Morning journal and courier., 1883-01-13
An Arizona Bull Fight.

How Colonel Kanez Narrowly Escaped , ImpaIement the Horns Of a s'TorO
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 At given signal. says the 1'uscon Citizen, the trap was raised, and 8 three year-old bull bounded in For moment he stood con- fused at the applause which greeted his ap- pearance and watched with glaring eyes the actions of Colonel Yanez and assistants, who, standing near the center of the ring, Haunted their red flags before him. The hesitation was but momentary, for with low cred head he scattered both men and flags. For awhile he made things lively, and the bows hunted their holes without being twice told. At last tiring down, he was again reused to fury by Colonel Yanez dexterously planting 8 rosette of colored paper squarely in the center of the bulls forehead, and later ca two others-one in the nose and the other in the left shoulder. However, in the end he Jagged out and gave way to spotted bull with horns uncropped but as he was one of those bulls that could neither be coaxed nor prodded into battle, he was driven out, and the cries of s'toro colorado !'' were heard on every side.
 The last bull of the three, ''the toro colo rado," to be fought that day, was then let in. He was a fine looking specimen of his kind, and built for fighter from the ground up. He entered the ring with rush and lost no time in getting down to business. Whenever 8 red flag was waved or 8 man showed him. self in the ring his lordship was there also, and when they, as they always did, took re- fuge behind the screens provided for their safety, he made an effort to butt them down and follow in. When Colonel Yanez at tempted to ornament the bulls forehead with a rosette he missed it, and narrowly escaped being made into rosette himself. After re- peated efforts the rosette was pinned on. Now, madder than ever, and foaming at the mouth, he believed with rage and charged furiously. Some of the escapes from his horns were marvelous. To further show hIs skill as bull-fghter, Colonel Yanez endeav- ored to plant two gaudily colored arrange ments of paper and firecrackers in either shoulder, but in avoiding 8 charge he stuck both into one side of the bulls neck.
 The exploding crackers drove the bull wild with rage and pain, and it looked for a time as though he was going to get even with his tormentors, for, without paying heed to the red flags, he charged the clown with such fierceness that it was impossible to miss the shock, so down he went, and the bull over him, and but for the presence of mind of the other men in the ring, who ran up and, by Haunting their flags in the face of the bull, drew him away from the prostrate man, something serious might have occurred. The next move was to lasso and throw the bull and then clinch rope tightly around his body, which served as hand-hold to one of the fighters, who seated himself astride of the bulls hips.
 The ropes were taken of and the bull sprang to his feet. He first tried to shake the man of his back, but failing in that he rushed after the others so furiously as to throw his rider, and, quickly turning on him, would have given him ride in another direction but for the others drawing his attention with their flags. The sport with him lasted for about an hour, and was the most exciting of the whole programme. Colonel Yanez, when the bull was pretty well jaded, acted little too familiarly by skipping him with his hand, and was rewarded by sharp kick that emp tied his bellows of wind. That, together with a sprained wrist, which made the clown happy, were the only accidents of the after noon.