Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-08-13 | Page 2 | Mule Races with Train

I MULE RACES WITH TRAIN Animal Lives in Missouri, and Don't Have to Be Shown. "I'd llko to know who owns' that mule Just east of Bates City," said Georgo JacqueB yesterday, the engineer who pulls the Alton's "hummer," the Chicago Chi-cago limited train. Into Kansas City. "Talk about running why, he'd make The PJckot or McChesney want to hide. I'll bet he can do a mile, In 1:S7." Tho limited train does not stop at Bates City, and before It passes Into tho city limits it Is doing easily fifty miles an hour. Passing a pasture by the side of tho track Jacques has a race with the mule overy trip. "I can see him watching for me," the engineer Bald, "and the mlnuto I blow the whistle he's off. He fudges a llttlo wo don't get away well, and by the time I get to the post the mule Is several sev-eral hundred yards away, his head and tall both extended, and running like a' racer. He has a half mile to make his dash. Of course,thls big engine simply runs away from him, but I'll toll you that mule Is determined to win a race yet. He looks for It every morning. When the train has passed him he stops and watches until wo are out of sight. He takes his run nearly every morning! I'd mlsa that mule if he was taken away." Kansas City Times. 9