The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-04-28
Hundreds of Looms
Killed By Hunters
St. Peter Sports Get After Fish
Destrsyers; Guard Officer
Resigned.

st. Peter, Mimi, April 26.-Hun
tdreds of looms have been slaughtered
the past week by hunters of this city
and members of the st. Peter Game
Protective league in. a crusade
against these big fish destroyers
Several parties of local sportsmen
have made daily trips to Lakes
Emily, Jefferson and Washington
where they are purported to be
bottoms north of town, where the
birds roost.
Bags of fifty, birds are no infre
quent. The loon is one of the worst
fish destroyers known. Many OF
those killed have been found to
contain from three to fifteen big
sunflsh and crap pies and one con
tanned a pickerel sixteen inches
long. The gullet of the bird con
sists of Only one intestine, and it is
therefor able to swallow anything as
long as its body.
1t seems that the birds feed by
the thousands in the three LIE Sueur
county lakes and that they go to the
river bottoms every evening at sun
down to roost. They are partial to
cottonwood trees, as they feed on
the tender buds and one spot in
particular on the Peter Young farm
in Traverse des Sioux is practically
black with the pests every evening.
Hunters state that shooting them
on the wing is excellent practice as
the birds are hard to kill. Harry J.
LaDue, assistant state game and
fish commissioner, was in this city
yesterday and commended the To-
cal sportsmen for their efforts to ex-
terminate these foul. He states
that they are now on their way
north and that they will soon leave
this vicinity.
Lieutenant Harry Hanson, for the
past two years attached to the Man
kato Service company, Fifth Regi-
ment, national guard, has resigned.
His resignation takes effect at once,
and it Is understood that Floyd G.
Johnson, ex- serviceman and a lieu
tenant during the World war is
slated for the vacancy. The st.
Peter officer has been attached to
the Mankato company for year past
since the local organization was
converted into the headquarters
company. Lieutenant Hanson is a
farmer and his home duties and the
difficulty he experienced in attend
ing drills, prompted him to resign,
although he was an able man. He
was promoted from the ranks.
John Linder of this city and Har-
ris Carlson of New Sweden have
applied for passports to Sweden and
are contemplating sailing for that
country on May 9th to pay a visit
to their old home. Mr. Under Is
employed at the state hospital Car
lson is an ex- servicenan.
Leo C. Hughes of this city driving a
StutZ roadster, ran into J. c. like OF
Sandstone yesterday on the Manka-
to st. Peter road and badly damaged
the latter's car. Passengers in both
cars were uninjured although the
front wheel and two tires on the
Buick were demolished. The affair
was settled amicably between the
two men.
It was found that Bonnie Gales a
mechanic of this city, suffered a
fracture of the left leg when he was
struck by an unknown driver while
returning from Mankato Sunday
night on his motorcycle. The au-
tomobile was coming down the left
side of the road and took no notice
of the motorcycle. Gales, was
struck by a fender on the left leg.
The driver of the car did not stop.