The San Francisco call., 1899-01-01

hlng OF Han1ord are TWO or the guests at
! the Lick.
~-@-@-3-4-@-9- Hardly had
| President High
| @ CAPTAIN 9 balls called the
) sUREsHoT AND sazarac Lying
o THE SQUIRRELS. o night before the
J. trouble that had
4-c-1-7s--:- - been brewing for
some time between Captain Sureshot and
Mr.. Saltedmines broke loose with un-
bridled fury. 1t is well known fact that
Captain Sureshot, according to MS state
ments, never missed anything but train
I'm his life When he was coming out TO
California in '49, he stated, he used TO
kill two Indians at every shot. Finally
he got such a reputation that the redskins
refused to molest the emigrant train II
they knew that the captain was in 1t.
When the train would encamp for the
night the captain would take his rifle and
go out for little game, and he says that
he never had TO shoot. When the deer
bear or quail would see him coming they
would deliver themselves up, as they
knew that it was no use to try and es-
cape Of late the captain has been en-
tertaining the club with stories of how
he taught Mr.. Saltedmines to shoot when
the latter was his guest some years ago
in Southern California. Now it appears
that recently Mr.. Saltedmines told of an
incident connected with his visit TO Cap
tain Sureshot that the latter had forgot
ten to mention, and it was the following
story that caused the stormy session of
the club last night:
When Mr.. Saltedmines was the cap
tain's guest he used to sit out on the
porch in the afternoons, and while the
captain was sleeping in the hammock he
would shoot at the squirrels, which were
very plentiful in the trees that sur
rounded the residence. 1t occurred to
him one day that he wanted to have
some fun with his host, so while the lat
ter was quietly snoozing he climbed
tree and by the means of a wire fixed two
SQUIRRELS that he had killed securely to a
limb. Then he resumed his seat on the
porch and waited for the captain to
awake When he did so Mr.. Saltedmines
deftly turned the conversation to the de-
sired subject, and called the captains at
tention to the squirrels. They offered an
excellent mark, and Captain Sureshot re-
marked that one of them would never
know what had hit him. He picked up
the rifle and took a deliberate aim and
fired. The squirrel did not move The
captain examined the rifle, then looked
at Mr.. Saltedmines and then UP at the
tree, where sat the squirrel perfectly un-
disturbed.
He knows you," said the captains
guest, 'and he is not afraid. So this is
a sample of your craftsmanship that you
have been Dragging about!
The captain let out q good full-grown
oath. and then he took a rest. Long, de-
liberate and sure was his aim He fired.
Again the two squirrels sat motionless on
the limb. In a few seconds the captain
had the air blue as indigo. Next he went
under the tree and still the squir-
rels did not move. He shook his
hat at them, yelled and finally
threw stone UP the tree The squirrels
never moved BY this time Captain Sure
shot was wild He took off his coat and
climbed the tree. When he discovered
how he had been victimized he came
down like a streak of lightning, but Mr..
Saltedmines had fed. That was ten
years ago, and yesterday the perpetrator
of the joke told it. When the captain
found il out he got on the warpath. AS
soon as the club met he openly attacked
Mr. Saltedmines, whom he accused of
violating the laws of the club, which pro-
vide that while a member may lie his
soul into eternal perdition he must never
perpetrate a joke on any other member.
President Hghballs put the captains mo-
tion that Mr.. Saltedmines be fined. It
was carried, and thus harmony was re-
stored in the club.
w. T. Davis of Chicago is registered at
the IdldCS.
F. NJ Gray of San Jose is a guest at
the Occidental.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Jacks of Monterey are
at the Palace.
E. A. Bremner of London is registered
at the Palace.
W. S. Melick of the Pasadena News is
at the Grand.
]. A. Brent of the Ivanhoe mine is stay
ing at the Grand.
G. S. Nixon of Nevada arrived at the
Palace yesterday.
Leonard A Crane of Santa Cruz is a
guest at the Palace.
Railroad Commissioners n. Black
stock of Ventura is at the Grand.
E. Dinkelspiel a well known merchant
of Suisun, is a guest at the Grand.
Colonel 1. n. Peyton, a prominent rail-
road contractor of Spokane, is a guest
at the Palace.
C. H. Watt and A C. Johnson, two
prominent citizens of Los Angeles. ar
rived at the Occidental Iestar5o,,