The Elk Mountain pilot., 1909-07-29
Protect Wild Animals

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the law and must be respected by
everybody.
Section |. 1t shall be unlawful
to pursue, shoot at, take, wound or
kill any elk. antelope, mountain
sheep, deer or doves.
Section 2. Whenever it shall
become necessary by reason of
snow or other failure of their na,-
ural food supply to feed any of the
animals mentioned in Sec. of
this act in order to prevent them
from suffering. it shall be the duty
of the State Fish and Game Com
missioner to provide such food AS
may he necessary to he paid for
cut of the fees OF the office, and the
anditor shall issue his warrant for
tie same.
Section 3. Any person who
shall desire to possess for domesti-
cation any of the animn!s eruner-
ated in Section | of this act shall
obtain from the State Fish and
Game Commissioner Il permit in
due form, which permit may be re-.
voked et any time upon evidence
ofoad faith on the part of the ap.
plicant The Commiss ioner shall
charge for each permit the same
amount as for n license to hunt.
and permit must be obtained for
each such animal.
Section 4. Any person violating
my Of the provisions Of this act
shall be guilty of misden ennor
AMI be punished by fine OF not
less than S2o nor more than 500.
or by imprisonment in the county
Jail not less than ten days nor
more than six months, or 10y both
snch fine and Imprisonment.
Section .. AL acts or part of
acts in conflict herewith aie here.
with are hereby repealed so far as
relates to the animals described
herein.
This bill WAS taken charge Of by
women. more especially 10y DIR.
Mary Elizabeth Bates. president
of the Humane Education Society.
and Mrs. j. b. Hunter, chairman
of the Democratic Women's com
mittee.
They did not succeed in securing
the complete exemption of the ami
mails mentioned from being hunted
aud it is probable that they hardly
expected to from the start,
But they did not succeed in
having does and fawns protected
altogether, as well as elk. antelope.
and mountain sheep. They sue
ceeded with the help of some true
sportsmen in having the open sea-
son on deer cut down and placed
later, when it becomes more diff
cult to get them. They also Sc
cured the enactment of clause
making it the duty of the game
warden to provide food for the
starving animals in winters of
great hardships like the past one.
They also succeeded in drawing
public attention to the fact that it
is not the only nor even the chief
end of wild creatures to provide a
living target for the hunters gun,
but that far better and more use
full disposition of them would be
made if they were protected and
cared for as a part of the outdoor
attractions Of this wonderful state.
Nobody who listened to the stir
ring speeches in defense of the
children of the wild made by VIC
men at committee hearings could
fail, if he had any heart at all, to
think of them in wholly different
way from any he had followed be-
fore. They became in these
speeches our weak and dependent
kinsfolk whose grace and beauty
we should admire and preserve,
whose lives we should spare and
help and whose age-long fear of
man should be changed by kind
ness into affection for and depend
ence ON him. We have not heard