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a man and we destroyed the dam and trap, and I arrested the man who 

 owned and controlled it and he was fined $25.00 and costs. 



Oct. 21, 1905 — Three arrests; one seine taken. I went to Monticello and 

 investigated poisoning of fish in the Sangamon river at Monticello. Made 

 several arrests, but evidence not sufficient to secure conviction. I captured 

 a sixty-foot seine in Vermilion county, on the Salt Fork river, and turned 

 it over to Hardy Whitlock, sheriff of Vermilion county, at Danville, and 

 have receipt for same. 



Oct. 28, 1905 — Four arrests; four convictions; $50.00 fines paid; two of 

 $25.00 each. At Medina, in Stark county, arrested two parties for dynamiting 

 in the Spoon river; two for seining at about the same place. I took them 

 to Toulon, the county seat of Stark county, before P. M. Blair, J. P., who 

 fined the latter $25.00 and costs each. The former plead guilty to the 

 dynamiting and were bound over in the sum of $500.00 each to appear be- 

 fore the February term of grand jury. 



Dec. 2, 1905 — I examined the shipments to Decatur and found them all 

 right. 



Nov. 26, 1905 — One arrest; one conviction. I went to Effingham to inves- 

 tigate the complaint from there. I found the party who paid a fine of $25.00 

 on the 3d day of last October for having a dam and fish trap in the Little 

 Wabash river, and which I had destroyed at that time, had rebuilt the 

 dam and put in a new trap. I made him destroy it and then took him to 

 Effingham before J. P. Jones, a J. P., who fined him $25.00. Went to Mon- 

 ticello and made complaint before A. T. Piffer, J. P., against five parties for 

 seining in the Sangamon river north of Monticello. Went to Bloomington 

 and examined the shipments at that place; found them all right. Then I 

 went to Decatur and examined the shipments there. I found two shipments 

 of black bass, all of which I confiscated and distributed to charitable people 

 in Decatur. I also notified the Water Works Company at Effingham to put 

 in a fish way at the water works dam across the Little Wabash river, three 

 miles west of Effingham. 



Dec. 16, 1905 — One arrest; one conviction; $25.00 fines paid. I went to 

 Peoria and investigated the river up to Chillicothe, Rome and Henry. I 

 found fishermen wanting permits to fish through the ice. Made arrest at 

 Chillicothe for having black bass caught with a net; fine, $25.00 and costs; 

 total, $35.45. Went to Bloomington and found no violations there. At 

 Springfield found undersized fish at two markets. The shipper was after- 

 wards fined $25.00 and costs for this offense. 



Dec. 23, 1905 — One arrest; one conviction; $25.00 fine paid. At Springfield 

 found thirty pounds of black bass that were shipped from Bath. I found 

 them in the bottom of the barrel with 125 pounds of buffalo and twenty-five 

 pounds of crappies on top. I also took a small amount of striped bass from 

 a fish market in Decatur. 



Dec. 26, 1905 — One arrest; one conviction; $25.00 fine paid, this for sein- 

 ing under ice at Suatchwine lake. Found about 25,000 fish in the seine and 

 crib, that I returned to the water. 



Jan. 6, 1906 — One arrest; one conviction; $25.00 fines paid and costs; this 

 for shipping black bass. 



Jan. 13, 1906 — Two arrests for fishing with trap in Little Wabash river. 

 One conviction; one discharged; $24.00 fines paid and costs. 



Feb. 3, 1906 — One arrest; one conviction; for having fish in possession 

 caught contrary to law; fine, $200.00 and costs. 



Feb. 10, 1906 — One trammel net taken near Peru. 



Feb. 24, 1906— One net taken at Kelsey lake. 



March 10, 1906 — One arrest; one conviction at Pekin; $25.00 fines paid and 

 seventy-five pounds of undersized fish disposed of. 



April 14, 1906 — Sixteen and one-half pounds of undersized fish disposed of. 

 I went to Pekin, Peoria and along the river as far as Havana and notified 

 the express companies in regard to shipping fish in the closed season. I 

 also notified the fishermen that there would be no fish allowed to be shipped 

 during closed season. 



