Show I CURIOUS FISH ELECTROCUTION I 1 I a 1 n I fl fl fl fl fl 1 n 1 l II 1 fl fl n t Pt 11 ri fl fl 11 fl II fl fl N II fl fl I I n LI rM 4 U U Id U 14 U U U J 14 It Is positively shocking time the way WilY they arc are catching fish at the plant of ot the St Anthony Falls Water Tower Power company This too In time the face taco of ot a tI large larse sign 81 n on all which Is IB Inscribed In plain letters No Fishing I I Allowed Keep leep I Off ocr Hut nut then only the time Immediate attaches of at tho the power house are lire privileged Tho rho electricians have hn ve so used asCii to wonders by b electricity such Buch a miracle for In tame as ns running time the street railways B of ot two cities with without without without out scarcely having to 10 turn lurn a II hanti they ther mire lire In the tho habit of ot calling the tue mysterious fluId Huld to their assistance whenever H 1 I Is convenient to todo do tic so eo ui They Jimo fhe started out eaty eally In time tho season pearon which did not open until Wednesday to fish In III the legitimate way hut hail fall fail fallIng failIng Ing III to get any nn fish to o speak of ot by 11 hook they the determined to tJ catch them If It pos possible ethic sible by b crook to electrocute them Since then thou fish have responded d with wHim such Ruch wonderful alacrity to 10 the novel halt ball that a few minutes sport wilt wIll B gIve Ie C new lIew fishermen n a 1 nice mess The sight eight would bring tears tear to the eyes ces of Walton Valton who believed art lIrt for arts sake who accounted It a more creditable tile ble performance to catch one fish I h nn un hour by U b patient painstaking philosophic endeavor titan than to 10 slaughter the finny linny tribe trl l on the time wholesale plan In short abort order artier At the power house houst they take lake a n good goodlive goot goodlIve live 11 wire properly Insulated where bere the tha ww angler nn ler holds It and stick the tIme same Into time thc water Water Is a good conductor as ns everybody ever oily Knows and every time u a I fish comes within ten or twelve felt feet of or the center o or of disturbance he lie Is con conducted ducted to tho thiC th surface He lIe Is not dead he Is simply shocked Into Insensibility by his sensational re reo reception and If his bib hI own resources rl would soon be limit But th tIme crUel man on the ledge of ot masonry which Juts jilts out mid the tie river around the power house through which time the tall lull race conies comes pouring reaches deftly deW Into the water anti and scoops Op tip the time unfortunate ante nate fish with n a 1 net Perch shiners bullheads b and nn an I sturgeon are caught In III this way n One of the electricians who was wall directing the time mighty try cry er which generates power saul said that flint he lie hail had caught n a sturgeon early earh earl In the time season which weighed twenty pounds bounds Tic He te said sa that nn an ordin ordinary ary nry current of electricity ele was ns stron atron enough to bring the most obstreperous fish to the surface In most cases caseR Ho lie hud hail to handle the sturgeon considerably bly more than tho the average before he could make him Ho tie still anti be cutlet Sometimes a n sImple Iron plate with electrical connections Is used It Is II i hung over the time of the time wall mall Into the river and hoes does the work vork as nil effectually as os the wire apparatus The law In does cloeR not Mt specifically forbid electric fishing but Game Caine Warden Ful Fui lf lenten Is 13 going to see bee if the powerhouse sport cant bo be stopped Minneapolis Journal |