The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-02

up rates OF Penzance." The tale includes
the killing of canvasbacks at $25 apiece;
an ate mpt to drive the hunters from the
Sonoma County marshes; wrecked
steam launch and The saving of several
lives by the special Intervention of Provi-
dence unnvoked, and a little discussion
j over the payment of a generous bill for
damages.
The actors for this little comedy are
some OF the jolliest and wealtniest of
Oakland citizens, and now that they are
safely a home they are content to pay the
bills, ieet at Jealous Sonoma sportsmen,
rub Grnica into their bruised linn BIS and
tell stories by their fires des OF their
many adventures and marvellous escape
from being drowned in the bag.
The company consisted OF w. w. Foote,
William G, Heushaw, w. 5. Kittle, Victor
H. Metcaf, A. Jackson and another
frieLd. They went on an expedition TO
TUbbs Island, and had met with marked
success. They cruised around for two
hours, shot everything in sight and finally
decided to land at a little wharf and
stretch their legs by taking walk ashore.
In Sonoma County are many hunters
who never bag duck unless II flies into
their shot, say the Oaklanders. and some
of these VINO had prowleI around the
marshes without getting a SINGLE bird
were on The wharf when the Oakland
party on board Frank J. Moffitt's SPEEDY
launch, the Augusta, landed her passen-
gers These men were so Jealous of the
visitors and so stung 10 indignation by
their own i'll luck that they went to the
editor OF a Sonoma paper and ind uced him
10 fire doubled ded editorial broadside
Il visiting sportSlnen IN general and Oak
land hunters in particular
=: according to the 0escr ptiOn given OF
The landing OF the Augusta, il must have
been an imp posing sight. The report says
there were ducks on the forward deck,
ri ed so high that only the head OF w. w.
Foote could be seen Rising above them, in
setting oil duck, as il were. More ducks
were piled at the stern and in the ca bin,
and IL was the biggest car o of ducks that
had ever been seen in Sonoma or will be
seen again till the Augusta makes another
: trip. ~.
The Sonoma paper then pays the fol-
. lowing compliment! to the Oakland sports
= men and says: with the Augusta We're
Hon. ". w Foote, ex-Railroad Commits
sioner; William q. Henshaw, a promi-
nent barker; Victor II. Metcalf, who de-
sires 10 succeed Mr.. RiIborn in Congress;
W. S. Kittle and two other Oakland caDi-
tslists. These hig muck-a-mucks who
2 d Oh, their KID gloves and fried shirts and
lay their diamond rings in the safe for
one day and with their decoys, high
: priced guns and so forth go out IN the
morning and return at night with a boat
load OF ducks, ask that the resident
hunter who adds to his days sport a few
paltry dimes TO assist in paying his taxes,
be excluded from hunting on the
\ marshes -
] The arraign ment ends by declaring that
~ high license should be plac d on all for
eigu sportsmen visiting the Sonoma
marshes
This is really serious" said Victor
Metcalf h S afternoon, as be lend rly
raised his wounded leg on to soft cush-
ion. Il DO not understand what these
Sonoma people mean. Is il criminal for
law-abiding citizen to place a borrowed
diamond in his sale and to exchange his
hired dress-suit for hunting outfli when
he goes with a friend 10 shoot ducks on
his own prorerty? Hiram Tubbs owns
the island around which we shot. l have
found nothing IN the statutes by which
man can be made to pay q license or 10