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tiful in the vicinity of Placer, eight 

 miles east of Leland. It is prob- 

 able that the $25 bounty offered 

 on these animals by the State and 

 the State Board of Fish and Game 

 Commissioners, will be an induce- 

 ment to do some hunting in that 

 section. 



Bob-cats are also reported com- 

 mon in this vicinity. Several have 

 been seen in the flats and low 



lands in the farming district. 



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Steelheads and silversides have 

 been biting splendidly in Bogue 

 Elver, and large catches made. On 

 account of the closed season on 

 deer, hunting is now about over for 

 the year, except for bear, and other 

 unprotected animals. 



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A. C. Goettsche, of Grants Pass, 

 who was out with a party of six 

 friends, reports that while on a 

 two-weeks' hunt during the past 

 season the party was successful in 

 bagging ten bucks at Buck Camp, 

 20 miles from Galice Creek. Mr. 

 Goettsche says the party saw 

 altogether 75 does and fawns and 

 26 bucks within one and a half 

 miles of camp. 



and good reports come from many 

 who go out. 



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JACKSON COUNTY. 



Mr. A. S. Bosenbaum, Southern 

 Pacific agent at Medford, reports 

 that the quail were so plentiful 

 that any hunter who did not get 

 his limit during the season must 

 have been a poor marksman. Duck, 

 hunting and fishing for rainbows 

 are the sports at the present time, 



C. L. Springer, deputy game war- 

 den of Jacksonville, was seriously 

 injured during the latter part of 

 October when his horse fell in a 

 bad piece of trail on the ridge be- 

 tween Burnt Eidge and Squirrel 

 Camp, in Josephine County. His 

 left knee was badly sprained and 

 he was otherwise severely bruised. 

 Mr. Ellis, who accompanied War- 

 dens Springer and Merrill on this 

 trip, was taken sick while on the 

 trip and died a few hours after 

 arriving at Merlin. 



LINCOLN UOUNTY. 



Duck hunters are getting the limit 

 on the bay and tributary sloughs 

 near Newport. A number of hunters 

 are over from the valley and Port- 

 land. All are having good luck. 

 The rains of the past week have 

 brought the ducks in. Silversides 

 are coming in now better than they 

 have been, owing to the heavy rains, 

 and good catches are being made. — 

 Dallas Optimist. 



LAKE COUNTY. 



E. C. Foster, one of the well- 

 known farmers of Summer Lake, 

 was in Lakeview several days dur- 

 ing the past week on a business 

 visit. He states that the Chinese 

 pheasants that were turned loose on 

 his place early last Spring have all 

 disappeared. Of the six original 

 pairs, one bird killed himself by 

 flying into a barbed wire fence, 



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