THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 115 
HUNTING WILD CATS IN LINN COUNTY 

’ George Tetzie and Lewis Walker, of Brownsville, Oregon, With Dogs “King,” “Bob” 
and “Trailer,”” and Sixteen Wild Cats and Two Coyotes. 
By Lyn A. Brown, Brownsville, Oregon. 
A brief account of a mid-winter hunt for predatory animals on the 
upper reaches of the North Santiam River in Linn County, Oregon, 
some miles above the town of Gates, will without doubt be of great 
interest to the readers of The Sportsman and the people of Oregon 
generally. 
During the month of January, and during the time this section of 
the state was in the grip of a heavy snowstorm, two members of the 
Brownsville Rod and Gun Club departed from Brownsville with camp 
outfit and dogs to enjoy a few days’ hunt in the Cascades. The excite- 
ment and luck which attended their trip can well be imagined from 
the fact that, after a week’s stay in the mountains, they returned and 
presented to the County Clerk of Linn County the skins of sixteen wild 
cats and two coyotes, obtaining the sum of $35 in bounty money. The 
“biggest kill” in any one day of the hunt was the bagging of two cats 
and one coyote. 
The trophies of the hunt were all killed along a county road in 
that locality, three dogs being used for the purpose of treeing the 
wild cats and in running the coyotes to earth. “King,” the head of the 
Dr. E. W. Howard kennels in Brownsville, and two of his offspring, 
“Bob,” owned by Lewis Walker, and “Trailer,” owned by George 
Tetzie, also of Brownsville, were the dogs that did the splendid work. 
Mr. Tetzie and Mr. Walker were the lucky hunters who had the dogs 
in charge. 
