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POUR HUNDRED HORSES AT ALAN Spokane AAash April 15 Great activity is being shown at the Alan track in preparation for Satur ¬ days opening of the Coeur dAlene Fair and Hacing Associations meeting AVeather conditions An this section of the country are far better this spring tltiu In previous seasons There are at present quartered at the track more than four hundred horses and additional shipments are arriving daily It is ex ¬ pected that by opening day that there will be fullv six hundred on hand Local interest is rapidly mani ¬ festing ifself and the trains bring many people froin Spokane and adjoining points to witness the morn Ing gallops The horses that wintered in this vi ¬ cinity are not ready for racing owing to the late ¬ ness of the season and those that were shipped from Juarez and other distant points probablv will have a nionoMly of the purses in tho early part of the meeting meetingThe The association has issue a pamphlet explaining In detail the parimutuel system of betting which will timeA be in operation here for the lirst time A locil ordinance designed to prohibit the print ¬ ing of any advertising of the Alan races or result of the racing was defeated by a vote of to 2 in the vSpokane Council last night Owing to a car shortage that has delayed tin arrival of manr hordes the management has extended the time for the closing of stakes to April 2
