of the commission, at one time in­
formed me that he would not know
By Lans Leneve
what a Jacksnipe was if he saw one. It
Either ignorance of the law, or shouldn’t be a hard matter to talk
just downright cussedness prompted that‘sort of a warden into believing
many trappers to string out lines of that a duck was a chicken kawk. No, it
traps a month before the trapping wasn’t Cornell. He knows the differ­
season opened It is my contention ence. I am not casting reflections
that the trapipng season should real­ upon all the wardens employed, for
ly open the first of November, but it there are some good men in the field
doesn’t. The law says that trapping today. Notice, I said “in the field”
shall not be indulged in until Dec. and not “in office.”
1st. Regardless of this fact, hundreds
A trapper inquired of*fie the other
of steel traps were set and many fur­ day when were steel traps first used.
bearers taken before the season The answer might interest you read­
opened. One of the richest spots of ers. The first steel traps were hand
trapping territory was practically made by Sewell Newhouse, father of
skinned of otter before the official the steel trap. Today the Newhouse
opening of the'season. This is a ges­
trap is the most expensive, but by
ture of darned.poor sportsmanship far the best trap in the market. He
on the part of hoggish trappers who produced the first traps in 1823 in his
seek unlawful means to beat their forge shop in New York state. The
brother trappers to the best trapping. springs were made from old scythe
It is but human that each trapper blades, axe heads and worn out files,
should look to his own interests and the bottoms and cross pieces of the
grab off what trapping territory he ’rap from blacksmith’s scrap.
can. But this should be done at the
Since then hundreds of different
opening of the season and not a brands have appeared in the market.
month beforehand.
There are all sorts of spring and
Just because the state game com­ jump traps; coiled springs, straight
mission does not possess enough springs and tree traps, gun traps and
» knowledge of wild life to declare a whatnot, but despite all these differ-
decent trapping season is no reason 1 ent makes the famous Newhouse trap
w'ty a few should take the law into of almost identical pattern that was
their own hands and trap unlawfully I forged in that far distant past is peer
and let the law-abiding trapper wait ■ of alj the traps on the American and
upon the side lines until the season European market today. For durabil-
opens.
rity, strength and holding power they
To any game official or any one are unsurpassed.
else who cares to challenge my state­
Traps have protected millions and
ment that the game commission does millions of head of litestock and have
not possess enough knowledge of fur­ taken toll from the ranks of the pred­
bearers to declare a decent open sea­ ators that live upon game birds as
son, I will cite the fact that furs' be­ well. They have been instrumental
gin to prime in November through­ in bringing millions and millions of
out the state and that the season dollars to the trapper through the
should open in that month, at least by sale of furbearing animals trapped. A
the fifteenth. On the other hand the steel trap is a relentless cruel thing
fur season is let run until the end of of steel, lying like a hidden serpent
February. February is the mating ready to strike instantly when step­
inonth for all fur-bearers and this ped upon by the animal for which it
means that females of any species
.is set. Many humane organizations
caught the latter part of that month
call it cruel. It has been abolished in
means the destruction of several of
the state of Massachusetts. But its
the species, And again, furs begin
cruelty compared to the torture of
to get “springy" that time of the
poison set out for animals is but nil.
year and are only worth in the neigh­
And moreover, the set steel trap is
borhood of half as much as earlier
not a menace to song and game birds
caught furs. And again the muskrat
and is seldom set exeept during the
season is allowed to run for a period
period when furs are prime. A fur
after the other furbearers’ season is
caught in a steel trap stays there, but
closed. This means that hundreds of
a furbearing animal poisoned crawls
mink are trapped when their fun are
away to die a jjqrrible death and the
*not valuable ahd. the females are
fur is lost. And the summer poison­
bearing young.
Muskrat sets are
ing which is indulged in means the
great for taking mink and just how
killing of thousands <of furbearers
is the mink going to be warned away
who have young snuggled away in
from them? And, too, unscrupulous
some nest or den that perish of star­
trappen gleefully take mink while
vation. The organizations that put
pretending to trap for muskrats.
the steel trap out of commission in
Frankly, the trapping law appears to
Massachusetts had better come west
be made up by a body of men who
and take a look at the poison squad
haven’t the slightest knowledge on of th/ Biological Survey. Under the
earth regarding the habits of fur-
new head of the Survey they are still
bearers.
throwing their poison pills.
