The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-08-01
HUNTERS CLASH
With STOCKMEN
Privileges Held for Many
Years Are Now Revoked
by the Cattle Owners
FEAR FIRES ON RANGES
Sportsmen Shoot Many OBJ
jectionabIe Signs Full of
Holes in Their Anger
Oakland omaa san Francisco Call,

10l5 broadway. July 3.
The season for deer hunting having
advanced aDace, the hunters haze ad-
Nanced several PAGES into The noun
tains back Of Livermore for the purpose
If driving the game into the open and
within range Of their guns. This pre-
sages a clash between the hunters and
The Stockmen's Protective Association.
~ hich has undertaken 10 protect the
ranges from the hunters and fire. Ihe
stockmen have ordered the hunters out
Of the hills, and the hunters have re-
fused 10 go. The people OF the Liver
more Valley are now anxiously waiting
10 see which side viii make the nrst
move
The Stockmen's Protective Associa-
ton was organized about two months
ago, but the necessity for its existence
was not very great until the open sea
son for deer began. on July 10 Then
began the attack of the hunters upon
the game in the mountain Businesses
south Of LivermOre in open defiance OF
The orders Of the stOckmen. These or
ders were announced by the stockmen
about two months ago, We're published
IN all papers and thousands Of printed
notices on cloth have been nailed on
every tree and fence post in the hunt
ing district. These notices read as fol-
lows:
NOTICE
Having suffered great loss from FIRE on cur
ranges in recent years. the members OF the
undersigned association have been compelled
20 forbid JrespassinG. camping. hunting and
starting OF FIRE these premises and on all
rropertv owned leased and controlled by said
members. and henceforrh al offenders will be
vigorously prosecuted 10 the run extent Of the
law.
This notice viii be operative between May 1e
and November q each year
e-rG F-r al~.rr
Information leading 10 the arrest and convic-
lion O. any person or persons violating the
above notice.
Dated May IS 1903.
S1OcKMENS PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION
Then follows a long list of members.
including John McGlinchy, president;
J.. J. Callaghan. secretary; William
Schluter, treasurer and many others.
This notice offers its own argument
and il truly says that a great many
disastrous fires have been started
through the carelessness Of hunters in
the dry fields at this time Of the year.
But there are many people both inside
and outside of Livermore who have
been in the habit Of taking a run into
the canyons and hills for a few days
of hu1tng. and who have taken this
as IL tack upon what they deemed
- sFs ~ ITS in the mountains. AS yet
VIeVeIand = RS have not attempted an or
Eakwer On, though many have urged
this Sep. They have contented them
selves with tearing down the notices
wherever found, disregarding the or
ders and showing their opposition by
shooting the notices full of holes
The Livermore hills are full Of good
game this season and to be thus ruled
OF Of land that they before traversed
at viii, and that in an unusually good
year, is particularly disagreeable to the
nimrods. They have defied at the
Stockmen's Protective Association,
though not in an organized way, and as
the season grows older the danger Of
q clash viii become greater. The Liver
more district is greatly interested in
this contest, for on one side the town
derives great profit from its stock in
dustry, while on the other many Of the
young men Of the town are great
hunters and some derive no little profit
from the outside sportsmen.