Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-04-20
A SMUGGLING GAME.
Tricks of Sportsmen to Circumvent
State Authorities.
Birds Concealed In Beer Bottles and
Sample Bags of Wheat to EIude
the Game Wardens of the
DakOtas.

The game waroRns of the Dakotas
earned lot of new tricks last season,
but their information will not be of
much use, for next season there will be
'ther tricks of gunners who wish to
ship game out of the two states in de-
dance of law.
The Dakotas, like other western
states, charge an outsider good Ii
,ense fee to use gun within their bor-
lers. They limit the amount of game
ne may slay in day. They set limit
On the amount of game he may take
across the state line with him when he
starts home. They do not permit him
TO ship a pound while he is still on the
ground, states the New York Sun.
These laws, of course, are designed
TO cripple market hunters, and such
sentiment has been built up that they
are enforced as rigidly as any blue law
hat Connecticut ever heard of.
Men who pay big railway fares and
freight for camp equipment and often
express charges on dogs and license
Fees to get to Dakota lake for the au-
tunn ducks. snipe and prairie chickens
kill more than they can possibly use in
camp. They want to send game back
20 their families and friends and they
use a good many devices to fool the
wardens.
Shipping baskets of ducks or chick
ems to a friend in st. Paul. who is sup
posed to run a laundry. is one of the
most transparent of the devices. 1t is
transparent for the reason that men
out shooting in camp ten miles from
a railroad are not believed to have or
need boiled shirts and standing collars.
When a warden finds big wicker
basket with the top fastened down and
marked Laundry" he pulls out a lit
tie sharp steel instrument he carries,
which has a hook at its end, and iabs
it into the basket. When it comes out
t has a small bit of flesh and feather
or two clinging TO it. Then the basket
and contents are confscated and sold
Tor the benefit of the state.
No attempt to prosecute the men
who shipped it is ever made. The Off
cers are content with confscation.
A good deal of game got out last sea-
son was returned beer bottles. Some
ingenious chaps had their beer sent
TO them in cases which had false bot
IONS five inches deep. Two layers of
chickens or ducks might be packed
ightly into these bottoms.
1t was noted that great deal of
beer was drunk and cases filled with
Empty bottles went back over the
.oads every day. The trick was finally
exposed by clumsy expressman who
dropped a beer case and broke it and
he birds came out on the station plat
iorm. After that the steel finder was
ammed through the cracks Of every
Deer case which went back to the Wis
.onsin and Illinois breweries.
Small, neatly built cases, supposed
TO contain samples of Dakota minerals
)r soils, were used for long time for
shipping game. Every Dakotan,
whether a game warden or not, is a
and boomer by nature and it went
iorely against the grain to suspect
these boxes which on the outside were
meant to bring immigrants in the
state and hoist the prices of land. For
lwhile this was a most excellent de-
ice, but it was betrayed finally by a
>arelessly fastened lid that came of