The San Francisco call., 1898-01-01
DUCK HUNTING
 OVER SALT MARSHES.

OAul MAlCOllUOs
 Since the arrival of the cold snap duck shooting has been very good on the east shores of the bay. Down about Mount Eden and Alvarado hunters have been en- toying very good sport. In the salt ponds where shooting is not prohibited large bags of sprig, widgeon, spoonbill and teal ducks have been made The morning and evening shooting is particularly good, as the birds then fly from pond to pond, thus affording the ''blind'' sportsman an opportunity to exercise his muscles in gun . lifting and trigger pulling. Last Sunday the hunters who camped on the mudbanks of Midshipmans slough, longing and hoping for chance to swing their guns on fast-f1ying .cans," met With disappointment. Karney and Burns were puzzled to know where the royal birds had taken wing but when they hgured upon the numbers of ducks that have been killed on Tubbs Island and vicinity since the season opened they did not wonder at MT. Cans absence. | But the canvaSbackS are on the north east shores of the bay in thousands, and during sunlight they loaf and sleep, ana when darkness sets in, they seek the marshes and bay flats, where they, wax lat on small crabs and shellffsh A good stiff blow from the south is all mat IS needed to drive the cans into the put, lu6H, QuGhSnOOI6rS cdn- not complain, as they have had good sport since the season opened The Blackjack Shooting Club expects to enjoy firSt-claSS snort to-day and to- morrow on the Sherman Island preserve Latest intelligence from Antioch is to the effect that the birds were returning to the ponds and that the outlook for good up-rlVer shooting was excellent.
 Sly, the crackajack duck shot of An tloch, defeated w. Remfree Jr. last Sum- day in pigeon shoot Sly. made a clean xrGa hir6c Dow f~.a afc. friends are of the opinion that their fla xNorlte had partaken too literally of Eng dsn plum pudding and was to slight extent out of condition.
 TWO prominent members of the Black Jack Club have challenged any two men or Ho1aL Antioch to live-bird shooting match. Doubtless the def will be accepted
 Henry Stelling of Davisville, who re- gently defeated Henry Ruhstaller of sacramento in a 1OO-bird pigeon race, has issued a challenge to Otto Feudner or E; T. Allen Company. The challenge mas been accepted on condition that the GGIhalienging party shall post a forfeit feudner wants a 100-bird match the shoot to take place near this city on any or the club grounds.
 The Sportsman's Club of Ukiah is de- serving or unstinted praise for the good Work IL has been accomplishing in the way or game protection. Recently the president or the club was informed that deer for their hides, and he lost little tune in unearthing the camping grounds or Gns.in the poachers and bringing them to sporting editor will attest:
 UKIAH, Dec 29, 1897.
 Sporting Editor Call: The Sportsman's S CIup or Ukiah, consisting of it's best citi- zens, including every prominent attor- ney in town, has succeeded in apprehend- ing four men north of Ukiah in the vicinity of Sanhedrin Mountain, wan tohly Slay1ng deer, regardless of age or sex, and by continued zeal and energy the club found witnesses to the depreda- sllons. Warrants of arrest were sworn out and constableS sent to bring the men ln One law-breaker was found with a zoe actually across his shoulder. The TOUT poachers were brought into Ukiah gnu gnu paced Tn Jall, and on hearing be- lore lore the Justice they pleaded guilty and were fined $50 each.
 II the Sportsmen of other towns where idt tne game laws are being constantly vio- lated were as determined to enforce the law as the gentlemen of the JJkiah Sportsmens Club there would not be mucn use for the State Fish and Game Commission, which really does not pre- tend to enforce the law-that is, so far as @ tne protection of game is concerned. we take our hats off to the members of the U1ah Sportsmen'S Club.
 The executive committee of the Pacific Coast Field Trial Club has decided unon Golonel Arthur Merriam of Memphis. field trials Aei '1ielu
 Sportsmen who are :desirous of good quali, brant, duck ors rabbit shooting et- 46 Sausallto boat to-day for Point Reyes MarShalls or Females stations On +ba sahohiils, about one mile: north of To- males, cottontail rabbits and ouail aro numerous, and brant and ducks are nla,- uful in Females Bay. sDeciaI frein VIII leave Tomales on Sunday at n m D. m. -~i'S al ''SO
 A few days before Christmas an of- t mIer .accosted man on Market street who was staggering under the weiSbt ees es twelve-pound turkey which was bou VI messed on his right shoulder 'i w nat are you doing with that bird s,n,a SIT asked the officer in a commanding
 Why, going to have a chew on if wba, l get ome hold man. What do won s1In- pose pose: meekIy answered the turkey
 strong bird, that. It has seen batter oayS evidently" remarked the officer ra,,1,es' l guess 1t has seen better days. D replied rep the man who was booked for a pig feast. This bird was raised and Stof1 S1 Ied on my grandfather's estate in h'oid n england and shipped to the war cor Club. 'acA shooting
 Great Scott! Who in the name of Kine PindS PPinrhey IS the 1s, war correspondent of the
 'Tis me, sir: 'tis. me-" proudlv an sMere1 the poetical sportsman, who was ssWeetly anucipating a glorious feast on a plrd that had been killed four weeks he fore Its arrival in this city. Oe
 Market hunters must make tbamsel,,ae, scarce Tn san Diego County. The Suner9 follows: oiudineu as
 "Section l. Every person who shah transport, carry or procure another to sSransP9rt San ES3a or carry out of the county of of been killed or captured in the countv ii1S as meanor. VI d Hisue-
 Sec. ?. Any person found guilty of Q violation of any of the provisions of tbiS ordinance shall be fined in the sum 'ii1 ns not less than so or be Imprisoned in +ba So county 70. ,n Jall in the county of San Diego not less than ten days, or be pnnisbad 7S1 both such fine and Imprisonment DS
 sec. 5, This ordinance. shall not 1e construed as abrogating or susneD5,Sg any of the laws of the State of CaIifnr,is game. 'deon fol Sec. f. This ordinance shall be in full iorce ana erect on and after fba a4th day of December, 1S97'' 'ie -''H ,arhs The game warden of the county hss of that will lead to a conyiction if tba tTransgrsss%ors Ts or of the law, and Wells, ders to their agents to receive So sbin-