The Springdale news., 1889-08-23
 INDIAN HORSE RACE
An Exciting Scene Witnessed on the Plains
 A Reliable Stakeholder.

An Exciting Scene Witnessed on the Plains
 A Reliable stake-Holder.
 An elderly Indian of great dignity of presence steps into the ring, and with a graceful movement throws his long red blanket to the ground and drops on his knees before it, to receive the wagers ofsuch as desire to make them. Men walk up and throw in silver dollars and every sort of personal property imaginable. A Winchester rifle and a large nickel-plated Colts revolver arc laid on the grass near mo by a cowboy and an Indian and then each goes away. It was a wager, and l thought they might we'll have confidence in their stakeholder mother earth. Two ponies, tied head and head, were led aside and left hOrso against horse. No excitement seemed to prevail. Near me little half-McXican Comancho boy began to disrobc until he stood clad only in shirt and brecch-clQlh His father addressed some whl Aering admoni- tions and then led up roan pony, prancing with impatiencc and evil dcntly fully conscious of the work cut out for him that day. With d bound the little fellow landed on the neck of the pony only half way up, but his toes caught on the upper muscles Of the pony's log, and like monkey he c'ambercd up and wa, in his seat The pony was as bare as wild horse, cx- cept for a hridle, and loped away with his graceful little rider sitting like d rock. No not like rock, but limp and unconcerned. and as full of the motion of the horse as the horses tail or any other part of him.
 A Kiowa with loose hair and great coarse face broke away from the group and gallopcd up the prairie until he stopped at what wa9 to be the starting point, at the usual distance of two arrow flights and pitch Y lIo was followed by half a dozen ponies at an eaSy lope. bearing their half-naked jockeys. The lndlan spectators Sat about on their ponies as unmoycd i'm countcnance a4 oysters, being natural gamblers, and stoical as such should be, while the cowboys whispered among themselves.
 That's the buy stallion therc. ' said one man to me. as he pointed 10 a racer "and has never been beaten. It7 his walk-ovcr, and I've gol my gun MP on him with an lniun."
 It was ~ bo flying start, am they jockeycd a good deal and could not seem to gat oi But presently pun of smoke clma from the rifle hcid aloit by the Kiowa starter. and hi. horse rrared. The report reached us, ana with a -cUrry tho five ponies came away from the scratch, followed by a cloud of dust 'rho gHir,S flew through tho air at every jump The ponies punched and battered away at q name lcS1 rate, for the quarter-raee pony ie quick of stride. Nearer and noarcr they came. the riders lying low on their horses neck. whipping and ky- yi-yi-ing. Tho dust in their wake swept backward ana upward. ana with a rush thcy came over the scratch with the roan pony ahead, ana my little Mexican fellow holding his quirt aloft, and his little eyo9 -napping with inc ncrvou, excitement of the great event. lIe had beaten thc inrinoible bay stallion, tho pride of this Conan che tribe, and as NV rode bIc1 ~ hi, father hi7 facc had the settled calm which nothing con'd penetrate. and which baittad his dignity a7 young runner Frederic Remington, in Gen. ' tIIV