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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 6, 1935)
OLT-OF-DOORS STUFF making a total of 990,000 birds. Loggers Take Detroit I killed upon baited ponds last season. ru.u •_». By Lam Laneve In adidtion to that hunter, at Urge, GUato fOf TW° Ga,ne9 A great hue and cry has gone up took toll from their ranks. 1 haven’t [ CoquiUe baseball is vindicated and regarding the change in the coming the figures upon the inuniber of Bill Fortier is happy again now that duck season. Especially does loud bl. ds slain last season. It was a __ his Loggers pulled up behind the squawking come from the members starter sea«.n wit), rest «tay. but togloriously stop forth of select gun clubs who have in the three yeara ago. over five million in victory over the — Detroit *-■ - Colored past baited their ponds and practi-' birds were alain in the one season. So I Giants by scores of 0 to 3 and 13 to 4. cally domesticated the wild birds U ^' s^’.^nTfini^Tt wL"af^r’the many days before the season opened. hunter who is responsible for the. lo.t The new law says that baiting is to be Shortage in tlie ranks of the birds and • all form when ' facing the tougher op abolished and that live decoys cannot not disease. position. be used. What a blow to wealthy In the far north on the vast breed Sunday and Monday this was not, gun club members and to the owners ing grounds of the birds where they The entire club of baited ponds that »ell- the poor used to on many occasions crowd the case at aU. birds on the wing by permitting them immense numbers out of the breed played ball as it should be played in | to be shot over baited ponds at ao ing areas, there being no nesting all departments, showing the form of which each member is truly capable. much per day. room on account of the millions of Sunday Bob Wiltshire tossed a The law means that ducks will birds congregated there, today only spread out ovetr a far greater area in half of those grounds are nested whale of a game and Monday “Cocky” Brewer did likewise. Be search of natural feed and won’t con- upon. The hunter has taken toll! hind each pitcher all of the boys tjregate in just the baited spots to be The wealthy sportsman with his murdered by the millions by a select baited pond shouts the news to the batted and fielded to perfection. De fensively the Loggers were so tight few. world at large that there are still The opening of the season—Oct. nough ducks for all—that the num that only one boot was chalked up 19th--is really a Joke as far as the bers have not decreased upon his against their record during the two days and this one did no harm. The Coquille valley la concerned. In fact .hooting preserve in years. Why the entire season of thirty days is a :hould they? They are coaxed there Loggers must have been out to play Joke (closes Nov. 21), unless such a ach season by pre-season baiting— ball and that’s Just what they did. The greatest pleasure derived from miracle should occur as a cloud burst rd by the hand of the keeper until or real heavy rains over a long period they become as tame as chickens. the wins was that of BUI Fortier’s. ■‘n order to fill the lowlands with They are bound to be in evidence in He knew all along that Ms-1935 club water, either of which is not at all such spots. This same rich gunne. possessed championship class and nothing did the “Old Boy” more good likely. does not go forth in search of ducks Not only does the Coquille valley ir.d wend his weary way about the than to see this class come out. suffer, or rather the nimrods of the iiiarshes adorned by trespass signs Against any House of David club valley, but many other parts of the seeking just one small spot in which any Oregon bush team the story on Sunday and Monday would have state as well. z ie may bug a pair of ducks. He does ' In case said miracle should occur. not wade about in water boot-top- been the same victory. First Game or perchance you might go hunting leep long before daybreak, seeking B R H P A E elsewhere, I am printing below for lo get to some spot far out in the Coquille 4 1 8 2 1 VJ your convenience the vital parts of marsh where there is a chance that a Wirth, 2b 9 2 4 1 0 the new duck law which you are sup one bird or so may fly past on its Sowers, cf 4 i 1 2 4 0! posed to obey: The limit is ten ducks way to a baited pond and afford the Woodyard, 3b 4 2 2 1 0 o 1 Peterson, rf per day and not more than aaid ten poor hunter a shot. He does not 2 0 0 2 0 0 io be in your possession at any one know the hardships encountered by Brewer. If .. J . - 4 0 0 1 3 0 time. You are not allowed to kill Die really poor hunter who seeks Calvert, ss 4 1 1 6 Ô 0 canvas backs nor red-heads nor rud iust merely a mess of ducks. At any Moran, c 4 0 1 12 0 0 dies at any time of the season. The time of the day he wishes, the Bailey, lb 4 1 2 2 0 0 use of live decoys is prohibited. No wealthy gun-clubber