The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-11-13
Nearby Places, However, Scenes of
Death and Injuries By Careless
ness of Men.
GRAND RAPIDS MAN IN TOLLS
Jonas Olson Admits Having Fired al
Moose Slayers, Mistaking Them
49, for Wild Beast.

Not in years have conditions for
hunting big game been so propitious
as now.
And this, together with the fact
that no less than 5000 hunters are
tramping the woods of Northern Min
nesota causes the H. A. Rider, execu-
tive agent of the game and fish COM
mission to prophesy that more deer
and moose-despite the one to a man
limit-will be shot this year than ev-
er before in the history of the state.
More Than $4,000 Licenses.
Within the next 80 days Mr.. Rid
er expects to have accurate data COW
ering what eh is sure will be a rec
ord breaking slaughter. The season
continues until December 1.
A month ago Mr.. Rider sent to the
various counties Of the state IA 1000
big game license blanks and has had
calls from eBltrami ST. Louis, Aitkin,
and Lake counties for additional sup
plies St. Louis county alone asked
for. 1000 more. Beltrami got 200
more, making SOC in all.
This extra demand, Mr.. Rider says,
leads him to believe that 1000 hun
tiers are in the northern part of thu
state and that big game will suffer
Will Have Accurate Data.
This is the first year that the fish
and game commission has been able
to secure accurate data as to those en-
gagged in the hunt for big game In
former years a license given to a res
ident hunter entitled him to kill any
thing not prohibited by law. The
law in effect this year provides for
two classes Of license, one for small
and one for large game.
Accidents Being Reported.
So far as is known no hunting ac-
cidents have resulted in Beltrami
county, but reports from surrounding
places go to show that the usual bis
game perils are present
The first accident to happen to &
deer hunter in Morrison county oc.
Cured in Plat town Joseph and M
Martineau and Ovid Plant killed &
deer and Joseph Martineau was dress
ing the animal when his knife slipped
and entered his leg. His compan
ions partly stopped the flow of BLOOD
and brought him to this city where
the wound was dressed Mr. Marti
neau was fortunate to be with hi
companions when the accident oc
Cured as he lost great deal of BLOOD
and would not have been able to have
reached help alone.
Admits Killing Man For Moose.
At Grand Rapids, Jonas Olson is il
trouble as the result of having sho
two men, one fatally, mistaking then
for a deer. The Grand Rapids Itasc;
County Independent tells of this trag
edy as follows:
Though this section of the bi
hunting field got along last yea
without a man being shot in mistak
for an antlered animals, its recor
this year is starting in bad, and tina
even before the season is legal
open. There are hundreds of hunt
ers in the timber in remarkably sma]
stretches of territory and it is SUI
prising that the fatal error does no
occur every day.
ssOn Thursday morning, the da
before the season opened, John Rut
mark, his brother-in-law, Jonas OlsoI
Jonas Lindahl and Albin Halli1
+&:hg Observation-Disclosures
settlers and neighbors, with two c
three others of their neighborhoo
near the southwest corner of Bow
string lake, went out for a hun
They had been out but a short tim
when Jonas Olson picked up track
of a moose crossing his door yard.
Fires Fatal Shot.
''He followed the tracks about hal
mile into the big timber and brls
when in line with the tracks ahea
down decline he saw through til
brush dark object move which /
took to be moose, so the story goe
and he shot at the object Cries /