Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-07
"Gane" as II is Hunted in Illinois.

communication from "A. J. LoNeJoy' ''o
state game commissioner of Illinois
and it deals in all seriousness with
actual conditions in that state, but to
the reader who has hunted in the Maine
woods or who knows anything about
the game resources of our State, the
article will arouse sufficient risibilities
to cure chronic dyspepsia. 1t also
throws interesting light on the hunt
ers' license question. We give the full
text of the letter and urge careful
reading of it, particularly by those who
find hunting in Maine too tame BUSH
ness and propose to go into the wild
and woolly West in search of big
game:
thinking that possibly short COM
| munication from the state game COM
missioner of Illinois of what is being
done in the way of game protection
under the new game law would be OF
some interest to your readers, 1 APP
pend the following list of cases of vio-
lations of the law since August 1:
Gustave Engle, Ottawa, ILL.,, fined SIS:
hunting without a license, two persons,
Golden, ILL.,, fined $25, each; attempting
to kill prairie chickens Elmer Sanford,
Lincoln, fined SIS; killing one prairie
chicken, John Jenkins, Lincoln, fined
SIS; killing song birds, several
Italians, Galena, fined 500; buying and
selling squirrels, L. c. Reese, Anna,
fined s25; killing song birds, Harry
Schrader, Chicago fined and fine re-
mitted, as he was the only support of a
widowed mother; selling squirrels,
Moses Leyley, Alto Pass, fined $25;
hunting without license, F. Pecharo,
Pickneysville, fined $685. killing song
birds, Louis Boris, Chicago, fined S.;
killing song birds, George Doretors,
Chicago, fined So; trespass, w. r.
Riddew, Camp Point, fined SO; killing
song birds, Frank Ortlepp, Chicago,
fined $35; hunting without a license,
John Monkus, Chicago, fined $25; hunt
ing without a license, Sam Vangilas,
Chicago fined $25: trespass, two par
ties, Milmine, fined $40; killing one
robin, Chas. Heinng, Chicago, fined S..
In addition to the above each person
prosecuted also paid costs of the suit.
We have now got the state well organ
lied with good deputy warden in each
county, who is giving his time and at
tention to the work and is receiving
pay for such days as he is employed in
actual duty.
1.-THE state has been divided into ten
districts with 4 good travelling warden
| to cover about ten counties each. The
tro in nd I,ttx 10 To trn
| his district each month, after having
selected deputies, and see that each is
| doing his duty and in this way we feel
| law as possible.
Licenses are being used by every
county, city and village clerk of the
state and there was received at the
state treasurer's office at Springfield,
| H., in July $2.136.70 for licenses issued
prior to July 1st and August l, there
was paid into the state treasury $16,-
| 331 .04 for licenses issued during July.
The report for licenses issued during
| August has not been received from the
state treasurer, but from all reports re-
ceived there will be from $4,000 to SIS
| 900 at least paid in for licenses issued
| during August, as the reports from
the state treasurer each month are 70,
| the amounts received for the previous
months. The money thus paid into the
state treasury goes directly back to the
| country, as ten travelling wardens and
102 deputies have to be paid each
month. The matter of getting the new
| law before the public, and the fact that
something like 5000 clerks in the state
have to be furnished, not only with
blank licenses, but also with blank APP
plications, blanks for reporting to the
state treasurer, and copies of the game
| laws both in pamphlet form and i'm
synopsis form on large cards, means a
| great expense, as it has to be taken to
| the various clerks of the state, to date
| $4,000 license blanks, with as many
| blank applications. numerous other
| blanks as mentioned and over $4,000
copies of the game law.
! 1.-The people generally over the state
are much interested in the protection of
| game, as the matter had been agitated
during the past two years to such an
extent that not only the sportsmen, but
the farmers are awake to the interest of
| game protection, and the man who
thinks he will slip out and kill a few
or in any other way violates, the new
game law. is very apt to be arrested
promptly, for nearly every one of THE
deputy game wardens has friends
throughout his county who are continu-
| ally on the watch and notify him at
once of any hunters that are out after
| game out of season or contrary to law.
We hope that by the time the new
game law has been in effect year,
everyone will be willing to abide by its
u provisions.
A. ]. LOVEJOY,
i State Game Commissioner"
1t is seen that in Illinois even resi-
dents have to get a license to hunt such
game as squirrels, robins and prairie
chickens, and that hunting without it
means fine of $25 and = costs. How
| picayunish this makes the kick against
the Maine law which requires only nom
i residents to get license and allows
them the privilege of killing and taking
away two deer and moose. The license