STATE GAME AND FISH WARDEN. 



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lias been derived from the sale of alien fishing licenses but 

 this has been mostly from the Japanese railroad laborers. 

 Large numbers of these foreign laborers are possessed of 

 firearms. Shot-guns and pistols are the favorite weapons of 

 these classes. Several of the deputies in this department have 

 narrowly averted shooting scrapes when making arrests of 

 foreign violators. I believe that the Alontana codes should 

 prohibit all aliens from being in possession of firearms, except 

 when they are possessed of hunting licenses for so doing. 

 There should be a severe penalty attached to a violation 

 of this proposed provision which would operate as a prevent- 

 ative of many fatal shooting scrapes among themselves as well 

 as protect the game of the state. 



Bull LIk of the West, Gallatin Basin. 



For a fleeting 



ELK. 

 The pride of our game animals is the elk 

 glance at the tossing antlers and the sound of the whistle of a 

 frightened bull elk, many lovers of nature and her animals 

 would travel across a continent. In Montana, hundreds of 

 these kingly animals are killed by the sportsmen every year, 



