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Show WILL MAKE LEGAL TEST OF BETTING ON RACES DENVER, June 9. Charles E. Stubb, president of the State Fair association, is of the opinion, after taking legal advice, that the laws do not apply to betting on horse racing, and that there can be no official interference with tho Eelling of pools at tho Overland Park raco meeting, which begins next Saturday. With special spe-cial rcfcrchco to the races, Governor Buchtcl yesterday addressed a loltor to tho attorney-general, directing him. to prosecute parties violating tho gambling laws of the state, ln the event that regularly regu-larly elected peace officers do not proceed pro-ceed under tho law. While tho attorney-general, tho district attorney and other officers In authority decline to discuss tho legal phase of tho proposition at the present time, It is announced an-nounced that the offlcora of the fair association as-sociation and tho parties to whom tho track has been leased iito not inclined to change tho programme, which provides for malting bets at the track. |