Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1881 — Indiana's Game Laws. [ARTICLE]

Indiana's Game Laws.

Madison Star. It is a criminal offense to chase or kill any deer between January Ist and October Ist; to net,snare or trap quails, pheasants, prairie chickens or woodcock at any time; to shoot, destroy or pursue for that purpose any quail or pheasant from the 20th of December to the 15th of October; to injure wild turkeys between February Ist and November Ist; to injure in any way prairie chickens or hens between Feb-, ruary Ist and September Ist; to injure in any way woodcock between first days of January aud July: to injure; any wild duck between April loth and September Ist; to sell or keep for sale quail or pheasants between December 20th and October 15, or any prairie chicken or grouse between the first days of February and December, or any Woodcock between the first days of January and July; or wild ducks between April 13th and September Ist; to expose to sail or have possession for purpose of selling any quail, pheasant, prairie chicken, or wild duck that has not been killed by shooting; to Injure or discharge firearms at wild pigeons within halt a mile of their roosting place or nests; to hunt with dogs or shoot within enclosed lands without the consent of the owner; to injure any person’s property while hunting* and it is especially severe on railroad companies to transport or have in possession any kind of game during the periods prohibited for shooting same. It is made a special crime to kill, injure or pursue and turtle dove, sparrow, robin, blue bird, meadow laik, wren, swallow, martin, thrush, mavis, oriole, red bird, grossbeak, yellowhammer, flicker, Cat bird, ground robin, pewee, Cuckoo, indigo bihi, nut hatch, cheeper, yellow bird, warbler, flnch, red start, dummock, nightingale,dove cross bill, crane, great til, blue til, or to destioy the nests of any such birds The fines for each of these offenses range from one up to one hundred dollars. It is also a crime to gig or spear fit-h during the months of March, April, May, November and December, or to catch at any time with a net, seine, gun oi trap of any kind, or set any net, wier, or pot in any lake, pond, river or stream. Also any person who keeps a net or seine to let, or loans or lets the same for the purpose of fishing is liable to a fine of from ten to twenty-five dollars; (the taking of fish in tbe Ohio, St. Joe and Kankakee rivers and fishing with hooks and catching minnows with seine for bait are exceptions to the law). Persons are prohibited from placing any net or other obstruction across any creek emptying into the Ohio river within one mile of its mouth 1 under a penalty of from five to twenty-five dollars. It will be well for those who shoot and fish to examine these laws, for it is the settled purpose of all-citizens who appreciate the value of game, fish aud birds to promptly enforce the law against every violate r of it, especially against boys who are permitted to roam over the premises of citizens with guns and dogs by their parents, to the danger of life arid property of others.