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Rochester Rod and Gun Club. 



Rochester, N. Y., Feb. 13.— At the regular semi-weekly shoot 

 of the Rochester Rod and Gun Club the following scores were 

 made. The shooting was under American Shooting Association 

 rules, 18yds. rise, 5 Peoria, traps, 10 Peoria blackbirds, rapid-firing 

 system. 



The turn out was rather ]igbt, hut the day could not have been 

 finer. Cold and clear and no wind. The sun was pretty ( right at 

 times and strained the eyes somewhat, but on the whole it was as 

 perfect a day as we have bad this winter. Every one present had 

 for once all the shooting they wanted, and the traps were kept 

 going as lively as the novs could load them, one squad shooting 

 its string of 60 birds in 3)4 minutes: 



1 -2 $ U 



McVean 8 



Hicks 0 



Fulton 3 



Truesdale 6 



St John 10 



Schmidt 9 



Holton 



Roach : 3 3 ., 



"Newton 8 8 fl 10 6 



Sehultz *J 7 10 



6 



8 .. 9 



tt 10 

 7 



5 6 7 



1 5 10 



9 9 9 



8 .. 



b r 8 9 a 



S 10 .. 10 10 

 0 8 7 9 10 



C 8 .. .. 



8 9 10 

 7 9 6 



Meye 



Rissenger 



Feli. 10.— Same conditioner 



Hicks 10 



Borst 8 



Rinnie 2 



Batcock 5 



Rickmao 6 



Smith 



Willard 



Cooper 



Norton 



McVem 



Foley , 



Holton .. 



Peck 



Truesdall 



Byer 



Allen 



0 8 



0 7 . 



5 6 . 

 H 6 . 

 . ,8 . 



6 .. 

 .. 3 



r a ; 



i .. 



9 .. 

 9 .. 



3 .. 



.. 9 . 

 7 . 



7 .- 

 .. 7 



8 .. 



8 .. 

 3 .. 

 ... 7 



.. 7 

 . 6 

 i .. 



9 5 

 7 .. 



At Michigan's Capital. 



Lansing, Mich., Feb. 8.— 1 send you the score 8 made by a few of 

 the members of the Lansing Rod and Gun Club at their first prac- 

 tice shoot of the season, on Feb. 6, from 3 trap?, unknown angles. 

 First event was at 24 birds, second event at 37 birds, and third and 

 last event at 9 birds. All were shooting 12- gauge guns. Davis, 

 Wright and Whitehead were shooting the S. R. Davis hammer- 

 toe guns— Whitehead a ?)£,!b. gun, Davis and Wright 8)£lb. guns; 

 Cooler, Scbelling, Hall aort Nichols were shooting J.2-gauge Parker 

 hammerless guns— Hall and Cooley 7)£lbs., Schellrag 8lbs., Nichols 

 7Mlbs. 



Twenty-four singles; 



Whitehead ; u.n.hiiLn' .Mmyijhin : - , 



Nichols lllllllOlOlllimOOllOOl-18 



Davis 111111011111011101111111-31 



Sc h el lin g C001 1 1 0 moOOUOOOOl 1001 0- 8 



Wright lmillOlillllllllllllOl— 23 



Hall Oil 0101 1 100101 1 01101001 0-13 



Cooley HlOlOlOlllOlOlOliniOOl— 16 



Twenty-seven siugles: 



Whitehead lOllOIOOllOlOOOHOlOlOlOOlO— 13 



Nichols 1110001001 11111000110111100-16 



Davis 01111 11011111 110 1 1 1 11111011-22 



Schelling OlOllllOlOOOtlOuOlOllOOOOll— 13 



Wright . 1011111011111110' Oil 401101-21 



Hall oiimiommiiimoiimio-22 



Cooley 1 1001 1111111111111011 111101—22 



Nirre singles: 



Nichols 111111101— 8 Schelling 111111111—9 



Hall 110101101—6 Cooley lllOullOl— 6 



Davis 010011101—5 Jfiu, Sec. 



Walking Allow- 



The New Jersey Shooting Club. 



This club had a strong, cold wind to contend with at the first 

 of its monthly shoot for the Qaimby prizes, on Feb. 13. Each con- 

 testant shot at 40 targets, as follows: Ten under Keystone system, 

 10 from unknown angles, 5 pairs and 10 in a walking match. Each 

 man was allowed a given number of points, according to his 

 ability, these being added to his score. "Tee Kay," Keller, of U. 



5. C. Co. fame, made himself useful by officiating as referee. The 

 result of the contest was as appended: 



Keystone Unknown 

 fysletp. 



