58 THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 
MANY COYOTES AND BOBCATS KILLED IN WASCO 
COUNTY.. 
During the month of November, 164 coyotes, 18 bobcats and one 
cougar were killed in Wasco County, for which the sum of $538 was 
paid out in bounty money. During December, in the same county, 
272 coyotes, 34 bobcats and one cougar were killed, for which $894 
was paid out in bounties. 
The records for the whole year show that there were 1484 coyotes, 
117 bobcats and two cougars killed in Wasco County. During the 
same year, $180.50 was paid out by the county clerk of Hood River 
County as wild animal bounty money. 
WILD DUCK JOINS DOMESTIC FLOCK. 
Deputy Game Warden C. W. Loughrey, of Seaside, Oregon, re- 
ports a peculiar case in his county wherein a wild mallard duck has 
seemingly changed his mode of life and become domesticated. One 
morning recently when Mr. Wm. McRoberts went out to let his tame 
ducks out of the pen one member of the flock became frightened 
and flew to the river, much to the surprise of Mr. McRoberis. In- 
vestigation disclosed that the duck was a wild mallard. Since that 
time the mallard returns every night and goes into the pen with the 
tame ducks and has become so tame that it won’t fly away when 
Mr. McRoberts feeds the flock. 
INDIANS WILL PROTECT GAME. 
Indians as protectors of wild game in Oregon is something new, 
yet Parsons Motanic and Phillip Jones, two of the best known and 
most reputable Indians on the Umatilla Indian Reservation, have 
received appointments from the State Game Warden’s office as special 
deputy game wardens. 

MANY NEW GAME LAWS. 
More than 240 new game laws were enacted in the United States 
during 1915—a larger number than during any previous year except 
1911. The largest number enacted in any one state was 61 in North 
Carolina. Several states, Oregon among them, added 10 or more 
new game laws to their statute books. 
ONLY A FISH STORY. 
Deputy Game Warden E. C. Hills, of Hugene, vouches for the 
truthfulness of the following fish story which he relates on Senator 
R. M. Veatch and son, H. H. Veatch, of Cottage Grove. While the 
Senator and his son were fishing in Sharp Creek, says Warden Hills, 
a fish 15 inches long swallowed the hook of the young man and not ~° 
being satisfied also swallowed the hook attached to the line with 
which the Senator was-fishing. Mr. Hills says “they both caught a 
fish, one fish and two hooks, or two hooks and one fish, all at the 
same time,” 
