Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 29, 1895, Page 16

Ha At 0 AN ARBTG5 Sl 5 608 8 107 O S A s THE OMAHA DAILY BER: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1895, 0000 0 e A Printer’s Ink Never Called Attention to Such Little Prices and Big Values. FINAI. SWEEP OF : BIG WATSON STOCK. Positively the last week of this great sale—A last chance to secure som= Immsense Bargains from the great $150,000 stock which we purchased at Fifty Cents on a Dollar, from James L. Watson & Co., the big Milwaukee jobbers. No such Bona-Fide sale has cver been known in thc history of the Furniture trade in Omaha. A l.ast Chance! Don’t Miss It! GG A0 o e i Mistit” Carpets § AT LESS THAN REMNANTS. WHAT ARE MISFITS? = An opportunity tlmt comes once in a Watsonl’s Bedroom Se'gs. i $1250 lifetime to buy cheval glass 17x30, Watson’s price $25, our price Watson’s Folding Beds $14.50 Upright, solid oak, Watson's price $25, our price Bring along the siz Watson’s Bedroom Sets $ see If one of our m solid oak 24x30 French plate glass, 15.00 Watson's price $40, our price Watson’s Folding Beds . ‘b %dd.()() Upright, solid oak, 18x40 mirror, Watson’s Bedroom Sets Watson's price $50, our price At the end of every season we accumulate a lot of remnants and carpets that are made, but for some reason or another were not called for, Atlast we are through with making up our rem- nant carpet stock into misfits,. Have been working double force ‘ 3 T g () for the last 4 weeks and have finally reached the end, Here is :\(}h(t] oak, i“rirfe"slq“’gilr‘ I;llc‘e“’ glass, $—1800 the list. Bring along the size of your room and we will be able chslelett) ) 42 B to sell you a carpet at half price. = [ -] [ ] [ [ m [ ] [ ] 1@ [ ] ® -] ) @ | @ |® $29 00 Watson’s Odds and Ends WA= = . Watson’s center tables, solid oak, % [~ No. Description. Size. Price 5......Javanese B B'ls 3 p 25.00 g [ ] -] [ ] [ @ 2] [ ] [ ] o [ ] [ [ ] [ () ] [ ) . ] Our misfit carpets will fit one thing, and that is your pocketbook. Watson’s Parlor Suits fancy top, Watson's price $2.50, our IR LEC Ly o LR L LU, o w2l 5 pieces, any covering overstuffed, il 22.50 usse St " ... 16.00 Watson's price §30, our price g 990 An opportunity to get furniture for al- 15.00 Brussels.........12-3x13-9. 17.25 o $1')'00 Watson’s Mattresses Pl 15.00 3 Velvet... . D . 26.00 16.00 . Brussels. .o . . 22.00 W atson’s Parlor Suits good heavy ticking, Watson's price 12.00 FEs i 21.00 11.00 9.0 .0 5 155 X . 21.00 1 5 us . . 22.50 16.00 8o 3 5 22.00 13.75 18.50 10.50 12.00 ) 8.2 .Brussels.... 9 x oov 10,00 10.00 3%......Br . X . . 12.00 9.00 .....Brussels, o 80 ceedis 13,50 14.00 S0t 3 s 3 § 12.50 11.50 . sels, X . 21.28 11.00 T L . 21.00 3000 . ceven 21.25 6 pieces, silk tapestry, Watson’s 2, our price rice $48, our price P 4 I 2 q 00 $1.50 ‘_”“"fl::lll\;ll'lhldp ‘]muw]f an Injustice if Watson’s Fancy Rockers Watson’s Parlor Suits Tapestry coverings, solid oak frame, Watson’s 6 picccs fine silk brocatcllc, Wat- price $4.50, our price son's price $60, our price $2- 75 $38 O() Watson’s Fancy Easels 28,00 Watson Parlor Suits solid oak, Watson’s price $1.00, our prico 25,00 handsome carved frames, Watson's 45 . ¢ : 3 price $75, our price €| T e moee atupentonasaste) on IOIOI.I.I.I.IOIQICIOI. .I.IQI.I.IQI.I.I. record. OUR TERMS: n Open Mon- Cash or Monthly orm:Ne‘uekly Payments: & 4 ’ . 4 day afld 808 vorih 420 dorn- g wonk: - (A ( \ Saturday #1.00 month. n week, #.00 month, Evenings. §75:00 worth ok, $.00 month. #100.00 worth— i, $10.00 mouth. 500,00 Wor th—t4 00 WK, 815,00 monti. Remember that we are house furnishers on the part payment plan. Our terms are so easy and our prices so low. If you will call we can easily convince you that the People’s is the only place in the city to buy your furniture, carpets and stoves. ave it their support, many kindred devices | of trap shooting. position and” arranged so that each trap [ five out ?f every 100 targets they 831001 at. | and Mr. Sexton won against a large field of | These would-be emigrants were promised ere put upon the market. Plenty of liti- TRAP SHOOTING CLUBS. will throw a target in a different direction. GUNS