Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1911 — ON MOVE TO DODGE BULLETS [ARTICLE]

ON MOVE TO DODGE BULLETS

Hunter Back From Minnesota Thinks It’s Like Real War—Game Unusually Plentiful. • W

New York.—-Capt. Cushman A. Rice, nephew of the late Senator Cushman K. Davis got b&ck the other day from northern Minnesota, where he has been on a shooting trip, and reported that deer, bear and partridges are unusually plentiful In that pail of the country, but there are few wild duck. Captain Rice, who is on his way to his plantation in Cuba, would have remained longer up there but he says it Is extremely dangerous, owing to the number of persons In the country who are out to shoot something, and who are not over particular as to what it Is they are aiming at “We were about the first to go on a hunting trip in that pert of the world In automobiles,” said Captain Rice. “It was a very enjoyable trip, but so many persons were killed t)y mistake for deer that we decided It was not a safe region to be In. I was told that no fewer than 40 persons have been killed In that way this year. One man whom I knew was found by his friends on the snow. He had a bullet through his lung, but lived long enough to tell how he had got It. He was going through the woods when, as he came to a clearing, he saw some distance away a short, thick-set man raise his rifle and point at him. He yelled but not In time. The shooter, he said, did not stop to offer him any assist ance, but as soon as he realised what be had done, ran off as hard as he oould go. "Lota of persons wear bits of red In their hats when traveling through

that country, but it seems to do ne good, in Wisconsin they have a law which makes you wear a scarlet cap when shooting In the forests, bnt In spite of that I was told that fully 4< persons had been killed in the stats by mistake for animals.”