Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-02-04
SAY DEER ARE
NOT STARVING
Stale Game Wardens Here Tuesday to
Investigate Reports Concerning
Condition of Deer
F.S. ST0OS MAKES STATEMENT
Don't Believe Deputy Hanlon Made a
Thorough Investigation

j. j. keane, state game warden
for Northern Idaho with headquar-
ters at Moscow, Idaho, r. j. Han
Ion, deputy state game warden with
headquarters at Occur d. Alene City,
and w. M. Stark, deputy warden for
Bonner and Boundary counties with
headquarters at Standpoint, were in
this city Tuesday to investigate the
reports that several hundred deer
were in a starving condition in the
vicinity of Perkins lake and in the
Copeland district. The representa-
tives of the state game department
decided that the deer We're able to
care for themselves and left without
sanctioning local Deputy Stoos' pre-
parations to care for the deer.
Deputy Hanlon reported that he
had been over the entire district in
which the starving deer were sup
posed to be located and that he had
been unable to locate them. 1t was
his expressed opinion that the report
of the deer being in a starving condi-
ton was started for mercenary rea-
sons by people wanting to sell hay
and to work for the state game de-
partment. The visiting game ward
ems said that they believed Deputy
Stoos acted in good faith but that
they thought he had been misled by
the reports brought in. They claimed
that they had never heard of such
thing as a deer starving even in
the severest kind of weather and they
believed that nature would care for
the deer of this district now as in
years past. Deputy Hanlon said that
if the dogs were kept from running
the deer the animals would be per-
fectly able to care for themselves.
Deputy Stoos walked in yesterday
from the Skin creek district where
he had been making arrangements to
care for the large herd of deer which
he says he saw and which ne says
will be substantiated by sworn state
ments from a half dozen reliable
men. Mr.. Stoos told the Herald that
he was positive that there were a
hundred deer in one herd he saw
close to the mouth of Skin creek
and that there must be many hun
dreds more in the region back to-
wards Windy pass. These deer he
said were starving and if it had not
been for the wind storm the first of
the week which blew large quaint
ties of moss from the trees for the
deer to subsist upon the animals
would surely have needed care.
Deputy Stoos questions whether OF
not Warden Hanlon actually ira
versed the section in which the dee,
are located. Mr.. Stoos said yester.
day: Tuesday Hanlon came to towr
while State Warden Keane was here
and told that he had been all over the
country where l had seen the deel
and that he had found no deer.
found out that Hanlon went to Mea
dow Creek Sunday and stayed al
Glenn's over night and then went t.
E. B. Schlette's place Sunday. H,
made some inquiries in that districr
but l am positive he never got of
sleigh road as he had no snow
shoes and it is impossible to ge
around over that country now with
out snow shoes. When | investigat
ed the report of the deer being in ;
starving condition l went over tn,
country thoroughly. The deer wer,
in bad way and l simply mai'
preparations to care for them in cas-,
more snow fell or the present snow
fall became crusted so the animals
could not get about.