Show AND GAME protection th fish ash and game law passed by tle late legislature provides in section 29 a general penalty consisting of a fine of from 5 to or imprisonment at 0 from 5 to 90 0 days or both for violation of any of the provisions of the act except section 14 which section reads v as follows it shall be unlawful for any person to kill or take any fish from the waters water of the state by the use of any poison deleterious or stupefying drug glant glaff powder or quicklime quick lime or any explosive subs substance e whatever or to place or t use in or on the surface of buote i waters any giant powder quick 7 any explosive substance or any polso poison deleterious or stupefying drug or tp to have in his possession any ft fish sh killed or 5 taken by the use or aid of any of these substances any person found guilty of I 1 violating any of the provisions in ahw section shall be fined in any sum not less than one hundred dollars tor for e each ach offense lense of or imprisoned in the county jail not less than ninety nor more than one hundred and twenty days or by both such fine and imprisonment 3 it may be known to the dubu pubu generally as it undoubtedly is to lawbreakers law breakers particularly that I 1 tn this county the fish and same game protective association has been paying rewards out of its own treasury for 3 convictions of violation of the provisions of this law it is safe to say may that at least fifty offenders have been brought to trial and punishment under this stimulus who would have escaped had not the associations standing ref aw ward served as an additional induce ment to detectives that the whole ne farious business of violating this bene fluent law has not been rendered more odious and perilous than it Is is due ab the fact that in almost every instance the courts and public prosecutors have shown a lack of zeal and sternness in enforcing its provisions the dockets w will III hardly show a case where more mom than the minimum fine has been im posed pose dand and this is so small that those unlawfully inclined have felt emboldened to take the risk of cap conviction by reason of the ease with which they could escape the laws meshes the result Is that while the willingness and determination of aft the e protective association axe are in no wise abated it finds itself impoverished by the frequent calls for the payment of at the promised rewards this renette poorly upon the official activity and aad en ergy of those ohbee duty to is to enforce v the law in the first place re should have bave hardly been feces necessary a ok if offered at all should have had to b S 1 paid 1 tout but once or twice in the second jf the efforts and aims of those who gave the rewards should have been better appreciated and have received more consistent and substantial back v iner in the breaking up of the practices which ch in this par particular tle ular statute the seste condemns f but interest in the observance of the and the enforcement of its provisions alons glons Is now freshly put in evidence 1 amm a source still more private in its elbara acter than the county protective as ocl atlon browning brothers company 1 taid l well known firm of this city and ogden announce their readiness and faxie ty to pay gm reward of 50 for in tor formation mation that will lead to the con diction of any person for violating see sec 1 uon 14 above quoted the intention to is at course riot not to pay this sum for the vetty offenses referred to in other parts of th the e law but to make mighty danger roua roon if not to put an end to the graver V crime cime the dynamiting or poisoning of Wt istre reams aros by which all fish small and r lare fine and coarse are destroyed is a crime of so despicable a nature that tto ito one of a decent mind can regard it with toleration yet there Is reason to believe that it lately has been perhaps occasionally is being aad possibly will again be i in some of the states 8 I 1 chelde st trout streams everybody will therefore applaud the public spirit and ze which have prompted this asser of the browning brothers company alad ass will unite in the hope that if cony duons tet lons shall result from it the court tv fr jf aad prosecution will not be content yf 1 agith any anything thing short of a penalty that f 11 serve as a stern stem warning to offend C 4 ar for all time to come |