The San Francisco call., 1896-04-18
the price paid for him by Mr. Crocker was
$1,000. Tick Boy is by Champion King of

the price paid for him by Mr.. Crocker was
$1,000. Tick Boy is by Champion King of
Kent out of Bloom.
Not Ear from Napa City and near town
| called Yountville live two spOrtsmen, M.
| Whitten and A. Patton, who are the proud
| owners of a pack of 'varlrint" dogs.
| Some years ago a few hogs strayed away
| from a band OF porkers and ran wild
| through the country east of Napa. All OF
them, with the exception of one big fell
| low. who has been shot at dozens of times
| by hunters, have been brought to bag.
This uncaptured brute has killed between
twenty and thirty valuable hounds, and
old hunters contend that he is as large as
| donkey and can fell small tree with
few slashes of his sharp and treacherous-
looking tusks.
Last Sunday DR.. F. ]. Lane and r. D.
Fry of this City visited Napa purposely
to Join few friends in a hunt for the
terror of the hills and canyons, but it
rained hard and the hunt was postponed
| for q few weeks. 1t is safe to predict that
if the dogs encounter the old boar in the
| latter's retreat, which is,at the bottom of
deep and brushy gulch, there will be
| cleaning out of the pack.
| DIR. Burdell of Novato has stated that
the large estate in Marin County known as
the Shafter estate will be segregated into
| small ranches next fall and that large
creamery will be established near Point
Reyes.
Teddy Booth and Teddy Thompson, two
noted sportsmen of Redwood City, have
organized bow and arrow club and they
propose that their pracIice shoot will be at
rails" which are numerous in the red
woods.
Robin snipe are very plentiful on the
| bay shores of Alameda. Several of those
birds were bagged last Sunday near Alva-
rado.
At recent meeting of the Sportsmen' 8
Protective Association of this City letter
was read from V. V. Harrier of Vallejo
declining to attempt to sell any tickets
sent through him to the Vallejo branch of
the association, and by a unanimous vote
the Solano County annex was stricken
from the roll on the ground that, consid-
er1ng the fact that the initiation fee was
waived, the action of the Vallejo Club in
declining to assist the asso citation to raise
funds with which to fight the preserve
clubs was too discourteous to pass un-
noticed.
In reply to this order of affairs the fol-
lowing letter appeared in the Morning
News OF Vallejo on the 9th inst:
Editor Negs: In reply to the above clipping
Will state tnat for several weeks past we have
been selling membership certificates at 81 each
for the purpose of forming Sportsman's Pro-
tecuye Association of Solano County at the re-
| quest OF W. j. Ahern, president of the Sports
mans Protective Association of San Francisco
| We were 10 become a branch of that associa-
ton. They asked for our list of names, and
! upon receiving 1t and learning that we had
! employed an attorney to defend us in the late
! injunction suit brought by the Ibis Club of
! Colorado Cocated on the Suisun Marsh) in the
circuit Court OF this State against forty or fifty
Solanoltes, they waived their initiation fee of
! 81 per man.
Immediately after receiving our list of names
they sent us 200 tickets TO sell for a picnic to
| take place at SchUetzen Park.
Our membership was not confined to Vallejo
but was from all parts of the county-namely,
was not convenient to reach each of the mem
bers to ask them to sell tickets TO picnic