Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1910 — Prairie Chickens Protected. [ARTICLE]

Prairie Chickens Protected.

George W. Mlles, state fish and game commissioner, has called the attention of Benton county sportsmen to the fact that the general assembly of 1909 enacted a law making it an offense to kill a prairie chicken within six years from the time the act became a law. Benton county hunters took exception to orders posted by state game wardens against shooting prairie chickens, and appealed to the state commissioner for an official statement of the law. Undefe* the act, prairie chickens are given equal protection with Hungarian quail and pheasants.