Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-09
DESIRES SEEMING STOPPED
Motor Company Applies to the Fedora
Court for an Injunction.
WOULD RUIN MARIANA FOR ANGLERS
Game Warden Grants Formulation to
Have Carp, Buffalo and All but
Game Varieties of Fish
Taken out.

n. W Wells, president Of the Omaha
& Council Bluffs Railway and Bridge com
pany, who holds most OF the property at
Lake Manawa in his name as trustee for
the company, yesterday applied to Judge
Smith Mcpherson Of the United States
court for an order restraining Deputy Fish
and Game Warden E. c. Brown, Poe Scott,
william Hall, John Coyle and sixteen
others from SEEMING in the lake or from
cutting holes in the ice for the purpose
Of SEEMING.
Deputy Fish and Game Warden Brown,
who also fills the position Of district oil
inspector, recently conceived the idea that
1t would be to the benefit of the game
fish in Lake Manawa IL all other kinds
Of fish we're exterminated. With this idea
he Is said to have granted permission to
Joe Scott and a number Of other fishermen
to seine the lake under his personal su-
pervision and to take out all buffalo, carp,
gars and other fish not classified as game"
by means Of SEEMING. II is understood that
Scott and his fellow fishermen are prepar-
ing to seine the lake on a wholesale plan
and have purchased a net sixteen feet
deep and 200 feet long.
In his petition for a restraining order
Wells calls attention to the fact that the
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great expense stocked the lake with game
fish and that to permit these men to now
seine the waters would practically destroy
the lake as a fishing resort for anglers
with rod and line. The right Of the dep
uty fish and game warden to grant the
permission to Scott and his fellow fisher
men to seine the lake is also questioned.
In support of the petition for the re-
straining order 1t Is shown that there is
no natural inlet or outlet to the lake by
which It might become stocked or re-
plenished with fish.
Also Restraints Dixie Cutting.
Last year the motor company constructed
at considerable cost a dam at the lake and
from time to time threats have been made
to cut it by men who formerly were per-
mitted to seine there without hinduance.
In view Of these threats, which the motor
company says have been recently renewed
FL injunction restraining the cutting Of
the dam is also asked for by Mr.. Wells.
Attorneys for the motor company state
that when they learned OF the Intention Of
Deputy Brown to have the lake seined,
they requested him to refrain from doing
30, as 1t would undoubtedly result in a
great destruction Of game fish recently
placed there by the government and that
1t was doubtful II the seiners would be
I particular about distinguishing between
the game and other varieties OF fish
which might be caught In their nets. 1t is
said that Deputy Warden Brown insisted
that it would be for the benefit Of the
game fish to exterminate the other varieties
and declined to withdraw the permission
he had given to Scott and his fellow fisher
men.
About two years ago Cut OF lake was
seined In order to get rid Of the carp and
other fish which preyed upon the bass and
other game fish. The result was that the
lake was practically depopulated of all
kinds Of fish. 1t is feared by President
Wells that IL the SEEMING is permitted at
Lake Manawa the same result will follow
there.
Deputy Fish and Game Warden Brown
was not In the city yesterday, so his side
Of the controversy could not be learned.