The Forrest City times., 1903-11-06
GAME WARDEN WORRIED.
to Check Infractioas of
the Law.

The Work ard Worries Of a Game War
teEs might be made the title Of a book,
whose contents could be furnished by
E1wzrd L Tracy. Of this city. who has
spent several years trying 10 enforce
tie fish and game laws Of the state OF
Wisconsin. says a Milwaukee report
Although much Of his work is Of a Sc
rsoCs nature. many incidents occur dur
Ing TIE course Of years prosecutions
thai are humorous 10 all parties Tot e.
rectiy concerned. Even more interest
Ing are tie attempts that are made each
year 10 evs1e the laws. Epicures who
v2E; trout or partridge. or even verison,
IL seoson and out Of season must be sat-
ished. and the more strict the enforce
Dert CT the law. the higher the value OF
game under the ban. ard the greater the
temptation 10 the Illicit hunter. Depu
| ties seour the state. especially the hunt
Ing and fishing grounds. and others
spend their time at the depots guarding
against the Illegal shipment Of game.
aid every Low and then comes the re-
/ pert CT eonfsea;ed packages.
We watch pretty carefully. said Game
Warden Tracy. but ~ cannot catch
everything and everybody who violates
tie laws. Ore CT the biggest temptations
70 hunters Is the shipment Of venison
/ Most Of this that escapes Us is shipped
/ IL freight cars Last year received a
/ telegram from q deputy az Woodruff
/ telling ne that certain car containing
/ lumber and Christmas trees was billed
&c Milwaukee with dozen carcasses Of
yerison aboard. watched for that par
ticuiar car fer month. but il never
/ cane through. nor could the railroad COM
| raEy trace car Of that number finally
concluded that the deputy had wired
| TIE wrong number. and one day fat
| Car full CT Christmas trees came into the
| yards on its way 70 Chicago. / made the
ya-Gmea unload the entire car. but there
was 10 Yenison aboard and ii took the
balance OF the afternoon to load
/ the car again. The number had was
that CT a fat car. but suppose the
game and lumber and trees had
| been put into box car. and
| there it would be almost impossible TO
| fId il unless one had the exact num Der
| OF the car. Some of the veLison is
| shipped in coffin boxes. but as these mus.
| have health permit II they contain a
corpse it is comparatively easy to catch
the offender who is shipping game. Pr
ano boxes afford another way TO break
the law. Laundry and bread baskets
have also been brought into requisition
for the purpose.
When it comes 10 shipping par
tridges. the usual way is to yack them
| in barrel, with layers OF poultry at the
top and bottom. This makes an limo
eent-appearing package if the heads
are taken of alone. | never bother
about The heads. but chop a little hole
into the side of the barrel with a hunt
er s Ak that carry II the middle Of the
barrel proves all right | don't worry
about the rest. There is one man up in
the state who ships bullheads 10 mar
| ket, but he finds it hard to resist the
| temptation Of putting few pike or bass
in the middle of the barrel and usually
gets caught at IT,
Some OF the hunters avoid these
methods and ship their game as eggs. in
crates. with few layers Of eggs on top
have taken partridges out of cheese
boxes, and saddles Of venison out of in
| nocent-lookirg beer-bottle cases. Last
| season | found a box consigned to a liv-
cry stable in this city marked Harness
/ IL large letters. There seemed 10 be no
need of specifying these contents. and |
| opened the box to find several dozen par
tridses neatly wrapped up"