Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1920-09-28
THREE DAYS
OF AMUSEMENT
aEOOTENAI STAMPEDE, WILL BE
FEATURE OF THE COUNTY
FAIR NEXT WEEK
CARNIVAL COMPANY is COMING
arrangements Are All Complete for
Boundary County Fair.

Every Monday night for several
weeks past the officers and directors
of the Boundary County Fair Associa-
tion have devoted to working out
nlans for the county fair to be held
october T. and 8 on the city park
grounds on the Northside. Other in
terested citizens have met with the di-
rectors and have assisted in the work
Secretary w %. Rosebaugh has been
on the job every day and it now seems
as if there is every prospect of fair,
with displays and amusement feat
ures. far in excess of all expectations
Secretary Rosebaugh and w. H
Heathershay made a trip to Porthill
and Creston this week. The Creston
people have agreed to come to the
Boundary County fair and will look
for a return of the compliment the
day Creston holds its fair. A number
Of fine exhibits will be sent to the fair
from the Porthill and Copeland dis
tricts
Several new premiums were donated
this week to the fair association and
will be used for extra prizes. Causton
Bros. have donated a 100 pound sack
of Victory flour, e. L. Little, a 100
pound sack of Red. White & Blue flour
and L. n Brown a 100 pound sack y
Victory flour
The big tent, so by so feet, in which
the fair exhibits will be housed. ar
rived Yesterday and will be put up to-
day. The directors have purchased
5000 feet of lumber to be used for
stalls and sheds for exhibits of stock
etc.
Passes will be issued to exhibitors
but only one pass will be issued for all
exhibits from any one ranch. That is,
only one of the family of the exhibitor
will receive a pass. Gate admissions
will be so cents. Season tickets will
be sold at $125 each and will be on
sale this week. Students tickets will
be sold at 35 cents each. F. A. Shultis
will be in charge of the ticket selling
committee; L. N. Brown will be in
charge of the decorations committee
W. 0. Rosebaugh will look after the
policing of the fair grounds.
Arrangements will be made today
that will insure the coming here of the
Northern Amusement company for the
three days of the fair. The company
is now at Pullman, Wash.
The big feature of the amusements
for the fair will be the "Kootenai
Stampede" which will be put on each
afternoon, beginning at 1:30 o'clock
by Frank and John Kincaid and H. j,
and w. w. Deist. These men are ex-
pert cowpunchers, and this fall put on
a most successful entertainment at
Glasgow, Mont. They know every
trick of the business and are offering
to pay $25 each for every horse
brought to the fair that they cannot
ride
The program to be staged each af-
ternoon under the name of the hoo-
tenai Stampede" will take place in
fenced arena on the fair grounds and
will last for about two and a hall
hours. The admission will be so cents
and the promoters state that every
person will be given full value for his
or her money This show will be q
miniature reproduction of the Pendle-
ton Roundup.
The program will consist of bull
dogging, roping steers, riding steers
bareback, with saddles. and pacK-
wards; bronco busting, bareback ano
with saddles; package racing; eaten
'em" cowboy racing; Roman riding
relay races; drunken cowboy races
and the big feature surprise race.
The stockmen of the county are IN
vited to bring in the widest horses
and steers for this event-the wilder
the better The members of the "koo,
tenai Stampede" state that they VII
not injure the animals given into theii
care and say that in bulldogging ano
roping and riding steers it is very sell
dom that an animal is injured-once
in a thousand-and this is usuaily
done in contests where time is an ele'
ment of the contest.