St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-12-22

Totals $4,203.SS $712.44 $4,916.32
This damage money is paid out under
a law of 1906, which grants redress for
loss OF crops, fruit trees or shubbery,
notice of claims being required within 10
days OF the time when the loss was alleg-
ed to have been sustained. The determi-
nation of the amount of damage done is
left to the selectmen and the game war
den of the town in which the claimant
resides. The greater proportion of the
claimed damages in this part of Vermont
was to growing crops, although the
complaints were not numerous. In
southern Vermont, there was consider
able complaint of damage to orchard
trees.
Water Injunction.
An injunction secured by the state
board of health, restraining M. E. Wheel
er, Aaron Sheldon, Mark Tenney, G. w.
Sawyer, Michael Rooney and Reuben
Ranger, all of Mendon, from further pol
luting the Mendon branch of the East
creek, used in supplying drinking water
tor Rutland city, has been granted by
Chancellor William H. Taylor.
The bill of complaint sets up that
along this stream and its tributaries are
various farms and farm buildings, owned
or occupied by the various men named,
that the Rutland city reservoir is located
at a point below the farms, and that the
farms and buildings discharge sewage
and drainage from barnyards and pig
pens and other refuse, tending to pollute
the stream. This, it claims, is a menace
to the public health land particularly
that from the dwelling house of M. E.
Wheeler, occupied by Aaron Sheldon
where there is sink drain which dis
charges house Sc wage on the ground and
thence into the waters of the Mendon
branch, and that upon the other farms
mentioned there are nusances. consisting
IN most instances OF manure piles, barns
and pigpens, which contaminate the
stream.
The bill of complaint further states
that the state board Of health last Octo-
Der issued orders, which were duly post
ed in Mendon and served, restraining the
defendantsfro polluting the stream, and
that, despite this order the nuisances
cited have not been abated
Want State Money to Promote Game.
The Rutland Gun club, which has for
its object game preservation and propa-
cation as well as the promotion of trap
shooting, is to ask the State, through
H. G. Thomas of Stowe, State fish and
game commissioner, to allow the club
money from the hunting license fund to
try the experiment of stocking Rutland
county coverts with Hungarian par
tridges. Rutland sportsmen have been in
communication with persons who have
liberated Hungarian partridges in this
country and they believe the bird the
most desirable of any foreign game
which could be secured. The bird is be-
tween the size of the native quail and
ruled grouse and is said to inhabit the
same kind of woods as the partridge.
The local gunners believe that it would
be better to experiment with the birds
about Rutland than farther north in the
State where there is more snow. Farm
ers have been hired by the gun club to
feed few quail which are still left from
a bevy liberated some years ago
Inspection of National Guard.
Sergt. John c. Cady, First infantry,
U. S. A., will make the next annual in
spection for the government of the COM
panies of the First regiment, Vermont
national guard. Sergeant Cady is