The San Francisco call., 1897-12-18

every hunter who visits the vicinity of
NlIllams on goose-shooting expedition.
Inc paper SAYS :hat auy person who has
not visited Coiusa County in the winter
has no idea OF the mum bers of geese TO be
| seen there. One day recently the flight
sire tched from Willows to the foothills of
! the Sierra Nevadas and Coast Range.
The Fish CommiS sIoners are receiving
J Mongollan pheasants from Oregon. OF a
| recent shipment several pairs were liber-
| ateu IN the Country Clubs demesne, but
| sporlsmen are of the opinion that pheaS-
ants will not do well in Marin County, as
the country is not suitab to them.
Smith, Mlddlemas, Sexton and Marri-
| OFT OF tue Reliance Club had good shoot
last Sunday on the Petaluma ma sh.
Z. Carlson had an enjoyable shoot on
the AIvarado marshes last Saturday.
b. Sherock bagged a nice string of ducG
near Newark.
w. Muriock bagged fifteen sprig and
teal near Reclamation. ]. Shackleton, G.
Pease, w. Price and Ed Eos ter also made
good bags.
w. L. Frather Jr., John Kearney and
| Jules Bruins have had good shooting near
! Sears Point.
l.. ID. Owens and Walter Foster returned
last Sunday from the Olympic Gun
Clubs preserve with sprig, widgeon, teal
and malard.
The starting of young grass has made
The little upland plover quite plen ii tul on
| the plains.
With reference TO shipping game from
Kern County Game Warden Tlbbet says
IN the bakersfield Californian: 80 far as
me shipments from several express offices
within The county limits | b lieye the
practice is nearly if not quite stopped. 1
nave Kept close watcn for shipments,
put nave been unable TO discover any of
late. but the work of slaughtering game
Tor the mnrEat o.
the swamp there are market hunters and
they eVade the law by taking their game
across the county into Tulare County and
shipping from there. These cases are
dlthcuit to reach ana it seems almost inn
| possible to detect the culprits."
Jonn w. Bourdette, the well-known at
torney, and Peter Hanna, have just re-
turned from four days duck hunting
! trip IN Kern County. At Deiano they
picked up Captain d. S. C,overdale, DR.. Ii.
Hildreth and Y. s. Valencia of that place,
and the party went to William Horner's
ranch III Kern County, near Goose Lake,
| shooting at Tanning Slough ana Jerry
Slough. They report plenty Of ducks and
| thousands OF wild geese. They brought
BACK wagon-load or ducks, and Valencia
! shot large white swan that weighed over
twenty pounds. Bourdette stated tnat he
had no trouble to bring down ducks ninety
yards high with his new gun OF. the Casey
make
The Petaluma Sportsman's Club are 60
ing after the ''varminl," and for this pur-
nose Will hold a side hunt TO- morrow. Z.
T. Drees and K. s. Adams are to be the
captains OF the respective sides, each mar
shallng their men for all there is in il, for
on The shoulders OF the defeated hosts-or
| rather out OF their pockets has TO he pro-
: vided sumptuous least for the contend
ing forces. That each side Will shoot to
win goes without saying. fo- not only are
regulations at stake, but the further COM
mendable destruction of noxious pests
Will prove an incentive to the hardest ef-
forts of all concerned. If all of our gun
clubs would hold one or two of these con-
! tests on 'varmint" each year they would
| ind that The increase in the supply OF
game would well pay them for their
| trouble.