The Pulaskian., 1917-02-23

for hunting and S5 for fishing, and
 only one trip per year may be taken
 into the state. The nonresident nay also take home the fish he catches.
 A closed season on deer with antlers less than 5 inches in length, beaver, otter, turkey hens, pheasant, grouse, prairie chicken, woodcock, turtle dove and robins, is also provided for term of five years.
 The market fisherman is also more closely restricted than under the old law. He must pay S25 for fishing with nets, S10 for fishing with trot lines, and S5 for every assistant The deal CT who buys his fish must keep book showing his purchases, ard keep fl open at all times for inspection by the game wardens The dealer must pay 1-16 of one per cent on each pound of fish purchased, into the game fund.
 Game fish is protected so that any thing less than il inches in length in jack, salmon, pike, and black bass, must be thrown back into the water and less than eight inches on trout, croppie. white perch, and stripped bass, and six inches on sunfish The limit on channel catfish and drum is two pounds, and carp and buffalo, three pounds.
 Dynamite and drugs are barred, as is the high powered rife.
 The annual bag limit on deer is two, bear one, and four turkeys. Tie daily limit on squirrel is 15, pheas- ants, grouse, prairie chicken, when they may be killed, is 5. Twenty quail. duck and deves may be killed in one day. Twenty-Five is the limit on trout, bass, croppie ana white perch, for one day
 Hunting dogs are protected. and the theft of one that is registered is considered grand larceny. and it is also grand larceny to initiate a li- cense tag, or change one.
 The game commission has power to make rules regulating shipment of game, and will permit fish to be shipped out for stocking stream of other states. The commission is also empowered to appoint and dismiss wardens at will. who shall have au- thority to make arrests in any coun- ty while in the pursuance of their du-. ties
 Representative Baldi Vinson, an ar dent sportsman, gave the House d very exhaustive synopsis of the bill Tn explaining it's good features, and de. elared that Arkansas has lost $3,07S,- 333 worth of game in the 20 months preceding June, 1916, trough the ship ment of game from the state He de- clared that 2O,0oO,O00 pounds of fish have been sent to foreign states to market, which, at an estimated value of 10 cents per pound was the loss Of ! S2,000,000 He figured that 70,000 bar rels of duck have been shipped from the lakes of East Arkansas in this time, and each barrel contained an average of 90 ducks. making the to- tai $G,300,000. Seventy-hve per cent of this was shipped out by nonresident hunters, according to MT. Vinson Ninety deer were saved during the high waters in East Arkansas last year by game wardens, stated Mr Einson.
 In closing his argument, MT, Vim son stated that Maine is receiving from game licenses enough each year to pay the expenses of all departments of state government. He asserted that California is receiving from the same source $450,0OO per annum, and that Arkansas in 1915, in spite of the laxity of the laws, received $1S,000, and only $1O,OOO of this was necessary to maintain office and field forces.
 Constable L. P. James has reported a Ford automobile, license No 2569, 1 cfo ot Goh hot