THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 139 
Peter Tonoli, while working in the woods near Divide, Lane County, 
was knocked down by a deer. Tonoli was not attacked, but was struck 
by tne animal in its flight from a passing railroad train. The deer was 
a large buck and disappeared over a hill almost before Tonoli, who was 
operating a woodsaw, realized what had happened, 
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It has been learned that the reason prairie chickens and quails are 
not more numerous in Kansas now is because that state for years has 
been overrun with crows, hawks and coyotes. The same is true of 
Oregon so far as game birds are concerned. And we might add that 
cats are another destructive force to be reckoned with in Oregon. 
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Arkansas is the only state in the Union at the present time that 
does not now require a non-resident to have a license to hunt. The 
states of Maine, Virginia, North Carolina and Mississippi do not require 
a resident to purchase a hunter’s license. Every province in Canada 
requires both the resident and non-resident to have a hunter’s license. 
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Out of the East comes the following fish yarn. With a broom 
handle for her only tackle, Mrs. Samuel King, of Grangeville, West Vir- 
ginia, captured a carp weighing 35 pounds. She was crossing a creek 
on a boat, saw the fish in shallow water, and by a lucky stroke jabbed 
the broom handle through its gills and out of its mouth and landed it 
in the boat. ; | 
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An Eastern sporting magazine is authority for the statement that 
in 1875 sportsmen of Vermont purchased thirteen deer and turned them 
loose in the forests of that state. The deer shooting season was then 
closed for twenty-two years, and when opened it was found that deer 
were more plentiful than voters. During the first year the season was 
opened 7186 deer were killed. Diy 
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A report from Grants Pass is to the effect that D. A. G. Collie- 
MaeNeill, British Consul to Colima, Mexico, has purchased 20 acres: of 
land on the Rogue River, near Grants Pass, and will construct an elab- 
orate fishing and hunting lodge on the tract. Mr. Collie-MacNeill 
visited the Rogue River last season and was so impressed with. fly- 
fishing on the Rogue that he concluded to spend a portion of each 
summer in Oregon. 
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_For the first time in the history of the game department and the 
annals of the Federal District Court, a man has been arrested for kill- 
ing beaver and exporting the hides. Ainsworth Wallace, who resides 
on the Nehalem River in Columbia County, was charged by the Federal 
authorities with killing beaver and exporting their hides, When arrested 
he confessed that he killed three beaver on the Nehalem River and had 
shipped their hides to a furrier in Chicago by parcel post. . Wallace 
paid a fine of $50. : ; : 
Over 200 Lane County citizens have subscribed to a fund to be used 
in the apprehension of persons who dynamite fish in the streams of that 
county. Not only have these citizens subscribed money for this pur- 
pose, but each will constitute himself a game warden for the purpose of 
furnishing the proper authorities with information that will lead to the 
arrest and conviction of any offenders. When the people of Oregon 
