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FROM THE FAR WEST. 



At Pasco, while waiting for the train I saw 

 two Siwash Indians bring in a sturgeon that 

 measured nine feet from nose to tip of tail. 

 They captured it with hook and line in the Co- 

 lumbia river, a short distance from Pasco. 



Trout fishing in the Spokane river below the 

 Falls is reported as being better this season than 

 ever before. Spokane, with its many pleasant 

 resorts and its cool climate, with excellent fishing 

 and shooting within easy reach, is one of the most 

 desirable resorts in the Northwest. 



Passengers on the N. P. Railway one day 

 last week, as the train crossed Tompkins river, 

 Mont., were treated to the rare sight of an ang- 

 ler landing, from one cast, two Rainbow trout 

 that would weigh three or four pounds each. The 

 number of hats and handkerchiefs that were 

 waved from the car windows indicated that the 

 passengers appreciated good sport. 



Several gentlemen of Baker City, Ore., are 

 agitating the formation of a new Gun Club, not 

 being satisfied with the present organization 

 whose members' chief ambition is reported to be 

 to outrival each other in the killing of the larg- 

 est bag of young ducks, yet unable to fly. Why 

 this peculiar conduct on their part is unknown, 

 as nearly all the members of the club have 

 proved, at the trap, their ability to stop almost 

 any kind of bird. 



At present trout fishing seems to be the lead- 

 ing sport at Baker City. Fish are reported more 

 numerous than usual this season. 



In proportion to population Baker City, Ore., 

 has more bicycles than any other town in the 

 Northwest, and a small miss with a red head leads 

 the procession. She can set the pace for any 

 of the men. The white horse isn't in it. 



The La Grande, Oregon, Gun Club, held a 

 successful shooting tournament last week. 



Several parties at Baker City are organizing a 

 hunting and fishing tour to the Malheur lake 

 country, 150 miles southwest. Large and small 

 game and fish are plentiful there. 



A gentleman from Astoria reports seeing a 

 band of 21 elk in Clatsop county, south of Astoria, 

 three weeks ago. 



Some of the army officers stationed at Fort 

 Keough, Mont., say the magazine action of the 

 new army rifle is faulty, and that it will never 

 prove a practical arm in regular service. They 

 praise the new 30-calibre cartridge highly, and 

 say a gun built on the same plan as the regular 

 Springfield rifle, to shoot the new smokeless 

 cartridge, would be in every way a better and 

 more serviceable arm. 



Mrs. Madge Olmstead, Miss Mabel Houston 

 and Mr. Claud Houston, of Baker City, Ore., 

 and Percy Olmstead, ensign U. S. N., are en- 

 joying an outing in the canyon country of East- 

 ern Oregon. They report trout and game 

 abundant and their nomadic life delightful. 



W. A. Houston is spending the summer 

 in the gold mines of the Salmon river country, 

 Idaho, where he finds plenty of big game as well 

 as nuggets. 



Carl Parker can justly claim the medal as the 

 best rifle wing shot in Eastern Oregon. On 

 July 4th he killed 44 sage hens, out of 50 shots, 

 all on the wing, using 38-55 Winchester. 



Cinnamon and silver tip bears are reported 

 numerous on the Little Missouri river, 30 miles 

 South of the N. P. Railway. Cattle men on the 

 round-up report seeing them every day. 



M. W. Miner. 



The new game law for New York provides an 

 open season on deer from August 16th to Octo- 

 ber 31st, except in the counties of Greene, Ulster 

 and Sullivan, where deer are protected until 

 1900. Hounding is permitted between Septem- 

 ber 10th and October 10th, except in the coun- 

 ties of Delaware, Greene, Ulster and Sullivan. 

 Only one carcass may be taken from the county 

 where killed and that only when accompankd 

 by the owner. On black and grey squirrels, 

 hares and rabbits the open season is September 

 [St to November 30th, except in the counties of 

 St. Lawrence, Franklin, Essex, Clinton, Lewis, 

 Warren, Hamilton, Herkimer, Saratoga, Wash- 

 ington, Onondaga, Oswego, Duchess. Steuben, 

 Orange, Richmond and Delaware, where the open 

 season is from October 1st to April 30th. 



On wild ducks the open season is September 1st 

 to March 31. Night shooting and the use of 

 swivel or punt guns prohibited at all times. 



The open season for quails is November and 

 December, except in the counties of Monroe, 

 Livingston, Orleans, Wyoming, Genesee, Seneca, 

 Cayuga, Onondaga, Tioga, Tompkins, Wayne, 

 Ontario, Steuben, Courtland and Otsego, where 

 they shall not be killed until November 1898. 



Woodcock and grouse may be killed between 

 August 1 6th and December 31st. 



On Wilson's or English snipe, plover, tail, 

 mud-hen, gallinule, grebe, bittern, surf-bird, 

 curlew, water chicken, bay snipe or shore bird, 

 the season is from September 1st to April 30th. 



Mongolian or ring-necked pheasants are pro- 

 tected until 1897. 



The open season for trout is April 1 6th to 

 August 31st. The taking of trout, salmon trout 

 or land-locked salmon less than six inches long 

 is forbidden at all times. Salmon trout, lake 

 trout and land-locked salmon may be taken from 

 May 1st to September 30th. 



Black bass may be taken during June, July. 

 August, September, October. November and 

 December, except in Lake George, where the 

 open season is August, September, October, 

 November and December. Pickerel, pike or 

 wall-eyed pike, may be caught June 1st to Febru- 

 ary 28. Salmon August 15th to February 28th. 

 None less than 18 inches long to be taken, 



