The Pulaskian., 1917-02-09
WOULD PROTECT
 PECAN INDUSTRY
BILL INTRODUCED IN THE LEGlS- LATURE, BUT ADVERSELY RE PORTED BY THE COMMIT
 ON AGRICULTURE.

county introduced bill in the House for the protection of the pecan indus. try of the state It is law that the farmers of Pulaski county would like to see passed, since those who have pe- can trees are annoyed every year by the foraging parties who ruin their trees and steal their nuts. The Com mittee on Agriculture has made an adverse report on the bill. however. and il may not pass.
 The bill is as follows:
 Section l. That it shall be unIaw- ful for any person or persons to cut down, dynamite or to injnre by bat. tering rams or in any other way caleu- lated to damage tree, any pecan tree, or tree, for the purpose Of gath ering oceans therefrom, without the written consent of the owner, or own CTS, of said land, or lands. upon which 1 said tree, or trees, is, or are, growing,
 Section ?. That it shall be unlawful for any person, or persons, to cut off the limbs, beat upon or jar or in any way frail or best from the branches of said limbs the nuts from any pecan tree, or trees, or in any other way to injure or damage the branches and limbs of said tree, or trees, or in any other way jar therefrom the nuts or cause same to fall therefore. without the written consent of the owner or owners Of the land, or lands, upon which said tree, or trees, is, or are growing.
 Section 3 That it shall be unlaw. ful for any person, or persons, to gather and carry away any nuts taken from said trees or trees. after same have been jared therefrom by batter Ing rams or dynamite or have been frailed therefrom by poles or by ham mering upon the limbs, or by any other device, without the written consent of the owner, or owners. of the land or lands, upon which said tree, or trees, is, or are, growing.
 Section 4. That it shall be unlaw- full for any person, or persons, to en- l ter upon land or lands of another where same is or are inclosed with any fence authorized by law and gath CT the oceans which have fallen from the tree or trees thereon, without the written consent of the owner or own CTS of said land or lands.
 Section 5. Any person or persons who shall be found guilty of the viola tion Of Section 1 of this Act shall be 1 fined in any sum not less than $25. .00 nor more than $50.00 for the first of fense and not less than $50.00 nor more more than $10O.00 and by impris- onment in the county jail for not less than thirty days (30} days nor more than six f6) months for each succeed l ing offense.
 Section 6. Any person or persons who shall be found guilty of the viola tion of Section 2, 3 and of this Act shall be fined in any sum not less than 5000 nor more than $25.00 for the first offense and not less than s25. .O0 nor more than s50.00 for each succeed 1 ing offense.
 Section 2. That any person or per sons who may purchase oceans gath
 
 provisions of this Act shall be liable to the owner or owners of lands on which said oceans were gathered, to the amount of market value of said oceans at the time of the purchase 1 of same
 Section S. That all Acts, or parts of Acts, in conflict with this Act be, and same are hereby repealed and this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after the date of it's pass age.
 Wroe said about Little Rock and Ar 1 kansas, and that he is headed right when he departed for the bull fighting country.
 w. E. Wroe is the head of the Wroe Paper Company of Chicago, concern organized along novel lines, and which does no business with the ordinary pa pers, at all, for nothing less than case lots are sold. Mir Wroe has demon strated that newspaper advertising will make a leader of an article of merit, in the manner in which he has exploited the Construction Bond.
 Arthur Pratt, of Kalamazoo, who happens not to be in the celery, but the president of the King Paper Com pany, accompanied MT, Wroe. MT. Pratt manufactures glazed papers and other high grade goods, and came along with MT. Wroe to see if they could keep up their end with Roy Thompson.
 The visitors departed Saturday night for Panama, where they will spend the winter, or that portion of it they see fit to remain away from the frost bitten North,