The Minneapolis journal., 1904-11-10
USUAL RUSH TO
KILL BIG GAME.
DEER AND MOOSE SOUGHT BY
THE NIMRODS.
Fatalities in the Woods May Be Less
ened if Hunters Will Not Wear Brown
Clothing or Use White Handkerchiefs
Maine Man Objects to the Mime
sofa Game Laws.

Big game hunters are leaving Min
neapolis today for northern Minnesota.
The election prevented the usual /" early
bird' hunter from starting out to fire
the first gun at daybreak on the first
legal day. He voted first and then
after deer and moose.
Grand Rapids is the favorite destina-
tion of Minneapolis Nimrods. There
they can get deer and from that point
start northward after the big-nosed
moose. Between $4,000 and 10000 state
licenses have been placed with county
auditors by S. F. Fullerton, the game
warden, and many have been sold, Min
neapolis coming in for big share. 1t
days 10000 hunters will go, to the
woods, as nearly every auditor has
asked for additional licenses. ST. Louis
county will sell more permits than any
other county The auditor asked for
5000. Itasca stands next. Non-resi-
dents have asked for many permits.
The number has already reached l34.
Reports to the warden s office show
that big game is plentiful in the north
woods. The deer are especially numer-
Gus in ST. Louis county, where they are
seen in large numbers about the mining
camps.
Hunters in trying to look like deer
have looked too little like men in past
seasons and fatalities have resulted
Yellow or khaki hats and coats have
made many man mark for some
hunter. . 't.. III
.Winn Powers of St. Paul, a mighty
Nimrod, suggests red band around tbs
hat and black. instead of white hand
kerchiefs. He says a white handker
chief is often taken for the white OF
deer's tail and is likely to draw fire
Black or decidedly dark clothes, he be
lieves to be better than the khaki. He
adds: i. .
"Still better plan is to go where
you can keep in touch with the scat
tered residents thruout the woods. They
always take NOTICE Of the approach OF
strangers and will generally ask where
the strangers intend to hunt. In that
| way you can usually manage to secure
part Of the woods to yourself. Yor
won't have to take any chances or
somebody else having bad eyesight o.
worse Judgment:
Wallace F. Clement, who has come
from Auburn, Me-, to hunt, criticized
the season is too short. Maine laws
have made that state a mecca for thou
sands of eastern sportsmen, and he say'
the same could be done in the ives
for the north star state. He says tn!
season is too short and the non-resl
dent license fee is too high.
To overcome six weeks season
which is better than twenty days, th'
deer for each hunter should be cut dow
to two. A fat fee Of 81 should b.
charged for nonresident hunters, TO
&, which sum shipping tags should b.
furnished. The large fee deprives tn
state of q great deal of revenue: Tn
advent Of outside hunters would Civ
employment to many more woodsme1
as guides. These hunters would b
experienced men, who would shoot dee
instead of men. Mr.. Clement said:
"I spend two weeks every fall il
the woods of Maine, usually in tn
Moosehead lake region, and at the he
tells there I see men from Kansas City
Omaha, St. Louis and other cities regis
tered, when there is no reason that the
should not be attracted to Minnesota
for the deer in the northern part of thi
| state abound in great numbers. ~