The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-11-10

Now follows the most skillful ina
neuvering. The terrorized band lea,
not run much farther. They NAV,
almost exhausted even their well-higl
tireless vitality. They again becam,
confused and resort to their las
device Their straight away tactic,
are deserted and they commence run
ming in a circle. At first it is two
miles in diameter. The pursuer make.
his circle in little less space. The
diameter reduces to mile. The mar
on horseback runs but the circumfer
ence of a circle, q distance inside
Gradually this grows less. The DOOR
painting, exhausted creatures stagger
around. determined to die in what
they think is their only means of es.
cape They have entirely lost their
reason, if such it might be called. Mar
rover and narrower becomes their
sinking low in the west, they stand,
painting, weaving back and forth, CON
quered for the time. They may have
run one hundred miles. Mr.. Bell
states that he has had chases to greatly
exceed that distance.
The three men close in on them and
skiIlfully drive them towards the cor
raj. Among them and in their lead
now has come "a strange saddleless
horse; but they are too bewildered to
know it, This horse slowly marks the
course guided by the men driving, and
at last leads within the half-co9eeslea
seclusion the thirteen prisoners.
Once there the wild horses are wild
no longer. They are captives sure and
sale. They may rest, and Craze, and
drink, but escape they can not
A day or two afterward the prelim.
mary breaking to halter is done. This
is both dangerous and exciting work
The wild animal is caught BY a rope
and thrown. While down, clicked into
half insensibility, the jacquima is ad
justed. This is moose loop, and wher
frightened hurts the sensitive mouth o.
the unbroken animal terribly. Next
comes the saddle, Outlines requiring
an hours patient work to adjust. Bat
when once in place and the rider on
the back that has never borne q bur-
den, the final struggle is made until
the man conquer5 and the free, fear
less, swift-limbed Pegasus of the plains
is a servant.
Last year Bell caught forty horses.
He drove them to Nebraska and sold
them for about sixty dollars each. This
year he has caught but half the num-
Der, and respectfully says that the day
Of the wild horse is over. One source
of revenue. which has been no small
consideration during the last five years
to the horse-catchers, was the bounty
paid for stray animals found in the
bands. The Colorado Live Stock Asso-
citation has paid fifteen dollars a head
for all such horses and they are then
turned over to the owners upon the re
payment of this money. The Offering
VI UIlS reward DCCilll5 u uBCcSNlUN, DG-
cause if there is one trick wild horse
knows better than another and will
always, play it is to coax off with him
into a career of perpetual truancy
every animal of his class he chances to
find. The wild horse of ColoradosSlA
ticularly has always been ii superior
animal in point of appearance, fleet
ness, and endurance to those running
in Texas or on the ranges farther north.
Why this is Sc is not uneXplainable,
but it is fact that in the bands along
the Platte and Republican rivers the
animals have always been found lar
ger and better, more particularly for
saddle use. There are in Denver now
a number of attractive saddle horses,
highly priced by their owners, that
but three or four years ago roamed at
their own sweet will among the succu-
lent pasturage of Eastern Colorado
and knew neither bit nor spur.-CAi-
caJo Times.