Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-12-01
*Not all names obtainable.

Totals ..................1S 1855 lie
| *Not all names obtainable.
! One looks in vain Tor any new causes
for the long list of casualties. A much
greater number have shot themselves
this season, by reason of careless han
ding of weapons, no fewer than 81
having lost their lives at their own
hands and "a others escaping with
more or less severe injuries.
The deadly companion was abroad
this year, as usual, and to his pres
ence were due "a deaths. He also in
flicted injuries on 10 others.
Careless Hunters Stay II.
The man who shoots every time he
sees a movement in a bush, thinking
it must be caused by some species of
game, can reflect on the fact that that
sort of hunting resulted in the death
of II and the injury of 10.
Drowning is well up in the causes
of fatalities. 16 hunters having found
watery graves while in quest of game.
1t is estimated that there were near
ly $4,000 hunters in Wisconsin and
Michigan and when to this number are
added the thousands who took the trail
IL Minnesota, Maine and New York
the total number will reach well up to
100000.
Hunters Growing More Cautious.
While the casualties seem great in
number the record this year is con-
sidered by those who have been watch
ing conditions to be one indicating
growing care on the part of hunters
in the use of their weapons.
you city people must realize" an
experienced Wisconsin hunter SAID,
that this is not such bad showing
as might at first be supposed. With
$4,000 to 10000 hunters in the woods,
all using high power, long range rifles,
it is a wonder there are not more casu-
alties, and that the death list is not
greater must be credited to the great
er care being exercised by hunters"
1t is possible that an effort may be
made in Wisconsin at the next session
of the legislature to enact more strin-
gent laws governing the use OF wea-
pons in the forest, but what the nature
of the new laws will be can only be
guessed. So far legislation has had
little effect and upper Michigan, which
has the strictest laws in America. has
as large a percentage of hunters killed
as Wisconsin.
Government Expert Victim.
In the list of killed is Prof. NJ. G.
Hammar, entomologist of the United
States department of agriculture. He,
with a friend, C. ]. Leland, was hunt
ing near Roswell. n. NJ. Leland, not
knowing Prof Hammer was in the di-
l. rx~ffl
an automatic rife. The bullet struck
Hammar in the abdomen, killing him
instantly.
H. ID. Umbstaetter, formerly editor
of the Black Cat magazine, while hunt
ting near Kesar lake in Maine, shot
himself just beneath the heart. Mr..
was hunting on the shore
of the lake, when he stumbled in
a stone wall The gun he
carried was discharged and the bullet |
killed him.
Gets Ride on Deer.
Vernon Rider had thrilling exper-
fence in the Adirondacks. He shot a |
big buck. He only wounded the ami |
NAL. however, and the buck leaped to /
its feet and plunged at him. Grasping |
the deer by its horns as he rushed, |
Rider was thrown upon the animals /
back, and then followed a nine mile /
run through the timber on the back
Of the deer. Peter Markle, an old /
hunter. seeing the buck and it's rider,
With careful aim broke the bucks legs,
and Rider was saved.
a number of women Joined in the
aunt tn year, among those taking out
licenses in Wisconsin being Mrs. NJ. A.
Paganninci of Chicago. Mrs. George
:. Vincent, wife of the president of
he University of Minnesota, formerly
If Chicago, hunted moose in northern
Minnesota
unNeiI Patrick Henry Statue.