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Show EAT HORSE MEAT AT WHEfiHJ! GIVEN AT NOON YESTERDAY TO t LOCAL AND VISITING GUEST! htfl C direct A fine little luncheon was served yesterday in Ihe office of the Ogden Horse Sale & Commission company, and the gnests all partook treely of horse men' which had been brought hy the host of the occasion rrom Grand Island, Nebraska. But the guests, who were horse buyers and lb rs attending the big sale now on at the Union Slock yards, did not know until after they had rinlshect that they were eating horse meat. The lunch was I practical joke played on the others by Tom Bradstroet or Grand Island, one or the best known horse buyers in the country Recently he has opened a horse-meat market nl Omaha and it bids rair to do a big business. He opened such a market at Grand Island some time ago and the venture was so successral that he decided to try it in Omaha. Mr Brads! reet buys many horses rrom various parts or the country .md when he rinds one that Is not fi( for legitimate commercial trade on the hoor, he makes If fit for commercial trade on the hook. He came here ft few days ago to buy stock at the big sale coing on at the yards and brought some horse meat made into dried beef and bologna and all ready to eat. Yesterday was one of the bU87 days at the market and the buyers did not want to lose the time it would tnke to come up town for lunch. So big uenial Tom Bradslree! annnnnrorl tfctfd' . he had a handbag full oi sandwiAj Jrl1 and other deli, n . 1 ity, ( Some of the buvt-rs found c ftttd J reninnt m ome up town, hut mdl-, CnT, than a hair dozen accepted the hOi, 5 pitalilv of smiling Tom. 4t$T50' They went into the office of O. Dodds company and Tom hrouh' the lunf"? l the bac In and spread the feist on a fltt &tfltfW top dck Motion f When It was all eaten and not id evf crumb was left, the Im t .innnuncftj irhe ' thai he had fed them on his sterling - gucb brand horse niAst. Ltator31 Nobody offered to .shoot Tom. fst thev all agreed It was a good joke afl- p a fine way to stimulate conscrvatiair.lt During the aM.moon. h. never ,jt9vfr horse went slow in the sale, some Kt ,P would remark that he long lL-jor body and would make cood .-.msage, !!5W)ni Those who were present at the sa&Uf L and partook of the lunch were: tfj . Rradstreet. the host; H. SalyerlTVW Rock Springs, Wyoming: YL Buclr Idaho Falls; Billy Mc-Gintv. .New YorkL PJ8 ft buyer for Fitz. Doyle and i atrollCriteD John Smead. or Caldwell. Idaho, buyO)f co0 er for the Caldwell Horse & Mule comi'ij pan? Art Walker, of Caldwell, Idaho;' RJ'1 T A Mari.-on, cd n Sam Darker,'! Grand Island, Neb l II Adam-,, Lay-, gt $50. ton, Utah; Frank Lay inn. LaytonA. jatatt Utah: Dr. H. E Wilson of TennesneeVftfl 1 and J. P. l eathers of Murfreesboro,f'jjl A01 T. nnessec. and tto Meek of Ogden.S in tet , PV. hilat |
