FROM FAR AND NEAR 

 Pottawattamie county sportsmen are tak- 

 ing the lead in a movement to secure legis- 

 lation for better protection to game birds in 

 Iowa. Letters have been sent out by the 

 Bluff City Gun Club of Council Bluffs to 

 similar organizations in other cities asking 

 cooperation in an effort to secure legislation 

 toward that end at the coming general as- 

 sembly. The propositions are to change 

 the open season on several classes of game, 

 reduce the number of fowl that one person 

 may have in his possession, and require all 

 hunters to take out licenses. 



is thought the hunters who owned the car- 

 casses can recover from the railroad com- 

 pany. 



The Chautauqua Fish and Game Protec- 

 tive Association is doing active work for 

 the passage of a law to protect rabbits in 

 Chautauqua county. Another is to have the 

 Fredonia waterworks reservoir in Arkwright 

 Hills and adjacent streams stocked with 

 trout. The village trustees will grant the 

 necessary permission and the fish will be ob- 

 tained. The association is also trying to 

 obtain the appointment of a deputy game 

 warden for each township and will ask the 

 legislature to amend the laws regarding 

 seine fishing in Lake Erie. 



Louis Russ, proprietor of the Common- 

 wealth cafe in Harrisburg, Pa., pleaded 

 guilty in the Dauphin courts recently to pur- 

 chasing eleven grouse, and was fined $275. 



The board of education of Quincy, 111., a 

 few days ago received from Colonel S. P. 

 Bartlett, fish commissioner, one hundred and 

 fifty copies of the Illinois game laws, which 

 are to be used bv the teacheio in the public 

 schools of the city in connection with the 

 teachings in nature study. The children are 

 taught to protect the birds rather than to de- 

 stroy them and their nests. 



The game warden's department of Michi- 

 gan seized thirty deer carcasses, most of 

 them taken at Cadillac, which were being 

 carried by the G. R. & I. road five days after 

 the close of the deer season. The carcasses 

 were shipped early enough to get them 

 through to their destination on time if they 

 had been handled without delav but they 

 were hung up, thus the seizure. State Game 

 Warden Chapman intends to prosecute. It 



One hundred residents of Oshkosh have 

 petitioned that the law prohibiting the sale 

 of game be repealed. It is the intention to 

 have State Senator E. E. Stevens of that 

 city present the petition before the legisla- 

 ture. It reads as follows : 



"We, the undersigned, residents of Win- 

 nebago county, respectfully request that the 

 section of chapter 449 of the laws of Wis- 

 consin for 1903, prohibiting the sale of game, 

 be repealed." Following this is the long list 

 of signers, among them Mayor John Ban- 

 derob. 



The law dealing with the sale of game 

 provides a fine or imprisonment or both 

 for "Whoever shall sell, or offer for sale, 

 have in his possession for the purpose o£ 

 sale, or shall barter, trade or exchange for 

 other property, or whoever shall purchase, 

 or receive in exchange for other property, 

 or having in his possession after purchase or 

 receiving in exchange for other property 

 within the limits of this state, the meat or 

 flesh of any doe, buck or fawn (commonly 

 known as venison), or any wild duck of any 

 variety, wild goose, brant or any other 

 aquatic bird, or any woodcock, partridge, 

 pheasant, prairie chicken or prairie hen, 

 grouse or any variety, plover, snipe, Mon- 

 golian, Chinese or English pheasant, or quail 

 of any variety." 



Those working in the interests of the pe- 

 tition claim that persons who are unable or 

 do not desire to hunt wild game should not 

 be deprived of securing it. They point out 

 that under the present restriction many 

 families never have an opportunity to eat 

 wild game and the hotels and restaurants 

 cannot offer it in their bill of fare. 



Consul Harvey, stationed at Fort Erie, 

 Ont., furnishes the following report in ref- 

 lation to fishing on Lake Erie. It is evident 

 that the Erie American consul is satisfied 

 that unless something is done it # will be 

 only a short time before the lake will be de- 

 populated of fish. He savs : 



"The Canadian government issues fish li- 

 censes to parties all along the north shore 

 of Lake Erie. I recently visited a Fort Erie 

 man who has a lease of six miles of the 

 shore between Port Colborne and Dunnville, 



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