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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1907)
Proteefe New Laws in Effect This Month Wherever Men Go now m Dwass ore - - J w.k -., .:; - -.- , . ' -y ::.vti: -cs 1 s -l.-r,iT5!tv. -W v. mzmbzm&zjL urn BY JOHN ELFRETH "WATKINS. NI.MRODS.. now taking down their guns and planning Itineraries for their regular Autumn shooting, must look oxceedlnd sharp this season, for the legislatures of 1907 v-ve been un usually active In passing laws affecting the shooting of game, big and little. I learn from the Federal biological survey, which maintains a clearing house for such Information, that 180 statutes af fecting game have this year been passed by our states and the provinces of Canada. Sportsmen In all of our states except Georgia, Florida, New Jersey, Nevada and North Dakota will have new laws to learn if they wish to be on the mfe side and escape fines or possible Im prisonment. Automatic Guns Tabooed. New acts prohibiting the use of "auto matic guns" are among the most novel of those passed this year. Hunters going Into Pennsylvania, Ontario or New Bruns wick will find serious trouble awaiting them If they attempt to use these fowling pieces of the magazine type, as those commonwealths have Just prohibited their use. Before another year has passed this prohibited sons will very probably be con siderably widened. In nea. ly every haunt of the American gunner the voice of the old-school sportsman Is raised against the utomatlo gun. Bills to prohibit its una liave this year been before the legislatures f New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Oregon, Rhode Island, Texas and Wash ington, 'and some of these states are likely to pass such legislation next Spring. Motor Boats Under the Ban. The motor boat, too, has been started upon the downward course of disfavor by the old-scliool sportsmen. One of Dela ware's laws of 1907 prohibits duck shoot ing In Indian river or Rehoboth bay from boats not propelled by oars, and this agi tation will probably extend into other states in the course of the months to fol low. In Pennsylvania and Wisconsin boats, guns and decoys used in hunting ducks In violation of law will be con fiscated by the state. New laws for the prevention of Hunting accidents have also been passed and agi tated this yesr. These are provoked by the increasing number of casualties re sulting from the poor aim of unskilled hunters and the great range of the mod ern rifle. The rifle is hereafter forbidden deer hunters in New Hamphshire, and the wistfui-eyed denlxens of the forext wilds must be riddled by shotguns thaiAs to those gunners who have been shooting their guides and the numerous non-combatants of the woods. Malue is agitating a bill excluding firearms of all kinds from Its woods during the entire cloi season, and Minnesota has before its legislature another prohibiting the use of tlrearms within three miles of cities of 60.0U0 pop ulation or more. One of Wisconsin's new lams prohibits the use of rift- In hunt ing waterfowl, except goose or brant. Head-Hunting a Felony. Big game of all sorts comes in for increased protection under many radi cal laws passed this year. Wyoming, for example, has Just made headhunt ing and tuskhuntlnfr a felony, and au thorises the payment of 1300 reward to persons detecting violations, it fur thermore reduces the bag limit and export limit of big game from two carcasses to one. Americans who go after big game up in Alberta Province, Canada, must look out for another novel law of this year requiring that all heads f big game be stamped by the Minister of Agricul ture before being sold. This official stamping will cost $5 apiece for heads of elk, caribou, moose and wild sheep, and 2 apiece for those of deer, ante lope and wild goat. For each big game trophy taken out of the province Jo must be paid, regardless of species, and $1 must be forfeited for each doxen of birds exported. This is all good law, and our own big game states should take notice, for our wild quadrupeds of the mountains, woods and prairies are being ruthlessly slaughtered largely to supply trophies to wealthy persons possessed of the rad for converting their houses into zoological museums, suggesting the prowess of the owner. However, this year's laws show good progress on our own part along many lines. Saving Antelope, Moose and Elk. Our antelope come in for some much needed protection. They cannot be hunted anywhere In Nebraska from now on Indefinitely, and $130 Is the penalty attached, while Texas will give the same absolute protection until 1912. and Utah until 