AND AMMUNITION. contestants, making a record of 90 out of a [ large estates and a lifo of ease and. loxur gation followed and the fortune that| rne organization of a gun club is but a | The frst trap on the lett is No. 1, and the | The guns are the same as those used for [ possible 100. The targets were thrown under | of course, and had even bavr Lo Lot 1oN0rYs = came 10 the invemtor of the first |, The OrEanization of a gun club s UL 8 | “pigeon” fs thrown quartering to {he right, | killing game. In most cases, however, they | the “reverse system” rule, which is un- | along the piotures of ealae: aipcs o 1yia® O to Be Used Tn- clay pigeon soon melted away. There “m‘; inhabitants has a number of men who | 8¢ 80 angle of about forty-five degrees, and | are of a very high quality of the breec! usually hard shooting. The contest was open | they would be like! y to make' thel D .UI’ er How Clay Pigeons Came are now a number of large factories | pif TR O BTN o eame in | & helght of six to twelve feet from the | loading shotgun, costing anywhere from $35 | to all, amateurs and professionals allke, | acquainianee. eir parsonal stead of Live Birds. in the United States devoted exclusively to | {h (I Sed e otaren e e | Bround when thirty yards away, the speed | to $500. although few of the latter class of marks | Sud the production of clay pigeons, or, as they le E‘.- ""; ebfll {5y Py gh, being sufficient to carry the target forty to The ammunition used is of a higher grade [ men participated. Mr. Sexton has since de- | o u & udall of Anderson, Ind., are often called “inanimate targets,” “‘arti- I’°m- they. 1’"‘9‘ I "l 9 '“mr RiRaY fi:! sixty yards from the trap. The No. 2 trap | than that formerly employed for game shoot- | fended the trophy by scoring 94 out of 100 :. il daughter of Mrs, Isaao ORT ficial flight or ‘“targets.”” Some of these | !nto an organization, purchase A 4 ;" § skould throw at the same speed and angle, | ing the powder being almost exclusively | to his opponent's 88 “i‘ of South Fletcher, 1Is the EXTENSIVE GROWTH OF THE NOVEL SPORT | factories have a capacity of from 50,000 to | traps, which cost from $4 to 8 each, and | hut to the left. The No. 3 or center trap |of the “nitro,” or smokeless order. The [ J. D. Gay s an amat-ur shot, living near | moer °f, @ Perfect baby boy, born this 70,000 targets a day each and it has been |& few thousand targets at 5 berbshould throw ' directly = forward. No. 4 |average cost of the cartridge used is about | Lexington, Ky. He is quite & young man month. The case, £ far as Anderson estimated that over 20,000,000 targets were | 1,000, With = the necessary —paraphernalia fshould throw to the right quarter, and No. | §250 per 100, but special ammunition, con- [ but his superior shooting won him the title | hrosiclins can remember, s the record sprung and broken In 1894, Apdu:pravest i iofh *“g:{""y"‘::::“‘ ves. | 6, the last on the row, should throw to the | sisting of the highest quality of shells, se- | of “champion shot of Kentucky” in 1804 Reealonr of this part of tho globe, M When the target is thrown from the trap | laced behind a screen of boards, which aftords Iv\p;ln[:d\m:;‘rerhp\s\k’;l‘l“o( Urten ahauteg . oA lected and imported wadding, often bings | He has mado some erelitable records at th ember of mottiers of 18 and 13 y s old, it has a rofary, spinning motion, imparted i i s s ; e cost to and $4 per he price | traps, breaking Inanimate targ:ts with won . e remember o . < . protection to the ‘trapper" from any accl-| tegted to a higher degree, the trappers are | gyargeq for shooting at the targets s from | de accuracy. 