The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-04-14
A CHINESE MAzEPPA.
A WILD RIDE ON A TEXAS sTEER-RoUGH
.PORTS OF WESTERN COWBOYS
SWIFT DEATH OF a CHINA
NAN s PERsECUTOR.

Two weeks ago last Wednesday there Oc-
CURED a thrilling tragedy at Brookvile, in
Arizona. On that day, within fouI miles Of
the above named town. there were three cow
boys. Their jingling spurs. their long horned
and brightly mounted saddles, on which were
cOiled, ike long, 1.-THE, timber snakes, raw
hides Tiatas, the predominance OF bright
color displayed il saddle blanket and cloth
ing, the gleam Of the highly-polished pistol
and knifesanG the rude, active health and vi
vaCity of horses and riders, made them pic
tUre pleasant to look Upon, when such an in
spectiUn could be made with safety. They
were known to their associates as Jake Nc
Cray, Billy FOlausbee and Tom DilwOrth ;
but whether these names were conferred on
them at the baptismaI font was a matter Of
considerable doubt and conjecture. They
had been carOusing in town and were on
their way back to their rendezvous. Sud
denly Chinaman appeared, laden with bas-
kets, and with dog JTot slowly approached
them, and his little pig like eyes showed that
he had an instructive fear of the hOrsemen
This was an opportunity for cruel sport
which the cowboys could not let pass, and
Jake McCray said to his companions: Boys,
let's have a China Mazeppa. I'll lasso the
Cinnamon and you ketch a steer, an ven
tie John on an run him through the streets
Of the town." To this cool proposition Billy
and Tommy ioyfully asseHted. In a few
seconds McCray's RATA was describing cir
cles in The air, and An Sin, dropping his bur
den, fed for dear life; but after few
bounds the Hnerring RATA encircled the
limbs OF the NongOl, and he was jerked and
thrown ten feet in the air by the bounding
morse Of the COW boy. In the meantime
Billy FOlansbee and Tom DiwOrth had pur-
sued huge Texan steer, and Bill had
thrown his RATA on the animals horns, while
Tom, by deft underhand throw of the raw
hide, had encoiied the animals hind legs
and thrown bin prostrate on the earth
There he lay painting and believing out de-
fiance at his captors, although in their ex-
pert hands he was as powerless as an infant.
Billy and his companion shouted to Jake Nc
Cray to bring over the prisoner, and added
parenthetically, BE kerfal and don't kill the
darn cTigter, as there wont be any sport in
giving dead Chinaman a ride" Jake Nc
Cray was careful, but not as cOnsideTate as
he might have been, for when he arrived
where the steer was struggling the China
man had lost the best part of his blouse and
about half the cuticle from one side of his
body. They fastened the RATA to the horns,
and the trained animals held the steer fully
as well as though the riders were in the sad
die. The trembling Chinaman made piteous
appeals to his captOTs, and even fshed out
four twenty-dOllar pieces from some Tecesses
in his clothing and offered them as a bribe
for liberty. The money was appr Opriated
but the lOnged for freedom was denied him.
They laid the prisoner, breast down, upon
the steer and pulled his hands well down on
the shoulders and tied them together
Then his legs were pulled apart and secured
firmly on either side of the animals lOins,
and the Chinaman was tied so firmly on the
back of the animal that he looked, as McCTay
expressed it, as Though he growed there. "
The fastenings were then removed from the
steer. With blood in his eye. and shaking
his great breadth of horn defiantly at his tor
mentors, he charged successfully first at one
hOrseman, then at another, while Ab Sin was
yelling alternately, ''POIice ~ and ''Iur-
der % in broken English and Chinese, at the
top of his voice. His captOrs made the air
fairly ring with deyilish merTiment Finally
the "firy, untamed" steer was headed for
town and then began a race which beggars
description. Over gully and ditch he went.
making stupenduOus bounds each time these
obstruetions were encountered, and each
bound being accurately recorded by the
Monaghan, for he fairly rent the air with his
screams, and the length of the cry was regu-
lated bv the distance covered bV the steer in
a Jump. The cowboys were more than de-
lighted with the success OF their scheme
The steer would endeavor to turn, but his
remorseless tornentOrs headed him at every
point when endeavors to make these turns
would develop abnormal bursts Of speed,
long drawn-Out walls would issue from the
unhappy Mongol and when the animal set
tied down to an ordinary run, the cry would
sink down low, and thus, Ike the music Of