Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-12-17

WILL THE TWO SHOOTERS
EHEs; MEET.
Mr. kenne.ly's Views Oh The Cal
ifyraia Wonder.


ious to meet the Smiths in a rifle
contest. He found Mrs. Kennedy
feeding a white rat which was skip
ping ABOUT over her shoulders, and
Mr.. Kennedy at work on card.
The card was as follows:
To the Editor of the APPEAL
Some days ago Mr.. Smith wrote
to me. in Reno, to come up here and
shoot his daughter for 800 side,
and also challenged me in the pa
pers. He now refuses to do any
thing he has agreed to. Is he
afraid? 1t looks like it.
My proposition is, to let Miss Lii
ian Smith go on the stage and do
my wife's series Of shots and then
her own, and thea my wife will 60
through the same programme. One
thing [ wish to stipulate, and that
is, that the targets, bullets and ev-
erything connected with the match
be examined by a committee of dis
interested and competent men with
no cronies, bosom friends and inter
ested parties on the stage.
Respectfully yours,
w. B. KENNEDY.
CHARGES OF TAXING"
"These people simply want hip
podrome business and we want a
square match" said Mr.. Kennedy
Il assert that nearly all of Miss
Smiths shooting is faxed that is,
a deception and fraud. Take the
rotary glass ball trick. No shot on
earth can hit a glass ball rotating
at the rate of three hundred times
a minute at the end of a string ten
feet long. 1t is impossible to hit it
with a bullet. 1t can be hit only
With charge of quicksilver or some
other fake arrangement. If you
load cartridge with quicksilver
and lead eoil,it spreads over quite an
area and does the work. 1t spreads
in fine spray and the glass ball is
so thin that it breaks when touched
with the spray.
She splits card swinging on a
deer but the bullet need not touch
the card, knife worked by mech
anism can cut the card as | have
seen in other such arrangements.
A bullet would curl the card. Her
targets that swing do not ring bells
because the bulls eye is hit, for the
mechanism that rings the bell is at
tached to the broad outer rings and
this being hit rings the bell,
We can go on a stage and do all
these tricks but we propose to go
into a bona tide match for money.
Mr.. Smith told Inc he could lay
his hand on $4,000 in twenty-four
hours but | don see any Of it yet.
He sent me contract to sign,
longer than the constitution Of this
State, embracing all of his daugh-
ter's pet shots, and all of my wife's
were left out. He did not propose
to allow my wife one chance at her
own specialties. l have good no.
ton to put it up in some respon-
sible show window and let the peo-
pie see it. Ices Mr.. Smith want
the earth?"
MRS. KENNEDY'S AGE.
Mrs. Kennedy's here remarked:
Il want you to make no mistake
about that girls age. She was
billed in San Francisco as sixteen,
and Their a year later as thirteen.
She gets Younger as she comes this
way, owing. no doubt, to the glori-
Gus mountain air of the Sierra
range. You can put my age down
as twenty-five, Dec. 9th, 1885, so
you see [ am not playing juvenile
parts this season. [ am before the
public as rifle shot, and l am
ready to meet Miss Smith in square
shooting on any terms she wants,
but [ want no trickery of any kind;
it must be all square work
Mr.. Kennedy then stated that i'll
case his wife could not secure
match she would give a perform
ance Of her own, and the trickeries
of Miss Smiths shooting would be
thoroughly exposed.