Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1908 — MICHIGAN LEADS IN DEER. [ARTICLE]

MICHIGAN LEADS IN DEER.

■•▼eral Eutern States Have a Surprisingly Larue Supply. According to reports received by the Agricultural Department, about 12,000 deer were killed or captured In Michigan last year, says the Kansas City Star* Pennsylvania Is not usually counted among the big game States, yet nearly 700 deer were killed, ir mountains there In the T. S. Palmer, of the Agrlcultt colt, 1 pertinent has embodied the repo 0 ' 4, the game wardens of the In Which there is big game In a jMarch; printed In the Agricultural ! aroh ' ment Year Book. . o wf, wt Michigan led In the number 800: 80 klllecfor captured. In Mlnneso .. . eonsln and Texas deer wore u n good plentiful. In the Adirondack tains In New York about SOO de I killed. Hundreds of deer wer or captured In Wyoming, Verm machine Maine. In Wyoming more tl Btrdsel elk and 200 nnteldpe were killg° 0< * bob An Invasion of Wyoming by driver esnl ted in serious Cbnsequeneep ll ®® • 1 game. Two bands of .Utes, eacition. 600 In number, entered the St|i clean latter part of July and the first week In August and penetrated northward >rr Converse, Weston and Cook counties. The Indians stripped the country of game wherever they traveled. They killed hundreds of sage hens and many antelope and deer. The game wardens and State authorities were powerless to prevent these depredations, and It was only .by the aid of federal troops that the Indians were finally returned their reservations. The demand for elk teeth was responsible, as In former years, for the killing of many elk. In Washington a few Indians from the Qulnalt reservation were engaged in killing elk. for tusks In the Olympic mountains, but through the efforts of the Indian agent the practice was promptly stopped. Nov. 20 a carload of trophies, composed of beads, skins, scalps and horns of many elk killed In Wyoming and on the border of the Yellowstone national park and shipped from Idaho to a taxidermist in Los Angeles, were seized in the latter city. Two of the shippers were arrested while unloading the car. At (be preliminary bearing it was shown that they belonged to four teeth hunters who had been operating In Western Wyoming, north of Jackson Hole land along tho southern border of the park. That teeth are used largely for watch toba for member of the older of Elks.