Roosevelt Standard | 1943-10-07 | Page 5 | Ruling Okehs Extension on Bounty Claims

Ruling Okehs Extension on Bounty Claims i It is possible under the bounty law of the 1943 legislature to pay i bounties on animals killed after September 1, although payments cannot be made until March 1 of next year. Attorney General Grover A. Giles held Sunday in I an opinion to Don E. Kenney, ! member of the state agricultural commission. Bounties to be paid from a fund raised through special levies on livestock growers, are as follows: Mountain lion or cougar, $15; gray black or timber wolf, $15 coyote, $6; lynx or bobcat, $6. Bounties will not be paid on an-f- imals caught by federal and state trappers. Mr. Kenney said that anyone who uses fraud in an effort to obtain bounty money will be held by the law to be guilty of a felony punishable by a fine of from $100 to $1000 or by imprisonment from one to five years.