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FOREST AND STREAM. 
ISept. is, 1896. 
St. Paul Nineteenth Annual. 
St. Faxju Minn., Sept. 1.— The St. Paul Gun Club may be seen to be 
an ancient and honorable organization by reference to the fact that it 
this week held its nineteenth' annual tournament According to these 
figures the club must be at least nineteen years of age, dating, there- 
fore, back to 1877. What a world of change in shooting matters it has 
seen I I presume the club must always have given good tournaments 
—at least it has the reputation of having done so— but do doubt its 
early tournaments must have been crude affairs compared to the sys- 
tematic and methodical modern tournament of 1896. This year's 
shoot is as good as any it has ever held— probably the best one it ever 
held— for, though the figures of former years are not at hand, the entry 
of 50 shooters on the first day is a large one. 
The twin cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis have a pleasant custom 
of taking a rest now and then and indulging in festivities of a purely 
holiday character. They made all sorts of schemes for having a big 
good time, from harvest festivals to ice carnivals. This week is a 
great one for the twin metropoles. Each city vies with the other, as 
usual. In magnificence and liberality. St. Paul has the G. A. R. en- 
campment, and Minneapolis the Knights of Pythias, each city being a 
swarm of uniformed men, brass bands, parades, review stands, ice 
cream booths, and orators. There is a cloud of smoke all day and a 
pillar of red fire all night. There are a king and a queen 
of the carnival, chosen to preside over the nightly specta- 
cles of joy and the long lines of illumined floats, and there 
are numbers of other kings and queens who preside elsewhere. 
Everybody is smiling and happy and brightly dressed, and both these 
towns are working their hardest and spending thousands of dollars 
daily in heroic effort to go through a vast daily programme of en- 
tertainment. Besides the two great encampments, the State Fair of 
Minnesota, itself a si eat thing, is in progress during this week. As 
neither of the two cities could corral the fair, they concluded to let it 
be held exactly halfway between the two cities, at Hamline, easily 
accessible by electric lines and railroads. Here there is a further 
daily struggle to work off a big programme of amusement. There 
are bicycle races and horse races and foot races and Indian la crosse 
games and parades and reviews and contests and displays of all 
sorts to stand as proof of the joy of the vast farming population of 
the grand State of Minnesota that the harvest Is over and the fall 
shooting season at hand. All over the great fair grounds are all sorts 
of quaint, queer; ingenious and instructive things. You can buy sev- 
eral kinds of cider, and plenty of ice cream, and considerable pie and 
peanuts and extraordinarily bad coffee, and a lot of things. You can 
see self-binders and seeders and buskers and stackers and threshers 
and rakers and diggers and pickers and all sorts of things now need- 
ful in the touch-the-button farming of to-day. It is easy to be a 
farmer now, it is all done by machinery. I think I shall go into farm- 
ing, because all the hard work a farmer has to do nowadays is to go 
to church or to talk politics. 
Up on the hill at the State Fair grounds, beyond the wagon and 
st^am engines, and the tents of the mammoth ox and the two-headed 
rooster and the fat lady, are the grounds of the St. Paul Gun Club, 
where the annual tournament is now in progress. Here there is a 
very comfortable club house and a railing to keep out the surging 
crowd of spectators. The grounds lie on top of an eminence offering 
a good light and a fair background, and everything is very carefully 
arranged for the comfort of the many shooters in attendance, the 
platforms, walks, sheds, benches, etc., being very well planned. 