1911. Colorado establishes close seasons for them, and Manitoba gives complete protection to females. Colorado establishes close seasons for both sexes. Antelope hunters may, how ever, find a new opening fn Montana, which now opens a season from Sep tember 1 to December 1. Moose , cannot be shot at any time in Wisconsin hereafter, according to this year's law, and Manitoba gives complete protection to females. Up In Nova Scotia moose hunting la to be miowea only during October and No vember, except on Cape Breton Island. where it is to be forbidden entirely until uio. Elk hunting is hereafter forbidden in Utah until 1911, and Colorado has ex tended the same absolute protection to ine same year. Manitoba's new law protects all females, and Alberta-Province establishes close seasons for all. The threatened extermination of these noble quadrupeds has been due largely to "tusk" (antler) hunters, and the bio logical survey, intrusted with the prosecution of illegal interstate com merce In game, has in the past var confiscated scores of elk tusks. Wyom ing especially has lately suffered In this wsy, despite its close season and export limitations for these animals, and its Legislature recently memorial ised the "Benevolent and Protective Or der of Elks'" to discourage the use of elk turfts among its members. Mountain Sheep and Caribou. The mountain sheep, another victim of the vandal, cannot be hunted until 1911 In Utah, and 1912 In Texas, ac cording to this year's laws, while Colorado has extended its absolute pro tection for four more years, and Al berta has decided to keep up the bars until 1909 not only for mountain sheep, but for mountain goat Caribou also receives increased pro tection from this year onward in the Canadian provinces. Newfoundland prohibits hunting in a certain region on Grand Lake, where many American gunners have lately gene, and Mani toba forbids the hunting of females. In NovaScotia the sale of caribou Is forbidden until 1910. Our fast-vanishing buffalo cannot be hunted hereafter in Manitoba, one of the last hunting- grounds left. In New York an attempt to aid in preserving this noble creature failed this year, when a bill carrying an appropriation of (20,030 for the establishment nr herd of buffalo In the Adirondack Park was veiooa by tho Governor. Many New Laws Affecting Deer. Deer hunters will fronted by a veritable labyrinth of laws passed this year. In Vermont hereafter every one killing a deer must exhibit the ueaa to ine nearest deputy game warden or be nicely fined for his negligence. Wis consin prohibits the hounding of deer and the possession of dogs In. hunting ur minoar camps within the deer coun try. Maine limits each lumber camp to uoer per season and individual resl dents to One Tier season. NehrflnlrA ffr. bids deer hunting Indefinitely on penalty of J1O0 fine, and Tennessee until 1911. North Carolina forbids hunting until 1910 in 17 counties, and Wisconsin indefinite ly in 16 counties. Maine gives increased protection in certain localities, and Texas reduces the bag limit to three deer season. Pennsylvania's new law, passed this Summer, prohibits the shooting of any except male deer with horns that can be plainly seen. A doe, fawn or spike buck cannot be killed only bucks wnose norns are developed. This law Is purposed to protect mankind as well as the deer, since statistics show that hun dreds of men are killed in the woods by nervous hunters who, on seeing the brush move, blaze away at it, and thus Increase the coroner's business vastly. Greater care 1 will be taken now that hunters must hold back their fire until certain that their target is a male deer with corns. New Fields for Deer Hunters. Good news for the deer hunter comes. however, from New Hampshire, where a season has been opened in the southern half of the state; from Montana, where the season has been lengthened 15 days: from New York, where the season will open two weeks earlier, or on September 16; from Oregon, where male deer may be shot after July 15. instead of August 15. and from South Carolina, where the sea son has been lengthened in Dorchester County. Utah's new law permits residents to shoot two deer each in October, but non residents are not permitted to shoot them at any time. Deer have become a nuisance to farm ers In some states, where herds come out of the woods and destroy crops. Bucolic citizens who have thus suffered enter tain small respect for the protection laws. For their relief special legisla tion has tills year been passed in Rhode Island. Massachusetts, New Hampshire and New Brunswick, permitting them to be shot for the protection of crops. In Rhode Island crops can thus be protect ed only under permit of the Secretary of State, while Vermont provides for the payment by the state of damages done by deer. New Brunswick . permits the use of shotguns In protecting crops tnere- from. - Sir. Squirrel and Bre'r Rabbit. Squirrels are protected by new laws of this year In California, Illinois. 