The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1921-01-06
FINS, FURS AND FEATHERS

The janitor at the First National
| Bank was the victim of a joke per
petrated on him by others of the en-
ployes of the bank few days ago.
Paulskey set one of those little penny
traps which catch but one mouse at a
time. The boys got busy and procured
three more little traps and set them
where mice signs did most abound.
They soon caught three mice and at
once placed all of them in Paulskey's
trap, and when he soon after went to
inspect his trap and found three dead
mice where he expected but zone, he
picked up the trap and hastened in
where the bank officers were, holding
up the trap to view, and while his
| jaws worked and his lips moved, no
sound issued therefrom. He was so
astonished that he was for some sec.
onds bereft of the power of speech.
Cashier Gill thought the man was
about to throw fit. and started to his
| assistance. just as the janitor who had
somewhat recovered, shouted at the
top of his voice: "By the bones of
Balder never before is it in history or
tradition taught that three mice were
caught at once in a trap that never
catches but one mouse at a time.
After the janitor had quleted down,
reset his trap and gone out to bury his
dead the boys visited their own traps
and found another mouse which they
transferred to Paulskey's trap apd
later when Paulskey removed that
mouse they secured another, and an
other and kept the game up all day.
catching mice and putting them in the
janitor's trap. The boys caught IL
mice and Paulskey actually caught
one, but thought he had caught l8 dur
ing the day, he learned of his mistake
next day. The bank clerks had a
bushel of fun over the mouse episode
but none of them have nerve enough
to ask Paulskey if he ever caught any
dead mice.-Newberg Graphic.
County Clerk Shoemaker, who wrote
to the state game warden. "A. +. Bergh-
duff, seeking advice on angling for
salmon trout here during the winter
months, has just received the following
letter:
Six inch trout closed during months
of December, January, February and
March.
The law covering Game District No.
2 allows angling for ten inch trout all
year, but an order of the State Board |
of Fish and Game Commissioners, dat |
ed March 10, 1919, closed the season
and so no trout except salmon trout can |
be taken during the months named
above.
A recent order made by the Board |
allows angling for what is known as
salmon trout over ten inches in length |
all the year round. Steelheads may be |
taken all year round over 20 inches.
The winter season, December, Janu-
airy. February and March. is closed to
angling for bass. crappies. catfish and
White Fish, except in
Columbia. Clatsop and
Linn counties where no trout are to be
found.
This is the way the angling matter
now stands. We hope to have some
what different and better angling laws
on the statute books when the next
Legislature adjOurns.
Hugh Wiley, former resident of Cas-
,ade Locks and erstwi lie boon com.
oanion of Irwin u. PaTkins, is now
famed for his Wildcat stories in the
Saturday Evening Post. Mr.. Wiley in
asst weeks issue Of the Post brings
wildcat, ard his mascot goat, Lady
luck, " to the Pacific Coast. The for
ner gets up in the Columbia River
Forge, where. following a train rob
,ery. he feeds himself by catching
melt with his hands. scoOping them }
rom the current Later he has an ad
-enture with S0-pound salmon in fish
rap. Altogether Mr.. Wiley has mer- {
ted a transfer Of the local champion -
hin belt. which is now in the posses I
ion Of c. W. McCullagh. il is sug- !
.ested that the Society for the Promul-
-ation and Practice Of lncongruOus T
'eracity read Mr. Wiley's FISH story. 9
r. L. Boles. formerly proprietor Of
be Van Horn hotel. is now one Of the ]
wners Of the San Fernando, Calf,
abbitry. which. according 70 a letter .
uzt received from Mr. Roles will h