, 1907-09-19
THE FAIR
AT AN END
CLOSING EVENTS OF THE THREE
DAYS MEETING WITNESSED
BY A LARGE CROWD
WEDNESDAY.
Frank Stone Declared to Have Been
the Winner Of the Buckine Con,
test Lasting Two Days, Giving a
Lively Exhibition-Some Of the
Races-Awards in the Department
of Agricultural Machinery.

The fifth annual exhibition of the
Albany County and Inter-Mountain Fab
association closed at $50 last even.
ing, the crowd on Wednesday taxing
the capacity of the grandstand and
bleachers, while the field and fences
also accommodated large numbers OF
excited spectators. Later still occur,
red a showing of the ]. l. Case thresh-
ing machine, exhibited by the Laramie
Grocery company, sevcral loads of oats
being turned out at the rate of 500
bushels an hour and the spectacle be.
crowd which Witnessed it. One of
the strongest points OF this fair was the
splendid showing of agricultural i'm
plements and machinery made by the
w. H. Holiday company, the Gem City
Grocery company and the Laramie
Grocery company. and courteous at
tendants were present at all times to
explain the advantages of the cream
separators, windmill, threshing ma
chine, and other articles.
Last Races.
The racing program was very long
Wednesday and a large part of it was
pulled off after The Republicans forms
were closed.
The third race vas a special pace,
half-mile heats, best 2 in 3, requiring
three heats to decide. In the first heat
a wheel came of the sulky attached
to Lulu Hurst and the PAGER did not
finish the heat. Lulu Hurst won the
two last heats in Ill and Ill, Gypsy
B winning the first in 1:12k. The
winner is owned by Russell 6 Haymak-
er and the other by w. G. Ramsey,
both Of Colorado.
The ladies' race, half mile, was one
of the closest n most interesting
events of the fair, and was won by a
neck by Miss Florence Bath, with lit
tie Helen Young on H. c. Hopp's black
second.
While there were six entries In the
boys half mile running race, the on
test vas really between the Bath and
Hopp horses again, Earl Bath on the
former winning from Orville Young,
who rode the Hopp black, although all
the youngsters did well and were
cheered to the echo by the interested
spectators.
The Running Races.
The half mile running race, free for
all, was won by %Sillicate, owned by
Thomas Jay; Lansing R. (Thomas
Jay), second; Mabel d. (Al Bath
third. Time, O:52 fiat.
In the half mile running race, free
for all, for Albany county horses, four
horses finally started, Baths beauty
whirling at the signal and thus failing
to get away at all. Eykyn's horse won
in O:59; the Snyder horses was sec.
ond; Phillips, third; McCue. fourth.
II the bucking contest Coolican
came next, giving a pretty exhibition
on Idaho. Mason tackled Carrie Ma
ton, and the vicious beast rolled with
him. Ed Thorman drew an ugly
mount, which bucked and kicked Wig
orously and simultaneously. Jake
Maring, whose first horse imagined
himself a racer, was given a second
beast, but the animal patterned after
the first, refusing to buck.
Stone Wins Contest.
Announcement was made that Stone,
Coolican and Mason would ride off the
finals and the fun continued. Coolican
came first on Starlight, the vicious
twister mastered earlier in the after.
noon by Stone, and he was thrown by
the cyclone, after a plucky fight. Ma.
son drew a blank in the corral lottery
running evidently being the animals
strong point. Stone had Centennial
Pet to ride, and the dear creature evi.
IDENTIFY wished to be noticed, for she
made a run for the grand stand, un.
loading Stone on the bleacher fence,
and injuring his ankle quite severely.
The decision finally gave Stone first
prizes and honors; Mason, second
Maring, third.
Special Wild Horse Race.
The closing event of the fair was
h special wild horse race, in which ten
%plunging steeds and as many cowboy.
participated. A wild horse race will
never be adequately reported until sew
eral moving picture machines and
capable collection of monographs are
detailed to it. so 1t must suffice
to say that Butch Wallis took frs
money, and that all the boys were re
warded with prizes for the part they
played in the side-splitting feature.
Harry Jones closed the fair with g
special exhibition on Carrie Nation
riding on the track in front of the
grand stand for a special purse.
Departmental kgricultural Maehiner,
Axel Palmer was the supervisor ir
this department, the following pre-
miums being awarded late Wednesday