Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-16

Mankato April 10th. 18th and 18th, and
Friend, Neb., April 25th, Goth and 9th.
The coursing is in an enclosure in each
instance.
dispatch from Los Angeles of recent
date conveys the news that the coursing
men have finally got the best of their
controversy with the Humane society.
1t had got into the shape that the cours-
ing people were being prosecuted for
conspiracy to commit acts of cruelty.
They were finally tried on this charge,
and acquitted. 1t is understood that
both parties will accept this as a final
decision of the matter. ana the coursing
will hereafter be carried on in Los
Angeles without interference.
So
The California bred greyhounds have
lot the best Of those bred elsewhere.
perhaps mainly on account Of the eff
fects of the climate, which knocks all
strangers out of shape after month or
two for an indefinite period, some of
them never to come around again. OF the
total amount distributed in purses at
Union Park during 1900, which was STA
119, the imported dogs won, $3.50, Ameri-
YAH DIeu Jugs not DFeu IN CdllIOrn1d
Won. $S,162.50, and California bred dogs
took the rest About third of the
total number of starters failed to win
single course during the year.
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The only Montana Sreyhounds that
We're entered at Union Park last week
were Lear King and Montana Belle
date Lady Fullerton), but neither of
them g rta1 fhair ota Ct,,c
in the first round.
Distemper is playing havoc in the
California kennels. Lopez & Son have
lost about twenty nearly grown sap
lings and other breeders have suffered
proportionately. Montana had her turn
with distemper in the late winter and
early spring of 1900 when about nine
| tenths of the young dogs in the state
went the way of all flesh. One con-
ISOLATION to be derived from an epidemic
| of this nature is that it leaves plenty
of room for the survivors. The average
class will be low among the youngsters
next year, so those who have managed
to save a likely youngster or two will
have easy going. In England in the
spring of 1900, so many puppies died of
distemper that almost all the puppy
stakes had to be declared off for lack
of entries. Montana has been practical
ly free of distemper so far this season,
but it will probably work it's way up
here in course of time. 1t is first cousin
to la grippe, and follows that disease
in it's methods of operation. "'1
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Drugs are not of much avail in the
! treatment of distemper. The proper
| course seems to be to keep the patient
! warm, dry and clean, feed him light,
easily digested food, With the addition
of little stimulant if he gets very
weak, and then, if he gets too bad, kill
him, for they seldom amount to anything
after severe siege of it.
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The stake at Union Park last Sunday
was won by J. Dowling's Sir Lawrence
the runner-up being Pasha Kennels i'm
ported Fiery Face. the litter sister to
the Waterloo cup winner. Fiery Face
came within one point of winning he1
first stake in America She had harder
! courses all through than Sir Lawrence
and especially in the semi-finals, had
| two trials before beating the flying
Beacon, so came to slips for the final
a little the worse for wear. Beacon led
her several lengths, but the game little
bitch outworked him on the hare.
| There appears to be lots of disSa tisfac-
ton with John Grace's judging at Unior
Park lately; everyone is complaining OF
incomprehensible decisions Mr.. Grace
is getting along in years, and many OF
his friends take the charitable view that
his sight is failing. 1t has been notorious
for the last two or three years that he
has been riding very close to the dogs
too close, many thought, as he has
knocked down one now and then anC
escaped riding over a great many by &
hairs breadth. Union Park has had his
son, John Grace. Jr., under pay fol
some time, under a contract that pre-
vents him judging elsewhere, and keep!
him at their command to judge if the,
require him. Many coursing men thinl
him a better judge than his father, bu
he has been in bad health during mos
Of the life of the contract referred to
If he is we'll enough, it would seem goot
policy for the Park management to pu
him in the saddle. and retire his fathe
before he has ruined his honorable rec
ord of thirty-five years as coursin,
Judge. John Grace decided over min,
thousand courses during 1900, probabl.
more than any other judge ever decide,
in a lifetime