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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[April g, 1898. 
OPEN EVENTS. 
No. 1, 7 birds^ $5, 30yds,: 
Gilbert ....2222222—7 Denny .2201210—5 
Qvimxd ,.....,,.1220222—6 A W du Bray 1011101—6 
Nesbit .s.i.i,,. 2222012— 6 Capt Money 2222122—7 
Paine ,v..;.»200 Glover 0210 
Eley 00 Wilson 0 
Fulford 2222222—7 Courtney 1120020-^ 
Coldren 2202122—6 Bessemer 022222 
Bre\\;er 2222222—7 Welch 2122010—5 
Rehrig 2020 Hallowell 00 
Wiedebusch 2202222—6 Schmeck 2022220—5 
Yonng 2021222—6 
No. 2, 10 birds, $10, 30yds. : 
Grimm .....2222220222— 9 Malone .0122122212—9 
Fulford 2222222222—10 Wolsencroft 1012012121— 8 
Welch 1222202111— 9 Coleman 1222202121— 9 
Anthony 202201000 Yountt 0222222222— 9 
Martin 2221220212— 9 Brewer 2220220222— S 
Elliott 2112222222—10 Du Brav 2002101212— 7 
Trimble 2222222202— 9 Nesbit ' 2110001122— 7 
Van Dyke 2202222212— 9 Rehrig 1220122022—8 
Fanning .....0220222222- 8 Thurman 2222212002—8 
Budd 2221122022— 9 Courtney 2122202010— 7 
Gilbert 2222222222—10 Coldren' 2012202212—8 
Lindsley ., 2022220220— 7 Wiedebusch 0022222212— 8' 
Money- 2222102212— 9 Stroh 2002220220— 6 
tJlover 2222220222— 9 Bessemer 2221222222—10 
Dixon 2202022202— 7 Schmeck 0222210222— 8 
Breslode 0220020120— 5 
No. 3, 10 birds, $7, 30yds. : 
Grimm ,...2022222222— 9 Fanning 2020 
Fulford .220202 Glover 2222221220— 9 
Capt Monev 2222112100— 8 Young 2022220 
Malone . . .' ....0101211 Budd 2222222222—10 
Keller 0220 Dixon 2220002 
Brewer 02220 Breslode 2202100 
Schmeck 1212222202— 9 Van Dyke 2222022220— 8 
Minick , 0202002 Wiedebusch 2022222220— S 
Martin 2221222220— 9 Anthony 002111 
Gilbert v -.2222221222-10 333 .....22222020 
Five-dollar niiss-and-out: 
Capt Money r.ll20 Brewer 222222—6 
Martin 0 East 0 
Gilbert 222222—6 Fanning 1110 
Budd 221220 Malone IIIUO 
Breslode 0 Glover 22120 
Fulford 222222-6 Martin .222222—6 
Grimm 222222—6 Breslode 120 
Anthony 111210 
Open event No.. 4 was declared off on account of darkness com- 
ing on, and the above miss-and-out substituted in its place. 
DEAD OUT OF BOUNDS. 
Mr. W. Fred Quimby, the traveling agent of the American E. C. 
and Sciiultze Powder Co., was present at Reading last week. The 
inimitable Fred seemed to think that winning a Grand _ Handicap 
is a small matter if one only starts in and concludes aright. 
Mr. J. A. H. Dressel, of the U. M. C. Co., was a visitor at Read- 
ing during a part of the tournament last week, 
Mr. T. H. Keller arrived in time to join in the pigeon contests 
of the last day, the Boston Exposition having delayed him, it 
having engaged his attention entirely during the last few weeks. 
He reports great success, and is enthusiastic over the performances 
of the Peters ammunition, which took first honors in the rifle 
competitions at the aforesaid Exposition, 
For gal! which knew no attenuation, the skirmishers at the 
Reading tournament on the last day were unequaled. A couple 
stationed themselves about 20yds. to the right of the shooters 
at the score in the open events, and proceeded to load a couple 
of pieces of rickety ironware with muzzles toward the shooters, 
their deportment being of the calm but assured kind which comes 
only from enjoving what is their own entirely, or some one's else 
entirely. The firm tones of Mr. Shaner insistently repeating the 
order "to move out was the only obstruction to their blithesome 
purpose. The fences were well guarded by skirmishers, who rarely 
let a pigeon pass their line. The death of the pigeon seemed to 
be their only care. 
