The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-01-20

State Protective association tabooes
shooting ducks from row boats, sink
boats, floats or batteries. The Spo-
kane club agrees to sink boats, floats
and batteries, but insists that it is
impossible to hunt ducks on this side
OF the Cascades except from row
boats. In the Moses Lake district,
west of Spokane, where tulies extend
out many hundreds of yards from the
shore, it would be impossible to shoot
ducks and retrieve them from the
bank. Spokane sportsmen will ask
for the privilege of shooting from an
ordinary row boat.
Bass fishermen have complained
bitterly of the law which cuts them
out of trolling for their favorite fish
in two or three out of the best
months. From May to July 1. now
closed, is the camping season when
families go to the summer resorts.
They would fish for bass then, argu-
ing that not much harm could come
to the fish in that spawning season,
and that bass do not spawn at that
time in all lakes and streams The
bass bite better in November than at
any other time. Now the bass closed
lot Nounv,,hor IN
April 1, as well as from May Is to
July 1. 1t will be proposed to make
the open season for both bass and
trout the same, from April 1 to De-
cember 1, avoiding the confusion of
the mixed dates and affording oppor-
tunity to fish for bass when the lat
ter bite the best. Mr.. Wiesemann
will also propose that the club petit
lions the county commissioners to Sc
cure 100 more pairs of Hungarian
cartridges with which to stock the
Spokane country. These birds will
cost Sc a pair, but the are prolific
breeders and the game is wonder
fully attractive to sportsmen. He
says the men who object to 81 IL
cense fee to hunt should remember
that their dollars all go to this fund
of restocking the country with birds.
Quail and prairie chickens will
be taken from the list of Walla Wal
la county game birds if a bill now
being drafted by John Sharpstein, at
the request of Game Warden w. L..
Whitney, becomes a law. It's main
provisions are to make the open sea-
son for both kinds of birds from Oc-
tober 1 to November Is, and to make
it apply to Walla Walla county only.
Unless, as he suggests, Columbia and
Garfield counties join to protect the
birds.
The law under which the state has
been stocked with quail, and which
completely protected them for five
years, expired last October, and it is
feared by Mr. Whitney that unless
this law is re-enacted by other means
taken for protection they will be
thinned out again.
He said: ''Since the expiration of
the law in October 1 have had paint
ed 1000 signs warning trespassers
and all people from shooting, and
have put these out on many farms.
Only a few signs remain at the audi
tors office.
''It is pity that quail should ever
be killed, but if the birds must be
shot there should be law prohibit
ing anyone from killing them on the
ground. If they are protected there,
the damage that huntsman can do by
killing them on the wing will be
small. After the law was out last
fall it was at first easy to kill them,
but they soon became wary and took
to flight.
II do not think they are suffering
from the present deep SHOWS. They
easily find shelter along the streams,
and find food enough to tide them
over. The other day l saw a bevy
of meadow larks on Prospect Heights
at Walla Walla, where they were
feeding on a patch of uncut wheat.
Mourning doves are we'll sheltered
along the streams, and many small
birds are in evidence l do not be-
lieve the season has been hard on
them, but I have told many people
to put out little grain for them and
to tramp down the snow where they
feed, and l believe this is being
done"
AT THE OLYMPIA.