It’s true of a lot of states today:
In a recent issue of one of the lead­
white-collared gents sit in high of­
ing outdoor magazines of America ap­
fice buildings, fnme game laws and
pears a deer story. There* is comment
wish them off on the poor, honest
by the editor as to how the list of
sportsmen. The sportsmen, the real
things given' is accurate and that the
outdoorsman who knows game condi­
equipment should be taken along by
tions, hasn't a voice in the matter of
aU hunters going into the woods. The
framing the game laws.
No, it must
story is by an army major. He says,
be a banker, or a doctor, it appears,
“Never go into the woods without the
who is vested with the authority to
following:
life-savers, rifle, cart­
tell the regular sportsmen when they
ridges, compass, flashlight, rope,
may hunt, fish or trap. And another
hunting knife, pocket knife, belt axe
thing, there are men employed as
and match safe. Carry them on your
wardens to protect our wildlife who.
person at all times.”
could not distinguish the difference
The suggestion that both a pocket
between a humming bird and a hoot­
I knife and a hunting knife be taken
owl. A warden in the employment |
OUT-OF-DOORS STUFF
along will be greeted with a grin by
old hunters.
A big dumsp hunting
knife is about as awkward a thing as
a hunter can use for dressing out a
deer. The pocket knife does for
dressing deer, whittling shavings
and general use abouO^camp. I will
not condemn the compass for it is a
safety device used by many hunters
who do not possess a sense of direc­
tion. Personally, I never resort to
the use of a compass. If a person has
any sort of sense of direction, by ob­
serving the lay of the land and mark­
ing different landmarks carefully, by
memory he can train himself to trav­
el any country without the aid of a
compass.
And. of course, the cartridges and
rifle are essential and the waterproof
match box is o. k. If a fellow cares
to lug extra weight a flashlight is
handy. But an old tin can with a
hole punched in the bottom
candle shoved through this in
can and lighted makes a darned good
light and may be thrown away. And
another thing about this sort of light,
there are no batteries to grow weak
and no bulbs to burn out as is the
case of a flashlight. A wad of stout
cord carried in the pocket serves all
purposes about camp. Just why a
rope should be carried is a mystery,
unless it is taken along for the pur­
pose, by a discouraged hunter, to
hang himself to a tall tree.
And you should look over the food
supply in this same article that a
rough he-man is supposed to take in­
to the woods on a hunting trip. It
may readily be seen that the fellow
who got up the list is a man who is
used to saying, "Prepare my bawth,
James, lay out my Tux and tell
Henry to have the limousine at the
door by eight."
If you don’t believe it, just listen to
some of these things on the list, for a
deer hunter roughing it in the wilds:
Vienna bread, fresh carrots, cocoa,
fresh cranberries, grapejuice, tomato
juice, fresh cabbage, egg noodles,
mixed preserves, ketchup, vanilla
flavoring and raspberries,
That’s
what I say, “Raspberries."
Besides
that, there are dozens of other arti­
cles in the food line to take along. In
comparison to this food list and the
food carried into the woods by an old
time hunter, the latter’s food supply
alongside this other elaborate list
would be the same thing as compar­
ing a glass of water and a stale
cracker to one of Lafe Compton's
special menus. Ho hum! Pass the
grapes.
An old archery pal of mine, Grover
Gouthier, who now resides in another
part of the state writes in the promise
of a dog story in the near future,
makes favorable comment upon my
Christmas story and asks the follow­
ing question which he desires an­
swered through this column; “Is it
true that a game warden, or a mem­
ber of the game commission are not
allowed to kill predatory animals?"
There is no law against any game
warden, state police, or game com­
missioner killing predatory animals
at any time with the exception of
predators that inhabit game refuges.
There they must be killed by special
permission obtained from the game
commission.
Salaried hunters of both the game
commission and the Biological Survey
are not allowed to collect bounty up-,
on the predators that they slay. This
fact no doubt has led to the report
President’s National Campaigners on "Polio”
When. President Roosevelt re­
cently consented to "lend” his
63rd birthday anniversary on
Jan. >9, 1335, to a nation-wide
’ball, prtfeeeds of which will be
used to light infantile paralysis,
again the country’s attention was
focused on the seriousness of the
(I
The nap above thowa the
number of orthopedic hospitals
In the United States recognised
by the American Medical Asso­
ciation, and their location. These
99 today carry the load in giving
treatment to the >00,000 persons
la the country who boar the
handicaps of the disease. Seventy
cents of every dollar raised this
year will go to aid these victims
in communities raising the mon­
ey.
