The Oregon Sportsman 



Volume I NOVEMBER 1913 Number 3 



MANSLAUGHTER. 



Five men have been shot for deer in Oregon during the 

 hunting season just ended. Wilber Kime shot George Bingham 

 of Oregon City, on October 30, at Trail Creek in Douglas County, 

 just over the Jackson County line. The underbrush was two 

 feet high where the shooting occured. The coroner's jury re- 

 ports criminal carelessness. Why not let Mr. Kime pay a heavy 

 fine or serve a term in the penitentiary? There must be some 

 method of guarding the lives of people who want to go into the 

 mountains during the hunting season. 



A. P. Conger of Jacksonville shot his brother Elmer through 

 the lungs and killed him — another case of a man mistaken for a 

 deer. 



Peter C. Christiansen shot Albert A. Dixon through the 

 thigh and crippled him in a frightful manner with a soft-nosed 

 bullet. 



Fritz Gerbers shot Herman Schmidt of Grants Pass and one 

 of the Miller boys of Leland shot his elder brother — both hit by 

 bullets intended for deer. 



At the opening of the deer season the State Board of Fish 

 and Game Commissioners advised every deer hunter who went 

 into the mountains to wear a red shirt and a red hat. We have 

 heard people speak in a trivial manner of this advice, but it is a 

 small thing compared to the death penalty. Help spread the 

 doctrine of the red shirt and hat. 



One of the best laws in the Game Code is that which pro- 

 vides for a closed season on all deer except those having horns. 

 For the protection of human life this law must be strictly en- 

 forced. Whenever a hunter waits till he can distinguish the dif- 

 ference between a buck and a doe, he will not be guilty of mur- 

 dering his friend or his relative. 



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