The tournament was at targets only, and was announced to be under 
A. S. A. rules, though it is to be observed that lO gauge guns shot 
through at the same score with IS-gaugers. Bluerocks were used, 
shot at 8 cents, and at two sets of traps, or rather at one set of traps 
(known angles) and one magautrap. Paul North, of the Cleveland Tar- 
get Co., superintended the magautrap personally, and one must say 
it worked handsomely, breaking almost no targets, and causing no 
trouble except an occasional balk by the puller, who sometimes grew 
erratic in his elbow. The old-fashioned and soon to be obsolete sys- 
tem of class shooting was adhered to, except that on the second day 
the equitable system was used in the first two events and the Rose 
system in the next two following. The choice of systems was left to 
the shooters following that. Winners of first money w»re handi- 
capped 2yd8. in the following event. This was hard on Charlie Budd, 
who had to stand back behind the others so much so he could not talk 
to McMurchy and Heikes at the firing line. Thus it may be seen that 
the nineteenth annual shoot of the St. Paul Gun Club was about as 
well arranged a shoot as the average modern tournament, with 
abundant indication of a leaning to still more modern methods. Next 
year, let us hope, it will cast aside fears and come out for the Rose 
system flat-footed. 
The State championship event of the second day, for the diamond 
badge indicative of the individual State championship, made 
a change in the monotony of a stiff target programme— indeed too, 
stiff a programme, for 200 birds a day is too much shooting, especially 
where there are so many counter attractions as there are here at the 
State Fair. It ties a man fast to the traps all day and makes the 
"sport" not sport, but plain hard work. The State championship 
event was at 26 singles and 12 pairs, known angles (conditions not so 
bard and not so modem as such an event should carry), for an en- 
trance of $6.50. A list of prizes followed down to the sixth place, 
among these a silver-trimmed cigar case for second place by Parker 
Bros. In the general average prizes there was a list covering the 
places from first to twenty-fourth, so that nearly everybody had a 
chance to get something to take home to the babies, from a plush lap 
robe to a negligee shirt. It would seem that the merchandise prize is 
still with us, but after awhile it too vrtll go. Among the more im- 
portant average prizes were the following: First, fine ejector hammer- 
less gun, "B" grade, 12-gauge, presented by Remington Arms Co., 
value 875; second, cash by the club, $50; third, $40; fourth, 835; fifth, 
fine Elliot pattern repeating shotgun, 12 gauge, presented by Winches- 
ter Repeating Arms Co., value $47; sixth, cash by the club, $30; 
seventh, $20; eighth, $15; nintb, $10. 
My ancient friend of the merchandise prize fist, the silk umbrella, 
was in the list, and so was the hard hat. but I do not see any bottle of 
liniment. I was at a shoot once where the merchandise prizes included 
a bottle of liniment, and since then I have always thought that no 
such list was really complete without a bottle of liniment It is singu- 
larly appropriate, moreover, for the man who has fallen down Into 
twenty-fourth place. The ancient Romans had the pleasant motto 
"FcE metis" which being interpreted means, freely speaking, "Swat 
the under dog." Managements offering plunder lists to jolly along 
twenty-fourth men through 600 targets should always, in my opinion, 
offer a bottle of liniment or ointment, or something of that sort, for 
twenty-fourth place, so as to offer reproof to the brutal Romans. 
The Romans never aeked a disinterested and harmless men's furnish- 
ing goods dealer for a silk umbrella or a Derby hat to jolly along a 
sore gladiator, but in many ways the Romans were behmd the times, 
even the times of yesterday. 
An innovation in methods was practiced by the oflScers of the shoot. 
No squad cards were used in scoring, and all the scores were kept as 
shot upon the blackboard only, the blackboard being covered by a 
piece of paper and ruled similarly, a fresh sheet being tacked on for 
each event. At th« end of the event the sheet was taken down and 
handed to the cashier and assistants, who copied the totals of each 
man into the record book. This was an experiment, but It served to 
save time and confusion. 
There was a strong attendance of stiff Western shooters, such as 
Mayor H. B. Jewell, of Wabasha; J. H. Block, of St. Peter; M. Trent, 
of Wadena; M. Jones, of Atwater; J. Dodge, of Duluth, etc., etc. P. 
O'Shaughnessy came all the way from Bismarck, N. D ; E. J. Graham 
from Rosedale, Mich., and Willard Thomas from Indiana. Fred. Gil- 
bert was not present from his Iowa home, being absent with Mr, E. S. 