5 ¢ ever hearing of an 1l-year-old mother, cx- Adeptx in the Art. to It by means of the carrler or release. | ontal discharge of the gun, or stray pellets | ingtructed to change the direction of the fiight | {'Ar&SE fof shaoting ot the tarkets fs tom | derful accuracy, He has competed against| copt in the southern matlons and. cottrl When the pellets or shot strike the surface | ¢ snot. The duty of the trapper is to Set [ aeter each shot by moving a small lever on |5 d . f : | such men as Heikes, Van Dyke and Fulford, | wiore men and M) with sufficlent force the target Is shattered | \yo"trang and put in another target after ‘m- e hich then throws the “bird” in a | 2,cents at small tournaments, and 3 cents | winning a high average on several o casions The child "" "‘" men mature much erller, into a thousand fragments. Sometimes it - S AU A I 8" LEAD, 5 B e tbn imarke. | 8t 1arge meets or_state tournaments. As | Ono of the best racords is ninety-six out of & welghed clght and a third pounds (Copyright, 185, by S 8. McClure, Limited) | Into 8 thoussnd fragments, " Sometimes 1t | ong has been thrown. The screen s usually | aifterent direction, and without the marks- | {y, g eost but $5 o thousand it is casily | aior " ot fecords I ninety-six out of & | and was' perfect. The father s 21" yers fiftcen years or more ago a Cincinnati | T B¢ doz vhen en, | from three to four feet In helghth, and | man knowing where it will fly. The speed | the (ATBELS cost but $7 4 thousand M Is casily | possiblo 100 blue rock targ which | o} Eon citeen ¥ and agaia by only one, but whether broken | yoacnes the length of the traps, which are | of the target is swift enough to require & wera thrown exceedingly hard, the match man by the name of Ligowsky, who enjoyed | in two pieces, or a thousand, it counts as | FICq® (V% ALY [Dort! 1n some cases a | an expert shot to break it before it has gone | Sum for thelr trouble and expense belng shot on a wager that he could not| o pivel . c——e— the use of the shot gun in fleld sports, was ‘dead bird," and scores one point. \ gnan parrow shed s constructed, which | thirty-five yards away from him. but is PRIZES AND PRIZ v S. break ninety. He won, with six points to INGERING ON LIFE'S STAGE. out one day for his favorite recreation. The | It Is sometimes the case, however, that | compietely protects the trappers from the | broken by the majority of men at from forty | At all large tournaments the c spare. | birds were very scarce, and being desirous | & i r one that is supposed to have | SomBlelely PROLCER Hn HREe o ground | to fifty yards distance. The springing of | the same adds from $500 to $1,000, and cven | The sport of trap shooting is mot enjoyed | €verywhere as Grandma Husted and celes fiving object, he went to | bee® . because no pieces have been | Weather. Tv is placed pattidlly CACCe BT | 0o Ntraps 16 now accomplished, by means | as much as $2,000 to the purses, as an induce- | by men alone. Often women, too, come fo | brated her 100th birthday on the 7h gt B hete e faund. planty of from it by the kneen eye Of | i o1y’ th “ordinary fence screen was used. | of an electric battery. ment for shooting men to como from a dis- | groat ekill in it Every one knows of Miss | It will surprise many people to learn that the river bank, where he o tance. At any of the state tournaments the [ Annie Oakley, who gave such a maryelous | Adolph d' y Nigess Oot b clam shells and these, after a few short les- amount of $5,000 in cash ls often paid out to | exhibition of Fhooting In Buftalo Bi1's Wil | author of “The Two Orphane . ser’ Joimt sons, he taught a small boy to fling through H'w “lnlv.w‘k:. :w: u‘; lll‘iuh as lfl-a‘]’;;? )llus lnkvu West. She has been engaged in this work | living ach of them is 87 years of age. i 4 ation ¢ a fiying, and given out in cash to the most skillful marks- | for several years and is, without doubt, the o # . AR 1o tnliation bRy InEc And , men In a national trap shooting tournament | finest woman Lhot 1 the woels Phfly aarile, Mioh., boasisof the proud; ales hen fired @ i, pre AR k of four days' duration. The entrance WILL K. PARK. | habitant In 1 e home he oldest ine : ¢ : bitant In Tuscola count y them to learn the result of his alm. After = a8 St R SO B S hl fuscola county or that part of his ammunition had been exhausted, as well i = $1; in a fifteen-target event from $2 to $3. OUR.OI THE ORDINARY. “\; Nh‘flv V’[M that matter. She s known as the muscles of the small boy's arm, Li- AT A fow years ago It was eonsidered Senator Morrill of Vermont, “tho father of gowsky sat down and iudulged in a long A a feat if a marksman succeeded in breaki Latest