Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-16
Game Warden Lincoln Endorses
the Plan to Buy the Bona
parte Dam.
Would Have Legislature Appro-
pirate $4,000 With Which
TO Purchase 1t.
Report OF the Warden Filed With
the Governor..Legisla-
ton Needed.
Special to Times Republican.

/
r TO $4o,ooO for the benefit of the poop
who go fishin' along the Des Mo;ne
river below Ottumwa, has received OF
, hclal endorsement at the hands of tn
, present state fish and game wardel
2 George A. Lincoln. Warden Lincol
calls attention to the fact that all lega
!, processes available for the destructio
of the dam have failed and the owner
of the dam have finally Won out in a
historic dam perfect He therefore rec
ommends that the legislature be ad
vised TO make an appropriation for TIL
owners of the dam and thus Undue
them to permit its removal This indi
Gates that the old question Of the re
moval of the dam is to be fought out il
the legislature the coming winter, an,
that 1T will call q strong lobby to tn,
4 city Interested in the project.
Mr.. Lincoln states that if the fish ca
which he has borrowed from the gov
eminent was employed all the yea
round he could not even then meet al
the calls for fish for stocking streams il
the interior of Iowa The following
| places have received car load of fsf
each within the past few weeks:
I Elkader, for the Turkey river.
i Ottumwa, for the Des Moines river
/ Perry, for the Raccoon river.
Clear Lake, for Clear lake.
| Corning, for the Nodaway river.
Lake View. for Wall lake.
| Humboldt, for the Des Moines river.
| Maquoketa, for the Maquoketa river
Storm Lake. for Storm lake.
Orleans. for Spirit lake.
Webster City, for the Boone river.
Elgin, for the Turkey river
West Union, for the Turkey river.
Okoboji, for Lake Okoboji
Independence for the Wapsie river.
The present system of deputy wardens
is condemned by the new commissioner.
He says he has $50 now, which is an in
crease of seventy-two over year ago,
but many of the deputies are in name
only. They merely report cases for the
state warden to attend to, and refuse
to file informations on their own &C.
count. The warden sometimes has ten
or twelve cases on hand at once, and it
is physically impossible for him to at
tend to all of them. Mr.. Lincoln insists
that compensation should be paid the
deputies. He suggests a plan of divid-
ing the state into districts and appoint
ing wardens for the districts. AT pres
ent a fee is charged against the poacher,
but there is no way of collecting the fee
except by civil suit and in ninety-nine
cases out of leo this is impracticable.
The law should be so amended as to
punish the poacher and reward the dep
uty. Their reward should be commen-
surate with the hazards Of the position.
In referring to the difficulties which
surround the deputy game wardens in
the discharge of their studies Mr.. Lin
coin recites the following in his report:
TO show the character of the men
against whom he must act one striking
instance from Woodbury. county will af-
ford timely illustration. Mr.. James
Halliday. deputy warden of that
county. found one "Pegleg" Geist and
Tom Teller, poachers, SEEMING in Nc
Cook lake. He appeared as witness
against them and they were convicted
and fined. Burning with revenge they
started Immediately upon their release
for the house of Deputy Halliday, where
they made desperate assault upon him !
and his father, who in the encounter !
was struck over the head with an oar, I
while Teller received a shot in the leg. |
The next day Teller and Geist, rein |
forced by one Howard Teller, came
again upon Mr.. Halliday and his hired |
man working in the fields. In this at
tack Howard Teller was knocked sense
less and Deputy Halliday was cut in the
wit, 1yY,t 70 hxy IT.
Halliday fired upon the latter but the
shots missed their mark. Even this as
sault was not sufficient for these desper-
ate men, and Mr.. Halliday has since
found in his bundles of grain, while
.hreshing. pieces of iron, placed there
with evident intention to injure him and
destroy his thresher. Presumably these
we're put there by these men or their
ympathizers which serves only to
show the relentless of their antipathy"
In regard to the wanton destruction OF
ish by persons who are anxious to make
record as big fishers. the game war
lent is unsparing He declares this
should be prohibited and would make 1t z
! misdemeanor for one person to take
more than twenty-five fish from one
liver or lake in one day. This would cut
If the record fishermen in good shape.
DR.. Lincoln cites u case wherein one )
,arty of fishers, in the past season, sent
ZONE from Spirit Lake seven barrels of
sh they had caught, and on their re-
urn home took along two barrels more.
shese were only the best of the fish they
aught. This is wanton destruction OF
sh and Mr. Lincoln would prohibit
UGH conduct.
An important recommendation of Mr..
lincoln is in regard to the open season
Or ducks. He would abolish the spring !
eason and close the duck shooting sea-
on from the first Of the year until Sep
amber L. .
Mr.. Lincoln commends private fish
onds. and in his report says he will do
II he can to help stock them; but later
l his report quotes the supreme court
ecislon which prohibits this and asks .
or legislation to undo what the court
ppears to have done.
Death of Veteran iowan.
Bedford, Nov. 16.-Justice NJ. C. Full
IT died suddenly of heart failure =
thursday. He was born in Oswego =
ounty, New York. Nov. 90 1890. He
as in California during the great gold
xcitement and had quite a varied ex- !.
erience, During the flfties he located