Show ROD 11 i ii GJ i BURGES BORSEY S. S The finding of or United States District Ju Judge ge John C C. Pollock of Top Topeka a. a Kans March 20 O In which he declared the federal ml ator bird law Jaw unconstitutional that congress has no jurisdiction jurisdiction jurisdiction juris juris- diction over game In Ina a state and that each state has th the sole oJe right ht to enact en laws Jaws for the protection and re regulation of or game Jame within Its boundaries has hag put the sportsmen of or the country all at sea again says the thc American Field Commenting on the above the American AmerIcan American Amer Amer- ican Field goes coc on to say The TIme Question Ques ques- Lion tion as to whether the federal government government govern govern- ment control of or nugatory game birds within a a. state to the extent of setting aside state laws Jaws game affecting within a state Is Is' Isnow now he before fore the tho United States supreme court which in Its own time Ume will vill render Its decision and settle the question as os to the constitutionality of or orthe the law Jaw As this thin Is a question that concerns every state In tho union naturally there Is much public interest taken In the case s and an early verdict would be welcomed Of Ot course the sportsmen and all nil our our state bird associations t are arc Interested whether this nugatory bird law is constitutional con con- or not We Ye hope and believe be be- Hove lieve that It is 18 We have hae been asked by n How do you ou like the game bird la law and wo swelled with Ith when we wo replied We c hike 1110 It but It-but but It docs docs' not affect our sl SuIte te game same laws as we protected not only alory game same birds but but all alI birds as well well three three years lars be before before before be- be fore this nugatory law Jaw was passed True a few of ot our sportsmen complained com corn that we wo were protecting ducks for the sportsmen north and south of oC us UR who shot ducks In the spring and that A lucId duck was a duck duel and amid meant thed the tho d destruction of or a little thick flock ck of d ducks Just as ns surely whether shot In the autumn or the spring Perhaps thatIs that thatIs Is correct correct but but with this difference Ha If H Ifa Ifa a duck Is wounded wound d or scared badly In inthe inthe the tho fa fall fall fall-by II-b II by springtime It has recovered reco Its scare or wound In time lime to nest and ralso Its b or oo l or It has died died died- but If It wounded or 01 scared badly In th the spring It will lea heave the locality and will vill not nest that season whether it dies of its wound or not Perhaps it is h due to this fact and prompted b by selfish motives that we wo owe the abolishment of spring shootIng shoot- shoot big Ing In Utah Utah however however we did abolish It of oC our own accord and lul we are arc proud of ot the hat we wo did not walt wall until unlit the federal ml ator game law Jaw stepped ped In and compelled u us to do so BO Constitutional or not it Is a good law lawand lawand and amI ever every state in the tho union should adopt It Last spring we wo noticed man many ducks nesting In localities localities' In Nebraska r ka where duck had not been s econ In Inthe the spring season for years simply be because because because be- be cause they had not been shot at and scared out of the countr country The The new ney Arkansas game law Jaw having passed both branches of or the tho legislature Jeg of that state has been signed by hy the governor Jo and now for tor the first time Ume In Its history It has a n comprehensive game gamela law la The new law Jow not only protects game animals and fowl hut hul restrictions are are thrown around fishermen also Commenting upon spring fishing and the big catches reported our state tate game commissioner Fred Chambers re remarked remarked remarked re- re marked I 1 am gratified to know that nearly nearl ever every one of those thole big fish were r rainbows That shows that we planted them and compared to the thousands we plant every ery season eason these few tew aro are not noticeable Per Personally I would not riot recommend I spring fishing but many fishermen were ere clamoring for a short period of ot It and as we have nothing else for the sportsman to amuse himself himself him him- s self Jt with between December 31 and June 16 15 and we need tho the money derived derived de de- rived from licenses to defray running exp expenses as aa we have no other means of ot raising It at this sea season on At