The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1911-12-08

Chicago, Ill. The hunting sea-
son, which is closed, cost 100 lives
and resulted in more or less severe
injuries to 46 others. These figures
are smaller than those for last year,
when the dead numbered 100 and the
injured 81.
The annual loss of life in the pur-
suit of game has attracted the atten-
ton of the authorities of the govern
ment and by direction of Secretary
Wilson of the agricultural department
the biological survey is studying the
accidents this year, as we'll as statis
tics for the last five years.
The results of the investigation and
suggestion for legislation will be en-
bodied in a report to be published at
the end of the year. With these sta
tistics to work on, the federal gov
ernment will try to induce the various
states to enact laws which will de-
crease the annual slaughter of hunt
erS.
This years statistics prove that
companion is the most dangerous part
of a hunting outfit. He has caused
at least 25 per cent of the fatal ac
cidents of the season, his careless
ness being responsible for "a deaths
and the injury of IA persons who
were lucky enough to escape mortal
hurts.
A well-known Chicago man was a
victim of a companion. Charles G.
McRoberts, law partner of Charles II.
Aldrich and once candidate for al
German from the Twenty-fifth ward
while hunting near Antioch, ILL.,, was
accidentally shot by his guide.
o. T. Wilson, of Gold Hill, Ore,
seems to have acquired the habit Of
mistaking men for deer and killing
them. He killed his brother the other
day. and several years ago he killed
another man by mistake.
The coroner has called a jury to
determine whether Wilson ought to
be permitted to carry firearms.
While hunting rabbits near Nc
Louth. Kan, John GLENN accidentally
shot six young women who were
standing on the front porch of his
home. A rabbit ran around the house
and Clemm fired at it with a shot
gun. Missing the rabbit, the shot
struck the women, all of whom were
wounded in the lower limbs.
Twenty-nine of the dead were vic.
tins of their own carelessness, hav-
ing shot themselves. Most of these
accidents were caused by the victim
pulling his gun, muZzle first, toward
him while climbing fence or leaving
a boat or some other situation in
which caution should have been exer-
cised. OF the injured. thirteen shot
themselves. Andrew Finsland, a
well-known resident of Superior, Wis,
| is in danger of losing his mind as a
result of shooting a deer He wound
| ed the animal, but it managed to es-
cape. For four successive days he
hunted for the carcass of the deer.
He finally found it and brought it in.
He was almost famished and became
violently i'll. He grew worse and had
to be taken to a hospital, where he
is in a serious condition, both mental.
ly and physically. The almost un-
precedented slaughter of deer--said to
amount to 5000 in Wisconsin alone
which has attended the favorable
weather conditions in northern Wis.
consin has led to renewed agitation
for the revision of the game laws to
prevent the killing of female deer, for
a period of years at least. to short.
en- the open season to at least ten
days of November, and perhaps tc
protect all deer and moose for q
closed season of two years or more