Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-16
MARKET HUNTER VS..
GENTLEMAN SPORT
One of Former Class Hands His
Compliments to Latter
In Verse.
FEUD ALONG THE JORDAN.
Perry Burnhnm Tells More About Gun
Club Men In Giving His
Side of the Case.

What constitutes gentleman in the
hunting gameP
In England. where there are fenced
preserves the gentleman shooter Is
well defined. In America the recent
Fencing off of hunting grounds for
ducks has led to duck club memoer-
ship privileges with certain code.
For the mouth of the Jordan this code
requires that TO be gentleman one
must not sell his ducks. The name OF
"market-hunter' has certain odium
attached TO II, ana below is given tne
philippe OF socially chilled market
hunter against the "sport---the good boy
and the clue faVorto" for whom he
holds the game law is blind, although
overvigiiant for the other kind or
hunter
rho communication Is a document
in the feud among the Jordan hunt
ers who work with gun and No shot
for inallard goose or more humolo
kill. 1t deals with the circumstances
of the arrest of four Salt Lakers by
q brand new deputy. on his first day
duty. Among those he arrested was
another deputy, stephen IRE. who had
charge for the club OF protecting the
law from NlOlhtlOfl. Two pl TIC lhtll
were dismissed while City Council
man Murdoch, Scotchman with
well known reputation for adherlng
technically to the truth, and Deputy
IRE appealed their cases after being
fined The new deputy testified he had
seen them both shoot after sunset. AT
the time Ure was helping Murdoch UP
the channel, having brought him a
new boat, since his had been shot
through and was sinking. Murdoch
gave the lie direct to the testimony
stating that his gun was under water
in the boat and IRE had no gun at all.
This Is the view nearly all OF the
hunters present take of the case, four
men testifying that they knew IRE
had no gun.
The invective of Perry Burnham,
part Of which is I'm prose and part In
verse. states the case of the man
whose business is hunting, against
him whose recreation 1t is. This is how |
he sums up in poetry the case in the |
Davis county courts:
THE DIFFERENCE.
TIRE looks for market shooters
Brunson looks for sports
Anyone can tell 1t
BY the Davis county courts.
Found them in the tulies
ANU IGdl luz uIHti lHhF 1
With fourteen scabby spooners
And a cripple widgeon drake.
IRE got the Jackpot
Brunson gets the blame,
Also raking over,
But he caught them just the same.
Durham.
AS TO SPORTS.
rJara L. +,,a ,.a,oirsa ~, NJ p,,rnbat,,
n prose, to the ''sports:'' 1T is true
LIS stated in the News" by President
=. S. Margetts of the New State club.
hat the market hunters have been
very closely. so much so that
hey did NOT OF would not watch the
rood boys, the so-called sports. who to
ny knowledge have persistently violat-
"a the game laws since 1901 including
some of the directors of the New State
Gun club. by bringing In more than the
lawful number of birds, also by shoot
ing after sunset. As for stephen Tire |
being on the New State preserve for |
the protection OF birds, 1t liz quite alb |
surd except 10 catch market hunters |
when asked by State Game Commits
sioner Cromar why he did not round up
some of the members for night shoot
ing, Ure said, I'm not paid for tina:
purpose Cromar then said, I'll see |
that II Is stopped Which was done by !
Deputy Brunson. Deputy Brunson was
not so lucky as Deputy Tire. as the
club only pays rewards for market
shooters, No reward for good men or
sports Immediately after the convlc-
ton of some so-cnlled market shooters
and members of the New state club,
appeared two so-called sports at the
club house with more than the limit,
What happenedp Nothing but a few
comments.
Said one of the members who had
been prosecuted to another who don't
sell his ducks, Why are not all the
members treated alike? The rer,ly
was, oh. these men are good fellows.
a sport doesn't sell his ducks
URE's PROUD RECORD.
Il wish to state that did not pro-
cure the appointment OF Deputy Brun-
son. uro must have had four fingers
of Margetts' red eye when he per-
formed the so-caled feat of putting a
Burnhan OFF the grounds with the toe
OF his lnsty boot as he made several
threats 70 do wonders In his estima-
ton. Durham dared IRE to carry
out any OF his threats Which he was
too cowardly to do. IRE ought to be
proud OF HIS vigilance In bringing
hunters to heel, which amounts 10
three who he told 10 get as many as
they wanted, and II would be all right
But when they exceeded the limit. he
IRE. with an overdose OF red-eye arr
rested the boys. adding another feather
to his cap In the estimation Of sports.
NOW about my having grudge
against the club. This is false on
the other hand the club has had a
grudge against me ever since filed on
water rights against them, and won