The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-28
FINE SPORT.
A Woman Catches and Kills a e-Foor
Sturgeon.

A woman Catches and Kills a 6"EOoC
Sturgeon.
Seattle (Wdsh0 Cor to the Globe Democrat.
A few weeks ago the crew of the sealing
schooner Oscar had lively experience of
Clayoquot, q little place on Vancouver
Island. One seal had been caught early in
the morning. and at about 10 O'Clock the
hunter in one Of the boats noticed two heads
some twenty yards In front of him. Tue
fog partly obscured objects at any distance,
aud the hunter thought the heads were
those of SEAL He shot, and the discharge
was followed by shrek OF agony from one
OF the animals, which at once made for the
| boat. The men then became aware that
| large female walrus, wounded and infuri-
ated, was after them, She rose up out of
| the water, and grasping the side of the boat
! with her powerful tusks, tried to overturn
IL. There was fight OF several minutes
the men endeavoring to beat the walrus off
| with oar blades and paddles. Finally shot
| through the head killed her, and she was
! lowed back to tae schooner as the great
| prize of the season.
Whales are common sight off Cape Flat
| terry and now and then few will find their
way into the waters Of Puget sound Not
| long ago a school of ten or twelve appeared
| in the Tacoma harbor and amused the peo-
| pie of the city by their gambols in the water.
| The whale that comes here Is not the com.
mon Greenland whale. but the California
gray whale, or finback. Its length varies
| from twenty-five TO thirty feet. One of the
largest fish found in the5e waters is the
| sturgeon, which runs up into the Columbia
| and the other rivers of Washington. Last
| week Mrs. Andrews of South Bend was
! fishing for pogies, when she saw near by
| 6-foot sturgeon stranded upon the sand. and
| making furious attempts TO reach deep
| water Mrs. Andrews is a small woman,
| but full of courage. so, seizing a club, she
| went for the sturgeon and pounded 1t into
| insensibility. Then she brought her hus>
! band, who cut it up into strips and dried
| the flesh.
An Indian fishing IN the Columbia for
salmon recently caught a, big shark. The
| Indian had a seine, one end of which was
| anchored TO the Shore AS he was towing
the outer end around circle he felt
strong jerk on the net BE promptly
pulled for the shore. andTLpon drawing the
net in found that a huge shark was found
| ering in the meshes At first the Indian was
| inclined 10 let go of the net and cut it, aud
let the monster escape, but his sportsman's
| instinct prevailed and be decided to bring
| the fellow to land. Fastening the anchored
| end even more firmly, he proceeded slowly
| to draw up on the beach the other end. AS
| the shark came into the shallow water it
| struggled more and more furiously to get
| out into the deep channel. Several times 1t
| looked as if the shark would be the victor
in the fight, but the Indian hitched the net
ropes around young tree and kept every
inch that he gained.
Whenever the shark would become quiet
! for a moment the man would pull in few
more feet of the net. AT last the shark was
where the Indian could wade in apd thrust
q long knife into its yitals. The fish seemed
but very little disturbed by the wounds it
received, and the Indian MUST have tabled
it in fifty different places before it began to
show signs of yielding. After about t0vo
| hours of struggling, duringpwhich the water
for yards around became red with blood,
the shark yielded TO fate and was drawn on
the beach. When measured it wss found
to be 10 feet long and its weight was 800
pounds seal aud sturgeon, partly di-
| gested were in the STOMACH. The Indians
from the vicinity eagerly seized upon the
teeth, which they use in making necklaces