Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1914-12-04
Newport

and d. M. Mclaughlin came over
from Albany Saturday and spent
Sunday at Newport, guests OF
The Abbey. ]
Mr.. and Mrs. Mapes have dis
posed of their agate store here
and moved to Medford. This is
done for the benefit of Mrs.
Mapes' health.
The Bandon came in Monday
morning and went direct to To-
ledo. The Mirene came in also
with a cargo of freight for the
merchants.
The game laws are SO strict
and so numerous that 1t is al
most impossible to keep them.
Grover Voight killed lot OF
ducks and wanted to send them
to the Valley by express to his
friends, but the agent would not
express them unless they were |
tagged, and he could not get
the tags from James Gatens, the
game warden, so the birds were
not expressed and will be a loss
to Mr.. Voigt. The law provides
that the game warden or his
deputies should keep the tags on
hand during the open season.
MIR. Voigt rendered the money
to the warden to pay for the
tags but he would not receive it.
Thus the matter rests. Mr..
Voigt says he will report the
case the the State game warden
and see what he says about 1t.
A story comes from Beaver
creek that a large bull elk ran
through the field of Sam Hill
last week, chased by pack of
dogs. Mr.. Hill tried to get pic
ture of the elk and dogs but
failed. 1t so happened that Mr..
Gatens was there and saw the
chase. He put in after the elk,
caught up with him and dubbed
the dogs off and saved the life OF
the elk. This quite a feat and
should be a feather in the cap of
the game warden. An elk when
at bey is a dangerous animal to
handle. He will fight. A few
weeks ago a young man that
lives near the mouth of Siletz
caught a fawn that had been
chased by dogs into the ocean.
The dogs would have killed the
fawn had it not been for the
young man coming to its rescue.
After the boy had kept the fawn
for a few months it was reported
to the game warden. The re-
suit was the deer was ordered
sent to the state game farm at
Corvallis. The boy got no pay
either for catching or keeping
the deer. I believe it would be
a good plan to pass law not to
let any more game be killed OF
fish caught from our rivers for a
period of five years. This would
give the game a chance to in
crease and our bays and rivers
to fill up again with fish. This
coast country is so rough and
mountainous that much of 1t is
uninhabited and uninhabitable
Il would be just as well to have
it filed up with game and fish
The destructive animals, such as
wild cats, cougars and beal
might be killed. The white mar
in this line is not as provident
as the Indian. The red man al
ways looks after the game tC
see that none of it is needlessly
killed or the fish wantonly des
troyed.
Thursday evening Mrs. Alber
Bears came to Newport to con
suit a physician in regard to he
four months old child. Sh,
lives some ID miles north o
Eddyville on a homestead. Sh
and her husband started ou
Tuesday to meet the train. TIL
first day she carried the sicl
baby in her arms six miles to he
fathers, stayed all night and tn
next day started across a yer
rought mountain trail to NEE
the train at Eddyville. The dis
tance was eight miles. She car
ried the baby all the way excer
two miles. Mr.. Bears carrie
the baby the last two miles. Nc
being able to meet the train a
the station they had to flag tn
train between stations. Mr.
Bears, seeing the train coming
tagged it by waving her re
sweater. This rather angere
the conductor but when he sa'
the woman NTH the sick bab
In her arms he cheerfully stoT
ped the train and took he
aboard. The baby soon &c