Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-08-05
A Guardian Appointed For Joseph
Jennings, Who Lives North
of the City.
A Payment of 20 Cents on the Dol
lar Ordered to the Creditors
of Frank Frlsby.
Local Affairs, Miscellaneously Mixed
and JOllily Jumbled for the
Dear Reader.
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When the legislators of the bountifu]
state of North Dakota were in session
assembled, for the purpose of making
laws for the good of the people Of the
| State of North Dakota, it is to be sup.
posed that they knew what they were
talking about. OF course, no one denies
the fact, that there are SOM persons
who know infinitely more than all the
rest of the inhabitants of this great and
| glorious state combined. These same
persons in their own estimate N could
have made better laws than a represent
alive gathering of men from all parts of
the state; but, sad to say, these men
didn't have the authority to make the
laws, and the people will probably have
to abide by the laws, as made by the leg
islature. When the members of the leg
islature passed a law that it should be
unlawful for any person to shoot any
prairie chicken or grouse between the
first day of December and the twentieth
day of August, following, they did it for
the protection Of these fowls, that they
might not all be slaughtered before they
become large enough to protect them
selves, and that the old ones might not
be killed while nesting. The members
of the legislature did not pass that game
law because they had nothing else to do,
because it looked nice in a book or be-
cause it sounded we'll, but because it
was necessary to the preservation of
small game, and when they passed it,
they intended that it should be obeyed,
and provided a penalty for it's violation.
That the law has been violated this
year, is an admitted fact, and some of
those who have violated it are known.
1t is not proposed to publish the names
Of any of the violators, but merely to
state the gist of a few remarks made by
leading sportsmen, as a warning.
1t is the opinion of any true sports
man than there is an utter lack of sport,
in being able to slaughter young grouse,
unable to fly fast enough to have any
chances for life. It is plain blood
thirstness, and there is not one whit of
the true sportman in any one who will
do it.
Evidences of the fact that the law has
been disregarded are not wanting. A
dead prairie chicken was seen, but re-
Gently, in an alley, where it had been
carried by some dog, who didn't appre,
ciate as much as his master, the neces-
sity for concealment. Several parties
have left town, armed with shot guns
and followed by dogs. The shot guns
might have been taken along to kill
mosquitoes, but if such is the case,
some of the mosquitoes brought back to
town wore more feathers than fall to
the lot of the ordinary bloodsucker.
Now, gentlemen, curb your i'm
patience, and with it that wild desire to
go forth and do battle with the feathered
denizens OF our fields and meadows.
Only twenty days to wait, and there will
be no necessity for any concealment
and there will be found infinitely more
sport in the hunting than at present.
Those who are law abiding in the mat
ter, say there will be trouble if the law
is broken, and they are surely in the
right when they take this stand.