Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-12-15
CANE HOGS SUFFER
MANY vioLAToRs OF LAWS sue.
cESSFuLlY PROSECUTED
~ STATE.
IN ONLY TWO INSTANCES
DID AcQUiTALs REeuLT
Half Million Fish Transported in New
Car During Past ssason-ospart-
msnt Actively Engaged in Removing
Coarse Fish From Lakes Of State
Mayor Baushn Gets ouistus.
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Des Moines, Dec. 15.-Of the 2I2
prosecutions this year for violation Oh
the game laws, under the direction OK
the state game department., only two
failed. Prosecution Of offenders a
been more active this year han ever
before.
The game department expended sl5,-
277.s7 in the purchase OF the hsh car
! in which fish to the number OF a max
million have been transported TO the
! Iowa lakes and rivers. The department
has equipped a state game farm on the
state fair grounds at a cost OF so'ouo'
expended s., 500 in aiding the
of Medium lake to fit it for a fish pre-
serve: expended $3.50 on Silver lake,
and 1854 on the dam at the lower ena
of storm lake. There has been expena-
ed on the new fish hatchery at Spirit
lake, s3,l74.S5.
One OF the activities Of the depart
ment the past season has been mat OK
removal of coarse fish from the iahese'
The department took out OF the lakes
SIS, 900 buffalo fish and as many carp
and destroyed them. These were taken
from east Okoboji. Clear, Spirit, wan
and Tumble lakes.
The fish taken from the bayous at
Sabula and Lansing were distributed
evenly over the state. IN axe anu
rivers. The car handled 521, 600 nsh.
There is no good reason now why fish,
ing should not be good in a few years.
A vast amount Of work was also Done
in getting the Ash out OF the bayous
.-l --1- ,-.o o1aa~ y-aYar npGrnN so
that the winter Won! not Kill the
young fish.
Ex-Mayor Baughn, of Harlan, will
not be able to escape paying the costs
Of his removal, amounting to 1892, by
taking the advice Of his attorneys ana
resigning after the court had decided
he was to be removed and before the
decree was entered. The decree has
now been signed by the chief justice
and it recites that the order is made
removing defendant n conformity
with the written opinion fled herein
this court finds hat the lower court
erred In dismissing h plaintiffs petit
ton and fnds the equities are with the
plaintiff, thai the allegations Of plain
tif's petition that the defendant was
intoxicated on the 2Sth day OF July,
1913. at which time he was mayor OF
the city Of Harlan, are true etc. TINS
puts a cinch on the matter and leaves
nothing for the lower courts to do.
The state executive council spent all
| day Saturday on another Of the
troublesome lake bed cases in which
the arner and property owners want
a lake drained and converted into farm
land and the hunters and others want
| the lake preserved and be made useful
for game.
This is the application for drainage
Of -Four Mile lake. The petition for
drainage had fifty names but they were
not all in one county. The lake is in
both Em1uet ard Dickinson counties.
Against the petition 1t was contended
that there would hav to be fifty names
for drainage in each county.
The matter was left undecided and
probably a g petition will be pre-
pared.
It is legal for. town to impose a spe-
cial tax on dogs. In a certain town
where his was done objection was
raised by the dogs because Of alleged
double taxation. The matter came to
! AK
General Robbins who investigated n
reached the conclusion that such taxa
ton by a municipality is authorized by
| the code. The code Of 1873 contained
a provision authorizing towns and
cities to pass ordinances taxing dogs
and other domestic animals which are
not taxed for state and county ppr-
poses. At one time dogs were taxed
for county purposes but the state go
nothing. Later this tai was repealed
! and they are taxed for a specia! do
mestic animal. fund. This. ii is held.
will not operate to prevent taxation by
a municipality.
The board Of control has been har-
assed and troubled in man ways over
the puzzling problem Of where to. locate
the state epileptic farm; but it hasn't
yet affected the mind OF any member,
as the question has at least n who
Is interested in trying to Sell land to
the state for the colony. Thus far all
the beard members are sane. One land
agent is hardly that.
The agent. who by the way lives in
another state, one day recently asked
for a private conference with the men,
bers OF the board. Behind closed doors
he commenced to tell about the ad-
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