The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-10-06
HUNTING LICENSES.
Can Now Be Secured In This
City at 500 Each.

Blanks have been received by
Deputy Schaefer for the issuing OF
hunting licenses in Ely. The price
for license will be $1.00, the same as
a year ago. Hunters returning from
the woods report cartridges extremely
scarce this year owing to the large
amount of wet weather experienced
early in the spring, or during nesting
time.
The season for cartridges opened
Sunday and many hunters were out.
Very few birds were brought back
however. The law only allows Is
birds to each hunter for one days
shooting. The scarcity of birds
makes It hard matter for anyone to
break the laws.
A resident Of St. Louis county is
not compelled by law to procure a
license to shoot birds, but it may
come in handy providing he gets
some and desires to ship them back to
the city on baggage car. Without
the coupons attached to the hunting
licenses issued this year no person can
legally ship game birds even within
the county limits, but must carry
them with him In the passenger
coach. Holders Of licenses can ship
fifty birds on the two coupons. 1t is
misdemeanor for person holding
a license to permit any other person
to use his coupons to ship birds. A
conviction on the misdemeanor means
punishment by heavy fine, ora by a
Jail sentence.
Another section of the state game
laws providing against the wantom
waste of game or fish says that no
person can kill more than fifteen
game birds in one day. Any pare
ridge hunter exceeding that limit
will be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section go of the game laws says
that the placing or receiving within
or storage of any game bird 10 any
cold storage plant is prohibited.
Another section provides that any
person caught with game birds 10 his
possession after DeeS ita1aRA a
permit from the state game commits
sion, shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor. Persons may keep game
birds in their own refrigerators, if
such thing is possible, after Dec. l.
not to exceed fifty birds to each per-
son, providing a permit is secured
from the game commission.
Anyone securing license in an i'm
proper manner is guilty of misde-
meanor. Aman who procures the is
suance and delivery of a game license
to a fictitious person is liable to fine
of not less than $50 nor more than
800. This is the penalty for the first
offense. If he does the same thing
oyer again he is liable to imprison-
ment of from sixty to ninety days.
IT has been said that the game laws
said nothing about penalty for hunt
Ing without a license. 1t is wrong.
There is a section which provides that
any man, whether he be resident or
nonresident, who hunts or kills game
in the state without having license
in his possession, unless he is hunting
birds in his own county, may be pun
ished by a fine of not less than $25 nor
more than 500, besides cost of prose-
cution, or he may be placed in the
county Jail from ten to ninty days.
One good section is that pertaining
to the killing of harmless birds. Some
men go into the woods and fields and
shoot at everything in the shape of
bird they see. For practice they shoot
at black-birds and robins, and all the
little bush birds fall victims to their
guns. The section referred to says
that any man found guilty of kill
ing any harmless bird not game
bird, at any season of the year, may
be fined from $40 to S25. AS a matter
of fact. this section does not do very
much good, for man killing the
smaller bird usually lets them lie
where they fall, and unless the game
warden actually sees the shooting,
there is no way of bringing about a
conviction. There are a lot of things
in the game laws that most sportsmen
know nothing about. They could
well devote little time to its study.