The Alaska daily empire., 1918-10-14
The Sulzer Game Bill.
Valdez Miner.)


 Delegate Sulzer for the past year been attempt ing to get the game laws changed to allow the miner and prospector to game killed in sea- out of season. As the law now stands party having game in their possession during the closed season is liable to arrest and Imprisonment A man killing two or three moose or caribou the first of the season must dispose of the meat by the time the son ends. To remedy this Delegates endeav- or James Wickersham, Dr. Hornaday and Theodore Roosevelt blocked this legislation by telling the con- mittee it was only subterfuge to slaughter game by pot hunters. MT. Wickersham so far as to state to the committee that there than 5000 caribou left in the Territory, which of course made Messrs Roosevelt and Hornaday, who are heads Of the game preservation for toprists) League az the mouth with sympathy for the slaughtered game. With the tremendous opposition to the bill coming from these influential game hogs. Alaska's Delegate forced abandon the attempt to pass the bill for the time being. ig4s~f
 MT. Roosevelt has killed tons of meat to where the average Alaskan has killed pounds. The ex- Pres ldent has been in the of the big game hunters from the days of the bison down to the present time Dr. Hornaday is learned ignoramus who is about as well acquaipted with condition iii Alaska as he IS with workingman's Sunday dinner. Both look at the question purely from the standpoint of the sporsman which is inimca to the interests of the settlers Of country Rather than see ami nal suffer the Colonel would pickle body for DOS terity| The. prospector who kills for food law breaker because he has o. tho finer instincts or the sportsman in his nature and may knock moose in the head with bite it in the heel if he secure it for his depleted larder
 The difference between the hunter and the sports has caused these gentlemen to become obssessed with the idea that their special mission in life is to
 
 try, or at least to save it until it be killed ty licensed sportsmen from the big sporting centers of the East
 We do not believe there is Alaskan today who would kill more game than he could use or would Kill for the mere sake of killing. After a man has roamed the wids of this great commonwealth for several he realizes the necessity of preserving his food supply and is careful that is not driven out of his district by indscrimnate shooting The only object to be attained by blocking Delegate Sulzers bill by the opposition created, prevent MT Suzer from being instrumetal in bringing up leg islation beneficial to the Territory and citizens dispatch received the past week from Dawson esti- mate the caribou herds in that vicinity at 35 coo This is bht small portion of the district covered by these noble animals. In the vicinity of Circle there are equally as many The only fresh to be Oh tained in many camps ir the interior is game It dees not matter how the animal is killed who kills 1t. the serves it's purpose iE feeding the men who developing the country; the trail blazers and the pioneers of the Territory
 Any millionaire in the East can come to Alaska and kill more game in a month than Alaskan could get in year. because the latter has little time to hunt and hunting in this country is expensive. The nil ljon3ire kills for trophies. the Alaskan foi meat
 Which mans opinion on the subject cf game pve j. erYation should receive the most consideration?