Rice on a chicken hunt. The old guard was represented by McMurchy, 
of the Hunter Arms Co., Rolla Heikes and Charlie Budd. The Twin 
Cities sent a large and hard shooting contingent of gentlemen, who 
united in making things pleasant for visitors. 
There were two lady shooters present, though one of them, Mrs, 
W. P. Shattuck, did not enter in any of the events. The other lady is 
a very desirable accession to the ranks of trap-shooters, a very bright, 
graceful and pleasant personage, and of course popular at once 
among the gallant shooters. This was Mrs. D. H. Day, of Dulutb, 
who has been shooting for less than a year, but who goes into the 66 
per cent, class readily enough. This was Mrs. Day's first tournament 
away from home, and she seemed to enjoy the fun very much. Mrs. 
Day was coached by her husband, Dr. Day, a very pleasant gentle- 
man, though also a very unfortunate one. Dr. Day recently in course 
of the practice of his profession Incurred blood poisoning and was 
obliged to suffer amputation of two fingers of his right hand. He 
fears this will deprive him of his profession of dentistry. Let him at 
least take heart that it will not debar him from shooting, for many 
men even more unfortunate have become very proficient with the 
gun. Besides, as he himself says, he takes as much pleasure in see- 
ing Mrs. Day shoot as though he were doing it himself. Mrs, Day has 
a fine position at the trap and will be a good shot as soon as she has a 
proper gun that fits her. 
Mr. B. F, Schurmeier, Dr. Lyons, Mr. Kennedy and all others con- 
nected with the management were efficient and courteous in their 
several parts, and aided respectively in establishing the smoothness 
of detaifwhich made the St. Paul nineteenth annual up to date. It 
was a shooters' shoot and a success worthy of either or both the Twin 
Cities, which are the homes of jollification, good times and successes. 
Following are the scores: 
1 fJ 
5 6 7 S 9 10 
Events: 
Catamaran ]3 11 18 13 15 .. ., ,. .. 
Budd 30 17 17 13 17 23 iS SO 33 20 
Hopkins.,,,, , 18 14 8(1 18 HI 81 7 J6 W 
Graham 13 
McMurchy ^. 13 
Thomas., 12 
Bennett 12 
Robinhood.. 13 
Stone 18 
Goldbug. IS 
North 12 
O'Shaughnessy, , IS 
Woodbury i 8 
McHay ........^ 9 
Rose , 10 
Ensign 13 
Hub 14 
Rodecker 10 
Dodge 13 
Baldwin, Sr , 10 
Heikes 13 
Baldwin, Jr.,... 9 
Bold 7 
Pahner IS 
Boland.,,.. 8 
Block 11 
Novotny... 7 
Redfem 13 
Shell 15 
Potorson , , i^vu s »-»■■• * • • • ■ 1 1 < H 
Daley 11 
Jones.,.. 13 
Bird 12 
Wilson 1.1 
Pat 10 
Duchess 9 
Holt .....,..,,,....4<„ 9 
Main , 8 
Mahoney,,.,..,,,... 11 
Burke .^.^.4^.., 14 
Allen ,., 18 
Sandstone, 8 
Thielman , 9 
Rox .... .. f . »-^* ■ , * . IS 
Weiland, i..... . . 
