El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-12-12

" always been more or less hunter
Il and, to hear you tell it at least
are a good shot. But how about your
how? Has he ever shot gun? Has he
ever had a chance? Kitchener in ad-
vising those entrusted with the train
ing of volunteer English troops said,
Teach them to shoot. / don't care ~ IL
thew can not tell right foot from leIL'
hut teach them to shoot" one can
imagine the many incidents IN IIe
nresent war that prompted klLcneLeI
thought And now comes Gen Slc(5lGI-
lev Butt, U. s. A, who has, II correctly
quoted, returned from Europe lmDusI
with great admiration for the OelIil'tL
custom of firing from the hip during
fine charge. Shades OF Dan b"oHS'
is it possible for an American 10 stb
urove of any method Of rifle sh"9li ms
mat does not contemplate aiming at us
object. I'D t,,,,,+ars
we will be training men to shool-
There are now in the United states
more than 100000 sportsmen VINO So
more or less experience, not only ~
shooting, but in woOdcraft; learn more
or less of those things a man must
know if he is to take care or nlInselL
in the open. These men constitute an
army of defence. l know mlnlaIy lISl
will sneer at this idea, but il is a TACT
and was uroved at Bunker Hill, LeNlIS
ton and New Orleans, and by the back
woods riflemen of the north and SOUR
during the civil war. Lhey, uhIral ne
and u1offfcered as military men under
stand those terms, defeated crack null
tary organizations. why because
they could shoot
Don't let your boy grow up Wltnout
acquiring a knowledge of the use OF
frearms Your boy doesn't have 10 pe
citv raised. The big outdoors IS an
around US. There is game OF an sinus sinus
III QaV YOUR
| boy spends afield means healtn, good
morals and manliness to him. gel MIN
/ a gun. 1t may be just toy gun now
| but get him a gun and do 1t this CHRIST
mas.
Geo. Hit is reported to have killed
/ a bob cat over in the organ mountains
/ since the deer season in New Mexico
| Closed Let's see. George used to be a
| New Mexico game warden, didn't heE
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| Joe WoodsOn, Fred Weckerle, and
I VIM NJ. Peticolas spent the day last
| Saturday in the upper valley hunting
/ quail, killing &c birds. Judge .Woocson
| and Judge PeticOlas have the same am
| bition, and that is to become as good
| a wing shot as is Maury Kemp.
S J. Whitcomb. W. R. Piper, Dayton
/ PhiIlips. and Clarence Harper MADE
/ 81 mile trip down the valley Nov Zyth
| in a vain effort to find some unsophls-
! Heated game. Dayton returned consid-
] erabIv eIated over his Workmanship
! having hit Piper's hat when 1t was
/ thrown into the air while his own sky
! niece was unpunctured, Notwithstanding
/ that each of the party took shot at
/ it Harper says they did not take any
/ thing out or bring anything back. winch
I sounds fair enough
=
w L Watson, J. r. Harper and Tom
/ Zimpleman left FL PasO the other day
! at 4:3O p. m. in Zimpleman's car for
Z the Franklin mountains Camp was
| made that night within sight Of the
/ glare Of FL Paso's electric lights Next
! morning the party left camp at Z a. m,
I each going a different direction, and by
10 o'clock each man had killed deer
! The buck killed by Zimpleman was eX-
! ceptionally large In fact. so large that
I the three men could not carry II TO a
/ point where they could get it into the
, car and it was necessary for them to
! borrow a horse from an adjacent ranch
| to bring in the meat. This party was
| at no time more than IS miles from
| FL Paso; they were back in town be-
| fore 5 o'clock the second evening
| therefore, were out only "a hours, and
| killed three deer, one of which was OF
| record size. I have talked with five
| men who saw the deer brought in. The
1 Texas season does not close until jan
/ l. and you are allowed to kill three
| dear each season.
/ Arthur Seamonds, Joe Kernel, and
| Ben Chayes spent last Sunday down the
/ valley, two miles below Belen, quail
| hunting. They got only Is birds, but
| had an exciting experience with a
/ prairie fire. Seamond's Buick, in which
| the party were riding was stalled in the
sand and the fire had almost reached