The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-12-13
MAY ABOLISH OFFICE
PROPOSE LEGISLATIVE MEASURE
FOR DISPOSAL OF GUN II.
CENSE REVENUES.
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
From the Capitol CITY, the Various
State Institutions and From
Many Different Parts OF
the Sunshine State.

Huron.-U nder the provisions OF a
new game Ind fish law, drawn up by
the sportmen of the state meeting in
this city, all of the county game war
dens will be out Of job as soon as the
proposed measure becomes effective.
The meeting of sportsmen called in
this city by State Game Warden w.
+. Bancroft has concluded its business
and adjourned. The meeting drafted,
section by section, new game and
fish law, which was copied in many re-
spects from the Minnesota law, with
such differences as were necessary.
Suggestions were also made for the
expenditure of the game fund, and
state game commission was suggested.
A. A. Coburn of Deadwood, A. l.. Wy
man of Yankton, f. L. Brambie Of
Watertown, T. H. Null of Huron, Fred
Youngberg Of Brookings, f. Norbeck
Of Pierre, and Charles Woodland of
Sansarc, made up the committee on
drafting the new law, together with
the state gamewarden. The meeting
recommends a state game and fish
commission, made up Of three men,
one of whom is to be the state game
warden. These commissioners will
serve for six years, one to be elected
every two years.
Under the proposed new law the
county game wardens will be dis
pensed with, and the state commission
will employ such help as is needed to
enforce the laws. 1t is believed that
special agents representing the state
can do better work than local men in
this capacity, and in the new arrange
ment there will be a considerable sal
ary saving. The open season for prai-
rie chickens has been changed, it now
being from September to December
l. This was done because of the more
or less migratory nature Of these
birds, under the old law the southern
part of the state getting no chicken
shooting before the close of the short
season. The season for grouse will
now be from September 20 to Novem-
Der 20, which is the same as the deer
season. For deer the bag limit re-
mains the same, one animal. Neither
has any change been made in the
provisions regarding licenses. For
fish the only closed season now is dur
Ing the months of April and May.
Regarding the uses to which the
state game fund be put the meeting
made several suggestions. The amount
sc ~V, IAl fDr
6sh hatchery, located somewhere east
Of the Missouri river. From expert
ments carefully made it has been
found that game fish will not pass
through fshways in dams, and the
only way in which the streams of
South Dakota can be kept we'll stocked
IS by having a fish hatchery. 1t is rec
ommended also that $4,000 of the
fund be used to fence in several thou
sand acres of Black Hills land and to
procure a supply of elk from WyO-
ming to stock the preserve with. The
idea in this connection is to raise as
much of this game as possible, when
ever the preserve become overstocked
turning it loose. A last $40 900 is rec
ommended to be expended for the
propagation of wild fowl in the east
ern half of the state. This refers to
all game birds, but especially to pleas
tnts.
From the rapidity with which the
game fund has accumulated in the
past, it is believed that ample money
will be obtainable to keep these three
suggestions up, particularly with the
addition Of that saved on county game
gardens salaries