The daily gazette., 1882-04-07
A CHINESE MAzEPPA.
A WILD RIDE ON a TEX As STEER.
ROUGH SPORTS OF WESTERN COW
BoYs--sw,Fr DEATH OF A
cHINAMEN's PERsE-
CUToR.


On Wednesday Of las, week there oc-
CURED thrilling tragedy at Brookville,
in Arizona. On that day, within four
miles Of the above named towp, there
were three cowboys. Their juggling
spuls, their long horned aud brightly
mounted saddles, ON which were co,led,
like long, 1.-THE, Timber snakes, rawh hide
riatas, tue predOminance If bright color
displayed In saddle blanket aud clotbipg.
the gleam OF the highly-pOllshed ps.Ol
aud knlfe, and the rude active health
and VlVacity OF hores and rider., made
them picture pleasant 10 look uron,
wten such an inspection could be made
with safety. They were known to their
associates as JaEe McCray Billy Fol-
ansbee and Tom DilwOrtb; but what her
these nRmes were conferred on then at
the baptismal font wasfa matter Of cun-
siderable doubt and conjecture. They
had been carousihg iu towD and were
on their way back 10 their rendezvous.
Suddenly q Chinaman appeared, laden
with baskets, Sad with dog trot slowly
approached them, and his little pig like
eyes showed that he bad an instructive
fear Of the horsemen. This was an OF
portuDity fnr cruel sport which the COW
boys could not let pass, and Jake Nc
Cray said 10 his companions: "Boys lots
have . China Mazeppa. I'll lasso the
Cinnamon and yous ketch steer, an
veil tie John oman run him through
the streets Of the town." To this cool
proposition Billy and Tommy joyfully
assenied. In few seconds McCray's
rata was describing circles In the air,
and All Sin, dropping his burden, fled
for dear If but af er lew bounds The
uDerring RATA encircled the limbs cf
tie MoDgol, and ha was jeIked and
thrown ten feet in the air by the bound
Ing horse of the cowboy.
In the meautime Billy FOlansbee aud
Tom DilWoith has pu' sued huge Tex
an steer, and Bill bad thrown his riata
on the animals horns, while Tom, by a.
dttL underbsnd throw Of the raWhide,
had encoiled the animals hind legs and
thrown him prostrate on the earth.
There he lay paDting and believing ont
defiance at his eaptors, although Ia his
expert hands lie was ss powerless as an
Infant. Billy and his con npanion shout
ed to Jake McGray TO bring over the
prisoner, and added paienthetlcally,
'tBe kerful and don't kill the darn crit
ter, As there won't be any sport In giving
4 dead Chinaman q ride" Jake Nc
cray was cartf fol, but not as consider
ate rs he might have been, for when he
arrived where the steer was struggling,
be CbinaInan had lost the best part or
his blouse and about half the cuticle
from one side Cf bis body. They fast
ened the RATA to the horns, and the
trained animals held the steer fully as
well as though the riders we're In the
saddle. The trembling Chinaman
made piteous appeals to his captors, and
even tished out four twenty dollar
pieces from s)me r. cesses in his cloth
hing and offered them as a bribe for
liberty. The money was appropriated,
mt the longed for freedom was denied
him. They laid the prisoner, breast
IowD, upon the steer and pulled bis
banGs we'll down on the shoulders and
tied them together. Then bis legs
were pulled apart aud secured firmly on |
either side OF the animals loins, and |
the Cbinaman was tied so frmly on the |
back tf the animal that he looked, as |
McCray expressed IL, ss sthoueh be |
growed there" The fastenlngs were
hen removed from the Steer. With |
blood In his eye, and shaking his great
breadth f horn deffanily at bis tormen.
tors, he charged successively first at one
horseman, then at another, while Ah
Sin was yelling alternately, "Policep
"Murdel!" In broken English and CHI
nese, al the top of his voice. His cap
tors made the air fairly ring with devil |
lsh merriment. Finally the "fiery, un-
tamed" steer was headed for town and |
then began q race which beggars de-
scription. Over gully and ditch he
went, making slupenduous bounds eacn
time these distractions we're encoun-
cred, and each bound being accurately |
recorded by the Mongolian, 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 q lump.
The cowboys were more than delighted |
with the success of their scheme.
The steer would endeavor to turn,
but his remorseless tormentors headed |
him at every point; when endeavors
to make these turns would deVop alb
normal bursts of speed, long drawn.
out walls would issue from the un-
ndpPv hAouBOlf anu Wnou tnd hUlLu al
settled down to an ordinary run, the
cry would sink down low. and thus,
ke the music of an Eolian harp,
would the means rise and fall. The
wild, frenzied bovine approached o
gully fully eighteen feet in width,
and, with fierce snort and bound,
the steer gathered himself IN the su. |
preme effort and cleared 1t by a |
scratch. Jake McCrary's horse, fol,
lowing q little to the right, aud q narv
ROVER place, also successfully jumped |
across the dry ohasm. But Bill Fol- |
ansbee and Tom Dillworth, following
Immediately tbehind the Chinese Ma |
zepps, both came to grief, and were |
landed, horse and foot, In the bottom |
of the ditch. Tom recovered first and |
hurried his horse along the bottom
for q quarter of q mile, and finally |
clambered out; but Folansbfe lay |
stunned in the bottom, while his COM |
panic ms continued the mad chase.
The g eer'was turned at midday into |
the main street OF the town. All the |
dogs in the place chased the freDzied |
animal and barked chorus; horses
broke from their fasienings, and be-
hind came McCrary and Dil'worth,
shouting like wild Apaches. The
frerzied animal, with his human bur~
den. followed everywhere by shouts,
ba ks and 'inpescribable din, shot
through street and alley, was headed |