The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-04
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! THE EAGLE-EYE GUN GLIB ;


coming year. the assent bly, gathering
before breakfast at the cafe of Manca
Bros, the club being named in honor
of the elder of the two, who was given
the pseudonym Eagle Eye when cross
ing the plains. 1t was a little the hot
test session in the history of the club
and the contests for the various Of
ficers' positions were warm and war
like. Everything was fought TO a Bit
ter finish, and not a man scored sue
cess which was not we'll earned.
The attendance was unusually good,
nearly every member of the associa-
ton being on deck when Secretary
Emmanuel Manca called the roll.
Among those who responded Here
were Midshipman Henry Ward B.
Kantner, late of her majesty's sloop-
of-war Bellerophon; James Dickson,
late colonel c. s. A: Major j.
commandant of Yavapai county, AriZ.
John L. May, of the Peregrinating Pei
lean Propagation association; Angelo
Manca, steward, late of the royal Ital-
ian Abyssinian sharpshooters; Billy
Young, formerly shooter to the Prince
of Wales, and Ern Brockbank, member
OF the F. r. S. and d. society.
After calling the roll, the secretary
the rules and regulations, the next
business in order would be the election
of president and secretary to succeed
Messrs. Dickson and Manca. The club
has no treasurer, as there is no need
for an official of the kind. the society
never having any money.
The chair woke up from the quiet
nap he was enjoying, and after per-
n of apfn IF hrrc
written on the back of an ancient bill
of fare, announced that nominations
for the Office of president were in or
der, whereat Major Bloor placed be-
fore the association the name of that
great man, Midshipman Henry Ward
B. Kantner. My candidate, gentle
men of the Eagle-Eye club said the
speaker, is a man whose fame as a
sportsman and shooter is known every
where he has been, and there isn't a
place on the footstool that his ample
brogans have not pressed. AS mem
Der of the r. y. (meaning the royal
navy he has trod the decks of his
vessel as she lay at every port in the
world, and when through treading the
deck, has trod the adjacent land. He
has a reputation which this club can
not afford TO escape. He has shot
everything which mortal man can
polate. 1t has been brought to my
ears that there are those in this or
ganiZatiOn who would detract from the
fair fame of my candidate and allege
that he is no shooter. l sincerely re-
gret that such should be the case, but
shall refute all these calumnies in
advance in order that the maligners
may have an opportunity of retracting
what they were about to observe. Cen
1 Horny
Kantner has shot since his infancy.
In the early days of his life he was
observed by his fond and doting par
entS in the act of shooting down the
cellar door of the house; While in the
navy he shot the rapids of the Co
lumbia stranded in Bengal, lacking
material for making his cigarettes for
to the old habits of his infancy and
made himself famous by shooting
snipes. The crew of the Bellerophon
testify that many times he has gone
ashore with all their quarters salary,
the result of his skill in shooting craps.
Can you ask for a better record than
this? ] say no, positively and en-
phatically no. But this is not all.
Landing in command Of party of
on the shores OF the island of
Ceylon, when the natives were pillag-
ing British property and making life
dangerous to have in ones
possession, my friend, my dear friend.
suddenly found himself in a terrible
danger. Having entered a bungalow,
with his little party, for the purpose
of frying few eggs with which 10
keep body and soul together, they sud-
denly found the place surrounded by
a mob of Infatuated natives. But for
my friends ability as a shooter, not
one man would have been left to tell
the tale. but all would have miserably
persisted. as did the balance; all save
my friend. Again did he demonstrate
those qualities, or rather that quality,
which so fits him to perform the du-
ties of this place. While the balance
Of the party were fighting with des
peration born of despair, laying about
them with the ferocity which comes
to men only when deaths CHASTITY smile
mocks them TO the teeth, my friend,
who sits here blushing as ! recount
his deeds, shot out of the door and
escaped to tell the terrible tidingS. and
as a result the poor fellows who went
down on that CORY day were given
Christian burial. Can you afford TO
reject such a candidate? l answer no
again. He is here. gentlemen, ready to
prove to you that he is fitted to fill
the place. But say the word and he
will shoot the bolt in the door; take
him down the street where the acces-
series are to be found and he will
make masse shots, carom shots, three
cushion shots or any old shot. l have
great pleasure, gentlemen. in placing
in nomination Henry Ward b. Kant
ner for the position of president of the
itaSle-IIye 'un club. the greatest or
ganization of it's kind in the wide, wide
WORLD
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There were cheers at the conclusion
Of this speech, by the two Mancas,
May and the candidate himself, which
we're promptly suppressed by a passing
who informed the associa-
ion that it was Sunday and no such
would be permitted, even
n a hash foundry. Then it was that
Billy Young rose. L shall not attempt
o demonstrate my candidates fitness
or the place by shooting off my mouth
is has the distinguished gentleman
who has run out of air and taken his
seat" he said. But l, too, have a
candidate for the position of president
IF this association who is undoubtedly
is eligible for the position as the per-
son placed before you. even though
lie has not girdled the globe and
'anikebooed round in foreign waters
You all know the man to whom I al
ude. He has filled the position of
president for the past u months AL
hough he has not the diversified rec
,rd as a shooter that my gallant
friend, the major attributes
o the naval rooster whom he has
placed in nomination, still he knows
when a duck has been shot or simply
lied of heart disease. and that is what
his club wants more than it does crap
hooters and can openers. (Cries of