The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-09
so REPORTS WARDEN SCOTT
Many Arrests and Successful Prose-
cutions of Laws VioIators-
Effects of Supervision.

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last Saturday. The report shows that
between June L, 1901, and November
80, the end of the fiscal year., 20 con.
yictions were secured in the cases
of men arrested for violation of the
game laws; eight cases were dismiss.
ed, three defendants were acquitted,
two forfeited their bail and one broke
Jail. Fines a%ggregating 5000 were i'm.
posed; 1925 was collected from large
game licenses and sos from licenses
for shooting small game; $S5 was col
lected from forfeited bonds and con
fiscated articles sold realized $59.63,
bringing the. total receipts of the Of
fee to $1,924.63.
Mr.. Scott says in the report. that
since the creation of his Office, IS
months ago, more arrests and success
full prosecutions for game law VIC
lations have been made than in the
entire history of the state and ter
ritory. The office has also accomplish
ed much in preventing violations of
the law and in educating the people
to the benefits to be derived in af-
fording proper, protection to game of
all kinds. Considering the vastness
of the territory to be covered and the
physical geography of much of the
state, together with the limited num-
Der Of deputies employed, the warden
declares the results to be credited to
the force under his control are par
ticularly gratifying.
Some Effects.
Referring to the effects accruing
from the enforcement of the law, Mr..
Scott says:
few successful prosecutions will have
on a community which has heretofore
borne the reputation of paying no at
tention to the. game laws. In many
cases the persons who respected the
laws the least are now assisting us
greatly in their enforcement.
'The hide, head and market hunt
ers have been practically driven out
of business by the enforcement of
the laws and the results are very evil
dent at the present time. Large game
has been more plentiful this season
than in the ten years last past. Deer
n elk have been found in large num-
bers in places where they have not
been seen in years. In many in
stances this season they have been
killed within a.few miles of town,
and it is not unusual to hear of them
being seen while driving along the
country roads and in some cases even
in the gardens close to the farm
houses. So numerous are they this
year that almost every hunter who
went out has returned with a good
Kill and reports game plentiful ev-
erywhere. Only a few days ago Miss
Josie Talbot, a young lady of Column
bia Falls, killed a deer on the river
bank in front of their residence. Mrs.
G H. Stoiber of Silverton, Colo, while
on a hunt in this state last October,
killed a fine bull elk and two brown
bears, one a very large specimen.
This lady also enjoys the distinction
OF being the first woman to take out a
non-residence hunters license in this
state.
The bountiful supply of game this
season can be directly attributed to
the protection it has received by the
rigid enforcement of the laws:
THE greatest large game sections
o. the state. are the extreme north
western and southwestern parts, but
more especially the former, as al
most every specie of native North
American game is still to be found
there. This section is composed of
the whole of Flathead, portions of
Teton. Powell and Lewis and Clarke |
counties. The other section is that
which is adjacent to the borders of
the National park, and is made up of
portions of Gallatin, Madison, Park,
Sweet Grass and Carbon counties.
These sections mentioned are sadly
in need of more deputies to patrol
them. One man can do but very lit
tie of this work owing to the rough
and unsettled conditions which COM
pels the use of pack horses and makes
travelling slow and laborious. The
other west and middle west counties
have a very liberal allowance of big
game, while in the eastern part of the
state along the Missouri river, in
the breaks, is found the finest white
JAILED deer shooting in the world. On
he prairies of this section the rem
lant of antelope live and range.