266 THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 
David Warren, a Umatilla County homesteader, was arrested re- 
cently on the charge of killing an elk in Oregon and taking the meat 
to Walla Walla, Washington, where some of it was sold. He plead 
guilty to the charge and was fined $200 and costs. Warren was 
caught after the wardens had followed him on horseback for 40 miles 
through the Blue Mountains, tracking him through the snow. 
If you kill or capture a wild duck bearing an aluminum band 
around one leg, having a number on one side and on the other a 
statement requesting that the United States Department of Agricul- 
ture or the Biological Survey be notified, you are requested to send this 
band at once to the Bureau of Biological Survey, United States Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. This band, if accompanied by a 
statement as to date, place and circumstances under which the bird 
was taken, will be of service to the department in its efforts to 
determine the longevity of individual ducks and the routes of migra- 
tion of the species. The bands have been attached to considerable 
numbers of wild ducks of several species which have been cured 
of the duck sickness prevalent around Great Salt Lake, Utah, and 
there released. The department is particularly anxious to secure 
reports from these birds to determine their complete recovery from 
this malady, which has killed hundreds of thousands of ducks in 
Utah. 
Deputy Game Warden Jas. Stewart, of Moro, writes the “Sports- 
man” that W. G. McDonald, of McDonald’s Ferry, returned some time 
ago from a trip to Grant County on a deer hunt. While in that county, 
Mr. McDonald killed a five-point buck on the south fork of the John 
Day River which he says was the biggest and fattest deer he ever 
saw. Three strong men could hardly lift the animal and they esti- 
mated that it weighed at least 350 pounds. 
Victor Rath, of Mercer, Oregon, is exhibiting the skin with horns 
attached of a female deer killed October ist in the Coast Mountains 
near Mercer. The horns are small in size and are two-point, while 
the color of the hair is rather light for a deer killed at that season 
of the year. 
A large mass of petrified fish eggs, probably thousands of years 
old, have been found in Klamath County. It is believed the eggs are 
salmon spawn. 
A record for marksmanship that will probably stand for some 
time was made recently when D. W. Anderson, of Olene, a pioneer 
settler in that section of Oregon, shot a running coyote at 240 yards 
with a rifle. Mr. Anderson, known among the settlers as “Stick” 
Anderson, because he can find water with a stick, is now in his 
84th year, but is hale and hearty and loves to shoot a rifle as well 
as in his younger days. 
Jesse Goffe, formerly of Dale, Oregon, recently plead guilty to 
the charge of using explosives to take fish from the North Fork of 
the John Day River, and was fined $200 and given 30 days in jail. 
China pheasants come high in the closed season in Umatilla 
County. Harley Yetter was fined $250 and lost his gun and hunting 
privileges besides the “sport” of breaking the law and shooting one 
lone Chinese pheasant. 
Chas. D. Alexander, proprietor of the Linn Ringneck Game Farm 
in Linn County, filled an order from the Ohio State Fish and Game 
Commission this fall for 150 pairs of Chinese pheasants, which were 
turned loose in Ohio by the commission in an effort to get this famous 
Oregon game bird started there. 
