Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-07-28
GAME WARDENS
STILL ARE BUSY
REPORT 1882 FINES AND COSTS
AS RESULT OF WEEKS
ENDEAvoR
CHICAGO MAN CAUGHT IN NET
-RiCkEMAN TELLS FISH
STORY.

Madison, July 26.-Fines amounting
to Sass with costs of $247.S6, making
a total of s732S6. are reported by
Game Warden George w. Rickeman
for the week ending yesterday.
Most of the prosecutions and con-
victions were for illegal fishing either
as to methods or for taking of under
sized fish. Two, however, were for
violation of the state law relating to
setting of fins. These offenders were
10. G. Bendieux and M. Miller or
Price county. They were convicted
and fined, the former $40 and the lat
| ter $25.
One 3. F. Chittenberg, resident
of Chicago, alderman OF that city ana
| a candidate for sheriff Of Cook county,
/ Illinois, was arrested by Warden bur'
get III Walworth county and the case
YVES adjourned to July q. The oHense
for which Gutenberg was arrested
was that of making false statement
regarding his residence. The onense'
it is alleged, was committed last year
and upon his return this week tne
warden nabbed him, ~~Ft~-L y~,t-sI
Mayor Bert" Rynden OF Amigo
land Frank Hoffman, a hotel keeper Of
that city, are among the victims OF
the wardens They are charged with
illegal netting in Langlade county
and the cases were on trial before
Justice Fuller at Amigo yesterday.
: Although Warden Rickeman is busy
he. finds time occasionally to listen
to tales of fish as recorded in the an
, nails of jewellers upon the lake shores
, or along the river banks. One of the
, latest comes from Trempeleau county
and is OF monster that has terror
lied jewellers upon the classic shores
of the father of waters. Fishermen
and launch parties at Trenpealeau
and up and down the river near there
have reportd visions of this monster
and many and varied are the tales
that have been told during the past
two months. The monster has been
| described as from the size of the reg
\ ulation sea-serpent to that of the lar
\ gest whale that spouts upon the bosom
Of old ocean. But at last the mys-
terry has been solved and the peace
, Of mind of superstitioUs habitants re-
stored. l., ta~f Ii !, n
< High and dry on a sandbar in Tren.
pealeau. the carcass of huge gar
five feet long, lies bleaching in the
isun. Warden Rickeman says that
:, fishermen residing in the village de
:. clare it is a baby whale or alligator
: which has been frightening people
: along the river during the past two
= months. The appearance of the big
;. fish indicates it was either washed vi
~ on the bar by the waves of passing
lsteamboat Or was left in shallow
y pool by the fail Of the water and was
. unable to get back to the main river.
Il However it met it's fate, the dealt
70 of the big fish has caused rejoicing IL
q Trempealeau and vicinity, for since
the news spread that some mammoth
denizen of the deep was lurking IL
the Mississippi in this vicinity many
tilnid persons. have not dared to gc
out i'll small boats for fear the whale
n or alligator would capsize the skiff OF
poke its big. head into the boat and
;, make lunch out of two or three O
the occupants.
The dead gar is said to be thu
: largest fish ever seen I'm that section
: of the upper river.