makes his way Wiltshire, p How Junior housed when mother led him firmly W/ C C I Y blind, boat or floating craft of any *o his blind, shoos the'TiaU-^omesii- 39 8 13 29 8 0 Total by the ear to his Saturday night bathl Poor mother! t U I A kind may be used over 100 feet from .ated, well-fed birds away by the B R H O A E Detroit shore line such as is determined by hundreds, so that they may return AUTOMATIC how exhausted she would be after heating the 4 0 1 1 0 o' ordinary high tide, or when there is 'ater for their Interrupted meal. They Childs, 2b TANK 4 0 1 1 0 0 continuous natural growth or vege do not return in droves, but in pahs Morehead, c water W«w teake+Keful yeakornetui at st g g time, Time, until ucmi each oocn member mametor of or A T E D 0 0 0 0 0 0 tation protruding or extending -.nd in small flocks of eight or ten, and A. Smith, if Ute family hadkodhis turn at the wash fub. Now, I t K -1 — - beyond such a shore line, not more he hunter sits there upon a nice seat Knuckles, rf t ; —-4 0 - 4- -1-- O 3 0 0 2 0 0 with an automatic electric water heater, rto home LJFATFR than 100 feet from such growth or in his blind and shoots to his heart’s W. Smith, cf •4 0 0 1 3 1 need be without an unlimited supply of piping hot t n vegetation protruding above the sur ■ontent. The new law has done away Moore, ss 4 0 0 1 2 0 face of the water at the time of taking with this sort of wholesale murd?r Sanders. 3b water day ahd night. The co»t is so trifling . . . OMy f 4 0 0 3 0 2 such birds. Birds may not be taken af our birds and I am thankful from Love, rf, if- 3 1 0 12 0 0 by or from the aid of an automobile he bottom of my heart that it has Burke, lb less than fifteen cents a day. Low down-payment, 4F Cee 3 2 2 1 9 0 sink box, power boat aail boat (bat and I am hoping and praying that Parks, p easy terms. 94.N M om tery--meaning sink-box), any beet such murder will never be allowed 4 23 10 9 33 2 Totals under sail, any floating device or again. 2 0402000 ’— 8 Coquille craft of any kind towed by a power Perhaps a lot of rich sportsmen be- Hits 2 0 3 2 4 1 1 0 •— 13 boat- A ten gauge shot pun, fired ieve sincerely that there are as many 0020000 1 0—3 from the shoulder is the largest you ducks as ever, seeing them each year Detroit 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 2 0—9 may use, but no shot gun may con- upon their baited ponds and do not Hits Summary—Earned runs, Coqui! !e ' ■ tain more than three shells while realize the fact that the birds which pursuing ducks and such guns as 7, Detroit 3- home runs, Wirth, Sow- !iave congregated there have come jets; two base hits, Moran, Morehead, pumps and automatics must have the which prepared the health courses from miles and miles to partake of. magazines blocked so that counting the com and grain that have been! Parks; sacrifice hits, Wirth. Wood- for the state department. Other mem WARRANTS TAKEN G. T. COOK ' yard, Brewer; stolen bases, Calvert;' the shell in the barrel or chamber of dispensed to them before the opening , „ ■ _ _ ... _ . bers of the. committee are: Lynn A. Brick Mason the gun, it may contain only three of the season Wishful thinking per-|’eft °" Jr Parr, city school superintendent, AU Repair Werk. Parta, New Fireplaces and Chimneys shells. This means that the maga haps has helped blind these men and Used Cars T Marshfield; Miss, Florence HUI, North i P. O. Box 62. Coquille i Parks 2; struck out, by Wiltshire 6, zines in such guns must be cut down Bend high school; Miss Bertha Pent- the truth, but many of them recently On Shelley mneh, east ef Coquille Southwestern Motor Co. 1 by Parks 1; wild pitch. Parks; um- to contain only two shells. This sea ney, Marshfield elementary schools; have changed their attitude and son there will be no “rest days’’ for many more should, as the truth is im- | ' pires, Sturdivant and Gilbert; time. Miss Hannah Sandquist, Marshfield ------------------------------ ----------------- ■wr.wuwsi r ■. SILT ------------- •-------’“ä&iasa ■the birds. They may be bagged each public schools, and Dr. Henrietta pressed upon them as to just how • 1:41. nnd every day of the week—provid' Morris, health education director, scarce the ducks are becoming. Be H O Coquille rd you can find any to bag. yond all this, however, - there is a 1 Of course, it is natural that a lot of fighting corps of powerful reaction Wirth, 2b 1 1 gunners are going to find fault with aries, made up of sportsmen who Sowers, cf 2 the new law and the chances are that want their shooting today no matter Woodyard, 3b, If 1 2 a lot of hunters in this district will what happens tomorrow. These men Peterson, If. as 1 1 not even uncase the old scatter gun are the real menace to American Roper, rf 2 1 during the season, but there is one waterfowl. They are effectively or Calvert, as, 3b Hawkins, c 0 7 thing to be thankful for andjt tickles ganized, constituting the typical 1 2 3 - me pink each time I think of