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H. S. WHITMORE, GALENA, ILL. 
June 1, 1907—Defendant, Michael D. Kaiser, Belleville, Jackson county, 
Iowa. Sections 17 and’ 18 violated. Judge, Edw. Clark, J. P., Galena, IIl. 
Decision, guilty. Amount of fine, $25.00. Fines collected, $50.00, two counts. 
Amount in hands of J. P. Edw. Clark. 
November 27, 1907—Defendant, Wm. Grobaring, Thompson, Carroll county, 
Illinois. Sections 1 and 6 of law violated. .Judge, C. D. McCorm, J: P., 
Thompson, Ill. Decision, guilty. Amount of fine, $25.00. Fine collected, 
$25.00. Thirty pounds black bass, undersized fish, disposed of. 
February 15, 1908—Defendant, Chas. Lonards, Galena, Jo Davies county, 
Illinois. Section 1 violated. Judge, Edw. E. Clark, Galena, Ill. Decision, 
guilty. Amount of fine, $25.00 and-costs. Amount sent to State Treasurer, 
$24.40. Forty-one pounds of fish, illegally caught and undersized, disposed of. 
Fined for fishing through hole in ice with dip net. 
March 23, 1908—Defendant, Albert Fleck, Dubuque, Dubuque county, Iowa. 
Section 17 violated. Judge, Edw. C. Clark, Galena, Il]. Guilty. Amount of . 
fine, $25.00 and costs. No fine collected; defendant sent to jail. 
Defendant, J. M. Abbott, Guttenburg, Iowa. Section 17 violated. Judge, 
Edw. C. Clark, Galena, Ill. Decision, guilty. Amount of fine, $25.00 and 
costs. No fine collected; defendant sent to jail. 
July 29—Defendant, Wm. Millsop, Clinton, Iowa. Section 1 violated. Tried 
* by Judge Thomas H. Smith, Fulton, Ill. Quilty. Amount of fine, $25.00 and 
costs. Unable to pay fine and was sent to jail. 
July 29—Defendant A. W. Keefer, Fulton, Whiteside county, Illinois. Sec- 
tion 1 violated. Judge, Thos. H. Smith, Fulton. Decision, guilty. Fine, 
$25.00 and costs. Unable to pay fine; sent .to jail. 
J. A. HARBOURN, BARRY, ILL. 
April 2, 1907—Hoop nets taken from Long Island slough, 9; Bear Creek, 
10; Luna Lake slough, 1; Indian Grove slough, 4. 
On steamer “Illinois”, 1 Long Lake slough; 3 out of river one mile be- 
low La Grange; 1 opposite Bath; 1 in Bath bay; 5 at Bath. ; 
I went to Kampsville and found what might be called illegal fishing. 
The parties were catching shad and selling to farmers at $2.50 per wagon- 
load for hogs. Six of them. went with me to Hamburg and got out $40 in 
seine and trammel net tags. This provided every man who is fishing at 
Hamburg or in the bay with tags for their seines and trammel nets. They 
are not using hoop nets yet. 
November 21, 1907—-Defendant, William H. Waters, Naples, IIll., Scott 
county. Sec. 17 violated. Judge, L. L. Grabbe, Naples, Ill. Guilty. Amount 
of fine, $25.00; fine collected, $25.00; amount sent State Treasurer, $25.00. 
RECEIPT OF J. A. HARBOURN, PITTSFIELD, ILL. 
March 14, 1908. 
One trammel net, 65 yards long; said net belongs to John Collard of Ross 
township. Said John Collard was unlawfully fishing without tags on said 
net in unlawful fishing waters; same was confiscated by J. A. Harbourn on 
March 13, 1908, and delivered to J. A. James, sheriff of Pike county. Also 
