3- Severer Penalty. In the Game Warden Law 

 the minimum penalty a justice of the peace can impose 

 is $50.00, but there is no minimum penalty in the Fire 

 Warden Law. In a dozen prosecutions under the Fire 

 Warden Law the present year, the highest fine imposed 

 was $50.00, but in some cases the fine was as low as $5.00 

 and $1.00. The law should be amended so that the 

 minimum penalty shall be $50.00. A severer penalty 

 than at present will arouse attention and make people 

 more careful. A respectable citizen can be careless 

 about fire, and it is very difficult to get a prosecution 

 started against such men. Nevertheless, a rigorous 

 enforcement of the law against forest fires is the truest 

 kindness. 



4. More Pay for Local Wardens and Helpers. 

 At present the local warden is paid only $2.00 a day for 

 time actually employed, and for only fifteen days in a 

 year. Can we expect a busy farmer to take his team 

 and drive off ten miles about a fire at that pay? I think 

 it would stimulate his interest in his duties to pay him 

 twenty-five cents an hour for actual service and his neces- 

 sary expenses, and repeal the limitation of fifteen days. 

 At present those who are pressed into the service to fight 

 fire are paid only $1.50 per day. It was found necessary 

 this year to pay $2.00 a day for such service. I recom- 

 mend they be paid twenty cents an hour. 



5. More Money. The standing annual appro- 

 priation now, as an emergency fund to be used by -the 

 forestry commissioner in preventing and spupressing 

 forest and prairie fires in a region of about 30,000,000 

 acres, is only $5,000. The mere statement of this shows 

 its absurdity. There is an additional $1,000 for prose- 

 cutions. Then the general appropriation bill passed 

 each session carries $5,000 for each fiscal year for "Forest 



