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brotherly, but they will not be coerced. Rocke¬ 
feller was driven out and Dexter was killed be¬ 
cause the people there feel they have a right 
to support themselves and their families as their 
fathers did before them, without being accused 
of killing deer out of season or of cutting tim¬ 
ber on State land.” He asserted that the feeling 
in favor of protection is growing stronger in 
the Adirondacks, but insisted that offensive laws 
cannot be enforced. He also protested against 
the slaughter of deer by men employed in the 
lumber camps. He said the law should forbid 
the having of guns in the Adirondacks, except 
in the permanent home of the man, during the 
close season. He told of one lumber camp from 
which over seventy deer skins were brought out 
for sale when the lumbering was over, and of 
another where over one hundred skins were 
brought out. These represented deer killed dur¬ 
ing the close season. He favored a license law 
of one dollar per gun and two dollars for a 
family, leaving the nonresident license as it is 
at present. 
After the speechmaking, the Committee on 
Legislation offered the following propositions, 
which were put in the form of resolutions and 
adopted unanimously: 
Making the open season for deer, except on. 
Long Island, from Sept. 16 to Oct. 31 inclusive.' 
Advocating the purchase of wild land by the 
State wherever it can be secured in the Adiron¬ 
dacks, the necessary funds to be provided either 
by appropriations or by issuing bonds. 
Recommending legislation against permitting 
the sale of foreign game birds during the close 
season for similar birds in this State. 
Recommending that the right of search be 
given to special protectors under restrictions 
favored by the Forest, Fish and Game Commis¬ 
sion. (Those employed by boards of supervis¬ 
ors or incorporated clubs). 
Prohibiting the possession of grouse and.wood¬ 
cock, except during the first ten days in Decem¬ 
ber. 
Providing a close season on frogs from Dec. 
1 to May 30 inclusive. (In Onondaga county). 
Calling for a repeal of the law permitting nets 
to be used in Cayuga Lake and the Seneca River. 
Providing that the possession of lake trout dur¬ 
ing the close season shall be presumptive evidence 
that they were unlawfully taken. 
. Limiting the sale of game to the open season 
and amending the game law so as to prohibit 
the sale of ducks and other wildfowl from Jan. 
10 to Sept. 15 inclusive. 
Prohibiting the holding of game in cold stor¬ 
age. 
It was ordered that the question of the posses¬ 
sion of native game birds after the close of the 
hunting season and of limiting the date of the 
bonding season be referred to the officers and 
the Legislative Committee with power. Mr. 
Forey again brought up his resolution declaring 
the possession of nets on the shores of waters 
wherein netting is prohibited to be evidence of 
an intention to use the nets unlawfully, and was 
assured by First Assistant Chief Protector Worts 
that such a course would be illegal. This was 
discussed at length, and a resolution was finally 
adopted favoring Mr. Forey’s proposed law. The 
secretary of the League was instructed to address 
a communication to the representatives in Con¬ 
gress and the United States Senate urging them 
to take an active interest in laws for the pro¬ 
tection of migratory birds and fishes. 
A proposition to amend the constitution of the 
League so as to permit the holding of the annual 
meeting in various parts of the State was laid 
over, owing to the opposition of the delegates 
from Syracuse, which city now has a monopoly 
of the meetings. The annual election of officers 
resulted as follows: President, J. H. Considine, 
Elmira; Vice-President, E. A. Bowman, Medina; 
Treasurer, A. C. Cornwall, Alexandria Bay; Sec¬ 
retary, John D. Whish, Albany. Senator Allds 
was made an honorary member of the League. 
In the evening the annual dinner was held and 
several hours spent in speechmaking before the 
members returned to their homes. 
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supply you regularly. 
The Klock-Gaylord Case. 
Little Falls, N. Y., Nov. 30.— Editor Forest 
and Stream: A year ago, in August, two game 
protectors, Harvey Gaylord, of Lewis county, 
and Charles Klock, of Herkimer county, dis¬ 
appeared from their accustomed haunts. Within 
a few days it was reported that they were short 
in their accounts with the State, and at last it 
became known that they were accused of re¬ 
ceiving several thousand dollars from pulp 
loggers, in the town of Wilmurt, who had cut 
thousands of trees on State forest land. Finally, 
a day or two before election, 1905, it was 
rumored that the accused men would “soon re¬ 
turn.” On Nov. 5 Klock came to Herkimer and 
gave himself up. The following telegram was 
sent to Forest Fish and Game Commissioner 
Whipple by Klock: 
“Have returned. Am ready to face all charges 
made.” 
Assemblyman A. B. Steele, candidate for re- 
election in Plerkimer county, appeared the day 
after election as Klock’s attorney, and Sheriff 
John Richards became his bondsman. Such an 
outcry went up on this account that' Richards 
excused himself by saying he became bonds¬ 
man “for friendship’s sake.” Richards deals ex¬ 
tensively with the Hinckley Fibre Company, and 
only a few weeks ago, I saw him bossing a 
gang of pulp log drivers on the West Canada 
Creek. 
Late in November, 1905, the grand jury of 
Oneida county returned indictments against 
both Gaylord, who had also returned, and Klock. 
The indictments were on the charge of grand 
larceny in the first degree, committed July 25, 
1905, “in feloniously extorting from James 
Gallegher, a lumberman, the sum of $3,7-50, 
which was paid by Gallegher for permission to 
cut 2,000 cords of spruce timber on lots 6, 7, 
8, 9, 10 and 19, new survey, Noblesborough 
patent, which lands are within the State forest 
preserve. Gallegher had a receipt signed by 
both Gaylord and Klock, and Syphert & Harrig 
had a similar receipt. 
