PP ORDGON : SEORTSMAN 43 
Some of these hunters using dogs assert that they cannot get deer 
in this brushy country without using dogs. This is just the country 
where dogs should not be used, as it makes the deer so wild that when 
the hunter who does not use a dog goes out after a deer when the 
season opens up, is unable to get even a shot at one, for the least 
little noise, the deer are so scared they are off to the thick brush. 
And should every hunter use a dog, which should be fair if the other 
hunter does, the deer in this state would be a thing of the past in a 
very short time. 

THIS IS A DEER STORY. 
Last Thursday afternoon as Herman Messenger happened to look 
toward Silver Creek from the window at Hastman Bros. garage he 
saw a full grown doe rise in the air and shoot over the dam just above 
the bridge. She swam as pretty as you please right down under the 
steel bridge and on over the lower falls and out of sight. 
The deer was seen by others farther up the stream, but Mr. 
Messenger was the only one to see it glide through town. 
Some years ago, a deer came over about the same route and took 
refuge in a clump of willows near Dr. Blackerby’s dental office. Henry 
Grazer, then a young man full of life and vigor climbed out over the 
bank and lassoed the deer. The deer was then taken to the home 
of Joe Moser and placed in a small enclosure with a high fence, 
one that Joe said no living animals could scale. The deer, when 
liberated, walked to the center of the arena, looked around, collected 
its senses, let out a snort and over the fence it went without the 
least trouble and bounded away. Joe said well I’ll be d-d-d-d-doggoned 
if I ever thought a living animal could jump that fence. No one has 
bobbed up and claimed that this was the same deer—Silver Appeal. 
USELESS HORSE BRINGS $93.50. 
J. C. Oliver & Sons, prominent stockmen of the John Day Valley, 
have in the past suffered considerable loss in their flocks on account 
of predatory animals and more particularly the coyote. Mr. Herman 
Oliver, foreman, hearing of the success of the method of poisoning 
introduced as an experiment by the U. S. Forest Service, recently 
determined to try it out. He selected a favorable spot near the home 
ranch, killed an old horse for bait and scattered the poison in the 
manner specified and awaited results. To date the “set” has been 
made not to exceed three weeks and he has been succssful in taking 
seventeen coyotes. With the $3.00 bounty and an additional $2.50 
for the hide it brings the total of $5.50 for each coyote, or a grand 
total of $93.50, which is considered a mighty good price for the 
horse. So Mr. Oliver thinks, outside of the fact that he has also 
prevented further loss to the flocks by ridding the hills of these 
predatory beasts. 
