Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-01-02
ODD HORSE SALE
Valuable Animal Disposed of by Mis-
take for Five Dollars.

Valuable AnirnaI Disposed of by Mis-
take for Five Dollars.
A famous race horse, for which an
offer of $500 had been refused at the
recent Benning meeting. was sold for
So the other day at well-known local
auction house, and then sold by the
purchaser for $5. The horse in ques-
ton belonged to q wellknown young
society man of Baltimore. who entered
the animal at the Benning races.
The horse proved valuable as fast
runner by winning several races. The
owner was offered $500 for the horse,
which he refused, saying that he
would not take less than 81, 900. He
then decided to bring the animal to
Baltimore and sell 1t at public auction
at leading auction stable. After no
tifying his friends who wished to buy
the horse of his intentions the young
man brought the racer to Baltimore and
left him with his stable boy, instruct
ing him to take the horse to the auc-
ton house.
The young man then repaired to the
place of auction, where his friends
were congregated. In the rain they
waited for the appearance Of the boy
with the steed, but he did not show up
until the party had had wait of
about two hours or more. When he
did, he did not have the horse with
him, but in its place check for Sc
hi oP that
boy made a mistake in the name of
the auction house and took the horse
to the wrong stable where it was Of
fered for sale, bringing So, with a de-
duction of 81 for the auctioneers, leav-
ing $6 for the former owner Of the
horse. After having heart-to-heart
talk with the boy, in which he ex-
pressed himself thoroughly, the horses
first owner went to the auction house
where the valuable horse had been
sold at such a ridiculously low price.
When he arrived he could do no more
than obtain the name and address of
the man to whom the horse had been
sold.
This well-known young man did not
succeed in finding the buyer Of his
horse until the next day, and when
he did it was only to find that the
horse had been sold by the buyer for
lower price than he had paid for it.
The horse had never been in harness.
and when the gentleman who bought
it harnessed it it kicked up good
deal, but did not become unmanage-
able until the man had driven it about
was kicked out of the runabout and
the harness broken. The purchaser, OF
course, did not know that the horse
had racing qualities, and thought that
he had been bunkoed into buying a
horse that looked fully 5 years old
but had not been broken.
When he found himself suddenly sit.
ting in the road, with broken-up run.
about his company and his horse just
disappearing in a cloud of dust over
distant hilltop, he can hardly be
blamed for not caring whether he ever
saw the brute again. However, while
thus soliloquizing, man came down
the road in wagon leading the horse
that he had just caught. The pur-
chaser was so thoroughly disguised
with the animal that he sold it to the
man In the wagon for SIS.
When asked If he knew the man to
whom he had sold the horse he said
that he had never seen him before and
did not even think he would recognize
him if he saw him again.
The young man has been trying to
locate his horse for several days, but
has not succeeded in doing so as yet
Baltimore American.