The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-05-17

occurred q thrsliIngfrageoy At brook-
vile, in Arizona. On that day,
within about four miles of the above
named town, there were three cow
bows. There jingling spurs, their
long horned and brightly-mounted
saddles, on which were coiied like
long, 1.-THE. Timber snakes, rawhide
riatas. the predominance OF bright
colores displayed in saddle blankets
and clothing. the eleam of the high
ly-polished pistol aud knife, and the
rude, active health and viyacity OF
horses and riders, made them a
picrnre pleasant to leok upon, when
such an inspection could be made
with safety. They were known to
their associates as Jack Nc ray,
Bilie Folansbee and Tom Dilworth (;
but whether these names were con-
terrcd on them at the baptismal
font was a matter of considerable
doubt and conjecture. They had
been carousing in town, and were
then on their way back to their rem
devious. Suddenly a Chinaman
appeared, laden with baskets, and,
at dog trot, slowly approached
them, and his little pig-iike 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
Jack McCray said ohis companions; (;
"Boys, let's have a Chinese Mazeppa.
I'll lasso the Chinaman, an yous
ketch a stear, an we'll tie John on
an run him through thestreets ofthe
town" To this cool proposition
Billy and Tommy joyfully assented.
In few seconds McCray's RATA was
describing circles in the air, and All
Sin, dropping his burden, fed FOR
life; but after few bounds the uner-
ring RATA encircled the limbs of the
Mongol, and he was jerked and
thrown ten feet in the air by the
bounding horse of the cowboy.
In the meantime Billy Folansbee
and Tom Dilworth had pursued a
huge Texan steer, and thrown him
PROSTATE on the ground. There he
lay painting and believing out de-
fiance at his captors, although In
their expert hands he was as power
less as an infant. 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 McCray
expressed it, as though he growed
there" The fastenings were then
removed from the steer. With blood
in his eve, and shaking his great
breadth of horn defiantly at his tor
mentors, he charged successfully
first at one horseman, then at anoth-
er. while All Sin was yelling al
ternately "Police," and "Murderl"
in broken English and Chinese, at
the top of his voice. His captors
made the air fairly ring with devilish
merriment. Finally. the fiery,
untamed" steer was headed for town,
and then begaE a race which beggars
description. Over gully and ditch
he went, making stupendous bounds
each time these distractions were
encountered, and each bound being
accurately recovered by the Mongo-
liam, for he fairly rent the air with
his screams, and the length of the
cry was regulated by the distance
covered by the steer in a jump. The
cowboys were more than delighted
with the success OF their scheme.
The steer would endeavor to turn,
but his remorseless tormentors head
ed him at every point; when en-
deavors to make these turns would
develop abnormal bursts of speed,
long-drawn-out walls would issue
from the unhappy Mongol; and when
the animal settled down to an ordi-
nary run the cry would sink down
low. and thus, like the music of an
Eolian harp, would the moans rise
and fall. The wild, frenzicd bovine
approaches a gully fully eighteen
feet in width. and, with a fierce snort
and bound, the steer gathered him.
selfin one supreme effort, and clear
ed it by scratch. Jack McCray's
horse, following a little to the right,
and at narrow place, also success
fully jumped across the dry chasm,
But Billy Folans bee and Tom Dill
worth, following Immediately behind
the Chinese. Mazeppa, both came to
grief and were landed, horse and foot,
in the bottom of the ditch. All the
dogs in the place chased the frenzied
animal and barked in chorus; horses
broke from their fasteniugs, and be-
hind came McCray and Dilworth,
shouting ike wild Apaches. Sudden
ly, when in front of the courthouse,
the steer stumbled and fell. Deputy
Sheriff Charles Smith took advantage
of this, and with a few quick cuts of
his bowie knife released the Mongo-
lian Mazeppa from his perilous perch
The released Cinnamon threw him.
sci under the protection of the officer
of the law. The harrassed steer see
ing his mounted prosecutors ap-
preaching, struggled to his feet and
darted away. Tom Dilworth, when he
discovered his prisoner free, loosened
his RATA and shouted to McCray to
catch the steer and he would capture
the Chinaman. Swinging his lasso
around, he charged up and loudly
called on the deputy sheriff to stand
aside. The officer of the law drew
his pistol, while the Mongolian
crouched and trembled behind him,
and the sheriff's deputy shouted
defiantly: Touch him ct your peril. T"
Without seconds hesitation the
RATA was thrown. and encircled the
officer and Chinaman, but before the
line was tightened by the quick tur-
ming horse the crack of fSmith's pistol
was heard. and Dilworth fell dead
from his saddle. The horse, fright
ened by the falling body, bounded
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