The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-11-13
THREE HoNDERFU1 MARKsmEM.
Adolph Toepperwein, Young Petmecky,
and Joseph Tumlinson.
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From tie CAicdpo Times Herald.
Adolph Toepperwein. the youncster who
has been astonishing Londoners by draw
ing pictures Of Commodore Schley and other
notables with . target rife. Is Of German
breed. as his name shows. He is OF the Ger
man type also-burly. blond. blue-eyed. jovial
and ~phlegmatic. He Is the son:of 4 small farm
or who lives Just south of the Helotes Hills.
fifteen miles north OF San Antonio. Tex. 1t Is
o country specially adapted for the develop
ment Of perfect sight. the air being always
pure and thin. the light mellow and the sur
face Of the land a constant green from the
never-changinR cactus and mesquite. In this
country everybody sees we'll. A person less
than so years old wearing glasses Is looked
upon as one sadly afflicted. I do not think
that the distressing Incident OF a little child
peerinG through spectacles has even existed
there. We jewellers in the cities. where night is
day into night and the ~electrics burn nearly
always. pay dearly for the privilege.
he was 10. years old. He has been. familiar
one q u ip. and d has Ras'9 used T Il steadily 9aS fb' IL The e d RIti
where, blowing winds and running shadows
tnd d thsrc Is iisf Be- i iSrsS 3 q %A The e science Iea5a al "
pIoJectile, hurting: He is not only n strangely
efficient long7distance shot. but he is a won
he is, doing on the other side of the water.
Severing swinging strings and splitting bull
s~nufflng lighted candles fifty yards away. and
boring holes through silver dollars tossed In
RiT are It % shoald t 81 s syeFy q HIM Df tSa. tba VIE h
these exhibitions he uses always the single ball
q ;22 calibre; Many people who have seen
not aware that the Colonel uses . shell loaded
does not use the single ball In the carbine for
two reasons: He, could not hit anything, with
Winchester bullet has y habit OF flying a mile
or so and killing the inofensives stranger stand
INF on the corner bn not meaning ss tnnE any h harm; ~.
called "a artist meaning thereby a newspI-
Antonio Express. furnishing it with meat.axe
illustrations for the glory, of seeing them
lower right hand corner. The picture Of Com
modSSre Sehlsy. which he makes with zoo bull.
T 81 for Louis 4 N$PSSis1n q ! ss d SthfeS man
essy Of Inc. purity, Of method. tome. yerVe,
markaDe figures with which he used to adorn
the EtP2ress., He draws better with q bullet
It is singular. but true. that a comparatively
restricted territory has produced three single
them. A boy, named Petmecky is another.
This youth. who Is now In his early twenties,
Eor Of the well known "Petmeeky gun cieen ar"
Young Petmeeky 10 as remarkable for the ra-
pidity Of his firing as for Its accuracy. He is
west almost to melt the bullets together in
the barrel" A man cannot count the shots he
ilres when going At full speed any moro than he
lie feat OF his 10 TO toss a brick In the air. break
they strike the ground, This feat Is especially
remarkable because nobody can toss 2 brick to
With inconceiyable rapidityi have never
S peF,cTm amy ot as55 fedE e not ape Bsi,s 70 r tbSt T6 th5.
peEwein can do It.
Joseph Tpplinson. now dead, was for many
Rio Grande distriet. He lie said to have had tho
Yhosts OF nearly nfty men following him about.
that "" as an aqmtrer once remarked, With
certain that he had slain ~ personal encounter
nearly twenty whites. His private RrRveyards
T Tere Sunsrous He shot equally well with the
As calibre. This Is a force-ball weapon. with q
hspyy charge behind the lead. II has much
" oiaiis a p,d to G u; and With i aSGprHSy is speii
to take q si1. shooter IN bis hand and write his
initials Into q tree. while galloping past IL;
thirty yards PbS striEins it with hall the bullet;
would stand with his heels close together and
wheel rapidly, clipping the red "pearapples"
shoot geese. sandhill cranes, ducks and Mexi-
you'd stand for hours on the banks Of Soldier
from moccasiny which swan far olt; would
take, a pistol In each hand and send two tossed
Mexican dollars spinniag far upward and
when drunk than when sober. and desperadoos
with smaller regulations went into back rooms
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