The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-10-15
Commissioner Kalbfus
Says Squirrels Par
ticularly Are Numer-
GUS in State
NATIVE QUAIL
ALONE SCARCE
Rush to Get Hunters Licenses In This
County So Great That Treasurers'
ONCE VIII Be Open at Night
Dosen Women Qualify

The open season for killing squirrels.
grouse, ring g-neeked pheasants and Hun
garian quail started to-day and almost
Suo,VOO persons who have taken out
hunters licenses throughout the State
are at liberty to hunt this kind of
game-if they can find it and if the
landowners have not plastered their
hunting grounds with trespass notices.
The season for native quail or part.
ridges and rabbits will not open in this
State until November /. Last year
SO5,000 hunters took out licenses to
shoot in Pennsylvania, but this year
the number will fall short by few
thousands, especially in the western
counties, Allegheny reports falling
off of 10000 in the number of licenses
taken out thus far. The State Game
Commission, at the request of land
owners, has appointed number of spe-
cial game protectors, who serve without
pay and are qualified to arrest violators
of the game laws.
Commissioner Kalbfus says that, with
the exception of native quail, game
birds are plentiful. Reports show that
squirrels in the forest counties are very
plentiful and many have been seen dur
ing the last few weeks. In the grouse.
breeding sections these birds are re.
ported to be even more numerous than
last year. The hard winter had no
effect in reducing their numbers, as
they feed from trees and bushes and
not on the ground.
Deer Reported Plentiful
There are very few ring-neeked
pheasants to be found, and those in
the woods have been bred when in cap.
tivity and turned loose to be hunted
by members of clubs. The birds of this
breed that escape the gunners generally
die off during the winter. This also is
the case with Hungarian quail, many
of which after being turned into the
fields by the breeders are tracked by
vermin and killed, as they do not fly
and their scent is easily found on the
ground by weasels and other destroying
vermin. The, deer in the woods are
very numerous and good hunting is
promised the hunters when the season
opens.
The rush for hunters licenses at the
office of Dauphin County Treasurer A.
II Bailey was equally as large to-day
as yesterday, although the hunters in
many cases did not appear in person
Justices of the peace throughout the
county are receiving applications and
the mails this morning brought hun
dreds of license tag requests to the
treasury.
Women Take Out Licenses
Treasurer Bailey, who had been to
New York CITY on a three-day hnsiuess
trip, returned to his Office last even
ing and to-day joined his corps of
clerks in handing out licenses. He
also decided to keep the office open each
evening this week, having posted no.
tice this morning that he will be on
hand to honor license applications be-
tween and 8 p. M. Thursday, Friday
and Saturday.
Records show that F. P. Stine, re-
siding just Beyond Millersburg, is
the smallest Dauphin county hunter to
take out license this year. Mr.. Stine
is Sc years old and is but feet 3
inches tall. He is former school
teacher and is recognized in his home
community as an expert huntsman.
When the treasury closed last even
ing 2,SS7 licenses had been issued and
at noon to-day that number had been
increased by Ala, making the total
S,S0l. A dozen or more women have
obtained licenses to hunt in Dauphin
county.