The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1916-09-07
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Judge Derby's oldest daughter. Jess
lea, called by her father and close
friends, "Pete," while recently en-
route home from an eastern visit with
her grandfather put poser to the
conductor of dining car. Little Miss
Derby was giving a breakfast table
lecture to the colored waiter, telling
him that he didn't have any food worth
serving.
"You haven't thing that can get
at home," she told him.
And just then the condcutor happened
by.
"Now, my little lady," he said.
"you just tell me what you want, and
will see that you get it..
AS the conductor took up pencil and
one of those little checks peculiar to
railway dining cars, ready to take the
order, it did not take Miss Derby long
to make up her mind.
"I'll take grouse on toast" she
said.
The conductor admitted himself
beaten.
81 see you know how to eat" he said
offering substitute of chicken.
Various and numerous methods are
used by mid-Columbia sportsmen 10
hunting grouse. H. l.. Hasbrouck the,
jeweler, however, tells of the most
unique means of finding the elusive
birds. MIR. Hasbrouck says that the
best way to hunt grouse is with binoc-
ulars.
The grouse, according to MIR. Has
brouck. will nearly always fly to tall
fir or pine trees. With the glasses the
fowls may be easily detected in their
high perches. and then it is an easy
matter to bring them down.
In New York state the Conservation
Commission is considering proposal
that each holder of hunting and ang-
ling license wear upon his clothing. at
all times when hunting or fishing, a
button bearing the number of his Ii
cense. The button is to be supplied by
the state at the time the license is
purchased.
Under the system in Oregon, pro-
vided by law, for the sale of hunting
and anlging licenses, button of this
kind could be supplied at small cost
and leave margin of profit to be add
ed to the fund for the protection and
propag gation of game and fish.
1t occurs to The Sportsman that the
advantages to be derived from wearing
button by Oregon hunters and fisher
men are many. We would like to see
the proposition to adopt the button
system in connection with the sale of
hunting and angling licenses taken up
by the spIl tsmen Of the state and dis
cussed in the columns of the October
Sportsman. U..gon Sportsman.
j. B. Hunt has entered the lists of
literary geniuses. In the current issue
of the Oregon Sportsman appears an
article, entitled, IA Bear Hunt in the
Columbia River Country" The story
is written by MIR. Hunt, as narrated
by Cecil Holman.
Thirty thousand steelhead fngerlings
! from the state rearing ponds at Bull
Run, Ore., have just been placed in
five different lakes in the Mount Hood
and Mount Jefferson regions, on the
Oregon national forest. This difficult
work was done by the state of Oregon.
the forest service and the Portland
Railway-Light & Power Company in
cooperation, and required seven days
to complete.
Local hunters since the bird season
opened on August l5 have been finding
few grouse or native pheasants. 1t is
thought by sportsmen that the extreme
cold weather of last winter caused the
death of the larger percentage of the
game birds.
While China pheasants, more or less
domesticated. we're protected at valley
barnyards, where they we're fed by
ranchers and members of the Hood
River County Game Protective Associ-
alton, large numbers of these birds
perished IN the winters snowstorms.
John R. Nickelsen and son, Donald,
visited the Parkertown district Sunday,
where they bagged a fine buck. The
hunters journeyed to the hunting
grounds by automobile. The deer was
shot, taken to the car, and MIR. Nickel
sen and son we're soon en- route home.
Cuts of the buck were given to friends.
The following party of Hood River
men will leave the latter part of this
week by automobile for Yoncalla,
where they expect to bag several fine
bucks: L. Kresse and son, Hermann
o. Kresse, L. c. Heizer, H. D. Emery
and Harry Brawn.
The annual run of salmon up the Co
lumbia river has begun at mid Colum-
bia points. Local fishermen are re.
porting handsome catches. A number
Of large silversides have been landed
at the mouth of the White Salmon riv-
er. Fishermen in the Hood river here
have in the past few days caught a
large number of salmon trout, which
always accompany the run of chinook
when they leave the Columbia for the
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