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 'iIss History of thia interesting and yaleahlc game bird on this coast has ncHSs been written. Everyone knows now sisat it wins imported by Judge v N Denny, snd that 1t has spread Throughout Oregon and Washington nntR it is Humbered by the thousauds sad probably hundreds of thousands Somo day perhaps it's history win he iraeed. Meanwhile the chief incidents in its career aro of interest, says the Portland 0regonian
 ii was lr 1880 thatJudge Denny. then United States consul at Shanghai, sent kH3r the first lot of Chinese or Mon holiar ph1aSantS. There were seventy of them, ard they were sent over in sailing vessel bound for Puget sound. With Chem were sent explicit instruc- tions as to tkeir hEndlsag in reshipping e Portland as tlle cocks and heus ssopia bs sept sesrre ssar,.re, and only a s.ss-aD nmited number in each crate, ESc. Hut the rcshipping was carclessly sEppe, % that of the whole number only eighteen survived, fifteen cocks and three hens, a proportion which the sender would have liked fo see re- serscd They were very unwisely put on Sauvie's island, the place of all others to which sDortsmen then, as now, resorted. Yet so industriously did they propagate that they soon were common sights in Multnomah county, e few went into Washington county. Some crossed the Columbia to the then territory of Washington. Since tlFer they have spread north to the sc0nd and in various parts of Wash .vgfon. All the pheasants in the state cf Washington are credited to this first beginning, the three hens which sur vivsd the first shipment of seventy in iss0
 Having heard of the bad luck which attended the flrstventure, Judge Denny in 1881 sent oveF twenty-eight more aighseen hens and ten cocks These Nefe sent to ofortlsn and to tho charge of Judge Denny brother, who lived at Washington Butte, Linn county He took proper care of thom and put them edrift near his place From there they have gone into southern Oregon, and, is Judge Derny thinks, have crossed the Cascade Inoantains and appeared ia Eastern Oregon, while the Villain cite valley is fnll of them
 '-'''-'~ n~nny was home in 1889 and
 ea the legislature in session at
 n- lis presence induced Judge
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 aonse, to prepare bill for the
 sssion pf Che pheasant. With such
 yised favoa was the project received
 E the biG was advanced by unani. .ous consent through it's three read sngs and passed promptly, the same coglrtesy being cxtendedit in the senate.
 This provided absolute protection for the birds for five years. Before the five years had expired the protection was extended five more, making ten in all Then they were placed on the same footing as the other pheasants. though the season is a little different. What the Denny pheasant needs now is a shorter season and a law prohibit. ing entirely hunting it for the market Warden McGnire has no doubt that thirteen thousand Mongolian pheas- ants were taken in Linn county alone by pot-nunters last season. There is money sn the sport, as the birds bring n dollar and half dozen. This is not sport It Is butchering as a business