| Show EXPLODED TALES OF DUCK HUNTERS Exposes Game Gam Being Worked by Local Sportsmen MORE LI LIVE yE ONES THAN EVER h hs Slums Shows Du Daj'S S Search Sloughs One Bodies BinI-Bodies Bodies o of or HJ Others Disappear In Iii an effort to stop slop time the of or ducks Ii it is stated b by the members of or several hunting clubs that reports of the tho d dying ing oft off of oC millions of oC them in the Jordan sloughs and Bear river country have o been circulated to ef effect effect ef- ef feet the time revision o of the the- game laws now that the legislature is in session John Sharp the state slate game and fish commissioner ioner received the float first re report ye- ye port from Crom J. J who ho lives near the thc mouth of or the tue river liver In lii support of the tho story ho brought several dead ducks to Commissioner Sharp to examine ex ex- amine It was found that they had evidently died of starvation stan or some borne disease It was Immediately recommended recommended recommended mended that hereafter the game Same laws I Ibo be bo amended prohibiting the thc marketIng market market- m I lug big of oC ducks duels so that the they would not bo be exterminated Sinco Since these re reports reports re- re ports were received tho the matter has been een investigated and it was found that th thieve there lc were never more ducks Inthe Inthe In Jn the Jordan sloughs alive and flying hying than there are aro this winter The same sarno reports como corno from Bear Dear river Ouo Cripple Clippie Found F. F E. E president of or tho tue state stalo I game and fish association visited the river and waded through the tho sloughs during one entire da day Ho lIo found ono one duck duek which was dead and amid had evidently evidently evi evi- dently been crippled durIn during the huntIng hunt- hunt big Ing season and afterward died It is estimated that for or overy every duck killed and bagged there Is one crippled Mr r. 1 believes that the duck ho he found had been crippled le f and d thai that those found b by Bostin had died from Crom the same sume cause was on tho the trip ti-il with but was unable to produce tho the million ducks dueks or any jany part thereof theror which he had seen the week before lIe He said ho believed that the ator had hall raised since the thaw and ani washed the other dead ducks lucks Into tho the lake No raise ralso has hai been oen noticed In Iii tho tue lakes lake's surface on account of or so many dead lead ducks beIn beIng boIng be- be In Ing washed into It It but before Mr l will make mako any report on the matter ho will wade out lUl ut on the tho sand bars In the luke lake In search of tho the mil mu- lion Hun ducks duels S Birds HillIs in Good foo l Condition There Thoro wore VerO never nover so 50 many ducks alive and Hying as there thoro are now Inthe in inthe the thc Jordan sloughs slough Tho The winter has been mild and und the tho ducks have not migrated There is plenty of oC open water and the ducks appear healthful and antI In good condition Tho The report that they aro are all d dying IDS IDS' off of Is untrue I Ih J t faM In a seasons season's shooting there thero arc are hundreds hundreds hun bun of ducks crippled which will fly a long distance before they thoy drop Sometimes a a. duck struck by a 3 shot shotor or two will live hive for Cor days A crippled duck duel after acter getting Into the rushes I is helpless and will stay there and die It doesn't get out and feed teed and finally final final- ly Iy dies A After l' l wading out to the mouth of or orthe the river I 1 found one dead duck Thero There were no others to soon seen and I believe that the dead ducks that were found on the river wore were crippled from the shooting season I Intend to In Investigate investigate in- in tho the matter mattor more fully rully before before beloro be be- fore loro I mako make any report on oa It for the association Bear III River Ricer vcr Reports Tho The report from Crom tho the Bear river shows hows that there were never more ducks than this year car in that part of or orthe the state There has been beon open water so far during the winter and the ducks s shave have not migrated Tho The ground was gone over by tho the superintendent of oC tho the Gun club and no dead ducks were found that could not be accounted for fOl as cripples from Cram tho the shooting season Ducks arc aro the thc only game gamo that can bo be marketed Tho The laws have been amended prohibiting the lie sale of ot wild chickens quail and deer The Tho laws also prohibit the tho handling of ot trout except from private ponds The duck season is 18 looked forward to with a a. great deal of or pleasure not only to tho the hunter but persons who do not hunt and want ducks to cat For two months in Jn the year tho they aro arc the tho delicacy delicacy delicacy deli deli- cacy of ot the market and the prices arc are arcS S within the reach of ot most any person S 1 It k W fe I. I I. I l J I. I |
