Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-11-29
HUNTER FINEDBY PHONE
Villas COUNTY JUSTICE HEARS
COMPLAINT OVER TELEPHONE.
AND FINES NIMROD $500.


commercial agent Of the Milwaukee
road who has returned from a hunt
ing trip in Villas county with a fine
buck.
"The Milwaukee road agent at Boul-
der Junction, Wisconsin, is also a JUS
tice of the peace" said Mr.. Mac Clur-
kan. while he was at Minocqua the
other day he received telephone call
from deputy game warden at Boulder
Junction, who had caught a man who
had killed a doe and wanted to know
what to do with him.
81 fine him $685. said Justice
O'Brien. The man paid the fine"
The train which brought Mr.. Mac
Clurkan from Minocqua to Milwaukee
brought the largest number of deer
taken out of Minocqua at one time this
seasOn-forty-th to Mr..
MacClurkan.
Twenty were brought to Milwau
kee," he said. Among those who
brought one was DR.. c. S. Beebe. H.
E. Salsick, we'll known Hartland
lumberman, also brought home deer.
With the exception of last year, when
sixty-five were taken out at one time,
there has not been so great number
of deer taken out of MinOcqua at one
time in years"
Mr.. MacClurkan hunted with Bill
Paquette, a noted guide, who has
camp at High Lake and Boulder.
The Red River Indian reservation
is among the best hunting grounds in
northern Wisconsin. This immense
reservation comprising 124,333 acres
and Red Cliff reservation about half
as large, are tabooed to the white
hunters, who run the risk of arrest if
they venture on either reservation.
The Indians know no closed season for
they hunt legally on their reservations
at any time.
Although the Indians hunt at at all
seasons, the records show that but
one Indian has been shot by an In
dian hunter, in the last quarter Of
century. The Indian who was shot
had killed a deer which he was car
rying on his back, and as he was as
cending small hill, hunter in the
distance saw the horns of the dead
buck as they emerged over the hill
top, and shot and wounded the In
dian who was carrying the burden.
Wisconsin's zone buck" law appears
to have a startling effect in reducing
the number of hunters. In Ashland
county, which is the center of the deer
country, only 1,4OO licenses have been
issued this fall, as compared with
practically twice that number in 1915.
The prospect of securing only one
deer appears to have wrought the
change. The percentage of deer killed
and brought to the cities, is actually
less than SO per cent as compared to
former years, for whereas in former
years, hunters were quite certain to
secure either a doe or buck, now they
cannot legally shoot at any deer they
see, but only at bucks.
Thomas Davis, aged Is, of Daggett,
Mich was killed by the accidental dis
charge of a gun which he was carry
ing. Young Davis, accompanied by his
mother, went into the woods and as
he was stepping over windfall the
trigger caught in the brush, the gun
was discharged and the shot entered
the boys body AS he fell his mother
caught him and started to carry him
to the house, less than g. quarter of
mile away He died before she could
reach the house
Mistaken for deer and shot through
the leg Joseph Stauber of Cayuga,
Wis, crawled fifteen miles on his
hands and knees for medical assist
ance. Stauber was trailing a deer
when he was shot Faint from loss of
blood and hunger, Stauber fell in a
faint as he climbed the steps to a
farm house. He will recover.
While hunting near Mellen, Lee Pot
ter, 500 line engineer residing in
Stevens Point was shot in the left
forearm by an accidental discharge
of a rife carried by a friend. soft
nosed bullet struck the arm, lacerat-
ing it.
Edward Abenschein and Edward
SpoO of Neenah, escaped drowning in
Lake Winnebago while hunting ducks,
when their skiff was overturned dur
ing a storm, by swimming to shore on
their backs.
Irna Raeta, living on farm near
Goose lake, sustained severe wounds
in his left leg when a charge of buck
shot was fired into it from a hunter
who mistook him for deer.
The occupation of mud-slingfng can
also be pursued in dry weather.
You have such good memory you
may recall the time when it was pro-