Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-01-08
MUST PROSECUTE.
Success of License Law Can Be Seen
BY Winters Work.

THAT CID proverb, said Il we'll
known camp owner and guide, to Il
Commercial reporter. Wednesday.
about the proof of the pudding being
i'll the eating applies exactly to the
rcn resident license law about which
there has ieen 50 much talk III TINS
state the past year. Anyone who says
that the license law has been Il sue
cess does not know what he is talking
about. for no one has Yet seen the
workings OF it and therefore cannot
yet tell whether il is Il success or not.
Il am Il camp owner and gui le.
continued the speaker, and was ut
first much opposed to the law. 1t has
hurt my business Il good deal the past
Wear, but The commissioners have re-
ceired much more money from the
licenses than | at one time thought
10 ;sibIr. ANA this winter we will all
have Il chance to see whether this law
is :; success or not.
In fact am rather glad now that
thr laws WAS passed and enforced. and
if the commissioners now do as they
have HI along said they would the
license law will certainly be Il de
ci,lrl e.
Il want Ia continue i'll the business
Of :. camp proprietor ANA guide, yet ii
, Il; rtyiuus that l cannot do 50 unless
there is tn" game for the sportsmen t"
shoot 1 Now the winter time. as al!
guides knew. is when the greatest
an cunt of lIoac!lirg is done.
Il will make this statement: If the
commissioners arrest ana prosecute %
men this winter and spring for Ni"la-
tions of the game law, then the license
law is sUcccss. The State has taken
in about So. 900 from this law and that
is ample for the sending of competent
wardens throughout the State to pro-
tect the game.
] II. myself. for | have been in the
woods and seen it. know that it would
be possible to make 200 arrests for
polching i'll the State of Maine during
Tie winter. Now if this money is spent
in the riSht way. the Wardens do their
duty ana l.c sent into the woods. there
will be at least 80 arrests and proSecu
lions for o;,ching.
\ 1T is i very easy thing to slaughter
deer in the WINTER" continued tn"
guide. When there is thick snow on
he g~und il is US easy Ia Kill III"
deer in northern Maine as |" so out
hero on the street asd shoot dogs.
What is more. this thing is constantly
done. Hundreds of deer are killed and
III" only part Of TIL" animal that is
taken. in fact the only part that is
good iii The winter, is the fat meat if
til" hind quarters. The deer are
slaughtered and just this little part
t,ni
takes about 10 deer in tn" winter to
equal one killed in III" fall.
1T is d comparatively easy thing t"
aprrchcui tha poachorS in I'll" winter
however Wherever :: deer is killed Il
bgoud trail HI left. If the money which
has been taken in for licenses is us" t
for the protection Of the same the
woods will be 50 rdtrolled by wardens
and hundreds of poachers will b."
caught.
We can Ill sec therefore. in Il short
time. whether or not this license law is
Il success. 1t will take % arrests and
prosecutions at the least to prove it. to
my mind. and whether or not the
money will be used in the right<Way,
thereby protecting the game and Civ
ing back to the guides and camp OWL
cEs that which they have lost this fail
is now only = matter for feW months
to decide. Bangor Commercial.
Egypt was the California Of the ancient
world Tie kings # AseYria and E1hy'nn
obtained thCr gold from the Ph1raohs
A raryris ha.8 been fourd describing the
mines of Akita in the Eastern desert:
which were reached from the Mi" at u
roint near the modern Dakka A grea;
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