THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 
Volume Five July, 1917 Number Three 

Published by authority of the Oregon Fish and Game Commission from its offices, Oregon 
Building, Fifth and Oak Streets, Portland, Oregon. 
Entered as Second-Class Matter in the Postoffice at Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon. 
Official Publication of the Oregon State Sportsmen’s League. 
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All material for publication should be sent to the Oregon Sportsman, Oregon Building, Fifth 
and Oak Streets, Portland, Oregon. 
femee to Readers of the Sportsman So, ee ea aeins 
spondence relating to hunting 
and fishing, protection and propagation of game birds, animals and fish, are solicited. 
We are always glad to receive photos that will appeal to sportsmen. The fact that an 
article or photo does not appear in the next issue must not be construed to mean that 
it has been thrown aside. It may appear later. 
We especially desire secreturies of sportsmen’s organizations througbout the state to 
keep us posted on what their clubs are doing and what is going on in their respective 
localities. 
Subscribers changing their address sbould notify us promptly. giving the old address 
as well as the new. 
EDITORIAL COMMENT. 


OWEN N. DENNY 
The Honorable Owen N. Denny has long since 
passed away, but his memory is cherished by the 
sportsmen of Oregon and the Nation and will live 
as long as gratitude is a human virtue. When 
Minister to China, Judge Denny fell in love with 
the magnificent Chinese pheasant, the game bird 
of rare worth, and it was his ambition to bring 
some of these birds to his home State of Oregon 
and see if they could not be propagated here and 
made to increase. After trials which he himself only 
knew, a number of these pheasants were brought 
here and liberated near Albany. Sportsmen were 