L Vredenburgh 8 



GS Virden 5 



F G Moor 6 



C A Pope 4 



WPurdy 7 



JABigoney... 5 



G E Greiff 7 



J A Richmond. 8 



WS Simpson... 7 



A F Comp;on.. 8 



Garms 3 



This made Compson the winner of" the contest. The series will 



run for six mouths. 

 The following sweepstake events were afterward shot: 

 No. 1, 10 blueroeks, Keystone system: Simpson 9,Virden 6, Moore 



6, Greiff 5, Compson 4, Purdy 6, Pope 2. 



No. 2, 10 bluet ocks. Keystone svstem: Simpson 7,Virden S, Moore 

 8, Greiff 8 Compson 8, Purdy 9, Pope 8. 



No. 3. 10 blueroeks. unKuown angles: Simpson 5, Virden 6, Moore 

 6, Greiff 4, Compson 6, Purdy 6, Pope 4, Dannefelser 5, Garms 3. 



No. 4. 5 pair blueroeks, unknown angles: Simpson 8, Virden 7, 

 Moore 3, Greiff 8, Comp3ou 7, Pope 4, Dannefelser 2; Garms 3. 



gles. 



Pairs. 



match. 



ance. 



Total. 



5 



6 



8 



6 



33 



6 



5 



7 



8 



31 



7 



6 



8 



8 



35 







e 



8 



30 



4 



4 



1 C 





25 



3 





10 



4 



25 



4 



6 



4 



8 



31 



4 





6 



8 



28 



7 



10 



9 



0 



33 



4 



9 



9 



6 



36 





3 



i 



C 



18 



Algonquin Defeats Union Hill. 



The team match at live birds, shot at Guttenberg on Feb. 11, 

 between the Union Hill and Algonquin Gun Clubs, was an inter- 

 esting affair, and was Witnessed by about 200 people. The weather 

 was disagreeable, a snow storm being in progress, and the shoot- 

 ing was bard, J. M Baker ref'ereed, while the scores were looked 

 after by E. Heffen ar.d J. R. Burton. 



The conditions were ten men per team; ten live birds per man: 

 50yds. rise, gun below elbow until bird is on wing, use of both 

 barrels allowed. The scores: 



ALGONQUIN G. C. UNION HILL G. C. 



JosHanna 1001111021— 7 John Mehl Jr.. .1111021101— 8 



Matt Cox 1012001111— 7 AD John-on. ...0122111011- 8 



C R Terwillger.1020120120— 6 H Untereiner.. 1001210221— 7 



Louis Bremer. ..1111211111—10 AB Collins 1001110121- 7 



F G Rinn 0110010100- 4 John Waller ...1001120100- 5 



Cbas Meyer ...2111101111 — 9 .1 E Welling... 2010112111— 8 

 G Van Scbaick.. 1021121211— 9 Abe Greenllef . .1102111100— 7 



H (iriswold 1202011110- 7 J H Earle 0202100110— 5 



H Kuhna*t 1123111111—10 Thos I arjgcake.21'1010211— 8 



Wni Stewart. . .3100102002- 5-74 John Burkery. .1210010101— 6—09 



On the Forest Gun Club Grounds. 



Germantown, Pa., Feb. 13.— Enclosed find scores of a team 

 shoot that took place this afternoon at the Forest Gun Club 

 grounds, Twenty-seventh street and Lahigh avenue. Tbe condi- 

 tions of the match were 50 targets and 15 live birds per man, 

 American Association rules on both, the losers to pay all ex- 

 penses of the match and «n oyster supper for ten. each shooter to 

 invite, two friends. Win. Garvin was referee and Harry Thurman 

 official scorpr. The results follow: 



Targets. Pigeons. Targets. Pigeons 



S Hothersall 33 9-41 J A Mills 40 15-51 



J A Adair 37 10—47—92 Wm Motrisou. ..28 13—41—88 



Eddy Collins Stacks Against Fulford. 



About two score sportsmen, including locals and those from out 

 of town, were at John Erb's "Old Stone House" grounds on Tues- 

 day, with the expectation of seeing a practice shoot ai 100 birds 

 each between Brewer and Fulford. The former, however, was 

 unable to be on hand, so Fulford was left to kill time as beet be 

 could. As there were plenty of birds, be aud Eddv Collins, the 

 sprightly trap-shooter trom West Hnboken. had a friendly "go" 

 a t 50 birds each, Collins standing at 28 and Fulford at 30yds. rise. 

