Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-07
OUR BIG GAME.
At Least 500 Moose and Carl
bou titled, Last Year.
A Prominet Sportsman Talks Over
Sitution With Journal.
Ne Upholds E Fish and Game Commission
and the Wardens.

There habeeu some grumblng from
Observation-Disclosures during the past
shooting fon, who claim that the big
game spoIthroughout the State has not
been what should be. Some criticisms
are hcipgiought against the fish and
game corbission, as being responsible,
and the DIN has been made that the
pame IS pressing; that the system of
wardens not what it shoald be, etc,
| etc.
A nronent sportsman who has the
renutati Of having been for years well
acouaili with the game system through
out theuntry, said tca Journal re-
porter. ,nday, in answr to inquiries on
this suet: And we'll you might ask
about SO things! 1t would not sur
prise IF tho matter wouli be brought
ND mt meeting IN Bango, Tuesday, of
the Me Fish and Game Association.
Why dear, there are puple in this
State ay, and people. Who in other
resnemay be all right, Who claim that
becann week or ten dal IS hunt they
! fail t.t their limit Of gslie that there
Is sething 'rottens il Denmark,
/ eome.re. and, for vant tf a better
\ chico hit, they asssl the commission.
= Thes,ortsnen, I lonestly believe, al
y ,,ocxuect that thGommission should
y he cole Of makinfhe game.
= q, take myst for instance. I
} wen Lake AubIn, one day last sea-
b sop in boat a day long, and didn't
\ ,st In. Is thapne days experience
- orion of the fling in Auburn lake:
y o,hot. Yetlese tin horn sports, a
= ooohuv of the think that, because
b in kited timsnd over a small terri
b torf very sill territory compare
b tive they failo get what they want,
N ,hre is n9ame in the State of
~ Nh s1neG VI OhS WON 10 HO Ao4i
z .r;L,t mauro not realize this
: gardinge amount OF large game
b .,G s In State, there is, beyond
4 I'm 80 ,cent. more large game,
20, than te was last year, and the
-ise ia a fair way to continue.
IT, has less poaching than ever
3 and my mind, with the new
b ~, of Iens the results are much
\ satitoIy. Where, a year ago,
: 1T 13ardens were employed, TO a
a Tor az! extent, there are now only
1t M these give their entire atten-
nv King after the business.
rr,erl, warden received one half the
a. reg from his vigilance, which.
= In cases stated, was magni
Iii vigilance the other half
ling e county treasury, which in
Nit over to the State, whence
x,,as ed in the hands of the fish
"a commission In addition to
Ihat bney they might get, the war
,s bald so much for whatever
,,o 1t in, from direct instructions
ana commission. Now, those war
:,,e,rc at work, receive q certain
..,oEhich they give much more
ar.i con sentious attention to
.,,;, and rs far as can learn, are
,o;Hsiness il IA much more gentle
lion than heretofore, and at
.;ter results The fines now col
mi -, by law, given to the county
'"F' ar instances of corruption have
h,ected. In eases where the &C
convicted was unable to pay his
called ii out" but the warden
1--WE one half the amount OF the
ne, Just the same. One instance
all where man was convicted
.rden's testimony of killing
of deer, the fines on which
Ito over $500. The prisoner was
pay, and went to Jail. But the
81 eceived Onehalf the assessed fine,
ications were strong that the
6n Il put up job and that they sim
rked the State" Then, of course,
stances have been suspected, where
!, en- would trump up a charge
some innocent victim for the
s own profit. The new system
L11Itay with all of this sort Of business
certain that to attain the best
the communities at large and the
rs of it must realize that it is to
interests that the game be protected
hat everything they do toward as
the wardens is to their own adj
ge,
is absolutely Astonishing, the mum
large game which has been killed,
asst season, in the State. And when
IVY realizes that the estimated cost of
OF animal shot is 800. il can easily be