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Show DEER KILLING IN THE KAIBAB The supreme court of the United States, recognizing the right of the departments having jurisdiction over the public domain, forest reserves and government monuments, its parks and Indian reservations, has asked the federal officers and the representatives repre-sentatives of the state of Arizona to settle their differences over the killing kill-ing of deer in the Kaibab forest without further appealing to the courts for settlement of the controversy. contro-versy. As an illustration of the attitude at-titude of the state, the counsel for Arizona conceeded that the government govern-ment had the right to protect its property by killing deer, but protested pro-tested the right of the hunters to bring the carcasses out of the reserve re-serve and onto the jurisdictional domain do-main of the state, and that if the government insisted it would put the state in an embarrassing position. The state set up that the game laws of the state only allowed an open season during the month of October, while the government sought to have a different season. Chief Justice Taft and other members mem-bers of the court asked the counsel to try to bring the state and federal fed-eral governments into an amicable agreement for the killing off of the surplus deer herd, and to have the carcasses . properly tagged when brought out of state jurisdiction, and that if this was done the court would modify the-decision of the lower low-er court to all of this action. If an agreement is not reached the supreme court will affirm the decision de-cision of the federal court in the case and the state will be ousted from taking jurisdiction in the matter. mat-ter. The case came up on a suit to oust the state's pretended jurisdiction jurisdic-tion over federal reserve in the Kaibab, Kai-bab, the state attempting to enforce the local game laws in governmental government-al domain. |