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HUNTING, FISHING AND SPORT. Mongolian pheasants are reported very plentiful this season in the vicinity of Hood River, Ore. Quails are plentiful in Texas, there being more there than in years and shooting should be good when the season opens December 1. County Treasurer O. C. Bishop of Harrisburg, Pa., so far this year, lias issued 8,924 licenses. This exceeds by about 1,000 the number issued at- this time last year. Ten sportsmen of Harrisburg, Pa., went to Maine a few weeks ago for a deer hunt and when they returned home they had nine deer as evidence of their good marksmanship. Not since 1908 have partridges ruffed grouse and fox squirrels been as plentiful so it is claimed by sportsmen in Newago and Lake counties, Michigan, as they are this season. It is unlawful in Oregon to hunt for or have in possession mountain sheep, goat, antelope, elk, moose, caribou, female deer or spotted fawn, except for scientific or breeding purposes, according to a legal opinion given by I. H.- Van Winkle, assistant attorney-general. There is a duck hunter in Minneapolis, Minn., who claims that he can fool and call to him the wisest old drake that ever flew over a marsh. On the how of Ids duck-shooting craft he has installed :i phonograph and it "qaaeks" so perfectly that no old drake will pass by it. Seven hunters, each with a big elk, returned to Wolf Creek, Montana, recently from an expedi-ti6n Into the Ford Creek district, above Augusta, according to superintendent Fred Wear of the Great Northern. The elk were splendid specimens of the antlered tribe and attracted not a little attention.