Trap Around Reading. 
BIG TEAM LIVE-BIRD SHOOT. 
Reading, Pa., March 28.— A live-bird match of more than ordi- 
nary interest attracted a large number of local and out-of-town 
sportsmen, among them being a number who were here for the 
opening of the State tourn.ament at the Spring Valley Shooting 
Grounds. The match was between Coldren and Harrison, two 
local wing shots, and Eckert and Welsh, of the Riverton Gun 
Club. Each man shot at 100 live birds. The match was for $200 a 
side. Eckert, Coldren and Harrison stood at 28yds., while Welch 
stood at the 30yds. line. The best run was made by Coldren, of 27 
birds straight, while Welsh had a straight run of 24. The second 
barrel shooting of Harrison and Eckert was fine. 
Betting was very brisk at the beginning, but after the third 25 
the Coldren-Harrison money could find no takers. Mr. Charles 
W. Bechtel officiated as referee and gave entire satisfaction. 
In the first fifty birds Eckert and Welsh led by 2 birds, but m 
the third quarter they seemed to weaken, and at the 75th bird 
their opponents led by 2 birds, and thus kept at it until at the 
finish of the match. Coldren and Harrison finished 8 birds in the 
lead. The birds were a strong lot of flyers, and 16 dropped dead 
out of bounds. The dead birds were distributed among the hos- 
pitals of the city. The score in full follows: 
Coldren 28 10122022222222220022220122220122222222202012211211 
22222012111 22202212222222222212vi2l 2222222202210120— 87 
Harrison 28 . . . .20022022210222220102222222002220222222212222222222 
22222202222222222220222202222020212022222222202222—84 
171 
Eckert. 28 .22202102122021221120210211122222202022202222202022 
10222220102122222222222222220202220220221202222222—82 
Welsh, 30 21110122221222022022022222022122222122212121222211 
23022211022122022222201002202212021112001111010200—81 
163 
Dead out of bounds: Coldren 3, Harrison 3, Eckert 4, Welsh 6. 
PRACTICE AT THREE-MILE HOUSE. 
March 28. — The following practice events were shot at the.Three- 
Mile House this afternoon. The events were at 20 targets each, 
entry $2. Elmer E. Shaner acted as referee. Scores: 
Events' 1 2 3 4 5 Events: 1 2 3 4 5 
Heikes 16 19 18 19 18 "Pills" 18 15 18 18 18 
Grimm 18 16 20 19 20 Shaaber 18 14 .. 18 .. 
Gilbert 17 19 20 17 20 Brewster 20 18 .. 16 .. 
Budd 16 16 15 15 17 Burnharn 15 .. .. 14 
Elliott 14 17 18 19 18 Hallowell ....... 17 19 .. 17 
Trimble 18 17 17 IS 19 Stroh 19 
Fanning 17 14 17 18 19 
The Keystone Gun Club, of Lebanon, and the Shuler Shooting 
Association, of Pottstown, are unable to select a date and place 
for the third and final match of a series of intercity team matches 
at live birds, and it has been declared off. The Keystone Club 
won the series, being victorious in tb^ twp previous matches tiiat 
had been shot. Arthur A. Fink. 
Glenwood Gun Qub» 
NEWBtJSCH, N. Y., .March 31.— Inclosed find scores made on our 
grounds to-day, twelve members taking part and 145 bluerocks 
being thrown. Our magautrap worked finely. The special league 
tournament of the Hudson River Trap-Shooters' League will be 
held on our grounas April 14-15. The entrance is small, being 
$1; targets extra. The boys can shoot extra events for anything 
they like: 
Stanbrough ..010111111110111—12 Lewis 011110011010110-9 
Mills ... 111111111101001—12 Bartlett 110010110101110—9 
Dickson 111111110110101—12 Henderson ...010001111101011—9 
Carr 101101111011011—11 Wood 010101110010011— 8 
Stewart 110110011111011—11 Holmes ..000111010011010—7 
Hoppenstedt ..010110011110111—10 Goodrich .•,,..100001010011011—7 
Wm. M. Stanbrough, Sec'y. 
WESTERN TRAPS. 
SMOKE OF THE HANDICAP. 
