The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-06

lets fired with wonderful rapidty from a target rifle, is not a speaking like ness It is good to label 1t "Schley," because it could be taken as readily for Louis Napoleon or any other man who ever wore an imperial" but it Is better work, from a viewpoint of resemblance, delicacy of line, purity of method, tone, verve, chiaro oscuro and things like that than the remarkable figures with which he used to adorn the Express. He draws better with a bullet than with lead pencil or carver.
 It is singular. but true, that a com paratively restricted territory has pro- duced three single-ball shots who are probably the greatest the world has ever known. Toepperwein is one of them. A boy named Petmecky is an- other. This youth, who is now in his early twentles, is the son of an Austin (Tex.) gunsmith, inventor of the we'll known "Petmecky gun cleaner" Young Petmecky is as remarkable for the ra- pidity of his firing as for its accuracy. He is able, in the picturesque language of the southwest, almost to melt the bullets together in the barrel" A man cannot count the shots he fires when going at full speed any more than he can count the beats in a drum roll A favorite feat of his is to toss a brick in the air, break 1t in two and then break both pieces before they strike the ground, This feat is espe- oio11u ra,,, rls h1a baooyaa ,,ahnl,r a, , toss brick to a. great height, and the shooting must be done with inconceiv- able rapidity. I have never known any other person able to repeat this performance, and I do not believe that Toepperwein can do it.
 Joseph Tumlinson, now dead, was for many years one of the most noted kill CTS of the lower Rio Grande district. He is said to have had the ghosts of nearly fifty men following him about, that is,'' as~an admirer once remark ed, with naivete, 'countin' Mexicans as men" IL is certain that he had slain in personal encounter nearly twenty whites. His private grave yards were numerous. He shot equally well with the Winchester and with the Colts six-shooter of .45 calibre. This is force-ball weapon, with a heavy charge behind the lead. It has much ! 'kick-up' to it, and with it accuracy is specially difficult of attainment. Tumlinson used to take a six-shooter in his hand and write his initials into tree while galloping past it; would scallop the edges of tin plate set ur at thirty yards by striking it with halt the bullet; would stand with his heels close together and wheel rapidly clip ping the red ''pearapples' from cactus leaves twenty yards away; would | shoot geese, sandhill cranes, ducks and Mexican quail upon the wing, using a | Winchester; would stand for hours or
 the banks of Soldier lake, in Dimmitt county, severing the heads from moc- casins which swan far out; woul6 take pistol in each hand and send two tossed Mexican dollars spinning ! far upward and bored through He 1 shot, if anything, better when drunk i than when sober, and desperadoes witt ] smaller regulations went into back ! rooms and locked themselves in wher I he came to town, which was not often Nobody had any trouble with him ii
 they saw him first. He died by his
 own hand in his sixty-fourth year.