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CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME, 



A WAY TO CURB HUNTING 

 ACCIDENTS. 



In looking over a list of the hunting 

 accidents for lOlG, it occurred to us that 

 some method should be devised whereby 

 these could be curtailed. 



How would it be to require answers 

 to a printed list of questions to be 

 furnished to all parties applying for 

 hunting licenses — a sort of examina- 

 tion ; for instance : 



1. In getting through a fence, how 

 would you handle your gun? 



2. While riding in an auto or other 

 vehicle, would you have your gun 

 loaded or empty? 



3. Would you ever, under any cir- 

 cumstances, get into a boat or vehicle 

 with a loaded gun? 



4. Would you ever point an empty 

 gun at another person? 



5. Would you ever permit any part 

 of your person in front of the muzzle 

 of your gun? 



G. If bunting in brush or thicket, 

 would you shoot if you saw a move- 

 ment of the brush? 



It seems to us if all applicants were 

 given a good quiz along this line, it 

 would save many lives and limbs. — 

 O. S. Phillips. 



HUNTING ACCIDENTS. 



Out of forty-eight fatal hunting 

 accidents last fall in Illinois, Indiana, F' 

 Iowa, Michigan and Wisconsin, re- 

 corded in the Chicago Tribune, twenty- 

 two occurred in Michigan as against only 

 six in Wisconsin. The reason for the 

 disparity is simple; bucks only might be 

 killed by deer hunters in Wisconsin, but 

 in Michigan they did not have to wait 

 to see the horns. — Recreation, November, 

 1917. 



FAWN SUCCESSFULLY REARED. 



On July 8, 1917, Mr. George C. Walker 

 discovered a dead and partly devoured doe 

 in the vicinity of Squaw Valley. Nearby 

 lay a baby fawn about a week old, in a 

 starving condition. Mr. Walker imme- 

 diately took care of the fawn and cai-ried 

 it to his home at Illikee, on the banks of 



the Truckee River, where he carefully 

 fed it on a bottle, and in less than thirty 

 days the fawn was able to be up and 

 around. 



Mr. Walker applied for and received 

 permission from the Fish and Game Com- 



. 30. Orphaned fawn sviccessfullv reared on 

 a bottle. The airedale dogs are good friends 

 of the fawn. Photograph by Geo. C. Walker. 



mission to keep the fawn, which was duly 

 christened Tillicum (in the Indian lan- 

 guage "Good Luck"). Mr. Walker's aire- 

 dale dog and the fawn became great pals, 

 and the two roamed the hills at large, 

 always I'eturning, however, for meals. In 

 a short space of time the fawn became 

 such a pet that at times it was almost a 

 nuisance (see fig. 30). 



When Mr. Walker returned to his win- 

 ter residence in Oakland about the last of 

 September, he shipped the fawn down 

 there, where it has attracted considerable 

 public attention, especially because of its 

 tameuess. — Joseph H. Sanders. 



