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Show THE CITIZEN 12 OUR WILD GAME IS FAST IN COUNTY DISAPPEARING The protection of wild game ha3 been a serious problem with but a few people. With the big majority the slogan has been get the game" and get it they do. We can take for instance in our own state, where there has been abso-lute protection for our wild mountain sheep, goat and antelope. Who of you can remember when the law permitted you to hunt them? There may be a few of the old timers left who can remember those wonderful hunting days when plenty of game could be secured for the going after within gunshot of our city. But today it is different. We can travel days and days and never see a wild animal. If the laws of protection had been lived up to, we would now have many sheep, goats and antelope, together with much other wild game. Now if the animals which have perpetual protection are disappearing, how can we expect those which are subject to an open shooting and hunting season to become more prolific? The fact of the matter is our laws do not protect, except in a very few states where the penalties are so severe and where the law applies to every one residing in or entering the . state. In our state the sheepherder and the cattle man when out on the range takes his chicken or deer in or out of season; many of the farmers do likewise, and the result is that our wild game does not get the opportunity to increase. How often have you heard some one in the country say to come out and get a good feed of wild meat? Some one says, Ive got a couple of nice bucks hangng up in the shed. Come on out, and Ill show you where yoi can shoot some fine sage hens. Another says, just been up to look over the herd nad brought back some nice venison. While it makes ones blood boil to listen to such rank violation of the game laws, one is helpless. If the matter were reported to the proper officials, the parties would deny that they had been guilty, and as a ruU the informer gets himself into unde-s're- d trouble. A few years ago a prominent sportsman saw a number of barrels marked butter standing on a station platform ready for shipment to a point where he was going. Cows were a scarcity there, but wild ducks were plentiful. He formed his own conclusions. When he arrived at the town where the butter was billed for, ho made it a point to get to the. business house soon after the delivery and found the employes opening the barrels, whch contained wild ducks, the killing, shipment and possession of which at the time was contrary to law This sportsman twrote a letter to the game commissioner, advising him of all the facts. What do you thik that commissioner did? He wrote a letter to the game violator and told him regarding THE GREAT OUTDOORS I his shipment and that it had been seen , who had reported it to by Mr the department, and thats about all there was to it. This sportsman afterward learned what had been done, or, in fact, what hadnt been done, and he became disgusted and said that it served him right for giving the information. The sportsman was the goat. It is not the city hunter that gets the game. The game laws were made and are made for him. In order for him to get by the law he must get acquainted in the country. If he has relatives so much the better for an early start. One farmer says, I feed those sage hens all summer and they are mine and when I want one I take it. And that is a general condition we find, not only in our own state, but in other states as well. It has not been so long ago about a year when a sheepherder killed seventeen antelope in the territory bordering Nevada, Idaho and Oregon. When asked why he killed them he said to make room for the sheep. If a man from the city had killed but. one, oh, my! what a scandal and what a fine! But it was all right under the conditions. At this stage of the game, the automobile tourist enters, many of them delight in killing birds and small game with their 22 rifles. It is getting so now that the only life seen in the open is an occasional magpie, blackbird or crow. We have never been strict enough with our wild game and there are many states where the laws are made and controlled by market hunters and fishermen and they will not give up their influence as long as bird, animal or fish live in large enough numbers for profit. The market has been our undo'ng. The most scientific bootlegger of the world is the fellow who traps, kills and fishes out of season, defying all laws in order to get his dollar which is his god. The slaughter of fine plumaged b5rds in the south for the feathers is an unbelievable tale, and no stop was put to it until many of the brds became nearly extinct. Our animals are fast disappearing in the United States. The black bear is coming back in the eastern states, but in the west he fares badly and is killed upon sight at all tmes. Well, whats the use. In a few more years there will be nothing to worry us and we will still have the museums and probably one or two large circusses where we can see the animals such as they are. It does seem a pity though, to see our wild life treated so lightly. ill-gott- en fur-bearin- g President Times Coolidge and Secretary Hughes are exposing the American attitude, ex actly: Willingness to help all nations, when ail the nations need and wish our help, but no partnerships, limited or unlimited. Troy V (N. Y.) 8HARMAN AND BECKER MAY SHOOT AT OLYMPIC GAMES Sam Sharman of this city and G. L. Becker of Ogden have the honor to be selected as two of a team of eight men to represent the United States at the Olympic games to be held in Paris next summer, in a trapshootera tournament for the world title. Becker has been named as an alternate for Frank Troeh and if the latter finds it impossible to attend the shoot, Becker will fill the place. Sharman announces that he will leave shortly for Europe, where he will make a pleasure tour, of the principal countries, visiting points of interest, and he will be present at the Olympic games and ready to shoot when time is called. While not any of the Utah boys have won a world title at the traps, however, we have men who are rated with the best shots of the world. Becker of Ogden tied the worlds record for doubles, breaking 96 out of a possible 100, and Sharman hat; won from the best shots of the world at various tournaments held throughout the coutnry. show his authority, but it shows what people will do when a police badge is tacked to their chest. Hopper has furnished a nice home for these two mice and there is about as much cruelty attached to them as there is to one who is requested to sit down and partake of a big Thanksgiving day dinner. They are grinding away at Hoppers, my boy, They are grinding away. They always stop for dinner, supper and lunch, And then they pile into the hay. The members of this orendeavor to ganization meet personally all those who are patrons of this bank. Individual seivice is one of the characteristics of the Columbia Trust Company. Our officers will discuss yoor problems with you and help you in every possible way. TWO HAPPY MICE ARE GRINDING AT HOPPERS N. C. Hopper, a prominent business man and property owner or this city, was arrested the other day because of displaying two house mice in a glass cage in which Hopper had erected a spnning wheel upon which the mice would run, and apeared to be greatly amsued. Dr. Kendall, humar.e officer, swore to a complaint charging cruelty to animals, ana rnis prominent busienss man was taken to jail and told that if he did not there and then put up a bond he would be thrown behind the bars. That is wnat hurt The abuse he received at the police station. Some thug would probably have been allowed to go upon his own recognizance. When Chef Burbidge saw what the trouble was over and witnessed the mice in their new home where they were fed and heat provded he at once realized "what a big mistake had been made. The chief told Hopper to take his rn'ce and display them as long as he wanted to, as there was no cruelty attached to the contrivance. 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