The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1883-06-02
THE cow BOYS IN NEW ORLEANS.
New orleans states.1

z THE COW BO4Sz1N NEW VRLEANS:
New Orleans States.]
ie About 5000 deluded mortals paid so
cents each to witness cow boys picnic
at the Fair Grounds. They went with
vision of prairie life, practically
dangling in their minds
eye. They hungered to gaze on Web
ster Witter, who, in the chaste and
fiowery language of the author of the
programme, is ga son Of the wild
West; his home, the saddle; his
feather-bed, the prairie grass; his pill
low, the coiled rattle snake; his diet,
the prickly pear. The wide and bound
less realms of universal and limitless
space defied and challenged to produce
his equal"
A msjority of the open.mouthed
spectators confidently expected to see
the pillow of coiled rattle snake and
view the guileless Billy in his great
eating match of prickly pear. But this
was not all of the programme worth
seeing.
There was an unrestrained curiosity
to feast the eyes upon sthe subjugation
of the fiery and wild Mexican cattle,
llupOItcO cApIcSsAy AOI euAo OSSdolous
from the Hacienda of Ell SenoS Don
Francisco Castillo, of chihuahua"
The Hacienta turned out to be
the slaughterhouse below the barracks,
whence the cattle really came. "Senor
Don Francisco Castillo, of Chihuahua"
must have referred to that clever and
agreeable gentleman Col. John Dol
honde, superintendent of the slaughter
house, who doubtless furnished the
animals for the harmless exhibition.
"Capt. a. B. Grady, hero Of Las
Palmas recipient of keepsakes, letters
and decorations fromP President Juarez,"
was announced as the master of cere.
monies, and if his distinguished friend
the President aforesaid could have
} gathered himself to the scene, as il
were, his bosom would have heaved
! with sorrow and his well.known tones
, would have demanded back those
} akeepsakes aud decorations"
: The captain was entirely too humane
and gentle for real hero of the plains
When the reporter urged him to oper
fire on tho crowd blocking the course
, or else turn loose his band of intrepid
/ horsemen and run over a couple o
hundred of them SO as to clear thu
: track, he sweetly answered that h,
+ wished to harm nobody and besides HI
could give another show at which bette
: police arrangements would be provided
] The occasion was singularly dull ant
4 undressing. With Thousand
t chances for accident, no one person
y was killed, or even seriously hurt
t This disguised every body. Whel
i infants in arms can be brought face t
o face with untamed bulls, and then tn
bulls refuse to gore them to jelly, tn
popular disappointment becomes un
can sit on the very edge of the roof c
the Grand Stand, and not one lose hi
Y balance and fall to earth, breaking hi
/. skull, it becomes evident that tn
l. people are going to kick at the lack 9
J, amusement.
n Three hours were consumed dom
II what could have been done in half a
/. hour. Four week-eyed cows were pu
It on the track to be chased and lassoac
d by the cowboys. The mob of spects
.e tors poured in on the track, and til
n cows could not get through the mas
II of humanity, tried they ever so hard
!. One or two cows were lassooed an
d thrown to the earth and tied in yer
e expert fashion by the Texas delegation
r "A horse, blind in one eye and said
Is be very wild indeed, was pursue
i. around the track and finally lassooe
4 after he had worn himself out runnin
mile. The only good feature Of til
Of show was the riding Of a beef by Mex
can Johnny.