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Gunners Van Devanter and Phillips had just settled themselves in a blind beside Occoquan Bay when up rowed Federal Deputy Game Warden George King and a Virginia State warden, looking for game law violators. Without recognizing either of the gunners, Warden King asked to see their hunting licenses. Startled, the two men fumbled in their gunning coats. Chaplain Phillips produced his license first. It was entirely in order. Pasted on it, as required by a law enacted by Congress in 1934, was a $1 Federal hunting stamp, proceeds from the sale of which are used to buy and develop land...
...guard named Guy Irving. Finding the dentist's curb occupied, amiable Guard Irving said he told the murderer to go into the office alone, drove on to park his car. When he returned, Boss Bruno was gone. Four hours passed before he reported the escape to the jail warden. Guard Irving explained that he had been searching Pottsville's business district for the prisoner. Outraged, Pennsylvania's Attorney General Charles J. Margiotti sped to Pottsville for an investigation among Boss Bruno's old political friends. Arrested were Guard Irving, the jail warden, his deputy, Boss Bruno...
Sixty times in Canada's Buffalo National Park one day last week Assistant Game Warden Samuel Purshell raised his rifle, aimed, fired. At rundown 60 buffalo lay dead. Next day, as eleven herd riders drove more shaggy victims into the huge enclosure where he worked. Warden Purshell repeated his butchery. Progressing at the rate of 60 animals per day, his goal was 1,500 dead buffalo...
...Canadian Government purchased a herd of 738 from Montana, established them in a 125,000-acre buffalo park near Wainwright, Alberta. The original 738 have since increased to some 23,000 and, despite scattering of specimens over Canada and the world, the Park herd requires a periodic thinning out. Warden Purshell was reducing a herd of 6,000. Buffalo meat is relished by Canadian gourmets, buffalo-hide overcoats esteemed by Royal Northwest Mounted Police...
...failed to make the wall, or missed the train from London, or simply decided to roam the countryside later than twelve: That all comes under the category of crime and the Scout--Who is sort of a cross between a Biddy and a Colonel Apted--immediately reports to the Warden. The King help the Freshmen in this crime! Thrice...