The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-12-05
GAME LICENSE MONEY
ON HAND AWAITING A
LEGAL APPROPRIATION
Game Protective Association
Organized By Sportsmen of
the Black Hills.

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$4,000 in the state game fund and no
legal way to dispose of it. The law
fixes the license fees for hunting deer
and other game, but makes no pro-
vision for using the accumulated fund.
For this reason, and for the purpose of
recommending necessary changes In
the game laws of the state, the Black
Hills Game Protective association was
formed here last night by sportsmen
from all sections of the Black Hills.
Resolutions adopted at the meeting
advocate the abolition Of spring shoot
ing, the establishment of a state fish
hatchery in the eastern part Of the
state. the propagation Of elk in the
Black Hills. the reduction to 25 cents
the amount paid the state from each
hunters license fee collected, the ex-
tending of the deer and grouse season
from September 20 to November 20. the
forbidding of any person Under Is
years Of g carrying firearms In the
woods, unless p by a par
ent or guardian, the fixing OF the IL
cense fee for deer and birds at So n
for birds alone at 81, that government
stocked streams be thrown open to
fishing all the year, the nonresident
licenses for anglers be abolished. that
the salary of county game wardens be
SIS per mont and expenses.
The association started with a char
ter membership of 20, of whom Claude
Williams, of Deadwood, is president;
A. A. Coburn, of Deadwood, secretary,
and Joh T. Lutcy, of Central, treas
urer. A. A. Coburn was appointed as
delegate to attend a state meeting of
sportsmen which will be called by State
Game Warden Bancroft at Huron early
next month. The object of the Huron
meeting will be to draft laws that will
permit of the spending of the $4,000
accumulated fun n to otherwise im-
prove the game laws of the state.
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ABERDEEN COMPANY STRIKES
RICH GOLD BEARING DIRT
Aberdeen, S. D., Dec. Wv. L.
C%ochrane, formerly city superintendent
of schools of Aberdeen, has returned,
with Mrs. C%ochrane, from Alaska,
where they spent the summer looking
after mining property of which Mr..
Cochrane is interested as president of
a company whose stock is largely
owned by Aberdeen business men.
While in Alaska, the richest strike Of
the year was made on the Aberdeen
property. The party with Mr.. n Mrs.
Cochrane were panning some dirt on
the Aberdeen property when Mrs.
Cochrane asked to pan a shoyelful.
Her wish was granted. 40 the party
We're all surprised to find it PANIED out
$3.50 worth of gold. Mr.. Cochrane
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gold to the pan is sufficiently rich to
start a stampede, and when the news
of the rich find was distributed among
the mining population, great excite
ment ensued. But the Aberdeen cor
poration owned all the land in the
vicinity, there being no land remaining
unified upon. During the short season
over $500 worth of gold was PANIED
out of the company's ground, and the
ground was only scratched. Mr..
Cochrane will return to Alaska in the
spring, taking with him machinery and
equipment for the development of the
mine, the company owning over a mile
of the rich ground. The stock of the
company is all taken, and none of it
is for sale.