Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-26

horses for the races. Two of the best
race tracks in the country are located
IN Butte and Anaconda. and horsemen
| know that there is no better field for
| racing than in Montana. There will be
! a number of Montana horses contest for
| the prizes. and Montanans are rapidly
! increasing their stables in anticipation
of the neeting-Breeder 4 Sportsman.
| The Chicago. ST. Louis, New Orleans.
l.atonia and Tanforan tracks will with
draw from the resent Turf Congress and
organize a new body similar to the East
ern Jockey club. said Il prominent
delegate to the session of the Turf Con-
sress held at the Wellington hotel in
Chicago last Wednesday. This will
mean a dissolution of the present Turf
Congress. the throwing out of the small
Ter southern tracks and the organization
of a strong western body. with a board
of stewards that will be EXTREMITY power
full in turf matters" The combination
includes the big tracks of the west. with
the exception of Oakland and Ingleside
The latter has not been in operation this
season. 1t also leaves out Little Rock
and other southern tracks. These will
be provided for. however. if the present
plans carry. 1t was planned after the
| Turf Congress adjourned to have the
big tracks withdraw. The new body if
| it goes through. will fix all racing dates.
/ The new object of the meeting was to
provide for the division of the money
now in the treasury. This was accom-
pished. Each track in the Turf Con-
gress secures $4,000. This leaves the sum
OF $1,000 in the treasury. which will
cover present expenses. 1t is likely the
big tracks mentioned will turn their
$4,000 into the treasury of the new jockey
club to be formed later. The delegates
| favoring the new organization adjourned
to the Auditorium annex. The name
chosen for this body was the Western
Jackey club.
Lester and Johnnie Reff the jockeys,
who scored such success in England and
at home. have purchased a tifteen-acre
home for their parents near San Jose.
The place is located on the Infirmary
road and Moorpark avenue. 1t is the
old Burgess home. There is fairly
good house on the place and the land
is in fruit. The boys say they will not
retire from the track and engage in
fruit raising. but simply want the place
for home for their parents. The price
is said to have been $4,000.
The prospects Tor the annual spring
meeting of the Little Rock Jockey club.
which opens March %. are very bright,
and the indications are that the attend
ance will be the largest in it's history
There will be three stakes, two by the
Turf Congress and one by ST. Louis
brewing company. which this year sue
ceeds local brewing company
The last time the late Marcus Daily
was in Washington he performed a
humane act which very nearly brought
a brutal hack driver into the police
court. and was a topic of conversat ton
at the hotel and other places which Daily
frequented, says the Washington Post.
DAILY was coming out of Chamberlain's
one morning when he espied a negro
hackman brutality belaboring a crippled
old horse with heavy whip in an al
most futile effort to increase it's speed
from a walk to slow trot. Daily hailed
the driver. who quickly drew rein and
approached the curb with the prospect
of obtaining a fare. Where do You
want to so boss" inquired the negro
/ I'm want you to go to the police court
| if you don't stop beating that poor old
! horse" replied the millionaire. You
! could coax that nag along faster with a
handful of oats and a whisp of hay in
| front of him than you can by beating
him from behind. When did you feed
him LAST" The negro complained that
j times We're hard. that fares were scarce,
! and that he could not afford to provide
better for his horse. DAILY saw the force
| Of the argument at once. and inquired
: how much the cabman averaged a week
and was told that IS or $40 was consid-
cred good wage. Daily reached down
into his vest pocket and rev forth roll
of bills. from which he peeled off $50
note and handed it to the astonished
negro. There. take that" said the cop
! per king. and put that rack of bones
in the barn and treat him to banquet
of hay and corn. and if see You with
him ON the streets in the next two weeks
I I'll have you arrested"