The record-union., 1895-11-18
DR.. CARVER, TIE CHAMPION SHOT.
He Reyisits Sacramento After an Ab-
sence of Years.
Some of the Wonderful Feats That he
Performs With the Gun-Shoot-
ing on Horseback.

After an absence of many years DIR.
W. E. Carver, the champion shot OF the
world, arrived in this city Saturday.
Seventeen years ago the doctor made
his first public appearance in California,
and at that time he gave most remark
able performances with the rifle. shoot
ing objects thrown into the air, from
| the size of nickel to one-dollar piece.
| His execution with the rifle gained Tor
him the title of The Wizard Rifleman, 2"
| and no man has a more brilliant record
or interesting history.
He has carved his name high above
that of any other marksman that ever
| lived, and has performed feats with
both shotgun and rifle, on foot and on
horseback, that eclipse the widest fic-
tions of Fennimore Cooper in his
ather-Stocking" tales.
| 50 marvellous did his shooting appear
to the Indians of the plains, where in
his youth he hunted the bison and saw
ages, that they thought him possessed
| of the devil and named him THE Evil
| Spirit of the Plains" Civilization has
extended him the hand of welcome in
every part of the world and his success
| has been one triumphant march
around the globe.
| After seventeen long years of con-
| tinued success he started on his farewell
tour from Chicago last July. Since
then Ills exhibitions have been phenom-
email. Great crowds hocked to see him
in st. Paul, Mimi, and $4,000 people
Cheered him at the conclusion of his eX-
hibition and waved him farewell as he
| rode from their presence. That episode
was a grand demonstration of friend
snip for the champion, and that prob
ably has no equal in the career of any
public performer.
| DR.. Carver has won for himself a
warm place in the hearts of his country
men. There is not a sportsman in the
world who would not stake his all on
Carver's skill with the gun. OF all the
shooting champions that ever lived Car
yer takes front rank.
Since starting out from California he
has gone from one part of the world to
another in search of men to compete
with him, and has never refused an hon
est proposition, no matter how much
was at stake. He was the first man to
! introduce Iifle-shooting at flying tar
gets, and the first to hit with solid bullet
an object thrown into the air. He was
| also the pioneer in the art of shooting
! objects from the back of a horse while
going at full speed, and many Sacra-
mentans will recall the exhibition he
gave here years ago, when he shot fly
ing objects from the bare back of his
| black charger. He was the first to
shoot large charges of powder from a
small-bore gun, now so popular in pig
con shooting, and the first to score 100
pigeons straight at thirty yards rise
| Indeed, DR.. Carver'S great success
with the rifle has been eclipsed by his
marvellous performance with the shot
gun. He holds the championship of the
world for pigeon shooting the cham
pionship of England and Australia, and
| last December he won from all-America
the cast iron-and-gold pigeon cham
pionship badge of America AS he can
not find anyone to shoot matches with
| him, he is now giving all of his atten-
tion to exhibition shooting, using both
rifle and shotgun, on foot and on horse
back His bareback shooting is show
in itself: Riding at full speed he
| shoots six targets while passing the
spectators. His exhibition lasts sixty
minutes, and in that time he fires LOCO
shots
In connection with his shooting ex-
! hibition Dr. Carver has a celebrated
diving horse that plunges headlong
! forty-five feet into a body of water.
This equine wonder has elected the ad-
! mlration of and aStoniShed people
| CNCi w lASI c 4Ae diilIIId1 mas Deen
trained with sugar and kindness" and
is another illustration of the love and
| confidence SO often displayed by the
! brute creation.
The doctor will give q performance in
this city on Sunday next at Agricult-
uial Park, where his horses are now
quartered. Since his first visit to Sacra-
II ento he has changed but little in ap-
pearance, but his skill in handling the
rifle and shotgun is said to have won
derfully improved, great as it then was.