The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-23
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Northwest.


board of game and fish commissioners,
today secured an order from commits
sfoner of Indian affairs Jones which
will prevent the commission men of
the Northwest from doing business
with Indians on the several reserva-
tons.
For long time the Indians have been
doing business with some of the deal
ers on the assumption that game and
fish captured and killed in the United
States territory was not subject to
state laws. The game and fish COM
mission insisted that the moment the
game or fish was taken off the reserva-
tons it became subject to state laws.
A short time ago julius Selkirk,
trader, commenced action against the
commission and demanded judgment
for an alleged Illegal seizure of game
which he had shipped out of the state.
The case is now pending. Mr.. Byrnes
saw that unless he secured some action
from the department here there would
be trouble in the future The order is
sued today is as follows:
Robert M. Allen United States Indian
Agent. White Earth-Sir: This office is in
receipt OF personal communication from 7.
e. Byrnes, attorney for the board of game
and fish commission, of Minnesota, who re-
quests that Indian agents in Minnesota be
advised to instruct Indian traders and In
dams upon any reservation in Minnesota that
they must not send or ship any BIRDS ami
mails or fish off the reservations during the
close season, when by the laws of Mime
sofa 1t is unlawful to have such game in
possession off the reservations in Minnesota:
also that Indian traders and Indians must
not at any time ship any game out of the
state. In view of the policy of this Office to
prevent Indian wards of the government from
interfering with or violating ony laws of
states or territories in which their reserva-
lions are situated you will take such steps
as may be necessary to cause Indians under
your jurisdiction to be fully informed of the
game laws of Minnesota. You will also inform
all indian traders in your territory that they
must not violate said laws. If they do, this
office will hold them responsible. You should
carefully warn the Indians and traders of all
provisions of the game, and fish laws and
penaltleS for violation thereof.
w. A. Jones, Commissioner.
Copies of the above have been sent
to every Indian agent in the state If
any Indian trader, after receiving no.
tice from the agent, still persists in
Going business in game and fish, his
license will be revoked
Mr.. Byrnes says that the game and
fish commission is determined to pre-
vent shipping of game out of the state
at all times of the year, and to pre-.
vent killing of game on the reservation
during the close season. Quite a busi-
ness in game and fish has been going
on between traders and commission
men. The seizure made in Detroit was
billed as household goods to Fargo
State Agent Fullerton received a tele-
gram from T. E. Byrnes, at Washing
ton, the announcement of the decision
IN the case. Fullerton'S face was
wreathed in smiles and he said:
That settles it: there will be no
more game shipped out of Minnesota
during the close season. 1t has been
trick of the market hunters to kill
the game and then send it into the
reservations and afterwards ship it
cut again and thus seek to evade the
law, saying that it came from the res
erVationS."
In the case of the state VS.. Davis,
tried before Judge Baxter, of Fergus
Falls, last spring, the judge decided
that game on the reservations was the
sacred property of the Indians and
that they could do anything with it
they wished to. The game and fish
commission is also the defendant in an
action brought by Lucy" Chip
pewa squaw, for the value of game
shipped last winter and seized at De-
troit by Deputy Game Warden Stew
SIlS HIT SEIZURE COuStSl6Q OIL 4UJ
prairie chickens and 300 cartridges,
shipped out of the White Earth reser-
walton. The plaintiff claimed that she
had traded with Indians for the BIRDS
No test Of this has ever been made
in the supreme court, but the case OF
the state ex rel. Melvin Lacy VS..
Sheriff G.. J. Norby of Detroit, is set
for hearing before Judge Mitchell Oct
5. Lacy was arrested for violating the
game laws, but was released on a wri.
of habeas corpus, and the case will
thus be determined by the supreme
court.
Another seizure of game was made In
st. Paul Tuesday. 1t consisted of
three boxes, containing prairie chick
ems and cartridges. and shipped from
Detroit through the Northern Pacific
Express company, by "E L. F." those
initials ~ ing all the Identification to
the consignor. The game came out Of
the White Earth reservation. Two
of the boxes were destined to Kimbal1
& Co., of Boston. and the third to
Wilder & Co., of Philadelphia.