The Alaska daily empire., 1920-09-08

designed to commercialize the killing of game in Alaska If Dr. Hornaday had printed Delegate Suzers statement before the committee of Congress, with
 those he did print he would have proved his state ment to be false. The Sulzer Bill was designed
 her to conserve game killed and to make it easier to detect unlawful killing than anything else. It proposed shorten the season It did not pro
 pose to add to the quota of game person Gpuld
 kill It would require game hand at the close of the open season to be tagged, after proof had been made that it was legally killed. This would have permitted game wardens and officers charged with enforcement of game laws to detect illegally Killed game. It then proposed to extend the time Tn WHICH game lawfully killed and tagged, could be sold The law now allows fifteen days after the close of the open season in which to dispose of game The longer time would allow more time in which to get game from the woods to settlements where It could serve as food Not long ago single party of big game hunters from the East left 11,O0O pounds of game meat in the heart of the Alaska wilderness to rot The game killed under the law but those Who killed it could not eat it. They naturally started for home they had got tnelr quota ana tler trophies. These the men, evidently, for whom pr. Hornaday desires to save Alaska game No doubt all or some of these men belonged to one or of the Manhattan sporsmens clubs and socletles for the protection of big game If the Sulzer Bill had become law doubt packers would have gone cut in the hills salvased this meat and sold it to people who do not often get any kind of fresh meat except game.
 Dr. Hornaday's declaration that Gov. Riggs pur- chased game meata few meals each for the laborins men employed on the railroad construction-at a place where there railroad line to tidewater is direct falsehood Gov Riggs, at that time a member of the Engineering Commission, was operat- ing out of Nenana. Supplies were shipped to him from Seattle via St Michael some 2,OOO miles, thence via river steamer Tanana, another 1000 miles, thence to Nenana some 16O miles more thence along the line Or the meat was shipped to the Alaska and driven overload several hun dred miles Nenana, killed and put in cold storage The conditions in fact such that these working men had very little meat that had not been cured
 The Empire did not charge that the blood Of Clarence Thompson the hands of Dr. Horn day, and if he had printed the editorial to which
 e referred in the letter which he did print, 1t would have proved the letter to be false However, It Is at all impossible that the law protecting brown bears which Hornaday desires should be retained was the cause of his death. Dr. Hornaday says in his book that MT. Thompson was hunting bear when he was killed. He had nothing upon which to base that assertion The fact is that the evidence disputes it. People from Chichagof say Thompson went out from the camp take stroll in the nearby woods His wrist had been sprained and he could not work Like most frontiersmeh under similar circumstances always have done he1carried rife. He ran on a bear which was eating the carcass of deer-one of our choice of game animals The bear without further ceremony him and delivered the death wound before he could defend himself, though he shot twice before his quick fire rife actually knocSed from bis hands
 The people Of Alaska want the Dro"H pedf ue- stroyed not because of any mercenary desires, but because the bears kill game domestic animals and people; because people afraid of them, with good cause and their presence nterferes with settlement and tn industries and lives of the people
 It is apparent to those who know the facts that Dr. Hornaday is writing and talking to make a show ing to the New York mlionaires whose money he is spending and is careless of right truth or fasehood if he can continue to carry on at so much per carry.
 Tho on fore the writer had read Hornadays letter to the Douglas Island News, which appears in another col umn We shall only add that pr. Hornaday over states the case when he Ee has incurred the insane hatred" of the editor of The Empire. The Fmnire hates ions and has considerable contempt for those who misrepresent. Perhaps pr I4ornaday regard this evidence of insanity.-THE