The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-12-11
LAWS PROTECTION WITHDRAWN
FROM TURTLE DOVES.
MONTANA HoMEOFAu7HoRS
State Liberal Contributor to lntelIec.
tuaI as Well as Material
Wealth Of World.

A recent decision of the state SUI
preme court places turtle doves ON the
list OF game birds and brings into
of the state, which the law affected
by the decision was intended to sup
plant.
The decision was rendered on an
appeal taken by a Helena man, who
| was convicted in the lower courts OF
| having killed number of turtle doves,
| which were placed ON the prohibited
list by senate bill No. 20, passed at
! the last regular session of the legisla-
ture. By reason of more of the in
competency that characterized the
work of the clerical force of that
session the bill was not properly en-
tered upon the journal, an omission
having been made in the title. This
defect the supreme court held to be
fatal and the bill in consequence be-
cst6efinvalid.
NLks the law now stands the open
A<eeason for geese, ducks, swans and
brant is from September to May l.;
sage hens and turtle doves (limited
to the killing of 20 in single day
by any one person., August to De-
cember 1 grouse, prairie chickens,
fool hens, pheasant or partridge Qim-
tied to 20 birds in a single day by
any one person), September / to De-
cember 1; deer and Rocky Mountain
goats (only six to be killed by one
person during the open season., Sep.
tember to January 1; bull elk; limit
ed to two by any one person i'm a sea.
SOM, September to November 1
Fish may be caught with hook and
line at any time of the year. The ami
mails that it is unlawful to kill at any
time within the state are moose, but
falo, caribou, bison, quail, Chinese
pheasants, mountain sheep, antelope
beaver, female elk, meadow larks
thrush, bluebird, oriole, woodpecker
: mocking bird, gold finch, snowbird
cedar bird, stork or any other small
bird known as singing birds.
| SEEMING in the Missouri is prohib
tied above Great Falls and in th'
Yellowstone above the mouth of tn
Big Horn, and the size of the mesl
will have to be two inches instead o
one-and-a-half as the maximum. Tha
part of the law relating to shipping o
game and licenses is not affected b.
the decision.
Local .stockmen are becoming intel
ested in the coming session OF tn
National Livestock association, whic
will be held at Portland next month
1t is expected that something definit
will then be known concerning tn
proposed Independent packing plar
that the members of the associatio
have undertaken to erect for the pu
pose of freeing themselves OF the a
bitrary rule of the packing combin
AS has already been published, tt
L new organization has been perfecte
y and capital sufficient to build a 81
100000 plant has been SUBSCRIBE
The only thing on which definite
tion has not yet been taken is the ma
ter of a location Several western Ct
les are candidates for the honor al
it is believed that at the meeting
the livestock association effort Wi
be made to decide upon the town tn
shall be the place of operations. Tn
once settled, it is believed that on
short time will be permitted
pass before actual construction W
be begun.
Montana is fast becoming known
state capable of producing son
%. thing more than minerals and produe
of the farm and range. Without a
:. great fuss or parade it is taking pla
- among the states contributing m
- and women prominent in the world
letters. No matter where she M
now claim her home, it was in Nj
tana that the errotic Mary MacLa
gained her fame and it was amid
:. I smoke enveloped mountains OF Blu
- Slhaeteushe- the warm lines