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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 28, 1934)
OUT-OF-DOORS STUFF performance of a good dog afield and derives enjoyment from the sudden flush of a game bird, this hawk busi I expected to have a real hunting ness wouldn’t appeal. But it appears story for you in this issue from Er that the American citizen is forever nest Krewson, but the trail to the Old Campfire was evidently too rough looking for some European custom or for Ernie this week and he didn't style to copy—take for instance the Prince of Wales pants. make it. Will try to make connec- Was talking to Clift Martin, of lions with him soon, as he promised Riverton, not long ago and we were me a story and coming from an old discussing the old days of duck woodsman like him, it should be a hunting. Clift told me of how he dandy. had knocked over nine big mallards From Gold Beach comes the ques when a kid in a marsh above River tion: “la- it safe to purchase a rifle ton. How easy it was in those days that appears to have good rifling, but to bag a whole wagon load of ducks with the inside of the barrel a if one so desired. When one thinks brownish color that cannot be of the drastic laws that are laid down cleaned out?" now and of the number of hunters in The answer to this is difficult, in the field today compared with a mere asmuch as there are many rifle bar twenty-five years ago he can scarce rels that are brownish inside that ly comprehend the change that has shoot perfectly, while others may be taken place. It is so easy for me to leaded and the rifling worn and such close my eyes and view the great facta are concealed by the brownish willow covered marshes thaVextend- coloring. The only safe way of as ed for miles upon both sides of the certaining the accuracy of any rifle Coquille river valley and which was is to try it out on a target. But one the habitat of thousands and thou thing is a settled fact and that is sands of ducks. It is easy to again that it is safer to purchase a rifle that vision that flight of.ducks that oc is shiny inside—nice and bright, in curred each evening as regular as preference to one that has a dull col clock work. Hundreds of thousands or. The bright barrel ninety-nine of ducks fylng from the upper river times out of a hundred can be de marshes for Coos hay and the lower pended upon. The brownish barrel river marshes. The great marshes shows a lack of care, while the bright were uncharted in those days. Hunt barrel shows the sort of care that ers who were venturesome became should be given a gun at all times. lost In their mazes and almost every Rifles are far different from shot step a gunner took he flushed the guns. A shot gun may be neglected, mallard. As dusk fell over the the barrels become pitted until you marshes the air was filled with the and can scarcely see through them whistling of thousands of wings as yet they will deliver the goods, But the birds sought their roosting one a pitted barrel in a rifle means grounds. In all that great expanse thing—a loss of accuracy. it was seldom that as many as a A new sport is coming into vogue half dozen gunners held forth. How in the United States—falcon hunting. different today! A hunter is crouched For generations falcon hunting has behind every bush and stump. Many been indulged in in Europe, but only times the number of hunters far ex recently has it started in America. ceeds the number of ducks that are Instead of the falcon, as used in Eu in evidence. The willows are no rope Americans train Cooper and | more. Open Helds are in their stead. Sharp-shinned and Goshawks for ' Ducks are fewer by the tens of thou- the sport The hawk is trained to | sands. Choice hunting grounds are catch game birds. Instead of the leased by gun clubs. It makes a hunter taking his trusty shotgun sportsman of the old order long for afield he takes his “trusty” hawk. the dear old past— tor black powder The hawk’s eyes are hooded until a and brass shell days again—for wil grouse, pheasant or game bird is low-covered marshes, for uncharted spotted. Then the hood is removed spaces and the voice of hundreds of and the hawk is sent in pursuit. The thousands of ducks—for the sound of game bird is struck down by the whistling wings at dusk over willow- hawk, the hunter retrieves the bird, covered marshes of days gone by. hands the hawk a nice slice of lean The new firearm bill that has re meat and resumes the hunt. No pow cently been enacted is going to work der burnt, no stock shot, no man a hardship upon many respectable shot. Too bod that hawks cant be citizens, inasmuch if they retain their trained to hunt deer also. guns they are going to be compelled But to the man who loves to cuddle to appear in the role of a common By Lana Letawe a gun to his cheek, loves to watch the f criminal. The law provides that any one possessing a sawed-off shotgun or any gun shooting a shotgun load that has a barrel less than eighteen inches in length must signfy owner ship of such gun and secure a gov ernment permit to carry and own same and that said persons must be photographed and have their finger prints taken, to be filed away with the description of the gun, etc. This means that the owners of the popular “game getter” and the 44 and 410 hand shot guns come under tMs law and