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Show BOUNTY LAW NOW IN EFFECT '. i The Amounts to be Paid and Just How to Get Same The new law provides for the payment pay-ment of a bounty of $25.00 each for bears, mountain lions and cougars; $50.00 each for grey, black or timber tim-ber wolves; $2.50 each for coyotes, lynx and bob-cats; 5c each for jack-rabbits, jack-rabbits, and gophers and 3c each for prairie dogs and ground squirrels. To secure the bounty on bears, lions, cougars, wolves, coyotes, lynx and bob-cats, the person killing the same must present to the county' clerk within 60 days from the date of killing such animals the entire skin of such animals including the scalp with the ears, tail, bone to the knee of each foreleg with paws connected; con-nected; except that in the case of mountain lions and cougars the entire en-tire bone of the right foreleg intact from the shoulder down must be presented. In the case of rabbits, the two ears connected must be presented, pre-sented, and in the case of gophers, prairie dogs and ground squirrels, the entire head including the ears must be presented in such a state of preservation as to enable the county coun-ty clerk to identify such animals. All parts of such animale presented present-ed for bounty must be accompanied by an affidavit subscribed and sworn to before the county clerk stating that such animals were killed by the person presenting same in the county coun-ty in which they were presented within 60 days prior to the date of such affidavit. From the above paragraph it will be observed that it is impossible for deputies to be appointed throughout the county to receive and pay bounty for such animals as has previously been the custom whenever bounty has been paid on rabbits, etc, and it will likewise be impossible for clerks to receive parts of such animals ani-mals through the mail and bounty them, because the person killing such animals must subscribe and swear to the affidavit above mentioned before be-fore the clerk. There has been some question as to what are gophers and what are ground squirrels, and in which class chislers properly come, but we are advised that ground squirrels include in-clude what are locally known as chislers, chis-lers, while gophers are more like them, but larger and with a longer and more bushy tall, larger and more round ears, about the same color on the back as a mouse, but lighter under un-der their body. |