SEQUACHEE VALLEY NEWS — JULY 23, 1896
A Fish Story
Several years ago we were on the Columbia River killing fish. We used a double barrel shot gun. One day about 10 o’clock we saw a monster salmon fish moving slowly down the river. An average shot would [be of] no effect, so our plan was to use a large ball, and fasten a wire to the ball the length of the barrel and then securely tie to a large cord, fasten the other end of the cord to a tree, shoot the fish in broad sides and have a man on the other side of the river to hastily grab the bullet and tie to a tree, thus having the fish swinging safely at our bidding. The plan worked efficiently and the result was that we butchered slaughtered and destroyed 2 ½ million pounds of as fine salmon as ever swam the Columbia River.—Hairiman Hornet.
The above is the Harriman Hornet’s method of catching fish as recalled mind by the wonderful fish story published is the Marion County Democrat and republished in the NEWS. For ingenuity commend us to the editor of the Hornet. There is no yarn but what he can devise something better.
From— Sequachee Valley News. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.), 23 July 1896. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
