THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 289 
A. M. Beaty, a resident of Riddle, Oregon, procured his annual 
hunting license this season, and, of course, ‘‘got his buck,’’ as usual. 
There is nothing interesting about this transaction except the fact that 
Mr. Beaty is over 80 years of age. Mr. Beaty served his country in 
the Civil War as a member of the First Oregon Cavalry, Company C, 
under Captain Kelly, and is now enjoying a happy old age. 
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A leading magazine pertinently remarks that it is cheaper to observe 
the game laws of a state than to attempt to evade the game warden, 
cr to talk them out of arresting you when they have found that you 
have disregarded the law. The game warden is as much an officer of 
the law as is a sheriff, and if he is worthy of his office he will arrest 
a game violator as quickly as a sheriff would arrest a burglar. 
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Sportsmen in Portland, Oregon, who have been out after Chinese 
pheasants in that vicinity this season, say that the birds are very plen- 
tiful and most of them have found no trouble in getting the bag limit. 
A party of four hunters who hunted on Mr. Frizzel’s ranch, 20 miles 
west of Salem, bagged 18 birds, while another man, who motored toe 
Independence, got the bag limit without any strenuous work.—The Amer: 
ican Field. 
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Recently the Oregon Fish and Game Commission shipped about 
35,000 salmon eggs from the Central Hatchery at Bonneville to Corvallis, 
to be placed in the hatcheries at the State Agricultural College. The 
eggs will be used to help develop the fishing industries of the state. The 
eggs and young fish will be used as object lessons to the public as well 
as means of practical experience for the students who will care for 
them under the direction of Professor George F. Sykes. 
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The municipal authorities of McMinnville, Oregon, found it necessary 
to thin out the number of wild animals in the public park of that city. 
A short time ago application was made to the Fish and Game Commis: 
sion for permission to ship two deer to the Texas State Agricultural 
College, but when an attempt was made to catch them one hanged him- 
self and the other broke a shoulder and had to be killed. The city 
bas sold two black bear for shipment to Australia. 
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Plans are being made by the Oregon Fish and Game Commission 
for a new fish hatchery on the Willamette River near Oak Ridge in Lane 
County. The hatchery at Poujade on the McKenzie River, also in Lane 
County, and one of the best in the state, is being enlarged and im- 
proved. The commission has also established an egg-taking station on 
Tsilicoos Lake, in the western part of Lane County, where native trout 
and steelheads abound, and the eggs will be used for the purpose of re- 
stocking streams and lakes. 
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A recent issue of The Messenger, published at New York City by 
the Wells-Fargo Express Company, contains an article descriptive of the 
shipment of a herd of elk from the Billy Meadows state reservation in 
Wallowa County to Chiloquin in Klamath County, where the elk were 
liberated for the purpose of restocking that section of Oregon. The 
article is nicely illustrated. The elk, which are the subject of the 
