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Show WIRE MATTRESSES IISfD RY POACHFRS WITH GOOD EFFECT Apparatus Found by Game ' Warden and Users Are Landed in Jail. Two wire mattresses arranged with considerable skill formed an excellent tea trap which Greek section bands of .lh JL'nion Paciflc-itis i said-, were op- srating with huge success until the ap-fMiatus ap-fMiatus wss discovered by Game Warden War-den William Archibald, and two of the alleged criminals were caught red or, at any rate, wet handed. The capture is deemed by F. W. Chambers, state Ash and game wardea, as one of the most important this year, and if the justice of the peace at Coalville Coal-ville takes the same view, his punishment punish-ment of the pair of prisoners should have a decidedly deterrent effect on others who are practicing tha same sr similar tactics. Ths fact that there has been illegal Ashing in Echo creek has been known to the authorities for some time. But, apparently becoming bolder, because they escaped detection, about ten days ago the poachers erected two wing dams iu the ereek, which forced the water to paaa through a gap about three feet wide. Where it fell, the poachers placed a spring mattress in such a position that it caught the Ash as they psssed down stream. Another mattress was beat up inside a box frame, and placed in such a position that the Ash flopped off the first mat-trees mat-trees into ths box. After watching for some time. Warden War-den Archibald yesterday saw two section sec-tion bends, as they were leaving work, go to the trap and start to take out the Ash, of which there were about sight pounds ia the trap. He had a eompanioa. with aim, and they at once made, the arrest, taking the men at the point of their revolvers. The prisoners, prison-ers, who either could not or would not speak English, were taken to Echo, and thence .to Coalville, where they were locked up in the county jail, awaiting trial today. Mr. Chambers said he expected them to plead guilty. The offense, he says, is elsssed aa a misdemeanor, and is punishable by a Ane of from 125 to $2!K. Warden James B. Eddingten of Morgan Mor-gan arrested a Japanese for illegal Ashing ia Lost ereek Monday, aad tne maa paid a Ane of 125, after trial before be-fore Justice Brimley of Devil 'a Slide yesterday. ' |