Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1916 — HUNTING COSTS 86 LIVES [ARTICLE]

HUNTING COSTS 86 LIVES

Michigan Leads With 22, While 27 Are Killed in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Chicago, Dee. I.—Michigan, as visual,,led the l") states'in which statistics were kept this year tor hunting fatalities. Twenty-two persons were killed in Michigan, while St * fatalities were reported from the 1,1 states. Fif-ty-nine deaths were reported from IS states last year and 111 were killed in 1014. Twenty-seven deaths were the toll of the season, which closed last night, in Wisconsin and the tipper-Michigan peninsula combined. The fatalities by states follow: California, 2: Colorado, 2; Illinois, 13: Indiana, 3: lowa, 4; Maine, 1; Michigan, 22: Minnesota, 12; Missouri, 2: New Hampshire, 1 ; New Jersey, 4; New York, 11 : North Jmkola, 2; South Dakota, 1; Wisconsin. 0; total, Sd. Injuries totaled 4(> in the 11 states, 11 occurring in Michigan. “Mistaken for deer” arid carelessness were the causes of most of th(> accidents.