The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-07
the shipment of game birds eggs and
you will have game.

the shipment of game birds eggs and
you will have game
The bill for the abolition of spring
shooting in Wisconsin got it's death
blow in the assembly short time ago.
This bill is one which had been watched
with great interest throughout the
state. The bill failed of passage by
only two votes. majority was neces-
sary to carry, so it failed to pass The
vote was A to 43. A very hard fight to
secure the passage of the measure had
been made by the sportsman of the
state. AS a general thing, however the
farmers were against the bill and used
their best efforts to defeat it.
The keithsburg friends of the Hon.
Thomas A. Marshall, the two-tme vim
ner of the Grand American Handicap,
gave him grand reception on his re-
turn home from the East last week. A
committee met Mr.. Marshall and his
friends Bingham, Budd. Gilbert and
Halowell. who went home with him. at
Monmouth. While nearly the entire \
population of the town gathered at the
depot and, as the saying is, made
Rome howl" on the arrival of the train
bearing Mr.. Marshall and his friends.
'Our Tom is very popular with the
shooters of the entire country, but his
not to be compared with the esteem in
which he is held by his home people.
Fred Gilbert says that at the recep-
ton given Mr.. Marshall, some Of the
best speeches he ever heard were made
by Ed Bingham, Charlie Budd. jack
Hallowell and himself to say nothing
OF the highly eulogistic remarks made
by dozens of the more prominent peo-
pie of Keithsburg
It will be with pleasure that the Nom
tana trapshooters will receive the an
nouncement that the Grand American
fiandlcap, the foremost annual event
IN the shooting world, is to be held in
the West next year. Although frequent
attempts have been made by western
sportsmen to have the place of holding
the great event changed, the East has
| continued to hog" it, ignoring the
manifestly Just requests to give the
West some recognition. The following
dispatch recently appeared in the daily
newspapers:
1T is more than probable that the
| Grand American Handicap shoot will
| be held in the West next year. Already
| eastern shooters have preached the
| idea of transferring the great event
| from IIlkwood park westward, and
western sportsmen stand ready to make
| all necessary arrangements. e. r. Rice,
the well known manager, has received a
| letter from Irby Bennett, vice presi-
dent of the International association.
practically assuring Mr.. Rice that the
| West could have the shoot if it wanted
| it. Mr.. Bennett wanted to know what
/ arrangements could be made for mold
| ing the shoot here. AS MI. Bennett is
also chairman of the committee on
| grounds and location, the letter may be
regarded as a direct proposal. Before
| the western shooters left for the East
/ the matter of western association was
under discussion. 1t was intended to-
| hold "a great shoot in Chicago next
| year, al which it was asserted every
shooter of note would be present"
The other day. in Butte, Sack Mil
Ter, a shooting enthusiast, said concern
ing this matter Montana men will be
very glad indeed to hear that the
Grand American Handicap is to be
brought West. 1t will give us chance
to attend without being compelled to
| expend a small fortune. 1t has come
down to the question of alternating be-
tween East and West with this big an
nual event, or discontinue it, and the
eastern men have opened their eyes
wide enough to realize that fact