Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-26
STATISTICS ON
CAME KILLED
MICHIGAN LEADS THE LIST WITH
$4,000 DEER SLAUGHTER
ED IN 1906.

Washington. Oct. 1s.-Statistics on
the big game annually killed are now
obtainable from several states. and
from fairly satisfactory basis for es-
timating increase or decrease from
year to year, writes T. S. Palmer. as
sistant of the biological survey, In
the Yearbook of the Department Of
Agriculture. In Maine the number Of
moose shipped through Bangor wos
1856, slight falling off from the record
of ZIG in 1905. The deer shipments,
however, showed decrease Of about
20 per cent, 1872, as compared with
4,791 during the previous year.
In Vermont the commissioner re-
ported that 634 deer were killed. al
increase Of about 125 over the num-
Der shot in 1905.
XIII Deer on Long Island.
In New York about sixty deer were
killed on Long Island during the four
days of open season, and In the Adj
rondacks. 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, 108 sad
dies and 102 heads. as compared with
2,196 carcasses. 108 saddles and 1870
heads transported in 1905. In Penn
sylvania the number Of deer killed
was estimated at 600 to $50.
In Michigan estimates placed the
number captured at 10000 In Wis
consin. Minnesota and Texas. deer
were reported plentiful In Wyoming
tho lot ~ octir,otnI tho NJ
Der of head of big game killed at
4.79S. Detailed reports showed that
about 20 per cent of this number
G,011) comprised 598 elk. 1872 deer,
1874 antelopes and forty-seven noun
tain sheep. Reports indicated that
ninety-nine deer were killed under
mated 10000
Wyoming Raid by Indians.
An invasion of Wyoming by Indians
during the summer resulted in seri-
GUS consequences to the game. Two
bands of Utes, each about 500 IN
number. entered the state In the lat
ter part of July and the first week
in August and penetrated some dist
ance northward in Converse, Weston
and Crook counties.
The Indians were we'll armed and
stripped the country of game whern-
ever they Travelled, slaughtering
hundreds of sage hens, scores of ante
lopes and many deer. The game
wardens and lacal dorol IL uoditr-
wardens and local authorities were
utterly powerless to prevent these
depredations, and it was only by the
aid of federal troops that the Indians
were finally rounded up and returned
to their reservations
Tusk Hunters Cause Havoc.
The demand for elk tusks was re-
sponsible, as In former years, for the
destruction of many elk. In Wash
ington a 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
ly stopped November 20 an i'm
portant seizure was made at Los
Angeles, Cal, Of car load CT
trophies, comprising the heads. skins,
scalps and horns of many elk killed
in Wyoming and on the border Of the
Yellowstone National park, and ship
ped from Idaho to a taxfdermist In
Los Angeles.
Two of the shippers were arrested
while unloading the car. At the pre-
liminary hearing it was shown that
they belonged to party Of four noto-
rious 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 we're committed to jail to
await the action of the federal grand
jury.