Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 156, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1910 — Z. T. Sweeney Burned Mile of Confiscated Seins. [ARTICLE]

Z. T. Sweeney Burned Mile of Confiscated Seins.

The Rev. Z. T. Sweeney, of Columbus, who recently retired as state Fish and Game commissioner, has burned one mile of seins. From time to time the last several years, seins have been confiscated by his orders. In numerous cases there would be no order of the court to destroy these seins after their owners had been disposed of, so the nets were simply stored by the commissioner. The seins accumulaicd until Mr. Sweeney says they would have been a mile long had they been placed end to end. When he turned his office over to Geo. W. Miles, the new commissioner, he asked what should be done with the old seins and Commissioner Miles directed him to burn them. Some of the seins had been used for flhhing in the Ohio and Wabash rivers and were valuable.