Omaha daily bee., 1893-11-19
In Thicket and stubble.

Billy Mason has migrated to California.
Dick Merrell and E. III. Barrett of Mil
waukee. are slaughtering the quail down at
Arapahoe.
l%evanted and 1t is quail and rabbits only
from now on.
M. c. Peters and James Smead bagged an
even dozen quail and several mallards at
Honeycreek Monday.
Yardmaster Mcneil of the Union Pacific
was up above Florence last Sunday, and
came back with a bag Of thirty-two ducks,
mostly mallards.
Henry Homan was in the stubbfe at Chap.
man a nay recently and killed a fine bag of
quail. He corroborates the general report
of plenty of birds.
George Small spent a day out near Clarks
last week, bagging seventeen quail and
three jacks. He reports the birds quite
| plentiful out that way.
The Omaha and Bemis Park Gun club
weather permitting-wil hold a big sweep
stakes shoot at their grounds across the
river Thanksgiving day.
j. M. Dawson of Percival Ia, was in the
city Thursday. He says the shooting on
Forney lake, near McPaul, this fall was bet
ter than it has been for years.
Fred Fuller and Editor Gabe Runkles
went over to Manawa Tuesday and killed
oh, ever so many mallards, cranes, p~elicans,
swans, ducks and dlckey birds.
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Diamond pool rooms threw the No. SIS into
The carcasses of nine squirrels and seven
quail down on the romantic Pappio last
Sunday.
Frank Smith, Charles A.. Coe and G. N.
Deitz put in a couple of days in .thicket and
stubble out on the B. & NJ, last week. They
are now all growing oleaginous and happy
on quail on toast.
Those old veteran goose slayers, George
A. Hoagland, j. j. Dickey and w. p. Nc
Farlane, together with Will Salisbury, spent
three days at Sutherland last week and
bagged forty-six geese, principally big
Canadas.
J. G. Read writes from Hastings that he is
having the best quail shooting OF his life.
| He AYERS that some OF the birds are as big
as chickens and that he has grassed fifty
two without n miss. The medal awaits j. G.
on his return.
M. c.. Peters owns the best bred Lewellyn
setter in the city. She is registered and was
broken by the noted Il. G. Davy of London,
Ont. Mr.. Peters also has in hand Easter
Lily, another full-bred Lewellyn, owned by
r. M. Dobbins.
Jim DeBevoise Of the Rock Island, wore
out a suit of McGinty clothes up in the
brush above Florence the other day, chasing
O rabbit. He shot into a bunch Of quail,
when a rabbit Jumped up and jim dropped
his Lefever and went after him. He chased
IL into Jack Woods saloon about half past
z that evening.
"Blondy'' Clark, A. J. Webb and Will
| Simeral spent last Sunday at or near Colum-
BUS. Simeral had chartered a freight car to
be on the side track at 0 Monday morning to
bring in their geese. The car was there all
right, but the geese got away. Webby,
however, got seven teal, while Blondy and the
lawyer got-very tired.
Fred j. Lamb of Sidney, Ia, and the
acknowledged champion shot of his baili-
wick, has been in the city several days.
Fred has had some great duck and snipe
shooting this season, having shipped To Chi
cage 1900 ducks and ] 400 snipe, all Of which
he killed himself. Says he can kill more
game than any one man in this country. IL
might be proper to add that Fred saw the
city by moonlight.
Billy Hoagland is just in from Gothenburg.
He reports the honliers about all gone.
Saturday night a week ago he says they
flew over southwark bound by the thousands
and he anticipated great shooting the noxt
day. Accordingly he was in his hole on the
bar before sunup and, although he stuck
there until D. in the evening, he didn't get a
feather. The birds all went south and he
despairs of any further sport this season.