geological caleulations make the | th® senite ! Is now 85 years of age. He never it 1l. The result was the workin; \ B sl A 90 per cent, but now with the fmproved | earth 1,5: 0,000 years old. touched wine until he was 40 years of age, thinklng spell. The result was the & 7 ¢ 2 ammunition and the SUpSrIor qUANLY OF the | * s tanews ot o somimon soall fs set | A0 Has always eschewed thnulants, Worry: out of a model of a trap, constructed on the guns used, it fs no uncommon occurrence at | with 30,000 toothlike points and late hours when possible principle of the small boy's arm, having any large’ tournament to have a number of | Vol FrOC SEERE BOBE | Admiral Haydn, who 1s now 96, Is the only a strong coll wire spring for the wuscle men to break from ninety-five to ninety- th at T' | person living possessing the portraits set men ho heesis. SO RORTRIS. duo o itd rotation on its axls, is 1,000 miles [ "% RS st ¢ sisel awlogias on 3 pivol even out of & p h o3 (poorsn | 948, A0 SN TRALOD SRR ARIN I8 A n diamonds of the three Russian emperors, I o and s darrier which Bald the of 100 straight are frequently made. e e dotlese it (he game | Nicholas I, "Alexander 1L, and. Alexander 3 - PR e Authorlties o eclare e game | [IT., which ‘are grante gk "Russ ¥ clam sheli as a Loy's fingers would, and ! SOMR OF THE ORACKS. was known to the Chinese In the year 174, | ficials on “‘,;r'o.’;“]” g4 " igh-Rusiss 48 With «about the samo movement as at the g Perhaps the greatest shot at targets thrown | B, C, 4 OFasIon of the cxar's corolge wrml.“ lnu] ‘hl.lnem of |l;e rl‘dn|l ;m-l,l‘ Li- i . 3 E ;{::1';:. '(',”'fml,?;’,' u’r'“}’m*y“'": ‘(";\’" \1kr"”|‘:"m:; It would take a line of cradles extending gowsky molded a saucer-shaped disk of clay, ) . He on, 0. ) elkes | ontirely around the globe to accommodate the which, after being dried and baked 5 has been a shooter all his life, but being & | 7 600000 Lakie Vi RIGEAL AT e R S business man, be did rot have much time to | Suo0\% bables that are born Into this world | puried with Masonto rites. For gencrations RS alde. L0 enable 1t 10 Do Jerkedll or ; spare to the sport until lately. He is a man [ ©70Y 3848 e I'her ancestors had been Masons. Her huse salled through the air simila | the flight about 40 years of sge, welghing perhiaps 200 &]I"r";:\d“:: s o .’“":‘m",'l“ll{“"‘;"':;’;'l“ Jag ou- band was u'kmzm. all lier sons’ were mem= of a bird. / Y pounds. His position ‘at the scores is a very | Shrine antinop d to be a|bers of the fraternity, and she was an enthus iR S el sy ana natural ons, and His shooting sseqts portlon of a silk night ehirt formerly Worn by | siastic partisan of tie order. %0 put in money to manutaciure this hew ) almost of the mechanical order, with sush 3 self. i Benjamin D. Silliman, one of the leadin DI and trap, and “shorlly ey were : ¢ T e 3 e tmeice 30" mither | William Blaior o nekro “newesny, 20 sork® | cltizens of Brooklyn, was 80 years old on the aced upon e marl . cecount ) ' a et o 0 witho aieele, R d 4 . ars 3th, and celebrated the eve; o s the o “:',,”,f;,,df“m: - a miss; in September, 1894, at Chattanooga, | of age. George is fifty-two inches in height | fomme ”',“ o "’{fi"’ "I:,;I,‘"“l’" ""‘l s <7 sport quickly sprung into popular favor, F D. A. UPSON. CHAMPION ROLLA A HEIKES. Tenn., he broke 137 'straight, under severe and welghs fifty pounds. wiltsianding Ke | mrent i annt e AORS The cost of the clay pigeon was about one- i s —_— ——————————————————————— | rules; at Detroit, Mich,, he run 125 stralght; | The highest temperature of the world is | man is in full possession of ail his faculties Aifth that of the live birds; afterward it was | = B The shooter Then siands on & Doard walk,| Where five traps are im use it |at South Bend, 'Ind., T41 straight; at COry, | recorded in the great desert of Africa, | and is able fo read and writs withost (e reduced, until today tho very latest improved | the referee, can be afterwards retrieved, | which is built parallel with the tra ix-| 13 customary to have six marks- [ Pa, 181 straight, and then losing a target | where the thermometer often marks 150 de- | use of glasses “elay pigeons’ can be bought for §5 per |and from one to three shot marks found on | feen yards back, that belng the reg men Taco the . traps and ' shoot | OWiK to s defective shell, broke 170 more | grecs Fahrenhelt R LA O R 1,000, while the live pigeons cost 60 cents | it. When this happens, it is supposed to be | tance. Back of this walk or ! down the line, each taking a shot at the | I succession. At Hamliiton, Ont, be broke | At the moment a lttle girl in a Brooklyn | Gorda, Fia.. has grown young again. Up. 0 per palr, or even more, the result of poor ammunition, or else the | called, the shooting house or ‘club house™ | “bird" thrown from the trap in front of | 105 straight and MiHee —tweniy Hive BIfts | public school was reciting a plece describing | a year ago Mr. Goft wax blind, partially deag A LARGE INDUSTRY. gunner's not “‘centering” the target, whence | can be built. The size of this depends on the | Which he stands, and then moving to the | SrIELE. St e % 1, this year be $ J the fury of a storm lightning struck and . broke 145 stralght. : ¢ ] and bald, and hud been so for many years, Before Ligowsky invented his clay pigeon | the outside pellets of the charge which un- | organization next trap on his right. The sixth man falis [ broke 145 stralgbt. = o | Killed her father a few blocks away. Abon, v s Das b for mATE A ineial t hooti doubtedly struck it did not have sufclent u " commodate | in after the Afth one and thus is maintained . Xoop Ut scards It 18 estimated that the 1 B ; B ot o moct of ammga: | Penetrative pawer 1o causo It 1o break. from e o b erectad. for | & TeuIAF firing tn rotation, with the perfect Hatey McMurshy, Feed Van Drke 8. D: | (o o Gais"lo tne. United Miaten ube bobw | totr wbars (o fmieas sad heastag ant-iue ment that circled through the air when| Such proportions had the sport of trap | §100 to $300, but It takes from §600 to | order and precision of a military company. | Fulford and D). & Upson. TOCRC 10 €eVErit poquced about 100,000,000 bushels owing to the | and sces a8 well as he ever did and nis head wound up--and at glass or composiion balls, | shooing assumed by 1893 thav there were | $1,000 to erect the substantial, well-arranged ,_""';’; g]“‘:;m::‘:r“y‘ Img‘,‘,‘,’; posri ‘,’,’.;,“‘ o ,‘,‘:,.'"_‘{ cABatie e AToraring Bvor 80 Tar GARts Bit “'*:jl'lz"-'""l‘m of borse power by electricity | is covered with a growth of black halp. I ts | the X c 7 J : leyel s eyesig e wing shooting those devices slowly dropped | 70,000 shooting men in active practice. Each pecagitnally atches ar made In which toe BlsL Aoty g:gln:nn:h:d::nhr‘:w N | are. 15 howa. Dy ihe sant. thar idaean | . canditionesd tiam hhe‘l:llu:“ accrey 4 lace | ol v, = - targets are thrown at once, and the shooter q v y o Byl (R g gt S siaht unil 1oday they bave o piace | clib had u wubstuntialshooting houss for | Ing, making & two-story houte with whatever | (1501l ‘reak one With sach barrel I |18 J. W. Sexion of Leavenworth, Kan He lwln(]ler yas arrested In the goverament of | man, lardly able to walk, be became 13 st the filut lock rifl { wiorage of targots, traps. ste. I 1e satimated . od for comfort and pleasure of | ooiing at single targets it is considered | succeeded in winning the trophy o hy atow for selling among the antry a uth ot 20 years, T h S Abat T eya | i ag h. s estimal be; a good score to break eighty-five out of a | the Schmelzer Arms company of Kai pumber of tickets 10 the planct Jup tor. | wrinkles on his skin disappeared and he now igowsky's | that at the present e there are 100,000) When the possible 100, but under ordinary conditions ‘for the inanimate target ch-mplnnmp u Ilny of the dupes had disposed of everyth ng | locks frech and youthlul ¥ (‘,l‘ OF TR 100'[‘\'(‘ clay pigeon was a success and that sportsmen | active sportsmen, who enjoy the recreation | appointed days, the five traps are placed in | many men will break from ninety to ninety- | America. The match took place on July 17, | they possessed in order to buy such a ticket, ORI AP S i 3 Outfit of an Ordinary Gun Club—Arti- tlo; Mrs. Mary Bush, who died at Novi, Mich., a few days ago, at the age of 112 years, was