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game department. The complaint was filed over a year ago. Davis, 
with the assistance of a friend, successfully resisted arrest when caught 
in the act of violating the game laws, and fled the country. Doubtless 
under the impression that the offense had been forgotten, Davis re- 
turned and was immediately placed under arrest and sentenced. 
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Albert Altno, of Drewsey, Harney County, built his home some 
fourteen years ago. The first spring a flycatcher (says Phoebe) built 
its nest on the beam over the front door. The same nest has been 
used every year since that time, the birds adding a little to the struc- 
ture each season. Mr. Altno thinks it is the same pair of phoebes that 
have been there, at least for several years, as the birds are not at 
all scary when any members of the family approach, but as soon as 
a stranger comes near they fly away. 
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H. M. Winkley, secretary of the Corvallis Rod and Gun Club, 
sent the State Fish and Game Commission recently a photo of ninety- 
five trout, from seven to eleven inches in length, which were caught by 
Mr. Winkley and a friend in a Benton County stream that has been 
stocked with fry furnished by the commission. ‘‘This stream,’’ says 
Mr. Winkley, ‘‘a few years ago was completely fished out, and it 
would take a fisherman a whole day to catch enough for a meal. 
Now most any stream that has been stocked is good fishing, and all 
fishermen are reporting better catches than ever,.’’ 
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Forrest L. Moe, an orchardist of the Odell district in the Hood 
River country, tells of a well defined system of signals used by China 
pheasants, cocks and old hens on his ranch to warn of the approach 
of hawks that frequent the neighborhood. ‘‘Invariably,’’ says Mr. Moe, 
‘‘the pheasants sight the marauder first. The pheasant cock will emit 
his raucous squawk. The barnyard rooster immediately sounds his 
warning and the old hens transmit the message, telling of danger to 
the little chicks. As a result of this wariness, hawks have not been 
able to catch any of the chickens on our place this season.’’ 
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The Hood River Glacier tells the following snake story: ‘‘Charles 
Barnes, a rancher, whose place is east of Neal Creek at the base of 
Bear Mountain, now holds the record for Hood River County as the 
slayer of rattle snakes. One day last week, while in search of a horse 
that had strayed away on the side of Bear Mountain, Mr. Barnes 
peeped into a depression, formerly the resting place of a huge boulder, 
and declares he was astounded to see a wriggling mass of serpents. 
The snakes were fished out with a long stick. When all had been dis- 
patehed, Mr. Barnes took count. He had killed thirty-one snakes and 
he returned home with 122 trophy rattlers.’’ 
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What damage to game one panther can do was illustrated recently 
on Pistol River, says the Gold Beach Reporter. Charles Ericson and 
companions, living there, one night heard a deer blat close to the 
house, but investigation did not disclose anything. A second night 
the same occurrence. A third evening the same happened. Having 
a dog with them the latter time, the men started another investigation 
and found a panther crouched on a log, baiting a badly injured deer 
