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BUTTE RACING PROSPERING ATTENDANCE AT MONTANA TRACK CONTINUES TO BE OF SATISFACTORY PROPORTIONS. H. G. Bedwells Sticker Beats Endymion n. in the Feature Race of a Card Contested by Large Fields of Selling Platers. Butte, Mont., July 23. Racing continued here today under satisfactory conditions. The attendance was again o generous proportions and speculation was of .sufficient volume to keep the seventeen bookmakers in the ring busy. The card was made up of large fields of selling platers of even calibre, and the public about broke even with the layers in the afternoons transactions. The racing was of the interesting sort, contention being keen in most instances. The fourth race at one mile attracted the most attention and post time found II. G. Bedwells Sticker occupying the post of honor, which confidence she fully justified by winning in a hard drive witli Endymion II.. which gamely came from the rear. The time of the race, 1:302, represented a new track record. Jockey Mondon carried off the saddle honors of the afternoon by scoring with two of his mounts. Albert J. Galen, attorney-general of the State of Montana, was an interested spectator of the days .sport and expressed himself as well pleased with the manner iu which the racing was being conducted. Jockey Buxton, rider of Lawn, favorite of the first race, was hit iu the eye with a dirt clod, which materially affected his efforts on that horse. On account of the death of T. J. Johns, owner of Littleton, that horse was withdrawn from the second race. Jockey Rosen was ordered to take jno more outside mounts as punishment for his rough riding tactics in the fifth race, his mount, Kogo, interfering repeatedly with others in the race. The entry of the horse Bclleview, owned by A. ,L. "Penny, was ordered rofused for forty days on account of the animal showing the effects of improper stimulation in the fifth race. A carload of horses has arrived from Latouia, Including four belonging to J. L. Ross, one each owned by V. F. Cisco aud L. Clark, three in the stable of S. Varian aud two belonging to C. J. Casey.
