The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1881-03-10
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Gabriel will require Q largo club q.
tachment TO that horn Of his, or else
he will never b able to roder the
mountain c0wb0ys," remarked Ben
Haywood, Q Utah cattle dealer, to Q
CA,0nicie reporter.
"Why SOP asked the reporter.
Because, (" replied Haywood, there
In no circumstance under which .
cowboy will not sleep u mot ply sically
niolested. In the midat Of mountain
storm, when the crashing thunder
comes simultaneously with the glaring
sheets of lightning. the cowboy sleeIs
peacefully. in o dry creek bed, with
his head down grade, he sluiRbcrs
sweetly: In view ~ tarantalas, rattle
snakes and centipedes for bedfell0ws,
he closes his eyes and dreams Of .
heaven Of unlimited plug tobacco and
unstinted sleep. Gabriel's trumpet
! would indeed sound I'm vain when the
time came to check OF Q drove OF COW.
boys. LAST spring I was driving four
thousand head Of cattle over the Rocky
mountains by the South Wyoming
pass, and 'run'-the terror Of cattle
drivers-tOok place under circumstan-
ces which showed just how sound IL
the sleep Of q cowboy. I had fifteen
bOys-a boy with the cow prefix
may mean a forty-year old man-with
me. 1t takes nearly that many to
start q drove of four thousand cattle,
though . half-dozen toys can take
care Of the drove after the first week
| ON the road. BY that time the cattle
know what Ii expected Of them, and
give US very little trouble.
INCAMP.
"Well, we were camped one nigh
on the very summit of the mountains.
The sleeping ground for the stock was
| In little five-acre patch Of grass; all
around were sagebrush and rocks OF
volcanic formation. You understand
that after cattle are quietly settled at
night ON good sleeping ground three
or four men ride In . circle around
them. This IL done by relays Of men
In Watches the watch being changed
at midnight. have many o time
seen q cowboy on u br0ncho. riding
round and round the drove at night fast
asleep in his saddle. On the night In
question I happened to he standing
the first watch myself. and only had
two boys with me. The night was
overcast and dark. the few stars which
shOne between the riffs Of driving
clouds, just serving to outline the mass
Of sleeping cattle. The uir seemed
surchargGd with electricity, and
though there had been no lightning II
was just such night In which runs
always occur. have heard no ends
of scientific and practical explanation
Of stock runs or stampedes-generally
I.s,v ,vSnu la, vnnt
lives. 1t Is well enough to say that
something frightens them, II you know
nothing about IL and want to explain
II; but then that doesen't explain 1t,
no way.
CAUSE OF A RUN.
"They say that q coyote, or some
other prowling beast, frightens one of
drove and that one infects the others
with panic and the STAN pede begins.
Well 1t amt SO. II you hav drove
of u thousand or ten thou sand, the
panic infects every one Of the N at ex-
actly the same instant. 1t Is some
thing harder to account for than
providing coyote; and because run
never occurs except on such . night as
have described. leave 1t to those
who know all about atmospheric in
fiuences and such to tell just what II
Is. Anyway, 1 was q little uneasy that
night, for one Of the two boys ON
watch with me was only tenderfoot;
understand? A man new to the bust
ness, new and fresh from the East. 1t
was nearly IL o'clock, and had Just
turned my horses head towards camp,
which was about fifty yards In the
rear of the sleeping ground, to make
up the relief watch, when the run COM
nienced. Every one of that drove of
four thousand cattle was on Its feet
like flash, and exactly ut the same
instant. With q rush like Q whirl-
wind that levels a forest they were of
In the darkness, the strong and heavy
ones In the lead, of course. The rat
Ting of horns and the laundering Of
hoofs was deafening. The effect II |
has on person who experien noes It for |
the first time was shown by the action
Of the tenderf0Ot.
A NIGHT STAMPEDE.
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