Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1897 — A Crowd Of Sportsmen Enroute to Jasper County. [ARTICLE]

A Crowd Of Sportsmen Enroute to Jasper County.

A large covered wagon that passed the city Monday night about six o’clock aroused considerable curiosity. It contained, besides five men, a couple of bird dogs and an abundant supply of ammunition and camp fixtures. The bottom of the wagon resembled a grocery store, for all manner of provisions were carried. The men were William Beik, James Grants Chris Grell and Bob Hulley of LaFountaine, and Henry Beik of Wabash. They were enroute overland to the happy hunting ground of Jasper and Benton counties where they will hunt, prairie chickens being their special “meat.” The game law lets up a little on the sportsmen

about 'the first of September, and these men expect to remain until the close of the open season if their luck is good. They will sleep in their wagon, and as as far as possible deny themselves the luxuries of civilization during their outing.— Logansport Journal. But if the aforesaid gang of wholesale prairie chicken exterminators should run up against a few prosecutions and fines for hunting on other people’s lands without permission, they would find that there were some “luxuries of civilization” that they could not deny themselves pf, after all.