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BORDER RUFFIAN’S RACE.
The Purse Was a Fortune in Shin
ing Gold.
Border Ruffian W&i a Famous Old
Banff-Tail Horse—The Yellow Dust
Scattered Like Chaff—Two Oppos
ing: Mobs on the Track.
Denver Correspondence St. Louis Globe-Dem
ocrat.
In an eastern paper of recent date ref
erence was made to Border Ruffian, a
famous old race-horse, whose name many
of the latter-day generation of sporting
men have probably never heard. Yet
Ruffian was a wonderful animal, and con
tested in some of the most notable turf
events that have atlrrod the hearts and
affected the purses of the old-time sport
ing element of the West. His most famous
race and one which involved the largest
purse ever ran for in the west took place
here over thirty years ago. The race
Is still referred to by the old-timers who
•aw it.
One morning early in May of 1880 two
meu. astride of one horse, arrived in the
then frontier settlement of Denver from
the old Salt Lake trail. Although it was
not an unusual sight to see two men rid
ing one horse. Mexican style, there was
something about these particular men
and the appearance of their horse that
gave them an air of mystery, and the
news of their arrival quickly spread from
cabin to cabin. By the time the two
strangers had reached the Elephant Cor
ral, where they put up their horse, a
goodly-sized crowd of people were al
ready there, anxious to form their ac
quaintance. The strangers were dressed
In full suits of buckskin and heavily
•rmed; their horse, a bay, seemingly
laded and tired, was spiritless and hoof
worn. His sides were covered with
streaks of dry foam and alkali dirt, and
his back was raw from the chafings of
the heavy saddle. Altogether the animal
was in a pitiable plight, and predictions
were made that the next morning would
Und him
DEAD IS HIS STALL.
“Give old Ruffian the best feed you
bave got,” said one of the strangers,
‘•for he deserves it. He has stood by us
n a mighty hard ride, and has saved our
seeks. If it had not been for him we
would have been swung off by the Mor
nons long ago."
It was not long before the whole truth
lame out. The two strangers were none
sther than Jim Harrison and Tom Hunt,
ihe notorious Utah outlaws, and the horse
was Border Ruffian, the famous Salt
Lake race horse. For several years
Ruffian had reigned the invincible king
if the Mormon race tracks, and under
laddie had never been beaten either in
ong or short races. His name was fa
niliar to everybody in Utah and the ad
orning territories, and his victories
sfforded themes for many interesting
•tories. No amount of money could in
luce his owners to part with him.
Hunt and Harrison, who were profes
lional gamblers, had lost a good-sized
'ortune betting against Ruffian in various
races, and Anally decided to steal the
lorse and take him to some new country,
ind there make up what they had lost
igaiust him. Before they had completed
.heir plans Hunt killed a prominent Mor
ion at Salt Lake, and after a very short
•rial, was found guilty and sentenced to
ic hanged A gallows was erected near
•he outskirts of the town, on the old over
bad road, and all preparations were
mwfoto swing him indue and imp as o
form.
DURING THE EXCITEMENT.
Attendan upon the preparations for the
event, and on the morning of the day on
which Hunt was to hang,Harrison entered
the stable where Ruffian was kept and
spirited him away. Mounted on another
horse and leading Ruffian. Harrison rode
to the gallows without being observed,
and, slipping two six shooters into Hunt's
hands, told him to “hurry up.” At the
same time, acting on his own suggestion,
he wheeled his horse around and charged
upon the crowd. Hunt was not a mo
ment behind, and the two, at a speed
which defied pursuit, flew down the
Weber canyon trail and were soon out of
sight. Before they were out of range,
however, the horse ridden by Harrison
was struck by a bullet and shortly after
wards had to be abandoned. It was then
that Ruffian was compelled to carry the
double load which he took into Denver.
Night and day the infuriated Mormons
pursued Harrison and Hunt, but were un
able to overtake them so great was the
speed and endurance of the stolen horse.
When fully 100 miles from Salt Lake the
two desperadoes made their first slop for
rest and feed, and on the morning of the
tenth day they rode into Denver, a dis
tance of 000 miles from Salt Lake.
All this was soon known and Ruffian be
came an equine hero. In the attention
paid the horse the two men who had sto
len him were entirely forgotten. Every
possible care was bestowed upon the
horse and. in a couple of weeks, he yeas
once more fit to enter Into a race. Capt.
