The Russellville Democrat., 1885-05-28
Hunting Bnnalo.

Those of the readers of the Sun who have ever met Mir. Thomas Dunbar, lessee of the Milwaukee Driving Park, have seen rather small man, but they have seen a man who is as full of busi- ness as any man in the world. He is chain lightning in anything he under takes, and enthusiastic to the last de- gree. At the time tiae ssss;G.ssaio Bill party was here at the driving park, Mir. Dunbar watched the proceedings with much interest He was particularly struck with the Buffalo hunt on the track, where the cowboys chased the tame buffaloes around and shot blank cartridges at them, after which the buffaloes would go and lay down and chew Mir. Dunbar's hay. He became wild on the subject of hunting buffa- loes, and even had sort of liking tor the business of robbing stage coaches, though he considered the latter hardly the correct thing. But hunting buffa- loes he gloried in, and, for week or two after the buffalo show went away, MT. Dunbar could be seen, early in the morning, mounted on brood mare in his pasture, chasing cows around the inclosure. The brood mare fell down with MT. Dunbar dozen times or SO, and rolled over on him, but he would get up with 8 wild warwhoop. remount the animal, and c ase after q COW in a manner that showed him to be thor oughbred. For several days he wore an arm in sling, and he had a doctor em- ployed by the season, to plaster up feat ures that became demoralized by his frequent falls, but he persisted in his fighting cows until he sighed for wilder game. His friends will remember that he suddenly disappeared, and was not seen in the city for several weeks. It was rumored that he had been abduct- ed, and was held for & ransom, but his reappearance here last week put stop to all fears. He has not told where he put in the time, but paper from Da- kota gives the whole story. It seems that MT. Dunbar's desire to kill wild buffalo became so intense that he could not be content to chase cows, so he armed himself with several different kinds of shooting utensils and went to Dakota in search Of wild game. He remained at Aberdeen several days, watching for buffalo, but none came into the city limits, so he took passage on a stage, and when between Swan Lake and Le Beau, herd of seven buff falos were seen grazing in the distance.
 The stage was stopped, and Mir. Dun bar bribed the driver to allow him to take one of the stage horses for buff falo hunt. The driver said that it was against the rules, but sum of money sufficient to overcome his scruples was forthcoming, and the lead horse was saddled and with regular Comanche yell, Dunbar charged towards the buffaloes. The animals heard the noise and started West on pretty fair trot and the horse took the rider within shooting distance in going mile. He rode along side of buffalo COW, that was going pretty good eight minute gait, and prepared to shoot, when he found that in his hur- " he had forgotten to take his gun out of the stage, and all the arms he had with him were the ones nature had pro vided him with. For half mile he rode along beside the wild game, call ing himself names for forgetting his gun. He looked at the buffaloes, and the buffaloes looked at him, and as they got on slight elevation, a ranch was seen a short distance ahead, and a man on horseback. The buffaloes trot- ted right along towards the ranch. and suddenly it cccurrd to Dunbar that the buff,sloes were tame ones. The animals slached up and walked, as they came near the ranch, and one of them went up to a trough under windmill, and began drinking. Dunbar is man who does not require year or eighteen months to get anything through lis head, so he rode up to the man and said: "I have braugst your buffaloes .home." The mal looked at Dunbar GU iously. and asked him why he didn't walk them inst aad of run ming them across the prairie. and Dun bar said he was in q hurry. He said the fact was he was going along in the stage, looking for tame builaloes to organize wild West show, and the driver told him those butfaloes belonged to man about three miles west, an l he thought they could be bought. so he got the driver to stop the stage and lend him horse to go to the ranch, and he thought as he was coming right along ut WOulQ uliNC tuO OiustlOC udt seemed satisfactory, and Mir. Dunbar soon bargained for the herd, at certain price, to be called for within ten days, and He gave the man dollar to bind the bargain, and went back to the stage. where the driver and passengers were laughing at him for chasing tame buff faloes, but when he showed that he knew they were tame, and had gone to the ranch to buy them, the laugh was on the other side Dunbar will never take those tame buffaloes. but he will always thank his stars that he did not have his gun along, for if he had killed one of them the owner would have salted him about two hundred dollars. We understand that.Dunbar gives diff ferent version of his buffalo experiences, claiming to have killed millions of them, but we would rather take the statement of the Dakota paper, which '