requirements.. The law also provides a high fee for hardware or sporting goods deal ers to sell any such gun. The hand writing may easily be read upon the wall at this time. It means that s high license for selling firearms is going to be forced upon the dealei for every make of gun and that the small dealer is going to be forced from the picture. Machine and sub machine guns also come under this new law. It if no doubt aimed at the gangster, bu' a mighty poor bead has been taken* I-must say. No gangster is going tr purchase any sawed off shotgun il he desires to use such a weapon. He will purchase a full length single barreled shotgun and with the aid of a hacksaw, will in ten minutes con vert the shotgun into a deadly short barreled pistol, shooting slugs or shot. Just another damphool law wished upon the people—that’s all. That more deer are slain by hunt ers out of season than there are dur ing the open season is a pretty well conceeded fact among men who are In the know on the subject. There are hundreds of deer commercialized on during closed season. I am not speaking for the whole state gener ally, but for Coos county only. And neither am I casting reflections upor the one poor fellow whose job it it to enforce the game laws in Coos county. All state police are supposed to assist in the enforcement of the game laws, but when you come right down to the facts only those who represent the game commission take a really active part in game law en forcement. I have yet to hear of the traffic cops spending nights out in the hills trying to catch violators. It is simply too big a job for one man and there is not a man living who could curb the game law violators of this county single handed. A deer hunter informs me that last deer season he and another hunter were hunting up in the Middle fork country and they encountered an other hunter up there who informed IT IS NO LONGERA k LIGHTBI LL 9 IT WAS IN IÔ9 UT ODAY LIGHT is a very small p&rt of it VOl) USED TO CALL the monthly statement from the electric company your .'light bill’. It was a light bill ited a tew few lights then. It< represented here and there about your home. But now ... light is a small part of the total electric bill. Today electricity is used for cooking, refrigerating, washing, ironing, sweeping, cleaning and entertainment. Yes, indeed ... the light bill disappeared with the pompa dour and the bustle of 1890! MOUNTAIN STATES POWER COMPANY them that during the past winter in the vicinity of where they were then hunting that he had killed seventy- five deer and the darned hog was still hunting for them. I do not doubt the story in the least. I have been informed by reliable persons that a few winters back one party killed «8 deer in another part of the county and sold the meat of every one of them. A poor man who shoots a deer out gt season in order to provide a little substance for his family may be looked upon with tolerance, but the outlaw who shoots down our wild game and sells the meat is another sort of animal altogether. It's outlaws like this that make it mighty hard for real law-abiding sportsmen to bog 1 deer: If every one would obey the game laws and hunt only during open seasons there would be an abundance of deer, game birds, etc., for every ^hunter and it would be an easy mat ter to secure the limit in all game. ■ You hear a lot of hollering going up if a poor hunger coyote or bobcat slays a deer and there is a price upon he head of the cougar. These ani mals kill that they may survive. But the worst varmint of the outfit is the wo-legged outlaw—man, who kills and kills and kills cializes upon his kills. Women! we'll give you ’15 for your old RANGE « SAVE! 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In the alumni game the team co-or dination was not as smooth as it thould have been, the inexperienced backfield being especially uncertain. Furthermore, Wilson has little re serve material on hand for his back- field, Donaldson, Hatcher, Bailey, Brigs, Wood and possibly one or two others being the limit. All of these players are first year Aen. Jimmy Robinson, letterman tackle .’rom the 1933 team, has been placed it guard, a move which may strengthen the line if the veteran romes through. Swain and Detlef- Coquille Oregon sen. ends, Lawhorn and Clinton, 420-426 Front St. Phone 55 eekten and Barton, ' center, are -eamingly set to be regulars, aa is iohn Cary, small but scrappy guard, him his sportsmanship. Naturally he U. C. L. A. against Oregon at Port ienderson and Mast, guards, must be knows he’s Max Baer and that he’s land. Extremely close. Tie, or the ■onsidered, while McClellan, center, good, but he’s a great fellow and both Uclas by one touchdown, 8 to 0. will likely see plenty of action. a man’s man and a lady’s man Columbia against St. Marys at Kezar Stadium, Slip Madigan’s team According to newspaper listings Baer was the attraction at Marsh easily. he Coquille schedule is as fololws: field last Friday, but another per University of San Francisco Oct- 8 I — Mpi Coquille at Bandon. former, Cowboy Heinz, of Burns,Ore Oregon State, Red Franklin Oct. 13—Marshfield at Coquille. gon, stole part of the show from the gallop to victory. Oct. 20—Myrtle Point at Coquille. Champ. For explanation, Heinz looks Oct 27—Coquille at North Bend. like a combination of Popeye of the