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Show iMfAilMD-IJP. ie &id of a Decidedly Windy and Com-battive' Com-battive' Meeting on ' the Local Course. ' .,- . BBEEY TO THE VE1Y LAST. mere and Animals Pull Out for the Next Point on the frontier Circuit. Xhe autumnal meeting of the Salt te racing association closed last eninff in a tempest almost as riotous the one that ushured it in. The un-irywhohad un-irywhohad been literally : dragged id whipped into the chapter of con-iracies, con-iracies, not to say robberies, that had ,.n so audaciously concocted by the Sessional campaigner, died game but th their boots on. If from the season pv reaped no financial harvest they lived a lesson that, however exorbi-ot exorbi-ot the price, will be of permanent nice to them. They have paid fancy ices for the teachings of the turf and hp understand how it is that the coon ho is distinguished as having mGt with unbroken series of defeats takes as iichfrom the "pool arrangement" as ies any of the accessories to it. The oatana gang, was not here for its alth. It was not here to cradle its idy in the billows of the lake or to ran its dusty cuticle in the hot waters the springs. No, constant reader, it as here for boodle and while it was it obtained with the skill and' clever--s of bunko legerdermoin,-. they t it. Perhaps the system is more like that which rrorized the wayfarer on the frontier id of early day when ho was deliber-jly deliber-jly garroted, not entrapped or by a i'vcr system of artifice led astray, For is condition of affairs, however, the magemeut was in no wise response. respon-se. It tried to check the avalanche, it it was not within, its power any re than it was within the power of e recalcitrant victim. There were me decidedly interesting and thrill-it thrill-it features about tho meet and the iblic enjoyed it. The last day and windup began with e unfinished trot, free-for-all, in which nnes F., a local favorite, owned by r.J. K. Gillespie, walked away with it money and Charlie Hilton second, te winner shows splendid timber and ill continue to enioy the favoritism henever a Utah delegation "is present the pool box. The second race was a running half ile dash, in which there were four irters, including Country Girl, The '. Green Prewitt and Red Elm. The iter was the public favorite, whom T play at $10 against the field at A start was effected after me decidedly acrobatic episodes, nntry Girl took the lead which sjie attained to the wire, under which passed a length ahead. This awak-ied awak-ied another howl from the public, but ewis too short and the meeting too ;jr an end to make a contest, the inixed-pace-trot, found four rters at the wire and as the majority tre owned by private parties the pub-fas pub-fas given an opportunity to test the 'merits of iu turf judgment. Silas had a shade of favoritism . to- his tbut it was an extremely light Me, for Solitaire aud Dick were ?at his flanks. The horses were 'ally sent off, Dick taking the lead ii preserving it until he shot under e wire. This made him the favorite tnc next heat which was taken in ' "out turning a hair, his driver aiding ai-ding his competitors to save themes them-es from the fatal flag. In the third '"tho favorite was shakey and twice I' the gravel to fall back, while Soli-retook Soli-retook the lead. Jasey in the mean- had struck a steady pace and clos-"t clos-"t Sl'l? Passed Solataira to take the 1 , , I his performance was re-ed re-ed m tho two remaining heats, and wy took first money with Dick sec-' sec-' aw Solitaire third. -Silas jr. was ''tout in the second heat. The best fas 2:35. - '? next and concluding event of the iflmg was the special trot, in which u,w.ore four canpidates Louis S., mbrma Thome, Bertie M.and Minn-' Minn-' Almont. Louis S. took the first out surrendered to Bertie M. in :flc?nl which latter gave way to wfcnno Thorn in the tlird. In the boms s. again asserted his speod 'again in the fifth retired to third ce;With Marabrino Thorn at first. rf!p,ecteat0" thought' they detected jet of another palpable job, and .0 the il,dKes' stand- Th0 "ice failed to substantiate the cora-;, cora-;, "owever, and the positions were unchanged. When the horses rector re-ctor the sixth heat, however, Ham 1 Vr' ?'ho was driving Louis S., fir n'n ' Jo,le's were ordered from 'r J' Ikies, and McCoy and Carr sub-Ht sub-Ht a is Was tllen sent through ffin. (,Jtook the heat nd race. Cmended the fall meeting. The menare getting their traps t r'.a"d will pull out for Cheyenne, 'ttPnii- point 'theV wil1 work t0 fitrV ' thenee to "Denver, where rsreat meeting takes place in Octo- |