Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-01
nUTo1orD PROM oUrSEbE srArE
] GUILTY OF ILLEGAL sLAuoH.
a.
CONCEAL GUNS UNTIL
HERD is SIGHTED
ousssstion Msds That State Buy
Lands For prsssrvs and Protect Ami.
mals-could Be Made . Source Of
PeoAt BY selling Surpius-Herd In
Dressing Rapidly.

Avvss, Sept .--EAA::c- 2. N Rey-
ner of Avoca advocates the purchase
by the state Of two or three hundred
acres of brush land In the vicinity Of
Avoca to be used as q permanent
game preserve.
Mr.. Beymer expressed grave fears
for the deer. He says there is now
considerable shooting In the country
where the deer are seen most and very
frequently empty shells from high
power guns are found in the fields and
roads.
Parties from Omaha come thru the
country, affirms Mr.. Beymour, in autos
carrying guns dikmounted and con-
cealed. Whe min the deer country these
are brought out and on sight Of a
bunch of deer fusilade is opened
with the hope of getting some of the
animals.
OF course there are many failures TO
get game. But frequently deer are
wounded and are later found dead or
dying.
This form of 2oaching can only be
suppressed. in the opinion of Mr.. Bey-
mer. by most drastic action on the part
of the authorities. 1t would amount 10
police surveillance of all autos pass
ing thru the country and confisca-
ton of all guns and ammunition Of
deer killing character.
Deer Multiply Rapidly.
Discussing the question of game
preserve with group OF newspaper
men in Council Bluffs Mr.. Beymer was
prompted to make this suggestion by
a question as to how the deer were
prospecting in the east end OF Potta-
Wattanie county.
The deer" said Mr.. Beymer, have
multiplied rapidly during the summer
Last spring when drives were made
for the purpose of getting these an
FINALS to run before cameras for max
ing moving pictures. there was estl-
mated to. be in the Nishna valley
east and north OF Avoca somewhere
from two to four hundred deer. THESE
have not been much molested during
the summer and large numbers OF
young are now observed running with
the old ones
The hunting or killing is not con-
fined to travellers. Some people living
in the vicinity where the deer are To-
Gated are suspected of doing little
shooting on the theory that they nave
fed the animals and are therefore en-
tiled to a toll on the herds which for
age in their fields.
Become Trusting.
Taken altogether the deer nave
rather precarious existence. They see
along the roadsideS and in fields so
many people that they become quite
tame and trusting. But by and py,
after seeing hundred autos go by
without any show of murderous intent
on the part of occupants, the one nun
derd and first suddenly belches forth
rain of death dealing lead and the
herd frds itself decimated Of severa!
of its members.
These difficulties, Mr.. Beymer
thinks, can only be. overcome by the
purchase by the state OF permanent
game farm. This would be made the
home of the deer and would be guarded
In such way as to effectualy protect
the animals.
When enclosed the deer now run
ming at large would be gathered into
this place and each year thereafter the
increase would be sold by the state
and the proceeds applied to the care OF
the herd and the payment of damages
inflicted by the animals upon the farm
ers who have permitted them 10 find
rendezvous on their farms while rear
ing their young.
What Shall Be Dono?
The presence of these deer in this
locality is one of the marvels Of the
state. Naturally there is wide diver
genee of opinion concerning the AMI
mails. Some farmers think the whole
herd should be exterminared as crop
protecting expedient. Others think they
should not be nolested under any cir
cumstances.
Still others think the animals should
belong to the farmers who feed them
and that these farmers should be per-
mitted to kill from the bunch such
numbers as will in their judgment re-
pay them for the forage they have
furnished,
No one in the vicinity, however, can
be found so unfriendiy TO the deer that
they wish to see outsiders coming in
to slay and steal with ruthless disre-
gard to the number killed and wounded
and to the dangers to which stock and
people are subjected by the setting
loose of bullets which nave a trajectory
OF mile and killing force equal to
that Of a cannon ball,