The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1919-10-09
FINS, FURS AND FEATHERS

In an opinion given by Attorney
General Brown to the district attorney
for Harvey county, the shooting season
for ducks. geese and other migratory
waterfowl has been definitely settled.
Confusion has existed in the minds of
many shooters on account of a differ
ence in the federal and state season.
The state cannot legislate within the
closed season of the federal regulations
but it can legislate within the open
season. The federal open season is
three and one-half months. but the
state, if it cares to. may close any por
tion or all of this federal open season.
The shooting season, therefore, which
must be observed bv hunters through
out Oregon. is as follows
For Multnomah, Clatsop. Columbia
and Tillamook equities, the open sea.
berr 81. In all other counties of Game
District No. /, which comprises all that
portion of Oregon lying west of the
summit of the Cascade mountains, the
season opens October l6 and closes Jan
uary Is. In all counties of Game Dis.
trict No. 2, which comprises all that
portion of Oregon lying east of the
summit of the Cascade mountains. the
open season begins October | and ends
on December 81.
The original draft of the Game Code
included uniformity of seasons. but
the position was taken that the federal
regulations were unconstitutional, and,
therefore. would be imperative Since
the Legislature has adjourned, two fed
eral courts have upheld the federal
regulations 1t was the clear intent of
the legislature to give equal hunting
seasons. This would have been accom-.
plshed had not the federal law inter-
vened. The state law is imperative
and will be enforced insofar as it does
not conflict with the federal law. The
dates given above are those within
which hunters may shoot and be with
in both the federal and state laws.
Hermann Pregge ended terror for
Japanese fruit growers of the Oak
Grove district when he killed a 300
pound male bear Bruin for several
weeks had been making life miserable
for the Nipponese ranchers. Grubbing
for bugs, he had destroyed many straw
berry plants and prune and apple trees
looked as though cyclone had struck
them. 1t was the habit of the bear to
make visits to the orchards in the
nighttime, pull off branches from the
trees and then eat the fruit leisurely
from broken boughs.
The japanese had set traps all over
the region, but the bear, furnishing
many roasts for local epicures. avoided
the snares.
Silver gray squirrels. protected in
this county at all times of the year,
are becoming very numerous in the
city. At the Park street school the
children. feeding the handsome ami
mails, have scores of pets. The squir-
rels are very active just at present
harvesting walnuts from numerous
trees in the city.
The following party of hunters re-
turned last week from eastern Oregon
with two fine bucks: j. c. johnson,
Z. j. Copper and Ed Miller. The men
left here week before last and attend
ed the Round Up. On their way back
they stopped to fish and hunt. The
two deer were killed near Mitchell.
But few ducks have appeared in the
! Columbia lowland marshes in the mid
Columbia. While scores of hunters
have visited the haunts, no one has
bagged any birds yet this season.