legislators than their rural breth-
ern.
These Portland sportsmen are
now agitating several radical
changes in the laws; one toshort-
i
en
on Chinese pheas
Entered at the postoffice in Estacada, ants the and season
one to lowrer the daily
Oregon, as second-class mail.
! catch of trout to 35. instead of 75
S ubscription R ates
and to increase the minimum
One year
-
$1.00 length of a fish, which may legal
Six months
-
-
- .50 ly be taken, from six to seven
Thursday, October 5, 1916 , inches.
These same sportsmen l a s t
t
spring
advocated the closing of
In explanation of a complaint Eagle Creek
its tributaries
that has been made, that the | to fishing for a and
or two and
!•: greatest bulwark ncainst the indigence of
News has a tendency to give up have fostered year
many
other
game
old age or the financial drain caused by a
too much space to advocating a law changes.'
SB protracted illness is a bank account. If you
limited few measures, with con With all due respect to our
Mg arc a business man making big profits; if
stant repetitions, instead of cov neighboring lovers of the rod and
you are an employee with a tine salary, plan
ering a wider range of subjects, gun, they must consider the po
to lay aside a certain sum weekly. Then
both sides of the question should sition of the rural sportsmen,
if the rainy duv conies along it will find
be considered.
who, owingtolong hours of work
you
prepared.
The News is primarily devoted and
lack of means, is only able to
In times of stress you’ll find that your bank account
to the interests and development fish and
hunt
in
his
home
territo
is
votir friend. You can look the world in the eye.
of Eastern Clackamas County. ry; not being financially able to
The man with a bank account looks better, feels better,
Only a limited amount of news Hit from one choice hunting or
is better than the man without a bank account. We
originates in this peaceful, law- fishing ground to another, when
transact all kinds of banking business.
abiding community and then sel the law prevents his enjoying
dom of a sensationai n a tu re .
SEE US ABOUT AN ACCOUNT TODAY.
sport.
This being a home-loving, rural home
Allowances
must
further
be
district, w here taxes, roads and made for the fact that the rural
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agricultural subjects are the main sportsman
often owns the land on
items of interest, naturally the which the game
or through
iwnna»
ear.-i.tr
home-newspaper deal s largely which the streams lives
flow.
with those subjects and possibly In the case of many of the Port
Ask us for one of our Home Savings Barks
proves uninteresting by t he i r land sportsmen, a change in the
repetition.
game
laws
effects
their
pleasure
Our people are not asking for but little, for if the pheasants are
much, but the few reforms which protected,
of them can en
they seek are essential to future joy as much most
or
more
sport hunt
happiness and prosperity, conse ing duck, geese or shore
birds,
quently if a reform or measure shooting
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a
r
g
e
l
y
on
privately
Leroy D. Walker, President - Thomas Yocum, Vice President
is worth advocating, it is worth owned preserves.
repetition. One stroke of an axe As a suggestion, let the Port- j
Irwin D. Wright, Cashier
never hewed away a bothersome land sportsman thi3 season con- ,
stump, but steady hacking away fine his efforts to hunting ducks,
usually clears the path.
and shore birds, allowing
As to the larger, state, nation geese
the
rural
to hunt the
al an d world-wide questions, pheasants. resident
Such a plan would
these subjects are ably present guarantee fewer
an d
ed in the daily press and the cur fewer birds killed, hunters
especially
Is Headquarters For
rent magazines; but as these ¡ the city sportsmen is usually as a ;
larger questions are really of no better m a r k s m a n , owing to|,
more vital importance to us, than
of trap shooting, coupled :
some of our county and commun months
with
the
services of fine bird dogs.
ity ones, the home paper has to But what
those of us who!
light the little homely community reside in the can
hill
mountain |
battles, and try to reflect the parts of Clackamas and
Of All Kinds
County do. if
sentiment of its readers.
the pheasant season is cut short?!
no alternative but to j
There should a law, making a put We our have
guns
back in the cases;
ballot invalid, which i s cast, let the dust settle
Standard and Fancy Groceries
our ammu-;
where so called "single-shotting” nition and return to on further
read
]
is done in the voting for only one ing of the sporting magazines,
Vegetables and Fruits In Season
candidate, where more than one containing
alluring accounts of
office is to be filled.
fishing in distant
This practise was current in! hunting and
finding our ultimate re
several localities in this county pastures,
ward and a realization of our
For Canning Your Fruit
during the primary election and dreams
only in the Happy Hunt
it each district is going to “sin ing Grounds
Use
our
Wide Mouth Se'f Sealing Jars
hereafter.
gle-shot” its respective candidate
for the coming legislature, why The A. D. Schmidt family of
not make three representative
moved to their new
districts in the county and be Springwater
home in Sheridan last Sunday,
done with "Vote for Throe"? joining
Mr. Schmidt who had
proceeded
Estacada, Oregon
There is no doubt but that moqlhft. them by s e v e r a l
many changes are needed in the
state fish and game laws, espec
ially relative to the protection of'
Advise Me W hat You Have For Sale
Chinese pheasants, which birds
during last winter’s s e v e r e
weather, suffered heavily.
During the coming legislative
session many changes will be
made in the game laws, but be
fore it is don», the legislators
should stop and consider t he view
point of the farmer and the rural
hunter, before adopting the sug
and let me know as far in advance as possible.
gestions of the Portland and oth
NOTE:—A ‘Top Hog” , which is the one that brings the best profits to the grower,
er cite sportsmen.
she ,Id be fat, in good condition and weigh from 165 to 225 pounds.
The sportsmen of Portland, by
being organized along both fish
ing and shooting lines, are able
e s t a c a d a
to present more pressure on the j
The Man Who Has Helped To Build Up The Local Livestock Industry.
Eastern Clackamas News
Published every Thursday at
Estacada, Oregon
R. M. Stamiish, Editor and Manager
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