Arizona republican., 1899-03-09
EVADING GAME LAW,
Illegal Killing of Game Birds Is
 Quite Common.
Protective Agencies Are CircunIvent- ed by Ingenious Schemes of Hunt- ers-Game Shipped as
 Cn<pseS.

in an effort, which they consider laud
 able, to induce Illinois to turn aside
 from the evil of her ways and to keeE
 her eye on the eighth commandment
 No game birds except ducks and snipe
 that are killed in Illinois may be sold
 in the state. This is to prevent the eX-
 termination of prairie chickens, quail
 and rufTed grouse. The result of this
 is that Chicago and the state as well
 have to look beyond the borders for the
 table game supply. Now it happens
 that nearly all the states and terri
 tories have laws which forbid the ex-
 portation of game from their limits.
 Chicago gets most of it's birds and veni-
 son from these states and therein it's
 inhabitants, most of them unwittingly
 perhaps, are compromising, as it were,
 feathered and turred felony.
 The Chicago market is too strong a
 temptation for the gunners and fish
 ermen of "noneXport stLtes' to with
 stand. Good prices prevail here and
 the hunters will get their game through
 if the shipping costs greater cunning
 than the shooting. Game wardens and
 deputies cannot be in all places at once
 J
 points where game shipping has been
 most frequent and most fragrant. At
 many of the smaller unwatched places
 in Minnesota or Wisconsin week after
 week there appears OF the railroad sta ton platform boxes marked for Chi cago shipment and bearing the word poultry" Poultry nine times out of ten turned out to be quail, ruffed grouse or woodcock when the. package is opened in the Chicago commission house. In places where the game war dens are alert all sorts of subterfuges are tried to get the game through to the Illinois consumer. Many a crate of cabbages has had game heart. Many q barrel of apples has had a core of grouse. Not long ago pine box of the regulation coffin-inclosing size and marked on the outside Corpse" was delivered to a commission house in Chi cago. It was from a small town in and came through on pas senger ticket, as is usual when a body is shipped. It was treated with respect by the railroad people, who did not doubt that the person to whom the box was addressed was an undertaken. At the depot man appeared, took charge of the "remalns'' and had them taken to an express wagon, whose driver only grinned when told to drive toward | South Water street.
 'tIs it corpse?' he asked.
 Tt is several of them,' was the ar- 5wer, and the thousand or so of dead ! quail which were afterward tumbled | put of the receptacle verified the state nent.
 Some of the Audubon society mem oers keep a sharp outlook along the commission store fronts to see that no ong birds are offered for sale One of he society's directors was walking trough South Water street one day when he came upon huge box of snow outings, beautiful feathered visitors rom the far north. It is against the aw to kill them or to have them in 'ossession for purposes of sale. The audubon follower asked the dealer That the birds were
 Reed birds,'' said he.
 "Rats!" muttered the questioner.
 That word cost him his case, for when he game warden 20 minutes later ap- cared at the store the birds had disap- cared as completely as though they ad taken On life and flight and gone to heir arctic home.
 It may not be known, but it is a fact nat no restaurant or store has the ght to offer reed birds for sale. The eed bird is simply the bobolink in his Ill plumage and the bobolink is pro- 'cted by law. The reason that the udubon people and the game warden on t bother much about the reed bird lestlon IS that ninety-nine one hun -edths of the reed birds sold in Chi Lgo are English sparrows. The severe weather during the latter lrt Of January drove from the far 'rth to Lake Michigan great flocks of .autiful ducks known as "old squaWs." hey are beautiful and after that all is i'd that can be said. They are abso- tely unfit for food, the flesh being , 'thlng short of disgusting. The poor, ntiding creatures have been slaugh- red by the hundreds recently from , e piers along thelake front Many of ; em were to be seen hanging in front
 the stores and are offered for sale. 7 le man who will eat one will have d ysician's bill that will outweigh 20 ( nes that of the duck. [ The Wisconsin people are just now juggling with the problem of the pre- rvation of the fish in their small lakes. re Chicago figures again. A Chicago ortsman went to a Wisconsin lake rlng the last muskellunge season. A e place had been famous for the big lows a year or two back. He hired
 oarsman and fshed all the day 'ough. Never d strike It was mex cable. After the boat1nan had Ii 'keted his days wage he drawled: L guess the reason we didn't git any a s because l dynamited 'em all out l, month for the Chicago market. - W cago Chronicle. II CHAMPION OYSTER EATER. N Ii