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;ii'(^ 11(1 (lead (isli aliovc, and Uie water is covrrcd liclow with tliciii, so it 

 must !)(' tliat, and no oilier cause. Tiiey will iiave t(t be stojjjK'd or no 

 tlsi\ will }iet u]) the river ahove lliis jilaee. I return to the lakes in the 

 inorniiij^^ and would like to liave you investiKnte this, as it is of a very 

 serious nature. 



Yours respectfully, 



F. L. JJuuK, Fish Warden. 



PuLLJiAN, III., Septcmlicr 25, 1890. 

 ^'. r. Bartktt, Esq., Qidnci/, 111. 



Dear Sir — I am pleased to report that I am havinj^' good luck so far, 

 have taken seven nets, and have them locked up, and have posted notice. 

 Yesterday I found an owner for one of them. He has offered to plead 

 guilty to save expense. Will you please send me a few copies of the fish 

 law? What can I do to the distilleries that are killing the Hsh along the 

 Calumet river V 



Yours truly, 



CiiAS. T. Bronson. 



Pullman, III., November 8, 1890. 



S. P. Bartldt, Qitinv!/, III. 



. Dear Sir — Since my last report to you I have made three arrests, taken 

 up ten nets, and have now twenty-three nets stowed away. 



Today I discovered three men with gill nets, and lowered my hoat to 

 get them, but they got away leaving over one-fourth mile of one and one- 

 fourth inch mesh gill nets in the water, which I have. They had over 

 five hundred pounds of tlsh. I have not had very good luck in choosing 

 the justice. The first case I had was a had one. I caught him in the 

 act. He had six hundred pounds of fish. He proved to be a neighbor of 

 the justice, and he let friendship interfere with duty. 



There was a man fishing with two Inch mesh nets, but by putting two 

 of them together in such a position was only one inch, he claimed that 

 his net was all right. I said "No." Was I not right V 



Yours truly. 



Chas. T. Bronson. 



Clipping- from Danville Press, November 29, 1890. 



It is an old adage, but nevertheless it is a very true one. that murder 

 will out, and it has never been more fully illustrated than in the trial 

 and conviction of ^Nliddleton McMillan. George ^McMillan. — father and son, — 

 Charles Grimes and Charles ^McMillan for violation of the lish law. 



For a long time these people have been regularly seining the North 

 Fork, hut like the maiden of old. they carried the pitcher once too often 

 to the well, and the pitcher was broken, and the cost thereof was terrible 

 to the unfortunate ones. In August last they seined the stream from the 

 Denmark ford to one and one-half miles north, and it is said the catch 

 was very large. Some one, possilily the fellow who was angling along the 

 placid waters of the North Fork, liad no luck, informed Fish Warden 

 George Kamper. whose ears are always open to the cry of distress of the 

 festive tinny tribe. The better feelings of the warden were aroused, the 

 warrant for their arrest was issued by .lust ice IloUowell, and Constable 

 Thompson brought them 'into court y(>sterday afternoon, where they were 

 arraigned. George and Charles McMillan and Charles Grimes pleaded 

 guilty and were fined ten dollars and costs, amounting in all to S17.50 

 each. Middleton McMillan, however, concluded to stand trial. AVhen put 



