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Bird - Lore 



and the lull 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 position of having 

 legislative and executive departments 

 completely antagonistical to all effoil 

 toward protection or conservation. \Vc 

 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 induce our new legis- 

 lature to pass a new and much-needed 

 law, thus wiping out the shameful legacy 

 of our last administration. 



We have gotten the Park Board of 

 Kansas City to issue an order that all 

 their employee.s, including policemen and 

 street sweepers, must be able to pass 

 an examination on the suliject of birds 

 and their relation to man and agrii ul- 

 ture. 



We have agreed to furnish free to 

 the park board a sufficient number cjf 

 bound volumes to enable them to teach 

 this subject to their employees. We 

 intend to bind up pamphlets of the De- 

 partment of .Agriculture and National 

 Association in book form. — II. K. 

 Walmslev, President. 



Audubon Warden Murdered 



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

 ployee of the South Carolina Audubon^ 

 Society, was brutally murdered about 

 the middle of September. 



He was shot from ambush l)y an assas- 

 sin concealed by the roadside only a few 

 feet away. It was just after dark, and 

 Reeves, who was a young and prosperous 

 farmer, was returning home from carry-" 

 ing hands from the fields to their houses. 

 He was shot with a full charge of buck- 

 shot, bcjth wads and shot l)eing found in 

 and on the liody, whicli was carried by 

 his mules to Reeves' premises, where he 

 was later discovered. 



The assassin had gone down a small 

 branch of about fifty yards, mounted a 

 mule and rode away. Bloodhounds were 

 sent down at once from Columbia, but 

 would not trail the 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; 

 they had repeatedly made threats against 

 Reeves, and this can be pro\ed. Both are 

 notorious fish-pirates. 



These men had been warned by Reeves 

 and threatened with prosecution, and they 

 had resented it bitterly. 



Governor Ansel has offered a reward 

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

 tive. This should be done, and it would 

 be done, but 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 governor strongly, and he has been 

 advised to use certain men in ferreting 

 out this crime; this should ])i' done for 

 the honor of the state. 



The Audubon people are very much 

 stirred over this murder, and if the assassin 

 is caught he will be hanged. 



The whole case is known to several 

 jjcople, and if a detective went in there, 

 he would find out enough in short order 

 to hang somebody. Branchville has long 

 been headquarters for a nest of criminals — 

 about ei^ht in all. Thev ]ia\e committed 