A. B. Miller, a wealthy sporting man, had
in the meantime, bought him and
CHALLENGED THE COUNTRY
For a rival. Among the settlers of Den
ver then were three brothers, known as
the “Greer boys,” who had arrived from
lowa the preceding year. They were
“dead game sports,” passionately fond of
racing, and possessed several very good
horses, among them a bay almost the ex
act counterpart of Ruffian. Although
worked to an emigrant wagou with
which the owners had driven into the
territory, Rocky Mountain Chief, as the
Greers called their horse, had beaten all
comers in races, and, until the advent of
Ruffian, was supposed to be the fastest
horse in Colorado. His owners did not
propose to let him lose the title so hardly
won until actually compelled to do so.
Accordingly they accepted Capt. Miller’s
challenge, and arranged for a race, mile
heats, best two in three, for a bet of (30,-
000 a side. Sept. 10 was set for the date,
and the old McNasser farm, north of Den
ver was selected as the place at which to
have the contest. The horses were put
in active training, and the news of the
coming race was heralded throughout
every mining camp for hundreds of miles
around.
It became the solo topic of conversa
tion. and days before it was to take place
ranchers and miners from all directions
Hocked into town. Gold dust, about the
only means of circulating medium then
available, horses, cattle and other chat
tels and property were wagered with ut
ter recklessness. The outside stakes
were about even. The gamblers and
sports, who thought they had a "walk
away,” bet ou Ruffian, and the miners
and rancher- backed Chief. On the day
preceding the race the owners of the two
horses had a more than ordinarily warm
discussion, which resulted in their in
creasing the stakes to (47.500 a side, ail
the money the Greers could raise, making
the purse (95,000. all In gold, the largest
hung up for a mile race in the United
States
No other such scene of wild excitement
was witnessed on a race track as occurred
when the time for the race finally ar
rived. Enthusiasm of the fiercest kind
prevailed and continued to swell until it
seemed impossible for human beings to
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JANUARY 14. 1894.
stand the pitch up to which that motley
crowd had worked themselves. The
track was in an open field, devoid of fence
or other sureens, and no admission fee
was charged. It was a regular free and
go-as-you-please affair, from which no
body was barred. Thousands of men,
women and children, from hundreds of
miles around, encircled the crude track
in a sweltering, jostling, yelling, cursing
mob. Every man in that wild throng
was armed with a six-shooter; some even
carried two or more, and not a few had
rifles as well.
A stand of rough boards and logs had
been improvised for the Judges who wer
to officiate. The gold-dust purse had
been melted into a solid lump, and was
suspended from ropes stretched across
the track from the judges' stand to a post
opposite. Homes, stock, mining claims.
Jewelry, guns, clothing and money were
staked on the result by frenzied men and
women who were on hand to see the race
Amid wild cheers and yells, the horses
at last get the start. Ruffian at once
forged ahead, and Chief flew the track,
and before ho could be got under control
Ruffian had won the first heat. A yell
that fairly made the earth tremblefol
lowed the announcement of the judges’
decision, and a rush was made to lynch
the man who had started Chief, but he
managed to escape from the mob un
harmed. It was estimated that in the
neighborhood of SIOO,OOO
CHANGED HANDS ON THE HEAT.
Encouraged by their first victory, the
gamblers doubled their bets, and staked
everything they possessed on the second
heat. An even start was secured, and
when the horses passed the quarter
stretch the two horses were neck and
neck. At the half Ruffian, who was being
cruelly punished by his rider.,forged ahead
and gained a slight lead. Up to this
time Eugene Teats, who was riding Chief,
hud given his horse free rein, but had
never once used the whip on him. Charley
Hamilton, a typical desperado, who had
everything he owned staked on Chief,
stood at the back-stretch with a revolver
in each hand. "Lay the whip on that
horse, you,” he shouted to Teats, "or
Til drop you from the saddle.”
Knowing that Hamilton would do as he
said, Teats now began to ply the whip
and drew blood at almost every blow.
Chief came in winner of the second heat,
fully 100 feet in the lead, in 1:12 it is
said.
Wild and frenzied as the people had
been, the riot which followed the termi
nation of the second heat was simply aw
ful. Revolvers were drawn, and men
fired wildly and indiscriminately into the
air, into the ground, and straight ahead
flew the bullets, until the air rang with
the noise of the shots, yells, screams and
oaths. Gold dust was' scattered like so
much chaff in the wild quarrel for bets,
and even the women Joined In the mad
chorus of curses and yells.
