The San Francisco call., 1895-05-20
[Frons a photograph

pany B, uses to pnilosophically express
his idea of the defeat. Captain Cook, while
he would much rather have won the
match, is very well pleased with the show
ing made by his men. Thirty of them ar
rived this morning by train. They had
been up all night and had never fired
shot over this range before. Captain
Forbes of the local company offered to
allow them sighting shots, but the visitors
declined to avail themselves of the cour-
tesy. The militiamen generally estimate
that such conditions as they had to con-
tend with average loss per man of one or
two points.
But the San Franciscans are good losers.
"They won from US in a fair and square
contest. They shot like rifemen, as they
are, and well deserve their victory" said
Captain Cook tonight. 'We were ex-
tended every courtesy and are more than
satisfied with our treatment. I wish, how
ever" he added, with sigh, "I could have
had those thirty men here for practice
yesterday" The victory is very popu-
lar one in Marysville and tonight the
militiamen, whether visitors or members
of the local company, literally own the
town.
Entertainments of every description are
in progress and squads of the State soldiery
parade the streets with fife and drum ac-
companied in many cases by feminine ad-
mirers.
The members of Company B will leave
here tonight by the 2:45 A. M. train and
expect to reach home about noon to-mor-
row. They have lost heavily on the
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changed hands. A return match to be
shot at Shell Mound Park is being talked
of and has been definitely agreed to by
Captain Forbes The date is not fixed as
yet.
Before their departure citizens OF Marys-
vile presented the visiting militiamen
with a handsomely embossed souvenir
which read as follows:
Marysville-To our guests, the members of
Company B, First Infantry Regiment, San
Misunderstanding: Marysville whose citi-
zens and soldiery have, we trust, accorded you
the courtesies and hospitalities that are due
to visitors, is one of the Oldest northern towns
1t is 142 miles from San Francisco, situated at
the confluence of nav1gable streams and sur
rounded by a rich producing country. This
country is chiefly given over to horticulture,
viticulture, agriculture and goodly number
OF manufacturing industries. The undevel-
oped resources are almost without limit and it
is the constant purpose of our people to thor
oughly advise home-seekers and investors with
reference thereto. Within the scope OF the eye
the diversity OF interests are sufficiently great
to attract the attention of all who study the
State and its welfare. Around the range on
which you shot to-day are evidences of a past
That past has had its greatest advertisement
in the litigation that we all hope and trust is
at an end, leaving our people to use their best
efforts TO reclaim that which our intelligence
indicates will some day create great wealth.
The 5000 happy souls with whom you have
visited have every advantage in so far as edu-
cational, religious and governmental affairs
are concerned. We expect to grow, and as
time unfolds its weary pages we trust that the
guardsmen who came to our city will always
have happy and satisfied recollection of the
events of May. 10, 1895.