Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-04-28
GAME WARDENS
STILL ARE BUSY
TWENTY-FIVE PROSECUTIONS
RESULT IN FINES AND COSTS
AMouNTlNG. TO s614. ~
ALL SORTS OF VIOLATIONS
GREEN cay MAN coNFEssES
AND PAYS PENALTY.

Fines amounting to Sale. with ac-
complaining costs in the sum or $685.
SO, making a total of $614.59, are re-
ported by Chief Game Warden George
w. Rickeman as result OF the ac-
tivity of his deputy wardens during
the week. The number OF persons
prosecuted to bring about this result
was % and the offenses were mostly
for violations of the law regu ,ating
the taking of fish, nine being Tor
breaking in on the closed season,
four for the illegal use of nets, three
for taking Understood trout, three Tor
purchasing yenison and one for killing
deer in closed season. The latter
case was that of Peter Rale Of Yer
non county. !.
An interesting case developed at
Green Bay when one H. r.. Bopry
called up Deputy Warden Ansorge OF
that place and asked the warden to
come down to his shanty to talk with
him. Ansorge did so and to his sur
prise Boprya confessed that he had
been guilty of fragrant, violations OF
the fish and game laws but was sick
of it, wanted to quit the business and
also wanted to plead guilty and take
his punishment. He was accommo-
dated at an expense of $25 for fine
and $4O3 costs, total $29.O3. This is
the strangest case in the annals Of
the department as there was no sus-
picion that Bopry was violator. His
offense was the catching of game fish
in the closed season.
Captain Hickeman calls attention to
the fact that the amount of license
paid by nonresident hook and line
artists for the year 1909 was $1,008
instead of 1904 as reported last week.
The error came through the fact that
under the law the fund arising out
of this license is divided into two
parts, one-half going into the general
fund and the other half into the hunt
ing license fund, The hook and line
proposition was an experiment last
year and at first there was consider
able protest, not from outside fisher
men but from Wisconsin folk who
feared that the regulation would keep
visitors from the state. Captain
Rickeman says, however, that the
regulation is now looked upon with
favor, that as half of the money is
devoted to the propagation of game
fish the benefits are manifest and
that instead of discouraging outside
sportsmen it really encourages them
in that they approve the idea of fish
and game protection. He says thar
from present indications the present
year will see large increase in the
sale of these licenses.
Captain Rickeman is at present in
northern Wisconsin making personal
investigation of complaints of ilfegal
fishing on the streams of that region
Northern Wisconsin streams are ideal
for the angler and particularly so for
the law violator and the department
is kept busy in it's endeavor to en-.
force the regulations not only as they
apply to fish but those relating to
game as we'll.
fragrant violations however are not
cOnGneG to the northern section. In
Grant county recently three offenders
were arrested. F. w. Seeman, John
E. Lambert and Oliver Worthington
They were charged with purchasing
venison contrary to law and after an
interesting contest were convicted
The fines and costs footed up $203.5O
An amusing and at the same time a
disagreeable feature of the work con.
nected with the enforcement of the
game laws is the existence OF a
large class of persons who are aware
in their mind-of wholesale and
gross violations of the law They are
cock-sure, have all the details and can
"recite from memory" long stories OF
how the wardens are a failure in
their endeavor to stop violations.
They even chargeathat the wardens
connive with law-breakers to protect
them. This class of persons is large
but when one Of them is pinned down
to brass tick proposition the stun
is off. They shrivel up to about the
size of nothing and the only sub
stantial thing that is left is memory
OF the hot-air stunt that preceded the
shrivel. But all this comes in the life
OF the warden. He expects it and is
usually able to recognize it before
any great amount of damage results.