Arizona republican., 1913-11-05
GREAT SHOW IF
 GAME WARDEN
Reptiles, Rodents, Game Animals, Game Birds, Wild Fowl, Wild Ami mals of Every Variety in Arizona.

Frank w. Rogers, state game war den, has assembled nearly every kind of animal and bird and reptile in the category of the west in his little space
 in the WOman's building. By a syste-
 matic canvass of the state, by indus
 trious work on his own part. by cap
 turing at his home and while on the
 trips about the state one and another of the desired list he has gathered in
 under his protecting wing as his show
 at the fair, an astounding variety of
 not alone stuffed but of living creatures which abound in the woods and Wilds of
 this state and the west coast.
 In the list of living creatures may be
 found reptiles, rattle snakes, black,
 garter, bull snakes, all kinds of snakes, captured in the hills and on the des-
 erts of Arizona. They are penned in little glasscovered, screen enclosed cases where the visitors may see them
 on his entering the booth. In the booth
 are arranged cages. and in the cages
 are collected the birds and the animals
 peculiar to this country, well known and not so well known. The list of rodents is perhaps the most complete
 of the lot There are mice, rats. field mice and wood rats, moles and goph- CTS. everything but the hodag, each crouching in his little hay and straw and looking at the visitor with the eyes of the despairing
 The birds are arranged is separate cages The little hoOt owl, his eyes closed and his head drawn back to his body, presents a direct contrast to the white tail hawk who looks at the visi- tor with the eyes of defiance. steady. staring and bright. The little doves. their innocence written all over them in plalner language than words can eff feet, rOOst and run with the wilder clucking mountain and crested quail. Pin tail ducks, far from the water. strut in their pen unafraid. and unaf- tected away from their element and other fowl galore are as much uncon- cerned and independent as is their GUS tom under like circumstances.
 The coyote is the one which is famil- far to the eyes of all PhOenicfans the little tame coyote which so long has been seen about the streets of this city under the leash. and which is so tame that the children of the streets pet and play with him.
 There is also hog. A big. bushv. 1 ugly Texas musk hog who in his eIe- ment is to be feared and who in the 1 exhibit looks as if he might do a. little damage With his charge if he were to 1 De turned out He is caged by himself l next to the coyote.
 The most regretable thing to the game warden was the fact that he was unable to have at the show the two deer which he had promised to the public. They would have been in the pens prepared for them but for the fact that when they were prepared for Hiplhent to the grounds they took on so and struggled so fiercely that one severely injured himself and the two mad to be left where they belonged for fear that they might injure themselves fatally before the end of the week.
 In the list of stuffed birds arc all i the well known as well as a ma io,i+,. Of the scarcer animals and birds of this 1 state They are arranged to as good an 1 advantage as the little space advanced l 10 the warden would permit, and they give comprehensive idea of the va flety and number of members of ami maj and bird life in Arizona and inc l west
 Though the list is not so complete a S MT. Rogers had intended presenting. to l the pubic, it is the best that the linn Ited tune he was allowed in gathering l It would permit, and he is to be con graduated on the showing he has illdde. mere are a number of men af the booth to see that the visitors are ] well instructed in the value of other qualities of the animals and birds on {; exhibit and they. do full justice to | thelr duty. It would be well for the | many who are on the grounds to see | this display. It is the most instructive | array of living creatures that has ever 1 been shown in this state.