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The following is an inventory of the State property under my 
care and control: 
One long table, $18 ; 3 small tables, $16 ; 1 high desk and stool, $29 ; 
8 plain chairs, $16; 4 desk chairs, $28; 2 roller-top desks, $75; 2 flat- 
top desks, $100; 1 Oliver typewriter No. 5, $40; 1 card file, $3; 1 filing 
cabinet, $24; 1 coat rack, $2.50; 1 “clipless” paper fastener, $3; 1 
“challenge” eyelit press, $3; 6 brass cuspidors, $2.40; 2 wire baskets, 
80 cents; 1 wicker basket, 1 cents ; 2. electric desk fans, $19.70; 1 desk 
extension for phone, $3.50; 3 rugs for office, $90; 1 mailing scale, $1 ; 
1 boat bought by old fish commission, $40; 1 boat bought September, 
1913, and equipment, $465 ; 2 Green Bay hunting boats, $55; 1 tunnel 
boat and equipment, $600; 1 ferroboat and equipment at Fox Lake, 
$130; 1 skiff, Fox Lake, $30; 1 skiff, Calumet Lake, $30; 1 cruiser and 
rowboat with ferro attached, and equipment, $2,532; 1 rowboat, $15. 
For the improvement of the work in this district, I would suggest 
that more deputies be assigned to this territory. The district is large 
and the conditions are such that ten deputy wardens can not cover the 
counties as they should be covered. 
An aid to the deputies who are now working country territories 
would be to furnish them with low-priced automobiles, so that they 
would not be under a handicap when trying to follow the modern 
hunter, whose mode of travel is by auto. In traveling by train, the 
deputies can hit only the main roads and such places as the huntsman 
is most seldom found in. To walk or drive is so slow that nothing 
can be accomplished. Were the deputies supplied with an automobile, 
they could cover their territories more frequently and more thoroughly. 
More violators would be detected, and I believe the protection given 
especially to game in this manner would warrant the extra expense 
involved. 
Respectfully submitted, 
H. C. Wacner, District Warden. 
Headquarters, Chicago. 
REPORT OF SECOND DISTRICT WARDEN. 
To the Game and Fish Commission: 
District No. 2, having 1,000 square miles of territory, lies in the 
extreme northwest part of the State, bounded on the north by the state 
of Wisconsin and on the west by the Mississippi River, and in one of 
the best farming communities in the State. Fifteen counties, which 
are as follows, comprise this district : 
Jo Daviess, Winnebago, Carroll, Dekalb, Whiteside, Mercer, Bureau, 
Stephenson, Boone, Ogle, Lee, Rock Island, Henry, Putnam, La Salle. 
The office of this district is at Sterling. Eleven deputies take 
care of this territory: 
John H. Engels, Galena, Jo Daviess and Stephenson Ganees: 
J. R. Bartlett, Rockford, Winnebago and Boone Counties; C. W. Ven- 
num, Savanna, Carroll County; William, Dixon, Ogle County; Chas. 
Rabbit, Amboy, Lee County; A. A. Hennis, Sandwich, Dekalb County ; 
Roy L. Phelps, Sterling, Whiteside County; E. E. McDole, Rock 
Island, Henry and Rock Island Counties; Charles Ditto, Keithsburg, 
Mercer County; John F. Pyszka, La Salle, Bureau and that part of 
