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HUNTING FISHING AND SPORT Prof Frank Clarke of the United States geological survey estimates the age of the ocean at approxi ¬ mately 90000000 years yearsThree Three tuna weighing seventy seventyfive and eighty pounds respectively were taken last week at Avalon Cal by Lee A Phillips in addition to fif ¬ teen albicore averaging twentyfive pounds each eachWashington Washington led the states of the Union in trout hatching last year according to official figures compiled by L H Darwin state fish and game warden During the fiscal year of 1918 the tota hatch of the trout hatcheries was 20239507 This Fishermen in the vicinity of Two Harbors Minn are making good trout catclies in Lake Superior One party made a catch of fifty pounds of trout in one evenings fishing The average weight of the fish is from two to three pounds but some have beon caught which tipped the scales at fifteen and twenty pounds poundsAt At the Home of Rest for Horses Westcroft Farm Cricklewood near London England there has Jiwt been received an extraordinary old war horse San Toy aged twentyeight It had served through the South African and the recent war without missing a days duty By the kiifuness of three women it was to end its days there thereThe The European bison an enlarged American Jjuf falo has been exterminated in Russian Poland by the Bolshevist forces Before the Bolshevists overran this war torn country there were 180 bison at Spal and eighty at Pilavin every one said to weigh in the neighborhood of 2000 pounds Thesft fine animals were slain to make a feast for the fol ¬ lowers of Lenine and Trotzky TrotzkyAn An expert angler of Denver Color recently landed a rainbow trout which was thirtytwo inches long and weighed eight and threefourths pound The catcli was made in the Middle Boulder Creek under the bridge in the town of Nederland near Boulder Colo The big trout conceded to be the finest catch of the 1919 season in that section is thought to have escaped from the Nederland reser ¬ voir The fish ought to have weighed fiften pounds or more but the stream in which it was caught is shallow and does not have enough food to nourish such a big fish The trout was thin
