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Show Pony Express Revival Upsets Popular Belief 'ST. JOSIPH, Me, Aug. SO Th Unitad Statea army will net participate par-ticipate n tha revival here tomorrow tomor-row of tho hietorio any express, it waa annauneed her lata today by Carl Snail, in charge af the arrangement ar-rangement foe the event. Satia-factory Satia-factory arrangementa wauld not be made for financing any. army team, n explained, and tha eowboy team will make th revival . a race again time. ST. JOSEPH. MO- AJg.' tr Search for hietorio facta for at Joseph pageant of tha pony -pre upset on cherished local tradition. Johnny Fry long had been reputed the first of the pony expreaa rider to make the dash for tha Pacific, bnt tha elalma of William Richardson hava been pet forward ao strongly during the preparation for tho twentieth century cen-tury revival of the expreaa that the committee In charge of the race haa decided that tha rider who croaae th Missouri river In a flat-bottomed boat tomorrow, to tart th long relay to California, will represent neither of the two. It haa been found Impossible ta decide definitely which of the two men actually rods th first relay of the first pony expreaa. I However, there are many In St. Joseph today who atlll Insist that the first of the rldera waa Johnny Fry, and at any rata, tha wealth of tradition about him shows that ha waa at least ona of tha moot popular of the expreaa rldera.. Ploturea recently brought u light show bis inv for adventure-In adventure-In one,' he and his brother and a friend poaed In their army uniform uni-form with rakish belt weighted down by their ptetola. The other picture show Johnny with hia bell-bottomed eoat and holding hia bowl knlf a If it wer an' officer sword. , Johnny was on Of th first to enlist at tha outbreak of the Civil war, but ha was never heard from after he left for active aervloe. One dsy hi little leather -cove red trunk arrived at hia old home and ba waa looked for to come within a day or two. Bnt bo never r-turned. r-turned. I |