Markham , 
Bloxam 
18 
31 
15 
20 
33 
10 
19 
18 
17 
19 
26 
14 
18 
22 
14 
19 
33 
19 
12 
18 
9 
13 
16 
18 
10 
16 
19 
13 
17 
31 
19 
16 
19 
13 
19 
18 
14 
18 
33 
17 
15 
18 
11 
13 
16 
10 
9 
81 
14 
16 
23 
14 
16 
16 
14 
14 
17 
15 
13 
17 
9 
16 
20 
7 
16 
18 
14 
15 
81 
18 
19 
17 
■11 
18 
18 
8 
20 
8 
11 
15 
19 
10 
18 
18 
11 
19 
20 
13 
16 
19 
17 
17 
88 
12 
13 
19 
9 
17 
20 
15 
17 
20 
18 
20 
31 
13 
19 
33 
16 
19 
19 
12 
15 
20 
7 
16 
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19 
20 
13 
17 
33 
15 
19 
20 
18 
16 
14 
9 
13 
17 
5 
10 
17 
33 
14 
18 
20 
14 
15 
23 
19 
9 
18 
14 
13 
14 
IS 
11 
19 
7 
17 
83 
8 
20 
18 
18 
13 
30 
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18 
18 
11 
18 
28 
13 
16 
18 
18 
10 
10 
9 
10 
14 
25 
IS 
19 
19 
18 
19 
19 
10 
18 
11 
8 
10 
19 
13 
15 
19 
16 
11 
14 
15 
16 
17 
10 
15 
81 
13 
38 
31 
15 
15 
20 
12 
15 
32 
11 
20 
27 
16 
16 
18 
11 
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16 
22 
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17 
28 
13 
15 
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14 
18 
19 
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34 
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18 
21 
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15 
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SECOND DAT. 
The highest scores for the three days were made by the following 
shooters: McMurchy Ist, Heikes 2d, Budd 33, Dodge 4t.h, Hub 5th, 
Robin Hood 6th, Burke 7th. Wilson 8th, Bennett 9th, Rose 10th, Bud 
11th, Gold Bug 12th, Baldwin 13th. The scores made yesterday in the 
final eventiS were as follows, the events being the 19th and 29th, inclu- 
sive. Four were at 25 singles, three at 20 singles, and four at 15 singles. 
The first event was at known angles and the second at unknown an- 
gles, successively. 
Events: 12 3 46 6 78 9 10 11 
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Targets; 
Harris 
Robin Hood., 
Bennett , 
Stone 
Heikes 
Graham 
Burke .,, 
Budd 
Thomas 
McMurchy . . , 
Hub 
Wilson 
Taylor , 
Carlton 
Bird 
Peck 
Wood 
Dodge 
Gray 
Goldbug,.... 
Rose 
Peterson,..,. 
Houston 
Baldwin, Sr, , 
McAndrews. . 
Pat 
Baldwin, Jr .....4,. 
Ludringson 
Daley 
North 
Gramm .4.,;. 
O'Shaughnessy 4 . i-i . i 
Mc Andrews 
Peck , 
9 11 
13 17 
9 16 
9 13 
13 18 
12 18 
11 15 
13 15 
11 17 
14 19 
18 13 
15 14 
13 14 
14 ,. 
18 17 
18 .. 
12 16 
15 15 
8 .. 
10 13 
13 18 
10 ., 
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6 10 
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14 
20 
20 
31 
85 
21 
18 
21 
20 
23 
18 
21 
21 
15 SO 35 
6 15 14 
12 17 17 
14 19 13 
8 
16 SO 25 15 SB 
7 16 
13 15 8S 8 19 
13 13 32 10 19 
20 
31 
18 
13 
18 18 23 
11 17 83 
12 15 39 
12 19 22 
8 14 ., 
12 19 23 
12 15 17 
12 16 16 
11 15 .. 
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14 16 16 
9 .. .. 
10 9 .. 
14 18 17 
6 .. ,. 
8 7 21 
18 15 19 
12 15 25 13 24 
14 14 17 36 21 
10 17 19 14 19 
14 18 31 15 33 
13 16 22 ii 20 
13 14 21 15 24 
13 8 22 7 19 
13 .. 21 ., 31 
11 is 22 io 80 
9 
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18 i3 if is 33 
33 18 20 10 18 
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NOTES AND INCIDENTS. 
By evening of the second day, Tuesday, the cities of St. Paul and 
Minneapolis were crowded almost to their limits by the throngs of 
visitors from all over the country who came either to the G. A. R. or 
K. of P. encampments or to the State Fair. Each train brought many 
more people, until it was next to impossible to get about on the 
streets. Arrangements for handling these crowds were pitiably inad- 
equate. The Interurban car line between the two cities was the only 
route the shooters could take from the grounds, and the cars on this 
line went by in lines, one after the other, loaded down so that the 
shooters had to wait often over an hour by the roadside before they 
could crowd into a car. There was great popular dissatisfaction over 
this very unfortunate state of affairs. 