'Indiana, Massachusetts. Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. Maine gives these rodents complete protection for four years( New Hampshire forbids the shooting of 'grays i Forth to Slay Animals and Birds Automatic Guns and Motor Boats Are Now Under the Ban in Various Localities until 1913 and Vermont closes a season for gray squirrels specifically. California, on the other hand, opens a gray squirrel season. Indiana removes Its protection for rabbits, and Pennsylvania lengthens its raoDic season to open October Id. To encourage propagation of game or to provide for the establishment of game preserves several states have this year enacted new laws. Massachusetts pro vldes for buying on Martha's Vlnevard i lands to be useu as a state preserve for ine neatn nen and sets aside a part of auuuiesex fens as a zoological park. California provides for the setting aside of private lands as game preserves. Penn sylvania establishes In Its forest reserva tions state game preserves, which are to be nine miles in circumference and 25 miles apart. A perpetual close season for both game and birds is to be pro claimed in each, and those who enter with either guns or dogs may abandon hope ' escaping a heavy penalty. No one will be allowed to even enter them during the close season for game. Alberta prov ince aiso establishes two game preserves. New Laws Affecting Guides. Hunters going Into Canada this Fall will find a number of new laws affecting guides.- No Yankee guides will be per mitted to hunt in New Brunswick no non-resident guides whatever, in fact but, whereas the number of hunters per mitted to employ one guide has hitherto Deen nve. It has been reduced. to two all of which will be very Drofltable to the New Brunswick guides. But under the new law they must make a report to the autnoruies or each game animal of each species killed by their parties. The non- resiaent guide Is to be discriminated against also by Newfoundland, where his license Is Increased from $26 to 150. Nova Bcotia provides a M guide license. Non-resident gunners will themselves find many new legal obstacles in our own states. For the first time they will be re- quirea to pay tor the pleasure of shooting a $15 license In Texas and Alabama; $10 in California. Connecticut. Massachu setts, Michigan, Rhode Island, South Ca rolina and Utah. The New Brunswick authorities gallantly provide for the re turn of the license fee of ladies accom panying hunting parties If they kill no game. Georgia, Nevada, New Mexico and uaianoma are the only areas left In the United States where non-residents are free from license, and even residents must in 21 states and territories pay small fees for hunting licenses Alabama. Cali fornia, Connecticut, Tennessee and Utah establish these this year for the first time. Connecticut and Maine this year Impose special licenses of $15 upon alien hunters, as has been done before in other states. Many New Dock Laws. Our bird hunters, too. will fln a plethora of new game laws to assim ilate before taking to the wilds. Ducks are the most favored class of feathery bipeds in the grist of this year's legis lation. California absolutely prohibits rnnnitiar fn, thm r.i... j. j o ' - ...... ... .uiwi nuu BQUCeB from 100 to 50 the number allowed in possession at one time, and Connecti cut forbids Spring shooting of all water fowl. Maine will hereafter al low only 10 ducks to be taken out of the state. nH IK... r.r I... v ported only upon payment of a fee of $5. But duck hunters will this year find the ban let down somewhat by Pennsvlvanla. Main an tj Sire, which have lengthened their sea- mvvri irx" M n - r 1 if T"i t" ii n in Ti i --..---'T-1-----y ;-'r Jrf J'Uvnltrs Resting amo the Bi Tree , Oregon . fr It G EE E AMfelii ' --i rJt..fJilK KI-,..i, ..