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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[JvhY 10, 1897. 
It is very certain, however, that the Legislature has no 
power to declare that a riparian owner has lost or forfeited 
any of his vested rights in the lands owned by him and the 
waters lying upon or flowing over them, because some one 
riparian owner wbose lands happen to join the same waters 
has been guilty of trespass upon his neighbors, and has com- 
mitted a fraud upon the State by getting fish for the purpose 
of stocking waters under false pretenses. 
Such an act would result in a confiscation or condemna- 
tion of private propeityor vested interests therein for the 
use of the public without compensation to the owner, which 
is a power that the Legislature does not possess. 
How to deal with this question is a serious problem. It is 
one thing to suggest a wrong, but quite another to suggest a 
remedy. The Legislature of this State has no power to en- 
act what are public and what are private waters. That is a 
matter entirely for the courts, based upon the vested rights 
of the owners of real estate. The Legislature has the power, 
however, to define what it means by public and private waters 
under the provisions for stocking or restocking them under 
the fish and game law. 
The frauds wbicb are now constantly practiced upon the 
State and the damage done to waters in which a limited num- 
ber of persons have a common interest, could very easily be 
stopped in the futui-e by the enactment of a law which would 
make an application for fish for the purpose of stocking 
watei«, containing a false statement as to the waters to be 
stocked, and the placing of such fish in waters which are not 
public and in which others than the applicant have a com- 
mon or vested interest a misdemeanor, punishable by a severe 
fine or imprisonment, or both, and also making such person 
liable in damages for the injury done to waters which are not 
wholly under his control. J. 8. Yah Cleef. 
PouGHKEEPSiE, N. Y., J line 23. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
Game and FIsli Law Matters In Illinois. 
Chicago, 111., June 26. — Our new State game warden, 
Harry W. Loveday, has thus far been busily engaged in the 
work of appointing deputies all over the State to aid him in 
his campaign. In the end he expects to have a good deputy 
for each county, in some cases two for each county, there 
being 101 counties in the State. In this work of choosing 
deputies he has been guided largely by the local recommen- 
dations of the candidates, relying especially upon the state- 
ments of gun and fishing clubs He wishes it to be under- 
stood among the sportsmen of the State that the matter of 
securing good deputies rests very largely with themselves, as 
he asks the aid and counsel of the sportsmen's clubs in the 
duty of choosing his assistants. He thinks the sportsmen 
should take interest in this matter, and send in their recom- 
mendations for their men, all of which will be received 
thankfully and which will have immediate investigation. 
Mr. Loveday states that he w ishes to make a thorough effort, 
in his official capacity, to stop the law -breaking in each and 
every part of the State to as great an extent as possible. He 
has thus far appointed the following deputy wardens: For 
depot work among the express companies in Chicago, F. J. 
Beecher; for Blue Island, A. Linkj for Antiocb, Wm. Burke; 
for Calumet Lake region, George Kleinman ; for upper end 
of Cook county, Matthew Harms; for Dixon, Jas. Stultz; for 
Grundy county, Jos. Babcock; for Batavia, Harry A. Tuttle; 
for McHenry, (Jlement Lentz; for Vermilion county, J. D. 
Miller and W. H. Moon; for Urbana, J. P. Hall; for Bureau 
county, E.,W. Smith; for Alvan, John Kelly; for Homer, A. 
Silas; for Waukegan, J. F. Powell; for Strealor, Edward 
St. Clair; for Freeport. W. Bott; for Alton, Eugene Levinne ; 
for Areola, W. P. Dawson; for Springfield, John R. Page; 
for Ripley, Harry Hardy ; for JSToble, W. L. Taylor; for Paris, 
Dow B. O'Hara; for Newton, John Gill; for Clay City, J. 
Henry Waesp. The work of further appointments proceeds 
daily. Mr. Loveday reports South Water street as shut up 
tight, and not moving any game. Deputy Beecher says he 
gets no traces of any illegal shipments coming in at the de- 
pots at present. The express companies have treated Mr. 
Loveday very openly and fairly so far, and have told him to 
freely search any suspected packages. It lies within the 
power of the new warden to do a lot of good to the game 
interests of the West, and in this work he should be joined 
by all the sportsmen of the State, by none more readily and 
unanimously than those of the city of Chicago. The office 
of warden is no sinecure, and it is easier to criticise a warden 
for what he does not do, than it is to help him do what 
we all think he ought to do. Let us see what can actually 
be accomplished under the new regime, and to that end all 
help as we can. 
Mr. Loveday said on Tuesday that he expected to hear of 
arrests by Deputy Kleinman in the Calumet region before 
the close of the week. A considerable industry in illegal 
fishing has for some time been going on in the Calumet 
Rivei;, many tons of fish being netted there and brought by 
wagons to the city markets. George Kleinman will find a 
little to do there for a time, and it is hoped that he will 
break up this flourishing market arrangement. 
