The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1946-10-17
Hunting Season
Opened Tues.

OPNlIOQ IQVOu
The "huntin' editor" has bee
laid up yesterday and part of tn
day before with flu, so cannot civ
the coVerage he would like to tn
opening of the big game huntin
season which began Tuesday.
however conditions were all Sc
Tor big bang" Tuesday morning
with plenty of deer and bear in tht
higher and more remote sections Of
the county. By early afternoon
Tuesday a few cars were drivina
through town or parking on the
streets with deer ornamenting their
tenders, or filling an attached trail
er and all the signs point to plenty
OF fun for the boys (and girls)
and quite a bit of dodging and mar
row escapes with here and there a
casualty for the game.
AS usual the concentrations of
sportsmen from the Libby section
rather seemed to favor the Wolf
Creek and Pipe Creek areas. AS
year ago, the Wolf Creek section
saw the taking of nice black bear
on opening day. The lucky sports
man this year is Lawrence Sedan.
Sallna, Kan, who wrote his cousin.
Mrs. A. R. HibbS of Libby. last
summer: Those damn Libby folders
Just won't let me rest till come
out and see that country" Sedan |
a well drlller, together with his
brother, Frank, an official of the
Kansas-Nebraska Gas Co., Hastings.
Neor, drove into Libby Monday
evening and opened the season at
the Baenan Ranch on Wolf Creek.
he is well fixed now for resting
with the hide of a shaggy bear tip (
ping the scales at 81 pounds after !
being butchered. Incidently a black ,
Dr. brown bear that tips ranch scales {
At 81 pounds, is a big bear and
Wyelghed on the scales of a 'parlor '
mar sportsman and writer for F
he hunting magazines, would easily {
urn their scales to 500 pounds or I
norel =
The Jayhawker sportsman is \
retty jubilent over his good for e
une, for while Wyoming antelope "
nd Wyoming and Colorado deer d
nd elk have been on his list of :"
anne bagged for a number of years, II
MS IS his very first bear. Last Fl
,eek Frank Fiest, a hunter from Fl
-alispell, tied into a band of five al
rlzzly bear in the Stryker country. tr
lest was using a little .257-caI
tle but managed to kill three of lid;
Re five bears. The hunter is re- M
orted to be in a Kalispell hos W
tai recovering from injuries re- o.
lived in the encounter. &,
Libby sportsmen taking advan- tn
&c of the early Flathead country Sc
ason on elk, are L. w. Doxtater, na
d. Morton, and the writer. Dox- an
ter and Morton hunted out from GA
ack Tail just below Glacier e
ltional Park on the Middle Fork. tor
Ixtater brought home a fat S. be
int bull, his companion getting a ms
e, juicy cow. The two men got
me Tuesday of last week, and aft
port plenty of game and very inc
easant hunt While on the trip IN
~ took large number of Koda- M.
rome (colored) pictures, and now me
anxiously awaiting the develop mi,
mt of the films cIa,
-itteL went in from the Monture Sci
niger Station northwest of Ovan- VIII
The Vannoy Bros, Walt and YaI
dney taking him by pack train bar
their camp in the Swan Range add
Young's Greek, Is miles beyond VIII
nearest road. Youngs Creek Gu,
me of the two large creeks which the
m the South Fork of the Flat dea
d, and is one of the best elk goa
ges the Libby man has ever colo
tied. Good shooting was possible D
ry day hunting was done, and the
morning the party packed out, nisI
ut a dozen of the big game ani=Htbe
S were seen grazing on the hill Rol.
s high above camp across the rer
* Littell bagged fat COW. tenc
he season is now open in Lin bv
county on bucks with at least to 4
CHI spike horns, and bear, both III
k and grizzly Does and elk seen
lot be legally shot this year in in h
county. Raft