Colonel Zack Mulhall is a notable Texas, owner of a big ranch, on which many a celebrity has been entertained; the agent for live stock transportation on the Frisco railway, with headquarters in St. Louis: a capitalist in Indian and cowboy exhibitions and the father of Lucille Mulhall, whom Playwright Hoyt saw at her home and made the model for his Bossy girl in "A Texas Steer." Zach was a partner with Colonel Fred Cummins in the CUmmins Wild West Indian Congress on the Pike and Lucille was a broncho buster and steer nooser in the entertainment.

Of a Saturday night Zach Mulhall and Frank Reed, the boss hostler of the concern, quarreled over the question whether or not Zack's horses were fed better or worse than Cummins' horses. The collision happened at the entrance in the presence of a multitude. There was a flash of pistols and the shots flew.

The officers of the fair have ruled Zack off the Pike as a showman. Therefore he took his daughter Lucille and her cowgirl sisters, with his horses and a company of Indians and ranchers, to aplace beyond the gates and there opened Mulhall's Wild West. Lucille is the star rough rider of the show. Last Sunday she lassooed and roped a vicious steer in thirty seconds. And it is said that one of the Misses Mulhall is betrothed to Edward Morgan, the non-combatant and worst wounded of her father's victims, whom she nursed back to life from what looked like sure death.

FRANKLIN FYLES