Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1894-04-06
ELKO, NEVADA, FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1894
KEPT UP WITH THE HOUNDS.
A PennsyfySnia Steer With = Turn for
speed and Fence jumping.

Speed and Fence Jumping.
F. White, who lives on the highlands
of Elkland township, Lacka wanna
county, owns four fox hounds and a
Devonshire steer named Pete, says the
Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. The
steer became attached to the hounds
when he was cali, and in the follow
ing fall he got in the notion of run
ming and believing after them when
ever Mr. White started the pack on q
fox chase. Pete would race behind the
hounds till fence stopped him, and
there. lie. would stand and low till the
pack went out out of sight, over the
hills, :whep he trotted back to the barn
yard and acted as if he was lonesome
till the hounds returned. The other
day Mr, White put three hounds on a
foN's track in swalc on his place. He
stole out of the back way with the
dogs, and Pete, who Was?.in: the barn
yard when the hounds gave tongue.
leaped over the fence in a jiffy, flew
down the road, sprang over a stone
wall and dashed after the baying
brutes before they had run the fox five
minutes. The dogs drove the fox into
q swamp; whcreythe steer couldn't go.
and Pete galloped around the edge till
Reynard led the hounds to. the,upland,
when he made the snow fly with his
hoofs and quickly joined the dogs.
Within an hour the hounds made the
pace SO hot for the fox that he began
to play tricks o1 them to throw
them off the scent. He ran on t.
a bridge and then lcaped off the
end; but he didn't fool the dogs there.
and they continued. to gain on him.
Then he took spuEt ON O walE ant
down at Charles Orani,s farm he scootet
through the front yard, ran over a pile
Of cordwood and l., started across, q
meadow, with Grams farm dog in hot
pursuit. The ;houpds.s and the steer
were not far behind when.the fox anG
dog had got to'tho meadow fence, anC
in the adjoining field the former gained
on them fast Grams dog was yelpin:,
furiously and logging it at the top of
his speed when the steer gave a below
and ran past the hounds. He had
caught sight of Oram's dog, and he
seemed to know chat the yelping cur
had no business in the chase, for he
plunged at it with lowered head. ran
IT off the truck, and drove it to the
ASAN>' "iSAS pS Ou
just as it was trying to escape between
the rails. The steer gored the dog to
death in n hurry, when he flung the
carcass from his horns and ran like
wildfre toward TIE hounds in the next
field. BY that time the fox was jaded
and almost as soon as the steer haA
caught up to the hounds the latte,
ovcrbnulcd tired Reynard and shool
him to death. Then the steer begnr
to below. and when Mr.. White reached
the spot the hounds. had torn the fox's
hide into strips, while the steer looked
on contentedlY. -
BUFFALO BILL has just bought &c.
600 residence in North Platte, Neb.,
very near the spot where he Killed his
first Indian. and there he intends to
spend the rest of his life.
CLARENCE KING, formerly director of
the United States geological survey.
well known as q man of science and of
letters and conspicuous in the social
and club life of New York and New
port, has become insane and has been
sent to an asylum.
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