Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-12-09

time to do any good.
They had one mare OF the Gold
Dust strain-Sultana they called her
that could have won in every
event she was entered for if allowed
but that was not their game and
there is no doubt she was pulled in
the two mile trot, best two out of
three, on the third day, letting a
black horse named Nabob come un
Ter the wire, winner by head
THAT evening Mr.. Sutherland,
who had bet on Sultana and solaced
himself afterward with hard cider,
accumulated quite a jag, and when
in good mood for freeing his mind
met up with chap named Carter,
who owned Sultana To Mr.. Carter
he confided in voice like foghorn
his private impression that the mare
was no good; that she was COW;
that it was a dead skin on an inno-
cent public to match her against a
real horse like Nabob, and 30 on, in
such an aggravating way that final
ly he got Sultana's owner hot and
mad all the way through. To clinch
all, the patent chu1n man swore he
was hiring by the day common
livery stable plug that he would bet
could beat Sultana one mile heat
anyway, and he pulled out roll of
bills like fat mans leg to make his
bluff good.
ITO Mr. Carter, who was out for
the dust and meant business all the
time, that proposition seemed pc
culiarly juicy piece Of pie. He knew
well enough that his mare could beat
Nabob any day and at any distance,
and the idea of any fool matching a
common livery roadster against her
made him happy, especially for a one
mile heat, which was the surest thing
she had. The upshot Of their wrangle
was that they actually made a match
for $500 a side, one mile heat, be-
tween Sultana and my roadster, to
be trotted the next morning at an
hour when the track would be free
if they could get the managers per
mission, and the money was put up
in good hands, safe to go to the win
ner. To got the managers permis-
sion the trot had to be represented to
them as a bit of fun for basket OF
wine, Just to teach a lesson to the
churn man, who was too brash for
his own good, and they thought II
would be quite joke.
"A few minutes after the match
was made, Sutherland's partner in
the churn business wobbled into the
saloon where the horse talk was go
ing on, and he was full as a goat. Ht
seemed fiabbergasted when he heard
and succeeded in understanding wha'
had been going on, and the two part
ners had quite row, Hutchinson
calling his fat friend all kinds OF
fool for what he had done. But whel
some outsiders interfered in the in
terest of the public peace, whlcl
seemed liable to be broken, littl
Hutchinson turned on them savag
as a mink, and swerving right around
as a drunken man will, he swore h
would stand by his partner, whateve
his partner did was right, and b
would back his partner with ever
dollar he had. Then he flashed up
roll of money, like the other chapt
except that it seemed to have grow
mn to maturity. There must hay
been at least So, 900 up on each
outside the stakes before the blufhp
and calling down came to an enc
and drunk as the churn men wei
they took good care the money wa
in solid, responsible hands
"When the story of the match 81
around the next morning, there WI
a feeling of sadness in the comm'
nitv on account Of all the chur
mems money being up with Mr.. Ca
, fer and his friends, for it was re
that those who had not got q piece
= 60 good a thing had actually lost 1u
90 much. But that cloud had = .
: : ver lining. Two innocent lookiI
! Young chaps-students from Ann a
J bor thew said they were-strolled
. = m the town to see the fair, and bon
> al the track when the trot was abo
" coming off simple mindedly put
. . few dollars on my roadster.
q "Well, people literally climbed oy
y each other to get at them, offerr
? all sorts of odds TO grab a share
!, their pelf. They got three 20 OF
X then five to one, and when the bori
j., we're scoring as high as ten to OF
y !. r. might have seemed strange, II al
u = bodv had thought about 1t at
"a time. how much money they haS
70 70 haino only students-and how al
u y, tbey caught everybody's bet a
y ,rn,'ked up the odds, but all SAID
y was lust youthful pigheadedness y
q noode them act so and quoted "
9n aa,,;ngs about fool and his mon
q, o. ond more money than brains Q
ed so on. M
n. Il didn't have a cent up. ~ ~
I'd ~ sutherland brought the horse a. ~
nd nd after the match was on he @ did
~ !. en-, en- 10 me even little bit dru.
~ o. told me what was mp, onefeo