Chicago, lU., March 31.— The beautiful weather with V^ich Chi- 
cago has been favored this week has caused a good many devo- ' 
tees of the trap to think about a day or two in the field after 
snipe, instead of the customary afternoon at traps. The wave 
of trap-shooting enthusiasm which reached its height at the Grand 
American Handicap last week has now settled back, and there 
is a season of reaction for the time, which will probably be felt 
until the arrangements for the season club contests have been 
completed* In Chicago shooting matters were hardly satisfactory 
during the past year, but in a city the size of this it is difficult 
to use any term which shall be universal in its application. Some 
clubs did a great deal of shooting, and some did very little. 
Some clubs enter upon this season strong and growing, while 
others are weak and lax in interest. The fate of the Cook County 
League will not be determined until next Saturday evening. I 
understand that not even yet arc all the merchandise prizes in 
the weird classification system of that body awarded-. Should 
the organization conclude to go on with its worlc it might be 
well to take the advice of many shooters, to simplif}' its dassifi- 
cations and cut free from the ancient plunder idea. There will 
be proposed next Saturday evening a different corn"se for the 
Cook County League this season. An attempt will be made 
to substitute for the Chicago club contests a series of intercity 
shoots, embracing a half dozen or more good shooting towns ad- 
jacent to Chicago. 
I have seen a number of shooters who have returned from the 
Grand American Handicap, and most of them are very philo- 
sophical oyer their failure to land the cup. I have heard person- 
ally no criticism upon the management of the Grand American 
Handicap, nor have I heard personally any complaint regarding 
the treatment of Western shooters at that event. It is not the 
custom of the thoroughbred Western man to complain after he 
has been fairly beaten in any contest. As for the talk of a lack 
of personal cotirtesy accorded Western shooters, such as came 
up last year, I trust we shall hear no more of it this season, for 
nothing could be conceived which would sliow a more execrable 
taste. It is true that the Grand American Handicap is an open 
event for all shooters, and open also to criticism; yet while 
it has been held in the East the Western men were in a sense 
guests of the East, and to complain of any personal reception 
under such circumstances is precisely the same thing as accept- 
ing an invitation to a man's table and openly complaining after- 
ward of the quality of the food offered. I trust no Eastern man 
will consider any genuine Western man as guilty of any such 
breach of form. Such action does not represent the spirit of the 
West, nor of Chicago, nor of the men who represented the West 
and Chicago at this shoot. 
I make the above remark somewhat in view of a discussion 
which has taken place to-day among many Chicago shooters in 
regard to statements published in the local columns of a Chi- 
cago daily, the Times-Herald. "Thing that is writ is writ, and 
forth it goeth, though him repent, and be he ne'er so loath." 
Sucli a statement might find its way into the hands of men who 
would not understand it so fully as. do tlie Chicago people. I 
give the story in full as printed : - ' 
"Dissatisfaction with the handicapping, conditions and manage- 
ment of the recent Grand American Handicap in the East has 
caused a secession of Western trap-shooters. Platis are being 
formulated for the organization of the Western Trap-Sliooters' 
League of America. 
"The 
C. C. Beveridge, of the Brooklyn Gun Club, was in at- 
tendance at the first practice shoot of the Centredale Gun Club 
on March 26, in his peregrinations in New England recently. A 
sharp east wind blowing at right angles across the traps knocked 
hiatuses into the scores. Mr. Beveridge's 21 out of 25 proved 
to be the high score of the meeting. It may be incidentally men- 
tioned that he won first average a few days prior, at the Boston 
Gun Club's meeting, by scoring 88 per cent, of 195 shots. He 
returns to New York this week. 
movement for a separate and distinct organization in the 
West has been fostered for several months. It broke into promi- 
nence at the Grand American Handicap held at Long Branch, 
N. J., last week. The Western shooters received poor treatment 
and charge that the allowances were unfair. It was managed by 
a clique of Eastern powder and gun companies. The prograjnme 
was withheld until too late to object to the conditions of money 
division, _ • 
"The Western shooters assert t;hey w'ill never go East to 
compete again. One man said yesterday he would not go again 
it his entire expenses were guaranteed. The Westerners are busy 
planning the new league, and expect to form a permanent organi- 
zation within a few weeks. 
"Elliott ,S. Rice, one of the local enthusiasts and a foremost 
dissenter from Eastern methods, has offered a tract of 220 acres, 
just south of Blue Island, on the Rock. Island Road, for the 
use of the new association. Part of it is now used for powder 
magazines and storage purposes. .Several buildings suitable for 
gunrooms, a club house and other fixtures are at present unoccu- 
pied, and could be utilized by the shooters. The plant is equipped 
with electric light and steam plants. It is thought $5,000 can put 
the grounds in excellent condition for the sport. 