The heat had proved too much for Ruf
fian and he was completely broken down,
and the gamblers and toughs, realizing
that they were beaten, became furious
with rage. Con Oram and Charles Suitz,
both of whom afterward became noted
prize fighters, stood at the foot of the
steps leading to the judges' stand and
kept the crowd back until the official de
cision could be made. Ruffian was un
able to run any more, and Chief was or
dered on to the track, and, after running
a half mile, was declared
WINNER OF THE RACE.
So greatly worked up were the losers
that it was found necessary, for the
safety of the judges, to escort them back
to town under the protection of a force of
armed men, volunteers from among the
winners.
Mounted on their ponies, with revolvers
and bowie knives drawn, the Greers, with
a party of friends, rode to where the big
golden brick was suspended, and cut the
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(95.000 worth of gold down. It was loaded
into a wagon, and, like the judges, was
escorted to the town by an armed force.
That night whiskey aud other liquor
flowed like water in Denver and the whole
camp was one huge drunk. The brick
was cut up into chunks, and Teats, Chief’s
rider, received a lump valued at (5,000
for his services. The remainder the
three Greers divided among themselves,
and so successfully and gorgeously did
they celebrate their great victory that it
is said within forty-eight hours they had
spent their last cent.
While still too drunk to realize what
they were doing they sold Chief for (150
to Capt. MoGee, who was subsequently
tortured to death by the Arapahoes.
When McGee was captured he was riding
Chief, but the Indians failed to secure the
horse, and he escaped to the Ogallala
range, ami roamed at large with a band
of wild horses. He was never recap
tured.
Poor Border Ruffian seemed to realize
that in this, his first and only defeat, ho
had outlived his glory as a racer and
speedily degenerated into a worthless and
ambltionless animal. For weeks he stood
in his stall and refused to pay,the slight
est heed to voice or caress, and scarcely
tasted the feed placed before him. One
bitterly cold morning in the following
November he was found stiff in death on
the floor of his stall.
Georgia’s Old State House.
From the Baltimore Sun.
The old state house, at Mitledgeville,
Ga., which was destroyed by fire Monday
last, was an historic building. The main
building was erected in 18(13, during the
administration of Gov. John Milledge, at
a cost of $115,000, and afterwards two
wings were erected. In 1825 Gen. Lafay
ette was entertained there by invitation
of the legislature of Georgia. An ovation
was given the patriotic Frenchman by
the people and the old revolutionary sol
diers. In the halls of this state house
most of Georgia's distinguished orators
•made their political debuts as legislators.
In the hall of the house Hon. Eenjamin
H. Hill made his celebrated speech just
after his defeat for governorship by Hon.
Joseph E. Brown. The trend of his argu
ment was that he was defeated, not dead,
and that when those who heard had
passed away, the principles which he
presented and the cause which he
championed would live on, and live for
ever. In this building the secession con
vention met. and there gathered many
distinguished Georgians, including Thos.
R. H. Cobb, Alexander H. Stephens,
Robert Toombs. Ben Hill and Francis S.
Bartow, the latter of whom was killed
in the first battle of Manassas. It was at
this convention that Mr. Toombs uttered
the famous sentence: “We can make bet
ter terms out of the union than in it.”
and it was thero that Mr. Stephens said :
“The point of resistance should be the
point of aggression.” Since the removal
of the capital to Atlanta the old building
has been used for a college. This was
founded in 1888, and since then it has
turned out a number of graduates each
year. For a number of years Gen. D. H.
Hill taught in the institution.
Phaeton Run by Electricity.
From the London Globe.
The electric dog cart of Magnus Volk,
of Brighton, has been followed by the
electric phaeton of Paul Pouchaln, of Ar
mentieres, in France. The hind wheels
are driven by endless chain gearing and
an electric motor fed by Dujardin accum
ulators. in six boxes of nine elements
each. These and the motors are contained
in the body of the carriage, which is con
trolled from the front seat by switches
and brakes. One charge of the battery
serves for a journey of forty-two miles, at
a sfieed of about ten miles an hour. The
vehicle has already made its appearance
on the streets of Paris.
THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
The Four Hundred Becomes a Political
Organization.
Will Thompson be Recalled P—Myste
rious Prevalence of Lottery Tickets.
(Copyright.)
