San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-09-06
kDAY LIGHT.
ROD AND GUN.
A DOG WHO WAITED FOR HIS
DINNER.
The Weeks General Sporting News
Deer Being Killed Merely For Their
Hides, In Dimmitt County.

nlu6S, III OlllllulLb OUuuIJ'
ID. p. Barr, while out with his
wife last Tuesday in a boat on
Lake Elmendorf, hung an immense
fish, over which he had no control,
the fish using Mr.. Barr's light rod
and tackle at his own convenience,
finally landing deep down in the
moss, where he succeeded in part
ing the line. (The writer is Of the
opinion that the fish must have
been either a large German carp or
q buffalo, both species Of which
are known to inhabit the lake,
A hunter, a stray dog and dove
figured in rather an amusing incl
dent last Sunday afternoon down
the Sap road. A black and white
mongrel was lying'on the opposite
side of large tank, at which II.
A. Arthur was shooting doves. A
swift right quarterer was killed by
Mr.. Arthur, which fell within a
foot OF the dog. The temptation
was too great; the hungry canine
had been waiting for his dinner
long enough picking the dove up
in his mouth the dog made for the
woods, and all the shouting for him
to drop 1t had no effect.
Trespassing and poaching on the
property of another without per-
mission of the owner is being con-
demned by every true sportsman.
The privilege OF shooting on an
others premises by responsible
parties is generally rewarded by
the affirmative when the proprietor
OF such land or lands is approached
in the right manner. tbs getting
to such a turn when true sports
men are held responsible for the
misdeeds and depredations OF the
so-called poacher and pot hunter.
One way to put the blame where it
belongs is to request all our land
owners who allow shooting on
their premises, pastures or farms
to demand the names OF the hunt
ers, keeping a small book for that
purpose. Thus can the blame be
put where it rightfully belongs,
and unjust accusations with which
our more careful and considerable
sportsmen are charged will be
heard no more.
Messrs. Robert Tendick and Fred
Stone bagged quite a number OF
doves last Sunday.
Messrs. Geo Chabot, r. l.. Bal
linger, r. A. Arthur and the LIGHT
sportsman spent all day at Elmen-
dorf last Sunday and were royalty
entertained by Mr.. Richter and lis
estftnable wife. Mr.. r. is the-man-
ager and superintendent Of the
.Saenger Pottery Manufacturing
company at Elmendorf.
The time is near at hand when
camp kettles, old knives and forks,
coffee pot and boiler will be burn
ished up, preparatory to the open
ing OF the quail season, when
camp life will have its charms;
when the bump.raising red bug
will have taken to warmer quart
ers than the earth's surface affords
the puncturing mosquito will have
flown to warmer chimes, leav-
ing her larvae to get in
its work next summer;
when you can get near enough to q
camp fire for comfort and reach
the coffee pot with a mesquite
stick; when venison wont spoil I'M
til you reach the game after you
have killed it, and the wary red
head and mallard keep sweet un-
til they fall.
Editor johnson is not sports
mar but the way he picks the
meat off OF three or four
of those juicy table birds, COM
monty called doves, will whet any
mans appetite. Colonel Hermann
Breusing generally directs the
"chef de CUISINE" how to prepare
them, and together six to eight
birds generally disappear.
A report reaches the LIGHT that
deer are being Unfortunately
slaughtered for their hides in Dim.
NIT and LaSalle counties, the
weather being too warm to ship
- meat. aipd this from an eye
Witness. go ehame, where is thy
hlush?n Are t1be days Of the now
extinct buffalo in4 the slaughteriug
of deer for theirNhides to be re-
newed? oh! "poof white trash y
that must stoop s9 low as to XIII
daar for the mere bittance Of 80 tc
* cents received for their hides
and leave the veniAou on the prair
los to be devoured by buzzards aut
c eos The exemption of coun
ties from the state gsfe law is the
c c,v, Of this. Let EVERY sports
man in Texas rise in his might
and he heard from. The time o
fhe dissemination OF our game i:
limited. To the rescue, ere it he
comes too late!
Billie Simms, Papa Paige, Dick