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HUNTING, FISHING AND SPORT. There are 7,000,000 hunters in the United States, according to the chief United States game warden iii the Biological Survey, United States Department of Agriculture. This estimate wa made from reports on the number of game licenses issued by the various states. . Salmon have been caught on hook and line as far up the Sacramento River as Sacramento, Cal., this year. It seems probable that the exceedingly low water, combined with an invasion of salt water far up the river, has had something to do with the unusual catch. Jacob Unit, fifty-six years old, of Pine Swamp, Carlwn Coiinty, Pa., was killed December 2 by a bear he had brought down with a rifle shot. Unit, under the impression that the animal was dead, had started to draw the bears blood when it struck him down with a fore paw and sank its teeth into his face. The blow broke his neck. The bear died a. few minutes later. Reports from small game hunters of Minnesota indicate that on an average only fifteen ducks per hunter were killed this year as compared with an .average of twenty-seven last year. The weather was not favorable for duck hunting, this season, according to Carlos Avery, state- fish and game commissioner. The number of partridges killed will total several thousand, he states. Hunters in this state are required to report the number of birds killed. Deer hunting above the clouds with only a pine bough lean-to for shelter and a regular mountain blizzard for excitement was the experience of Ell-worth George, who recently returned to Mitchell. S. D.. from a hunting trip in the Black Hills with a one-hundred-pound deer. Mr. George tramped through the snow for six days fronn daybreak until dark before he succeeded in shooting a deer. He was above the clouds in the pine timber when he finally got his deer on the last afternoon of his trip.
