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others and will not permit themselves to be trampled upon. 

 I must have what justly belongs to me here." 



The West loves a man who insists upon fairness and is 

 not afraid to demand it on all occasions and under all cir- 

 cumstances. In consequence there was such a tumult that 

 had not that horse been brought out and made to run in that 

 race there might have been a lynching. 



The flag fell to a good start, but I had the best horse, and 

 the result was never in doubt. None of them ever came 

 near him and John Baker, whose name I had changed to 

 Howell. He was not a ringer, for I plainly told every one 

 of the change. I got the stake, in spite of hints thrown 

 about that a vigilance committee was liable to wait upon me 

 that night. 



The next day Premium repeated the dose and got the 

 money. I had good bets down on her at fair odds, for 

 they could not believe that I had all the best horses in the 

 State. Miss Ella had shown wonderful speed in a race at 

 Lexington before she was taken out there, and she seemed 

 to have a chance. But I knew my mare and I never faltered 

 in the belief that she had the race at her mercy. There was 

 no trouble in collecting the money. 



At the ending of this meeting I sold my horses to A. 

 Samples, who was feeding Gen. Miles' soldiers over in the 

 Yellowstone Valley, and traveled overland back to Ogden, 

 a distance of about a thousand miles, having $12,000 win- 

 nings on my person, representing less than three months' 

 earnings. 



Back in old Missouri once more, I had about made up 

 my mind to retire from the turf Jor good. But the love for 

 horse racing was not so easily extinguished, and when 

 Clifton Bell asked me to train a string of good ones for him 

 I consented. He told me just to set my own price on my 

 services. 



The horses were at that time at Denver, and while I 

 was waiting for them to arrive I was induced to take charge 

 of John Davis, a horse named after me, and owned by Capt. 

 John Shaw and Charles Hunt. The horse was of high 

 class and had quite a little history, for his ownership was 

 once decided by a game of seven up. One half of him was 

 owned by Capt. Shaw and the other by Sam Ecker. Shaw 

 bred and reared the animal, but he gave Ecker a half interest 



