sportsmen, but 

 are really pot hunters, and real sportsmen 

 who shoot not wisely, but too well. The 

 smallest body consists of the high-class 

 sportsmen and the humane and broad mind- 

 ed men and women who abhor the whole- 

 sale slaughter of harmless creatures, who 

 love wild life, and who are fighting to save 

 the remnant from the annihilation which 

 threatens it. . 



