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Exodus From City For Opening of Season Seen
The mighty chicken hunters start out tomorrow.
North Dakota’s annual hunting season—the biggest sport of all for some—opens. Seven hundred hunters’ licenses had been issued by the county auditor today, and it was certain that there would be an exodus from the city for the first day of the sport.
State Game and Fish Commission Still Holds Mrs. Shafer’s Furs
Attorney General George F. Shafer and officials of the state game and fish commission are nearing the end of a game of button-button, who’s got the furs, which has created some quiet amusement in unofficial circles here.
It all began during the primary campaign when Mr. Shafer was presenting his plea for recognition by Republican voters as a candidate for the governorship and was the subject of considerable whispering in the latter stages of the campaign.
Several weeks before the primary election the game and fish officials of Minnesota notified the North Dakota Game and Fish commission that Mrs. George F. Shafer, wife of the attorney general, had shipped some beaver hides to a Minnesota furrier to be made into a coat.