The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-10-12

and three slow boys. The cards had
been stacked to give butcher the swift
mule and knowing we were to draw
one of the slow ones we unlawfully
provided ourselves with a weapon of
offense and was thereby enabled 70
run for their money, losing first place
by only a neck and demonstrating to
the owner of the mules that one of his
slow ones was really some runner with
the right kind Of a driver behind him.
However, for %sneaking the lath in UNI
der our coat, we were disqualified by
the judges and barred from future par,
ticipation in all mule races on associa.
ton tracks-but we did give butcher
and his swift mule an awful scare"
The editor of the Hudsonite, who ap-
pears to be a friend Of Dick" Halla-
day tries to assuage his lacerated feel
ings by butting in as follows:
IT'S pretty hard to get ahead of
Col. Dick Halliday, the sage of Iro-
quois, and he proved his success again
at the big races pulled off at the State
Fair at Huron. A horse race, to be
run with mules, had been arranged
editors of the state, but DOtsOn and
Day, of Sioux Falls, did not go to the
fair, so Tom Roberts, of Pierre, and
Paul butcher, of Brookings, Len Doty,
of Doland, and Dick were substituted.
The race was q frame-up right from
the start, for who ver knew a Reput-
lican editor who was able to drive the
emblem of the moCratic party to vic
tory? It was also framed up so that
Paul butcher had the only mule that
possessed any speed, and no n knew
this but the wiley Dick. So before the
race started Dick s~harpened a lath
and hid it somewhere about his manly
form-and there is another mystery
yet to be solved-anyway when the
starter yelled Col" Dick produced
his lath and pried and prodded and
persuaded with such vim and energy
that he almost beat butchers fleet
steed, giving Paul the scare of his
sweet young life, for he had bet -four
dollars and eighty two cents on him
self, all the money he had on earth, as
the victor before the race started
and he ought to have been disqualified
for that-but it was all the money he
had, and Bookings a long ways away
afoot-for Dick and his dun mule al
most done won hat race, Dicks fiery
steed poking his nose past butcher
almost nosing out a victory. Dick has
been forever disqualified from racing
a mule on any race track in South Da-
kota and other hardships have been
imposed upon him, but he is taking his
medicine like 4 man and rather wishes
he had taken n extra lath along, for
he is certain he would have won that
race hands down if he had been a
little better prepared, and as long as
he is going to be forever disgraced any
way, he thinks he might just as we'll
have brought home the bacon while
he was at it."
The whole causing the editor of the
Sioux City Journal to remark:
"A row is on among a number of
South Dakota newspaper men which
threatens to Guido in ferocity any CT
the political fights that have taken
twenty years. 1t is all on account Of
the mule derby participated in at the
State fair at Huron by four of the lead
ing newspaper men of the state. Tom
Roberts, of the Pierre Dakotan, was
distanced in the race, and chages col
fusion between the other drivers and
the management to give him the worst
of the deal. The other participants in
the race are defending themselves
against the charge, though Dick Halla-
day, of the ~Iroquois Chief, does admit
having stuck a lath up the back Of his
coat, against the rules, and resOrtins
to it's use when the race reached the
home stretch"
With the plaudits of the admiring
multitude still ringing in our ears we
cannot find it in our heart to chide
these erring brothers for their sosevi-
dent lack of esprit de corps, (whatever
that isl. All of the charges and oun
ter charges sought to be laid against
us are false. Particularly and atroc-
iously false is the assertion that W.
had on our person four dollars and
eighty-two cents. Were we to let this
base assertion go without challenge
we should expect any morning upon
reaching our office to see hanging
around the front door a snag of type,
paper ad ink statesmen who had come
to enquire how in the world they hap
pened to overlook such a snap.
But, with all due respect to the