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FOREST AND STREAM 
Feb. 8, 1913 
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—Forest and Stream, Aug. 14, 1873. 
ENFORCING ARKANSAS GAME LAWS. 
Arkansas was among the first States to put 
up the bars against non-resident sportsmen, and 
she went beyond the others in building her fence 
higher and stringing its top with barb wire. 
Something like forty years the statutory prohi¬ 
bition has e.xisted, and during much of this time 
the general laxity in its enforcement baited the 
traps of unscrupulous officials, who fined or 
spared according to the financial status of the 
offender, with due consideration of all the cir¬ 
cumstances of his offending. Usually an out¬ 
sider might hunt and fish undisturbed if the 
relative or guest of a resident, or if of known 
standing in politics or business. Otherwise the 
chances of escaping arrest were as unguessable 
as the fine that would be assessed if he happened 
to guess wrong. This was no matter of evad¬ 
ing payment of hunting license, but rather of 
doing something which the law declared could 
not be done under any circumstances. “No non¬ 
resident shall hunt or fish” is as positive a pro¬ 
hibition as “Thou shalt not kill.” Conviction 
meant pretty nearly anything that the honorable 
court wanted it to mean. At times, possibly, 
something hinged on whether the fine was to be 
turned in to the county treasury, or split up 
among the officials instrumental in its collection. 
A light fine and a few words of caution would 
usually hurry the plucked pigeon out of the 
State, grateful for unmerited clemency, while 
fleecing him further might bring about com¬ 
plaints and disagreeable publicity. In count¬ 
less instances hunters were arrested and re¬ 
leased without a semblance of trial, and no jus¬ 
tice of the peace shared in the yellow-backed 
bill that the constable or deputy quietly stowed 
away with his tobacco and extra “ca’tridges.” 
It was pure, unadulterated graft. The public 
knew of it, but did not bother to disapprove, 
for those who were mulcted were outsiders 
and really had no right to slaughter 
Arkansas game. It would be funny, were it 
not so absurd, how the idea of indiscriminate 
slaughter attaches to the term “non-resident.” 
As a matter of fact, one local gunner,'skilled in 
hunting and perfectly acquainted with the coun¬ 
try, will kill more game in a given time than 
three sportsmen from other States. But the 
Arkansas plan of game conservation seems to 
have commenced and ended with sitting on an 
occasional outsider, while his more fortunate 
brethren assisted the natives in enthusiastically 
shooting up everything in sight. Aside from 
over long open seasons the general game law of 
the State reads well, but passing laws and en¬ 
forcing them are different propositions. The 
non-sale clause is pretty generally enforced, ex¬ 
cept in counties where the game is so abundant 
that its killing can be made a profitable business. 
The law prohibiting the removal of game outside 
the State is respected by the transportation com¬ 
panies in their instructions to agents and repre¬ 
sentatives, but some way immense quantities of 
Arkansas game find ready markets at Memphis 
and St. Louis. 
The eastern half of the State—the lowland 
country—is the big-game range. Some few deer 
and scattered bands of turkeys may still be 
found in the upland counties, and almost every¬ 
where there is excellent quail shooting. The 
enmity toward non-resident hunters is less ap¬ 
parent here. They are rarely seen in the hill 
ranges, because when a sportsman is able to 
afford a trip to Arkansas, he generally prefers 
to go where there is a chance to bag bigger game 
than quail and squirrel. Of late it has become 
little more than a chance, even in the swamp 
lands, where a few years ago there was a cer¬ 
tainty of shots at deer as reward for a day or 
two of careful hunting. 
Everything considered, the Arkansas game 
has had a pretty bad year of it, and the years 
which are to come offer small promise of better 
things, unless the people of the State awaken 
to the importance of real game protection by the 
enforcement of existing laws. 
When second class lumber came to be worth 
double the former price of first grade stuff, a 
swarm of sawmills settled down among the oaks 
and gums and cypresses, and commenced to eat 
up everything in sight; not a comparatively few 
selected trees, but anything and everything big 
enough to square four inches twenty feet above 
the ground. Oaks and hickories were the first to 
go, and when the nuts and acorns vanish from a 
woodland, there is mighty little left to attract 
and hold game. At the rate the timber is going, 
in five years Arkansas will be as barren of big 
trees as the white pine lands of Michigan and 
Wisconsin. Nowadays logs are hauled to the 
mills over tram roads, and the “dinky” engines, 
which supply the power, are wood burners. 
Through their agency much of Eastern Arkan¬ 
sas was burned over during the unusually dry 
weather of the past autumn, and the hot fires 
of the mill slashes killed or ruined virtually 
all of the young growth of trees that the 
loggers had spared. And still earlier in the 
year came the big overflow, which was most 
disastrous to game in the counties along the 
Mississippi River. It is estimated that 75 per 
cent, of the deer drowned, the remainder escap¬ 
ing by taking to the levees, where in many cases 
they were fed by the neighboring planters until 
the flood subsided. 
NON-SALE LAW IN CALIFORNIA. ' 
Right now a critical situation exists in Cali¬ 
fornia, although the same situation has been 
successfully met in other States. It is the fight 
of the hotel men’s lobby against non-sale of 
game, with a rally of true sportsmen in support 
of Senator Elint’s non-sale bill. This bill is 
identical in general character to the law now 
so effective in New York, IMassachusetts and 
some other States. 
Permission to sell game adds the commercial 
to the sporting instinct where the latter alone 
is already too destructive. It invites hotel and 
cafe proprietors to employ men to kill game for 
private profit and keep at it every day, where¬ 
as the man who hunts for sport alone can do 
so only occasionally and then finds that the 
market hunter has destroyed his chances. 
In another column appears a pithy and in¬ 
teresting letter from a California sportsman cor¬ 
respondent. Read it; then, if you have a vote 
m California, go after your Senator to support 
the Flint bill. 
GLACIAL EXPLORERS RETURN. 
Prof. Rollins B. Salisbury and William J. 
G. Land, both of the University of Qhicago, re¬ 
turned to Chicago Jan. 8 from a trip in the in¬ 
terest of science. Professor Salisbury, who is 
head of the department of geography and dean 
of the Ogden school of science, has been investi¬ 
gating the glacial formations of Argentina and 
Patagonia. He had his main camp at Lake 
Nahuel Huapi, in the Eastern Andes. Professor 
Land, of the department of botany, brought back 
a large collection of botanical specimens from 
Australia and the islands of the Pacific. 
To the Memory of George Borup, Jr.* 
BY PAUL BRANDRETH. 
The blood of conquest in his veins, 
He braved the White Sea’s bitter might. 
And gripped the huskies’ frozen reins. 
And drove into the Polar night. 
The Dog Star of the glittering skies. 
The North Lights throbbing keen and pale. 
Beheld his dauntless, smiling eyes. 
As fast he sped on Peary’s trail. 
He recked not of the fearful leads. 
The Arctic gales that pierced his soul. 
But fearless raced to fill the needs 
Of men who battled toward the Pole. 
And when the ice-pack oped its gate. 
His task complete, his foes outdone. 
He journeyed from the land of Fate 
Back to the homeland’s living sun. 
So young he was, so strong to see; 
Sinewed and bronzed; a vital man 
Glowing with personality, 
A prince in the explorer’s clan. 
And still the old immortal sea 
Must claim her child. Oh, glorious end. 
With laurels of eternity 
For him who died to save a friend! 
[*Tt will be remembered that George Borup, Jr., was 
the life of the Peary expedition to the North Pole. He 
was drowned in saving a friend in a canoe upset in 
l.ong Island Sound shortly after his return from the 
Pole.— Editor’s Note.] 
