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Show ILLEGAL TRAPPERS TO BE PROSECUTED State Fish and Game Commissioner Secures Evidence Against Destroyers of Beaver in Various Places. Illegal beaver trapping in various sections sec-tions of Utah is receiving the attention if R. H. Siddoway, state fish and game "ommissionert who will soon institute 'egal proceedings against the offenders, ho" says. The necessary evidence to in-mre in-mre success in the proposed prosecu-ions prosecu-ions is in the hands of the commissioner commis-sioner and he asserts that the work of -ooting out the evil will be vigorous. Commissioner Siddoway requests that operators of transportation concerns advise ad-vise themselves as to the law with reference ref-erence to shipping beaver pelts. The tate law provides that they shall not iccept for shipment beaver pelts unless the packages containing them are narked so as to plainly indicate that their transfer is with the knowledge of the state fish and game commissioner. Special permits are sometimes issued for trapping beaver where the busy little lit-tle animals have become too numerous, but there is only one place in the state where the pelts "can be bought, and that is. from the office of the fish and game commissioner, Mr. Siddoway says. Tomorrow Mr. Siddoway will leave for Washington county to supervise the planting of rainbow trout eggs in the Enterprise reservoir to replenish the supplv of fish killed when that retainer burst" last fall. Trout in the Enterprise reservoir, Mr. Siddoway says, thrived I splendidlv. some of the larger fish I reaching a weight of eighteen pounds. When the reservoir broke last fall the lowlands were strewn with the dead I trout and there was much consequent I waste of food fish. |