The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-17
He IS A TERROR.
ID. s. Curtis. Deputy Game
Warden, Is Here.
has Been Rounding Up ViO-
latOrs in Kansas.
TALKS OF GAME HOG.
He Pays No Attention to Law
Regulations.
Makes Example of Several in
&nnf hnwrn
TALKS OF GAME HOG.
Makes Example of Several in
Southern Kansas.

II. 5. Curtis of GAYLORD. deputv
state game warden was in Topeka for
d Iew hours today on his way home
from seven weeks inspection trip in
central and western Kansas where ha
mas Ieo the violators of the game law
merry chase. Eleven convictionS
are the result of the trip with fines
imposed amounting to S219,45 besides
the costs imposed. A conviction was
the result of every arrest ana the
Iact that the fines were as light an
they seem to have been was due to
the ieniency of the deputy game war
den.
George Webb of Cherryvale was
caught hunting without a license and
the fine amounted to $1S.75 after the
trimmings had been affixed by the
court. ]. L. Reynolds of the same
place paid $3.50 for serving game at
ms restaurant and though the bill of
rare was trade winner it has been
discontinued on account of the ex-
pense. 1t cost Thomas Todd of Par
sons S31.70 to help supply the market
tributary to his town with game for
the table and but for the fact that he
is poor man there is no telling what
the fine and costs would have
amounted to.
THAT fellow" said Game Warden
Curtis, SIS about the worst specimen of
a game hog that 1 ever met but IL
had prosecuted him to the full extent
of the law his wife and children would
have been compelled to suffer while
he served the fine and costs out in Jail.
The lesson as it is. is a severe one to
him and 1 think that it will have the
desired effect.
There is one odd thing that I have
noticed since have been in this bust
ness and that is that the bigger game
hog the man is the more certain he is
to be hunting without a license and
when 1 find one of them 1 am almost
certain to get them on two charges
instead of one. This fellow has
hunted for years and has never re-
spected the law and the people living
in the community with him expressed
pleasure when he was convicted
At MackSville L. r. Prov and Emery
Garten each paid $z1.5o for hunting in
a closed county. Five men were picked
up at st. John for seining and fishing
in the Rattle Snake and Wild Horse
creeks and paid fine of SIS each and
were glad to get off so cheaply. After
the conviction had been secured and
the matter settled one of the men.
John Thomas, colored, confessed that
he had captured 500 pounds of fish in
a single day and that he had several
other days when his catch had amount
ed to almost as much.
H. H. Williams, a Santa Fe conductor
$3.50 for the privilege and was thank
full to get off so cheap. One
of his friends who keeps a hotel
at Winfield was planning for a big
supper in honor of the marriage OF his
daughter and williams volunteered TO
furnish a dozen and half Quails for the
event. 1t happened that Game Warden
Curtis was in the city attending court
the same day and took supper at the
hotel and the arrest followed.
Williams was permitted to plead gull
ty to having three birds in his possess
zion though he claimed that he had not
killed them but had purchased them
For the occasion and the fine and costs
IN his case amounted to $3.50 though IL
he case had been prosecuted to the full
sxtent of the law he might have been
lined 81, 800. Charles Bevel of Winfield
was convicted at the last term of tho
district court in Cowley county of per-
Jury and sentenced to the penitentiary
rom seven to twenty-one years on
,ase which grew out of unlawful fish
ng and seining. He was Caught with
he goods" and swore falsely at the,
rial of the case and his conviction for
perjury followed.
1.-The conditions have changed great
v since the game law went into effect
n this state" said Mr.. Curtis, "and
within few years Kansas will AFFORD
iome of the best shooting to be found
n the west If the enforcement of the
aw is kept up. Quail and prairie chick
ms have not been as plentiful in the
tate in years as they were during the
,ast season and this can be due to no
,ther reason than that the game laws
lave been enforced"
'T have received fine reports from all
ARTS of the state where the Hungarian
artridges and English pheasants were
iberated a few years ago and 1t will
lot be a great while until there will be
-ood shooting with these birds as the
anne The fishing has never been equal
o that of the season just closed since
he streams were depleted of their ma
ura1 supply of fish by the influx OF
"'I receive many letters from various
arts of the state in which it is claim
d that the game laws are being vio-
ated daily by hunters for the market
nd game hogs. These are of little
alue because in 80 per cent of the cases
O names are signed to the commune
ations. If the writer's of these letters
rould sign their names they would be
Z great value in protecting the game
nd fishing. There is no reason why
ames should not be signed because
hey are private and are never used In