Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-02-17 | Page 3 | Rangers on Skis Trial Suspects

RANGERS Oil SKIS i TRAIL SUSPECTS TTIXOWSTONB PARK, Wye, Feb. IT tfft-Ski-ahod rangara ef Ttllowstone national park trailed game poachera for three days, alsep-lng alsep-lng one night Under a tree while the . mercury dropped 18 degrees below aero, before arresting their quarry In a remote cabin. A park service report carried today to-day the aotatlon that Homer J. Nichols, 44, ef Cooke City, Mont, and Frank J. Allen, M, ef Moras. Wyo., were arrested on charges of trapping marten within park boundaries, boun-daries, pleaded guilty Tuesday before be-fore Federal Commissioner T. Paul Wilcox at Mammoth Hot Springs and were ordered to spend 60 days in Jail at Cheyenne, Wyo., and pay fines of $100 each. Terse and Impersonal, the report did not name the rangers, but said they discovered the trapline while en routine patrol near the head ef Snake river. They trailed the poachers poach-ers for three daye down Gravel and Pacifle creeks. One night the rangers slept under un-der a tree,, with enow plied five feet hieh under tha tlmhap. Tha liftind night they reached a crude dugout apparently used as a bass by the trappers and on ths third dsy ths rangers arrested Nichols and Allen tn a cabin on Pacific creek 11 miles northeast of Morsn. Ths rangers ran low on food during their long, cold trek.