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p*FISH MAY m itiwA Mb $33,000Game Warden at LeMars Arrest? Three Men Engaged in Wholesale Illegal Fishing.CoWllhahaLhbje\'The Knapp boys, of linden, are not .. the only ones in • trouble with the fish j £ commissioners. The game warden at!nI LeMars has recently--arrested three men *n living near that- place whose work in f the way of illegal fishing is on the most s extensive scale yet unearthed. .Claude d Ross, . William Ross and Bart' Adams s are: the men • in trouble and they are t snb’eei 'to a fine of from $3,300 to $33.-._ 000.00. . They have been released on a -§500 bbiids and'(160 counts are placedagainst each'man.■~ ... The arrest of the men-followed clever s - detective work on. the part-of the game '* ! warden, who has been investigating !' law violations in this section since last .® . .fall- Information . against the iiien ar* c ..rested has. been in process, of eoUcction e since last-. September. Ocher men are said to be implicated, in..illegal fishing, and more arrests will probably follow. The illegal fishing is - said to have3«tl:v;tl:as^ taken.; place in the Big - Sioux River.si:wtiidialhiutTiGame- Warden. Green had been in theY vicinity of Akron for the past two ! £.1: weeks. ’ -1•-.! - .e ■.: Friday afternoon the • game warden s'.', swore out search warrants sit I.eKars.. s Accompanied by. Constable Lwidbergjc R life left at midnight in-a buggy ar-' 'r: jy.riving in Akron'- at four • o'clock* in the ; n' morning..''.After securing the services of . ISTinlit hiyrshnl Cnm'tl*»v left for the ;S- ranch of .James B.oss. whieb is one mile ,f end a half north of the town. The wnr-fl rants were served. a,rid a. search of the - ranch begun. 'On the premises the'of-w-- [ dcy . fieera discovered .n tank eighteen feetD long and ten feet wide in which .was fj.. found . 664 . live catfish, many, of them 0. weighing from twelve to. fourteen .pounds. and two mamon'th pike.' -a j' . The officers also seized a seine 2-2 r, feet wide- by: 330 -feet long,- and. six-, hoop e . nets. . Tlie -arrangemerit; for preserving !' ; t-lie, fish was declared-by the officers to a. clever contriva.nce.Tt is alleged that ■’ii-thoiiinen;. arrested'; have--supplied. the r I market with fish throughout tbis- soc-11 tion of the state. The officers stated there has been . organized -law violation, along the Big ■ Sioux for years.othe.01citofio'ohocdpi,.Lbhathusno
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Perry Chief Reporter
Perry, Iowa, US
Wed, Jan 15, 1908
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