Show EOR CE LAWS I AS THEY STAND Fishermen in Earnest and Will G Go After Law Breakers 1 in the Courts the fth and aDd game Jaw ws as t they ey fJ and OR oe the statute books booI ii at the present time This 11 the watchword of the ww new t tand and gEine protective and It Its ItIs Is s backed by leMing citizens of the state with more members joining at each meeting of the club lub For three hours bours l last st evening a meeting of oC the members of the at the Commercial club dis the abuses of the laws lawn which have bae gr grown n so 84 serious that the of the state has been practically wiped out ot of exIstence Many flagrant abuses of the la law were cited at the meeting and mE members told of fish destroyed by th the thousands through these abuses Some said gaid it was a others other were mad to fight while wiser r heads beads ad adV advised V f d using the 1 law Association Will Get Busy The upshot S that the association do de det t to get busy and get busy at once A committee ommittee wan appointed to go out and lolk lok for trouble that Is get the eary evidence bring it b the which will bring the guilty per persons ons court to tE tell why they do not corn com comly ly with ith the law Jaw This APplies particularly to the ab absence enee or of screens In the hundreds of irrigation ditches throughout Ut the state which allow fish by the thousands to land high and andI I on lucern patches there to die This committee expects to come Into the next meeting loaded with evidence and then there here will be something doing for the Ja law lawers w vers ers To see that the association is welt well Judge C A Patterson an ar arent arIent ent sportsman wu was selected last evening evenin fo 0 look after tM the interest Hundreds of New Wardens In order that it may be harder in the future for those breaking the law to es escape cape It was decided to ask the state fish and nd game warden to appoint every rn mem m her Iber of the association a deputy warden pay This it is understood Fish Flah and Game Warden ShArp has alrEady agreed to do and aud from present Indications it t looks as If some five hundred deputy wardens OW will be looking ki for evidence evence to prosecute men for infringements of the theia law ia before the fishing season Is over this year ear Would License Fishermen The association has also decided to pe petition petition the legislature to license fishermen charging them one dollar a year The members are willing to pay this amount Into the state treasury asur and believe E very every ferson erson m in the state stale who fishes should do This Th s will m create a fund ear h year the money to bla be used In the of fish Every stale hen baa such slick A law and Jt It ItIs is RS asserted frt all have better fishing Where President Comes In inThe The Tho as association has al also o gone onE on record against the Lacey bill now BOW before eon con gres This bill gives t the president po power er to tn all fishing in streams within the reserves ot of the different states The officers of the association were In Int t t to ask representatives in int t tf to protest a against the passage of 1 niB hill as it would work har hardship on 0 f ht of tah where S so many of 0 best streams are aN within tb thee re res r s Thre is no question but that the fish fishermen ermen of the statE are ur up in arms anns and in intend tend to better fishing conditions In all meetings ti haVE been held In the past t aid At each Pah men or of means and standing ha have pledged themselves to the f a to help Its objects Alon along meeting is s scheduled for tor next night at the Commercial club i |