The morning call., 1891-04-27
TWO BIS0NS Welded.
Ben Harrison's Nuptials Solem-
nized at the Park.
Arrival of the Bride Yesterday From Her
Home on the Wyoming Desert-Biny
Bunker Badly Tilted.

D6HJdHllu hdlliSOu, bu6 SOFtItlSU AUTO
crat of Golden Gate Park, is no longer a
bachelor. His club life is over, his latch
key is in the custody of his spouse, and he
will hereafter be required to keep regular
and early hours. The name ''Ben Harrison.
the Buffalo, has been replaced by the cog
nomen, Ben Harrison, the Benedict" and
all the animal occupants of the park have
made themselves merry on the occasion of
q bison wedding.
The marriage was Solemnized yesterday
morning in Ben Harrison's Enclosure, Cap
tain S. NJ. Thompson, city police officer
detailed for duty at The park and appointed
Captain of the Park Police by the Park
Commissioners. conducting the wedding
ceremonies with his accustomed ease and
dignity.
The buffalo bride is a lady with q history,
which Captain Thompson, the envoy ap-
pointed by the Commissioners to escort the
Princess Bison from her Wyoming home,
related yesterday to a CALL reporter, and he
did not fail to embellish it with all the ex-
citing details that his modest Imagination
would permit.
THoMPsoN's YARN
Captain Thompson lett San Francisco on
the 14th inst, arriving at Rock Springs,
Wyo.. two days later There had been, I'M
fortunately, some misunderstanding as to
the ownership of the buffalo COW, for which
the Park Commissioners agr eed to pay $500,
free on board the cars. The man with whom
the bargain was made paid Abe Luman,
the acknowledged owner, $3.50 for the cow
and then disappeared. leaving word for Cap
tain Thompson that the animal was about
fourteen miles away.
Accordingly the Captain, accompanied by
| Luman, who volunteered his services, started
| on horseback to scour the Red Desert in
| search OF the prize. Instead of fourteen
miles away, the Captain and his companion
| rode eighty miles before the COW was found,
| at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, between
| Pacific Creek and the Little Sandy River.
| The weather was bitterly cold, snow and
rain falling alternately, and, although able
| to carry only pair of blankets. the Captain
| is none the worse for his trip and his ex-
| posture to wind and sleet.
The buffalo was found with six of Lu-
| mans beef cattle, and thereon hangs an in-
teresting circumstance. In 1885, when the
| buffalo was a calf her mother was killed,
and she was reared by Durham cow apart
| from the herd OF buffalo. This probably de-
| veioped in her heart a bovine affection. for
| every year her maternal instinct was mani
! tested by her rearing and caring for Dur
| ham calf. Every spring another calf, de-
serted or lost by its own mother, was added
to her little family, which she protected ana
preserved intact
When found she could not be separated
from her adopted children, and, after
lassoing her with no little difficulty her
eaptoTS were obliged TO drive the entire
band to Rock Springs before the separation
could be effected.
In 1886 party of ERglishmen travelling
on horseback over the desert to the J o.
semitic lost a bell made of copper and sill
yer. Tins was appropriated by one of Luz
mans cowboys, who attached ii 10 the neck
of the baby buffalo. She had worn the
| ornament ever since, but when Captain
Thompson found her the tongue was almost
worn away by long usage. but with the un-
| varying feminine instinct she still chung to
her jewelry, or rather the bauble chung to
| her. After much trouble Captain ThOmp-
| son succeeded in procuring a box s feet
| long, 6 high and wide. made Of strong
tmbers, ryeted with iron rods and bolts,
| and with Stats across the top, the sides
being padded with hay. Into this reosp-
tacle for her transportation the captive
buffalo was with difficulty persuaded to
enter, but not before her escort received
many kicks and bruises, for my lady has
| temper not remarkable for mildness or
gentleness. The bUX was placed in fruit
car ana brought to Ogden by the Union
Pacific,
ARRIVED YESTERDAY.
Oakland was reached yesterday morning
at 6:l0 o'clock and the car transported
Captain Thompson delivered the box with
its contents OF buffalo at the Enclosure at u
O'clock, the hour fixed by the Commissioners
for the marriage ceremony, who with great
diplomacy had tuned Ben Harriaon's nup-
tlaiS so that they should De c0ntempOraneous
with the visit of the bridegroo ms distin-
guished nameSake and godfather.
When the box was orened the bride
rushed out with bound and a joyous snort
and Immediately proceeded to make things
-, hi in
had detailed Officers Bennett, Eaton, Ken
nedy, Dearborn and Dobbin to assist him.
and it seemed at first as if their help would
be necessary to prevent a riot.
After rushing wildly around the Enclosure
for few Minutes, however, the arrival of
his bride was announced TO Ben Harrison.
who CALAMITY ran out TO meet her, and the
appearance OF her future lord and master
Gained her tumultous feelings. Both bride
and groom appeared perfectly happy, and
the crowd left them to spend their honey
moon among the trees of the inelosure.
Ben, who has always disdained to notice
the Galloway COW who has been in the In-
closure for two months, has attained his
sixth year, while Mrs. Harrison will cele-
brate her fifth birthday next month. The
latter weighs 1905 pounds and is we'll grown.
BUNKER OUT IN THE COLD.
Billy Bunker, alias 'No. 6 Hat" the
second buffalo bull, who is only Is months
old, and considered by his guardians. the
Park Commissioners, too young TO enter
the matrimonial state, is nevertheless quite
infatuated with the little black Galloway,
whom Ben Harrison Tilted, and the COW
seems to reciprocate the attachment. A
second wedding is among the probabilities
OF the near future.
Some enviouS persons say that the true
version of Officer TIL ompson's romance is
that the buffalo COW was found in a corral,
placed in a box and shipped to this city, ar
irving yesterday minus much skin and hair
and one horn. These same critics declare
that the coolest thing Thompson encoun-
tered during his absence was his own nerve
as a relater of buffalo stories.