Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-01
TELLS ABOUT THE FRONTIER DAYS
 CELEBRATION
tFrorn Saturdays DaiIy.)

ihgs" for the Boston Herald, Willian'
 M. Warren who visited this city dur
 ing the Fourth of July celebration has
 written another article on Frontier
 Days. The story is entitled Stay
 Cowboy, Stayp and was received a
 few days ago by Secretary Grace
 Sparkes of the Chamber of Com merce. It is as follows:
 At Prescott's Frontier Days cele. bration there are no side shows. None are needed. But for moment cast your eye over the busy picture as a whole. See the broad inclosure lying open to the sun, except for three or four yellow pines in the oval within the race track. Around it the ground rises in a greater amphitheatre from Point of Rocks on your right, past Granite mountain, to Thumb butte on your left; the ragged rim of tue basin is blue with haze. Hundreds of dusty automobiles wait among the trees outside the brown fence, here and there, inside, saddled ponies are standing. tethered only by the dropp- ed reins. At. either end of the arena you note the high corrals; horses and cattle are moving in them. Just across the track beside the judges stand, those four tall cribs of heavy tinfbers are the shutes in which the bucling horses are confined while being saddied. The lower tiers oi seats along the track opposite the grandstand are the contestants ben ches, full of watching cowboys; be- hind them stand their ponies, hun dred or more. In the foreground, where the track widens between the grandstaid and the shutes, the nand- some fellows on heavier mounts, cur veting. and comforting. are the arena director, the. judges aids, the amour cer. That dust storm Gown the field? Just three or four cowboys pocket in a runaway at full gallop. Every where you sec the flutter of purple and gold, the official colors of the celebration; everywhere you feel the whirI and hoofbeat of sudden cont and-go, the tension of impending con. test; over it ali you catch the joy 0. Arizona's vibrant sunshine. ..,.....
 Behind this dash and daredeviltry stand rules that govern each event. You might think that in broncho- busting the rider, who by any means can stick to his pitching horse, there by surpasses expectation and can reach at once for the laurels. Or you might suppose that in roping steers 1t would be enough to moose them neck or nose, hoof or horn. Far from 1t, The cowboys contests, however rough-andtumble they may look fol low printed rules. let contestant break one and he disquaiifics himself
 The lFrontier celebration at Pres colt. this year filled the afternoons of successive four days. The events were arranged as preiiminaries, semi finals and finals The chief prizes of course went to the final winners, but lesser amounts rewarded merit in each days riding The Six judges were elected by the contestants them selves.
 Among the several contests the committee put in half dozen of lighter sort, just for relief and laug1- ter One of these, for instance, was announced on the program as No. 5. Novelty Race. (Cotnplcte change of costume.)" This seemed to promise more than the so-called night-shirt race at the War Bennett Round-un. Amid wonder as to what really was to happen, the cowboys raced for bur lap sacks placed in row across tine broad course before the grandstand. On dashing up toward the line each man made a flying dismount, seized his sack and shook out its contents "a pair of corsets, white petticoat, a gown of flaming calico. As soon as any rider had got these garments upon himself hc remounted and gal. lopcd for the finishing line. Cries and cheers rose from the crowd as it noted that, to a man, the cowboys tied their petticoats in front; and those catcails that the pioneers learn cd from panther and Apache tore tue air when the scared ponies did not recognize their riders iii the Tapping skirts, and would not stand for rel mounting.
 The crowd found a good deal ot merrimcnt, too, in a potato race, played off in three heats. Two teams of four riders, each brandishing a pointed lath, hurled themselves at an open box and struggled to iinpalc the potatoes i'll it and carry them one by one, in spite of interference, to the two goal boxes.
 + In the samr class of events came the so-calIed bulldogging of steers. This calls for horned cattle. After the steer has been "hazed" up the track to the grandstand, that is to say, has been let out of a corral and chased along by two mounted men yclling like Maoris going into battle, the contestant rides up swiftly along side, swings his arm forward along tfe creatures neck till ne grasps the farther horn; then in flash he has his other hand on the nearer horn. .-o,,, ,,e ;,,D1ne ~1So- og I,;c ,,ot,,, and