State v. Towessnute
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Benton county, Linn, J., entered June 10, 1915, upon sustaining a demurrer to the informations, dismissing consolidated actions for the violations of laws relating to the taking of fish.
1Opinion of the CourtBausman, J.
It is conceded, by stipulation and in argument, that the Indian, Towessnute, tribal inhabitant of the Yakima Indian reservation, has committed violations of our fishing statutes on the Yakima river, not only several miles outside of the reservation, but at a spot in no way appurtenant to it by path or easement. It is also conceded that, if his tribe may continue to do these things, the salmon industry of this state must be grievously wounded in its very nurseries, because the Yakimas and other tribes, whose contentions in cases now pending are the same, claim many such spots on various waters…
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