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Show Beaver Caught in Traps Set for Mink Arrive at Capitolj A I. MA SMITH of Mid-,, v.-, j,u ..:esne ro'.nty. v.-as more alarri.fd than p!-a?-.l v.i.en he fo.ind that he had ,a jcht a -oi.-rie r.f h.-aver in his traps, whi-'h h- liy.l .-v: for mink. Tiie beaver bea-ver hail alr-ady drowned, so it would do no irood to r.-l-H - them. Th-re is ino-ey in s-iimg mink -kins a-:d a'.; in s-ring b-nver. but in !al-:- "nt inns; not be f...iifl out. and b-av-r skins are not -Mi'. Snot.. ! HO OHPir.t to ,.. lv.U Ul-ni. Inroad he forward-d the ( si-iins to Governor Bamberger, in whose offi.e they arrived Christinas ria. Th-re was no 1- ttei- of expiana- Hon. and it was thought for a moment mo-ment that someone might have been making a present of the skins to the governor. However, the arrival of an explanatory letter vesterdav dispelled the false hopes. Mr. Smit it said he realize. 1 that tho law had hc-n violated, and that he hud nulled his traps so that he would catch no more beaver. The state will probably not ask him to do anything more and it Is not probable thai lie "ill lose the entire cost of tho beaver bea-ver skins, cither. |