Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-01-18

severed the telegram and In Its trans
mission the code word .Invitation'' was in
correctly used instead Of Irritation De-
ceived through the error. Mr.. Hughes went
to New York on a fruitless errand. and att
erward brought an action against the tel
egraph company for his expenses. amount
ing to $3.50. Judge Neville sustained the
motion of the company's attorney TO strike
out all damages claimed except the s2.5o
the message cost and the costs of the snit.
Mr.. Hughes will give the supreme court an
opportunity to express it's opinion on 1t.
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Globe-Democrat: State Chairman Cooks
plan of defense in the legal investigation
of the Bland-North deal will be. as he
states in a Democratic paper. to deny one
OF the most important and significant as
sertions in the Bland letters. Mr.. Cook
says Judge Bland will testify that he never
received from Cook the letter Bland wrote
that he had received. This will place
Bland as a witness in positive contradic-
ton to Bland as a letter writer. A novel
and striking position. truly, Bland wrote
to Pratt. October %, 1886: chairman
Cook wrote me that before Mr.. RoZelle's
committee would accept the resignation of
Mr.. North and substitute my name. he
had to agree. and did agree, to pay Ro-
zelle $1,000 to help defray the expenses Of
his (Rozelle's) committee" Mr.. Cook says
Bland will now declare under oath that
there was no such letter. 1t is strange
that a man of Judge BANDS intelligence
and standing should make in writing 80
positive a statement about n letter that
had no existence. II this is the best line
of defense the difficulties Of the case on
that side are enormous.
'One of the prpafocf hOrSoc aver prOd1Cad
in Missouri was Richball. the great PAGER,
who In 1883, when he was owned by Fayette
Smith. Rodney Hamblin and Mike Hilgert.
or this city. set the whole pacing world by
the ears" writes Grace Dunn. in the Mary
Vile Tribune. "Richball was not a record
breaker: he was distinctively a racer. He
was always able to make as good time in this
NTH heat as in the first. and some of his
performances when he was in his prime ap-
preached the wonderful. He had a record
OF 2:12h. and 1t is probable that in 1889 he
was the fastest racing PAGER in the world.
Richball was discovered by Fayette Smith.
He was brought to a Nodaway county fair
in the early SOS by a farmer who did not
appreciate his merits. and who almost fell
over himself in accepting an offer of $500
for him. In 1883 he made the Eastern cir
cult and won almost everything in sight.
His three greatest performances were at
Washington, d. c., Buffalo, N. Y, and
Chicago. At the latter place he was en-
tered In a free-for-all. When the race was
called there was $4,000 in the poolbox, and
the immense crowd was wild with excite
ment. Richball lost the first two heats, but
the last three he won hands down. This
race stamped him as the king of PAGERS.
Shortly afterward he was sold to n Texas
man for $4,000. Faubush. the remarkable
2-year-old who surprised the followers of
the Chicago races last year. was bred ard
raised in Nodaway county. and was the
property of Lambert Yehle. W. B. Rich
ardson. of this city. who helped manage
Richball. had charge of Faubush. Faubush
made a number of good runs for a colt.
| His mile record Is 1:41. He covered three
quarters in lila. five-eighths in 1:0lh. and
four and a half furlongs in 0:S5 when carry
ing 115la pounds. and in 0:54 when carrying
10S pounds. He was sold by Mr.. Yehle for
| $l,GOO. and is now in the South. Robert
Rysdike, one of the greatest %trotters in the
country. was a Nodaway ounty product.
And the finest saddle horse in Chicago. one
ridden by Mrs. ]. C. Bohart. formerly of
Maitland, is from Holt county. Trotters.
PAGERS, runners and saddlers can be found
in all parts of the country that were raised
in Northwest Missouri.