St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-28
sPORTsMEN, BEWARE.
The Game Laws of the State to
Be Vigorously Enforced.

The Game Laws of the State to
Be Vigorously Enforced.
Do not go chicken shooting until Sep
TENDER.
The new game law lays mild penalty
upon the ardent sportsman who goes
cunning before that date. The law has
also made other changes, and the Min
neSOta hunter, who is more pienteous
in many seasons than the birds them
selves, should post himself before lie
orders his ammunition. The GeiSSel
law, which was drawn after cOnSultS-
ton with the game authorities and many
leading sports men, Is complicated
piece of legal machinery, but Game
Warden Stetson has prepared SynOI-
sis for easy reading. and which every
gunsman should paste in his bait bot
tie. The penalty for violation of the
law is as follows:
Any one convicted of killing out Of season,
or in any manner except as provided by law,
any of the game animals or birds of the state
of Minnesota shall be fined not less than $40
or more than 800 for each and every ami mai
or bird so killed and the costs of prosecution,
or shall be confined i'll the county Jail not
less than ten days or more than sixty days
for each and every animal or bird so Killed.
The following synopsis contains all of
the provisions of the law and gives the
"open season" for game of all kinds:
Woodcock-July 4 10 Nov. 1.
Pinnated grouse or prairie chickens and
white breasted or sharp-tailed grouse-Sept l
to Nov. l.
Quail. partridge or ruffed grouse OF pleas
anL-Sept 10 Nov. 1.
Wild duck or any variety of wild geese or
brant or any aquatic fowl whatever-Aug. 20
to April p.
wilson or jack snipe or snipe of any variety
Aug. - to April %.
Elk, moose, deer and earibou-Nov. 1 to
Dec. /.
No moose or caribou shall be killed, sold
or taken in the state for five years from 10Th
April, 1891.
The use of hounds or dogs in hunting elk,
moose. deer and caribou is strictly pro-
hibited.
None of the game animals or birds of the
state shall be killed or taken in any manner
except by shooting them with gun held to
the shoulder, and the use of any trap, snare,
swivel gun or other continuance or device
whatever is prohibited, except tie use of de-
| COWS in hunting ducks and geese.
The wanton destruction or wasting of the
| game of the state is declared misdemeanor
| No one person shall take or Kill TO exceed
twenty-five birds in any one day.
No keeper of hotel or restaurant or board.
| ing house shall serve to any guest any game
| or fish during the time when the taking or
| killing of the same is prohibited by the laws
| of the state.
Fifteen DAYS is allowed by law after the
| close of the season in which to dispose of
| any game animals and three days III which to
dispose of any game birds killed or taken in
| the season.
Any express company, railway company,
| common carrier, or any servant. agent or en-
| ploye of same, who shall purchase, receive,
| sell ship or otherwise dispose of or have in
their possession for any purpose any of the
| game animals or birds of the state, dur
| ing the time when the killing of the same
| is forbidden by law, shall be subject to heavy
| fine or imprisonment
The destruction of the nest, or taking the
| eggs of any of the game birds of the state, is
| punishable by fine or imprisonment
The killing or trapping of any song bird or
| other harmless bird is prohibited by law.
EARNED with these law points and a
good gun, the sportsman may sally
forth. There is every prospect of fine
season. The month of May, when young
chickens are liable to the drowning
out" process, was unusually dry, and
farmers and railroad men pronounce the
crop of chickens unusually large in
many localities. AS the fishing was
particularly bad this year. it is expected
by way of compensation that the shoot
ing will be unusually fine.