"It is the intention of the promoters to hold an annual handicap 
tournament, similar to the Grand American, except as to condi- 
tions, manner of haitdicapping and management. Instead of but 
two high gun moneys there will be four, 40, 30, 20 and 10 per 
cent. "That will insure the twentjf-fifth, twenty-fourth, twenty- 
third and twenty-second men a part of the money, whereas only 
the two higher marks broke in at Long Branch." 
■ The organization of the Western Trap-Shooters' League is some- 
thing not of itself to be condemned out of hand. If it were well 
handled, and if it met a popular demand in the West, it might 
grow into a strong and useful body. It has this to be said 
for it, that it is a long way from here to Elkwood, and that a 
great many shooters find it difficult to go for so long and ex- 
pensive a trip. This is a big country, and in view of the great 
growth in trap-shooting matters it may be possible that two great 
handicap contests could be held each year. The history of all 
these things is practically the same, and it resembles the history 
of the Roman Empire in a great many ways— a gradual growth 
and extension, and then a final dropping ofl" of the niost distant 
members, one by one. The Grand American Handicap cannot 
go on year by year growing continuously. It m&y be that it 
reached its high-water mark this year. Even if it never were shot 
at all again, it has made history and it has served its purpose. 
This much may be said without any prophecy whatever of what 
may ,be done next year. A great deal of the talk about holding 
a handicap in Chicago has been a matter of local pride. We all 
like to talk about our towns, and we sometimes "let on" a little 
bit. The American spirit is very well understood in these mat- 
ters, and it certainly need not be carried to the extent of creating 
any actual sectional feeling. Should the Grand American Handi- 
cap come to Chicago next year I doubt if it would be as suc- 
cessful as it was this year. We are not really prepared to handle the 
shoot here without undergoing great expense in the way of 
preparing proper grounds and houses. Most Chicago shooters 
are willing to consider the Grand American Handicap as a na- 
tional event, and if it be national the question of locality should 
not be sectional. We would of course like to see the event come 
here, and Chicago has never seen anything yet so big that she 
could not handle it, but the question is whether it is worth Chi- 
cago's while. It is very doubtful whether the representation from 
the East would be relatively as strong as it has been from the 
West, since heretofore the Plandicap has been held near to heavy 
■shooting centers. It is easier to travel a hundred miles than a 
thousand to attend a shoot, no matter how big it is. 
In all these matters, pro and con, there may be a reason for 
being for a Western league. That remains to be seen. Such a 
body, if broad and catholic, might be a good thing; or again it 
might prove to be only one more of the numerous and com- 
plex "leagues" which are not leagues at all, but really "splits." 
I think this covers the question very nicely. If it is organized 
as a split it could not succeed. If organized as a league and 
for natural purposes, it should succeed. This is a big country, 
but it is all one country. We used to hear of the North and 
the South, but we do not now. Let us not try to hear of the 
East and the West in any way except in the way of union.'' 
As to the comment in the above newspaper clipping, it is 
printeti only for what it is worth, and its absurdity is obvious. 
It represents in no way whatever the sentiment of the Chicago 
shooters or of Western shooters. There will be a few kickers 
at every shoot, and I presume there were some at this shoot; 
but kickers in the above form do not represent the gentlemen of 
this city or this part of the country. The shooter who cannot 
take a licking had better not go out to shoot. The little girl 
who wants to take her doll and go home because she doesn't get 
all the jam is usually not severely missed, and her jam is eaten 
by some one else very cheerfully. The above representations do 
not deserve any apology, but to cut it short, 1 should like to say 
for the benefit of those readers of Forest and Stream who live in 
the East that there has been no such broad expression of "dissatis- 
faction with handicapping, conditions and management of Grand 
American Handicap." There has been no charge by Chicago 
shooters to the effect that it "was managed by a clique of Eastern 
powder and gun companies," We in Chicago as a body do not 
believe that any favoritism was intended or was possible. The 
admirable report of Forest and Stre.\m alone would show it 
for what it was, a great affair, _ adrnirably handled, and with mpn 
of the highest executive ability in every responsible position. 