The New Illinois Pish Law. 
As stated earlier, there were no changes made in the Illi- 
nois game law at the last session of the Legislature, but it 
now appears that at 3 o'clock in the morning of the last night 
of the L'dgislature, a new fish law was rushed through. The 
new law is a good one, and should be productive of results. 
It forbids netting except in navigable streams, forbids fishing 
on private lands without consent of owner, forbids fishing 
through the ice, requires fish ladders in dams, and sets a 
legal limit for marketable fish, said limit being as follows: 
black bass llin., white or striped bass 8in., rock bass 8in., 
black or river croppie 8in., white croppie 9in., yellow or ring 
perch 8in., wall-eyed pike or pike-perch 15in., pike-pickerel 
18in., buffalo 15in., German carp 13in., native carp 13in., 
Bunflsh 6ia., red-eyed perch 6in., catfish I3in., white perch 
lOin. 
The possession of fish of less length than above indicated 
shall be prima facie evidence of violation and subject the 
person having them in possession to a fine. 
Illinois has always been luckier in her fish laws than in 
her game laws, and the new law at first glance appears to be 
in line with the record of the past. Under it the new and 
elficient Fish Commission can do yeoman service to the peo- 
ple. By provision of the new statute the Governor shall 
appoint wardens on request of the Fish Commission. Sher- 
iffs, deputy sheriffs, constables, fish commissioners and fish 
wardens may make arrests. 
Plantinar Trout Irt Wisconsin. 
The State fish car Badger, of Wisconsin, made a trip to 
Crivitz (Ellis Junction) this week, and planted 225,000 rain- 
bow trout in different streams of that vicinity. There have 
been 1,000,000 trout fry planted in Marinette county. Wis., 
thus far this spring. Among the streams near Ellis Junction 
are the Middle Inlet to Lake Noquebay, the Thunder River 
and branches, the Peshtigo, the Pembina, etc. 
Violated the Law. 
At Sapinero, Gunnison county, Colo., H. M. McVean was 
arrested June 18 and fined $50 and costs for having in pos- 
session illegal trout and deer. He has been in the "habit of 
serving both these items on his hotel table regularly. Gun- 
nison county is becoming irritated at the illegal destruction 
of her fish and game, and further arrests are expected. 
A TIO* to Agent Fullerton, 
If Executive Agent J. F. Fullerton, of St. Paul, will go to 
Magee's restaurant, on Roberts street (it is said), he may find 
something to his interest. A few Chicago men were return- 
ing from a fishing trip in Minnesota last week, and when in 
St. Paul they stopped at the above restaurant. They found 
prairie chicken on the bill of fare, and Mr. Haskell asked 
for one. He was told that they had none but old birds at 
the time, which were not choice, but was offered quail or 
plover or snipe. 
Plenty of Muscallonge. 
Mr, W. P. Mussey has told in another article what good 
success the Chicago men had in their fishing at Woman 
Lake, Minn., where they were at Habbekona Camp, and 
reports received this week from other localities lead one to 
believe that the season is good for muscallonge at many 
places. Mr. Ben Bingham and wife were up at State Line, 
Wis., for ten days, and have just returned. They had fine 
sport, taking six 'lunge in one day and twenty-one 'lunge jn 
ten days. Mrs. Bingham caught one fish 54Jtin. long, weigh- 
ng 351bs., and also had another weighing Safbs. This is cer- 
tainly good enough. 
Messrs. H. L. Stanton and Frank Willard were also among 
the favored ones. In their ten days' stay at Squirrel Lake, 
near Minocqua, they took over fifty muscallonge, returning 
the small ones to the water and only keeping those weighing 
over 6 or 81bs. They sent or brought to Chicago twenty 
fish, the largest of which ran up to 2lflbs. when weighed in 
Chicago three days after being caught. They report' the 
best sort of a time, though they did not enjoy the cold 
weather. The ice froze in their boat at night," and during 
the day they were obliged to dress heavily and at times to go 
ashore to build a fire and get warm. 
Taking Fish out of IVTInnesota. 
Having heard that some of the Chicago men had trouble 
in getting their fish out of Minnesota, I looked up the mat- 
ter. The State law permits the taking along a number of 
fish not to exceed fifty. The local agent at Brainerd is the 
only source of difficulty for the Leech Lake country, and 
some anglers report that they had to fee him to get their fish 
set right on the train. This is not necessary, as the law does 
not forbid sportsmen from taking a reasonable amount of 
fish out of the State. It was said that others of the Habbe- 
kona Camp party had trouble Avith their fish at Milwaukee, 
their boxes being detained there by the authorities, but I can 
find no foundation for this except that the boxes were for the 
time lost through not being tagged or addressed properly. 
