Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 171, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1910 — STATE GAME AND FISH COMMISSIONER VISITS US. [ARTICLE]

STATE GAME AND FISH COMMISSIONER VISITS US.

Wants Game Wardens to Work With Loeal Authorities and Gleans Loeal Feeling Toward Them. George W. Miles, of Syracuse, Ind., the recently appointed fish and game commissioner, visited Rensselaer Tuesday afternoon and remained over night. Mr. Miles wished to learn the local feeling toward the wardens who were here last week and also to ascertain if the law abiding hunters and fishermen hereabout were anxious to see the laws enforced for the conservation of the game. He had learned that Gallion and Donley had made a sort of botch in their efforts to capture James Haynes, the Milroy township man, and also that there was some local criticism about game wardens as a general proposition. He is anxious that his department shall be conducted so as to deserve the support of the people of the state and wanted to assure the people of Jasper county that he would not uphold any of his deputies in any wrong practices. Mr. Miles stated to the Republican reporter £hat he was opposed to petty prosecutions, and that to get away from them, he had placed all of his wardens on salaries and done away with the former plan of allowing them S2O for each conviction. Dr. Miles stated that he is against the plan of prosecuting small violations without warning. He hopes to have the men and gangs who make a practice of ignoring the fish and game laws rounded up and put out of business and he is selecting deputies whom he has confidence in to accomplish this result. Mr. Miles was dissatisfied yith deputy Albert M. Gallion, thejfellow who opened fire on Haynes, and considering that the notoriety Gallion was receiving because of the charge of desertion against him, he has asked for Gallion? i esignation. Gallion will think things are coming pretty swift for him. To receive two loads of shot in his system, be arrested and taken to another state on a charge of wife and child desertion and to lose his job all in a week is a tolerably severe dose. Mr. Miles had a petition with him which had been sent to Governor Marshall by citizens of Lowell, calling attention to the violations that are going on along the Kankakee river and asking that an effort be made to punish the violators. The petition states that several previous requests have resulted in no benefit and this final appeal is made to the governor in the hope th it he will instruct his fish and game com - missioner to clean up the violator?. The petition states that the signers are men who occasionally hunt and fish and they want the laws enforced for the protection of true sportsmen. The petition contains the names of many leading citizens of Lowell. Mr. Miles states that R. D. Fleming, the chief deputy, who has had twelve years experience, will be placed on the job with a numbef or flrstclass deputies and it is hoped to rid the Kankakee river of seiners, dynamiters and other violators. Just what further effort will be made to apprehend James Haynes is not known. The case against him has been dismissed and Haynes can now return home and be unmolested. It is understood, however, that there is sufficient evidence available against him to convict for violations and it is thought probable that other game wardens will visit his section of the county and try to apprehend him. Reed McCoy, of McCoysburg, was in town Tuesday. He stated that he had heard that one of the bullets from Gallion’s pistol scraped Haynes* cheek. He also heard that Haynes’ family war making preparations to remove 1 t«i Illinois.