New York, Jan. 18.—It is a somewhat
unusual thing to find society “buds” in
fluential in politics, but such has come to
be the case in Brooklyn. The new ad
ministration of Mayor Schieren is practi
cally under the auspices of a coterie of
young ladies whose fathers and mothers
took a prominent part in the movement
that landed Mr. Schieren in the mayor
alty chair. It is, therefore, only natural
that such exclusive young ladies as Miss
Jessie S. Dike, Miss Gibb and Miss Mal
tby should find themselves in the novel
position of distributors of patronage. All
these society misses and many others as
sociated with them are members of the
first families of Brooklyn, and have,
moreover, a recognized position in New
York’s four hundred. They have secured
such gratifying recognition that appli
cants for the most humble positions in
the municipal service besiege their front
doors for an indorsement, aud the practi
cal politicians find their occupations al
most gone.
Naturally this state of affairs is not
pleasing to the latter. Already the new
administration is beingdubbed "petticoat
government,” but it is replied that the
new order of things cannot possibly have
worso results than the old order did.
Meanwhile the four hundred on the
hither side of the big bridge are watching
the course of events, with a view of prof
iting by the experience of their sisters.
Already Mrs. John Sherwood has been en
treated to look up the subject of ward
politics in the interest of Gotham belles,
and Mrs. Paran Stevens is said to be
scheming with Lispeuard Stewart with
reference so the succession to Mayor
Gilroy. It is a notorious fact that the
four hundred in New York has never
deemed itself properly recognized in the
distribution of municipal patronage.
TENEMENT EVILS.
At last New York's tenement house
horrors have been properly and effectively
presented, and it is to the literary men of
the metropolis that thanks for this are
due. Edward Marshall, who led the rent
reduction movement for the New York
Press, has become the most prominent
citizen of his age in the city. He is still
in the early twenties, and until he
brought upon himself the hostility of the
landlord class by his agitation of tene
ment horrors, was principally known as
an editor and writer of fiction. "The
cause only needs a Moses.” he said re
cently in answer to a question. "The
tribe is all ready and willing to follow,
and when the Moses appears there will be
an upheaval in this city.”
William Dean Howells and Edward
Marshall spent a whole day together
umong the slums of Gotham recontly.
What the impressions of the master
realist can have been as his youthful
guide piloted him about it is rather hard
to divine. Perhaps they will be duly set
forth in a coming work. Of course, it
cannot be presumed that the inhabitants
of the slums will return the compliment
in a work wherein will be set forth what
sort of impression Howells and Marshall
made as they wended their way- together
through this human detritus.
LOTTERY BOOMING.
Mr. Richard Watson Gilder is sore per
plexed as to the proper method of dealing
with the new form of the lottery evil.
Since the removal of the Louisiana Lot
tery Company to Honduras a week ago,
where it flourishes at Puerto Cortez as
the Honduras Lottery Company, its tick
ets have been vended surreptitiously in
New York, to the immense profit of Paul
Conrad and Lawson L. Davis. Anthony
Comstock recently began a war on the
slot machines, partly on the well founded
suspicion that some of these contrivances
are ingenious devices for the distribution
of lottery tickets. Mr. Gilder nav
ing proved the only individual
who could successfully attack the oc
topus in the hight of its legal power,
he has been besought to see what
he can accomplish against this more in
sidious form of the evil. It is pointed out
that something must be wrong when it is
possible to purchase in New York tickets
in a lottery, which can only be procured
by the commission of a series of crimes.
But so veiled are the tactics of the ticket
venders that a very careful search on the
part of lottery deponents has failed to re
veal the New York headquarters of this
Honduras concern. Pecuniarily the lot
tery has been a blessing to the impover
ished administration of the Central Amer
ican republic. The very fact that the
lottery people can afford to be so princely
with the Hondurans, shows that their
revenue cannot be very much lessened by
the removal. And the suspicion grows
that no inconsiderable portion of that
revenue is derived from the sale of tickets
to New Yorkers.
A DIPLOMATIC DIFFICULTY.
Had it not been that the Stanton inci
dent has not sufficiently receded into the
past it is highly likely that our present
minister to Brazil, Mr. Thompson, would
have been recalled last week and a man
sent there who sympathized more with
the administration. As has already been
stated publicly, Mr. Thompson seems
rather negligent of his duties, as he spends
so little of his time in the Brazilian capi
tal. But that i3 not the source of the ad
ministration's displeasure. Asa matter
of fact, Mr. Thompson would be obliged
to remain away from Rio owing to the
fact that the city is at the best of times a
fever nest, an(tt because the residence of
the administration members in Brazil
is not in the city proper,
but on the mountains in the
neighborhood. The real trouble is
Mr. Thompson has been for some time
rendering himself a persona non grata to
Peixoto’s government. New York's coffee
merchants are in continual receipt of
complaints about him. One charge
against him is that he was very conspicu
ous in the diplomatic corps debates as
favoring the granting of belligerent rights
of Mello. All those facts are, of course,
duly reported to Peixoto and do not pre
dispose him favorably. It should be
borne in mind that, in view of the promi
nence of the Monroe doctrine, the United
States minister is an important personage
in the Brazilian capital From present
indications the administration considers
Thompson a failure. The rumor that he
had been thinking of recognizing Mello's
belligerent rights seems to be but the
outcome of his insurgent affiliations.
