Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-07-15
Night Gowns
KILLED 5000 CARIBOU.
Vast Herd Of the Animals Slaughtered In
Burqeo, Newfoundland


The minister of justice. the Hon. f. p
Morris, says a st. Johns ~ F., CORE
spondent of the Chicago Inter Ocean, has
just announced in the local Legislature
that in the district of Burgeo, on the
south coast vast herd of caribou had
come nearly to the seashore in that neigh
borhood and that the inhabitants had
slaughtered the almost incredible num-
Der of 1900 in a few hours. The an
nouncement caused the utmost indigna-
ton among local sportsmen and others.
The premier of the island, Sir Robert
Bond, informed the House that a magis-
trate armed with special powers had been
dispatched to the scene of the carnage.
and that he had been instructed to mete
out punishment to the offenders to the ut
most limit of the law. The premier fur
Their intimated that the government in
tended Immediately introducing a meas
ure that would fully protect the caribou
and effectually prevent a recurrence of
any such outrage in the future A few
carcasses were barreled for dogmeat and
few more canned for future consump-
ton, but the most of them We're left
where they fell
During the last few years Newfound-
land has been largely advertised as a
sportsmens resort. There were over $50
visiting sportmen last year. 50 per cent.
of whom We're Americans They hailed
from all parts of the Union. 1t is est-
mated that the number of visiting sports
men this year will be larger than ever
exclusive of the 1000 tourists who are al
ready booked for visit during the old
home week. Many of these will probab-
ly stay over and get a good palmated
caribou head to take home as a trophy
of their prowess and as a souvenir of
their visit.
1t fortunately happens that vast herds
OF caribou yet roam the interior of the
island. There is but one narrow gauge
railway across the country, and while
this makes many of the deer haunts
| easily accessible. there are thousands of
miles OF country comparatively unknown
and uneXplored except by the geological
and other surveyors. There is a large
tract of country reserved for sanctuary
for deer, wherein no man dare modest
one. This is right in the heart of the
deer country, near Howley Station The
guides and surveyors who resort in that
country assert that the caribou are on
the increase in the reserve. 1t is only
when they are driven by stress of wealth
er, as in the present season. that they go
very near the seashore and risk being
killed in large numbers.
This is not the first slaughter by anv
means. 1t was common sight the past
winter to see carcaSses of Venison piled
in large pyramids in front of the BUSH
ness places of local auctioneers, and prime
venison sold in open market all the win
ter for few cents per pound A few
years ago a man in Fortune bay sold 100
carcasSes of Venison to the French fish
ermen for bait for goldfish Venison was
also exposed for sale in large quantities
in st. Johns, the capital of the island
for cents per pound, and failing to get
purchasers at that price it had to be
thrown into the waters of the harbor
when it became unfit for human food
1t Is expected the measure now being
enacted will effectually stop this waste
before the remaining herds of caribou
are appreciably affected. and thus con-
serve what promises TO be the last sup
ply of deer available in the near future
for sport for the hunters of the whole
| American continent