 Hui'linpham rule= governed. The scores follow: 



Fulford 1100011102211010111 11 1 31 01 1 20 1 110121 U11121212110C-39 



Collins 10100220112121110011011110131111003111130111121111-39 



Next John Erb offered to wager that Fulford could not kill 94 



out of 100 birds, and Chas. M. Hedden offered an even bet that he 

 would not kill 92, The telephone man accepted both offers and 

 lost both bets, as the following table will show: 



Fulford 1 22110212 1 1 HI 101 12 1 11122 - 33 



211111211 0112101111 1 21211-23 

 0122110111 22 11 11 101 1111 12—22 

 1101111111111221211101110—22—90 

 The day was cold and raw, with a light wind trom thf left- 

 quarter, and the birds as a whole were by no means a crack lot. 



The Winterset Gun Club. 



Winterset, la. Feb. 11.— About forty-two miles southwest of 

 Des Moines, on a branch of the Great Rock Island R. R., a thriv- 

 ing city of 3,000 people is found, and among the aforesaid 3,000 

 have been sifted out 10 sportsmen who have organized a club for 

 the purpose of protecting game by insisting on an enforcement of 

 the game laws, and also for the pleasure of its members, as well 

 as their advancement of the art of trap-shooting. A constitution 

 and by-laws have been adopted, and on Jan. 15 they held their 

 initial shoot for the club medal, each man shooting at 11 live 

 birds: 



Si H.Dow 8, L. T. Dow 4, W. P. Fagan 9, Dr. Davisson 7, H. Ely 

 6, H. E. Goshorn It 



Jan. 22, 15 Peorias: Davison 10, J. H. Dow 7, Goshorn 10, Fagan 

 10. Ely 5. 



Jan. 28, 10 live birds, 2 moneys, entrance 50 cents: M. Fagan 8, 

 W. Fagan 9, Bush 7, Ely 4, Goshorn 3, Da visson 7, Mardis 4, J. H. 

 Dow 9. Second div. 



Same day, at 10 Peorias for practic : J. H. Dow 8, Davison 7, 

 Mardis 4, Goshorn 6, Ely 5, Bush 6. W. Fagan 3. M. Fagan 7. 



Feb. 2. 12 Peorias, for modal: J. H. Dow 10, W. Fagan 11, Ely 6, 

 Goshorn 8. J. H. D. 



Proposed Dexter Park Shooting League. 



Louis Miller, the genial proprietor of Dexter Park, announces 

 that to promote interest in trap snooting, and to bring the many 

 clubs which meet at Dexter Park into a closer .bond of good fel- 

 lowship, it has been suggested to form a union of clubs to be 

 known as the Dexter Park Shooting League; to hold five shoots 

 in March, May, July, September and November; teams of 10 men, 

 10 birds each; no entrance fee; modified Hurlingham rules. If 

 five or more clubs are willing to form the league, Mr. Miller will 

 donate a 8150 trophy, the kind and design to be chosen by the 

 clubs. The highest aggregate score shall decide the winning 

 team; a tie shall be shot off at 3 birds each man. Each club shall 

 send a list of their team and alternates by March 10. 



The Amateur Gun Club. 



Tbe Amateur Gun Club held an opon shoot on its Fifth avenue 

 grounds in Newark, N. J., on Feb. 13, about half a dozen mem- 

 bers being present. The main feature was a team match for a 

 supper, which resulted as below, each man shooting at 25 clay 

 pigeons: 



Rist 14 Gehring 17 



Lunn 12 McKeone 9 



Limpert 8-34 Huxter 10—36 



\n%wt\n to ^arrespandmts. 



No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents. 



H. W. R., New Haven, Conn. —The hooks you send are used for 

 dressing flies on. 



W. J. L., Attleboro, Mass.— What would probably be the result 

 of introducing California trout into a small stream which is also 

 being stocked with native trout? Would either species be liable 

 to exterminate or in any way interfere with the increase of the 

 other species? Ans. If the stream is suitable for brook trout it 

 will probably not be adapted to the rainbow, and the latter will 

 make its way down stream and off to see as soon as possible. 

 There is no natural antagonism between the two, but the Cali- 

 fornia trout grows big, has a voracious appetite, and would soon 

 consume all the food supply of the waters provided it remained 

 long enough, which is always a matter of doubt when there is 

 danger of a famine. 



Dowitcheb., New York. — 1. I have lately become possessed of a 

 12-gauge, S0m., 7J4lb. breech-loading shotgun which is marked on 

 rtb and lock-places "The Continental," and on tbe tang of the 

 false breech are stamped the letters "S. J. D." Can you tell me 

 who makes these guns, and if there is any depot or agency for 

 them iu New York? I think it is a Belgian machine-made gun. 

