The daily sentinel., 1908-12-16

estimate. for those killed and shipped
by rail. brought out by wagon and
killed by ranchmen. must be added
the wounded deer which got away
and the fawns whose mothers were
killed. A wounded deer seldom lives
and motherless fawn is devoured
at once by beasts of prey.
at is estimated that nearly as
many fawns and wounded deer were
killed outright. Reliable persons re-
port having seen dozens of fawns in
a single day whose mothers had been
killed or driven off in the woods by
the tusillade going on from morning
till night. The fawns were unable to
travel in the deep snow, got on any
kind of trail they could find and were
met on these trails. sometimes COM
ing up almost to the men and again
following them long distances. Two
men report they could have loaded
Il box car in two days with such
motherless fawns, and that they saw
fifty or sixty in day. The wolves
and wildcats got them all. Fawns
weighing ten or fifteen pounds were
shot down by some of these brave
sportsmen and their tiny bodies put
in paper sacks. If this is sport if
this is hunting let ms buckle on our
cartridge belts and go out in the COR
raj or barnyaI1l and shoot down the
sheep, the calves and the chickens.
Never was there such shameless
brutal slaughter. Men who never
saw a deer. determined to get their
share. went out and shot at every
thing that ran or flew. as far as they
could see it. Children and women
hurried out 10 dip their hands in
blood. From fifty to seventy-fivc
women, emulous of the mems blood
thirst. are estimated to have gone
out and tried to kill their deer.
Are we going to let tdis parbarous
thing go on? How many people
want it to? Not one in IA hundred,
and that one is savage The ninety
and nine would rather let all the
deer and other harmless beats and
birds live.
David H. Moffat said in conversa-
tion the other day that il made him
sad to see the slaughter along the |
Moffat road. He said when the road |
builders went through, every little !
deer could be seen not far away peer |
ing curiously at the construction
gangs from the thickets, but now
they had been mostly killed. He
would like to see Il closed season on
all deer all the year round, and to
hc'p theii an 10 loph AT instead OF 10 /
kill
"Why not do so9 If we did that |
they would be a source of pleasure. |
pride and profit to all the citizens of |
the state instead of to the few who |
want to kill them. Let Colorado be |
a great park and preserve, where all /
the harmless beasts and birds are |
safe, and where we and our visitors |
can go out and see them happy and |
They would be worth far
more to us in dollars and cents in that |
way, if that is a necessary reason |
Not many of our citizens or visitors |
want to kill them, and we can well |
afford to spare these latter for the |
thousands who would delight to see
them alive. In short the deer are
worth much more to us alive than
dead
Two years ago on the U. p. II. r.
about sixty miles east of Denver the
train passed in quick succession two
coyotes. prairie dog town, a vast
flock of ducks rising from shallow
pond made by the overflow from
ditch, and bunch of seven antel-
ope. None of them were over two
hundred yards from the train The
passengers crowded the windows of
the car on the side they were but not
an exclamation was heard except of
interest, pleasure or surprise. Not
man wished for a gun. II would be
the same with our tourists all over
the state if all our game were pro-