522 
FOREST AND STREAM 
TO STOP THE SLAUGHTER OF DUCKS IN 
ARKANSAS. 
The American Game Protective Association 
is aiding the movement to put a stop to the an¬ 
nual wholesale slaughter of ducks 'by the market 
hunters in Arkansas and their subsequent mar¬ 
keting in Illinois. 
Mr. Arthur D. Holthaus, deputy game com¬ 
missioner o'f Missouri, has been authorized by 
President Burnham to represent this organiza¬ 
tion at the annual meeting of the Illinois Fish 
and Game Conservation Society at Chicago this 
month and do everything in his power to help 
the campaign that will probably be started 
there to secure the passage of a no-sale-of-game- 
law at the next meeting of the Illinois Legisla¬ 
ture. 
The existing situation is an intolerable im¬ 
position on the sportsmen of the entire Missis¬ 
sippi valley. They are determined to put a stop 
to it forthwith. The case is very well put by 
Mr. E. T. Gretber, the veteran editor of the 
sportsmen’s department of the St. Louis Globe- 
Democrat in a recent issue of that paper: 
“In order to prevent the wasteful killing of 
ducks, Illinois prohibits the sale of game killed 
in that state. Market hunters evade this law by 
killing the wild fowl after they have migrated 
into Arkansas, then shipping them back into 
Illinois under the wording of that law, which 
only prohibits the sale of ducks killed in Illinois. 
“The enormous sale of wild fowl in Illinois 
when shipped from Arkansas, is one of the main 
reasons why other states are deprived of hunt¬ 
ing privileges by shortened seasons in trying to 
save the ducks from extermination. 
“Hunters from other states are not permitted 
in Arkansas, yet market hunters there enjoy 
unrestrained freedom to kill and ship wild ducks, 
and reap a harvest at the expense of other states 
now attempting to protect the ducks by rigid 
laws. 
“Illinois can stop most of this slaughter by 
closing her markets against the sale of game, no 
matter where killed, as is done in Missouri and 
other states.” 
Apparently the sale of ducks in the Chicago 
and St. Louis markets constitutes a monopoly. 
The market hunters are said to sell their bags 
to one Rice at Manila, Ark., whose representa¬ 
tive in the two cities is said to be named Hardy. 
Mr. Holthaus quotes the latter as stating that 
he made $800 in one day on the sale of ducks 
and that his profits were never less than $100 
a day as long as the stream of birds slaughtered 
by the wholesale continued. 
It would seem that the Lacey Act is being 
violated in this matter if birds are brought into 
Missouri from Illinois, as they probably are. 
The attention of the Federal authorities and of 
those of the State of Missouri is invited to this 
situation. 
Mr. Grether has been delegated by the Mis¬ 
souri Fish and Game Association to accompany 
Mr. Holthaus to Chicago and urge the passage 
of a no-sale law in Illinois as the best method 
of obviating the alleged gross violations of the 
existing no-sale law in Missouri. 
Authentic records show that cinders, from a 
forest fire in the tree tops in northern Wash¬ 
ington this fall, were carried a distance of twenty 
miles. 
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