The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-08-22
WARNS AGAINST
FOREST FIRES
STATE GAME WARDEN vIQuES
NEY SENDS OUT 5000
NOTICES.
Calling Attention to Destructlveness
OF CONGREGATIONS - Quotes
State Statutes.

Calling attention to the destructive
ness OF forest fires. State Game War.
den j. A. Ntquesney. OF Belington. has
sent ors 1000 cloth posters throughout
the State. warning all against the care
less use OF fires. n asking all citi-
zens OF West Virginia to Join In a
crusade 10 lessen his element OF de.
struction TO our forests. The posters
contain sections Of the State laws.
and are as follows:
More than s 3, 1000. 900 of forest prod
ucts were destroyed in West Virginia
during the year 1903 by forest fires.
To prevent this destruction. the legis-
lature of 1903 enacted a law.
at Is Now Unlawful
For any person TO build a fire. or use
an abandoned fire. in a field. public
or private road. or adjacent to. or in
any woods or forests OF this State, un-
less such fire Is totally extinguished
before leaving same;
To n~egligently set on fire any fields.
woods or lands in this State so as TO
merely occasion loss. damage or in
Jury To another person the fine is not
less than $50 nor more h $500. and
In the discretion OF the court trying
same. a jail sentence may be imposed
not to exceed one year:
To unlaWfully and maliciouslv set
nre 10 any woods. fields. grass. straw
Or other thing capable of spreading
nre on lands: the fine is not to exceed
! n a jail sentence OF not less
than TWO nor more than twelve
months. and any person injured here
by. or in consequence thereof. NAV
sustained.
To w%ilfully SET on fire any woods.
helds or lands within this State NOT
your own, so as to thereby occasion
damage or injury TO any other person.
constitutes = felony. punishable bv
confinement in the penitentiary for
not less than n nor more than FIVE
years:
Railroad Companies
n o law requires all railroad com
panios 10 remove all infammabie ma.
terlal from their right Of Way. TO ORC.
Vlde al locomotives with netting of
steel or iron wire TO prevent he %
cape or sparks M fire from the
snche stacks. and adequate devices 10
prevent the escape 81 fire from ASH
pans and furnaces. and 10 employ IN
season Of drought. and before veRetn-
tlon has revived in the spring. suf9
cier' trrckmen 20 put ont hres or its
rights or way. Engineers. conductors
or trairmeuf discovering or knowing
81 hres In fences. or other material
alonc the right 90 wav Of the railroad
Shh" report same ~ the FIRST station
"" ~" station agent. and such station
aror' shall rorfhvi 3 notify the neer.
90 ~" warden and use all necessary
MEANS 20 ev'tuguish same Anv ON.
pl0v" or Once ~ n r1ilrnad
violating auy such provisions shall he
mod mo- less than 500 nor more than
Fire Wardcns.
forCef. -dm. nsh u-arden -
eN "fhrio Ere warden o. the state ana
|f deputy V-rdens ere deputv 90
Tor their respective counties
IN Csse OF Fire.
NriiN some deputy warden ~ -
non" ie re1r. eummon helm ana srtin.
'ui-l 'hr Ere yourself. and Drorar
hlAnks wiz be furnished Won Nv Inc
7'a'o warden ON Vh.r'i 10 make vour
Pc Careful VIA Ere.
70 careful with matches cicaro
rin'- -Hi all devices calculated 20 20,
Tho f'W' 70 coutro' "a fro be- bafcro
D started a stitch IN limo saves
uir" IT. Is frue Of f1reef g-.s r..
tn' most dangerous element I'm ma
an ci'iycns - wo.t Virrini, eb,,l.
.'in iH a crusade 10 lessen thie eI.
men ~ destruction ~ orr f,-ecfs
NV 9.fi-tar~" 0r helm Won can ci,o
I' prevent or atou those Hroa. o. --v
Information as o. violations ~ d
''afeu'e w" h. rreauy anpreciafed