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Show CHICAGO'S COWBOY MAYOR it seems quite lilting that William Halo Thompson should rule over Chicago, Chi-cago, the city where the largest stock yards In the world are located, for he has been a cowboy and ranch owner nnd has complete knowledge of the cattle business. His career as a cowboy started In 1SSI. when he was fifteen vears 0'd Ho went to Cheyenne. Wyo.,' to spend a vacation from school, and from tint time the lure of the plains called him from Chicago every summer. Ho ro.lo the ranges of the Standard Cattle company In Wyoming. Colorado and Montana. Enter he purchased a ranch of bis own In Holt comity. Nebraska ,, managed It until the death of his f.. ;'. I" 1-0I. forced his return to I blcngiv Mr. Thompson Is nn enthnsiastlo yachtsman, and , ,,niMIMU f mnk. Ing the lake front the property of the Peoplonnd tho p,nvK,,,MIU, pf ' if' I . v ho -.,m... Vh ' ""r,,v''"n the lsnd lonK il,, lake f.vut. '.'"ion, of municipal cubing l-e,ches to be eonvdered. |