Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1919-01-29
The Game Reserve Again.

Editor Willmar Tribune:
Kindly allow me a small space in
your valuable paper.
When anything is started, it is, in
most cases, best to see it finished.
The Willmar Tribune, under date
of Jan. 1st, devoted a small space re-
garding the game refuge of northern
Kandiyohi county, of which l am one
of the many unfortunate to reside
within it's boundaries.
M. o. QvamsO, another victim of
circumstance, though he evidently
thinks different from the majority of
people in this respect, signs his
name to another article on the
game refuge question published in the
Willmar Tribune under date of Jan.
9Th. 1t is this article that / wish to
refer to at this time.
Not that l want to brand Mr.. Qvam-
SOS article as a pure falsehood, new
ertheless l am among the many who
want equal rights to all and not spec
ial privileges to some individuals.
We have had the blessing CD of the
game reserve for period of one and
one half years and l want to ask Mr..
Qvamso what good it has done him or
anyone else. Does he uphold this
game protection so that he can let his
turkeys and other fowls run at large
and feed upon his neighbors' fields?
The petition for the establishment
of the reserve required the signature
of twenty-five people owning land in
the reserve, as l understand it. How
ever there are twenty-six names on
this petition, namely:
Ole o.. Flesland, John Fremberg, J.
A. Newstrom, e. j. Johnson, VIM.
Norstedt, Herman Streed, M. o.
Qvamso, Carl Soderlund, Elmer Kul-
lander, E. H. Silver, P. G. Thompson,
Emil Johnson, ]. X. Nelson, Elmer j.
Heaton, S. H. stauffer. Gust Green,
G.. SOdar"" RlngneSS, G. A.
~ewnty.six signers,
). M. Monsoon and
Nov, Sc twenty-six, it is my
not own any land. in the reserve when
Johnson, Tom o. Qvamso, P. O. John
son, Robert Olson, and Henry J.
Geer. And of the twenty-five signers,
twelve have signed a petition for
another hearing on the question.
l would like to ask at this time, If
Mr.. M. O. Qvamso was a citizen of
the United States when he signed the
first petition, and also if he is citi.
zen of the United States at this time?
Mr.. Qvamso states the majority of
the people living in the reserve are in
favor of it. Well, there are perhaps
eighty land owners in the reserve, and
sixty-six Of them have signed petit
ton for another hearing. Others are
Indifferent and about the only ones
who are strong in favor of it, outside
of Qvamso, are John Fremberg, Her.
man Streed and Ole Flesland, the lat
ter so am told by being promised an
Office. deputy watchdog over the re-
serve.
There are 116 people owning land
adjoining the reserve who have signed
a petition asking for another hearing,
making total of hundred and eighty
two people either inside or adjoining
the reserve who deem it unjust.
One of the things which would like
to know is, if five of the twenty-six
signers of the petition for the estab-
ishment Of the reserve do not own
any land in the reserve, and one of
the signers was not a citizen of the
United States, would the establishing
of the reserve be legal?
Another thing, is it equal rights to
all for us farmers to protect and feed
all wild fowl for the benefit OF few
of the rich who do not live in the vi
entity, but who have the duck passes,
near and adjoining the reserve, leased
for many years to come, and when
our fattened fowl happens to fly over
these passes, these few rich are al
lowed to kill the limit. Again l ask
is that equal rights to all?
In this land of the free, can it be
possible that a few outside rich, and
three or four farmers in the reserve
are able to dictate to sixty-six other
land owners in the reserve as to what
or what not can be done on our farms
If such is the case, would like to ask
also, is it Americanism or is it Kai