St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-05-20
STIRRED UP THE ANIMALS.
'Sp0kane's Victory Has Awakened
a Lively Interest In the Twin
City Meeting.

City Meeting.
The recent victories Of Spokane at
Louisville have stirred up the people of
the Northwest as nothing else, perhaps,
outside of general crop failure could
do. Assurances were received some
weeks ago from prominent horsemen in
the East and in California that the Twin
City running meeting in July would at
tract a large number of visitors from all
these places. But people nearer home
had said very little as to their inten-
lions until Spokane got to the front, and
convinced the Northwestern people that
it was possible to produce a horse in
this part of the world whose feats on
the turf would make him talked about.
It's very gratifying to hear the people
of Fargo, Duluth, West Superior and
other nearer points express themselves
on the subject of the coming races.
Fargo people particularly are very en-
thusiastic. as they seem to feel some
thing of proprietary interest in the
great Montana horse, feeling growing
out of a species of neighborliness. as it
were. A GLOBE reporter who recently
visited Fargo was present at a '.h0rse
seance" in the office of the Fargo
Argus. Mai. Edwards, who is sort of
universal chairman of all the Fargo
seances-dOubtless because OF his Ca
pacity to fill chair-was principal
spokesman. He declared that SpO-
kane's victory had awakened in him an
interest in the coming st. Paul running
races that was positively reducing his
weight through sort of nervous an
ticipation of the weeks events in store
at Hamline, and he had found the feel
ing very general among his friends and
neighbors. you may say" said the
major to the GLOBE man, that Fargo
will send at least fifty people to st.
Paul in july" Charlie Roberts said he
had great mind to shut down his mill
and let all his employees go down to st.
Paul for weeks picnic. Maj. Benton
said: "I'm going to take hamper
along and just simply camp on the
grand stand"
The people of Moorhead feel Just
about as enthusiastic as their neighbors
across the river, and Mr.. Finkle, whose
passion for good horse has passed into
a proverb, declared he would walk to
st. Paul if necessary, rather than miss
the races.
But the Duluth financiers, and there
are not few there, present and pros
pective, are born sportsmen, and sew
eral of them have concluded to nominate
a special purse race, to be known as the
s'.Zenith City stakes" to be competed
for by at least ten running horses, to be
named hereafter. Senator Whiteman,
AID. Long. Mayor Sutphin. General Man
ager Carpenter, of the Duluth & Iron
Range railroad; Charlie Abbott. bud
ding real estate capitalist; e. W.
Markell, w. E. Cody, Col. Glenn. late
of Minneapolis, but recent Duluth
acquisition; DR.. McComb. S. L. Pope,
general superintendent of the Duluth &
Iron Range railroad; Banker Kinney,
Of Ely, and thirty more have already en-
tered into an agreement to come in
body by special train OH the 25th Of
July, and remain till the end of the
.sMeeting. > si;
flgIt is now a generally accepted fact
that the initial meeting of the Twin City
Jockey club will equal in interest any
series of races to be run anywhere in
the United States this year, and the
most prominent people of Minnesota,
Dakota and Montana, to say nothing of
the hundreds from other states, will
take advantage of the opportunity to
mark their appreciation OF the enter
prise that has secured for the Twin
Cities such magnificent spectacle as
these races will present