C. B. Dicks and John Haskell were the only ones coming 
home via Milwaukee. I do not know whether or not they 
had over the 201bs. allowed to be taken out of Wisconsin, 
but I learn that their fish were delayed in transit for the 
cause above assigned. A mistake is easily made nowadays 
in the matter of taking and carrying fish or game, and I find 
about the only safe way to do is to carry a copy of the Game 
Laws in Brief when one goes away from his own dooryard. 
Good Catches In Divers Places. 
Mr. E. V. Church is back from a trip to the Manitowish 
waters of Wisconsin, and reports good luck. In Spider 
Lake he killed a 'lunge that weiglied 33lbs. He says the 
'lunge fishing is better in the Manitowish chain than it has 
been for years. 
Mr, John Church was also at the Manitowish range and 
had good luck enough, taking four fish which scaled 16lbs. 
each, besides others not so large. 
All the lakes of the Manitowish waters, Rest Lake, Rice 
Lake, etc., beside Big Lako, Presque Isle Lake and many 
others of the upper Wisconsin country, are alive with bass 
and wall-eyes this season, and it would be burdensome to 
report the big catches of bass and pike which have seemed 
desirable to many anglers who go into that region. Thus I 
learn of one catch, by Mr. A, S. Laflin, of Chicago, who 
took, or is reported to have taken, 104 bass in four hours' 
fishing in Bass Lake and Big Lake. There is, of course, no 
sport in such fishing. 
In Lake Sylvia, near Annandale, Minn., in two days last 
week, Drs. Beecher and Swartz and Mr. Chas. Robinson 
took 137 bass, 27 cropies and 13 pickerel. 
An item from an E^canaba, Mich., paper states that three 
men of the town, Peter Duranceau, Joseph Delorier and 
Joseph Barron, last week fished the Escanaba some fifty.five 
miles above the town of that name, and had the good luck 
of taking in all 243 good trout. 
On the Cloquet River, not far from Duluth, Minn., in two 
days' fishing tnis week, Messrs. George Lucore, A. E. Chant- 
ler and Wm. Carlson, with SheriS John Meining, took 
210lbs. of bass, pike and pickerel. 
In Spring Lake, 111., last week a party of Bloomington, 
III., men, consisting of Messrs. J. Funk, Chas. Burke and 
Howard Humphreys, had good success, taking 170 fish, bass 
and other varieties, weighing in all ISOlbs. 
Gov. Tanner Gone FIshinfir. 
Gov. John R. Tanner, of Illinois, is an angler of diligence 
and determination upon occasion. He has this week gone 
to the famous waters of the Miltona Angling Club, of Min- 
nesota, where he is expected to give account of himself in 
due gubernatorial style. Governors, presidents and others 
high in authority have much asked of them when they go 
sporting, but by the kind assistance of the daily press re- 
porter they usually gel through all right. 
Carp and FIshways. 
There is still no report of a proper fishway at the Kanka- 
kee dam this summer, though there was at one time a good 
fishway there, as I personally know. At the dam at Wal- 
dron, above Kankakee, the German carp are reported to be 
on hand in great numbers. 
Rainbow Trout In Chloasro Stock Yards. 
Out at the Chicago Stock Yards there is a large pond 
formed by the overflow of an artesian well. The water is 
cold and pure, and the bottom of the pond is of hard clay. 
In the fall of 1893, at the close of the World's Fair, Mr. R. 
B. Organ, of this city, secured a number of the fish which 
had been shown at the fair. Of these, he planted about 1,000 
yearling rainbow trout in the stock yards pond, where he has 
had them carefully guarded ever since. Yesterday, four 
years after the fish^ere put in the pond, two of the rain- 
bows were taken and one was preserved, so that I saw it to- 
day. It was 13*in. in length and weighed 15oz. In color it 
was good and bright, and it seemed as fine a specimen as a 
wild fish, though as yet one cannot say how good it would 
be on the table. The fish in this pond are fed at times with 
liver and refuse. The water is fairly alive with large gold- 
fish, and there are a number of large bass also in the pond, 
one having been taken weighing nearly 41bs. Mr. Organ 
thinks the rainbows have done well, and have more than 
taken care of themselves in their unique surroundings. The 
pond is in the center of the dirty and busy stock yards, re- 
nowned over the world as a peculiar Chicago institution. 1 
wonder if many people know that there are rainbow trout 
to be had (by a few favored ones) in the Chicago Stock 
Yards? 
Palntlnif the Ink. 
