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low the falls, landed three salmon 

 weighing respectively twenty-four, 

 twenty-six and thirty-one pounds, in 

 less than an hour, while at the 

 same time three heavy lines and one 

 heavy rod were broken in the same 

 water on fish not a bit heavier. ' ' 



UMATILLA COUNTY. 



M. F. Teehan is serving a fifty- 

 five day sentance in the Umatilla 

 County jail for attempting to trap 

 Chinese pheasants at their nests on 

 a wild bird and game refuge. 

 The offense was committed on the 

 grounds of the Eastern Oregon Hos- 

 pital for the Insane, near Pendle- 

 ton. Teehan was arraigned before 

 Justice of the Peace Joe H. Parkes 

 and entered a plea of guilty. He 

 was given the minimum penalty of 

 $50.00 and thirty days, but having 

 no money, fifteen days were added 

 to his jail sentence. He was using 

 a steel trap and was trying to catch 

 the birds to eat them. 

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The past season has been a pros- 

 perous one for Umatilla County 

 trappers and hunters of predatory 

 animals. According to County Clerk 

 Saling more coyote bounties have 

 been claimed during the year than 

 during any other similar period 

 since the bounty law went into 

 effect. 



There have been an unusually 

 large number of bob -cats killed the 

 past winter. Especially is this true 

 of the southern end of the county. 

 Among those bringing in cat hides 

 recently are Bus J. Barney, Jesse 

 Hilbert and W. W. Allison, all of 

 Ukiah. The latter brought in seven 



cat hides and one Canadian lynx, 

 This is the second Canadian lynx 

 killed in this section this winter, 

 the other having been trapped on 

 the north fork of the John Day 

 Biver by William Bider. 



According to Mr. Allison and 

 other people who have been in the 

 mountains, the number of deer in 

 the hills of Umatilla and Grant 

 Counties is greater today than for 

 many years. They say they are in- 

 creasing very rapidly. 



WASHINGTON COUNTY. 



Mr. A. M. Scott, of Gaston, re- 

 cently caught a bass in Scoggin 

 Creek, about one mile above the 

 place where it empties into the Tuala- 

 tin Biver, which was 14^ inches long 

 and weighed three pounds. This is 

 very likely one of the fish that was 

 planted by Mr. J. H. Wescott, of 

 Gaston, during the summer of 1912. 



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Anglers in Washington County, es- 

 pecially in the vicinity of Gaston, 

 are having splendid success. Dr. J. 

 A. Baker, of Gaston, caught sixty 

 trout on April 1st. A. J. Hamerick 

 and son of the same place also 

 brought in a basket of sixty trout. 

 Fish are abundant in the Tualatin. 

 Salmon eggs are generally used as 

 bait. Splendid catches have also 

 been made in Scoggin Creek. Chas. 

 Wescott caught thirty trout one day. 

 Quite a number of Eastern brook 

 trout have been caught in the Tual- 

 atin Biver near Gaston, showing 

 that some of the fish planted during 

 the past year or so are thriving. 



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