 Though cheap, it is a smootb -working, well fitted weapon, and as 

 far as shooting qualities go it is the best gun f have ever shot 

 with. The right barrel is bored cylinder (or a modification of a 

 cylinder) and the left barrel is a full choke, and wouderfullv 

 effective. 2. What would you consider a proper charge for such 

 a gun? I mean of black powder. 3. In loading shells, bow much 

 pressure is it necessary to put on the wads which cover the pow- 

 der? Some men I know ram them very hard, while others merely 

 press them home. 4. What size grain of powder is most effective 

 in such a gun? Ans. 1. The gun is Belgian made. The agents in 

 this city are Wiebush & Hilger. 84 Cnambers street. 2. 3 to oj^drs. 

 according to game. 3. It is not necessary to pound the wads, 

 but they should he firmly seated. 4. A large, slow-burning pow- 

 der, such as Dupont's ducking No. 3, or some corresponding size 

 by any reliable powder maker. 



CAMPAIGNING WITH CROOK. 



THERE are few officers in the army wiio have had a longer or 

 wider experience of field service in the West— the rough 

 and ready campaigning which so little resembles civilized war- 

 fare—than Capt. John G. Bourke, and there are few who have so 

 ready a pen. and can employ it to such good purpose. For this 

 reason, if for no other, his last work, "On the Border With 

 Crook,"' published by the Scribners, will have a peculiar interest 

 for a large class of readers. There are many other reasons why 

 the b iok should interest the public. General Crook was to most 

 minds an ideal soldier. He had fought in many fields, for his 

 military service lasted nearly forty years, and all of this, excepting 

 the portion spent in the Civil war, was passed in handling the dif- 

 ficult problems of the Indian question. This was done so success- 

 fully as to call forth from General Sherman the statement that 

 Crook was the greatest Indian fighter and manager the Army of 

 tbe United States had ever had. 



The present volume does not profess to be a biography of Gen- 

 eral Crook, but is rather descriptive of the regions in which his In- 

 dian campaigns were carried on, of the people both red and white 

 with whom he was brought in contact, the difficulties which he 

 met with and how he overcame them, and a sketch of the princi- 

 ples which guided him in his intercourse with various wild tribes 

 which he met in his long service. 



No man is better qualified than Captain Bourke to write of all 

 these matters, for during ail the Indian campaigns made bv 

 Crook, as weU as in all the efforts which he made to reclaim the 

 Indian from savagery and lead him into the paths of civiliza- 

 tion, the author was by his side, a member of his militarv family. 

 His account of his commander shows that General Crook was not 

 merely a soldier, anxious only for military success. He was also 

 a man of most kindly nature and tender heart, considerate oi 

 those whom he had vanquished, and intelligent in his apprecia- 

 tion of the needs and capabilities of the aborigines. 



The story here told by Captain Bourke extends over more than 

 twenty years, and for all who desire to know something about the 

 settlement and building up of our Western country will have a 

 deep interest. It tells of scenes and events that sound strangely 

 enough to ears accustomed only to the sounds of civilized life. 

 Here is his description of Old Camp Grant: 



"There were three kinds of quarters at Old Camp Grant and he 

 who was reckless enough to make choice of one parsed tbe rest of 

 his existence while at the post, in growling at the better luck of 

 tbe comrades who had selected either one of the others. 



"There was the adobe house, built originally for the kitchens of 

 the post at the date of its first establishment sometime in 1857; 

 there were the 'jaeal' shedsbuilt[of uprightlogs chinked with mud 

 and roofed with small branches and more mud, and the tents, 

 long since 'condemned' and forgotten by the quartermasters to 

 whom they bad originally been invoiced. Eacn and all of these 

 examples of the Renaissance style of architecture as it found ex- 

 pression in the valley of the G-ila, was provided with a K ramada' 



in front, which at a small expenditure of labor in erecting a few 

 additional upright saplings and cross pieces, and a covering of 

 Cottonwood foliage secured a modicum of shelter from the fierce 

 shafts of a sun which shone not to warm and enlighten but to 

 enervate and kill. 



"The occupants of the ragged tentage found solace in tbe pure 

 air which merrily tossed the flaps and flies, even if it brought 

 with it rather more than a fair share of heat and alkali dust from 

 the deserts of Sonora. Furthermore, there were few insects to 

 bother, a pleasing contrast to the fates of those living in the 

 houses, which were veritable museums of entomology, with the 

 choicest specimens of centipedes, scorpions, 'vinagrones,' and oc- 

 casionally tarantulas, which the Southwest could produce. 



