The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-11-07
SEASON
OPENS THURSDAY
OUTSIDE HUNTERS NERVOUS
OVER KILLING OF so MANY
MEN AND DISAPPEARANCE
OF OTHERS.

The open season for deer begins
next Thursday, a season when the tor
ests of the upper peninsula are gen
orally teeming with hunters and one
In which there has annually been a
woeful loss OF human life due to the
carelessness of those who come to
hunt.
Last year there were many deaths
and several men were lost i'm the
woods and have not yet been found.
They were shot down. no doubt, and
may have been hidden to cover the
killing. In nearly every instance men
who have been shot have been left
without aid by the shooter says the
Ishpeming Iron ore. Generally the
as he learns of his mistake, a cow
ardly act that may be influenced in
some degree by the law which makes
1t manslaughter to thus kill a hu-
man being.
One hunter lost near Newberry last
fall has been sought by many hunt
ing parties. one of his people is given
to dreams and several times has or
ganized searching parties to look for
some spot revealed to her while she
slept. 1t was only a few days ago
that she had a new dream in which
the lost one was seen in a river and
now there is being another attempt
made to organize a party to look into
the streams of that neighborhood.
The woods of the upper peninsula
are very dense in many places and
one not familiar with woodcraft could
easily get turned around in them.
These woods are no place for those
who cannot take care Of themselves
/ in them.
The press of the entire country is
annually filled with warnings against
the careless handling of firearms and
the shooting at uncertain objects In
the north woods. The annual killing
of men in this region has been pretty
well advertised and the hunter who
now engages in the sport of deer kill
ing is taking big chances for there
are thousands of novices i'm the woods
whose nerves leap at the slightest
noise and who shoot at shadows and
indstinct things never thinking they
may be firing at man.
Nearly all the hunters will b'
clothed so as to contrast their per
sons with the deer and the woods. Rec
coats and caps are worn and this Il
also a pretty good signal for the dee
: that there is trouble about.
|, There are some fellows in the low
err portion of the state who got ii int
} their minds that by the time the sea
son opened the deer would all hav'
been shot off by the upper peninsul;
hunters. so they came early and wer'
caught early with deer skins in thei
possession while the upper peninsula
: hunters waited until the opening o
the legalized season.
The trouble is that violators are no
? hit hard enough by the local justices
: A fine of ten dollars is no punish
ment. Make it hundred and the VIC
lators will sit up and take a big loni
? look about before they will want
repeated. A deer is worth more tina
l the fines hereabouts amount to. TIL
7 justices should be made to understan
that biggers fines would lessen TN
D number of violations.
A gun license is the thing for tn
. prevention of game. Make every ma
4 who owns gun pay license. no
necessarily for every gun he owns
but for the privilege of carrying on
but have every gun he owns registere
Just as are automobiles i'm this state
Make every seller of arms assist !
locating owners. This would stop
lot Of gun toting. Many of the state
are going to do this, some of them al
ready do