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Week ending Dec. 3 — Put in three days at Potomac. 



Week ending Nov. 26 — I put in three days at Rekin and Peoria. I found 

 no violations I here. 



Week ending Dec. 10, 1904 — I put in three days' time attending the grand 

 jury at Pekin, and 1 was in Peoria and along the river. I found no violations 

 along the river. 



Week ending Jan. 28, 1905 — I put in three days at Pekin, Spring lake and 

 Peoria and at Chillicothe. 1 found things in fair shape. 



Week ending Jan. 14, 1905 — I put in two days at Pekin and Peoria and 

 found everything all right. 



Week ending Feb. 11, 1905 — I put in four days at Joliet, Lockport and 

 along the DuPage river, and I found no violations there. 



Week ending March 4, 1905 — I put in four days at Peoria, Pekin and 

 Spring lake. 



Week ending March 18, 1905 — I put in four days at Havana, Pekin, Spring 

 lake, Peoria and Kingston. I have the evidence against six violators. 



Week ending April 1, 1905. I put in four days on the Kankakee river. I 

 found no vio'ations. We also went down the river below the stone quarries 

 where violations have been reported, but found nothing. 



Week ending April 15, 1905 — Five arrests, three convictions, $75.00 fines 

 paid. I put in two days attending the trial at Monticello. Three of the 

 parties pleaded guilty and were fined $25.00 and costs each. I then spent 

 two days in Pekin, commencing action against four parties for violating the 

 fish laws by fishing with trammel nets in Spring lake. 



Week ending April 29, 1905—1 attended trial at Pekin Monday, the 24th, 

 but the case was continued until April 29. On the 29th I returned to Pekin 

 to attend the trial. The case was then put off until May 15. On informa- 

 tion of the sheriff I went six miles south of Tremont, on the Mackinaw river, 

 and got the names of six men who knew of parties who had dynamited the 

 river at this point. 



Week ending May 6, 1905 — I went to Danville and investigated the dyna- 

 mite case from Fairmount. I found that the parties had left the State and 

 that there was but one witness who had seen it and he is hidden away some 

 place. I also found a dam on North Fork without a fishway, which is needed 

 very badly. I also notified all parties through the paper in regard to fishing 

 within 400 feet below the dam. 



Week ending May 13, 1905 — I put in the week at Quincy, on Quincy bay, 

 and I also investigated all the lakes and sloughs from Goose lake to Sand 

 slough, near Marble Head. I found no violations, as the waters were too high. 

 But I found that there had been violations before the waters raised. 



Week ending May 20, 1905 — I went to Pekin to attend the trial of alleged 

 violators. Tt was a hard fought trial. We had a good case, but the jury 

 decided against us. I then went to Bernadotte in Fulton county. I stayed 

 two and one-half days among the violators; saw them netting fish within 

 thirty feet of the dam. I collected the witnesses and got the violators' 

 names. I took their nets and turned them over to the sheriff of Fulton 

 county at Lewistown. I also made complaint against the violators, but we 

 could not try it on account of the court being in session there, and the 

 State's attorney's time was taken up willi the court. I then went to Peoria 

 and found a barrel of fish on the trucks at the union depot not billed accord- 

 ing to law. I confiscated them. Four arests. four nets taken. 



Week ending .May 27, 1905—1 was along Salt Fork, Worth Fork and Middle 

 Fork rivers and found everything in fair shape. Two parties T caught ille- 

 gally fishing at Bernadotte plead guilty at Lewistown, the county seat of 

 Fulton county, and wire fined $25.00 and costs. 



Week ending June 3, L905 1 was along Salt Fork river and secured evi- 

 dence against two offenders. 



Week ending June 10, 1905 — I was along the Illinois river from Pekin 

 to Chillicothe and found everything in fair shape. 



Week ending June 17. 1905—1 put in the week at Fish, Big, Fehrers and 

 Al> lakes and Rowan pond. T found no violations. 



Week ending June -'1. 1905— Nunibei of arrests. 6; number of convictions. 

 6; fines paid, $25.00 each; total, $150.00. Nets taken, one trammel. I spent 

 the week in Randolph counts with the above results. The trammel net I 



