The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-23
BIG CAME SLAUGHTER
MICHIGAN LEADS LIST WITH
10000 DEER IN 1905.
Raid by Indians Strip Wyoming oi
Large Animals and Hunters Of
p EIks' Tusks Cause Havoc
In the Northwest.

Washington. Statistics on the big
game annually killed are row obtain.
able from several states. and form a
fairly satisfactory basis for estimat.
ing increase or decrease from year
to year. writes r. S. Palmer, assistant
of the biological survey. in the Year.
book of the department OF agriculture.
In Maine the number Of moose
shipped through Bangor was 1856. q
slight falling off from the record OF
216 In 1905. The deer shipments, how.
ever. showed decrease of about 20
per cent. 3.572. as compared with
i,T9l during the previous year.
in Vermont tho commissioner re-
ported that ga deer were killed, an
increase of about 125 over the num-
ber shot in 1905. ~--/
In Now York about so deer were
killed on Long Island during the four
days Of open season, and in the Adj
rondacls, Notwithstanding the fact
that the season was shortened a
month, the number of deer carried by
the transportation companies In.
creased about 200. These shipments
comprised 2,413 carcasses, l0S sad
dies and 102 heads. as compared With
2,l96 carcf.ises, 1OS saddles and $50
heads transported In 1906. In Penn.
sylyania the. number Of deer killed
was estimated Mt 600 TO $50.
In Michigan estimates placed the
number captured at 10000. In Wis.
consin. Minnesota and Texas deer
were reported plentiful. In Wyoming
the state warden estimated the nun.
Der Of head of big game killed at
4.79S. Detailed reports showed that
about 20 per cent. OF this number
u.0ID comprised sos elk, 1S2 deer,
1S4 antelopes and AZ mountain sheep
Reports indicated that 90 deer were
killed under license in Manitoba, and
the total number killed in Ontario ap-
proximated 10000.
An invasion of Wyoming by Indians
during the summer resulted In serious
consequences to the game. Two bands
of Utes, each about 500 In number, en-
tered the state in the latter part OF
July aud the first week In August and
penetrated some distance northward in
Converse. Weston and Crook counties.
The Indians were well armed and
stripped the country Of game wherever
they travelled. slaughtcring hundreds
OF sage hens, scores OF antelopes and
many deer. The gamo wardens and
local authorities were utterly power.
less to prevent these depredations,
md It was only by the aid OF federal
roops that the Indians were finally
rounded up and returned to their res.
eryations.
The demand for elk tusks was re-
sponsibIc, as in former years, for the
destruction of maay elk, In Washing.
ron few Indians from the Quinalt
reservation were engaged in killing
elk for tusks in the Olympic noun
tains, but through the efforts OF the
indian agent the practice was prompt.
" stopped. Nov. 20 an important
seizure was made at Los Angeles. Cal,
of car load Of trophies, comprising
the heads, skins. scalps and horns of
many elk killed in Wyoming National
park. and shipped from Idaho to
taxidermst In Los Angeles.
TWO OF the shippers were arrested
while unloading the car. AT the pre-.
liminary hearing 1t was shown that
they belonged to a party Of four no.
torious tusk hunters, who had been
operating In western Wyoming, north
Of Jackson Hole and along the south.
ern border of the park. In default Of
bail they were committed 10 Jail to
await the action of the federal grand
Jury,