The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-11-02
BET BY NYE PUG'S BRAIN

Detective Martin Burns told a good
racing story to a party of race horse
men yesterday. Burns, II is well
known, hit the trail for the west at
a very early age-one of the first
places where he rested fr' q few
years being Laramie Wyo.
Somebody had started to tell Of
Bill Nye's Boomerang, which was in
those days the great family journal
of the Laramie vicinity. This re-
minded Martin Of the demise of that
great family paper and he told the
following story, which is not only one
on the Boomerang writer, but one
of the best dope" stories allowed
to ESCAPE in a long time:
I'm those days that portion of the
country was populated by uncouth,
gun-fighting, booze-fighting cowboys.
Among them was particularly old
puncher and wealthy ranchman. Along
with these were some wealthy young
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. men-whose
relatives had sent them to the United
States to go west and grow up with
the country. And they did, too. They
owned some of the finest tracts of
land in that section of Wyoming and
cattle and horses galore.
"Of course there was certain
amount of rivalry existing between
the Englishmen and the westerners,
among whom was this old fellow
named Charlie. Charlie owned a race
horse-nothing in the country had
ever beaten him-Denver horses had
tried, all to no purpose, as Charite' S
horse ran away from them all.
= After many efforts to secure ami
mails that would beat this horse the
Englishman sent to the old country
and got what appeared to be rat
thing good runner-he was. too, and
ran just fast enough to lose. Up
to the time of the race the English
men took all the money on sight and
If Charities horse had lost, the town
would have been broke proper. Any
way the local animal beat the thor
oughbred several lengths over a mile
and quarter and that night the cow
boys were Husband loaded, OF
course. ....-
1.-THE lords and dukes, as they were
called, took their defeat all in good
part and when another year had roll
ed around they again challenged
Charlie for another race--this time
they to enter two horses. They look
ed like easy money to Charlie, so he
agreed to run against two runners.
In the meantime one of the English
me 70 nj trv a
personally selected and bought a
thoroughbred to race against Charles
nag
The day of the race dawned and
the Englishmen took all the loose
money in camp and offered to l on
their nags.
Bill Nye had managed to scrape
up ten-spot and after betting this,
in his own language, he 'swelled up
and got chesty.'
when the horses were brought to
the track the first thing the thorough
bred did was to run away and this
necessitated his being roped by a
couple of punchers. Still the English
men offered to l, and, as the horse
seemed pretty well winded, the citi-
zens of Laramie simply mortgaged
everything that could be carried away
Among them was the Boomerang
shack, where Nye printed his paper
ITO make long story short the
horse from the old country simply
ran away from Charles animal and
there was wailing in that town tina,
had the hordes faded.
THE next day the Boomerang was
issued as special, and at the top of
the page read. Special tdition of the
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES edition, too, fo1
that matter-'cause we won't issue
any more