THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 



"LOOK OUT FOR THE HORNS." 



Grants Pass, Ore., August 23. — Two Miller brothers, aged 17 and 20, 

 residents of Leland, were hunting along Myrtle Creek Thursday afternoon, 

 when the younger fired at what he mistook for a deer in the bushes and 

 shot his brother in the head and breast. The bullet struck a twig, stripping 

 the jacket from the lead and the jacket struck young Miller in the center 

 of the chest, but did not penetrate the cavity. The leaden part of the 

 bullet struck him on top of the head, splitting the scalp for a few inches. 

 The wounded man was taken to the farm home of Oliver McGee, where 

 the wounds were given such treatment as was available, and he then went 

 to Glendale to receive a surgeon's care. — Portland Journal. 



LATER SEASON ON DEER. 



Throughout the State many sportsmen are advocating the opening of 

 the deer season on September 1 rather than on August 1, as at present. 

 In August the horns of the deer are still in the velvet. The fly pest during 

 the earlier months and the immature grasses and browse keep deer in 

 rather poor condition. As a general rule it is so hot during August that a 

 large part of venison killed at this season is spoiled. The bucks are in far 

 better condition in September and October. It is necessary that the season 

 close by November 1 on account of the beginning of the running season. 



A RECORD BREAKING " CHINA." 



If S. R. Piper's china pheasant hen lives long enough, and keeps on 

 increasing her egg production in the future as steadily as she has in the 

 past, the time may come when she will lay every day. This year she has 

 laid fifty-two, or just one a week, and three years ago she laid forty-eight. 

 Mr. Piper hatches the eggs and has a good sized brood of the pheasants. — 

 Cottage Grove Sentinel. 



NOTES. 



. Hunters in the Savage Creek district Sunday report having found the 

 body of a slaughtered doe lying where it had fallen, shot through the neck 

 by some criminal hunter. Near the body were the two fawns of the dead 



mother. — Grants Pass Courier. 



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One writer asks "if there is any way of teaching fish under six inches 



not to take a fly. ' ' We have not heard of any, but some fish go in schools. 



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Two anglers recently made a trip up the Mackenzie. One reported 

 catching ten trout, the other covered the same ground and caught fifty- 

 eight. It's not the stream, or the lack of fish. It's in the man holding 

 the rod. 



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