A very plainly defined rumor stated that 
Klock and Gaylord received $500 each as their 
share of the money, the rest of it “going higher 
up,” according to all accounts I have read or 
heard. 
The case has not been brought to trial. I was 
told last August by one of Klock’s bondsmen 
that the case “has been fixed.” I wrote to 
Commissioner Whipple and to District-Attor¬ 
ney Willis of Oneida county and asked them 
if the bondsman’s statement was true. Both- 
answered “no,” and Mr. Whipple said, “As 
sure as I live these men will be brought to 
trial.” 
No indictments were found against either 
Syphert & Harrig or Gallegher, although they 
were apparently buying permission to cut—and 
they did cut—spruce logs on land owned by 'the 
State, and protected by the State constitution. 
On this point, Commissioner Whipple says (in 
lead pencil in a letter to me), “As sure as I 
live these men will be brought to trial, and the 
principals in the trespass.” I call especial at¬ 
tention to the absence of a predicate for the 
“principals.” 
Now, there is a factor in this matter which the 
public seems not to understand. It is concern¬ 
ing what became of the $6,000 and more named 
which has not been accounted for, save by 
rumor. Klock and Gaylord are said to have 
made confessions -which cover this point com¬ 
pletely, but the confessions have not been made 
public. In fact, every effort seems to be made 
to keep them hidden. Even the trials “aren’t 
hurried any,” presumably because alleged facts 
might come out at the trial in spite of any 
efforts that might be made to prevent it. 
Every circumstance which I have been able 
to hear about this case indicates to my mind, as 
to the minds of other citizens in Herkimer 
county who are acquainted with it, that the trial 
of the case is being delayed in order to shield 
the men who are believed to have gotten bribe 
money from Klock and Gaylord. Indeed, I 
have been told repeatedly that Klock has boasted 
that “they don’t dare” bring the case to trial 
because of men who connived at this apparently 
deliberate violation of the State constitution, 
and, who as it appears,, profited by the deal. 
This is not all; I have been told that a process 
of action has been decided upon which will 
probably “lose the big ones in the shuffle.” 
That is to say, an effort seems imminent which 
will let the alleged principal malefactors go free, 
and this because they are men politically promi¬ 
nent. The plan now is to change the indictment 
from “grand larceny” to “conspiracy to defraud 
the State.” I should say in justice to a man 
who told me this fact “in confidence” that an¬ 
other informant told me the same thing, but. 
merely with the reservation “don’t use my name 
in the matter.” That is to say, the question of 
what became of the $7,750 will probably remain 
unasked. ■ “If that case were to come out,” a 
man said to me within a week, “some big men 
would go to the penitentiary.” 
When I asked if a certain man was one of 
these, the answer was: “Yes, that’s the man.” 
So-and-so was also named. 
That is to say, common rumor and every indi¬ 
cation points straight at two men, at least, as 
being involved in this case, and these men are 
politically important. Commissioner Whipple 
has more than two more years to serve, and this 
bridges the period in which the statute of limi¬ 
tations would intervene to save these men, or 
any man who may have received $6,000 or more 
of the $7,750 mentioned in the indictment. 
If the Adirondack region is to be saved from 
the powers which would destroy its forests, 
illegally, the big thieves must be punished. With 
this Klock and Gaylord case fouling the air, and 
with the failure of the reform commissioner to 
give details in regard to the alleged good work 
which he is doing, the amount of timber stolen, 
or where it was stolen, is not mentioned in 
the list of trespass cases in the. last report of 
the Forest, Fish and Game Commission, and 
with rumors of plots against the safety of the 
mountain lakes, forest and land flying around; it 
seems to me that a statement, fortified by believ¬ 
able details and indubitable, frankness, ought to be 
forthcoming, especially in regard to the Klock 
and Gaylord case, the worst of which has been 
only hinted at. ' Until this case is cleared up 
with justice to the public, how can any friend 
of the Adirondacks believe that the present 
Forest, Fish and Game Commission is in the 
condition in which the public has a right to 
expect it to be. There is not another case in 
the department’s hands which equals this one in 
importance. No amount of good work by the 
game protectors, no amount of progress in 
forestry, no amount of flowery assurance that 
“everything is all right,” will satisfy the friends 
of the Adirondacks. What those friends de¬ 
mand, and properly, is that the 'lie be given to 
the report that a leading State politician is too 
big for the penal code. 
I feel that patience ceases to be a virtue when 
every circumstance seems to point to an effort 
—every effort—being made to shield alleged 
lawbreakers, whose names are notorious, are, in 
fact, on every lip in Herkimer county at this 
minute. Raymond S. Spears. 
Game Protection in Indiana. 
Unusual activity is being displayed by the 
game wardens of Indiana at present. Commis¬ 
sioner Sweeney began a crusade on Oct. 10 
against Sunday hunting and hunting out of one’s 
township without a license, convictions being re¬ 
ported at a rate of about ten per day since that 
time. This vigilance is resulting in an increased 
number of resident licenses being taken out by 
the State hunters. Nonresident licenses are also 
being issued in larger numbers than heretofore. 
Indiana is getting into a good condition and 
with a few changes in her laws, which will doubt¬ 
less be made this winter, she will stand well in 
the front in her game' and fish protective in¬ 
terests. 
All the game laws of the United States and 
Canada, revised to date and nozv in force, are 
given in the Game Laws in Brief. See adv. 