On the first day Heikes was unable to get his trunk at his hotel, and 
was forced to use a job lot of ammunition which proved no good. 
Budd also shot badly for a while. McMurchy was steady and went 
far ahead on the grand average. On the second day both Budd and 
Heikes began to pull up to McMurchy, but at evening he still led them 
by something like 18 or 14 birds, and was thought safe for first on 
grand average. 
On the second day, It being left to a vote of the shooters, the Rose 
system was continued in use and gave satisfaction. Budd said that 
under the old system he made on Monday about $86 clear, and on 
Tuesday, under the Rose System, he made about $34 clear. The 
Rose system is bound to be tde next thing in trap-shooting. 
The weather was good, bright and calm Monday, but windy on 
Tuesday, when the shooting was hard. 
The individual State championship was won by W. M. Taber. of 
Park Rapids, with the score of 88 out of 50, the lowest score ever snot 
to win this trophy. The high wind accounted for the low scores. 
Mr. Day shot under the name of Duchess, one the boys were willing 
to call appropriate. In the State championship race Mr. Day scored 
25 out or the 50. 
The attendance at the shoot would have been much better had it 
not fallen directly at the date of the opening of the game season. 
This is a great country for field shooters, and all were eager to get 
out for a go at real feathers. It is good to be able to say that the 
Minnesota shooters will have more game this fall than they have had 
for the past ten years, 
Paul North wore his bicycle suit, which displays him to be built like 
a hired man. 
"Hank McMurchy, the Syracuse crackerjack," is what a local paper 
called him. 
Roger Kennedy proved himself an able cashier, and pleased every- 
body at the window. 
B. F. Schurmeier was general hustler and manager-In chief at the 
scores, 
John F. Burkhardt appears in the new role of newspaper man, 
being publisher of the Western Field and Strea7ii, a bright monthly 
whi^ bears no less a name than that of Chas. Hallock as editor, as 
well as that of Mark Biff, a young lawyer of St. Paul. Mr. Burk- 
hardt is welcome to the broad and flowery path of newspaper work. 
Mayor H. B. Jewell, of Wabasha, is Wapahasa In the game and 
shooting columns of Forest and Stream, and well known by that 
title. Mr, Jewell's style at the score is singular. He points his gun 
at the ground inside the trap line when calling "Pull !" Most men 
cover the field above the traps. 
Pa Baldwin was there, as usual. 
Block, of St. Peter, is one of the town's solid citizens. He weighs 
about 3801 bs. 
It takes the Twin Cities to get up a crowd. It was like World's Fair 
times. One rarely has a better chance to observe the serious and 
businesslike way in which the American citizen sets about having a 
good time than was afforded here this week. 
After the shoot McMurchy goes to Duluth; then to Atwater, Minn , 
for a chicken shoot; then to Clear Lake, la., for a visit with Charlie 
Grimm until it is time to go to the Schmelzar shoot at Kansas City. 
Budd was called home and could not go chicken shooting. Heikes 
stayed over for a chicken hunt with Fred and Dick Merrill and the 
writer, west of St. Paul. Two days after the shoot would have found 
few of the trap-shooters at home, for alt had joioed the general 
exodus for the prairies and stubbles, J3. RnoftR. 
J398 BoYCJii BTODtNfi, Chloftgo, 
Calumet Heifirlits Gun Club. 
Chicago, HI., Aug. SO.— The regular medal contest of the Calumet 
Heights Gun Club took place to-day. S. M. Booth was the winner In 
class A with 24 out of 25; Hodson, In class B, made the same score, 
losing his 23d target, and winning the medal in that class. Harlan, of 
class C, won the medal in that class by defeating his solitary opponent. 
