THE COQUILLE FALLET SENTINEL COQUILLE. OREGON, PRÎbAY, FÉÈRUARY 5, 1931.
PAG1 BIGHT
ms not very long ago. Maybe Week
leys killed the big boy at last.
"While out on ths head waters of
Elk creek about six years ago, Hap
Carter, from Douglas county, and I
looked down a hill and there on a
big log, ten feet above the ground,
lay a large brown bear, fast asleep in
tile sunshine. I counted throe and we
both shot. Mister Boar foil off the
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log. The dogs and I went down after
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him. Mister Bear had started off- I
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ran op as be was going over • log tea
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feet from me. 1 shot him, not in the
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head, but in the ead that wont ovor
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the log last. At the crack of the 45
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Remington, Mister 'Bear fell and
Savings
Department
failed to rise. Carter was still up
where we first shot from. 1 told him
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to come down and shoot the boar in
the head and ho did ao.
When we
peeled hie hide off we found a 44 ball,
which some one had shot him with,
some time in the past, as it was en
tirely healed up.
“Wo, aa neighbors, had three dogs,
two fox hounds and one grey hound.
They wore the three best bear dogs
that I ever knew of. They treed
quite a number of black fear. One across the front of the head. His bill
Whereas Marshfield was expected
day a bear went up a‘big stub, with is greenish-white and very large, re to be in the swim from the start,
loose bark, that was still on it after minding one of a parrot’s bill. The North Bend’s plsy is somewhat of a
fire had burnt it The bear was up female bird ia of a darker hue all surprise, as they were so low in the
about 73 feet and I was getting ready over and has no spot of gold across standing last season. In 1931 North
to shoot when a slab of bark came the forehead and shows leas white Bend did not find themselves until
loose and Mister Bear came back to upon their wings. These birds are late in the season when excitement
earth. The boar waa then afraid to not harmful, in fact they change their over the tournament was attracting
tree any more, so the dogs went out seed diet to a feed of insects, when all the attention so their rise passed
of hearing.”
the opportunity presents itself.
by almost unnoticed. Finally in the
Many, many thanks,
Mr. Swan.
How many of you have thought to tourney, North Bend reached a peak
Mighty glad to get these interesting feed the birds during the snow? to almost eliminate Marshfield from
yams and I am sure that our readers These little waifs sure appreciate a the big event in the preliminaries,
will derive as much enjoyment out few crumbs on a spot of ground free just being nosed out, 26 to 27.
of reading them as I have.
from snow. At least a hundred were,
Say, what kind of a league have
OUT-OF-DOORS STUFF
Mr. Swan is 81 years of age, our and are still, constant visitors in our they got in thia Coos County “B” cir
By Lans Lenove
oldest contributor, to.date, And juat backyard. English sparrows, chicka cuit. The Coos River team slinks up
Well, folks, we have with us this think of it, only six yean
•go he dees, robin red-breasts, myrtle robin«, from her ambush to defeat Arago
week a REAL old timer, Mr. G. G. was out bear hunting on- the head
all enjoy their foods together. The hoopsters, 17 to 16.
This doesn’t
Swan, of Myrtle Point. ., This old waters of Elk creek and moreover he
only one holding aloof is a speckled sound unusual, neither does it com
sportsman has written in the follow got his bear, even though he was
breasted brush thrush. Though very plicate matters more when you find
ing interesting experiences: “G. G. forced to shoot it in the wrong end.
tame where man is concerned, he that Arago downed Riverton, 22 to 17.
Swan came from Ohio and settled on And it’s hard to tell just how long
spurns the company of other birds Now comes the joker when on looking
the east fork of the Coquille river, that old 44 bullet had been in old
and must have his rations entirely to through the results it is discovered
May 9th, 1871. At that time game bruin’s carcass, for a 44 caliber gun
McLain Coal
himself. I have no doubt that it that in the opening game of the
and fish were plentiful, such as elk, is almost obsolete in the woods at the
would prove somewhat of a revelation schedule Riverton swept over Coos
deer, boar, panther and bobcats; and present time and has been for many
to some naturalists who are forever River to an overwhelming, 40 to 18,
as to Ash, in the fall and winter, for years past. The longevity of a bear
berating that cocky, bullying, fighting victory.
several years, plenty of salmon came is between 40 and 50 years, so it is
little English sparrow, to see a
Who’s
up the river. No trouble to get sal emy to understand that the animal
m
whole flock of them feeding shoulder
mon, also trout, just all the Ash one might have carried that old bullet for
to shoulder, (perhaps I should say quintets will make it hot for an “A”
needed. As to a Ash story: when I a great length of time.
wing to wing), with the robin red league aggregation, and in the tour
was a boy, living four miles from
I trust that a lot more of you old breasts, myrtle robins and chicka nament those competing will obtain
Lake Erie, our neighbor, Mr. Osborn, l9 timers will write in your experiences
dees. And I have the first time yet the opportunity of tangling with the
had a lake seine, Father and I went to me, as Mr. Swan has. I wiM be
to see one assume a belligerent air larger schools.
