| Show THE KILLING OF ELK IN TOOELE COUNTY in our issue of december 16 we ne reproduced in our editorial column an article which had been published in the citizen a salt lake beekly weekly and had for its it subject a certain elk hunt staged last fall in tooele thoele county our fish and game commissioner mr D H 31 adsen took exception ec eption to some of tile the sa statements in that article and although they were only quoted and not given as our own observations we gladly comply with mr Mad maddens sens request to give publicity to his side of the subject matter leaving it to our readers to form forill their own conclusions mr madsen says among other things first of all let me say to you that the governor was in denver colorado at the time the elk were killed now as to the facts no member of this department and no state employee participated participate I in this hunt except myself the horses and men who a assisted salted in the hunt NN ere cre provit pro vidol lod by the property owners who complained of damage and the only request made by me was that the president of the tooele thoele county fish and game protective association be present dur j ing the hunt four elk were killed i and sold and the funds turned into this department a as provided by law the writer lid did not and never has shot an elk during any of the hunts of this character that have been conducted as provided by law the action of the department was vindicated by the sportsmens sports mens association of tooele thoele county as well as by the county newspaper and everyone else connected with the affair 1 I should not have taken any notice of these reports except fo for r the fact that a number of my friends in the southern part of the state have written for information and for the further fact that in fairness to governor dern dem his name should not in any manner be connected with this bit of gossip I 1 am well aware of the fact that at this time when the appointment of a game commissioner is soon to he be made we ive may expect all sorts of stories to be float afloat a and that is perfectly all right I 1 am agreeable to the scandal mongers bongers having their holiday the work of this department is an open book to the people of the state and speaks for itself and I 1 have no apologies whatever to make for Ws this hunt or for any other official act during my administration |
