The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1885-05-16
A Protest From the East.

"A FrOIeSC rom the East.
In it's issue of April 14th the New
York Sun published an editorial under
the caption, "A Call to Peter Kennesaw.'
Peter is probably mythical parsonage,
but the call is to the mountaineers and
miners Of the west, of Wyoming and
Montana, to arouse themselves to pre-
vent the destruction Of game by the
cowardly hunting Of eastern sportsmen
who come here with every imaginable
engine of destruction, intent only upon
carrying back so many hides or horns
as trophies of their skill and prOwess.
The Sun, among other equally forcible
talk, said
"Peter Kennesaw, did not word go up
to YOU last autumn from Laramie of
Young millionaire of Brooklyn who
slaughtered on your Little Medicine
River thirteen bears in twelve days
hunt, nine of them grizzlies, and three
of them in one morning before break
fast? These noble animals were caught
in large steel traps chained to logs that
left broad trails as they were dragged
by the poor creatures, struggling to get
back to their haunts. Peter, can you
see the millionaire cad following those
trails with the affectatiOn of dauntless
courage? He knows that he can safely
play hero near crippled and chained
grizzly, and he is base enough to play
the part for club house display in Brook
lvn. How the bears must have despised
him, Peter. and how the sharpness OF
death to them must have been to perish
bv the hand of a coward and idiot, who
would have dropped dead with terror II
single one Of the animals had been Tor
a minute unclaimed. This Plymouth
church hero may hunt bears again IN
Wyoming in the coming autumn. unless
he executes desperate project which
he lightly announced before leaving
Laramie, that this year he would en-
counter panthers- trapped and chained,
of course Peter Kennesaw, when
he makes camp in your foothills,
you, and the many like you, should
give him a judicial reception.
That reception should embOdy
practically the best of the best possible
Federal game-preserving law. After
the conclusion of the ceremonies the
dude butcher would probably be found
back on the Union Pacific railway en-
numbered for very rapid retreat Ply
mouth churchward, with only pocket
handkerchief and money enough to pay
the expenses or Ms journey. COI-
tainly he would forever thereafter be
chastened in his mind as to the right OF
a man to kill more meat than he actual
" needs for food; and the right of a
rich idler to amuse himself by going in
to the food preserve of hard-Worklng,
Door men and wantonly killing Off the
animals on whose tleah they must
largely depend for substance; and the
abstract right of dude to go to bears
residence, far off from civilization, and
kill him for fun, the bear being the
more valuable animal OF the two and
having the better right to live. Peter
Kennesaw, call the boys together, and,
in a congress of mountain sOVerelgnS
assembled. enact law for the Medicine
Bow spur. Send news OF your legisla-
ton up and down the Rocky Mountain
divide. and rouse up the miners, pros
Dectors. and ranchmen to adopt and
re-enact your laws and, Peter, see TO 1t
that the Medicine Bow statute be short,
sharp, and decisive-and may It's eXecu-
ton be unerring and ineXorable!
Not only the class whom Peter Ken
nesaw represents but all the people OF
the west may well bear these strong
words in mind. 1t is a question Wheth-
er the game Of these mountains is suf-
fering most from resident hunters or
from the butchers Of the east who raid
this country in summer, regardless OF
game laws, and slaughter young and old
| without mercy.