Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-09-11
LAWS GOVERNING
 ARIZONA HUNTERS
open Season for Quail Begins october 15 and Closes March Deer and Wild Turkeys May Be Shot for Thirty Days After November 15.

Many Globe sportsmen await the com ing of the open season for game with tbc usual degree of anticipatory plea surc Between October l5 and March l is the open season for quail, grouse, rhcasants, wild duck, snipe and the like For deer and wild turkey the open season is from November l5 to Decem- ber I5. Local dealers in sporting goods are making very attractive displays of firearms and other hunting parapher- naIia in advance of the open season.
 The following sections from the game laws of the territory will be of interest ta territorial spoTtsmen:
 Every person who, in the territory of Arizona, between the first day of March and the fifteenth day of Octo- bcr in each year, shall hunt, pursue, takr kill or destroy or have in his possession dead or alive, except for purposes of propagation, any quail, bob white, partridge, grouse, pheasant or any kind of wild duck, goose. brant, suipc or rail shall be guilty of mis- drmeanor.
 Every person who shall, in the terri tory of Arizona, take, gather or destroy or have in his possession at any time the egg of any quail, bo white, part ridge grouse, pheasant, dove or wild turkey, or of any song bird of any kind. or of any wild duck, goose, brant, suipe or rail, shall be guilty of mis- demeanOr.
 Every person who shall, in the terri tory of Arizona, at any time, hunt, pur- sue, kill or destroy any lark, thrush, sparrow, swallow, gros beak or tanager, or any other song bird of any kind, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; pro- vided, that nothing in this act be so construed as to interfere with the col lection of birds and birds eggs for sci cntifc purposes by the curator of the territorial museum or by any other per son authorized by the governor of the territory to collect birds eggs for sci cntihc purposes.
 Every person who, in the territory of Arizona, except between the 18th day of November and 18th day of December of the same year shall hunt, pursue, take, kill or destroy, or have in his pos session any male deer or wild turkey, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
 Every person who, in the territory of Arizona, shall kill or have in his posses sion more than one male deer at any time, or in any one day, and who shall have in his possession more than three male deer in one open season, or shall kill or have in his possession more than twenty-five ducks or twenty-five quail in any one day, shall be guilty of a misdemeanOr.
 Every person who shall, in the terri tory of Arizona, use a shotgun of larger caliber than is commonly known and designated as No. 10 gauge, or any gun not fired from the shoulder, for the purpose of killing or destroying any wild turkey, quail bob white, pheasant, partridge or grouse or any wild duck, goose, brant, snipe or rail, shall be guilty of misdemeanor.
 Every person who, in the territory of Arizona, shall at any time net, snare, trap or impound any wild turkey, quail, bob white, partridge, grouse or pheasant OF any wild duck, goose, snipe, rail or bEant, and every person who shall have in his possession any wild turkey, quail, bob white, partridge, pheasant, grouse Or any wild duck, goose, snipe or rail, that have been captured, shared or taken by means of any net, trap or pound, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.