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aching in the Yellowstone Park. 
'he Yellowstone National Park, with its 
0 miles of wilderness teeming with game of 
iy kinds, offers a strong temptation to 
chers, while its deep woods and sheltered 
eys make detection and arrest by the limited 
rol of scouts and troopers difficult of ac- 
iplishment. It is therefore not surprising 
learn that some of the more lawless in- 
itants of the region adjacent to the park, 
pted by the high prices brought by hides, 
ffiies, and, in the case of elk, teeth, have in 
past years driven a profitable trade by 
oting big game in the park, 
ast winter a gang of four trophy and tusk 
ters, Charles Isobel, Oscar Adams, William 
kley, and Charles Purdy, operated in the 
< and its vicinity openly and defiantly, 
atening to kill any one who interfered with 
n, and so terrorizing the inhabitants of the 
cent region that it was difficult for the 
ers of the law to obtain information as to 
r whereabouts or to secure evidence that 
Id justify an attempt at conviction. They 
away with their plunder and would have 
osed of it safely for a large sum, had not 
B. Morgan, State Game Warden for Los 
eles county, California, learned that two of 
men, Binkley and Purdy, had stored with 
os Angeles taxidermist a large number of 
-s, horns and tusks of big game. Morgan 
to the taxidermist’s place and by dint of 
istent search, found the hides and horns 
rneath the floor of an unused room. The 
teeth,'which Binkley, fearing that he and 
.vife might be searched, had brought into 
Angeles sewn into the gowns of his little 
I, were not recovered. The news of the 
;t was soon known to the game officials of 
Western States, and to the Department of 
culture at Washington. As all attempts to 
ress the nefarious practice of killing elk 
heir teeth had hitherto been unsuccessful, 
mportance of the capture of two prominent 
hunters was immediately recognized and 
•ous efforts were begun at once to bring 
Senders to justice. It was learned that the 
had been shipped to Los Angeles from 
[x Binkley and Purdy were accordingly 
to Pocatello, Idaho, to answer the charge 
lipping illegally secured game from Idaho 
difornia in violation of the act of May 25, 
commonly known as the Lacey Act. At 
ial, which occurred on April 26, 1907, both 
pleaded guilty and were fined $200 each— 
naximum penalty under the law. Purdy 
to jail in default of payment. Binkley paid 
ne, but .was held with Purdy to answer 
:r charges. After an unsuccessful attempt 
nvict them of shipping game out of Idaho 
ilation of the State law, they were sent to 
Yellowstone to be tried by the U. S. 
nissioner for the Yellowstone Park for 
j game in the park. The trial, which was 
Dn Sept. 16, resulted in a second convic- 
ind they were fined $933—the amount of 
osts of the trial. Neither paid the fine. 
’ey were accordingly lodged in the guard 
Purdy is still in confinement, but after 
1 weeks detention, Binkley escaped, and is 
t large. 
ing the progress of these events attempts 
nade to locate Isobel and Adams. Isobel 
ie leader of the gang, and it was regarded 
as especially important to get hini into court. 
These attempts were unsuccessful; but on Nov. 
12, both Isobel and Adams were indicted at 
Cheyenne, Wyo., on evidence furnished by 
Purdy, who was sent from Fort Yellowstone as 
a witness. Thus, while three members of the 
band are still at large, they are liable to arrest 
at sight and are not likely to venture to resume 
operations in the park or the elk country ad¬ 
joining it. 
Meantime Gen. S. B. M. Young, the superin¬ 
tendent of the park, and his corps of troopers 
and scouts have begun a vigorous and systematic 
campaign against poachers that has rounded up 
a number of offenders. On Oct. 16, Scout S. 
M. Fitzgerald, and Private Bernard A. Purcell 
A YELLOWSTONE PARK DEER. 
