The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-24
DEATH STALKING
IN The WOODS.
Deer Hunting Season Regarded
with Apprehension by Wis
consin Settlers.
special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal Ill. asss
( Washburn, Wis, Oct. A.-The deer-hunting
season In Wisconsin will open In 4 comparatively
few days. and the annual slaughter OF deer as
we'll as Of human beings will begin. As the
first day Of the season comes on Sunday, the
woods will be filled with hunters and sports
men, and it will be dangerous for persons to- be
out in the wilds, for the bullets will fly thick
and fast and the hunting grounds will resemble
battlefield from the slaughter and cannon
aiding that will be kept up during the day. The
deer are very plentiful in the woods in Bayfield,
county this fall, and already hunters and others
are making preparations to spend a few days
in the woods during the open season.
AS the time for the season to open draws
nearer those not SO much inclined for the sport
are beginning to fear for the safety Of those
that are in the woods, and already an effort
to induce the assemblymen and senators to have
the law in regard to the hunting season FOR
deer changed so that it will be lawful to kill
deer at any time of the year is being made,
and 1t Is thought that the matter will come
up; at the next session ofsthe legislature.
Already number Of accidents have happened
from, carelesSnesS, and a few deaths have oc-
Cured from wild shooting. A. J. Wentzel, a
Superior merchant who does not seem to like
the present law. recently wrote as follows:
why is it that some hunters, apparently
sane in other respects, end who would rather
buy a; barnyard fowl in the market, than cut of
its head, will send charge Of shot or a rifle
ball into the brush to see what is moving in the
bushes? = f. '..'-- ~
"A number of these moving brush hunters are
now preparing for the hunting campaign which
is about to open in about three weeks, and a
corresponding number OF hunters are also max.
ing preparations to be out In the woods when
the brush shooters start in.
1.-The hunter come out Of the woods, but
what protection has the settler who is clearing
his land and is thereby compelled TO be in the
underbrush at this time of the year? The
moying-brush hunter gets a dozen or more OF
these settlers every deer season. =. -
when and what faction is going to- be taker
to protect human beings that may be in the
woods during deer season? Action should be
taken at the next legislature. The twenty-day
deer season is the cause of most of the acct
DENTS. 1t takes all of the hunters to the woods
| at the same time. The present law is favorable
| to the sportsman who lives long way from
| the game, and he wants it kept until he com9s
| Even the farmer whose crops are food for THE
deer the year around is not allowed to Kill
his deer.
! p''No protection for the deer would be better
| than no protection for the people of the state
and the latter the law does not provide.
half dozen game preserves in the state, consist
Ing of two or three sections Of timber apiece
would prove much more satisfactory than thu
| present conditions Hunting could then be al
| lowed outside of the preserves for long period
and one or two game wardens could protect tn
deer within the preserves the year around"