Chamberlain, by the score of 18 to 17. T he conditions of the shoot 
are 35 targets per man, known traps and unknown angles. Scores: 
G C Lamphere v.. '• • . .0111111111111011111101010-20 
S M Bootb , 7 1111111111111111111101111-34 
A C Paterson 0111011111111101111111101-81 
Class B, 
Houston 1100110111000111100101110-15 
Hodson 1111111111111111111111011-24 
Harper - 1010000001001010111110011—12 
Metcalfe ,.i.ii,.....,i.,,0111010100011111100001011— 14 
Norcum 4.. i..,i^i.r.v.sw«*u.... 1111101111011111111101111-33 
Whitman , 1010111110111101101011000-16 
G1&6S O 
Harlan ■,...1101101101110111111010101-18 
Chamberlain 1101110101001110011111101-17 
Two team races were shot during the afternoon. The first resulted 
as follows: 
Patterson's team: Patterson 8, H. Carson 8, Hodson 6, Metcalfe 6, 
Houston 5, Chamberlain 4—37, 
Lamphere's team: Lamphere 8, Norcom 5, Harlan 5, Harper 5, 
Booth 4, Whitman 4 - 31 . 
The second team race was at 10 targets per man, as the above, but 
the 10 targets were shot under the conditions known as "snipe 
shooting." At this style of shooting Lamphere's team put up the 
score of 43 out of 60, defeating Patterson's team handsomely. Scores: 
Lamphere's team: Lamphere 10, Norcom 10, Booth 8, Harlan 7, 
Harper 6, Whitman 8—43. 
Patterson's team: Hodson 6, Metcalfe 6, H. Carson 6, Patterson 5, 
Houston 5, Chamberlain 3-31. 
Four events were also shot, the conditions of these events being as 
below: No. 1, 15 targets; Nos. 3 and 8, handicap events at 85 targets. 
Class A men shooting at 35 targets, Clas? B at 87 and Class C at 30; 
No. 4 was at 85 targets, unknown angles. Scores: 
Events: 1 3 3 4 Events: 1 i8 3 4 
Targets: IS SS SB SB 
Patterson ,,,, 11 19 28 .. 
Booth.................. 13 15 19 19 
Harlan 10 12 9 ,, 
Houston 10 19 20 14 
Targets: 15 25 25 SB 
Chamberlain 5 17 38 .. 
Norcom 14 34 18 
Metcalfe.,. 10 17 13 20 
Hodson 13 
Whitman,, 
• Hit ■ 
6 ,', , , .. Lamphere, 
13 31 31 
Pattt, 
Grand Rapids versus Holland. 
Grand Rapids, Aug. 29.— The Valley City Gun Club of this place 
has held the five-men team championship of Michigan sin "e winning 
it from Battle Creek in 1895. The club was recently challengpd by 
the Holland Gun Club, and the contest came off to-day. The result, 
a tie, was very unsatisfactory to both clubs, and it was at once 
arranged to try Issues again on Sept. 13. The score was much lower 
than has ever won the trophy, and was remarkable for being a lie on 
both singles and on doubles. No excuses can be made; weather and 
all conditions never were more favorable for a high score, but, for 
some unaccountable reason, every man was unable to reach his 
regular average. Even Messrs. Karstens and Van Byck, usually 
handling their guns like professionals, shot well In the preliminary 
sweeps, but fell down in the main event. We do not know so mucn 
about the shooting qualities of the rest of the visitors, the two named 
having shot with ua before, but all failed to maintain the reputation 
they were credited with. With the exception of Mr. Gotild, who took 
the place of Mr. Gilmore on the home team, it was made up as usual, 
and no excuses can be made for the result. 
There is no other club to whom we would rather lose the cup than 
the Holland gentlemen, and their next visit will be welcome. 
Valley City Gun Club. 
