Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-24
SPORISNEN AROUSED
TO GO BEFORE EXECUTIVE couN-
GIL TO GET DIVERSION OF
LICENSE FUND.
fAsT WORK TO BE DONE
WHERE MONEY CAN BE USED
State Fish Hatchery Has Gone to Ruin
For Lack of Funds to Sustain It,
sportsmen Find Precedent for Keep
ing License Money in Separate Fund
For Game Preservation.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Dies Moines, Jan. 24.--Every dollar
received by the Iowa state treasury
from the hunters license to be used in
protecting game and encourag cling
sport. That is the program of the fish
and game associations. They do not
want amy part of the money to go into
the general funds of the state.
William L.. Reed, prominent lawyer,
is head of the local association. He will
go before the state executive council,
with committee he will name, and eX-
plain the position of the men who car
~ guns. Not Il dollar of that fund
should be turned into the general rev.
enues of the state De says. There is
use for all of it. Just at present there
is very great need of expenditure to
keep the streams of Iowa stocked with
fish. The state fish hatchery has-gone
to ruin because the legislature did not
appropriate to maintain it. There
should be fishways at the dams and
this has not been done. There is a
vast work to be done and there is use
for all the money derived from license
|fees''
Mr.. Reed does not commit himself
to the idea of ultimately having a game
preserve for Matching wild fowls and
stocking the state "It is great shame,
however" he said, that the state has
destroyed or permitted the destruction
of the breeding places and rendezvous
for water fowl in northern Iowa. We
have abundance of corn land, not We Y
much duck country. The drainage anG
loss of the lakes has made it impossible
to have good hunting in Iowa as it
once was. What can be done to remedy
this do not know, but the state should
do what-it cam
This gun license fund is now the only
fund in the state that is kept separate
from the general revenues of the state.
Formerly the fund derived from char
macy certificates was in the control of
the pharmacists and was to be used
only for their purpose, and several 9TH
! er funds We're treated similarly. An eff
fort has been male to have this state
/ set aside the fund derived from ilsur-
ance fees for insurance business only
and so on tnrl long list. In all cases
except this ono the money the state re-
ceives is treated as belonging 70 the
state. If there is a large fund left re-
naming when the next legislature
meets there will be "a pretty fight 10
determine what to do with it.
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| Curator Harlan has received from,
/ the state historical department q large
as, Ia,
| w. Noble, formerly a cabinet member
| who was colonel of an Iowa cavalry
regiment. General Noble possesses q
| valuable collection of public documents
and papers and these will ultimately
come to the Iowa historical department
Until the full decision Of the United
! States supreme court is received in the
| Kansas case in which it was held thai
| the state could not impose a tax or
foreign corporations biased on their en-
| tire corporate stock or property, moth
I ing will be done to enforce the lowe
Jaw against the trusts that are holding
out and refusing to pay. 1t is believed
that unless the dispatches have failed
to explain the case fully that the same
principles Will apply, at least in part
TO Iowa, and this will force a complete
revision of the Iowa law as to cor
porations, something which the state
! officials have been trying to secure fol-
a number of years.
4 The late Mrs. Margaret Collier Ora.
ham, who died at Pasadena, Cal, las
week, Well known for many years Il:
an author and magazine writer, was al
Iowa woman. She was born in Val
Buren county, Iowa, in 1850, and grad
uated at Monmouth College. She wa
married to Donald NJ. Graham in 1879
and after going to California com
nenced to write for the magazines
making use of western material for he
stories.
At the last session of the Legislature
a bill came near passing which pro
vided for better headlights on loco
motives, fixing standard for the same
1t was declared that the bill was bein
furthered by the owners of certain de
vices for acetyline or electric head
lights and a. committee of the senat
was\ convinced that anyway the ordi
nary oil lamps are much better be
cause the intense lights would confus
a person on the track. Now the In
diana. railroad commission, after q flu
hearngs has issued an order for equip
ment of all locomotives in that stat
with headlights of not less than 1,50
candle power In view of this fact an
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