Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-12-06

Chicago IN. The hunting sea.
SON. which is closed cost 100 livee
and resulted IN more 1or less severe
injurie ITO As others rhese figures
are smaller than those Tor last year,
when the dead numb ered 100 .and the
injured S1..
The annual loss Of life 81 the par
suit of game hassattracted the attens
tion Of the authorities 81 the govern
ment and by direction. Sof Secretary
Wilson of the cuItural department
the biological survey is.studying the
accidents this year, as we'll ~ stats
tics for the last five years. II 5Sss;
The results of the investigates and
suggestion for legislation will BEEN
bodied in report to be published Ut
the end II the year. With these stas.
tistics to work on, the federal gov
eminent 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 Is per cent of the fatal &C.
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 q
victim of a companion. Charles G.
McRoberts, law partner of Charles H.
Aldrich and once candidate for al
derman 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 10 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 GLENN fired at it with shot!
gun. Missing the rabbit, the shot
struck the women, all of whom were
wounded in the lower limbs.
Twenty-Five 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, milzzle first, toward
him while climbing a fence or leaving
boat or some other situation in
which caution should have been exer4
cised. OF the Injured. thirteen shot
themselves. Andrew Finsland, a
well-known resident of Superior, Wis.,
is in danger of losing his mind as
result of shooting deer He wound.
ed the animal, but it managed to es4
cape. For four successive days Id
hunted for the carcass of the deem
He finally found it and brought it in
He was almost famished and becamd
violently ill. He grew worse and had
to be taken to a hospital, where hi
is in serious condition, both mental
~ and physically. The almost UNI
precedented slaughter of deer said t.
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 Il
prevent the killing of female deer, fol
q period of years at least, to short
en- the open season to at least ten
days Of November, and perhaps ti
protect all deer and moose for 9
closed season of two years or more