St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-19
GREATLY EXCITED BY THE
GAME WARDENS.
POT HUNTERS ARE NETTLED
THAT. THE DEER IN THEIR YARNS
SHOULD BE SAVED FOR
DUDES,
ALIAS THE CITY sPoRrsMEN.
The County of Burnett, Adjoining. Is
Equally or More Distraught
Over Similar Troubles.

Perhaps no community in the North
west is more excited over the game
laws and their enforcement or viola
ton than that comprised in Pine coun-
ty, Minnesota. The report that 800
saddles Of venison and 1000 cartridges
in one lot have been cached for two
weeks near the st. Croix river is, per-
haps, a reasonable foundation for this
excitement, especially as the game
wardens of two states are modified
in that vicinity.
Both sides are torn up, so to speak.
In one issue the Grantsburg Journal,
speaking of the filming of a man $40
for having 10 saddles of venison in
storage, says:
1t is no secret that for years he has dealt
in game in and out Of season, and every year
has lost some of it either by seizure or
through the trickery of commission men,
The business has grown in his hands until
ne has almost acquired the title of ''Ven-
ison King" 1t has been the proper thing to
ers Many others in the county have dealt
in game that when seized was called Krein-
er's and he has taken the open blame
whether entitled to 1t not.
The BUSINESS has been allowed to run
along for years without serious interruption
until illegal game from all over Northeastern
MiIHeSOld ana northwestern wisconsin has
been hauled into the wilds of Burnett county
and shipped out as circumstances would per-
NIT.
Men who are otherwise considered good cit
iZens nave invested money in the business
because the margin of profit, if successful
was so great that they could not withstand
the temptation. Rumor names many but
kreiner is about the only one who is legally
recorded as guilty. If he knows of others
he does not say so, but admits his guilt paws
ms NJ fne and Is happy to get off so cheaply.
IL the matter is not carried farther he may
inoeed be called fortunate, even though he
loses prospective profit of not less than a
thousand dollars.
In the next issue is a cartoon which
is marked as having been engraved
III the Journal office, it being the only
country weekly in this part of the
country with its own art department
IL also has a three-column editorial,
in which occurs the following:
1t is apparent to all who examine our laws
relating to game and fish that they are not
framed in the interest of the people.
We have very limited number in this
county who can possible be classed as hunt
ers for sport alone, and yet we have appar-
entity more game than all the rest of Wis
consln put together. 1t is robbery of the
rankest KIND to enact law detrimental to
our citizens simply for the qualification of
the barbarous tastes of few sports in re-
mote localities.
Any one familiar with the work in the
q
new game law knows that the sporting clubs
lobby hard for a law that suits them and
that the voice of the settler where the game
is to be found is never heard in the halls
OF legislation. His wishes are never con-
suited. 0'
:, Positive proof of this is found in the sim
Marity Oh the wisconsin and Minnesota laws
Ihey are lobbied through by the same set of
gun sports and contain hardly a paragraph
that Will be of direct benefit to any one else.
IL Is only a question Of few years when
nf
out owing to the increase of settlement and
during these few years what deer there is
should be for the use of the settlers and not
Tor the city sport.
IL is almost sacrilege to ask what hurt
would be done if the deer were totally ex
terminated but those who answer the cues
t .ion can only advance arguments that are
the same as those offered by the gun clubs
OF the cities The savage instinct in man
causes MIN to say that he prefers wild meot
10 tnat from domestic animals, and the more
civilized ne is the less he cares for veniso,i
AS matter of fact there is but one practical
argument that can be advanced why the deer
should not be exterminated, and that is that
the supply of buckskin would give out All
other arguments are based on sentiment or
the love of brutal sport. The taking of the
Ire OF the deer for any other purpose save
that of food is brutality and to the vepetarion
even that is wicked.
Sentimental laws for the preservation of
game do not help us who are living now and
only serve to deprive frontier settlers of food
forest that surrounds them.
:, In TINS article we shall not say much about
the law as 1t applies to fish and fowl, but
Will devote our remarks to large game Elk.
moose, antelope, buffalo, cariboo, etc. are
not found In our locality and this leaves but
the deer to be discussed.
The law as 1T now stands permits any one
for twenty days in November to kill deer
but does not permit any one to have yenison
In possession at any other time unless it has
been seized and sold by the state as con-
traband. 1t also prevents the shipping it out
OF the state Even in the state but two car
casses can be shipped and this requires that
a passenger accompany the carcasses There
is not practical feature in the law and it
should be Internationally repealed
In its place should be law fixing a close
season for non-residents of the county but
this should not prevent settlers, who live
near county line, from killing in an ad-
Joining county. There should be restric-
ton in regard to shipping venison during the
fall and winter months and at all times an
actual settler should be gwen chance to dis
pose of what he kills Ignore completely the
existence of the sportsman and make the
law to benefit the pot hunter" who is the
very man against whom all laws are now
enacted.
The sportsman who can afford to crafty
his love of slaughter can follow the game of
our country to the ends of the earth and
there kill 1t, but because he has money
enough to stand the expense and reyel in
blood for twenty days, the poor homesteader
should not be made lawbreaker for 345 days
In the year because he takes advantage Of
what nature has placed within his reach.