Show MANY DUCKS DEAD AND with the open season tor for ducks coming coining with the rise of 0 the sun on saturday morning ot of the present week local sportsmen are getting out their following pieces to limber them up in readiness tor for the great bombardment the season promises to be a record breaker tor for the ducks are plentiful and there Is water everywhere in the marshes and bear river bay where the shooting is the best in the world the malady which has been taking off 0 the ducks in the past few years has been more virulent this season than any year since 1910 when these water fowl died by the thousands the big wind storm which recently passed over this section blew thousands 0 of dead ducks from the bay into the upper waters near the mouth of near bear river and the officials ot of the bear river duck club had to employ a force of men to bury the birds the workmen having counted 1400 in all it is reported that every dry knoll raising its head above the water Is covered with dead or ayin ducks and the men who are on the ground atthe present time pick up sick ducks all day long the birds are wasted away have no life in them and refuse to stay out in deep water farmers out penrose way near the marshes of 0 salt creek cree report the ducks swarming in it the grain ain stubble by the thousands every night this is something unusual and evidences the tact fact that the fowls are hungry for grain and having learned that iti it can be obtained by hying flying off the marshes marshea a short distance they make their daily pilgrimage to the feeding grounds grounds and fill up these ducks ought to make first class eating from every shooting grounds comes the report that a great opening day awaits the hunters and it goes without out saying that these individuals will b wout W 4 out laforce saturday morning |