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hunting to save the deer from complete local extinction. How 

 much better it would be to put on the brakes earlier, by limit- 

 ing the number of deer killable each year, on a basis that 

 would preserve the sport of deer-hunting. 



March 18. — New Mexico enacted an excellent new game law (Chap- 

 ter 202) removing antelope, bob white, pigeons and swans from 

 the list of killable game, and giving those species an indefinite 

 long close season. It was also provided that no woman may 

 hunt without a license. , 



March 2 0. — In the U. S. District Court of Kansas, in the case of 

 U. S. vs. McCullogh, wherein the case presented by the prose- 

 cution was weak, the decision of the Court was that the federal 

 migatory bird law is unconstitutional. There is reason to be- 

 lieve that the case of The People was not well prepared, and 

 that under the circumstances an adverse decision was to be 

 expected. 



March 22. — On account of the alarming decrease of moose in Maine, 

 the legislature of that state felt forced to enact a law (Chap- 

 ter 146) prohibiting all moose shooting for four years. 



March 24. — Missouri enacted a law prohibiting the use of motor 

 boats in hunting on the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. It 

 is the expectation that this action, — if complemented by sim- 

 ilar action in Illinois, — will cause the Secretary of Agriculture 

 to reopen wild-fowl shooting on the rivers named for the regu- 

 lar season. 



March 2 6. — Nevada stepped backward by enacting a vicious and 

 inexcusable law (Chapter 277), removing protection from 

 female deer, and beginning anew the killing of antelope. 



March 27. — On the Little Miami, Ohio, a sanguinary battle occurred 

 between a party of four deputy game wardens, headed by Louis 

 Kuertz, Federal Warden, and the fish poachers. Two of the 

 poachers, James L. Liming and Charles Farrar, Jr., who re- 

 sisted arrest by firing at the game wardens with revolvers, were 

 killed, and the third one was captured. The coroner's jury 

 exonerated the game wardens. 



March 31.— The state of Maine enacted a law (Chapter 288) harmon- 

 izing the state law with the regulations of the federal migratory 

 bird law in the matter of open and closed seasons on migratory 

 game. 



April 2. — On a date only one remove from All Fool's Day, the State 

 of Ohio enacted a law (H. B. 24) specifically permitting the 

 shooting of water-fowl in March. 



April 5. — In an outburst of reckless generosity toward wild life, 

 Oklahoma enacted a law (S. B. 333) providing that of the fund 

 derived from hunting license fees, 7 5 per cent shall be paid 

 out for roads and bridges, and 2 5 per cent may go for game 

 protection! Oklahoma is the first state to put the price of the 

 blood of her slaughtered innocents into such sordid causes as 

 roads and bridges. During the last two years severe criticisms 

 have been made by reliable men of Oklahoma regarding the 

 contempt for game laws, intimidation of wardens by politicians, 

 and overlenient judges and juries in that state. 