This is what we want the gentlemen of the East to believe is the 
sentiment of the gentlemen of the VVest. The question of an or- 
ganization of a separate trap-shooting body is a separate and 
distinct affair. If it succeeds it will be because it has been 
managed in an honorable and manly way. I do not think- it will 
ever be begun for any petty or ignoble reasons, and if so- its 
success would be a qualified one, commensurate only with the 
homely adage that "you can fool some of the people all the 
time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool 
all the people aU the time." The Western shooter knows what 
he wants. I do not need to protest or apologize for him. He is 
a pretty fair-minded and hard-shooting citizen, as I am sure the 
Eastern men will freely admit. Statements like those of the 
Chicago daily misrepresent the West, and they misrepresent Chi- 
cago. They should be signed only by the few individuals who 
would care to make them. ' ■ 
I have spoken with numbers of the Chicago boys this week, and 
it is the exception to find one who does not voluntarily find words 
of praise and congratulations for the winner, Lije Fulford, of 
LTfica. Come out and see us, Lije. I don't know, but maybe you 
could break into our safe now, and if you can we will not kick. 
THE TROPHIES. 
Of all the different championship talks that have been made, I 
presume we shall eventually see Elliott and Parmelee come to 
Chicago and try to take away from Fred Gilbert respectively the 
Kansas City Star cup and the Du Pont trophy. Jimmie is plenty 
patient, and he may catch u'p to Fred some day. Parmelee is 
looked on with a great deal of favor here just now. It is gen- 
erally understood here that the talk about Brewer's shooting 
Gilbert fell through at the close of Brewer's defeat by Parmelee, 
when Brewer's Philadelphia backers declined to go on further 
at present. So long as Jack Brewer talks about shooting for 
thousands of dollars on the side, the folks out here will be prin- 
cipally amused. Still, fortune has a specially well oiled wheel for 
trap-shooters, and Jack may again come out on top and in a 
position to talk business and to shoot a race good enough for 
the youngsters who are coming up. 
Speaking of youngsters and possibilities, _ there seems to be no 
especial reason for overlooking Mr. Loomis, of Omaha, who, as 
the winner of the Grand American Handicap very probably re- 
members, was one of those who also ran, and ran hard and 
close up. 
CHICAGO LIVE-BIRD CHALLENGE TROPHY. 
On next Wednesday we will endeavor to shake things up a 
little in this village with the inaugural shoot for the Chicago live- 
bird handicap trophy. The following entries have already been 
received for this event, and several more are expected to qualify: 
J. H. Amberg, M. Goldsmith. O. von Lengerke, Silas Palmer, 
W. T. Johnson, "J. S. Wilcox, L. C. Willard, G. A. Airey, W. L. 
Shepard, Henry Levi. C. Antoine, J. B. Barto, W. H. Palmer, 
H. B. Foss, Ed C. Rice, W. H. Buker, T. P. Hicks, W. P. 
Mussey. 
TEXAS CHAMPIONESS. 
Texas has a lady champion in Miss Wana Lotta Flatau, 
of Dallas, who at the tournament of the North Texas Gun Club, 
March 25, defeated Mrs. John Tiller in the contest for the ladies' 
State chatttpionship previously held by Miss Flatau. This tour- 
nament of the North Texas Gun Club was the eighth annual, 
and was well attended, the entry running to 56 on the second 
day. 
IN OKLAHOMA. 
The Gun Club of El Reno, O. T., is getting ready for a good 
tournament April 12-13. This ought to be a warm event, for shoot- 
ers down in that country have a nerve which a cyclone here or 
there docs not jar. 
CENTRAL, OF DULUTH. 
Mr. E. C. Maxfield, secretary of the Central Gun Club, of 
Duluth, Minn., sends me the following announcement under date 
of March 27: ' 
"At the annual meeting of the Central Gun Club, of this city, 
Mr. J. W. Nelson was elected President; A. B. Thomas, Vice- 
President; \Varren Mendenhall, Field Captain; A. W. Loud, Lieu- 
tenant: E. C. Maxfield, Secretary and Treasurer. 
"The regular annual tournament of the club will be held during 
July or August. 
"The prospect for a successful shooting season at the'' bead 
of the Lakes is very bright, the Superior and Duluth clubs having 
arranged for a series of intcrurban team shoots for a ntedal wHich ' 
will be put up by the clubs." 
TtolS SOUNDS BETTER. 
