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suddenly gave way, leaving Cornell with a week's supply of 

 angling conversation. 



Bass fishing has also opened early and some good strings 

 have already been taken. The grand-dad of all the bass in Oswego 

 lake was caught last week. That is, Carl Liebe got one there 

 which weighed 7% pounds and, so far as we know, it is the 

 largest one ever taken in the lake. 



LIVE FISH EXHIBIT TAKEN TO SAN FRANCISCO. 



During the month of February the Oregon fish distribution 

 car Rainbow was used by the United States Bureau of Fisheries 

 and the state of Washington in transferring a live fish exhibit 

 from Seattle to the Panama-Pacific Exposition at San Francisco. 

 The trip was made under the direction of Mr. T. J. Craig who has 

 been in charge of the car ever since she was built. 



The Rainbow left Portland for Seattle on February 8, where 

 some good specimens of Dolly Varden, rainbow and steelhead 

 trout were secured. Crappies, bass and sturgeon were loaded 

 from the Columbia river. More steelheads were taken at Grants 

 Pass, while at Sisson and Dunsmuir some fine golden trout and 

 others were added to the exhibit, 



At the Federal building in San Francisco a splendid exhi- 

 bition of live food and game fishes of the Pacific coast has been 

 installed. It was found that the water used at the Exposition 

 was not satisfactory for the live exhibit, so special apparatus for 

 aerating and purifying the water had to be put in to make the 

 exhibit a success. It is attracting the attention of many people 

 at the Exposition. 



FEDERAL LAW STILL EFFECTIVE. 



Many of the press comments on the decision of the United 

 States District Court, rendered March 20, at Topeka, Kansas, 

 holding that the Federal Migratory Bird Law is unconstitutional, 

 are erroneous and are apt to mislead the public concerning the 

 real situation in this matter. 



The Kansas decision, like a former decision to the same effect 

 in the Eastern District of Arkansas, is limited in its operation 

 solely to the district in which it was rendered. Neither decision 



