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the ice house above Waldron that I destroyed. Found no violations in opera- 
tion. Learned that the parties who had been violating the fish laws have 
quit fishing and gone to husking corn. Will go to Sullivan next week if it 
don’t rain and raise the river so that we can not work on the dams. 
November 2—I took four men to the Okaw river near Charleston as per 
orders from President Nat H. Cohen and took out and destroyed three fish 
dams and five fish traps. We piled them up and destroyed everything that 
could be burned. There was about a ton of buggy axles and gas pipe driven 
into one of them. We pulled them out and threw them into the deepest 
water we could find. It took us three days to complete the job. 
November 9—Defendant, N. E. McMichael, of Pittsburg Lake, St. Clair 
county. Judge, P. Williams, J. P., Hast St. Louis. Guilty. Amount of fine, 
$25.00 and costs ($9.85). Fine paid to the J. P. 
From there we went to Belleville, the county seat of St. Clair county, and 
made complaint against one Frank Paynor for trammel netting in Pittsburg 
Lake. This act was committed in June, 1907, under the old law. The State’s 
attorney stayed the case until he could investigate the law. He said it was 
a question in his mind whether we could prosecute under the old law as it 
had been repealed. He is to write to me when he is Satisfied. 
I then went to Winchester and met Deputy Warden Henry Tankersly and 
we went to Swan Lake drainage district. At or near the pumping plant, 
about ten miles. southwest of Winchester, I found Mr. Trout from Beards- 
town had cut an opening in the levee to let the water out and above it in the 
channel, he had driven posts and put chicken wire on them to prevent the 
fish from getting out. I had all this taken out. I gave Warden Tankersly 
instructions to keep watch on the lake, also advised him to go to a lake below 
where they were draining and prevent violations of the law. 
I then went to Oakford and met David Watkins, as instructed. I found that 
there is a drainage district there which empties into Salt creek. The ditch 
is full of stumps and logs and the drainage commissioners are having the 
stumps blown out with dynamite. They are killing a great many fish. I did 
not interfere with them until I could report the facts to you and get your 
advice on it before commencing proceedings against them. I think there 
can be other devices for taking out the drifts and save the fish. 
"November 16—Defendant, Louis Stinelecht, Chatsworth, Livingston county. 
Section 1 violated. Judge, Robert H. Bill, Chatsworth. Decision, guilty. 
Amount of fine, $25,00 and costs. Three hoop'nets and two seines taken. 
Went to Chatsworth and investigated the complaints from there. Found 
evidence against Louis Stinelecht and made complaint against him before 
Robert H. Bill, a J. P. in Chatsworth. After the said Robert H. Bill had 
heard the evidence against Stinelecht he fined him $25.00 and costs. There 
will be more work around Chatsworth in the near future, as the people have 
not known where nor to whom to make complaints. On this trip I found and 
destroyed three hoop nets and two seines. 
November 23—Ten pounds undersized lake trout disposed of. Went to 
Decatur and examined the shipmets at the express office there. Found four 
black bass in one shipment from the Meredosia Fish Co.. Shipment was going 
to St. Louis. On my way home I found at Springfield, at T. C. Murray’s fish 
- market, ten lake trout that together weighed only ten pounds. I confiscated 
the trout and gave them to the hospital. They were shipped from Thomas 
O’Hern, of Chicago. 
November 30—Defendant, Wm. Geoharing, Sand Slough, Carroll county, 
and Bruno Shrine, Chatsworth, Livingston county. Judges W. D. McCone, J. 
P., Thompson, and Robert H. Bell, J. P., Chatsworth. Decision, guilty. 
Amount of fine, $25.00 and costs in each case. Fines collected, $50.00 and 
costs. Two hundred and sixteen pounds undersized fish disposed of. 
Went to Galena and met Warden Whitman and we went along the Missis- 
sippi river as far as Thompson. Found that the fish laws are being violated 
to a great extent. The claim is made in every case the fish have been caught 