"On the other hand the denizens of the adobe and the \iacal 

 outfits' became inured to insect pests and felicitated themselves 

 as best they could on being free from the merciless glare of the 

 sun and wind, which latter with its hot breath soemed to take de- 

 light in peeling the skin from the necks and faces of all upon 

 whom it could exert its nefarious power." * * * 



"Camp Grant, was a hotbed of the worst kind of fever aud ague, 

 the disease which made many portions of southern Arizona 

 almost uninhabitable during the summer and fall months of the 

 year. There was nothing whatever to do except scout after hostile 

 Apaches, who were very bold and kept the garrison fully occupied. 

 With sickness, heat, bad water, flies, sand storms and utter isola- 

 tion, life would have been dreary and dismal were it not for the 

 novelty which helped out the determination to make the best of 

 everything. First of all there was the vegetation, different from 

 anything to be seen east of the Missouri; the statuesque 'pitahyas' 

 with luscious fruit; the massive biznagas, whose juice is made 

 into a very palatable candy by the Mexicans; the bear's i?raes or 

 palmilla; the Spanish bayonet, the palo verde, the various varie- 

 ties of cactus "principal among them being the nopal, or plate, 

 and the cholla, or nodula, which possesses the decidedly objection- 

 able quality of separating upon the slightest provocation and 

 sticking to whatever may be nearest; the meequite, with 

 palatable gum and nourishing beans; the mescal, beautiful to 

 look upon and grateful to the Apaches, of whom it is the main food 

 supply; the scrub oak, the juniper, cottonwood, ash, sycamore, 

 and lastly, the pine, growing on the higher points of the environ- 

 ing mountains were all noted, examined and studied so far as op- 

 portunity would admit. 



"And so with the animal life. The deer of the strange variety 

 called the mule, the coyotes, badgers, pole cats, rabbits, gophers 

 —but not the prairie dog, which for some reason never understood 

 by me does not cro=s into Arizona, or to be more accurate, does 

 just cross over the New Mexico boundary at Fort Bowie in the 

 southwest and at Tom Ream's ranch in the Mcqui country in the 

 extreme northeast." 



To call attention to all the interesting scenes from wild life 

 which are so graphically pictured in Capt. Bourke's last book 

 would require greater space than we can give. It treats of his- 

 tory that is recent,. and at the same time is ancient in the sense 

 that it can never return. Such hiato-y is being rapidly forgot ten 

 and we should be grateful to those who record these interesting 

 events. "On the Border With Crook" deserves a wide circulation. 



1 have seen numerous specimens of our saurian no longer 

 than an ordinary lead pencil; this was in the season of their 

 hatching. I have also seen a few living specimens about 

 16ft. in length. In the autumn of 1875 I obtained for the 

 late Effingham Lawrence, member of Congress and Commis- 

 sioner from Louisiana to the Centennial Exhibition, the 

 dried skin of an alligator, which, after at least 15in. had 

 been cut from the snout and skull, still measured 17ft. lOin. 

 in length. Allowing more than Bin. for shrinkage in dry- 

 ing, this monster of his kind alive must have measured 

 more than 20ft. He was killed in the lower part of Bayou 

 Lafourche. Probably the largest alligator ever seen in 

 .Louisiana was killed in a small lake on the plantation of H. 

 J. Eeltus, in Concordia parish. According to the statement 

 of Mr. Feltus, now of Baton Rouge, this specimen measured 

 22ft. in length. The great reptile had long been famous for 

 miles around, having destroyed numbers of hogs and 

 bounds owned in the neighborhood of his retreat. He had 

 become so wary, from the number of ineffectual shots fired 

 at him, as to be almost unapproachable. Finally he fell a 

 victim to a long shot fired from a Mississippi rifle in the 

 hands of Mr. Eeltus, who persevered in bunting him, hav- 

 ing been the greatest loser by his depredations. The huge 

 carcass of this reptile was towed to the bank by a boat. It 

 requireu the strength of a pair of mules and a stout rope to 

 haul it ashore, where the measurement was made with the 

 result noted above.— Century. 



In Bald Eagle Township a certain man brought in so many 

 wildcat skins to Squire Eosser that the latter" finally began 

 to think that the woods were full of them. The Squire would 

 clip the ears off and pigeonhole them, return the hide to the 

 fellow, and in a couple of days back he would come with 

 another cat. Soon the Squire's suspicions were aroused, and 

 one day when the chap Jcame in with a cat-skin the Squire 

 made a closer examination, and found that it was the same 

 old skin, and that the 'cute individual had been manufact- 

 uring ears out of other pieces of skin and sewing them on, 

 and that he (the Squire) had been clipping off the made ears 

 and pigeonholing them.— Loc7c Haven (Pa.) Democrat. 



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