Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-04-19
IhE PANTHER LOOSE.
And He Creates q Deal of Excitement
for Donald Buros.

Donald Burns travelled for fifteen
years with Barnums circus, says the
Y. Y. World. He now has an estao-
lishment here from which he supplies
animals to circuses and menagerles.
and has in stock particularly large
and ferocious panther.
When Burns reached his store at
7:30 a. NJ. yesterday. John Miller, an
employe. was standing outside.
On. Mr.. Burns, the panther Is
loosein he cried.
We'll. we'll have to get him back in
the cage" said the old animal trainer.
You get me rope"
With piece of clothesline arranged
with running moose in one end Burns
entered the store. The panther sat on
TOP of his cage licking his paws. With
a quick movement Burns threw the
lasso. 1t missed. and the panther
made leap for the trainer, who
stepped out and closed the door.
Peering through a window Burns
saw the panther making a round OF
the place. soaring the other animals
terribly. He squeezed lis paw be-
tween the iron bars of cages and shook
them. A little monkey seized the
paw. He lived about Two minutes.
The blood on the panther's paws infu-
rated him. He began war-dance in
the center of the room and the other
animals howled.
Finally he went back to the top of
his cage and Burns decided to make
apother effort to lasso him.
Now. when | yell you open the
door," he said to Miller. Then grab
the end of the rope and pull with me
when tell you to-
The door was opened softly again,
and Mr.. Burns threw the lasso. When
the animal saw the rope coming he
threw up his left paw and the moose
dropped over his head and paw.
John. John. open the door" yelled
Burns. I've got him; come and help
me-
But Johns courage failed him, and
despite Burns yells for help no one
went to his assistance. A crowd gath
cred around the door. but no one
entered. Miller rushed about on the
outside like crazy man.
When | found that Miller would
not come in.n said Mr.. Burns yester-
day, Il braced myself for the struggle
that knew was coming. The animal
was a year old and had just been
brought from India.
Il figured on his pulling from me.
like all panthers. but the lasSo caught
under the shoulder, and so he didn't
feel it so much around the neck
pulled hard and strong and so did the
panther for moment or. Two. but in
the twinkling of an eye he seemed to
shrink his body and slipped out of the
moose. / picked up an iron floor
scraper and jumped aside as soon as
he leaped for me. tried to hit the
beast with the scraper, but missed
him. Then we fenced around the
room. the panther leaping for me and
l endeavoring to hit him. seized a
box of pepper and tried TO throw some
into his eyes, but | couldn't connect.
had dog upstairs and | kept calling
him. but he was tightly chained
Fully fifteen minutes passed in this
way. The cages. barrels and Other
distractions in the room served to
protect me. When the panther jumped
l would dodge behind one of these. ma
he would go over my head. Finally |
got paper-iile from the desk. 1t was
only little piece of pointed iron wire,
about six inches long but felt a Bat
stronger when | got that in my hands.
''Then | missed nv footing in trying
to prod the brute, and he was on me
in second. He caught me in the arm
above the elbow. | jabbed the spindle
into his side and he let 90 and leaped
to the other end of tue room. The
blood spurted out of the hole | made
10 his side.
I'VE came together again, and be-
fore we separated l. was bitten in sew
eral places. Luckily for me the pam
Their was not AN old~one. aud the teeth
were not long. They were long
enough to tear through the flesh terri
bly,. though.
Il was getting weak from loss of
blood when policeman from the Oak
street station. opened the door and
closed. it quickly l. had the panther
by the throat, but be was working out
of my grasp. | yelled again for help,
and two ongshorenen came to my
rescue. They beat. the panther off,
and with poles handed in from the out
side we drove the beast into his cage
again. -
MIR. Burns WIS badly !acerated about
the body. aud his face. too. showed
marks of the desperate struggle.
Miller is out of a Job. :