The morning call., 1894-05-20

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THE GAME LAws-A. E. City. The game
laws Of The State OF California are fearfully and
wonderfully MADE. Some OF The sections are
so worded that IS doubtful if the Supreme
Court could arrive at the intent of the trainers,
and IN all probability ii would throw the matter
out Of court on the ground that the law Is am
biguOus and unintelligible. For instance, Sec
ZION 626 OF tie Penal Code, under the bead OF
the general game law, declares that between
certain days named IL is misdemeaDor TO
"have IN his possession, dead or alive. except
for purposes of propagation, any quail, bobo-
link" etc. he science OF pTopOgating dead
quail, bOb0ink, &C., is one that tile query
editor has not been able To learn anything
about. In relation 10 deer The general law says
that it is a misdemeanOr for any person 10 sell or
offer TO sell at any time any deer. Another pro-
vision OF the same law, published by A. j.
Johnston, superintendent OF Stale printing at
The State printing Office, Sacramento, 1893"
declares that every person who, in The state
OF California. shall within the next two years
Except from September first 10 October
fifteenth In each yeaT after the passage
of This act hunt, pursue, take, NH or
destroy any male deer" etc, shall be
gully OF nlsdemeanor. Stlll another
section provides that II shall be mlsdemeanOT
for any person TO "huy, sell, offer or expose for
sale, transport or carry or have 10 his posses
sion any deer, e,c., at time when il Is unlaw-
ful 10 Kill the same" This law was approved
March %, 1898. Under subdivision 2915 of
section 20 OF the county government bill,
adopted al the last session OF the Legislature,
Boards of Supervisors In any county of the
State have the power 10 make regulations TO
protect game and fish. aud when board does
that it suspends the State law so lar as that
comfy Is concerned, but only as to game, so
says he attorney for the Board Of Fish Com
missioners. The Supervisors OF San Francisco
have passed au ordinance changing The open
season so far as deer alone is concerned, so
that il may be brought into TINS county between
The 18th of July ana the 18th OF August, but
ofra ms fa
of deer be brought 10 san Francisco
for the purpose OF selling IL. Under the
best construction that can be put upon the
game laws deer killed either In Napa County
or San MateO County during the open season In
those counties could be brought To San Fran
CISCO but 10 no other county where the general
law has not been changed by the Supervisors.
The law is so vague that tie spOTtsmen have
found IL as difficult TO maze out as the cryptic
gram recently received for FTedericks the MUIR
deTer. The above deduction Is given after con-
yersation with several attorneys who have
studied the law, but they add carefully, 1--WE
do not know what construction court might
place upon it," At the recent convention of
sportsmeu a law was drawn up and IL Will
be submitted to the Legislature. If adopted IL
Will clear the legal tangle now existing.
ENAvIGATIoN-A B., Bakersfield Kern Coun-
ty, Cal A hrst-class navigator Will not start
on a voyage unless the ship is provided with
good eompasses in suitable places, an ordinary
log and line as well as any patent log which
my be desired, hand leads, deep-sea leads and
lines, logbOok workbOOk, chrOnOmeter, table
OF logarithms, ETC., seXtant, artificial horizon,
large parallel ruler, nautical almanac, box of
mathematical instruments, charts OF the ocean,
ana enlarg ed plans Of the places the ship is
likely to WISH. The two fundamental problems
of navigation are the determination of the
ships position at d given moment, and the
decision OF the most advantageous course TO be
steered in order TO reach given point. The
flnff NJ colt q in T.
reference To known and visible lind marks /:
(2l by ascertaining through s0undings the depth
and character OF the bottom; 81 by calculating
the direction and distance sailed from pre-.
vOusly determined position, and al by seer.
tanning the latitude aud the longitude by OBJ
seryaiiOn OF the heavenly bodies. The places
OF the sun, moon, planets and fixed stars
dpduced from observation and calculation and
published in nautical almanacs. the use Of
which, together with lOgarithmlc and other
tables cOmtut. d for the purpose, are necessary
in reducing observations In OrdeT to determine
latitude, Longitude aud error of compass. When
a captain on the high seas has lost his bearings
he must find them again by either solar or lunar
observations. Lunar observation is to obtain
the moons distance from star for The purpose
OF finding the Longitude.
CRIME AND ILLITERACY-C. A. W., CITY.
The statistics In relation 10 crime in Mexico
and in the South American countries are very
meager and unsatisfactory to any one who de-
sires TO be informed as TO The percentage of
illiteraie individuals who commit felOnes. In
fact from The data furnished on the subject Of
crime In those countries il is impossible 10 OBJ
tam he desired information. In France fg-
ures aIe only given up 10 the close Of $780,
These show that the percentage of il iterates
during the ten years preceding that date was
80 for the ten years preceding 49, and for ten
years before that A. The census report of the
census bureau of The United States shows that
on June /. 1890, there were 50, 329 prisoners
in The prisons of the States and Territories
20, 1924 males and 6405 females. OF this uum.
Der 1856 were under detention for homicide
As TO this class OF criminals II appears that the
percentage OF those who could read and write
was GLIB; who could read, but not write
4.S4; who could do neither, 33 43. The per
cenIage Of those who received higher educa.