Eighteen Year Old Daughter of an Indian Territory Ranchman
Wins the $1,000 Prize at McAlester,
Defeating the Best Experts in the Southwest
Is a Friend of President Roosevelt
Attends School for Young Women in St. Louis Each Winter

South McAlester, I. T., Oct. 7.-[Special.]-
Lucille Mulhall, 18 years old, and a friend of President Roosevelt, won the $1,000 steer roping contest here today, defeating the best known cowboys in the southwest.

The conditions were that three steers were to be roped and tied in the fastest time, and the contest was open to all. Miss Mulhall threw her first steer and tied it up in 43 seconds. The second required 1 minute and 11 seconds, while the third was roped, thrown, and tied in the remarkably fast time of 40 seconds.

The strenuous young woman was enthusiastically cheered by an army of ranchmen, cowboys, Indians, and others who witnessed the performances, while the vanquished ropers acknowledged their defeat by proclaiming her the "Queen of the Range."

Miss Mulhall's home is at Mulhall, I. T., where her father, who is the livestock agent for the 'Frisco railroad, has a mammoth ranch. She is as much at home in the saddle and on the range as the average American girl is in the drawing room.

Miss Mulhall is young to have achieved such distinction, having only recently passed her seventeeth birthday. She probably will be a pupil at the St. Louis Young Ladies Institution this winter again, as she has been for the last several seasons, returning to her father's ranch at Mulhall each spring.