The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1920-07-15
FINS, FURS AND FEATHERS

DR.. N. Plyler tells the prize hard
luck story of this district. He and
companion motored TO remote noun
tain district of southern Oregon for
recreation several years ago. AS a re-
suit of tire trouble they arrived after
dark at the camp ground near a big
spring.
I'VE were just about as thirsty NOR
tails as ever existed" says DR.. Plyler,
land were ready to gulp huge cooling
smeled something. Investigating we
found dead horse partly in the spring.
1t might not have been so bad if the
spring had not plunged underground
right away. Running on top of the
ground the water would have purified
itself after short distance. AS it was
we supposed that it was six miles to
the nearest water.
"But we set out along ravine, COW
cred over with underbrush. ] held a
candle and my friend walking in front
searched along the bottom. In little |
depressions we were able to dip up
about quart of water in a small pail. |
We kept on up the ravine, hoping that
we might find a spring. We turned a |
kind of corner and my companion
jumped right back on my feet, sloshing
out part of the water. | soon knew
why. We had run plumb into skunk.
We managed to survive on the water
we had found until the next sday, when
we got out of that region as soon as it
was daybreak.
f. Z. Goodrich and family, returned
last week from an outing on Lost
Lake, experienced a comical but near
serious accident. Mr.. Goodrich, ac-
by his small son, Edwin,
and the latter's young friend, Arthur
Lofts, was fishing. He hooked a giant
,rout, and after playing it for several
minutes was on the point of lifting it
nto the boat. The boys. unable to
lold in their shouts of excitement,
we're interested spectators. In their
,oys went head foremost into the lake.
81 swas put to itsto get the boys out
efore they drowned" says Mr.. Good
ich. 'They escaped with slight
The Game Association has been in
Commission that five carloads of trout
ry have been allotted the county this
easOn. The Association has notified
iti7ens that fish will be available for
tocking private pools if early applica-
ion is made.
The sportsmen contemplate prosecu-
on ofIthe management of irrigation
1ncerns, it is said, unless screens are
ept ,on irrigation bitches. Despite
'arnings, the screens have been re-
loved from a number of bitches, it
as been stated.
]. H. Fredricy, who spent Sunday on
le West Fork at Sandy Flat, reports
Y fishing on the branch good. Mr..
redricy, who was accompanied by +.
J. Stanton, caught 81 trout. The re-
mt warm weather has caused the East
I'd Middle Forks to become milky,
hich has rendered fly fishing poor. :
he cool weather that has just begun :
i'll cause the river to clear and fisher
en- are expecting unusually good fish
& on the lower river.
Complaints have been laid before the
ty, who, armed with small calibre T
files, are said to be killing silver gray
uirrels. Boys, too, are said to be
many robins. which are !
so protected 'by law. Marhsal Fra !
err, it is said, has disarmed several =
Tvs who have been caught shooting
in the city limits.
While July a was a pleasantly warm
" on the lower levels of the mid-Co-
mbia, L. B. Aplin and Hugh G. Ball.
no with their wives spent the day on
camping trip on the Lake Branch,
clare that the temperature was un- z
easanlty cold. 1t was necessary to
I'VE a fire in order to keep comfortably
arm The men had fair luck fishing. a
The following party, just back from L
camping trip on the White Salmon y
yer above Husum, reports the fishing :
ir: Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Franz, Mr..
d Mrs. Edgar Franz, Mr.. and Mrs. =
,bert G.. McNary, Mr.. and Mrs. Cliff :
Porter, Miss Elda Jackson and Cor
tt Alexander. While the fish were o
t biting eagerly, those caught by the fc
glers were of good size. P
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NJ. h. Webster last week killed a =.
ge coyote just east of the city. He
llected a bounty on the scalp.
c. H. Castner and Harry Farrell re- A
ntly bagged the limit of trout on the