The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-05

it is good business to retire from.
but because l am going to give up
country life and move to town." said
M Lee. Horses are on the boom.
Dan Patch sold for-S6O, 600 and his sire
and dam were Kansas bred horses.
No state equals Kansas for well bred
horses. Kentucky isn't in it. When L
went into the horse business % years
ago 1 went to Orange county. New
Ofk, ana bought many good horses,
among them the sire of Cresceus.''
Col" Bean then began the business
OF the day The horse first on the list
was "Jackdaw,' known to horsemen as
the great JackdaWt' The horsemen
women at reception would comment
on the dress of the hostess. He's
great one, said o. A. Keats, the horse
man who has charge of NJ. A. Lows
farm near Horton. I've sent him the
last half in thirty" "Jackdaw'' strut
ted around with more pOmp and cere-
mony than Doc" Brown, the cake
walker. was ever able to assume.
Then Colonel" Bean commenced. Jack
daW, from the tip of his ears TO the tip OF
his tail is a great horse When the It's
tory of Kansas IS complied there viii be
Two names IN it-JackuaW and r. !. Lee
i'm golden letters. He is the sire of Max
inc. 1t isn't where YOU start the bidding
on lim that viii hurt Mr.. Lee it will be
where you stop bidding. 7 sold Bell Boy
for s5l.oe9 and how much am 1 bid for
The irst bid was sl0oo. ana after a few
minutes it went mp to $500, and within
three minutes JaclzdaN had been sold 70
George e. Pritchard. of Topeka for S50t1
THE bidding on him should have started
at S10000. said Bean
1t was about six weeks ago that Lee
so it is Tumored, refused $3.50 cash for
Jackdaw.
The proper place for the sale would have
been the Auditorium. where disinterested
spectators could have occupied seats in
the gallery and watched the show To
exhibit the trottors a colored boy on a
d ia II hrf MY
ninny on pony gallOped behind with
whip. I'D and down the long exposition
building in the narrow lane made by the
crowd, the horses were raced at full
speed. The Two lines of hOrsemen yelled
running the gauntlet " hoop-ia Whoop-
Ia g. was the cry, and the showing of the
horses beat the hippodrome races Of 4
The second horse sold was Flying Bird
which was bid up to 5000, but the man
who made the bid changed his mind, the
same as a woman is liable to who agrees
to buy patent wash boiler from an agen--
The man didn't want the horse at $500
he claimed there was a mistake.
Auctioneers and lawyers never make
mistakes" said Bean who got as badly
tangled up on the sale as a deacon would
trying to auction off crazy quilts at a
church social.
FLYING Bird was put up again. and I'll. the
auctioning went from $500 down to $50.
and Sam S. Smith. Of Clay Center, took
the horse at that figure.
Then Lee took a hand as assistant
auctioneer. He spieied out the pedigrees
dis eiibIy as an oid-time auctioneer.
ROYAL Highland went 10 sherman Bros
of Monticello. kas for 1925
FIsiedaW went to w. f Redmond, OF
Brooklyn. n Y. for $780, who sent mis- bid
i'm by telegraph.
Jack KeIpie for S4z5-
Fairy baw was sold to J. S. Sanders,
of Minnea polls. Mimi. for $40.
Mr. Page. representing Thomas W
Lawson. the millionaire horse owner OF
Boston. bought Julia Arthur. a 6-year-old
black mare with a trOtting record of
2.20 for $3.50.
The Shamrock, the big bay stallion, for
81 400