The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-28
THE BEAR DIES At
/ THE FAIR GROUNDS
i0rse Valued at $4,000 and
Holder of Worlds Mile
Record.
)ATCHES SEVERE COLD
COMING FROM COAST
}astern Papers Are Boosting
Salt Lakes Forty-Days'
Meeting.

m, y tragedy occurred al the fair
Y Wounds Yesterday A human life
!. 'asn t lost, but one Of the grandcst
Ind gamest thoroughbreds this side of
,1c Mississippi river shuffled off to the
'Sreen pasture lnnd Of the equine elysian
s<elds. The noted horse, The Bear,
SRlued at $4,000, died from sudden
tack of lung fever, the most malig
l>snt and dreaded ailmcnt to which the
tightly. .tensioncd and finely-bred thor.
41ghbred is heir TO. Catching n severe
j, ,i,ld in his car while making the trip
<sirough the mountains en- route from
2 -os Angeles, the horse rapidly devel
we'd high fever, which carried HIM off
ntsfcrday morning in his stall. Many
ma man, big one, too, has passed to
l1Io great beyond without having as
lYpny persons paving vigil at his death
roes rs were seen throngng about
r,5own that the noted horse was about
I die The news spread like widfire.
, Id from every section of the fair
!, -ounds came the owners. trainers,
H,ckcys. darky rubbers and the non
Hecript followers of the ponies. The
sar walked around his stall for hours.
;lheu he sank TO the straw, and with
!. sudden kick and twtch he sprawled
1,tt, and really splendid racchorsc
AS No more.
- Holds World S Record.
The scores Of turfmen turned away
II at heart. and without word, for !
, zen You We been around a race track |
pg enough you' II lament the passing
IA true. hearted gallopcr as YOU would |
moan the going out of life of an
0unest man. Had he lived, The Bear
lNuId have been one Of the stars dur !
the forthcoming summer meeting of |
= Utah Jockey club
W Ihere was glorious horse, and !
IS personal hurt TO know that he
.aS died remarked General Manager
w. Finn, on hearing the news.
nthe Bear was 5-year-old son of a
rlried English sire, Bowling Brook. his
lMn being the good mare. EIla dor.
!, (, was bred and raised by Wyndam
,iden at his Middleburg, Md. farm,
became the property of 5. r. Law.
gUee of Butte. Mont. carly in his
eseer. The Bear held the world s
'DE2rd for mile on half mile course,
.,,.se,ng run the distance on the 1.sau-
at Topeka, Kan, in l:4I l-2 as
r,-{ear-old- The mark stands TODAY,
-ssrs- King & Walstrom were his
1ers at the time of his death. The
s9!r Won clever race at Santa Anita
-k Los Angeles, last month. and
lid have won many handicap event
I!1c, TOO Messrs. Reynolds & Mellow
e1lered $4,000 for him at Butte IN
$50, but couldn 7 get him.
- Some Salt Lake BOOSTING
+'laryey Woodford has some nice
Al Eers for the Utah Jockey club. He
:, ne tnrf editor of the Chicago Trib-
~. ana ne threw the bouquet in his
ser last Saturday. He saws; rsTbe
ling summer meeting at Salt Lake
I. rs fresh and good to the eve. Cen.
- Manager w. ". Finn brought
IN a piece of big game when he Sc,
ed r +. Pomeroy as the presiding
fFnrd and Richard DIVER as the !
ter. With these two officials in .
~~entiyc harness, the sporting public ]
al only in Utah but throughout the
NInfry. will repose the utmost con
I9ince IN the meeting. Salt Lake has
IN long known as hale town, and
people sport-loving tribe. Thou.
fl1s of strangers will be attracted to
OW Lake this summer, for you have !
H can 90 TO town with the summer
: iate enjoyed by the Utahn metropo. !
with some racing and the graDdest !
tPwater bathing in the world thrown =
~ Salt Lake people will find that its
ling meeting will tone up trade and
I Use life and pleasure into its routine
= addition TO affording the town the I
- sort of an advertisement. for from
Experience. | may say that if Won I
~ spend May. June and July in Salt :
@ YOU u 90 back the next summer. /
o.. | am glad to see j. S. A. Macdon. !
N along with Pomorov and Dwvcr, for
W;fands for what both the others rep. y
><nt-thc up and up and the Square
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