Gould 001010101011101100011010111111—18 
10 10 10 10 00 11 10 11 11 10 —18-30 
Wharton 110011101101101011111101101100-20 
11 10 10 11 11 11 10 10 10 11 —15- 35 
Widdicomb 111110111010111101111011011111-24 
10 11 11 10 11 10 10 10 10 10 —13-37 
Walton 101011101010111111111110111100-82 
11 10 11 II 10 10 11 11 10 11 —16-. 38 
Coleman 111111110111111010111110101110-24 
10 10 01 10 00 10 10 00 10 00 — 7-31-171 
Holland Gun Club. 
Karstens 111010111110111111110110101011-23 
10 10 11 11 11 01 11 11 11 10 -18-39 
Ferguson -. 110011110101011110111011011001-20 
10 10 01 00 10 10 11 11 11 10 —18—33 
VanEyct 101110111110111111011111111111-86 
11 10 11 30 11 11 10 10 00 01 —13-89 
DeRoo 100111110110101100111010010101—17 
10 00 10 11 10 11 10 10 10 11 —12-29 
Arleth 101111100110011111101011111101—22 
30 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 00 10 —10-32—171 
C. F, Rood, See'y. 
Lynchburg Gun Club. 
LYNCHBaKO, Va., Sept, 3.— Unknown angles, A. A. rules: 
Events: 1 2 S 4 S 
Targets: SO SO lo SB 95 
Nelson. 16 17 4 19 23 
Terry..,..,,.-. 17 14 8 18 18 
DoroiQ 18 19 6 38 83 
Moorman ....IE 16 7 21 20 
Events: 1 2 3 4 5 
Targets: SO SO 10 S5 i6 
MiUer ,....,17 15 6 10 19 
Cleland,,,.;i.iiri...lO 13 7 15 ,. 
Durphy 13 13 5 17 IT 
F. M. D. 
PUBLISHERS' DEPARTMENT. 
Good News from South Dakota. 
The glorious results of this season's harvest of golden grain will 
pour a stream of sound money into the pockets of every Dakota 
farmer. 
South Dakota has thousands of acres of choice farming and ranch 
land lying east of the Missouri River, and within one day's ride from 
Chicago or Milwaukee, which can now be bought reasonably cheap, 
but which before the end of another year may be advanced in price. 
The stock raising industry In South Dakota is profitable, and East- 
ern capital is now being invested in cattle and sheep grovping in that. 
State. 
Diversified farming, the growing of live stock and the products of 
the dairy are placing South Dakota foremost in the ranks of the suc- 
cessful Western States. ^ , . 
Those desiring full information on the subject, and particularly 
those who wish to seek a new home or purchase land, are requested 
to correspond with W. E. Powell, General Immigration Agent, 410 Old 
Colony Building, Chicago, III., or to the local agent of the Chicago, 
Milwaukee & Sc. Paul Railway.— ^dv. 
The Baker Gunlll Quarterly. 
"The Baker Gun Quarterly" for August is full of information 
relative to Baker guns. The first article is by A. R King, of Syra- 
cuse, who brings out strongly the good features of the Baker hammer- 
less. On another page notice is given of the company's intention to 
discontinue the manufacture of hammer guns. Owing to this fact, 
an excellent opportunity is offered to purchase guns of this class at 
reduced rates. The "Q larterly" will be sent free on application to 
the Baker Gun Co., Batavia, N. Y.—Adv. 
Winchester Shot Shells. 
The Winchester Company has issued an August price list of paper 
shot shells that describes and illustrates the famous "Rival" and 
"Leader" shells, as well as the later products of the company, "Blue 
Rival," "Metal Lined" and "Repeater" shells. A table of compara- 
tive measures of nitro powders is also included. 
The circular is artistically printed, and each shell is shown In its 
particular co\ov.— Adv. 
On Sept. 6 the double summer service of the Fall River Line will be 
discontinued. The steamers Plymouth and Pilgrim will be retired 
from service, while the Priscilla and Puritan will remain in commis^ 
sion, leaving New York, as us'ial, week days and Sundays at 5:30 P. M, 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
B, D. B., New Yortt.-=Tiie snapper is the yqung bli^e^lsU, 