The packing companies at Hammond, Indiana, have 
for some time been in the habit of allowing the refuse from 
their establishments to flow into the Calumet River. Now 
comes the United States Fish Commission and declares that 
it will estop such defilement of the limpid Calumet, for that 
such defilement is injurious to the fish of said Calumet and 
against the peace and dignity of the commonwealth. 
The Carp Nuisance In Arizona. 
In the Casa Grande Valley of Arizona, near Florence, the 
German carp was introduced into the best of the local society 
some years ago, and forthwith proceeded to make itself at 
home. To-day the ranchmen are praying for relief. The 
carp run out into the irrigating acequias, and thus become 
stranded and defunct on the fields watered by the ditches. 
The crows eat a few and the coyotes eat a few, but no one 
else in that country cares for carp. It is the consensus of 
opinion in dry Arizona— as it is in Illinois and about every- 
where else — that the carp is an Al nuisance and ought to be 
abolished without recourse. 
A Railroad Plants Trout. 
Not long ago I had occasion to remark that it has been 
but rarely that a railroad has ever concerned itself with the 
renewal of the fish supply which it does so much to dimin- 
ish by its advertising methods as connected with good fishing 
localities. This remark now appears to need some qualifica- 
tion. The San Francisco & North Pacific R. R , of Cali- 
fornia, has this year established a hatchery in the Gibson 
Canon, near Ukiah. For four years this road has b6en 
stocking the 300 streams, or some of theip, which are to be 
found in Mendocino, Lake and Sonoma counties. It has 
now resolved to see that the trout supply is kept up along its 
road, as it realizes the important part that thetrout plays with 
its passenger traffic. This is commendable, but after all it is 
only ymre business common sense, in which railroads all over 
the country ought to join. A general passenger agent of a 
railroad can afford no sentiment. He must show results in 
tickets sold. But why should he look forward lo holding his 
job only for a few years, or until he can no longer show re- 
sults on fishing or hunting country which has been ex- 
ha\;sted? Why not look ahead to holding this job, and to 
showing results, for a long time to come? So shall general 
passenger agents build brown-stone fronts with marble halls 
for their children'. 
An Invasion of Minnesota. 
A dispatch from Bemidji, Minn., says that that locality 
has been invaded by large numbers of "fishers, choppers and 
plowmen, from all over Minnesota and the Dakotas, and, 
unless the State Fish Commission gets a move on itself, the 
lakes will suffer almost a depopulation within the next two 
or three years. The fishermen bring in wagon boxes full of 
barrels and boxes, and go out loaded with all they can 
haul." 
FishinfiT on the Illinois. 
Fishing on the Illinois River at the Copperas Creek lock is 
better just now than it has been for years, and almost every 
party that has gone there recently has had large takes of 
black and white bass and other varieties. Last week over 
400 persons were fishing at the lock on one day, and all had 
good luck. 
Minnesota Muscallonge. 
Reports received this week from the party of Chicago 
gentlemen who went to Habbekona Camp, Minn., are of a 
most flattering character. So nearly as can be learned, there 
had been but two or three days fishing done by the party 
when the report was sent to Chicago. At that time they had 
taken seventeen muscallonge, whose weights were as follows 
in pounds: 23, 13, 11, 12, 12, 25, 14, 19, 23, 13, 8i, 20, 9i, 
16i, 16i, 17. 13. The two largest fish, 25 and 23lbs., were 
taken by Billy Mussey, who writes most enthusiastically that 
he has found the place he has been looking for. I do not 
know what the total catch at Habbekona Camp will be for 
June, but the above brief record is better than any I have 
known in Wisconsin in the past four years. Mr. S. M. Suth- 
erland, of the Chicago party, has wired to Chicago for sev- 
eral of his friends to come on at once. I have sent one party 
from Chicago, one from Kansas City and one from Milwau- 
kee to this same place. I am told that there are a great 
many lakes In the neighborhood of Woman Lake, which are 
very little known and very little fished, no trail being cut to 
them at all. This is in the great Leech Lake country, which 
promises to offer for some time good muscallonge fishing to 
the lovers of trolling. There are many lakes in that neigh- 
borhood which fairly swarm with bass. I am promised a 
complete story of the country by a member of the party, as 
soon as they return to Chicago. Just at present 1 do not 
know of any fishing country which promises so well, at least 
for muscallonge. 
Heavy Fishing at Oshkosh. 
It is estimated that over 5,0001bs. of fish have been caught 
in the Fox River near Winnebago Lake in three days of the 
past week. Some 4,500lbs. were sold at the fish houses in a 
day and a half. No such catch has been known at any time, 
and sportsmen on the river and on Lake Winnebago have 
met with unprecedented success. It would appear that pro- 
tection protects at Oshkosh. 
Heavy Fishing at Blloxl. 
Dr. Robert Mitchell, of Memphis, Tenn., has just returned 
