The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1913-11-20
FINS, FURS AND FEATHERS


A decoy must be just about perfect
representation of a goose, when a coy |
ote will stalk it. Carl p. Ross, who
declares he used to be one of the best
goose shots between the blue sky and
the gorge scared earth in the Mid
Columbia district lying between Mount
Hood and Mount Adams, says that one |
of his decoys one time attracted coy |
ote.
"We had set out our decoys in
grain field" says Hunter Ross, ''and
were awaiting developments. Finally
one of the shooters saw coyote stink
ing down from the hills. We couldn't
figure what the animal was after.
Then we saw he was heading for the
decoys. Slowly he approached them,
licking his chops, anticipating astre
fat goose dinner. He was just getting
ready to spring on the inanimate bunch
of canvas, when one of the fellows let
go charge Of goose shot. 1t didn't
kill the coyote, but he was terribly
surprised and burnt. Another shot or
two and he went frisking off over the
hills. think he thought the evil spir-
its were after him..
A family of the city has kitten that
now shies at every telephone pole and
however much dogs may bark and
chase this feline refuses to climb a
pole. A dog on adventures bent chased
Kitty up a telephone pole last week
and 1t remained there for more than SO
hours its mistress appealing in vain to
/ anII., ttIhstu nf Good
as cats love. She even went so far as
to secure set of lineman's climbers,
but the pole was so big she couldn't
reach around it, and the lineman had
to be called into service. But the ex-
perience of couple of nights up near
the stars was enough for the kitten,
which now remains indoors.
The sums to be paid out of the game
provection fund, the State Game and
Fish Commission will now give the fol-
lowing increased bountes on wild ami
mails:
Gray wolf, 500. cougars and noun
tain lions. SIS, bobcat or lynx, 81. The
state will continue to pay under the
bounty law the sums of S5 for wolves
and " for bobcats.
C. W. Daniell's automobile was at
tackled near Tacoma by large deer
Saturday night while Daniell was TAX
ing party of musicians from Kapow-
, sin to Eatonville for dance.
Daniell's friends ate venison steak
Sunday and Daniell brought a deer
+ head with six-pointed antlers to Taco
; ma to have it mounted.
'We were driving from kapowsin to
. Eatonville about 8 o'clock, said Dan
Z iell, when noticed something jump
ing along the road ahead of us. | put
on the power and we soon saw that it
was a large buck. | decided that
would give him a run for his money.
Suddenly he turned and ran towards
us. With lowered head, he crashed
/, into the radiator and. with his antlers
enmeshed, began to strike at the front
n. of the machine with his hoofs. The
: momentum of the car swept him be-
: meath it and the connecting rod of the
I steering gear was broken. While he
was still fighting. | got out and killed
. him with an automatic pistol"
n Bert Stranahan, Commodore 0. c.
= Dean and Ed Foust have returned from
e goose hunt in eastern Oregon. They
Y report shooting fair, but the motoring
{ was bad. The autoists, who Travelled
in the Foust car. had innumerabls
e blowouts.
: s. f. Bartmess, A. Wilson and Oscar
A Jones have returned from their eastern
. Oregon goose hunt. They secured nine
fine geese, They report that there are
. thousands of the big birds in the dis
i trict but that they are hard to get