Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 117, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1911 — Crow Bounty Claims Not Numerous But Troublesome. [ARTICLE]

Crow Bounty Claims Not Numerous But Troublesome.

The crow bounties are not going to be so numerous apparently as it was thought they would be, but the business may take a boom after the corn is planted. Up to Monday evening there had been a total of 162 heads brought to the auditor's office. t This would amount to bounty in the sum of $16.20. There had also been about a hundred eggs and this would be $5 more, Lee H. Meyers, of Kniman, filed a claim for the greatest number erf crow scalps. He brought in 26 ahd filed his claim for $2.60. Howard Speaks, a Rensselaer boy, brought in the greatest number of eggs. He has a claim for $1.15, for one crow head and 21 eggs. One claim is for only 10 cents and another is for 25 cents for 5 eggs. It is probable that this claim can not be allowed as the law provides that eggs must be 10 or more at one time. Crpw hunting is not proving very profitable and some who had expected to kill a large number of the black robbers have found them •so wary that they have given up In disgust