The pioneer express., 1909-06-25
A FISH STORY.

Deputy Game Warden O'Hars swoop-
ed down on Pembina last Saturday and
gathered in two fine seines which were
in use in the Red River. There were
three more in sight, but while the officer
was taking the two seized up town to a
place of safe keeping, the owners pre-
sumably, of the remaining nets, transfer
red them to similar place known only
to themselves-or at least not to M.
O'Hara. No information could be oh
tanned as to the ownership of the nets
seized. No one seemed to know who
they belonged to.-Neche Chronotype.
The above paragraph is somewhat in
accurate. The facts are that the two
nets seized in the "swoop'' of Deputy
Game Warden O'Hara were not two nets
but were the halves of one net. The net
belonged to an Icelander living in South
Pembina. A couple of weeks ago when
young Hales was drowned, some of the
boys who were trying to recover the
body went to the home of the owner of
the net and IN his absence took the net
without his knowledge and stretched it
across the Pembina rivers mouth with
the object of preventing the body from
passing into the Red. Owing to the
strong current and debris passing down
the net was almost Immediately torn in
two parts and the boys hauled it on the
shore and left it to dry there, intending
to RETURN it to the owner; but as such
things ga, sometimes, it was still on the
shore when Game Warden r. U'Hara of
Neche ':sWooped."
The whole circumstances we're fully
explained to the deputy game warden
and he was asked to at Least make note
of the matter with his return to the
state warden.
As to other nets which he saw, they
are still ON exhibition. As the fishing
is no good this season owing, it issaid to
the fact that our Canadian friends Just
across the line have placed nets across
the Red which completely bar the pas
sage of fish to the north, the fishermen
on this side have utilized their nets used
in former years on the Red river to en-
close their sheep pastures. AS there are
"sheepheads" in the pasture as we'll as
in the river, it is probable that under
the new game Law of North Dakota that
these nets are also seizable on sight.
Referring to the provisions of the
game law of North Dakota which per-
haps authorizes such arbitrary seizures
of guns. nets, etc, the following extracts
from the constitution of the United
States are of interest: "The right of
The people to keep and bear arms shall
not be infringed'' 80. 1'The right of the
people to be secure in their persons,
houses, papers and effects against un-
searches and seizures, shall
lot be violated" "Nor be deprived of
ife, liberty or property without due pro-
,ess of law"
The protection of game and fish is a
worthy object and the Pioneer Express
las at least one enthusiastic sportsman
IN its staff; but when it comes to the
of geese for our Canadian
leighbors,sand the protection of fish in
N interstate and international, navig-
Ible stream like the Red River, which
las been damned in Manitoba by nets
md locks SO that but few fish can get up
he riverssf for Americans there are limits
ven to our enthusiasm.
As for the doughty game-warden Pat,
Notwithstanding s.two men from Gret-
"a" and himself attempted to buy some
resh fish and to trent Q seine," suckers
vere not biting well that day. We un-
lerstand Pat has been billed tor q O.
he price ofthe net from tho owner whom