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GOT OFF EASY. 
Too often the justices before whom violators 
of the game laws are brought, let their sym¬ 
pathies get the better of them, and the offender 
escapes with a tiny fine. No better method 
than this could be found for bringing contempt 
on the law. A case of this kind was recently 
noted in Connecticut, and now comes an ac¬ 
count of a similar case from Michigan. A 
Michigan paper prints the following: 
“Charles Greene, F. W. Barker and S. D. 
Flunter, all of Flint, Mich., who were arrested 
by Deputy Game Warden St. Clair Wilson for 
killing five deer before their licenses went into 
effect, were given a trial in Iron River Wednes¬ 
day and found guilty of violating the State 
game laws. The justice fined them $35 and 
costs of $16.30 each. 
“The five deer were confiscated, but the 
licenses were corrected and made operative, the 
three men departing again for the woods to 
hunt the balance of the season. The licenses 
were issued by the county clerk, who appeared 
at the trial and stated that the tags were issued 
on Oct. 14 and dated Nov. 6, the hunters giving 
their word that they would not kill deer until 
the latter date. 
“The wardens did a good piece of business 
when they nabbed the three law-breakers, and 
it is hoped they will be able to land more who 
are suspected of the same practice. The county 
clerk who issued the licenses, in violation of the 
State statutes, should be brought to time for his 
action. The convicted men got off too easy; 
they should have been given the limit. The 
people of this vicinity are becoming tired of 
having the lower State farmers make the game 
laws and then come up here and violate them. 
Not all that come up here are of that sort, but 
there are a lot of them, and it is hoped that 
Game Warden Oates and his deputies will make 
it warm for guilty parties.” 
DEER HUNTING TALES. 
From the Upper Peninsula of Michigan come 
a number of deer hunting stories, printed re¬ 
cently in the Ishpeming Iron Ore. The stories 
are as interesting in their various exhibitions 
of human nature as they are on the side of 
sport. Plere are some of them: 
One of the very best hunting yarns of this or 
any other season is told at the expense of Ed¬ 
ward Kessick. a resident of Foster City. While 
hunting in that district recently, Kessick shot 
at and knocked down a large buck. As he was 
about to cut the throat of the buck, Kessick 
noticed another buck a short distance away on 
a hillside. Taking his license from his pocket, 
not stopping to detach a tag, Kessick attached 
it to the horns of the buck at his feet and started 
in pursuit of the second buck. His chase was 
unsuccessful, however, and he returned to the 
place where he had "killed” the first deer. He 
entered the clearing just in time to see his 
“dead” buck disappearing over the hillside with 
his license and two tags flying in the breeze 
from the horns. The bullet from Kessick’s rifle 
had apparently only stunned the animal, and it 
had recuperated during his absence. Kessick 
now wants to know “where he is at.” A buck 
deer has robbed him of a perfectly good license. 
Will the State supply him with a new one, or, in 
case the deer carrying his license is killed, is he 
entitled to the venison and will the State pro¬ 
tect him in his ownership? All of which is 
referred to the State lawyers. 
Willie Dykes, the fourteen-year-old son of 
Supervisor Dykes, came near being the victim 
of a seemingly crazy buck deer while hunting 
in a swamp near his father’s Fence River 
ranch. While standing on a runway Willie 
noticed the buck coming in his direction, and he 
prepared to shoot. The buck, when-it saw the 
boy, instead of becoming alarmed, lowered its 
head, and with neck and back hair erect, 
charged him. The boy, not a little alarmed, 
fired at the buck and his shot broke the right 
foreleg. This wound caused the animal to 
swerve, and as it turned Willie fired again, 
this shot hitting the animal a glancing blow 
across the hips. The wounds only served to 
still further enrage the buck, and he was again 
charging the boy, when a Mr. Hume, who had 
witnessed the adventure, fired at close range 
and the deer fell dead a short distance from the 
boy’s feet. Had the boy been alone the buck 
would undoubtedly have killed him, as his gun 
was empty. A close examination of the buck 
failed to disclose other wounds than those in¬ 
flicted by the boy and Hume, and hunters de- 
