Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-12-12
THE BIG BULL THAT RUNS
WILD IN CALIFORNIA.


He Goes Through Corral as Though
ItWere Paper-His Terrible Tussle
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eiils "So ou'sioo .lie eiepni 'ilU az" i".dia
ceros equal IN SIZE tne i..ily ue'ei y..
tnelupers ol tne DOWNS iainiiy. ~
10" o. them are granted enc oppoiI'un'Vy
u attaining iuii size' ~ tney e''hel ~
10 the pu,cher shop, wheh ehrse ol io gu
years o'o' OF are trallsl r,iee' y w
hhiie from the aeep voice'' "i,o p,o''o
uecked mead OF tne trlpe lhtp 'he piplnS
OK ana SET 10 Dragging loSs " niis
or puiiing the plow. Even tne KING oi
the nero 1als vlclm TO tne cahheo
corned beef market before his time, ana
isrepiaced oy youngerand more vigorous
b:ood. Perhaps the finest specimen Oh
ms race on tins continent is an
immense blue bull that roams at
large over the Madeline Plans
and has for y ears been the dread
OF the herdsmen, who have to gather
cattle twice a year IN that country
Madeline Plains is high table land on
the eastern slope OF the Sierra Nevadas,
extending from Honey Valley nearly to
Goose Lake, devoted to the cattle and
horse business almost exclusively.
Farms are few and far between, and
thus beast had abundant freedom to de-
velop. lie escaped the branding iron
and knife While youngster, and now
has passed entirely beyond the control
OF the methods and appliances OF the
cowboy S art. NO corral Will hold him,
and dozen horsemen could not handle
him, even II they could get their ropes
on HIM. lie is, from all reports, fully
as large as any OF the ANIMALS that are
them, his deve opment is superb. While
their ten acre pastures gave them room
to feed, his range was over whole coun-
tries, and his action IS like that OF a
deer or race horse compared with
theirs. He has been heard OF IN widely
separated parts of the country. DR..
PATTERSON, OF Cedarville, says he broke
INTO a Held IN surprise valley one night
and ate up a whole crop OF su9ar-cane.
Ed. Ferris, at Honey Lake, had him,
with lot OF beef cattle, IN corral once,
but he walked through 1T as If it was
made OF old newspapers. Lew Clark
got rope over one horn and his nose,
but the steer was walking away with
horse and rider SO fast that he had to
let go ana lose his line. Allen Bragg
saw him once IN Dixie Valley, and Sen
ator Fred Cox on Plt River.
When the mountains are showed
under his Lordsh1p betakes himself to
the rich bunch grass OF Nevada, and
graces the ranges OF Louis Dean and
Ward Brothers with his presence, and
has been seen by Colonel q. II. 81
hardin S vaqueros as far east as Quinn
hlver. There seems TO be nothing IN
the country that he fears, and neither
man nor animal can tame HIM. lie has
peen shot at often, but his thick skull
sheds bullets like a ducks back does
nail, and unless chance shot reaches
ms heart ne IS pretty sure to die OF old
age. John Fleckensteln declares that
he saw nun and old .Clubfoot, the gl-
gantc grizzly come togetner IN Sardlne
Nal.ey lew years ago, which must
have been something to behold. They
nad poth been lnvlnclb.e up to that
hour, ana each was ready Tor anything
that came before HIM. The bull seemed
TO get the flrst scent OF an enemy, and
PECAN 10 paw the ground and below.
old Clubloot accept q the challenge,
ana marched proudly out into the open
and waited Tor the charge which came
plentI, soon. He reared up on his
haunches and received his enemy with q
biow on the de OF the head that re-
sounded like note from a drum, but
the momentum OF the flying animal