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have had prosecutions in his hands, but have not been able to get him to 

 prosecute, but prol)a])ly vvil] after court adjourns, which I think will V>e 

 this weel<. 



I enclose some clippings. I think I have {^ot this illegal .seining pretty 

 well broken u]). After we have had a few more convictions I think there 

 will not be nuich more seining done in Rock river. 



Yours'' truly, 



.loiix DicKsox. FUih Warden. 



Xor.T.E, III.. Oct. 22, 1890. 



S. P. Bartlett, Qnincy, III: 



Dear Sir — I received mv commission as Fish "Warden on Saturday, 

 25th. The law is being violated every day in this and AVayne county, in 

 the Little Wabash river. It is full of tlsh traps and nets, and some of 

 the parties say there is no law to make them take their traps out. They 

 claim they own the river that runs through their land. These traps ex- 

 tend the entire width of the river, and fish can not pass without being 

 caught. 



Please instruct me what steps to take in regard to this matter at your 

 earliest convenience. 



Yours respectfully. 



J. E. Stevexs. 



YiRcnxiA. III.. Sept. 2.3. 1890. 



S. P. Jkirtleit, Quinci/, III: 



Dear Sir — Through Senator Leeper I received my commission as Fish 

 Warden, for which allow me to thank you in behalf of flsh protecting 

 people of our county. There is a chain of lakes on each side of the San- 

 gamon river, which Beardstown and Mason county fishermen have been 

 in the habit of seining contrary to law. I have prosecuted six of the 

 parties successfully, and I have hopes of the business being stopped in 

 the lakes in this particular vicinity. 



The place where the most trouble will Ijc is above and V»elow Beards- 

 town. I am informed there are seines and nets in several of the lakes 

 there, and I think it w^ould be a good idea to make a raid on them 

 sometime soon, then I don't think there will be much more trouble with 

 them. 



I would like to have your idea as to the best way to proceed in the 

 matter, as I am new in the field. 



Yours res])ectfully. 



H. H. Turxer. 



Geneva, 111., 2. 1890. 



/S. P. Bartlett, Quiuaj, III: 



Dear Sir— I am here investigating the destruction of flsh by the Pope 

 Mfg. Co. This company has been shut down for several months, but 

 started uji about two weeks ago, and yesterday at Batavia, three miles 

 below here, the fish connuenced to die by the thousands, so that tonlay 

 they have taken from tlu^ river four wagoii loads, and there are thousands 

 between here and there dead now. I went to see ]Mr. Pope, Jr., to-night, 

 and he said that tliey had put nothing in the river but the corn after 

 the gluten had been extracted, and he did not think that could have 

 killed the lisli. But I have l)een Jilong the river above here, and there 



