Monarch of the Amateurs.
Vol. III.
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AMI 1.4M». OKEUOM, W FDM END A I, A ( firNT 7. lsy&.
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BUYING A HORSE A MINUTE.
AN I’NKRRING JUDOK WHO NEVER (»FTS AN
UNROUND ONI.
VISITED ASHLAND BUTTE.
A party cornjamed of Edith Bratt,
Mabie Goodyear, Lillie Walrad, Hattie
Rose, Chas. Lindsey, Chas. Rose, Geo,
“There is not a better judge of a Row, la‘slie Row, Walter Walrad ami
horse on the face of the earth than Mr. Ferd Strange look a trip to the tx>|> of
B E Wallace, the circus man,” says Ashland Butte last Thursday.
They
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Berry, the famous horse dealer of Chi­ camjied at Nim Long** place Thursday
cago. “Hr came to my barns in the night, ami from there, climbed to the
stork yards once to btiv a lot of horses. top, arriving alsiut noon. Friday. After
He simply sauntered through, it seem­ their arrival. Lillie Walrad, Mabie Good­
ed to me, but hr got sixty of thr liest I tear, Ferd Strange and Chas. Rose
had ami was not more than an hour at walked io the Patterson mine, on Beaver
it. He is a quiet, business sort of a man. cn ek . ami stayed over night in the min­
and d«M»s not bluster round, squaring ing-camp, returning to the Butte Satur­
himself I a* fore and liehind an animal day.
Ix’slic Rose was the onlv
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ami letting thr folks know hr is sizing up the ¡»arty who dimed to the summit of
horses, lie just walked slowly l»v, sav­ Wagner Butte, The ¡»arty returned to
ing as hr went, ‘1 want that our,’ *Ix*ad Ashland Monday, ami claim distinction
this one a*ide,’ ’There is one that will of taking the first four-horse-team to
suit me,* etc. When hr got through the Nim Ixmg’s place.
l*rsl I had left was a good deal worse than
thr poorest he got.
Hr saw every
point, and I had not sold him a single
POULTRY HOUSE BURNED.
blemish in all the sixtv. I have liven in
thr business a great many years but
never saw another man who could size
Dolph Eddy’s Poultry house was des­
upa horse so quickly and go accurately.” troyed by tire last Saturday morning
That is why the Great Wallace Shows al»oiit ten o’clock.
The fin» had l>een
have the finest horses of any show on burning for some time I efore it was dis-
earth.
<*overtd. No a’arni wys sounded, but
some of the firemen quietly took the
hose-» ar»s out e.m! attache«! the hose to
When a man decides upon improving the «iydrant in front of Hotel Oregon ami
his shop . factory or farm, by t hr addition «•<»nveye«i the water a little more than a
of ¡tower. I»e naturally looks for some­ block. to the burning building, ami soon
thing entirely up tn date.
Hr investi­ drowned the flames. There was but one
gates, considers. ami finally derides to life lost, ami that was an old hen’s.
buy an Ajax Coal Oil Gas Engine as
meeting his requirements more fullv, and
being safer, than any other ¡atwerobtain­
The stones on the plaza. of w hich men­
able. Balmer A Rev, San Francisco, Cal.,
the manufacturer» of this engine, have tion was ma«ie in last issue, have shown
earned the gratitude of the public by themselves to l»e a nuisance ami a
placing within its reach a reliable, econ­ source of danger to the w heelmen of
Fred Dennv
wa«
omical power, that defies the restrictions Ashland.
• ’s bicwle
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of th»» insurance companies.
It is the I nu II v damaged w hile he was riding it
latest ami Iwst.
on thr plaza. Monday evening.
Thr
nar wheel was smashed beyond repair,
which necessitates the purchase of a new
Jacobs A Virgin inform 11s that they one, and, with thr additional cost of
will turn their planing mill into an ice minor injuries, makes a costly accident.
factory, next year, thus adding another
The bicyclists should unite in an effort
lirneticial industry to the citv.
to have thr stones removed.