Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-12-10
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RUNNING OF DEER BY DOGS

Ing vi ueeI ny WlluCdls anu cOu-
CARS. How much worse it is for a
man to put the dogs on the trail
and then help them. The wildcat
and cougar has no helper and they
kill for a natural reason. bnt the
man with the dogs-for sport. God
save the mark. There is law
against bounding deer but it is a
dead letter and in certain localities
is practiced openly.
Another menance to the game is
the allowing the lightning change
artist to get in his work as the nom
resident hunter and transform him
to resident hunter for a few days
or season only. A person will
come into locality, get situation
take out dollar license and hunt.
After he has had enough, or the
season closes, he will leave. Is that
right? l think not.
Ny ideas OF WAYS to decrease the
excessive and wanton waste of game
and to prevent its being driven out
of the country are these: First
TWO dollar license for every man,
woman, and child who goes hunt
ing with no matter what calibre
gun, and not as heretofore, women
free and the old mans license good
for the boy. Second, to constitute
a resident person shall make an
affidavit that he has been n resident
of the state one year, and in the
locality in which he wishes 10 pro-
cure license one month or more,
and that it is not his intention TO
leave as soon az he has finished his
hunt. And further, all persons not
willing to subscribe to this affidav-
it to be considered as residents
, and licensed as such Third, open
, season October, November andlDec-
/: ember instead of September, Octo-
= Der and November. September is
-. too warm to kill meat. 1t will
D spoil and must be thrown away.
8 The rutting season is over by the
D middle or later part of November
g cold weather and good track
t ing snow are necessary and
b they who could not possibly
: get out before can 60 now. Fourth
g Protect doe for five years. Fifth
d The number of game animals to be
d killed communicate with the need
y OF the hunter, lie. A man alone in
Q the woods two deer in a season
t A man of family in the woods two
t deer for every six members of the
: family in one season. A man ir
g town or near a market, one deel
e only in a season, be he. alone or 6
g member of family. No more deer
g to be killed by the entire family
4 than shall aggregate the allowance
Q of the head of the family. This may
3 seem a severe measure, but severe
8 measures are necessary, and to IL
o lustrate- at present the old mar
( four boys can 60 out and (if they
6 can find them kill ten leer. What
e can they do with them? Why givs
i. them away or sell them III. B
G 207 Sec. 8, Session Laws 1909
y Some people argue that poor lone
y ranchers out in the woods has the
g inaleniable right to kill as much as
: he wantS, whenever he wants it.
! That may be logic, but it is moi
o law. The law says he shall not and
: any one making this statement is
J an accessory before the fact. If the
t laws are obnoxious. see to it thai
J they are repealed, But 30 long as
/ they are allowed to remain on the
: statutes, they should be obey &c
, and the violator be punished You
: might as well argue that the same
= rancher because he can not go to
g town has the right to break another
d law, and go to his neighbors anC
It steal -four or in fact anything hi
y wants. Either one is theft, no mat
4 ter how you look at it. Sixth
: Employ men as deputy game war
den, who is conversant with the
It woods and what they contain
. Il -.