The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1917-06-21
FINS, FURS AND FEATHERS

Last Sunday Joe LenZ, Aalto Annala
and Wallace May were out fishing up
at the ladder hole, commonly known as
the Boobin Clarence Knapp Hole.
! Fishing seemed to be rather poor till
| in the afternoon, as the boys had
eaten their lunch and were sitting
back to have good smoke forgetting
all about their fishing. But Joe, with
determination, sprang upon boulder
and went to fishing again, with the
hope of not getting entirely skunked.
| He had not been fihsing very long till
suddenly gsome big, dark object ap-
peared in front of him as it came from
deep water into shallow. Joe could not
imagine what 1t was at first. Sudden
ly he could see its tail as it swan past
him. "At last boys, we got i'm now,
we got i'm now" Young Annala,
greatly excited ran up over the bank,
dropped his fisp hole and stood there
with his hands in his pockets. About
that time Joe managed to get near
to the fish, grabbing at the ladder. At
the same time Wallace gave a quick
jerk bringing Mr.. Salmon up against
rock, jerking the hook out of its
mouth and catching Joe by the hand
Joe says, ''No you don't go him now."
About that time the fish was back in
the river. Mr.. Salmon won a decisive
victory over Wallace May on aggres-
siveness. 1t was log.
Charles Barnes, a rancher, whose
place is east of Neal creek at the base
of Bear mountain, now holds the
record for Hood River county as the
slayer of rattle snakes. One day last
week, while in search of horse that
had strayed away on the side of Bear
mountain, Mr.. Barnes peeped into
depression, formerly the resting place
of a huge boulder, and declares he
was astounded to see a wriggling mass
of serpents. The snakes were fshed
out with a long stick. When all had
been dispatched, Mr.. Barnes took
count. He had killed 81 snakes and he
returned home. with 122 trophy rat
tiers.
Forrest L. Moe, an orchardst of the
Odel district, tells of well defined
system of signals used by China pleas
ants, cocks and old hens on his ranch
to warn of the approach of hawks
that frequent the neighborhood.
Invariably" says Mr.. Moe, "the
pheasants sight the marauder first.
The pheasant cock will emit his rau-
cous squawk. The barnyard rooster
Immediately sounds his warning and
the old hens transmit the message,
telling of danger to the little chicks.
AS result of this wariness, hawks
have not been able to catch any of the
chickens on our place tbs season."
While local fishermen, because of
the high water in Hood river, re.
ported poor fishing, l.. H.; Arneson,
w. H. Robertson and R. B. Lindsay,
who returned recently from trip to
Crooked river in Crook county, declare
that the trout were biting well. The
local orchardists made the journey to
the central Oregon stream by automo-
bile, travelling by way of Dufur, Tygh
Valley and Prineville. The men say
the roads of Central Oregon are in fine
shape.
Hood River cows are continuing "to
w ,IhCll DlI NY giving plI vi W tWii
calves. Three sets of twin calves, the
first ever known for the valley, have
been born during the past month.
The first calves all four heifers,
were born on the adjoining ranches of
W. A. and Marsh Isenberg, in the
Frankton district. l.. M. Karstetter,
of Summit, reports that his family
milch COW found twins last week-a
male and female.
Pioneers of Oregon, who came to the
Northwest before 1860, according to a
bill adopted by the last legislature, will
not have to pay fishing and hunting Ii
censes. Oregon sportsmen's licenses
now cost as follows: Fishing, Sl.50,
hunting S1.50, combination So.
The several warm days last week
developed the camping and fishing fe-
yer among numerous Hood River peo-
pie. Dozens of parties spent the week
end on the headwaters of the different
branches of Hood river.
, j. H. Fredricy, accompanied by
, Judge Derby and Roy E. Johnson,
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