, 1884-10-28
PEACE IN THE PARK.
Life And Property Now Safe in the
Yellowstone.
Brave Wyoming Officials Effectively
Turn the Rascals Out.
Superintendent Carpenter and His
Assistants Doing Noble Work.

from the Yellowstone Park. where,
during the past five weeks, he has been
engaged in the trial of cases and other
professional duties. The enforcement of
the laws in the Yellowstone Park has at
tracted widespread attention and has also
afforded an opportunity for the publica-
ton of articles by the Eastern press,
which have been either m~ischievously,
s:or unwilling blnnders. With
the purpose of ascertaining the exact con
dition of affairs in the park a reporter of
The LEADER interviewed Mr.. Stewart
yesterday. In reply to a question re-
garding lawlessness in the Yellowstone
Mr.. Stewart said
I'm order to correctly understand what
has been accomplished in the park by the
Wyoming officials, one should know the
preliminary proceedings which have cul-
minated in the establishment of law and
order. last year the Vice President and
General Manager of the Park Improve
ment Company correspondent with the
Secretary of the Interior and urged the
necessity of the enforcement of law.
That correspondence was forwarded to
the Governor who sent it to Uinta county,
to which county, you know, the park is
attached. The Governor requested that
some decided action on it be
taken but it was found nothing
in the way of permanent good
could be accomplished until the
meeting of the Legislature. The last
Legislature passed laws which gave the
officers authority to TACT. The next step
was the appointment Of officials, men who
would be competent to administer the
law. After several appointments were
made Governor Hale deemed it necessary
to visit the park and personally select the
officials. During the Summer he went to
the park and while there appointed two
Constables and two Justices of the Peace
who, he believed, were the right kind of
men for the offices and who have since
demonstrated their fitness for the respon-
sible positions. -"
"Were good men hard to find for the
po%sitions2'
Owing 10 the natur of their duties in
that region. peculiar qualifications were
essential. The Constables must be men
with the nerve to enter a camp of hunters
and arrest men who hold human life at a
trifing value. They must be willing to
face an armed man, or half a dozen des-
perate men, and arrest them. They
mus be frontiersmen, and they must be
familiar with the park. the habits of
game and the haunts of hunters and des-
peradoes. They must be brave; fearless
and Conscientious in the discharge of their
duty and they must be willing to perform
their perilousduties for a moderate COM
pensation.
"What.have been the opportunities of
conviction after arrests were nader
AT first the officers were certainly at a
disadvantage. No Prosecuting Attorney
was at hand and the officers, especially
the Justices, were u%nacquainted with their
duties. Besides; the offenders could readily
secure the best legal talent to defend
them. The legal profession has always
been well represented among tourists in
the park and even if no attorney could
thus be obtained the culprits could easily
secure the services of some Montana law
yer and thus obtain an aequittal.
Governor Hale sent Mr.. Stewart to the
park for the purpose of giving the officials
legal advice. Mr.. Stewart acted as the
Assistant Prosecuting Attorney of Uinta
county and while in the park represented
Wyoming Territory, to aid the officials
in putting in motion the the laws passed
last Winter and to demonstrate, if it were
demonstrate, that the authority of Wyo-
ming could be maintained in the park.
How many cases have been brought
before the Justices p was asked.
''Ten cases were tried during the last
fifteen days of September. The report
for October will not be made until the
close of the month.
what has been the effect of the con-
v%iction of the offenders
'The ~law-abiding people in the park
are delighted and all are satisfied that we
have a good law for the protection of the
park. The criminals realize that the law
cannot be evaded, and they also under
stand that it will be enforced with pru-
dent vigor. Criminals are abandoning the
country, and life and property are as safe
in the Yellowstone as in other portions of