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Revolver, 20yds.—B. F. Wilder, 87; J. Dietz, 90; M. 
Hays, 85 , 83, 82, 82, 82, 81; T. P. Nichols, 86, 86, 85, 84, 
83, 83, 83; R. M. Ryder, 91, 89, 86, 85, 85; J. L. R. 
Morgan, 84, 81, 81, 79; G. Grenzer, 90, 87, 87; J. E. 
Silliman, 95, 91, 91, 85, 83. 
Jos. E. Silliman, Treas. 
KANSAS HUMOR. 
Twice in one short session the lines were 
sharply drawn between the eastern Kansas con¬ 
tingent and the short grass delegation in the 
house Saturday, where the whole afternoon was 
spent in committee of the whole, with Guyer in 
the chair. The charge of sectionalism was so 
flatly and frequently made as to suggest that a 
revival of the old project to make two States 
out of one, at some time in the near future, is 
not altogether an impossibility. 
Tradition has it that one of the early wars in 
which this republic was involved grew out of so 
trifling an incident as a pig breaking through 
the garden gate of its owner’s neighbor, and the 
division of the Sunflower State may yet be due 
to a clash between the enemies of the jackrabbit, 
which is the pest of western Kansas, and the 
pocket gopher, whose sworn foes are of the 
great alfalfa belt. A grievance of minor im¬ 
portance is complained of by the western men, 
an alleged attempt to deprive them of the right 
to bear arms, guaranteed by the constitution 
itself, without first taking out a license. The 
western part of the State is declared to be 
simply overrun with rabits, particularly jack- 
rabbits, who are wrecking fruit orchards al¬ 
most as fast as they can be set out, and in some 
sections faster. That it should require a license 
to go after these pests seemed as absurd to the 
sufferers as it would be to lay a similar restric¬ 
tion about the killing of a rattlesnake, and they 
were free to charge it up to the desire to swell 
the gun license fund, from which 40 per cent, of 
the receipts was to have been diverted for the 
payment of the bounties. 
The sectional differences displayed themselves 
most prominently in the consideration of a bill 
providing for the payment of a bounty on 
pocket gopher, ground mole and rabbit scalps, 
and to require a license to carry a gun, without 
which, it was not permitted to shoot any wild 
animal or bird except on one’s own premises. 
It was promptly moved to eliminate the rabbit 
feature by striking out Section 2, then to strike 
out the enacting clause, and finally to strike out 
Sections, 2, 3 and 4, covering both bunny and 
the gun license. The latter motion prevailed in 
the end, but not until the whole subject had been 
thrashed over with a vim that at times bordered 
on violence, and the bill was recommended for 
passage as amended. 
In the course of the debate it was stated that 
the absence of a bounty on rabbit scalps is taken 
advantage of by hunters to kill quail and other 
protected game. One hunter went out and first 
killed his rabbit, which he put in his pocket. 
He next ran across a covey of quail, almost in 
a farmer’s doorway, and one successful shot 
brought out the indignant owner. The nimrod, 
who had pocketed his quail, hastily held up the 
rabbit, with, “I’ve killed him, Mr. Farmer!” 
“All right,” said the pacified agriculturist, “go 
ahead and kill ’em all.” and the hunter went 
ahead and, unmolested, killed all the quail he 
could find. 
Bird of Shawnee, who drew the original bill, 
explained that it was aimed exclusively at the 
gopher and ground mole, and that the objec¬ 
tionable sections were supolied by the commit¬ 
tee on agriculture, though he admitted that 
rabbits are becoming destructive and ought to 
havp a price set on their heads. 
Wells, of Graham, declared that the whole ob¬ 
ject of the bill was to increase the revenue under 
the game law and another member said he was 
opnosed to injecting “rabbit” into every bill, 
and to offering a bounty for the scalps of any 
rabbits but “the two-legged kind.” 
A strong advocate of the bill gave his experi¬ 
ence: He put out a bill of $138 of trees four 
years ago; three years ago they were in prime 
condition; to-day they are all gone. They were 
attacked at the roots by gonhers. He would 
have the bounty on gophers fifty cents instead of 
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