The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-09-01
INSURED BY CONCESSION FROM
NORTHERN PACIFIC.
SPECIAL RATE. FOR RACERS
Company Agrees to Return Animals
to Shipping Points Free
Of Charge.

1t required a great deal of persua-
sion and the expenditure Of some con-
siderable money for Geographic tolls
before the result was accomplished.
but perseverance and determination
finally won, as they almost always do,
and the men who have fast horses that
they wish to enter in competition for
some of the purses that the Billings
Fair association intends to hang up
will have to pay the freight on them
and their trappings only one way. By
the use of the convincing ways he has
acquired in disposing Of lots in his
famous addition and the enlistment of
men who have not a little influence
at headquarters, w. B. George last
Saturday succeeded in wringing a con.
cession from the brass collared gen
tlemen in charge of the freight depart
ment of the Northern Pacific, by which
they consented to transport horses
for entry in the fair races at one rate
for the round trip from the place OF
shipment. This was not an easy thing
to do, but it has been done and the
result will be, it is believed, the pres
ence of the largest number of trotters,
PAGERS and INNER ever seer in the
city.
When the mater of entry for the
races was preached to owners of fast
ones at Butte and elsewhere, no diff
ficulty was experienced in securing as
surance from them that they would
be on hand, but when they learned
that they would be required to pay
full freight rates on their animals both
ways they sent notice that the induce.
ments held out were not great enough
for them to adhere to their original
This made it appear that the racers
would be few in number and that the
entries would be confined principally
to local horses. AS nearly all of
these have been seen at different times
on the track, it was feared that the
racing feature, instead of being one
of the greatest, would be one of the
least. 1t vas then that the former
mayor bumped himself with a large
and unanimous hump and won out.
Now not only the horses originally fig
ured on will be here, but many others
and sore decidedly good sport should
follow.
Many Other Features.
But the presence of fast horses and
their performances will not be the
only striking features of the fair.
There will be roping contests in
which all the expert cowboys of this
part of the state will compete. One
exhibition in. particular will be worth
a good deal to see. William Whining
ton and Jack Williams, champions OF
Texas and Arizona. respectively, have
laid a wager of $500 that each is mas.
ter of the other in the art of ~scientif-
cally catching and tying a steer, and
each will be on hand to uphold the
glory of his particular section of the
COW world, and the knowing ones pre-
dict that a big dent will be made in
the record.
The Grow Indians will send a big
ger delegation than usual, and may
be relied upon to furnish their part of
the entertainment. They have some
decidedly fast horses and men and
boys that know how to ride them.
Their colors, or rather the lack of col
ors except brown, will be seer in
many exciting events. They will also
give an exhibition of dancing and re-
gale the visitors with a display OF
terpsichorean advertisements like that
which obtained before the red man
affected the ways of his white brother
and began to wear high heeled boots
and dress according to the fashion
plates of the eastern department
stores.
The Billings band has been engaged
for the entire fair and will discourse
music every afternoon. AS is we'll
known. the band has been reorganized
and its membership increased by the
enlistment Of new musicians until it
is the best ever heard in eastern Mon
tana. The absence of enlivening mu-
sic. SO much complained of last year,
will not be noticeable this year.
a PERlLous VOYAGE.