The Green Forest tribune., 1901-05-25
Officers Attention.

IS calllng the SpoCldl dtCSllolOl o1 the officers to the statute against killing birds and the law against cruelty to animals. The bird law reads as fallows:
 1t shall be unlawful for any person within the state of Arkan- sas to kill, wound or injure any wild bird, other than game birds, or to destroy, disturb or rob the nests of any such birds, or to sell or expose for sale, either dead or alive, any of such birds, or to sell or expose for sale, the eggs of of any of said birds; and it shall be unlawful for any railroad company, express company, steamboat company or any other company or corporation or pri- vate person, their agents, en- ployees, or servants, to have in possession or receive, for trans portation or carriage, or for any other purpose whatsoever, or any such dirds or eggs; but this sec- tion shall not apply to English sparrows, crows, blackbirds, owls or eagles, and other birds of prey, nor shall it prohibit any person form killing any such birds on his own premises when in the act of destroying fruit or any other crops.
 Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and uponconviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not less than three nor more than ten dollars for each bird killed, caught or in- jured, or had in possession x and it is the duty of all sheriffs, constables, coroners, marshals market masters and police officers to arrest all persons found violat ing this law.
 Approved March 15, 1897.
 The statute relating to cruelty to animals reads as follows:
 Sandels & Hills Digest of the Statutes of Arkansas:
 sSection 1516: If any person shall overdrive, overload, torture, deprive of necessary sustenance, or cruelty beat or needlessly mutilate or kill, or cause or pro- cure to be overdriven, overloaded, tortured, tormented or deprived of necessary sustenance, or to be cruelty beaten or needlessly mu- tilated orl1illed, any living crea- ture, every such offender shall for every such offense be guilty of a misdemeanor.
 "Section 1917. Any person who shall keep or use, or in any way be connected with or inter- ested in the management of, or shall receive money for the ad- mission of any person to any place kept or used for the pur- pose of fighting or batting any bull, bear, dog, cock or any creature, and every person who shall aid, encourage or assist therein, or who shall permit or suffer any place to be kept so or used, shall upon conviction there of be adjudged guilty of a misde- meanor.
 "Section 1518. Any person who shall impound or cause to be impounded in any pound or other place any creature, shall supply to the same during such confinement a sufficient quantity of good, wholesome food and wat CT, and in default thereof shall upon conviction be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor.
 ''Section 1920. If any person shall carry or cause to be carried in or upon any vehicle, boat or otherwise, any creature in a cruel or inhuman manner he shall be guilty of a misdemean-
 "Section 1928. All fines, pen alties and forfitures imposed and imposed and collected in any county in this state under the provisions of every act passed or in any wise effecting animals, shall inure to such society in aid of the purpose for which it was Incorporated"
 It is unlawful to shoot pigeons