THE LABOR AFFILIATION.
Now that Samuel Gompers of the
American Federation of Labor has re
turned to New York the negotiations be
tween him and James R. Sovereign for an
affiliation of the country's labor unions
are being pushed. Mr. Gompers is
rather conservative than otherwise and
seems to think that sovereign is too radi
cal. But the Gompers opposition, the
western element which came so near
turning Gompers out, expresses great
enthusiasm over the idea and
there seems to be no doubt that some sort
of affiliation arrangement will be entered
into. The consequenoes, should a strike
of a gigantic nature be organized by such
an alliance, can very easily be imagined.
The labor men in New York are wonder
ing if it can be true that Powderly in
tends taking up his residence in their
city. He certainly has many warm
friends in the metropolis. For some time
he has been engaged in literary work and
it appears that he proposes to earn
money by the pen. The careers of tha
labor leaders of this country have been
very picturesque and dramatic, and tha
absolute sway they have exercised sur
passes anything ever witnessed in this
country in any other field of endeavor.
THE MIDWINTER FAIR.
San Francisco’s Midwinter Fair is at
tracting great attention from New York
ers. The exhibits of Gothamites are, in
many cases, very elaborate, while almost
daily parties of the more prosperous of
the city’s population start on tours to the
"show.” The fair is styled a San Fran
cisco enterprise, although its location
hardly justifies such a designation. The
few New Yorkers who have as yet com
municated their impressions to their
friends are unanimously enthusiatic in
their praises of the exposition. Some
Gothamites have a project afoot
that, so far, has received scant at
tention—to organize a fair in Riverside
Park on the lines of the California one.
The idea is to have it as distinctively an
eastern occasion as the other is western.
But there are so many world’s fair pro
jects in contemplation now that practi
cally no interest is felt in the undertak
ing. As it is, some manufacturers are
preparing to ship exhibits to the Dutch
exposition. Then preparations will be in
order for the Paris exposition, in which
New Yorkers mean to be much in evi
dence. Afterward the London and Mad
rid expositions will need consideration.
David Wechslee.
A HUSBANDR DEVOTION.
He Submits to the Process of Flaying
for the Sake of His Wife.
From the New York Tribune.
Chicago, Jan. 6.—Ex-State’s Attorney
George W. W. Blake and his wife have
been lying for two weeks past in Mercy
hospital. Two weeks ago Mr. Blake sub
mitted to a most astonishing operation.
This was nothing less than the removal
of seventy-two square inches of cuticle
from his thighs. The skin was taken
off from the knees to the groin in strips
one and one-half inches in length and
and one-half to three-quarters of an inch
wide. The object of the operation was
to save Mrs. Blake’s arms, which were
burned so badly in Ottawa last fall as to
make necessary either skin-grafting or
amputation.
The operation took place in the hospital
operating room on the afternoon of Dec.
23, consuming two hours. Mr. and Mrs.
Blake were placed under-the influence of
either and laid upon the table side by
side. As each piece of skin was cut from
Mr. Blake's thighs it was dropped into
a disinfecting solution and then care
fully transferred to Mrs. Blake’s arms
until a sufficient numberof square inches
had been secured to insure anew growth
upon the raw surface. Several days ago
the bandages were removed, and it was
found that each of the pieces had ad
hered and taken firm growth, making
the operation absolutely successful.
Neither Mr. and Mrs. Blake will be able
to leave the hospital for several weeks.
Horseflesh In China has teen considered •
great delloacy for eenturies. The inhabitants,
however, for the purposes of the kitchen, use
almost exclusively animals of a small breed,
little bigger than ponies, which have thin
legs and small bones, and grow fat on little
food. They are fed almost entirely on grass
and hay. The meat is sold at comparatively
low prices for this reason. Many farmers de
vote their time almost exclusively to rsisu*
these horses for the market.