Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-01-21
THt GAME AND FISH OF TEXAS
,rn PROTECTION AT THE HANDS
OF THE LEGISLATURE.
=. Lovers of Fishing and Hunting
should Mcmoriaiixe Their Repre-
,,atiyes-unIcss Law lie Passed
.,,,biIntion wiiigEnsue.


kneclai Correspondence.
4 austin. Tex, Jan. 20.-Texas Is In
sed Of a general game law. She has
f, asded the law for several years past.
,s a reform that appeals with tell
eject on the men who love the
l'ud game in the forests and the beau
l,nl birds Of the air. Within the mem
nv OF men not yet on the shady side
4, life the magnificent bison browsed
= the rolling pralrles and great plains
! nd were numbered by the hundreds
4, bousands. The buffalo is extinct.
IKE the Indian he has passed away
victim Of the relentless forward
bareh Of the all-conquering Cauca-
an. 1t was ruthless slaughter and a
8,useless one. The mishtey herds of
4 her days were killed for their hides
nd long ago their bones, after whiten-
,c on the plains where they fell, were
q Inferred by the agents of fertllizlng
4 e,orles and have long since enriched
4 . soil of the imam with the hoe
Tho wild game OF Texas is going the
me way, and II there is not gen
In law passed against the profess
onal hunters who supply game Tor
markets Of the larger cities in re-
"a ,onse to the eplcurean tastes of the
(fete loungers OF society and also
81 gulating the onslaughts of pot
a. |inters who STAY at will in season and
~ N of season the wild game is DOOM
"a In a few short years the deer,
E Ear and antelope and wild turkey and
liner table birds will go to join the
Wlfalo. They will have become prac-
rally extinct. The sportsmen OF
pxas who do not pursue game from
ercenary motives, and who do not
,y Unfortunately for mere pastime,
oud awake from their present
3pathy and petition the members to
IS general law to protect the game
"a the state from slaughter during
rtain seasons OF the year. Two
lars ago senate bill No 49, most
f. &erltorUus measure. passed the SEN
"a. 1t was referred TO judiciary COM
'}1 ttee No ? In the house and reported
ia ok foyorably. Ham Gossett, l.. n.
0sshiel, Reagin of Polk, Simmons,
" I{bwnsend Turner, Long, Cunningham.
hines, Turney, Dean and j. V. Sher-
&{il were members of that committee,
<8rd they warmly advocated the pas
*&ge OF the bill, II failed by a few
Mites and now Hon. John r. Peyton
"a Trinity, has prepared Il similar bill
X1ld 1t should be passed without a dis
|<fnting voice. The law can be u gen
! IA one, and no county In the state
E Moud be exempt from its operations.
Ite PeytOn bill provides asfullows:
bit shall be unlawful to catch fish
ith fixed net. trap or seine. 1t shall
| unlawful to take fish by poisonous
distances or explosive compounds.
Gners Of mill dams or water weirs
ist construct FISH ladders so that the
may ascend the streams to deposit
Dir spawn. Nets are prohibited be-
een the months of February and
4y and II shall be unlawful for any
Ison TO buy. sell or have in his pos
sion fish protected by this law dur
the time covered by the provisions
n the BILL, II shall be unlawful to kill
r In the period embraced between
LIST day Of January and the LIST OF
gust IN each year. Wild turkeys
tween the 1st day OF February and
LIST day of September; prairie
ckens during the months of Decem-
4. January February, March. April,
", June and July Of each year: quail
partridges in the months of March.
~, May, June, July and August OF
p year. 1t shall be unlawful TO trap
pet quail at any season of the year;
sE1# hhh ne unlawful TO Wllltully XIII,
N{ troy or In any manner iniure any
fmless bird, or kill any bird for its
*4 mage; It shall be unlawful TO des-
aN4F any water fowl at night: 1t shall
b unlawful ito kill any antelope during
lMW tlme of each year embraced be-
z1fXen the lst day of January and the
t* 1aY OF August. The clauses Of the
relating to possession OF game, kill
game for shipment out of the state
Z lsporlnton, cXportation Of game
!. pass and damage to stock are
stringent. The most urgent APP
for a general law come from the
regions OF the state. The con.
" US OF opinion among the law makers
II nat laws protecting game and pro
r rs for the punishment of poachers
a ia be enacted. Judge Tarver says
Il useless to lock the door after the
4 Is stolen," but game is plenty to-
!. IN many sections of Texas and
=. is the time to act Every citizen
=. exas who desires a stringent law
" piu place himself in communication
" MS representative and thereby as.
= IN most laudable effort to pre-.
N me Wild game of the forest and
D inhabitants of the streams from
III humiliation.
ii M HUGH FITZGERALD.