EDITOR'S CORNER. 
The Tacoma, Washington, Lodge of Elks 
has passed a resolution which, after reciting 
the reckless and wicked slaughter of. elk in 
the Olympic mountains for their teeth, de- 
clares that the members of the Tacoma 
lodge will not buy nor wear elk teeth in fu- 
ture, unless they can be assured that elk 
are not being killed for the purpose of pro- 
curing such teeth. 
The resolution also advises other lodges 
of Elks throughout the country to take. sim- 
ilar action. It is high time all members of 
that order should take this important step. 
The real badge of the Order of Elks is a 
gold or bronze elk head, and the wearing of 
elk teeth is a custom which certain mem- 
bers of the order have copied from sports- 
men. Many a man who hunts and kills an 
elk feels inclined to wear one of its teeth 
on his watch chain; but a man who has 
never hunted elk and who simply happens 
to belong to an organization named after 
that animal has no excuse for wearing a 
tooth or any other part of an elk. _Further- 
more, it seems ridiculous that any organiza- 
tion should contribute so largely as this one 
has to the extermination of the animal for 
which it is named. 
Two Chicago game hogs, whose names, 
unfortunately, I have not been able to 
learn, went to Arkansas last fall to shoot 
ducks. They openly disregarded the game 
law of that State, one section of which 
provides that no non-resident of the State 
shall be allowed to hunt therein at any time. 
These Chicago chaps, however, seemed to 
imagine they would not be disturbed in 
violating the law. They reckoned without 
their host. When the men returned to For- 
est City from their 2 weeks’ trip to De 
Roach lake they had with them over 500 
ducks. Sheriff J. D. McKnight, of St. 
Francis county, confiscated the birds and 
strangely enough allowed the men to leave 
town on the next train without being pros- 
ecuted. They should have been fined to 
the full extent of the law, but they prob- 
ably got a lesson that will keep them out of 
Arkansas in the future. 

The Manitoba Legislature has passed the 
League bill prohibiting the use of the auto- 
matic gun in that Province. This is the 
first legislative body in the world to take 
such action. 
important game bird Provinces in Canada. 
Its vast wheat fields are the breeding and 
feeding grounds of more prairie chickens 
Manitoba is one of the most’ 
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than can be found in any other Province, 
or in any State of the Union, and the 
Northern portions of that Province are 
great breeding grounds for ducks and 
geese. It is gratifying to know that the law 
makers of Manitoba have a proper appre- 
ciation of the value of these birds, and that 
they should have been the leaders in the 
movement against this modern slaughtering 
machine. 

_ Leon Kurtes, of Bellville, Ill., saw a deer 
in the woods near his father’s house and 
immediately seized his gun, went after it 
and _ killed it. It proved to be a doe and 
to have belonged to little Mamie Bauer, the 
daughter of a man living a few miles from 
Kurtes, and it had a string of bells around 
its neck. Kurtes was arrested, taken into 
court, and fined $50 and costs. The boy 
said he did not know the deer was a pet, 
and that he did not know there was any 
law in Illinois to prohibit the killing of 
deer. He said he saw the animal and was 
seized with a desire to bring down his first 
pair of antlers, but he probably mistook the 
string of bells for horns. He will be able 
to judge better of markings hereafter. 

Gus Ottevere, of Whatcom, Wash., has 
been for some time smuggling game into 
that town and selling it to restaurants in 
violation of law. Game Warden F. D. Ad- 
ams got a tip that Ottevere was returning 
from one of his rural tours with a number 
of ruffed grouse concealed in a nail keg. 
The warden laid for Smart Aleck Ottevere, 
caught him and took him into the justice’s 
court, where he was fined $100 and costs. 
I regret I have not the name of the justice 
who tried the case, in order that I might 
do him proper honor; but whoever he may 
be, he is a brick. 

A bill was introduced in the New Jersey 
Legislature last winter, at the instance of 
certain fruit growers, allowing the killing 
of robins whenever, in the opinion of a 
farmer or a fruit grower, the birds deserved ‘ 
killing; but the Senate killed the bill by a 
vote of 46 to 8. The Senate is all right. 

Otto Hofstead, of Butte, Mont., was ar- 
rested and fined $25 and costs for merely 
offering venison for sale. It would not pay 
him to make many such offers as this in a 
day. “ 

