The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-17
GAME WARDEN BILL
PRESENTED IN HOUSE
Concurrent Jurisdiction Is Civ
en- to Surrounding States
by the Measure

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To carry out the Minnesota agree
ment with the game wardens of Wis
consin, Iowa and the Dakotas. a bill
was introduced in the house yesterday
to give the five states concurrent juris-
diction over Interstate waters.
The bill came to the house from the
committee on game laws, and is ia
thered by Chairman William Wohlhu-
ter and NJ J. O'Laughlin. 1t extends
the jurisdiction Of Minnesota game
wardens to the farther shores of inter
state waters and recognizes the juris-
diction ~.of the officers Of ada
cent states over the waters Of
lakes and streams dividing Min
nesota. from other states. The wa
tiers of Lake st. Croix, Lake Pepin and
the Mississippi, between Minnesota and
Wisconsin. are to have an open season
for the entire year, excepting the
spawning month of April, for rough
fish, including carp, redhorse, suckers,
sheepsheads, eelpont. gapfish, dogfish,
sturgeon and catfish, which may be
taken by seines and nets Of specified
size. Pound nets and gill nets may be
used under restrictions as to their
meshes on the payment of license fee.
Regulate Private Detectives
Private detective agencies are sought
to be regulated by bill introduced in
the house yesterday by H. b. Chamber
lain of Minneapolis. The Chamberlain
bill provides that private detectives and
private detective agencies shall be IL
censed by the governor, by payment of
an annual fee of SIS and filing with
the secretary of state bond for $4,000.
Licenses, which ordinarily are to run
for three years, are to be revocable for
l~lIl 90
detectives the right to make arrests
without warrant, but they are to turn
their prisoners over to the first officer
whom they may meet after the arrest.
The centennial anniversary of the
visit of Gen. Zebulon NJ. Pike to the
upper waters of the Mississippi river is
to be commemorated by granite shaft
erected at Pike Rapids, Morrison coun-
ty, by the terms of bill introduced in
the house yesterday by II. A. Rider Of
Morrison county. Gen. Pike spent the
winter of 1906 at what is now known
as Pike Rapids, and in October. 1905,
erected fort there as q protection
against hostile Indians. The Rider bill
appropriates $1,000 for the erection Of
suitable monument. The state his
torieal society Is charged with the duty
of carrying out the provisions of the
bill.
-f+S-'v" omitn AFTER 5lind rigs
D.. Sherman S. Smith of Hennepin is IA
Their of bill which it is claimed will
make easy the conviction of blind
piggers. The Smith bill gives justices
of the peace authority to issue sub
poenas for persons who are supposed to
have guilty knowledge of the existence
of illegal liquor selling, and they are
to be brought into court to testify
when information has been filed with
the justice against them. The bill de-
clares that evidence given by such
witnesses. shall. not be used to their
prejudice in criminal actions to be
commenced later.
Sheriffs who incur expenses in carry
Ing out death warrants are to be re-
imbursed on their itemized statements
of expense, by a bill presented to the
house yesterday by A. L. Cole of Walk
er. The bill is made retroactive, and
any sheriff who may have bill against
his county for an execution in the past
three years may take advantage Of
its terms. Sheriff Hardy of Cass coun-
ty, under its terms may collect from
Cass county for the execution of Will
liam Chounard, hanged in October,
1904 for the killing of his wife at Cass
Lake.
Village councils are required to pub
fish financial statements of their con-
uition dt leaSl one week prior to their
annual village elections by a bill intro
duced yesterday by John F. Selb of
Ramsey. Publications of the official
proceedings of village councils are also
required to be made by the Selb bill.
| Wallace Has Land Bill
Land companies, which under the
Donnelly law of 1887 are prohibited
from holding more than 5000 acres of
land, are relieved from the terms of
the law by a bill fathered by Carl r.
Wallace-of Hennepin. The slumn in
land values in the thinly settled parts
OF the state has left land comnanies
with large areas In their possession and
TO save them from organizing subsid-
larry companies and transferring the
land to these, Mr.. Wallace would have
the old-law repealed. 1t does not re-
peal. the law relating to foreign land
companies, affecting by its terms onlv
domestic companies.
A substitute for the Hickey-Lennon
lnnkeepers' bills was reported TODAY
from the committee on crimes and nun
ishments. 1t extends the provisions of
the old fnnkeepers' act to apply to
lodging and boarding houses 1t makes
misdemeanor of any attempt by de-
llnquent guests to defraud keepers of
these houses. The bill also legalizes
a lien on the baggage of persons who
decamp without first liquidating their
Indebtedness.