Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-04-04
STATE HOUSE.
Game Department Busy With
i Licenses and Laws.
The Work Laid Out for the New Min
ing Bureau.
Agricultural BuIletin-Sehool Returns
Appointments.

It is the busy season in the depart
ment of the commissioners of inland
fish and game; in fact, all seasons are
pretty busy in this big basement room
which is made attractive by it's extern
sive collections of mounted birds and
animals, but just at present the work
lie crowding more than usual. The ap
plications for licenses as guides are
pouring in. These licenses run for the
even calendar year, but few are taken
out during the first months Of the year.
Now that the spring fishing season is
at hand the guides suddenly discover
that they want their licenses renewed.
Over 200 licenses practically all being
renewals of old licenses, have been is
sued in the past week or two and
every mail brings applications.
The department is also busy getting
out the little pamphlet containing n
compilation of the fish and game laws,
revised to date. The Legislature au-
thorized the publication of 10000 copies,
and judging from the experience Of
past years and by the numerous re-
quests already received, the edition
will hardly supply the demand. The
booklet will be of 80 or 30 pages and will
give not only the laws, but vast fund
of information invaluable to those
hunting and fishing in Maine. The
Legislature also authorized the publi-
cation of 5000 additional copies of the
annual report of the commissioners for
1902, as the regular edition had been
quickly exhausted. These additional
reports and the compilation of the and
game laws will be ready for distribu-
ton at an early date.
1t is to be noticed that New Hamp-
shire and North Carolina, as well as
Maine fell into line with the other
states, during the past winter, in the
matter of hunters tax for non-resi-
dents. This leaves only the southern
New England states. which have no
game to protect, and Kansas, Utah,
Mississippi and Georgia as the states
who do not require license fee of nom
residents hunting within their borders.
Missouri and Colorado will not allow
states forbid the expectation of game,
Texas being one of them. Wyoming
imposes a license fee of $40, which is
the largest among the states, though
in Newfoundland it is 500 and in Brit
ish Columbia $50.
Governor Hill has appointed the fol-
lowing list Of delegates to the Nation
al Conference of Charities and Correc-
ton which will meet at Atlanta, Geor-
gia. May to 70: Hiram w. Kicker,
South Portland; E. B. Winslow, Port
land; Miss Clara Farwell, Rockland;
Mrs. Anna Sargent Hunt, Augusta;
pr.nf
Rev. w. F. Berry, Kent's Hill; Mrs.
Persis M. Martin, Augusta; Rev. Geo.
w. Hinckley, Fairfield; Rev. Smith Ba-
ker. Portland; and George H. Eaton.
Calais.
Governor Hill left. Friday. on a brief
business trip to Boston. He will re-
turn, Monday.
Levi M. Poor of Augusta, Is a candi-
date with strong endorsements for a
position on the commission for a mon
ument at Andersonville prison in
memory of the Maine soldiers who died
there. The resolve which appropriated
5000 for this purpose, provided that the
commission should consist of three per-
sons, one being the Governor of the
State, and one of the others a man who
was prisoner of war at AndersonvilIe.
Mr.. Poor was a soldier in the 18th
Maine and was prisoner at Anderson
vile for many months.
Another commission soon to be APP
pointed by the Governor is that to rep
resent Maine at the Good Roads C,n-
gress to be held at st. Louis, late in the
present month. There are to be three
commissioners or delegates and the
present candidates are Senator Dud-
ley of AroostoOk, Representative Rice
of Pennington and ex-Representative
David e. Moulton Of South Portland.
The Maine Mining Bureau, created
by the list Legislature, will shortly
meet to organize. It's members are
Forest Commissioner Ring, Agricul-
tural Commissioner Gilman and Labor
Commissioner Matthews. The law pro-
vides that this bureau shall collect all
possible information regarding precious
and useful minerals in the State, shall
establish metallurgical cabinet at the
State House. and shall once in two
years cause to be printed a pamphlet
containing such reliable information
concerning the mineral resources of the
State as 1t has collected, and distribute
at least 1000 copies of such pamphlet
each year among the business men and
capitalists of other states. No money
was appropriated for their use. A re-
solve for $4,000 for this purpose was
introduced. but failed of passage, so
the bureau must not only work without
pay. but has no funds for purposes of
investigation or collection.
The fiscal returns from the towns for
the year ending April !. are beginning
to arrive at the Office of the State SUI