- The other >9 cents will bo
turned over to the President’s
Birthday Ball Commission for In­
fantile Paralysis Research head­
ed by Col. Henry L. Doherty
(lower center) of New York and
Miami, who was chairman of the
1934 Birthday Ball for the Presi­
dent and was recently appointed
to serve in the same capacity In
1915.
Vice-chairman
is Jeremiah
Milbank (lower right) of Now
York, treasurer and trustee or
the Institute for the Crippled and
Disabled and a noted phiianthro-
put. Paul de Krnlf, formerly a
bacteriologist at Rockefeller In­
stitute and famous as an author,
will be secretary, while Edward
8. Harkness (lower left), a trus­
tee of the Presbyterian Hospital
and of the Metropolitan Museum
of New York, will be the treas­
urer.
Other members of the Commis­
sion are Felix M. Warburg, Sen­
ator James Cousens. John 8.
Burke. Edsel B. Ford, Lesaing
Rosenwald, Mrs. Nicholas ~
and Raymond B. Foedick.
Your eyes can last your lifetime
if you protect them now
The most common cause of poor vision is eye­
strain. And eyestrain is sure to occur where there is
poor lighting. A famous health magazine says: “If
sufficient illumination is not provided, the eyes are
continually subjected to a strain in their attempt to
discern detail. This rapidly fatigues ... lowers
bodily efficiency, and may produce permanent
injury.
It is a tragic mistake to try to save on lights to
the detriment of your eyes. Give your eyes the prop­
er protection, and they will last throughout your
lifetime. One of the essential elements of eye pro­
tection is good lighting
Mountain States Power Company
As to the individuals, football 1934
The 1930 and 1933 teams played ir
the tournament finals losing only af- was well balanced but the work of
ter stiff battles against North Bend Quarterback Smith of North Bend
I i and Marshfield. The 1931 team lost caught the eye.
The rapid like way in which he
the consolation game of the tourna­
ment by a 23 to 22 score to Marsh­ brought his team to«g high pitch for
UN DER THE BLEACHERS field and at the same time dropped the the basketball tournament, hands the
county leadership as the teams had coaching laurels to Coach Henry
By Mark Seeley
Shall we present the 1935 charac­ been tied with one mere defeat blem­ Hartley, of Coquille. Following close
ters of the Coquille cast in the Coos ishing their records during the regu­ behind him is Coach Curtis French of
county basketball drama? All right! lar schedule. The Hartley teams have Bandon, who mentored a small squad
placed many on the all county and of under twenty players to a well-
Here they are:
t
Louis Donaldson, sophomore; one all tournament first and second earned football championship.
No question arises in baseball in
year letterman, a guard. Donaldson teams, including Lorenz, Griffith,
is the team's lone letterman and is a Chard, and E. Seeley in 1930; Elling­ which the far-famed Coquille Log- ,
veteran of state tournament warfare. son, Pulford, Ellis and L. Seeley in gers hold complete reign. Glenn Mur­
Don Smith, senior; on the varsity 1931; Helmkin, Morgan and Williams ray grabbed all around ability ■nd
for the first time after apprentice in 1932; L. Seeley, McCarthy and value honors among the players, but
duty on the “B” teams and previous Morris in 1933; and Pook, Morris, when as a pinch hitter Manager Bill
play as a Junior High performer, a Collier and Stonecypher in 1934. Two Fortier walloped a three-base hit
men under Hartley, Stan Pulford in with the bases loaded in the fourth
forward.
Jim Robinson, senior; his second 1931 and Harry Helmkin in 1932 have inning of the second Colored House
year oft the varsity though not a let­ copped high scoring honors for the of David game, all other Loggers dis­
terman, “B” team experience, both a league and on, Ray Griffith, led the missed big shot bids, even though
tournament scorers in 1930.
Carl Gilbert and Murray divided
forward and a center.
How will our 1933 characters por­ honors when they shut out Glendale
Allan “Junior” Bailey, freshman;
17 to 0 without a hit on August 12.
the mite of the varsity, but a clever, tray their roles?