- , m One Day's 5port. Lower Perd d' Oreille, "Raver. Idaho sons, the first named going so far as to abolish the bag limit. Quail are given Increased protection In Tennessee, Wisconsin," Colorado, Connecticut, Kansas and New Hamp shire. In Washington and parts of Or egon they cannot be hunted until 1912; in Connecticut until 1911. Michigan and Kansas prohibit gunning for European partridges for five and six years, and Maine forbids any one taking more than six partridges out of the state in any season. Ontario, however, opens a three months' season, which will at tract many American gunners. Wild Turkey and Prairie Chicken. The fast-disappearing wild turkey, so highly esteemed for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners, can no longer be hunted in Colorado, while other pro PAY THROUGH COLLEGE IwoGirls Make a Comfortable Income Baking a Rolled If V B ARB Pay'" our way ly through college by making w" and selling rolled wafers," explained the larger of two young women who were busy setting to rights a small apartment on the upper West Side when visited by a New York Sun reporter. "This is the third year that we have de pended on rolled wafers ana we are about as sure of success as a business man who has an established trade and orders ahead covering nine months. "Both my friend and I have to earn all the, money we spend. When we first came to New York to go to college we had only enough to pay our expenses for that one year. Our plan was to take a year at a time, working between whiles until we finished the course. "During that Spring we were invited out to a luncheon. The hostess was a woman I had met several years before in the South. At the luncheon she men tioned the rolled wafers she had eaten on my mother's table and said what a nice addition they would make to a luncheon It one could only get them in New York. "After we returned home that evening my friend asked me If I knew how to make rolled wafers. Of course I did. Every girl brought up in the South by a mother who takes pride in her house keeping picks up "such knowledge as nthking rolled wafers and beaten biscuit without being taught. My friend suggested that I send home for a wafer iron and that we try making them for sale. As our hostess had ex pressed her willingness to pay any price for them I thought we might as well make the venture. When the wafer iron came we made three dozen wafers and sent them to that, woman. I wrote her a note saying they were made by a friend of mine, and as she had expressed a desire to have some, I had suggested sending them. The price was stated on the box so there could be no mistake. "The messenger returned with a most enthusiastic note of thanks, and besides sending a check for those delivered she added the price of 10 dozen more. She very frankly stated that she did this to make my friend feel herself under obliga tions to fill her order. We were glad enough to fill the ob ligation, you may be sure. When we de livered those wafers I decided to make a clean breast of . the matter and let her into our secret. I have always fancied that she guessed it from tne very first, though she had too much tact to say so. My telling her the truth was. I am sure, the best move I could have made. She not only gave us orders for wafers to be r I il 1 1 i ii li 1 1 in i mm niTT-T nn itmr in iil'tnnm im'mi n- n i in an ubii tin i i ni h ' i tective measures are provided by Illinois and Texas. The thinning of the prairie chicken's ranks has caused Texas to forbid its hunting for seven and Missouri for three years, while Wyoming and Kansas make their pro tective laws more strict; but here again Ontario comes to the rescue with a new open season of three months. New Hampshire's new law alms to in crease the life of the killdeer, Bar tramian sandpiper, wood duck and Wilson snipe, while Massachusetts comes to the relief of the gull, owl, eagle and even the hawk. Nongame Birds Protected. In fact, one of the signs of the times is the Increasing esteem for non game birds. West Virginia, Alabama and South Dakota decree this year that used at all her receptions, but exerted herself to get her friends to order also. "We made enough that Spring to buy our Summer clothes and what was much more to the point, we booked orders enough for the next Autumn and Winter to convince us that we would be warranted in coming back to col lege with no other means of paying our expenses. My friend advised us to do it. She said she was sure we could make enough to pay expenses. If not more. "Do you know that that has proved a great danger to ua both? We can get so many orders and always see where we can use the money to advantage that it has been hard for us to refuse orders nu tuunns ourselves to enough to oc cupy us during our spare moments. We made up our minds from the first never to neglect our studies for the sake of making a few dollars to make our ex penses, but not a dollar more. "As you see, our apartment has three rooms and a kitchenette. We were told that it was the cheapest way to live In ,w Tork nd hav found it so. "Of course, we do