South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-08-12
HUNTING SEASON
WILL SOON OPEN
Every Person Over IA Years
Who Wishes to Follow Game
Must Secure License.

The rush for hunting licenses is
sued by County Clerk Raab will soon
begin. as the season opens on Sept.
l, at which time ducks and other
waterfowl may be hunted. Every
resident of the state over Il years
Of age who wishes TO hunt protected
game birds and fur bearing animals
must take out a license which IS is
sued at a cost of one dollar.
The law permits a man TO hunt on
his own premises without a license,
and also permits his children 10 do
SO. but if "A man be found on the high
way or the land OF another with a
gun the fact OF his having a gun is
taken as prima facia evidence that he
has been hunting and he is liable for
arrest and fine.
The dollar license does not permit
the killing of deer or beaver, but for
$3.50 a resident of the state can hunt
deer. NOn-residents must pay a fee
Of $40 for the privilege a resident gets
for one dollar, while il still costs q
nonresident $25 TO hunt deer.
A fee of one dollar must be paid
for a trappers license and the same
for taking clans and mollusks for
their pearls. Turtles are not protect
ed. but a person must be careful in
trapping not 10 use anything that
would catch a fish. Ii is unlawful to
trespass upon the enclosed lands OF
another person without the cOr/ent
Of the owner for the purpose of hunt
ing, fishing or trapping.
Do not hunt rabbits or Dartridges
before oct. 1. An ice line is defined
as a single line with single hook at
tached and five such lines may be
used by one person during December
January and February for fishing
through the ice for any kind of fish
except trout and bass.
State Game Laws.
Following is d summary of the state
hunting laws:
1t il Unlawful
To hunt off your own premises
without, a license, except that any
hOnorably discharged soldier, sailor
or marine who shall have served in
the civil war may hunt during open
seasons without license.
To kill, or TO possess either dead
or alive, at any time, except for
breeding purposes, any deer, wild tur-
key or pheasant, except that owners
of private parks may kill deer reared
therein.
To net or trap quail at any time,
or To possess nets or traps for re
purpose Of catching them.
To kill or possess quail or runed
grouse before the tenth day of No
vember or after the twentieth day of
December.
To kill or possess more than fifteen
quail IN any one day, or to possess
more than forty-five at one time, dur
ing the open season.
To sell or offer for sale, directly or
indirectly. any quail at any time.
To Kill or possess any waterfowl
before the first day of September or
after the fifteenth of April.
To kill or possess any waterfowl be-
tween sunset of any day and sunrise
of the following morning.
To pursue any waterfowl with a
launch. or any boat except row
boat or push boat.
To kill more than fifteen ducks,
geese. brants or other waterfowls in
any one day, or to possess more than
forty-five at one time.
To hunt squirrels before the first
day of July or after the first day OF
November.
To hunt rabbits with ferret at
any time.
TO hunt woodcocks before the first
day of July or after the first day Of
January.
To hunt with any kind of firearms
on sunday.
To hunt any kind of game. except
waterfOWlS, from the tentn DAY OF
January to the first day Of April.
To kill or injure any prairie chick
en-. ring-necked or other pheasant or
Hungarian partridge, at any time, eX-
cept that any one person shall be en-
titled to kill not more than five prai-
RE chickens in any one day from the
18th day of october to the first day
of November.
To kill, trap, possess, sell or de-
strov the nest or eggs of any wild
bird excepting game birds. English
sparrows blackbirds, crows, hawks
and other birds of prey.
To hunt on any land without first
procuring the permission TO do so
from the owner or tenant thereof.
To hunt any game by means Of a
searchlight attached to an automo-
bile or to shoot along or upon pub
lie highway.
Federal Laws Prevail.
Whenever there is conflict between
the federal and state laws the federal
provisions take precedence and must
be Obeyed. With the approach OF tt"
open season for shooting wild fowl
the United states department of AK
riculture is warning sportsmen that