Great Falls weekly tribune., 1896-08-14

After midnight tonight canyon
valley throughout this state viii eao.
with the reports from shotguns, for i
will open the season for grouse
prairie chickens. The slaughter
continue until Nov. Is, when the
will again declare a truce. Sports
in Great Falls, and, in fact, throus.
the state, anticipate better shootiuga
they had last season. The birds al.
ported to be more plentiful in every
tion in northern Montana than fors
eral years. The grouse are fou1.
nearly every gu'ch in the foothills
the chickens are scattered over plain /
valley. Pheasants, fool-hens and i
hens are also more numerous than I'D
Later in the season the grouse vii.
treat into the mountains, where thf I
snow will find tDen, but at preseut 4
are to be found 10 unusual numbar:
the lowlands.
Some Great Falls sportemen ss i
ready in the field, prepared to e.g.51
earliest sport, which is always IL test
and several parties expect to lea1: FM1
in few days. Ia most eectl.-; "a
young birds are fat and strong, bu, ID
have not yet learned to fear man dcs 1
gun. This has been II good year fot q
young birds; the weather during Z
Matching season WAS good, while IL 4
it was cold and wet and many tledg 4
perisheo.
Those who can make only short IL,
will find excellent sport in the vlcl.'
of Ming couiee, and it ie said that
birds may be found in cCneidcrs
numbers up the Missouri river, Ult
mile or two back from the stream, NJ
liibbey there are many prairie chIca;
and Belt sportsmen need go only /.
miles from home. Within radius ot
miles of Truly thousands of the bi
Will be found. The ranchers there
not molest them and have been +
tecting them from the pot huntera
Hound creek there will be poorer 81
than usual, the food for the birds Oe
scarce.
In the Highwoods may be found ma
of the birds and they are in the pink
condition. That, however, VII. be
early hunting ground and, as marl NJ
rods are now in that section, il VIII b:
poor field in few weeks. Above "
arch and in all the foothills in that Vi
ity are many birds and there are
eportemen there as yet. la AL para
Fergus county there are prairie chica
and good hunting may also be fS
along the Montana Central, betti
Great Falls and Helena.
Many of those who go out after ctI
ems will remain until Sept. 1, whe1
season for geese, ducks, n
and swan opens. Sportsmen
that every slough in Montana
filled with young ducks, and all it'd.
tions are that there will be eXce.
duck shooting, but it may come 4 N
late in the season. The season Ia
however, from September to JAM
/. The flight of ducks throughout
state last spring was unusually IA
and if they return south in propor'
every water in the state will teen
them. The flight southwark may
| DeRlu uDlll oClODtIs ~ ucEtnto
the weather. The ducks that
Matched on Montana waters were ain
all mallard and teal.
Sportsmen should bear in mind,
ever, the provisions of section l.
the penal code, which reads: "h
person who, in single open sea
shall kill or shoot, or cause to be K
or shot, more than 100 grouse or pr
chickens is punishable by fine ot
less than $500, nor more than $3't
by imprisonment in the county ia
not less than two nor more thai
! months, or both"
Whether the open season for dee
gins tomorrow Or not is question,
torney General Haskell held tina
season opens August Is: but, de-.
Henri's opinion, Justice Dewitt OF
supreme court and Judge Buck OF
cna and Judge Pomeroy of Kali
hunted in the season which the
codes declare is the open season,
that is from September l to Janua
1t is unlawful to kill more than +
,jaar Ia, ono oman gpaEOn