The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-10-25
HUNTERS PINCHED.
An Expensive Days Hunting for Two
Dublin Township Sportsmen Who
Went Out for Turkeys
WOODS FULL OF GAME PROTECTORS.


the game protectors came III.
There were two Of them. One
was Chas. S Husler, resident
of Cur berland county; the other,
Geo. j. Myers, and we are with
out information as to his place of
residence. These gentlemen
took lodging at the hotel at Fort
Llttleton, and to all appearance
they were thus early on the
ground to be ready to hunt turk
eys when the morrow should
dawn. These gentlemen went
out on Monday and returned with
out any game. On Tuesday they
again went out-Husler to Scrub
Ridge, and Myers to Gobbler's
Knob. From the history Of this
days work, 1t is evident that they
were not hunting turkeys as dill
gently as they we're hunting turk.
ey hunters, for each one of them
succeeded IN bagging a huntor.
1t happened that on that same
day Henry Miller, of Burnt Cab.
ms, decided to take day off and
hunt turkeys, and he wended his
way to Scrub Ridge. Like nine
hunters out of ten, he had provid.
ed himself with a turkey caller,
aud had come to the point that he
thought he might use it to advan-
tage. Instead of calling up a big
gobbler, however, he only called
up Mr.. Husler, the game protect
or. Although a stranger, Mr..
Husler's dress and manner indl-
Gated that he was out on the same
errand as Mr.. Miller, and the
former had little difficulty in find
ing out all about the caller IN pos
session of Mr.. Miller.
To Gobbler's Knob, Baldwin
Fraker had gone that day, and
was in the act of using caller"
when he was surprised to see ris-
ing from behind a big log a
strange hunter. "Did I fool you,"
he remarked pleasantly to the
stranger, who was none other
than the Mr.. Myers, to whom we
have already alluded. 1t is need
less to narrate here all the con-
versatlon that passed, but both
he aid Mr.. Miller were permit.
ted to return to their respective
homes. The next morning, the
two game protectors came to Nc
Connellsburg, made information
before Justice of the peace, Wi.
BILE, and obtained warrants for
the arrest of Messrs. Miller and
Fraker. They then went out for
their men and returned with them
on Wednesday evening, taking
them before Squire While for a
hearing. The game protectors
were represented by attorney
Jno. 2. Sipes, and the unsortun-
ate hunters by Horace N. Sipes.
There was no question about
each one of the defendants having
had in his possession a turkey
caller, and having used it on the
day mentioned, while hunting;
and when they came to examine
the law closely, 1t was found that
any one using caller to fool turk
eys, was liable to a fine of fifty
dollars. That's all there is about
it, This law was passed eight
years ago, and like the vaccina-
tion law, had never been enforc-
ed, and not one hunter out of a
hundred thought that 1t meant
anything-if, in fact, he thought
anything about, or knew anything
about it.
We have no better citizens than
Mr.. Miller and Mr.. Fraker, and
IL would never have occurred to
them to use the bones If they had
thought they were violating the
law by so doing, or were running
the risk of paying . penalty of
fifty dollars for so dong. Dur.
ing the eight years that have
elapsed since the passage of the
law, 1T has been violated hundreds
OF times, by hundreds of people
The justice did not have any.
thing else to do than impose fine
OF fifty dollars on each one of the
defendants, who very PROMPTLY