Photographed by O. A. Anderson. 
found a man in the park, on West Gallatin 
River, whose equipment of two guns and four 
traps and possession of a marten skin, the lungs 
of a deer, and the remains of a grouse gave so 
palpable an explanation of his presence in the 
park, that they took him into custody. He 
proved to be an Austrian from Aldrich, Mont., 
by the name of Jacob Garnick, and as he was 
unable to give a satisfactory answer to the 
double charge of hunting and killing wild ani¬ 
mals, and having unsealed firearms in his pos¬ 
session, inside the boundaries of the park, he 
was convicted two days later and sentenced to 
pay a fine of $50 and $16 costs. In default of 
payment he spent five days in the guard house, 
when his fine was paid by another Austrian, and 
he was released. 
On the same day that Garnick was arrested, 
Scout S. D. Graham and Private Roy McCardia 
met John Winegar, an old offender, and Charles 
Mackert, who were passing through a aorner 
of the park with unsealed rifles and arrested 
them. They were tried on Oct. 16 on the 
charge of violating the regulations requiring 
that all firearms be sealed during transit through 
the park. Mackert was fined $50 and half the 
costs, $9.30, and Winegar was fined $100 and 
the other half of the costs. Mackert paid his 
fine at once, and was escorted out of the park 
by way of Riverside Station. Winegar was un¬ 
able to pay his and went to the guard house, 
where he remained for eighteen' days, when a 
relative discharged his obligation and he was' 
sent out of the park by way of Gardiner 
On Oct. 3 i, Maj. Henry T. Allen discovered 
t ie remains of a duck near Tower Falls Station 
a station in the park in charge of a non-com¬ 
missioned officer, Corporal Samuel E. Nelson 
Maj. Allen made complaint against Nelson, who 
SVo" ’ nd &Uilty ’ 3nd fined $5 ° and costs > 
A few days later Scout Peter Holte and 
Corporal Porter found in and near the park- 
remains of several elk and moose which had 
been shot and from which teeth, heads, or other 
parts had been removed. Tracks in the snow 
led from the carcasses to an abandoned camj> 
on Thorofare Creek, just outside the boundary 
of the park. This camp, it was ascertained, 
had been occupied by Fred W. Chase, a taxi¬ 
dermist of Cody, Wyo., and two fellow towns¬ 
men, Gus. Holtz and Harry Workman. In¬ 
formation was sent to Cheyenne on which war¬ 
rants of arrest were issued, and the three men 
were brought to trial and fined $100 and $80 
costs each. They signified their intention of 
appealing, and pending the arrival of $ S oo bonds 
c w 'isr bondsmen '^ <• 
Another offender was secured on Nov 20 
when Scout McBride found Joseph Staukl, of 
Electric, Mont., hunting in the park and 
brought him to Fort Yellowstone. Staukl was 
tried the next day, convicted, and sentenced to 
pay a ne of $50 and costs, amounting to $14 60 
and to forfeit his gun. As he was unable'to 
pay the charges, he was placed in the guard 
house, where he still remains. 
p Fin f" y ’ ab ° Ut the first of December, George 
Broadbent, of Marysville, Idaho, was arrested 
for killing an elk in the southwest corner of the 
park He was tried on Dec. 4, pleaded guilty, 
and, despite his statement that he did not know 
he was in the park when he killed the elk w 
sentenced to pay a fine of $100 and the costs 
his trial, amounting to $9.50. 
1 bus since last August eleven men have been 
convicted of poaching in the Yellowstone Park. 
J he commendable vigor with which the cam¬ 
paign is being pressed cannot fail to exercise a 
strongly deterrent influence, and it is reasonable 
to assume that the park will soon be free from 
depredations by human marauders. 
was 
of 
New York Legislature. 
In the Assembly Mr. Ferguson has introduced 
a bill which provides for the addition of the fol¬ 
lowing to the present trout law: “Trout taken 
from any private pond or stream or from any 
stream on a private preserve or from any State 
or private fish hatchery or waters used in con¬ 
nection therewith shall not be sold, exposed for 
sale or possessed for the purpose of selling at 
any time.” 
