Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-03-20

it. Sure thing, I'll keep my word, If
l can. Every place was jam full; four
Of us had a suite Of one room, z by
13, and room to spare-out doors.
There was lots of entertainment pro-
vided for the visitors. The roping
contests, the broncho busting, the
bull fighting in Juarez, Mexico, be-
sides the dances, etc. At the roping
contest there were nineteen entries,
first prize 81. 200. This was enough to
excite the avarice of the average COW
boy, and many was the fall that horse
and rider. as well as the poor dumb
brute Of a steer, had On this dusty
field. One of the ropers was a young
girl, but most mavericks will lose no
sleep because of her e~xpertness. True
she could throw a rope, and SO could
somebody call spirits from the vast
ply Deep but they never materialized.
May be, sometime, somewhere in the
distant future, she may swing a mat
rimonial loose owe some wild and
woolly cowboy, and tie him to q snub-
bling post and beat him into insensi-
bility with a rolling pin. Here's to
you, little girl-you can't rope. but
you have been gOOd-for advertising
purposes. Those roping contests are
interesting to the people and danger
Gus to roper, as well as his horse.
yya IN ~, opnlorca fnr <hn dovtori<v,
of the man with the rope and his well
trained horse, forget the Door brute,
the butt of all this crue. sport. Many
a steer rises with broken horn or leg.
while some, more or less fortunate,
never rise at all, but are killed with
the terrific shock.
1--WE condemn Mexico for its bull
fighting, and the cruelties connected
therein, but who of us a lay his
hand on his heart and say hat our
steer roping is more elevating (boast-
ed civilization ~considered) than
Jaun's bull fighting. Eliminate the
element of danger anG much OF u
so called sport would sink into
''nocuous desuetude." Juanwould tread
on the brink of hi. to win a smile
from Anita, and so would Bill to jerk
a laugh from Sallie Jane. 1t is the
same old Cupid. often disguised, but
ever ready to play the same old tricks
on buoyant youth or shriveled age.
Mankind is prone to hero worship,
thought that hero fattened on the
blood of mankind. The soldier, the
man whose trade is to kill, is yet es-
teemed above the philosopher.
'The people are all right but their
customs are bad. To sum up briefly.
1 think that roping contests are darn
nigh as dangerous as foot ball, and
almost as elevating. And this brings
us up to Deming, where the generous
people had prepared a nice hall to en-
terrain the cattlemen who had met
there to organize a territorial asso-
citation. There were no prize beau
ties among them, but lots of wealth
represented by brains, and all enthusi-
astic. This meeting being v e with,
the people bid each other adieu and
down in my heart I pitied those re-
fined invalid people who had to ride
in a miserable dingy thing called a
car that runs between Silver City and
Deming. 1t looks like a second-class
smoking car. 1t is some better than
a froiuhf cor hooonso ~ 10 provfdod
steps to climb into. 1t is hand
somer than q -
Here the narrative breaks or sud-
denly, as though he had been run
over by the very cars that he had
been abusing. Some day l intend to
write a great mellow" drama enti-
tied "How to Skin Without Getting
and 1 shall have a magnif-
stage setting Of this very
all the passengers blindfolded
clothes pins on their hosea.
Duncan Endorses Duncan.
From Journal Democrat.
The Citizen Of yesterday evening. |
an editorial. q column long,
from the Las Vegas Recorc, endorsing
the act Of the Legislature disfranchis-
the people Of Bernalillo county.
The force Of that endorsement will
be more fully appreciated when 1t Il
that the bill for the act
in question was introduced by Mr..
Duncan. OF San Miguel, and the Las
Vegas Record is also owned by MI.
Duncan of San Miguel, hence when
the Record endorses Duncan 1t Is sim
ply Duncan of the paper endorsing Mr..
Duncan of the council.
Duncan's endorsement of Duncan
has great weight, but when Duncan's
endorsement of Duncan is endorsed
by the Albuquerque Citizen that do
settle 1t.