The year’s greatest attraction was
scrappy performer. Junior High ex­
This is a little late for such flash
perience, a guard.
backs, but we want to present a the wrestling show which Max Baer,
Robert Waggoner, junior; fast de­ brief review it the sporting high­ heavyweight champion, refereed at
Marshfield. This was followed by
velopment has graduated him from lights of 1934.
the “B” team to the varsity during , To us the most sensational event the baseball games the Loggers play­
the current season though he has not of the year was the topsy-turvy ed with the House of David teams.
turned out for basketball before, a basketball tournament last March,
Myrtle Point entertains Bandon in
forward and guard.
and. of course, the most sensational the other basket ball fray tonight be­
Jess Barton, sophomore; a varsity team, the Coquille Red Devils, who
side the game here.
Once defeated.
•
man last season until ineligibility set broke forth after a hum-drum regu­
Bandon's Tigers will likely be greedy
him back, big and aggressive, a cen­ lar schedule to win the event, defeat­
for Bobcat meat, but Myrtle Point’s
ter.
ing Riverton, Marshfield and Myrtle
quintet is a dope favorite, the advan- »
Eddie Moore, junior; a newcomer Point.
tage of playing at home not alone/
from Washington Junior High of
The most sensational individual giving Coach Pat Rickard’s boys the
Pasadena, California, forward.
performance was that put on by Jack
edge. On paper, despite the appar­
Powell Yarbrough, senior; last sea­ Breuer. Bandon athlete who broke
ent loss of her star, Tom Ostrander,
son on the “B” team, fast growh has the long standing mark in the county
Myrtle Point lines up stronger.
added to his effectiveness and once he high jump record, which was estab­
These are the two games in high
gets started he may be hard to dis­ lished by Clark* of Marshfield at 5
school circles for this week-end but
place at center.
feet, 10 inches, in 1939, by besting
next week-end three games are on
Howard Detlefsen, senior; gradu­ this one-quarter of an inch. Breuer’s
tap.
Friday, January 19, Coquille
ated frofti the 1934 “B” team, not a performance was accomplished with­
plays at Myrtle Point and Roseburg
regular but will likely see plenty of out one night’s practice and after
plays at North Bend, and Saturday,
action, a guard.
having hitch-hiked to Marshfield the
January 19. Roseburg plays at
Tom Thrift, senior, another aspir­ morning of the meet.
Marshfield. The games with Rose­
ant from past “B" teams, good on
Bill Pook's play in the basketball
burg are non-conference encounters,
long shots from just inside the middle tournament was another individual
and do not figure in the Coos coun­
line, a guard.
show of note. It was the Coquille
ty championship race.
Jim Ray, senior; apparently has center’s first season on the red and
The Marshfield win over Bandon
dropped basketball due to after­ white varsity. This, along with the
last Friday was by a 31 to 21 score,
school work, though his intentions fact that he did not report for prac­
the Marshfield superiority being
are not fully known, letterman on the tice until the season was underway,
marked by the margin in the score.
Myrtle Point squad in 1934, a guard. placed him more so in the limelight.
One player on each team stood out.
Last, but by no means least. Coach In the tournament his play stood out
McCarthy, a Pirate, and Baird, of
Henry Hartley in his sixth season as I like a sore thumb.
Bandon, being the boys.
In football, the' surprise champion­
basketball coach at Coquille High,
during which time his teams have al- i ship win by Bandon was partially the
Up to date we have obtained abso­
ways been one, two, three in cham- big
I
noise, but the Marshfield-North lutely no information regarding the
pionship races, despite huge losses of 1 Bend game on Armistice Day grab­ Coos Obunty “B” League, composed
strfr performers after each schedule I bed the spotlight, the Buldogs win- of
1 Powers. Arago. Riverton and Coos
completion. The 1934 team brilliant- ning,
i
7 to 9, in a contest marked with River high schools. The race be­
ly won the district tournament and thrills,
I
good sound football and tween these schools is usually a hot
the trip to the state meet at Salem, crowd-catching
i
appeal.
one and attracts lots of notice
circulated in some districts that war-
dens and members of the commission
were not allowed to kill predators.
Hurry along with the dog story,
Grover.
It will be thankfully re­
ceived.