San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-26
ROD AND GUN NOTES.
What San AntOnians Are Doing to P,

Ing Friday last.
Mr.. Sam w. Bennett made fly
ing trip to the coast last Saturday,
stopping at the Ingleside hotel.
He returned home last Tuesday.
Mrs. Chas. Wagner and Miss
Bertha Baer returned from Rock
port last Friday, where they have
been for recreation.
Mr.. M. l.. Oppenheimer, wife and
children, are at the Shell hotel
from Eagle Pass.
Mrs. Chas. Hummsl, with her
children, are guests at the Shell
hotel, near Rockport.
Mrs. Gustave Groos and daugh-
tiers are at the Shell.
Mr.. Henry Terrell, receiver of
the Gulf Shore, wife and children,
left for Ingleside yesterday after
noon.
Messrs. Fred. Stone and z. p.
Tendick were out after doves last
Sunday with good success.
Plover have made their first ap-
pearance on the prairies near the
coast.
The crop of quail promises to be
larger than for several years.
The Ingleside Development
company have laid out a new town
at Ingleside, twelve miles from
Corpus, by sail and on the bay
splendid duck and quail hunting
can be found there in the winter.
Mr.. Chas. Hummel made a fine
catch of speckled sea trout and red
fish at She'll Banks last week.
The woods will be resounding
with the caunonsding of hunters
after doves today.
Young doves are large enough
now to make nice broilers.
Several ladies have joined their
husbands for dove shooting trip
to the country the past week.
Mr.. Clint Kesrney had the luck
to bag a lot OF doves one day last
week.
d. G. Bitter got 81 in two hours
last Tuesday.
No rain to amount to much need
be expected before September first.
Meanwhile doves will get thicker
about the water tanks.
From Che way the sporting
goods stores sold loaded shells and
let out guns yesterday, the slaugh-
ter of the dove tomorrow about our
city will be something appalling.
A SEEMING party which went out
on the Salado not long ago got "a
hard shell turtles In one haul, but
not one bass or other fish. Served
them right.
Frank Caldwell took his regular
6 bass out Of Lake Elmendorf one
day last week. They were waiting
to climb up his line and he had to
turn his back to put on the bait.
Charley McCabe is thee hampton
alligator catcher Of the San Anto-
MO river. He hooked black lob
ster last week and thought 1t a
young gator.
August Biesen bach>and Emil FL
mendorf and ladies enjoyed the
bass fishing at Elmendorf lake last
Sunday.
Judge Newton tried his luck at
the same place last Sunday.
Mr.. James Heating, a veteran
who divides honors with Papa
Paige, says he has better luck
with helgramite as bait than any
other kind. Uncle Jimmie declares
he has seen pickerel in this river.
A. G. and w. e. Pancoast made
pretty catch of big bass at Lake.
view last Sunday. One fellow
weighed near four pounds.
A party of fishermen were in
Capt. Dosch's rendezvous one day
last week discussing fish and bait.
Benno Goldbeck declared the big
gest days luck he ever had was
one day near Austin, where he had
fished all day in the Colorado, and
all his bait was used up just as the
fish began to bite good. He had u
big watermelon which he had been
saving to eat when he finished
fishing and happily thought to try
this for bait. He put on piece OF
this on his hook and pulled out q
big catfish, put on another, with
the same result and thus caught q
big string Of fine ones. Henry
Umscheid was listening and next
took the floor. He said: "a party
of US was out Hear Kerrville on the
Guadalupe one time, when l
had law case up there.
We made up the party to
visit the fine game preserves Of an
old German farmer and to con-
ciliate him took along big keg