Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-01-07
AMATEUR COWBOYS
On the Trail of a Wild and Reckless
Gentleman Cow.
Stalking Big Game in the Streets of I
Large CiV---The Animal Finally
Knocked Out

! Yesterday afternoon the central por-
ton OF the city Was the scene Of rather
extensive and very amusing Cow hunt
/ in which about q dozen amateur hunt
ers ard professional butchers took part,
/ the leading role being filed BY frantic
steer Of d dirty white colos while half he
population forsook their accustomed occu
parions and looked On il admiration.
The animal escaped from the Wheeling
s.oclyards on Sunday last, aud since then
has been
! ROAMING ABOUT THE CITY
st its own sweet will, creating good deal
Of excitment upon occasions, end narrowly
escap!~g goring several pedestrians, az,
for instance, on Tuesday afternoon, wheE
! il came charging down Fourteenth street,
and seeing well dressed youth on the side
walk il made O rush at him with head low
cred and tail sticking straight up in the
air.
the youth gave one glance at the ep'
reaching bovine, and then tle' lodging
/ INTO the hallway Of residence and slam
ming the door just in time 10 hear the
steer 3 head
CRASH AGAINST THE PANELS
or the outside. Yesterday morning the
animal continuing TO make a nuisance OF
. itself, three men, one armed with u double
barreIIeJ shot gun, another with breach
/ loading rifle, and the third with . revolver,
and followed by a squad Of butcher boys
bearing ropes, knives sGws and other
parapbcrrqlia used in producirg 5eets!eaks
and soup bones from the raw material,
star,.d oat to end the Wild career Of the
steer.
Ine expedition found tie animal eCne
where in The North End, and as it pre-
scented . rather vicious appearance and
h2a wicked look in its eye halt was
called st distance OF hundred yards
and
4 COUNCIL OF WAR
held The steer listened to the deii5era-
rioas 'or o while with cool indifference and
then started down Market street at q rot
with the armed men in hot pursuit and
the butcher boys bringing up the rear,
ever ard anon shouting police at the
top Of their voice..
The unvonted sigh. attracted q great
deal Of attention, ss matter OF course,
aud when the steer turned east into
Twelfth street. about clock, there was
no, less ;aau two hundred people behind 1t.
The steer passed the Court House under
full sail, despite stveral attempts to hcEd It
eli aud 5hoo, i, 0rd continued on up the
slrest until Just opposite the residence OF
/ ". Bliss, Esu, where it turned north,
charged INTO the yard OF residence, tore
up flight Of steps of run AID
STOOD A. BAY
~ thebhcky Here the man with the shot
gun aud he OF the rifle fired several shots,
out with no effect while the mob put the
rricdboying fences between them and the
street go as to be out o. dagger in the
event OF IL charge by the beaz' The latter
stood the shooting for while, Hnd then
dodge. through hole in the fence into the
vineyard. several bullets being sent after
him is he disappeared beyond some rising
g-y.rd.
Another consultation vas here held hy
the pursuers, outside the vineyard fence,
and then, while one or lwo men went Tor
NOR. oRpNAErE,
the Others entered the vineyard and eau
tiously began to advance. The steer was
fually found near the north end OF the
vineyard, and Tor u time the rapid firing
sounded as though brisk skirmish was
in progress between the outposts OF two
contending armies. Finally reinforce
mems arrived, and about tour o'clock the
steer gave up the ghost, his hide being By
that time as tull OF holes as sieve. TWAS
u great hunt.