Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

Appalling List of Fatalities During Deer Hunting Season.
One hunter was killed or wounded for every sixty-five deer killed in the north woods of Wisconsin and northern Michigan in the hunting season which has just closed. Forty-two nimrods were either slain outright or died from their wounds, many of them being shot down by overzealous hunters, who fired at anything that moved the brush and undergrowth ahead of them. Twenty others were wounded, many of them seriously, and the death total may be swelled by several additions in the course of the next fortnight.
With all the sacrifice of life the hunting season was not successful from the standpoint of game. It is estimated that not more than 4,000 deer were killed in the twenty open days. This is one-third less than the total of a year ago. The falling off is attributed to the lack of snow in the woods, which made it impossible to track deer, except with dogs, and this is forbidden by law.
Even this frightful list of hunting casualties, due in almost every instance to someone’s carelessness, is exceeded by the list of dead and wounded due to accidents to hunters of ducks, partridges, rabbits, and other small game.
There is again some talk of the enactment of a law in Wisconsin similar to that of Michigan, which makes the killing of a man by mistake for a deer manslaughter, and punishable by a ten-year term in prison.