our own work, that Is except laundry work. Now that we have all the orders for wafers that we can fill we have found that it takes leas time to make wafers enough to pay for our washing than to do It ourselves. "Our kitchenette is all that is neces sary for-light housekeeping. Rolled wafers? Oh rolled wafers are only sponge cake batter baked in wafer irons the lightest of light housekeep ing. "That is our one and only trouble, getting good wafer irons. I have neves been able to find than v... York, eo both of us made a business to nunt them that first Summer when we returned home. w Kmio-h , . , . - -o-'i mem or women who had several pairs or who . " . " u'naT mem. we now have six rjalrs. but nniv ii,... . . - ve cauea satisfactory. 'Both wafer a.nA waffl. t- . proved by use. All th iiti. . , " are worn off or disappear and then thVy "One person can easily handle three wafer Irons. It --i . . both cook at the same time. Yes per. haps we might if all six of our irons were as good as we would like "We do use th th-.. i . but mostly for making corn wafers for our own use. Vn, , . . ii lucai a rougtt iron Is not so objeotionable. as the batter aoes noi sacs as easily as cake batter Sometimes we malta ni.in i . . . . nuci wacers to order, but not often. It Is only when none shall be hunted. One of the odd laws is a new one of Hawaii providing protaotlon to birds beneficial to for esta. An echo of the pure-food crueadt which will interest the ears of gun ners Is sounded in new laws in In diana and Idaho restricting the cold storage of game, and a very wise on in Kansas forbidding the placing ol undrawn game in cold storage. Other novel laws are one in -Alabama pro viding that the game commission be elected directly by the people, and an other, by Idaho requiring the state warden to Investigate means of de stroying noxious animals. South Caro lina places the protection of its game into the hands of the state Audubon Society, and gives it the powers of a game commission. Washington. D. C, Oct- 5. ON WAFERS . Southern Delicacy. our customers wish a change from the rolled wafers. "As our first order for this season is to be delivered before 6 o'clock tomor row, you see we haven't returned to town any too soon. That Is the way the or- der was given, for the afternoon after our arrival as early in September as we could return. "We have an order from that man ha is an old bachelor for every afternoon that we are in town. Three dozen rolled wafers, and I have ieard that he eats two dozen himself. "As it only takes seven dozen a day to keep us going comfortably, you see we don't have to have many besides that one order to reach our limit. All goods are paid for on delivery, so we have no trouble about collecting. "The two children of our laudress de liver for us and return with the money for each order. I can't see why it would not be a good business for somo one or more women here in New York "Everybody, so far as I know, would like to have rolled wafers for teas or luncheons. There is nothing more dain ty, and I have yet to see the person who Is not fond of them. Our trouble at home was to get enough. "It is the same way here. Ladles from whom we get our orders complain that they never have enough. One woman for whom we make ten dozen a day on the days which she is at home to her friends complains that she never has enough to last the whole afternoon, that it has be come a standing Joke among her friends that those who want to get wafers must come early. "Even bef husband has fallen into the habit of leaving his business earlier in the hope of being in time to get a few wafers. With such complaints as these always coming in, I see no reason why an enterprising woman shouldn't make a snug little sum by supplying fashionable teas with rolled wafers." A Western Apologue. Puck. X knoircd a cuss called "Lonesome Dan," Born slmlet-eyed an' tripger-qulck. The ne plus ultra hold-up-man - A woolly wolf from Bitter Creek. Ha took his toll on every trail An' always dodged the rope an' pn; At last h stopped the V. 8. Mall n' ssy! but there wus doln's than To make a buckskin bronco laugh! Where 'once he stood is Jest a dent, . An' over that the epitaph. "He bucked agin' the Government." Perhaps our laws were made to break With open scorn or crafty stsalth; Perhaps 'tis Impious to make A curb to check deftant Wealth: Yet. men of iron, eke of coal, - Tet, mighty magnates proua or spoil, O corporations void of soul, O salntlv John exudinr oil. Your Uncle Cam Is meek and mild, ' But e'en his patience may be spent; So. take this indv from a child uon t Duck agin' ths oovarnment. "
