The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-08-26
CITY OFFICIAL PAPER.
MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1901.

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PROF. sideways LETTER.
The Bee is glad to give space in this
issue to the communication from Prof.
Silloway in which he endeavors to JUS
tify the action of the people at the BIZ
illogical station in killing game birds
out of season. The game law exempts
those who are hunting for the benefit
of state educational institutions, as
the professor states, and the Bee sub.
mits that it is bad exemption, and
that while legally the biological people
may not be guilty of violating the pro-
visions of the game law, their opera
tions have the effect of making the
law contemplate in the eyes of those
who are not exempted from it's provis-
ions. AS it stands, the law permits the
biological people to kill without stint,
and if they do not avail themselves of
this privilege the observation of some
of those who reside in the neighbor-
hood of the biological station is seri-
ously at fault Professor Sideways
letter would be much stronger had it
Enthusiastically asserted that what kill
ing had been done at the biological
station was solely in the interests Of
science, and Montana science at
that. The testimony of eye witnesses
is that the biological people fired re-
peatedly and on different days into
certain flock of wild geese on Flat
head lake. If this is true, and the Bee
is assured that it is, the situation is
somewhat a variance with Professor
Sideways intimation that only lone
specimen of the Canada goose was
taken in our stay at the station this
summer" So far as the Bee has been
able to learn, the local sportsmen have
never been requested to furnish spe-
cimens to the state university, nor
have they known that such We're de-
sired. In view of this fact Professor
Sideways suggestion tina the local
spOrtsmen" have by their neglect JUS
titled the operations of the biological
people out of season, Is hardly war
ranted. The Bee is assured that #
the state university and the other
state educational institutions will
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sportsmen will see that they are sup
piled as far as they can do it.
A previous defender of the biolog-
ical operations out of season, sought
to justify them by asserting that the
game law was very generally disre-
garded in the neighborhood of Big
fork. 1t might very reasonably be
presumed that such disregard of the
law is the result of the exemption
granted the biological people. They
are above the law. Whether they do
so or not, they are apparently author
lied to kill when and where and in
what quantity they please, and in
view of such exemption it is hardly to
be expected that the permanent resi-.
dents in and around Bigfork will
trouble themselves to make nice dis.
tincti0ns between the purposes OF
science and the purposes of alimenta.
ton. The same is true generally. 1t
would be much better for the state ed
ucational institutions to make provis.
ion for their collections during the
open season II it is to be expected
that the people generally win observe
the law in letter and in spirit.