An Arago quintet
with Osborn one day and seined out only too glad to publish them, one and
toward another bird during feeding won the first tournament in 1925 by
one hundred and seven s’urgeon, be-
.
time. Perhaps the birds, too, are trimming Coquille, while in 1929 Coos
125 for their forgetfullness. They sides other Ash. A pretty good fish all.
The mention of elk in the above ar feeling the depression
end have River reached the finals but loot to
promised not to let it happen again.
catch for oeo day.
ticle brings to mind, forcibly, the fact signed an armistice.
At any rate Myrtle Point. It will be interesting
“Ai to elk, as near as I recall, I that pressure is being brought to boar
they appear mighty friendly. And I to witch.
New Faces at County Jail
killed 39 elk. The neighbors would go upon the state game commission ask
can not help making note of this
Harry Helmkin, Coquille center, Is
out
in
the
hills
with
a
big
seamlebs
Frank Gay was brought up from
ing that an open season be declared fact, in the face of the statement of league leading point scorer as the
On the upon these animals. It would be a
Bandon last Friday and lodged in the sack and pack elk meat.
naturaliata who claim that a robin season turns into the final stretch.
county jail. He was bound over to head waters of Elk creek there used crying shame if such a season was will not feed near a sparrow and if Mullen, of North Bend, an opposing
the grand jury in justice court for to be plenty of elk and deer and bear. opened. After being ruthlessly pur he attempts to, the sparrow will drive pivot man, is not far behind the local
drawing a cheeks without funds to There was no law to prohibit the kill sued for years and years, during him away. In spite of their bad repu casaba tosser with 39 points as com
cover. His bail was fixed at >150. ing of elk and deer. I counted 88 elk which time thousands upon thousands tation I have always been a great ad pared to Helmkin’s 45. Shelton ranks
Callisen Voylsa, who pleaded guilty in one band and Mr. Krantz had killed of them were slaughtered, for their mirer of the English sparrow. He’a third with 36, while McLean, Hughes,
in justice court at Powers to posses one out of the band, making 39 in the hides alone, and when the animals such a friendly little fellow toward Ostrander and others are also quite
sion of a still and mash, Monday was herd. There is one thing I will say, were actually facing certain ex man and he is forever assuming such near. The first twelve leaders are:
given 30 days in jail and Aned 8200. a band of elk moving away from the termination, a law was finally passed a cocky attitude which, in proportion Helmkin - - C. H. S.
- 45
He was brought to the county jail the hunter will not break and run by the to prevent further slaughter.
The to his size, makes him really loveable. Mullen - - N. B. H. 8.
- 39
leader.
If
the
lead
elk
stops
they
all
same day.
first law waa passed some 35 years
Last week I trapped two bobcats. Shelton - -M.P. H. S.
36
stop. They most always go in single ago. Several years later the law was
One of them was the largest I have McLean -
M. H. S.
- 33
Ale.
The
big
horns
we
took
to
Marsh
Old BasinoM Records
opened for a very abort period and ever taken, weighing 25 pounds.
Hughes -
N. B. H. S.
- 26
Excavations In Egypt revealed • field and got 85.00 a pair. If we had then closed. So now for years and
Poison grain, cooked and served to Ostrander
C. H. S.
- 25
large granary containing grain blns some of the big seven pointers now, years the noble animal has been fight patrons of a dance in California last Shaver
- C. H. 8.
- 17
and documents of papyrus, some ap they would bring 850.00 or more.
ing its natural enemies, the cougar week, resulted in the delath of nine Morgan -
C. H. 8.
- 16
parently connected with the property
“Now for the bear story: I have and the elements. And the increase
-
persona. The grain was meant to bo Ward
N. B. H. 8
- 15
and Its business deals.
killed quite a few black bear, but only
in its ranks ia really pitiful, compared used to poison digger squirrels. This, Milosevich
M. H. S.
- 14
one big brown one.
A brown bear
to the mighty herds which once roam I believe, very forcibly bean out my Enlund -
M. H. S.
- 14
Calling carda 100 for 11-50.
killed nine sheep and three goats for
ed our woodland trails. Now that contention for the past ten years, Carver -
M. P. H. S.
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the poor beast, which has striven so that poison bait and grain does not
hard, is really beginning to come always kill wWat it is meant to kill.