Marine Enlistment Offered Nov. 3—Bandon at Coquille. funny paper and Schnozzle Durante The United States Marines at Nov. 12—Coquille at Myrtle Point. of the movies and the radio. He is Portland, Oregon, will have vacancies Nov. 27—-Reedsport at Coquille. built something like Popeye while his This schedule gives the Red Devils eagle beak gives him the Durante fa for the enlistment of thirty men dur six conference games and one non- cial feature, this all being topped by ing each of the next three months, conference game, that with a Douglas a thatch of curly, red hair. The Cow according to information received by county school, Reedsport. Myrtle boy proved to be a real entertainer Postmaster George Belloni here. These new Marines will be select Point and Bandon anF'met in two in the realm of burlesque wrestling, names each, while the bey teams and though he spent a part of his ed from the states of Oregon, Wash Marshfield and North Bend are met time racing around the outside of the ington, Idaho. Montana and Wyom once. This is a relatively hard ring, Mr. Heinz also used a few ing, and will serve as replacements sent from the West Coast stations to schedule for any high school eleven, wrestling holds. China, Guam, Hawaii, Philippine Is though ten games could be easily lands, and to the battleships of the played if the time would permit. Co All sorts of sports:—Facts aren’t quille generally plays as many if not known but gossip has it that Jim fleet. Interesting booklets describing ser more conference games than any of Londos once resided in Coos county, the other schools, while North Bend principally at Myrtle Point, where he vice with the United States Marines and Marshfield have a heavier non- was known as Jimmy Wilson, the 19- and enlistment application blanks conferenOe listing North Bend has year old wonder and at Coquille may be obtained from Postmaster four non-eonference frays this year where he taught physical culture.— Belloni, or from the U. S. Marine and five league games, while Marsh Nick Lutze, another top notch heavy Corps Recruiting Station, 208 Court field has two outside frays and a weight wrestler, was also a Coos House, Portland, Oregon. quintet with local teams. Myrtle Countian—Our chief of police, Bill- Possible Camp at Fairview Point plays six conference games Dad Howell, was the home run king A state rehabilitation camp for only and Bandon has a like schedule of Coos county in years gone by.— with the addition of a game with Postmaster George Belloni was a single men, particularly transients R ae dap art. letterman fullback on the 1924 Co who cannot be assigned work under The county conference schedule, as quille High football championship the SERA because of lack of resi adopted, is not what we believe is team.—Jimmy Harrison, halfback at dence qualifications, will be opened best for the conference. As listed it Marshfield High in 1933 is out for at Fairview at once, Ed Paulson, state covers a period of nine Saturdays and football at Linfield College, as is Jack superintendent, tells the Coos Bay includes two logical holiday dates. Brewer, tackle of Bandon, the boy Harbor. He is here to undertake the Armistice Day and Thanksgiving Day. who broke the county high jump rec project. Single men, those who can We would whole-heartedly like to see ord this last spring.—Fans paid 9989 not obtain work under the SERA each county team meet the other to see Coquille meet the Salem Sen program, will be taken care of. The twice during the procedure of the ators in 1999, Salem getting 9300 — men will be given a room, meals, season, this giving each eleven a like That season Bill Fortier was willing clothing and a small salary and will number of conference games, sight. to pay the Portland Beavers 9750 for be kept on the job until such time as Such a schedule would add interest to a game here and the Loggers would they may be able to shift for them the league race and give each school have made it.—When Jack Dempsey selves. All are subjected to a physi an even opoprtunity in the fight for refereed in Marshfield he received cal examination, and those having the championship. 92500, a guarantee. Max Baer got contagious diseases are barred. Think thia proposal over, Mr. Wil 55 per cent of the gate last Friday — Probate Court son, Mr. Lane, and Mr. Hartley, of Somebody had to dip up over 9500 to Coquille High. Ton Saturdays could meet Dempsey’s guarantee. Ralph F. Milne was last Friday ap be had if two in September were con- Last Saturday afternoon when Co pointed administrator of the 9300 es quille High met the high school alum tate left by Howard Oliver Childs, ni team, the “iron immortals" of who died Aug. 11. The appraisers of years gone by won out by a 9 to 0 the estate are Earl Wiper, Chas. score. The touchdown came right Fensler and Ed Gamwell. Geo. D. Mandigo, of North Bend, after the start of the second quarter, completing a first quarter march has been appointed administrator of which brought the pigskin within the 91900 estate left by Mrs. Mary A. Mandigo, who died June 4, 1994. D. easy scoring distance. Football this week-end, September M. Hull, Frank Rogers and L. G. Platt are the appraisers. 2«, 29. and 30: Myrtle Point at Bandon. The Bob cats will defeat Bandon. North Bend at Grants *B*l See Us Today! SCT NOW to tolre Adams Furniture Co