Chicago, III., April 2. — Earlier in the week I had occasion 
to comment upon the statements made in the Times-Herald, of 
this city, in regard to an alleged disaffection of the Western 
shooters. To-day I should like to offer something from the col- 
umns of another Chicago daily, the Chronicle, which sounds bet- 
ter. It is not quite so obviously inspired, but is quite obvi- 
ously more representative of the feelings of the Chicago shooters. 
I am not responsible for all the inferences and deductions made 
by the Chronicle, but I am free to admit and to reassert that 
this talk about dissatisfaction of Western men with the treatment 
they received at the Grand American Handicap is in no way 
truly representative of tlie feeling of the sportsmen of the West, 
nor of the sportsmen of Chicago. There is a very , grave mistake 
out, and it is only fair to voice the wish of the majority that this 
mistake and that these misrepresentations should be checked at 
once, in order that the Western men may be placed in proper 
light in the eyes of their Eastern brethren, who entertained them 
so royally. I have heard more, expressions of regret and chagrin 
over this than over anything which has come up" for a long time. 
As to the organization of a W estern league, there is no reason 
to change the belief earlier expressed. If rightly planned and 
rightly conducted, the league should be a good thing. It i-s 
largeljf a matter of cash. If sufficient money be put into the 
tournament of such a league it will be a success, and the West- 
ern shooters will cheerfully come to it and shoot for the money 
offered. A good many of them will also go to the Grand Ameri- 
can Handicap, wherever it is held, and will also cheerfully shoot 
for tlie money offered there. The men of the West were out of 
leading strings long ago, and they are apt to make up their 
minds about these matters and to go where they please, and 
where they think it will pay them to go. 
As to the trade interests involved, that is a question pertinent 
only to the firms interested and to the managers of the Interstate 
Association. No word has been received here, so far as known, 
putting the heads of any powder company, any gun firm, or any 
sporting goods house on record against the methods of the Inter- 
state Association. Trade interests have nothing to do with the 
abstract principles of sportsmanship, the greatest of which is to 
be fair. It is not fair to charge the Western sportsmen with 
this discourtesy of complaint against their Eastern brothers, which 
complaint they have not made and do not intend to make. I ap- 
pend the clipping from the Chronicle to which reference has been 
made: 
"Such men as C. B. Dicks, Ed Bingham, John Glover, L. H. 
Goodrich, T. P. Hicks, Silas Palmer, Tom Marshall, and a dozen 
others prominent among gun club men, say that no better treat- 
ment could have been given than that of the Eastern sportsmen 
to their Western visitors. But one complaint was made about 
the handicaps — Dr. Shaw thought his too strong, whereupon the 
Easterners graciously reduced it from 29 to 28yds. But three 
men were on the 25yd. line out of the 207 entries, and two of 
these were from the West. The third man was W. S. Cannon, 
Newark, N. J., a one-armed marksman, who pulled the trigger of 
his gun with his left finger, the gun against his left shoulder. 
"The contestants were the cracks of the country. Nine men 
tied with straight scores. Of the nine but one man, and he a 
Westerner, shot the grade of powder that the Chicago owner of 
the projected trap-shooting grounds is interested in. Recent 
trap-shooting publications are filled with black-line heads telling 
of the kind of cartridges and powder that were prominent in 
the Great American Handicap, and to the feeling these have 
engendered is attributed the report of ill-treatment, dissatisfaction 
with the handicaps and secessioti. The great bulk of the Western 
men are not only satisfied with their treatment at Long Branch, 
but they are pleased at the conditions that obtained, and are 
ready to go in force when the big event is again contested." 
ON THE COAST, 
Word comes this week from Ilarvey McMurchy, who is at pres- 
ent doing missionary work on his annual trip to the Pacific coast, 
and who shot with the Lincoln Gun Club, Frisco, at Alameda 
Point, at their opening shoot. Mr. McMurchy has often been 
reported as interested in the laossibilities of the Golden State 
in the fruit-growing line, but it is to be hoped that he is not yet 
readj' to buy a ranch and quit the gun business, no matter how 
attractive may seem the succulent prune or the soulful claret tree. 
COOK COUNTY LEAGUE DISBANDS. 
A special meeting of the Cook County League was held to- 
night at the Sherman House, this taking the place of the passed 
meeting of that body which should have been held last De- 
cember, and being supplementary to the directors' meeting held 
earlier in the week and elsewhere reported. The recommendation 
of the directors that the League be disbanded was adopted, and 
by a formal vote the resolution of dissolution was carried. Thvis 