It seems as if something could be
again into its own in some parts o’ The fact remains that if poison had done to make the Community Hall a
the state, a cry is raised from the never been resorted to in the first better place for local functions. Last
lips of blood-thirsty men who seem place, to exterminate animals, that Friday night while they were wit
scarce able to restrain their longing nine persons would not have lost their nessing the Coquille-Marshfield game,
to wipe out the last one of these ma lives as an indirect result of it.
a local business man and his wife re
jestic animals. If an open season k
ceived minor injuries when they
declared such will be the ease. Prac
dropped through their seats on one of
Sport Briefs
tically the location of every elk herd
the middle rows of benches. Upon in
By Mark Seeley
in the state is known. Dawn of an
vestigation they found
that
the
Well! Well! Who says that Coquille
open season would witness the whole
planks were not bolted to the up
sale slaughter of the remaining bull doesn’t participate in winter «ports? rights. Something should be done
elk in Oregon. Why can’t aome peo At least the person who offered such a about the matter to insure future
ple be sane? Why can’t they satisfy statement would quickly repudiate safety.
Iheir lust to kill by hunting our game his words after witnessing the fun
birds and deer and not pick upon the enjoyed by local folks last Sunday.
For the tvird time in nuccession
mighty elk and within a few short Snow balling was, of course, the main Riverton Junior High won the Coos
feature, but one large group of highlQ,™
‘
days, yes hours, tear down the propa
Junior High
school
students
and
some
of
the
'
gation of thirty-five years? It is to
championship by defeating Harding
be hoped that there are enough sane- younger men and women of the city school of Marshfield, 14 to 12, at
thinking sportsmen in our state who carried things a little further when North Bend on a neutral floor, last
will fight to the last ditch such mur they gathered in a large group and Fridsy. The triple win gives River
derous legislation, aa the opening of went up to Norway where on a hill ton permanent possession of the
just this side of the store they en trophy presented by the First Nation
the season on elk.
joyed sledding and skiing. Also an al bank of Marshfield.
I made mention in thia column a
attack was made on the neighboring
short time past of a flock of Evening
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town of Myrtle Point. Many prom
Yee, dancing is a eport, and for
Grossbeaks that never missed a sea
ising Olympic Gomes candidates could those who enjoy this form of amuse
son
in
paying
my
dad
’
s
yard
a
visit.
4
—
be noticed in the crowd.
ment, Vic McAllister gives dances ev
For some thirty years they came each
ery Saturday night in the Oriental
year, stayed several days and then
—
The Marshfield win over Coquille Ballroom. The papular Black Cat or
departed. The adjoining lot was
graded down, a favorite tree of theirs last Friday places the Yellowjackets chestra furnishes the music. Vic at
was
chopped down and they camo no half a game ahead of North Bend one time cavorted around the baseball
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more." For six year« they never put in second plsce and two games from diamond for the Loggers, back in
in an apeparance. Yesterday morn Coquille in the third rung. The rea 1925. He was only a reserve but his ,
3 Platea —
ing as I opened the back door, there son ia half over and each team Has Nick Altrock acts helped the morale
came to my ears a familiar call— to facerihe other again. And in this of the dub.
— ONLY
“zeerer zeerer.” And there they quartet of games many things can
were. It waa like meeting old friends happen unless the breaks stay with
Sscial Handicap
once again. Perhaps they visit many the same quintets which gained them
Awkwardness Is a more real disad
of your backyards. They are very during the first half.
vantage than It la generally thought
A Checking
Account
Farmers & Merchants Bank
Transfer and Delivery
Local and Long Distance Hauling
Agents for
Mill Wood
Mansell Drayage & Delivery
Never Did Have a License
Fred Guerin, of 'Bandon, was
brought before Justice Stanley, Tues
day, by Traffic -Officer Currie, charged
with driving an automobile without a
driver's license. His license was sus
pended last summer when he was be
fore ths judge on another charge; at
least it was supposed to have been
suspended, but it now transpires that
he never had one. He pleaded guilty
and was sentenced to a year, but sen
tence was suspended during good be
havior.
Two Fishermen, No License
Sergeant Clint Hearing and L. D.
Curtis, of the state police, found Paul
Gardner, of Denmark, and H. A. Far
rier, of Langloia, fishing at the Floras
creek falls Wednesday, .without hav
ing previously secured the state's per
mission, in the form of a license. They
pleaded guilty before Justice Joo Cox
at Langlois, who assessed them each
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fond of maple tree seeds and are usu
ally found amongst the branches of
this free.
They have, that is the
male bird has, gold colored plumage.
Large patches of white adorn their
black wings and they have a short,
block to*. The top of their head is
Myrtle Point ia practically out of
the pennant scramble but, though
they are, they can turn bolshevik and
upset the league by knocking over a
leader now and then. With Mike Ray,
veteran center, now in the game, the
Pointers may do thia iittio trick mor«
almost black with « bright gold spot than ones.
to be; It often occasiona ridicule. It
always lessens dignity.- -Chesterfield.