Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-16
Dove HUNTERS
GET FUEL:BAGS
Nimrods by the Hundred Open
Season, but Few Deer. Are
Reported at Midnight
MALIBU COUNTRY Is. MECCA
Local Gun Supply Is Exhausted
Early by the Demand Upon
Sporting Goods Houses
MALIBU COUNTRY is. MECCA

The opening day of the deer and dove
season has come and gone and with it
many of the hopes of the Nimrod mul.
titude who came and saw, but returned
without bagging the objects of theii
search. The dove seekers succeeded
much better than their buck trailing
companions and limit bags were SCI
cured by number of the shotgun en-
thusiasts. Rumors of deer around the
Malibu country floated in at an early
hour during the afternoon, but the
lucky hunters did not bring forth the
evidence of their tales. 1t will probably
be we'll into the coming week before
the big story tellers will return and the
bucks near the city have retreated to
safer quarters
The largest number of hunters the
local camps have ever sent joyfully on
the trail left the city during the week
for the favored fields and dove and
deer will be the bywords of Southern
California sportsmen for some time to
come. The local sporting goods houses
prepared for the opening day as COM
pletely as possible, but the gun supply
was all too small and there were many
disappointed ones who found that there
were those who had come before and
| selected the last specimen of their IA
vorite weapon. The guns held for rent
last of the line of new shipments are
slated for a quick turn in the next
few days.
Glen Good of Santa Paula, one of the
younger Nimrods and an all-season en-
thusiast, will start the round of his ia
yorite dove haunts this morning and
expects to make try after the four
footed animals as soon as the dove
supply gives out. Good means to make
up for his last years disappointment,
when he was placed in the hospital at
the first of the season by gunshot
from his own rifle and could not get
into the running at his favorite game.
William Whitaker and George Covert
are planning a few days in the San
Fernando mountains after deer and
expect to bring home the prize.
H. H. Fling and Jack Wade started
on the trail at 2 O'Clock yesterday
morning and tramped the entire extent
of the Santa Monica range, but could
not discover even trace of ground
squirrel in the jungle. Fling declares
he shot two sparrows, but as he did
not bring them along as evidence IN
corpore and as his gun fails to show
powder mark there is some, doubt in
the minds of his friends as to the ex-
tent of the haul. Fling is crlticlslng
the hogbacks of the santa Monica
foothills now and comparing them dls-
advantageously with the Mendocino
deer thickets and the country around
the bay city of the north.
Raw VOORHEES, spent yesterday on the
Coyina downs and bagged eighteen or
the whitewings. He says the game is
plentiful in that locality and is plan
ming on spending another day wander
ing around the Covina landscape.
G. w. Clement spent a day with the
doves at Alhambra and got within two
of the twenty limit The game IS fly
ing well around that region and a num-
ber of the shotguns were in evidence
during the Friday foraging.
w. Daniels got ten doves in as many
minutes at Miles station and finished
the days haul with limit bag
Fred w. Cruel will spend today and
tomorrow in pursuit of the WhiteWlngs
around Athens.
Rogers and party with E. B. Bees
mer will leave today for the Malleu
country after deer.
F. S. Wilson is hunting doves today
at Sunland.
Adolph and Gus Hartman will leave
tomorrow for San Diego in machine
and will go equipped like an arsenal
for the game they expect to bag on
the way.
John Anderton will try the foothills
around Whittier for doves and expects
to find a location for a new goltng
preserve while he seeks a full brace OF
the winged game.
William Cornett and George M
Ward left yesterday for San Fernando
to bag the white game.
Jack Nest and Dewitt Van Court
left yesterday morning for the San
Bernardino mountains after deer, and
declare the city will not see them
again until a good-sized buck has
fallen at their hands.
A party consisting of j. w. Ashley
DR. Hastings and brother, e. w. Deib-
Ter and friends, C. w. Leffinwell f. G.
Richardson, wife and child and Arthur
H. Jackson left for Scott's camp to
test the deer possibilities of that sec
ton of the Wilds.
Among the season opening Nimrods
TO sDend the weekend at the cunning