Arizona republican., 1898-11-24

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 tossed in air, are matters Of every day
 practice with him. It should be said O
 him, too, that in these exhibitions he
 uses always the single ball CT 9 cali
 Der. Many people who have seen Will
 liam r. Cody career around the ring
 smashing glass balls with a Winches-
 ter c6Tbine. are not aware. that the col
 cnel uses a shell loaded with fine shct
 but that is what he does He tioes not
 use tho single ball in the carbine for
 two reasons: He could not hit any
 thing with it except at .infrequent in-
 tarvals, and uhe Winchester bullet has
 habit Of flying a mile or so and kill
 ing the inoffensive stranger who is
 standing On the corner net meaning
 any harm.
 TcepperweiD, before he took 5c shoot
 ing as . business. had dreams of be
 coming what he called a aitist, . meaning thereby 6 newspaper cartoon ist. He used to rra-..ice Oa the Sal An tonic Express, furnishing it with meat ax illustrations for the gio.y Of seein 3
 them signed ''Tep' ill large flowing let
 ters in the lower right hard corner.
 The picture of Commodore Sch!ey. which he makes with 200 bullets fired wi. h wonderful rapidity from q target rifle. is not q speaking likeness. It is good to label it "Schley." because it could be taken as readily for Louis Ma pOlecn or any other man who ever wore an Imperial" but it is better work. from the view point of resen- blance. delicacy of line, purity Of method. tone. verve. chiar0 oscurO and things like that than the remarkable figures with which he used to adorn the Express. He draws better with a bullet chan with the lead pencil or carver.
 It is singular. but true. that q com paratfvely restricted territcry has pro duced three single-bau shots whO arc probably the greatest the world has ever known. ToepDerwcin is Cne of them. A boy named Petmecky is an other. This youth who is row in his early twcnties, is the son Of an Aus tin (TeXas) gunsmith. inventor of the well known ''Petnecky gun cleaner" Young Petmecky is as remarkable for the rapidity of his firing as for its accuracy. He i.s able, in the pictur- esque language of the southwest, al- mOac to melt the bullets together in the barrell." A man cannot count the shots he fires when going at full speed any more than lie can count the beats in drum roll. A favorite feat of his is to toss brick ir the air, break it in TWO and then break both pieces before they strike the ground This feat is especially remarkable because nobody can toss q whole brick to q great height and tne shooting must be done with incO-ceiyabie Tdpidity. I have never known any other person able to repeat this performance, and 1 dc 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 Gr3nde district He is said to have had the ghosts of nearly fifty men following him about
 tha is as an adnirer once remarked with Gaivete, ''countic' Mexicans as men" It is certain that he had slain in personal encounter nearly twenty whites. His private grave ards were numerous. He shot equally well with he Wi-chss. CT and With the Colts six shooter cf 45 caliber. This is a force 12n weapon, with heavy charge be- hind the lead. has much "kick-up' 10 it, and with it accuracy is specially difficult Of attainment Tumlinson l5ed to take q six-shoter in his hand nd Wrl.e his initials in,o a tree while sollopinG past it: would scallop the edges Of tin pl3te set up at thirty ards by striking it with. half the bull 1 ct; would stand with his heels ,ogeth- | r and wheel rapidly. Tipping the red ] 'paar-apples'' from cactus leaves twen- ! y yards away; would sheet geese, 1 .apd-hill ranes, ducks and Mexican | quail upon the wing using . Winche5- ! CT; would stand fer hours on the l 1anks Of Soldier lake, in Dimmitt ! .ounty, severing the heads from moe | asins which swan far ouc; would take ! pistol in each hand and send two , ossed Mexican dollars spinning far ipwaId and bored through. He shot, 1 i anything, 8 little better when drunk . han when sober, and despeEadoes with . mailer repUsasi01s went into back oOms and locked themselves in when
 e came to own, which was not often. Nobody had any trouble with him If hey saw him first lie died finally by
 is own hand, in his sixty-foUrth year.
 Americans are a nation of marks len. Speaking of the army which ook Santiago, Gene al Shafter has sid This was an army of marks zen. l suppose four-ffths Of she men ! that army wore on ;heir breasts the larksman's badge. in that battle, 5hich lasted two hours, less than ten ounds per man were 1!eG by us, and