The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-11-30
DICK. rnEn nUsco STEER. IS DEAD
The End of a Famous Bunco Animal in the
 Chicago Stock Yards.

The End of Famous Buneo Animal in the Chicago Stock Yards.
 From the Chicago Daily Tribune.l
 Dick" the bunco steer at Phil Ar
 mours yards, got too lazy for his job and was led to the slaughtering pen just like the animals he had decoyed before. The deceitful old beast Is dress cd beef now. Dick was a big. fat, brown steer that had winnig ways and cold. treacherous heart Many and many are the conading country yearl- ipgs and heifers Dick has led up to the butchers steel hammer.
 Probably there never was beef'crit- ter" that had so wide celebrity as Dick. Every visitor who went to see how the packing houses work had to have q look at this steer. Foreign princes and pretty summer girls have marvelled at the skill and diplomacy with which he steered the unsuspicious | range cattle to the place Of death. Dicks picture has been printed in the papers many a time and columns have been written about the beasts crafty tricks. Dick was just as much one of the sights of the town as the Masonic temple or the Lake Shore drive or Po- 1 liceman Steve Rowan. This is the way the creature got Its notoriety:
 When the long horns from Texas and the short horns from Missouri come into the stock yards and are unloaded they are naturally eXasperated over their rough trip and are full of sus- pIciop. The result is they are rebel lious. especially in the matter of going into chutes. Now unless steer goes into one of the chutes in the packing house 1t cannot have it's throat cut, and throat cutting is the aim and ob- ject of their coming to Chicago. So it is necessary to have a decoy steer, crafty old beast, that can get the conf- dence of the rural beasts and lure them on to death and destruction.
 Many years ago Dick arrived at the yards, and being beast of more than usually sagacious appearance was picked out for the work. Dick was care fully trained in the art of walking up chute at the head of bunch of cat tie and then quietly lodging to one side, leaving the bunch to walk on to the place where the hammers swing. After years of practice the big steer had grown expert at his treacherous work. Dick would saunter down into pen full of new and unsophisticated cattle and scrape an acquaintance with two or three of them. Then the wicked brute would begin to look wise and talk knowingly about the racy scenes to be seen in the big, white house house over beyond the fence. When Dick offered to lead the way there was a grand stampede to follow. Up the gangway went Dick, and after him clattered the greenhorns. But just before the bunch got sight of the big butchers waiting inside Dick would unostentiously shy off through side passage and leave his victims to transact business with MT. Armour's men.
 So Dick grew famous. But like many other famous characters he grew puffed up with pride, got lazy, and began to Hay down on the job." It got to be so easy this thing of leading wide-eyed country cattle up into the chute, that Dick didn't seem to care whether he worked for his feed or not MT. Armour grew displeased with his apathy. He does not like to have his employees loaf on their jobs. So orders were issued concerning Dick One day last week the wise old rogue was leading the usual bunch up the gangway, but when he got to the usual jumping off place there was none there. Dick had to go on with the herd. Before long he had been converted into dressed beef. Now that Dick has suffered the same fate as his thousands of dupes his work all devolves on his former partner known to the butchers as Phil"