Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-01-26
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.
strict Game Law That VIII Practi-
caIly Bar Hunters from other
statcs-stubbs Presents Bills..

Topeka, Kan. Jan. A.-Sportsmen
of Kansas City, st. Joseph, Atchison,
Leavenworth. Topeka. Wichita and
other big cities Of this section will no
doubt be interested in the provisions
of the proposed new fish and game law
of Kansas. 1t has already been report
ed favorably and is sure to become a
law. The Hoch administration is be-
hind 1t. The bill provides that the gov
ernor shall appoint a state fish and
game warden for term Of four years.
The wardens salary shall be $1,000 a
year. He shall have charge OF the
state fish hatchery at Pratt, and shall
enforce the fish and game laws OF the
state. He shall visit all of the streams
of the state and stock them with suit
able fish. One deputy shall be named
for each county to aid in the enforce
ment of the law. The warden and his
deputies are clothed with power to
make arrests. Ii is made unlawful 70
use nets or dynamite or drugs to catch
fish.
Resident hunters are required to pay
q license of 81 and non-residents SIS.
1t shall be unlawful for any person III
any one calendar day to shoot. kill or
have in his possession game birds In
excess of the following indicated num-
bers: Grouse. Is; prairie chicken, Is;
quail. 20; plover, 20; wild ducks, 20;
wild geese. 10; wild brant. 10.
Two insurance bills. prepared by
State Insurance Superintendent Luling
and Endorsed by Gov. Hoch, were in
troduced. They provide for state fire
marshal and prohibit insurance agents
deducting their commission by way of
inducing persons to become insured.
Three bills prepared by w. r.
Stubs, designed to bring about need
ed reforms, made their appearance in
the house. One provided for an i'm
proved method of handling the state
school fund, another for lending pub
lie money to state repositories and the
third for placing pipe lines under the
Jurisdiction of the state board of rail-
way assessors for taxation.
In the house on the 18th Lupfer, q
populist, introduced the initiative and
referendum bill. Both houses passed
a bill appropriating $4,000 for legisla-
tive purposes. This will pay the per
diem and mileage" of members for
the first ten days. including SO post
age for each member. The senate I'M
der an emergency rule appropriated
81 900 for the maintenance of the ex-
ecutive residence until June 30. 1905.
The senate also voted 10 adopt Brew
er's bill abolishing the state grain
commission. The senate also passed
a bill authorizing Nemaha county to
pay half the expenses of any enter
prise designed to explore for oil, gas,
coal or other minerals.
Bird, of Shawnee, introduced in the
house bill providing for the abolish
ment of the Office of state commits
sioner of forestry and irrigation. Sem
ator Tucker proposed a joint action
with the Missouri legislature on iden.
tical bills regulating stock yards COM
panies and their charges. The present
act was passed by the legislature of
1903, but ii has been of no benefit to
stock growers because the yarding is
on the Missouri side, and, consequent
ly, the Kansas act does not apply.
Under the provisions of the bill in
troduced in the senate by Senator
Porter, from Crawford, cities of Kan
sas will be. authorized to vote bonds
for the purpose OF going into the
natural gas and oil business. This bill
authorizes cities of any class, to issue
bonds not to exceed rs per cent. of
the assessed valuation of the city, and
not to be sold at less than the face
value, to run 20 years and not to draw
more than five per cent. interest, to
use for prospecting for gas Members
Of the house committee on roads and |
bridges went to Emporia on the 23d to |
attend the meeting of good roads as
there