it and duck-hunters associations of stales Brewer, p ' 1 9 that is the fact that we poor hunters and metropolitan cities. In the past, Bailey, lb 0 1 are not suffering alone. For the first along with the gun and ammunition Pulford, rf. time in history the wealthy gun clubs companies, they have been the virtu Totals 39 13 1« 27 8 1 and commercial shooting clubs who al dictators of government policy on B R H O A E Detroit have hogged everything in the past iny final showdown. However, Ding o 0 9 2 2 and are directly responsible for the Darling, the new head of the Biologi Childs, 2b 4 0 Í / 0 0 plight of the.ducks today, are getting cal Survey, has made himself mighty Morehead, rf 4 r. 2 2 0..0 v it in the neck So therefore, in unpopular with the gun clubs and has A Smith. If 4 V 0 1 0 1 view of thia fact I am glad to forego called their wrath down upon his W. Smith, cf 4 0 0 0 2 2 Moore, ss at least one season of shooting head by taking away their baiting 3 0 0 2 1 3 I really believe that the season ar.d the use of live decoys, but he has Sanders, 3b 4 2 2 1 1 0 should have been closed entirely up sided in with the factions just men- Love, c 0 0 4 o a 1 on all migratory fowl for a year or ioned by not depriving them of their Burke, lb Knuckles, p 3 0 4 o 2 2 even two or three years. This would shooting altogether. The compromise, —. • have been a real move toward put is no doubt going to save the lives of • >4 9 6 Totals 34 4 ting them back to normal numbers. several millions of birds the coming 0 0 4 4 4 It it •—13 The other day a hunter remarked season, but still I believe that an en Coquille Hits •—10 0 fl » 112 1 4 to me that it was not the hunters that tire closed season would have met 10 0 0 a Oil 1- 4 were responsible for the decrease in with the hearty approval of the ma Detroit Hits 2 0 0 0 4 0 1 U V- 9 the ranks of the birds but thst it wss jority of true sportsmen and would Summary—Earned runs, Coquille disease' that was doing it. This is a have given the birds an opportunity mistaken idea. It is true that disease to r come back in real numbers once 8, Detroit 4;, home run. Woodyard. Childs; two base hit, O ’.^irt; sacri takes toll and that the oil burning agai fice hits, Wirth, Soweif. Calvert, ships that dump their waste oil upon Bailey; stolen bases, Sow .'Mt San the surface of the ocean take heavy Body and Fender repair work done ders, Love; left on bits«*) Coquille toll, as thousands of ducks alight Super-Shed hoi who! il tokos to by experienced mechanics Our body 9, Detrait 7; bases on bailu, off Brew upon such spots pf water to rest from save up to a cupful of gasoline in painter is an expert. Let us prove er 3, off Knuckles 3; struck out, by long flights. The oil gums up their one hour of steady running. In many we have the heat of repair service Brewer 8, by Knuckles 1; double wings so that they cannot fly and Southwestern Motor Cb can that moons up to a mile more ' ’ 'lltf plays. Knuckles to Ru'ki-, Sanders to per gallon. they die a lingering death. But in Childs to Burke; umpires, Sturdivant Super-Shell can also save up to spite of the oil and disease, the de- and Barton; time, 1:94. ...... " " ” a cupful In 10 minutes of hard crease in the ranks of the ducks as tr the Saturday ni bath was no joke ! > iELECTRICITY./CHEAPER' BETTER1 FIRE PREVENTION CUPFUJL OF CASO1INE SAVED• whole may be laid directly at the door of the hunter and a large num ber are shot upon baited ponds. Last! season a count upon baited ponds showed that 880,000 ducks were killed. In California 10,478 hunters’ killed 209,097 ducks. Illinois was second with a bag of 161,939. I will not tabulate the kills In all the states. However, our state reported kills of 62.183 on baited ponds. In addition to the 660,000 reported killed on these baited ponds there are without doubt hundreds of baited ponds that were never checked upon and thousands upon thousands of birds that were never tabulated, to we can easily and justly ad^ M that many birds to the above scores, • ■ New low Price on all kinds of COAL IxK-al and Long Distance HAUUNG Phone« 101 J—224L Mansell Drayage & Delivery Co. New Health Education Courses New courses of study in Health Ed- I ucation for the elementary grades ’’and high schools of Oregon afle now being distributed tp the schools of Oregon from the office of 8tate Su perintendent C. A. Howard. These I state courses are the result of many I hours W >__ on L the ____ of ____________ voluntary work part . of a group of Coos county teachers, who. in adidtion to their tasks as classroom instructors and school ex ecutives, have been willing to give , this valuable service to the schools of the state. ■ Mrs. Martha E. Mulkey, county school superintendent of Coos county, J served as a member of the committee climbing. And up to a cupful on each "cold“ start. Every drop saves you money because every drop gives you max MMMB imum power power. . S uper S hell A “CROOKED” FIRE