the last weekly shoot of ot the Salt Lake Gun club Charles Cha Rem Reilly Jr was high again over all with 49 9 out of oO 60 O. O This boy Is certainly going some The Tho registered l one day tournament at Ogden Wednesday last was attended by about forty forts shooters Salt Snit Lake Gun club dub was represented by Charles ReUb Rell- Rell ly b Jr F J. J Earl Morgan Hillhouse and Realizing the fact that game ame birds bird are rapidly going tho Wn way of or ortho tho the passenger l' pigeon the sportsmen men of oC the tue country from one ono end to the other arc arc Clamoring for better protection on all migratory birds No fond lover Jover ever watched with greater for tor an expected letter than do the tho wait walt for tho tier de of the tho supreme court of ot the United States on the constitutionality of the tho Weeks reeks cLeod migratory gamo game bird law While White we arc boasting of or tho the fact that we wo sportsmen of Utah were overe one of or tho the ver very flast states state to abolish spring shootIng shooting shoot shoot- ing that W we use more ore 20 20 gauge shotguns shot shot- hoti i puns guns than thal an any other state of our population population population tion and that no other state state east east or OT has west west has an any better game Jaws or bettar better bet bet- tar ter game wardens than we do do yet It Is Isan isan an accepted fact that we have many game Hame hogs among us We hardly know V what name to lo give a fellow who not having ha to shoot from necessity yet who not out only shoots eVer every day fo Co the open game same season but who klU kills two or three e limits each and every day while he can cnn At least one prominent young oung business man of Stilt Snit Lake City marketed over ovet ducks last season We Ve refrain from giving this party's parts I name at present not because we think he should be shielded but because we wo feel Ceel kind kindly disposed toward him him and and our game ame commissioner is also on to him and if Ir he ever er attempts attempt the like lIe again L prominent or not he will sure surely come conic to grief For years every time a fellow tellow is arrested for violating the game law Jaw he pleads plead Look at the duck club members I h Why the they take two guides and bag baJ seventy five ducks every da day of or the open season eason Somo Some of these thelle people peo peo- plc do not even cn live In our state and anti here If Ir I r go out once or a reason eaon and happen to l kill ll a bird or two too man many or shoot a few tew minutes after niter sun sundown sundown down T h why v I J am at arrested rested and I have hae lived lI in this state all aH m my life me life We re remember remember remember re- re member of ot thre tare people who w were re tried in Davis county count several so years yearn ago for viola violating tin the same game ame law JaVo The They pleaded guilty but offered the above as an ex ex- cuse cure The ju Judge c dismissed these cases stating that he had hul a son who sometimes sometimes sometimes some some- times shot ducks and he would not fine an any native son for killing a few tew more ducks than tho the law allows Vs when members members mem mem- bers hers of or duck clubs north of or us are arc al allowed al- al lowed to kill se seventy five ducks per man maner every er da day of the ol open on season October season October 1 to December 31 inclusive The rhe spirit of t the 13 law n never never- er erIn In Intended that any ai one man mal should be allowed to 1111 over tM five twenty p. p duels ducks In o one nt da day an and in view kw of or the tact fact duks are being rapidly exterminated ve ne believe this number should be boo cut down to about ten dicks each cacho Ten ducks clucks per ler da day Is enough for tor an any nan who does n not want to market th them besides knowing ho cannot c. kill over ten a aday da day he ho will not shoot In flocks or take tako long lonc ch chances on scratching down downa a no duck or two b by shooting at them be beyond beyond he- he yond ond a reasonable rea distance to insure a 1 clean kill More 1 ducks are arc destroyed through this source than through h any iny other I use uso the word destroyed ad advisedly ad- ad because when ducks are arc murdered murdered mur mur- dered tiered by shooting into a a. flock possibly several are wounded the they fly a 8 away to tode todie todie die die die- deor or be bo caught b by hawks owls or coyotes so coyotes so they they- they are are destroyed so far as ns we are arc concerned |