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in the water. The panther was killed, and a thorough search disclosed 
three partly devoured carcasses of deer. Three deer in three days 
shows the destructive ability of one panther. 
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Henry Stout, deputy game warden for Klamath County, has just 
returned from a trip to Diamond Lake. He reports that rainbow trout 
are thick in this magnificent lake. Several years ago the State Fish 
and Game Commission stocked this lake with fry from the Spencer 
Creek hatchery. No evidence of the fry were seen for several years 
and it was thought that the young fish had gone down through the 
outlet of the lake and perished as they fell over the falls several miles 
below. It is now believed that they have remained in the deep waters 
of the lake and consequently were never seen by campers and tourists, 
as there is no boat on the lake and one must fish from the shores. 
The discovery by Mr. Stout should be of great interest to sportsmen, 
as Diamond Lake is one of the finest summer resorts in the state. 
The fact that rainbows are there now in great numbers will make it 
even a more desirable place to spend a week or two in the vacation 
season. Mr. Stout and his party caught many rainbows over thirty 
inches in length. 
DESERT BEAR KILLED IN PAULINA 
MOUNTAINS 
(From the Bend Bulletin) 
HAT is said to be a desert bear, weighing twenty-five pounds 
W but full grown, and in appearance the same as a regular brown 
bear, except for a smaller neck and a larger stomach, was killed 
Monday on the road between Klamath Falls and the O. T. McKendree 
ranch in the Paulina Mountains. The dwarf bear was scared up a 
juniper tree and shot by Dan Driscoll, an employee of Mr. McKendree, 
The bear, which is only twenty inches long, was believed to be 
a cub, until after it had been shot and found to have hard paws and 
teeth, proving it to be several years old. Mr. Driscoll shot the bear 
with a pistol and, not knowing just what kind of an animal he had 
bagged, carried it home in a pocket on his pack horse. 
The only bear of this kind known to have been killed in Centrai 
Oregon was shot about five years ago in about the same neighborhood 
as the one found Monday. Mr. McKendree, although having heard of 
the dwarf bears, had never seen one before. He is in Bend and will 
send the skin to a taxidermist. 
FOOD FOR WILD DUCKS 
O assist clubs and individuals in propagating wild ducks, the 
United States Department of Agriculture has just revised two 
of its publications on the food plants of these birds and _ pub- 
lished the revision as Bulletin 465. It recommends for propagation 
eel grass for salt water; widgeon grass, sago, pondweed and wild celery 
for brackish water; wild rice, wild celery, the pondweeds and water- 
eress for fresh water with a slight current, and the pondweeds, banana 
water lily, muck grasses, waterweed and coontail for fresh water 
where that is usually quiet. Along the margin of fresh water where 
there is no marsh, wild millet is desirable. In addition, a number of 
other recommendations are made for various conditions. 
