230 THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 
ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS OF GAME LAWS. 
All game is owned by the State. 
Any game animal, bird or fish raised in captivity may be sold if 
properly tagged. 
Any game animal or bird may be held during closed season if properly 
tagged. : 
Any game animal or bird may be imported from without the United 
States and sold if properly tagged. 
Any navigable stream and any streams flowing through public lands 
are highways for fishing. 
Taxidermists must pay a license of $3 per year. 
The State Board of Fish and Game Commissioners are empowered to 
summon and examine witnesses under oath, to suspend open sea- 
sons, offer rewards to apprehend violators, and to acquire any kind 
of game for propagation, experimental or scientific purposes. 
PENALTIES. 
Any person killing any mountain sheep, mountain goat, antelope, 
elk, or moose, may be fined from $200 to $1,000 and imprisoned not 
less than 60 days or more than six months. 
Unless otherwise provided, violations of other sections carry pen- 
alties of not less than $25 or more than $500 and costs, or by im- 
prisonment not less than 30 days or more than six months. 
Besides fines, any one violating laws shall be subject to a civil 
liability ranging from $2 for each game bird to $300 for elk and 
mountain sheep; ‘shall forfeit all guns, dogs, boats, traps, fishing 
apparatus and implements used in violation of laws, and shall forfeit 
his hunting license for the balance of the calendar year in which the 
offense was committed. 
NOTICE. 
It will be appreciated if violations are reported to State Game 
Warden, Portland, Oregon, or any deputy game warden. All com- 
munications will be treated as strictly confidential. 
The fur-bearing animal trapping law or the commercial fishing 
laws will be furnished upon request. 
HOW ABOUT CATS? 
“Feline pets are the worst enemies of bird life in any commu- 
nity,’ says Prof. T. J. McCarthy of the normal school at Superior, 
Wis. He says “the cat is a comfortable, sleek-looking individual 
during the daytime, but at night he becomes a raging wild beast; 
that cats cost the State of New York five million dollars a year in 
game birds alone; that in Massachusetts it is estimated there are 
three cats to every 100 acres of land, and if each cat killed one bird 
every ten days, it would mean the destruction in that state alone of 
six million birds each year.” Granting, for sake of argument, that 
what Professor McCarthy says is true, and it probably is, what would 
we do with the rats and mice if there were no cats? Trap them, 
perhaps the professor would say, but from experience in this work a 
dozen traps will not rid a place as completely of rats and mice as will 
one good active cat. Half-starved and homeless cats should be de- 
stroyed in order to save the birds, but the well-fed and well-cared-for 
house cat is almost a necessity—American Field. 
