THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 
Volume Four January, 1916 Number One 

Published by authority of the Oregon Fish and Game Commission 
from its offices, 533-536 Pittock Block, Portland, Oregon. 
EDITORIAL STAFF 
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All material for publication should be sent to the Oregon Sports- 
man, Portland, Oregon. 
EDITORIAL COMMENT. . 
TRAGIC CARELESSNESS. 
Terry Lowe is dead because his brother, Auldren, 
thought he was a deer. Auldren ‘saw the bushes move 
and fired the fatal shot. Had he exercised the ordinary 
precaution of any good hunter his brother would be 
alive today and his own mind would not be weighted 
down with the sense of the awful tragedy. 
Frederick Layton was out hunting when a bullet 
from some unknown hunter’s rifle entered his heart. 
Layton is dead, and his slayer is perhaps unconscious 
of the deed he has done. Carelessness was undoubtedly 
responsible for the snuffiing out of this life. 
During the hunting season last year three other 
men were mistaken for deer and killed. Think of it— 
four men dead because some other hunter was criminally 
careless. Accidents are liable to happen even to the 
most careful but there is absolutely no excuse for 
