The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-02-19
TO ESTABLISH
GAME PRESERVE
TWENTY WHITE TAIL DEER ARE
TO BE TURNED LOOSE IN
JACKSON, LESLIE AND
WAYNE.
WILL BRAND THE ANIMALS
President Sachs is Pleased With Work
pf Commission and Speaks of Good
Effect OF Enforcement OF Laws. 6a-
TieVes In Licensing Hunters.

bCNCS W Licensing r7OnTSFS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
the Kentucky mountains will be estab-
iished this year The game and fish
commission has bought twenty white
tail deer, the best breed native to Ken
tucky hills. and viii set them free in
Jackson, Leslie and Wayne counties
as. soon as the roads. are in condition
20 permit travel b.; wagon back from
the railroads.
Executive Agent J. @. Ward said it is
probable that the deer will be branded,
as there is no law row to protect deer
in Kentucky, excepting one preventing
the killing of marked deer" He
thought the brand viii protect the new
herd until legislation can be secured.
It will be necessary to prohibit deer
hunting until the mountains are well
stocked. There are fifteen does and
i've bucks in the herd, which are to
De shipped from the LAX Superior pre-.
serves. se
President ]. G. Sachs. of Louisville,
vas at the capitol In conference with
Executive Agent ~Ward. He is well
pleased with the work of organizing
the department and the revenue re-
ceived from licenses the first year.
We can now go ahead making the
organization for the protection of
game and land owners complete all
over the state" he said. ASIDE from
the conservation OF game the greatest
benefit of the new law is to the land
owners, and they are appreciative.
Heretofore hordes of people hunted
over their farms. killed on the game
and destroyed property. Now only II.
CenSed hunters can go out, and the
farmers have the privilege OF hunting
on their own land without a license |
have received reports from many Sec
tons, showing that the number of
hunters and the damage to property
has been greatly lessened.
Mr.. Ward and his men have pretty
well cleared the streams of market
fishers, and ! think they have prac.
tically put a stop to market hunting
AOA Ol1GS III ASiLUShy. III que SIlalt
county over 10000 birds were shipped
last year. The farmers from whose
farms thes birds were taken derived
no benefit and perhaps suffered actual
loss from the presence of the irrespon-
slble hunters. / am confident the law
10 going to work out to the satisfac-
ton Of both sportsmen and farmers
kentucky Will 6s Among First.
Kentucky's militia brigade will be
pressed into service among the first,
should the United States intervene in
Mexico, in the opinion of Brig. Gen
Roger Williams, of Lexington. com.
mander of the brigade, following a
visit 10 the war department.
THE Kentucky National Guard is In
fine trim," said Gen. Williams.
MY information Is that intervention
In Mexico would mean American occu.
patton, and large reserve force would
be called out. understand, should
such move be made as result. OF
intolerable conditions in Mexico, that
the Kentucky and Tennessee militia
would be included in the first call to
arms"
Gen. Williams, who came to Wash
;ngton to place his son Roger vii
llams, Jr., in a preparatory school for
Annapolis had long talk with Col
Henry T. Allen, cavalry, on the staff OF
Mai. Gen. Wood, Chief OF Staff of the
army.
Col. Allen, one OF the shrewdest tac
ticians IN the army. is native OF
Sharpsburg and q Kentucldan to the
core. He manifested great interest in
the Kentucky National Guard.
Verdict Against Road Reversed.
A verdict for $500 awarded Dora
Gaines in the Logan circuit court
against the L. & N. because. she al
legged. the train started suddenly be
fore she had found seat and threw
her was reversed by the court of ap
Deals. She was carrying a child and
a suit case and leading another child
The court instructed the jury that II
vas the duty of the conductor to hold
the train until incoming passengers
we're seated, but since this case was
tried the court of appeals has ruled
otherwise, declaring the train may
start as soon as passengers are
aboard. unless there are circumstances
which the conductor can see would en-
danger the passenger, and the, deter
IRfnasion of when those Fcumstauces
establish an exception to the rule Is
FOR the jury.