Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-07-03 | Page 15 | Shooting They Tell About in Arizona

Shooting They Tell Abont in Arizona Old Man Corked Bottle With Re- I volver Shot, but No Affidavit V Goes With Story. j TUCSON, Ariz., July 2. Sheriff Cook haa in his possession si weapon which wan probably used in the making of history In Arizona Ari-zona In the days of the sixties and seventies. It Is a revolver of an old model Colt and was found on the fiat between Sentinel and Agua Callente a few days ago. There were found, rudely engraved on the metal work, the letters, "K. W." Six notches were filed on the side of the barrel. The conclusion was reached reach-ed that the gun was a part of the armory of King Woolscy, whose stronghold strong-hold at Agua Callente was one of the best known places In the territory. The old weapon was shown to Justice Jus-tice Barnctt, who said it recalled to him an Incident in a tour of a party of "tenderfeet" across the continent. There was a breakdown "of u Southern South-ern Pacific train near Sentinel and there was no prospect of the train moving mov-ing for several hours. The tourists exhausted ex-hausted all tho means ot amusement at their hands, and finally one proposed shooting at u target. Halt a dozen revolvers were collected, and several empty soda, beer and other bottles which were lying around the station. Tho marksmen established a range at a distance from the train and popped away at the bottles for an hour or two. One of the tourists, but only one, succeeded suc-ceeded In hitting a bottle now and then, and he was recognized as the Dr. Carver of the party. An old man with flowing whiskers, attracted by the discharge of firearms, rode up and sat on his horse observing , the target practice. Whenever the "champion" tourist fired the old man would give a grunt expressive of contempt. con-tempt. Finally the champion turned to him and said, "Maybe you think you can shoot?" The old man said nothing, but, dismounting, dis-mounting, he picked up a bottle, fastened fas-tened a string about the bottom of It In such a manner that the bottle woula j hang Inverted. The old man tied the ' string to the limb of a mosquito. He next took the cork from the bottle, and when the bottle had become stationary station-ary he measured with his eyes a spot directly under the mouth of It. He placed a fiat stone there and put the cork on It upside down, directly under the mouth of the bottle. Then the old man set the bottle swinging, and, walking away thirty yards, he estimated the position of the bottle and made a calculation of the momentum. He drew a revolver and fired. The bottle fell, and one of the tourists ran and picked It up, corked.