T
w i ü v C i U c n ii I p e c ^ o rv u « « r *•• i e a r
were thrown into the air, ami tlie !W-liO
u„ w.„ through them
as though they were putty. A potato,
Published Every Friday by
wrap|xd in red white and blue paper,
C. E. Trombley, Edltoi and Publisher. was tnen thrown up and shot at with
rifle, with the result that the entire
object
was so thoroughly shot to pieces
"Entered as second-class matter, Nov­ as to cause
what api>eaied like a shower
ember J3th, 1905 at the post office at Clo­
verdale, Tillamook County, Oregon, un­ of confetti to fall upon the ground.
der Act of Congress, March 3rd, 1878. With a 32-20 semi-smokeless cartridge,
using a Stevens Ideal rifle, he did some
pretty work in reflection shooting, and
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with the use of a small mirror, hit ob­
jects without looking at them, holding
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dix Months............................................. 50 then gave a demonstration with a 2'-
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rifle, using cartridges which he
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had secured at the Cloverdale Mercan­
tile Co., store. This was the most
wonderful work he did and best showed
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his remarkable skill as a marksman.
displayed Advertisements, 50 cents per Little bits of bricks as small as the ends
inch per month, single column. All of your thumb, slot machine slugs, pen­
I ocal Reading Notices, 5 cents per nies and all sorts of little things like
line for each insertion.
that were thrown into the air and the
Tim her land notices
$10.00 unerring
hit every one of
Homestead notices
5.00 them and markcman
them singing into spuce
Political Announcement Cards $10.00 To show sent
the cleanliness of the Peters
semi-smokeless cartridge, the Captain
died, two hundred shots from a 22-
calibre rifle without cleaning or stopping
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onlv long enough to till the magazine,
My Job Department is complete in every and when the two hundred shots had
respect and I am able to do all kinds been fired the gun was as clean as
Commercial Job Printing on short though not more than one shot had
been fired,
notice at reasonable prices.
The demonstration concluded with an
exhibition of shotgun shooting at which
the captain showed himself to be as ex­
pert as with the rifle. He filled the
FRIDAY, AUG. 6, 1909.
magazine of a Remington auto-loading
gun with mixed shells of semi-smoke­
less and different grades of nitro powd­
ers, and shot at tin cans and other ob­
A Clever Man With a Rifle.
jects both stationary and thrown into
the air. A tin can thrown into the air
had all of the shots of the magazine
emptied into it before it got a chance to
' light.”
As deputy United States Marshal,
Captain Bartlett had a fight with a bad
gang of horse thieves in 1883 in Daxota,
and in the scrimmage he was shot in the
knee. Afterwards he conducted a trad­
ing store near the Pin** Ridge Agency
and the Indians gave him the name of I
"Wounded Knee” on account of his
slight limp, the result of his wound.
Personally the captain is a most inter­
esting gentleman and has a rich fund of
historical knowledge of much value.
He has been with the Peters Company
for ten years, an 1 is now permanently
located in San Francisco as the repre­
sentative of the firm.
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Dried r ruft!
Peaches,
Pears,
Raisins,
Appl
e
s,
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Sees Mother Grow Young.
"It rwould be hard to overstate the
wonderful change in my mother since
she l>egan to use Electric Bitters,’’writes
Mrs. W. L. Gilputrick of Danforth, Me.
Although past 70 she seems really to
be growing young again. She suffered
untold misery from dyspepsia for 20
years. At last she could neither eat,
drink nor sl«*ep. Doctors gave her up
and all remedies failed till Electric Bit­
ters worked such wonders for her
health ” They invigorate all vital organs,
cure Liver and Kidney troubles, induce,
sl«*ep, impart strength and appetite.
Only 50c at Cloverdale Drug S, >re.
Captain George E. Bartlett, ex-Unit-
ed States marshal and scout, known
among the Sioux Indians of the Dakotas
as "Wounded Knee,” was shooting up
the town here Tuesday.
The captain is the coast representative
of the Peters Cartridge Com(>any and
the exhibitions he gives are for the pur-
l«oae of demonstrating the superiority of
the cartridges made by his company and
the different kinds of powder used.
After a preliminary, and very in­
structive talk on the various kinds of Material for Boxen,
powder and cartridges used, the captain Boat Lumber,
proceeded to demonstrate. Using a
Remington auto-loading rifle shooting All kinds of building material
30-30 cartridges, he first shot at pieces of ( except matched lumlier.
brick throw n in the air and the pieces We saw perfect lumber in Fir
were reduced to powder. He shot at a and Spruice.
quart tin can filled with water and
are after busines and want
sealed, thrown in the air, and the bullet to We
treat
our customers right.
struck the can square in the end and
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reduced it to a scrap of tin, while the
water disap|>eared in thin vapor. Borne
P O ST E R B R O S.
pieces of boiler plate al>*ut three inehes
Meda, Ore.
square auu a quai ter ut an iiicli thick,
Building Material
At Prices that are right.
Tomato Catsup 15c per bottle
or two bottles for 25c.
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Yours Respectfully,
Cloverdale Mercantile Co.
General Merchandise.
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