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Bird - Lore 



and the full annual report will be issued 

 about December 15, and may be had from 

 the secretary. — James Henry Rice, Jr., 

 Secretary, 336 Pine Street, Spartanburg, 

 S. C. 



Missouri. — Again Missouri is com- 

 pelled to report little achievement, but 

 much encouragement. Missouri has re- 

 sponded very faintly to all efforts to arouse 

 a sentiment for protecting her wild life, 

 owing to her unfortunate ])osition of having 

 legislative and executive departments 

 completely antagonistical to all effort 

 toward protection or conservation. We 

 have endeavored to arouse interest, but 

 have succeeded only in getting the press 

 interested. This will no doubt be a wonder- 

 ful help in the future, as the entire press 

 of the state is now advocating new and 

 proper laws. But we feel that Missouri 

 will soon be able to report more progress 

 for the Audubon movement than any other 

 State. 



We have just elected as governor Mr. 

 Herbert S. Hadley, and he is an ardent 

 advocate of protection to wild life and the 

 conservation of our natural resources. 

 It is the first time in her history that Mis- 

 souri has had at her helm an educated, 

 liberal-minded statesman, who recognizes 

 the needs of the state and her people. With 

 the aid of Governor Hadley and the press, 

 we shall probably indiue our new legis- 

 lature to pass a new ami much-needed 

 law, thus wiping out the shameful legacv 

 of our last administration. 



We have gotten the Park i^oard of 

 Kansas City to issue an order that all 

 their employees, iiK hiding |)olircincn and 

 Street sweejiers, must he able to i)ass 

 an examination on the subject of birds 

 and their relation to man and agrii id- 

 ture. 



We have agreed to furnish free to 

 the park board a sufl'icienl number of 

 bound volumes to enable tlu-m to leach 

 this subject to their employees. We 

 intend to hind up pamphlets of the De- 

 partment of .\gric idture and National 

 Association in book form. 11. K. 

 Walmsi.EY, President. 



Audubon Warden Murdered 



L. V. Reeves, who was a faithful em- 

 ployee of the South Carolina Auduborh 

 Society, was brutally murdered about 

 the middle of September. 



lie was shot from ambush by an assas- 

 sin concealed by the roadside only a few 

 feet away. It was just after dark, and 

 Reeves, who was a xoung and prosperous- 

 farmer, was returning hcjme from carry- 

 ing hands from the tields lo their houses. 

 He was shot with a lull < harge of buck- 

 shot, both wads and shot being found in 

 and on the body, which was carried by 

 his mules to Reeves' premises, where he 

 was later discovered. 



The assassin had gone down a small 

 branch of about fifl}- yards, mounted a 

 mule and rode away. Bloodhounds were 

 sent down at once from Columbia, but 

 would not trail ihe mule and thus the trail 

 was lost in the public highway. 



The morning of the same day Reeves- 

 was shot, two men bought buckshot shells- 

 at St. George, about seven miles away; 

 ihey had repeatedly nuule threats against 

 Reeves, and this can be jjroved. Both are 

 notorious fish-pirates. 



These men had been warned by Reeves 

 and threatened witli ])rosecution, and they 

 had resented it bitterly. 



Governor .\nsel has ottered a reward 

 of $500, but he has not employed a detec- 

 tive. This should be clone, and it would 

 be done, l)ut we have no funds at present 

 for such a purpose and are staggering 

 under the burden of enforcing the laws. 



The situation has been placed before 

 the go\cTnor strongU', anil he has been 

 achised to use certain men in ferreting 

 out tliis crime; this should be done for 

 the- honor of the state. 



The .Audubon people are \ery much 

 stirred over this murder, and if the assassirv 

 is c aught he will be hanged. 



The whole case is known to several 

 people, and if a detective went in there, 

 he would t'lnd out cnougli in short order 

 to hang somebody. Hranchville has long 

 been headquarters for a nest of criminals — 

 aboiU eight in all. The\' liaxe committed 



