The Meeker herald., 1894-11-17
Jake Borah and the Game.

Jake Borah having just found out that the
MEEKER HERALD accused him of Strengthening
game, said to reporter Saturday:
THAT statement published in the MEEKER
HERALD about my Strengthening game has not
the least bit Of truth about it, Why should
slaughter game which furnishes me iveIi-
hood or allow any member of a party might
be with to do 1t? If there is any man in
Colorado more interested In the enforcement
of the game laws than am would like to see
the color of his hair. Time and again have
refused the members of my parties to shoot
into herd of deer or elk when they had
killed all the law had allowed them.
1.-THE Jealousy of other guides should not
allow a man like the editor of the MEEKER
HERALD to be misled, and think he is a fair
enough man to correct it, don't you? L have
offered to feed and keep any game warden that
would go with me when out with a party of
hunters.
~ have offered Mr.. Cardnell all the induce
ments possible to get him to go with me any
time"
Mr. Borah further said, that down in Maine,
where the game laws very strict, every
hunter and guide is game warden, and the
game is, therefore well protected, and he Is of
the belief thar every hunter and guide in these
hills should be clothed with the power of n
game warden, and compelled to give n good
bond for the faithful performance of their
duties, and the only pay should be the pro-
lection of the game that always 60 to give
them remunerative Observation-Disclosures
Avalanche
MIR. Borah is right in his surmises as
to our disposition to do the right thing
by anybody who may be placed before
the public Through our columns) in a
wrong light, and make no exception in
his case. In our issue of October 9Th
We vigorously criticized and condemned
the actions of certain guides who al
lowed tourists to kill game indiscrim-
inately and in gross violation OF law as
to numbers. Among the guides who
were alleged to be derelict in their
duties in the matter of conserving the
game, the name of Jack Borah was
wish to state that we had our informa-
ton from what we considered trust
worthy sources, and that the man who
gave us the information in question said
we were at liberty to use his name in
any comment we might see fit to make.
MI DOld all tuab IL
has been misled by some rival guide.
Such thing is possible, but we always
exercise reasonable amount of con-
servative judgment in accepting and
giving publicity to the utterances of
anyone wherein the probity of some
one else might be impugned, and con-
sidered our information pretty reliable
in the case under consideration. But
Mr.. Borah says we have been misled, in
so far as he is concerned, and we gladly
give space to the article above quoted
in order to give his side Of the question
and place him in better light before our
readers.
While on this subject of preserving
the game we'll also say that we are very
much pleased to see that Mr.. Borah en-
tertains some ideas on the game ques-
ton in unison with our own. We have
advocated and believe in making guides
game wardens and clothing them with
police powders. A law embodying such
principles would be great improve
ment on the present farcical law. The
guides ought to be as much interested
in the preservation Of the game as any
body.