San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-03-22
WHY JIM CHARLIE shOT SUlLY,
PRAIRIE FlOWEf1 TRAINER.

A Stump Out in Kama That Serves as a
Dishonest Mans TeSrbstone-H the
Peorias Repaid the Teller Who Fixed
Their Favorite to Lose
"There's Teller buried tr Nat stump. He
got killed, reckon"
The reckoning, should the Sayfarer pursue
the subject, will be found 10 be correct.
The finest horses in the Indian territory six
years ago were owned by Dave Peery. He
has taken less interest in horses since then,
however Peery was a white man who was
adopted by the Peorias when he was a boy.
He subsequently married the daughter Of
Baptiste Peoria, ~ q lief of the tribe, and
became a man of Importance among the In
dams. He had love of fine horses, and as
his wealth increased he spared neither pains
nor money in obtaining firss class blue grass
horses from Kentucky. Although it is likely
that his best would have had but small chance
at Sheepshead Bay or Monmouth, yet here
they were wonders.
The flower of the lot was q bay mare called
Prairie Flower. At years of age she was
the pride and delight of every Indian at the
Quapau agency, and not buck among them
but would wager his last pony and the hat
on his head that she could distance anything
west of the Mississippi IN mile dash, or in
two miles, for that matter.
THE BAIT WAS TAKEN.
The fame of Prairie Flower spread until it
reached Kansas City and came to the ears of
the men who are called sports, and who
straightway determined to see what could be
lone in the way of skinning the hackers of
Prairie Flower A trusted jockey wassent
down to look at her, and when he got back he
made the hearts of the sports glad by saying
lAgt while the mare could do everything that
was said of her-that she could outrun any
thing owned in Kansas City, at least--she
nevertheless was groomed by a white man,
one Alfred Sully, who, for reasonable share
Of the stakes, would fix the mare to lose
Thereupon the sports sat down and waited
until a day had been set for what the Indians
call a payment. A lot Of money was due
from the Great Father at Washington, and
on a certain day the agent would count it
out to them 1t was easy for the sports to
arrange race for Prairie Flower and an I'M
known from Kansas City for the day after
the payment, the stakes being $500 side.
That was great day for the Indians. 1t
was also great day for the sports. The In
dams, in their finest apparel, and with the
money received the day before stuffed in
their pockets, gathered to see the sport. Old
IF hoc yaI
for $1,000 above the stakes. Jim Charley,
Jr., who had short time before got big
lump of money for some land he had owned
in Kansas City, backed her for $4,000
Strung along below these were wagers of
hundreds, and so on down to tens and ones
and jack knives and brass rings. Over S10,-
900 of good money was put up on Prairie
Flower
Then the horses were brought out amid the
hi-yis and cheers of throng of men, women
and children, numbering, it is said upward
of 5000 people. The excitement was in
tense. Peery's own son, a Lad of light weight
and great Skill rode the mare. The I'M
bestrode by niger"
Finally, on the first try, the racers got of,
with Prairie Flower slightly In the lead. For
over furlong she drew steadily away. The
Indians, who were squirting their ponies in a
mad gallop along, parallel with the track, in
the hope of seeing every jump in the race,
began to go wild AS the mares head
showed clear they yelled Then her neck,
then her shoulders showed, and when, just
short of the quarter post, she was seen to be
an entire length in the lead, they threw off
hats and coats and acted like witches with
saint in the corral
THE SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED.
Then something happened The Indians
had been having all the fun. 1t was the
white mans turn now But the white man,
especially if from Kansas City, was keeping