The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1919-10-02
FINS, FURS AND FEATHERS

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Commodore o. c. Dean declares that
party of hunters, who sought IN vain
for a deer in eastern Oregon. nearly
starved because they couldn't success
fully bake beans at the high altitude
of their camp.
I'VE were led to believe by l.. {.
Heizer, who was recently in Grant and
Baker counties, that the woods We're
thick with deer. OF course, We eX-
pected to feed chiefly on venison, but d
bag OF beans was taken along as a Ie-
serve, says the retired ferryman. ut
fell to my lot to cook the beans. We
camped away up at about a mile eleva-
tiOn | guess, and | cooked and cooked
and cooked those beans. ! tried TO boil
them first, hoping to soften them and
then put on the finishing touches in an
improvised oven. My water boiled
merrily. but il never got hot enough to
soften those beans.
Other members of the party were j.
W. Havland and Albert Davenport.
The southwark flight of flock of
ducks Saturday gave weather prophets
their first opportunity for the season.
The sprognosticators say the early
migration of the waterfowls indicates
the approach of a Geld wave and frost
in the near future.
The weather prophets point to the
fast maturing apple crop as another
point in support of their predictions.
Winter, they say, will set IN early this
year.
ii. M. Hicks got more than he bar
gained for in crate of bananas last
week. Mr. Hicks was removing the
bunch of fruit from its packing when
he noticed something on his sleeve.
He gave violent jerk and fortunately
dislodged black scorpion. about three
inches in length, on the sidewalk. The
species is said the very venomous.
The scorpion has been preserved at
keir s drugstore in bottle of formal
dehyde.
FAN fishing on the Upper Middle
| Fork of Hood river has been good, ac-
cording to anglers returned from the
mountain stream. e. A. McCurdy,
Guy Ellis, James Blake and Charles
Shurrell each landed nice basketfuls of
mountain trout. H. Pregge and K. f.
Creson visited the high altitude, but
We're driven in by rain along the first
of the month. Mr.. Pregge drove away
and left his gun scabbard and fishrod
case near the old Middle Fork ditch
company's cabin.
After a week of poor fishing anglers
of this vicinity again had an inning
Sunday The Hood river cleared fol-
lowing the rain of Saturday, and the
second fall run of salmon trout began.
No less than 100 fine fish of this spe-
cies were taken here Sunday. Fishing
with a light trout rod Hugh Ball hook
ed and landed 20 pound chinook.
Fishermen who visited the upper
reaches of Hood river report fine
catches of mountain trout.
Commercial fishing in the mid Colum-
bia has had a slump the past week, and
the irregularity of catches in local
traps has caused market men to order
their supply of salmon from Puget
Sound. Earlier in the month the local
fishermen were taking chinooks in ton
quantities.
The run of salmon trout in Hood riv-
er, too, has been disappointing to ang
lers the past week.
Who wouldn't want to go hunting
after glimpse of the Franz Hard
ware Co. window this week? The win
dow has an appeal that the nimrod can
not resist. Many gunners were out
Sunday after the seasons first ducks.
A number of mallards were bagged
along the Columbia sloughs.
j. K. Nickelsen and Hershey Mark
ley are the first Hood River county
hunters to kill deer this season.
Each of the nimrods. after a week
spent on the headwaters of Clear Fork
of Hood River, to the west base of the
peak, returned Tuesday with hand
some buck.
"We were driven out of the noun
tains by heavy snow, says Senator
Nickelsen.
The following party left yesterday
for the Harney Lake country on a
goose hunt: Earl Franz, P. G. Rip
per, Ned Crawford and William Mar
shall Sunday Mayor Scobee will head
motor party, bound for the Harvey
country. The following men will ac-
company the mayor A. S. keir, c.
c. Anderson and X. W. Sinclair.
Commercial fishermen of the mid-Co
lumba have ended their work for this
season. Ed c. Wright, who has a
number of traps located between Me-
nomine and Mosier. states that he has
removed his tackle until next year,
Earl Weber is suffering from pc.
culiar injury. Mr.. Weber, preparing
to go fishing for salmon trout. visited
a fish trap to secure salmon eggs. He
lassoed big salmon, when the fish,
with flirt of it's tail. drove gaff
hook into Mr.. Weber's leg.
E. A. Franz caught six fine salmon
trout Sunday. He says that every hole
had at least three big, hungry fish in
it.