The herald., 1895-08-25
FIESTA DE- CRIPPLE CREEK
First Day of the Carnival a
Great Success
SPANISH BULL FIGHT HAD
Full Corps of Genuine BanderiIIer0s and
Picad0rs
Maddened Animals Dispatched by capador
With All the Graceful Swordsman-
ship Known to the Sport
Associated Press Special Wire

Associated Press Special Wire
CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo. Aug. a.
The first day of La Fiesta de Cripple Creek
has passed. success in svery detail. The
programme was carried out and the bull
fight was all that had been omised-a
fight to the finish in true Mexican style.
Captain Cheche and the charming Chivel-
Ia, famed in old Mexican bull fights, were
the principals in the contest. Arizona
Charlie was there and three capadorss,
who fight with the red cloth, ana the
banderlleros. who throw the sharp spears
into the neck, and the picadors. who
fight with long spears on horseback, and
the bull was there and met his death in
the heroic fashion that has characterized
the bull fight of Spain for centuries past.
1t was the first bull that has died in the
arena in the United States at the hands
of the trained gladiator. A bull pen 200
feet in diameter, circular IN form and
strongly barricaded, forms the arena ut
Gillette and surmounting the whole an
immense amphitheatvr, seating from 5000
to 10000 people. At side entrance a
bull was admitted and plunged madly
into the ring. He was met by the plea
dors on horseback and guaded to desper-
alton with the spears. Then capador
taunted red flag in the face OF the bull
and he would plunge at the man, who
would only escape being gored by step
ping gracefully aside or making q swift
run for one of the esca apes. Once or twice
1t seemed that the man would certainly
meet his death, SO narrowly they es-
capped the maddened animal. The horse
men, 1t seemed, were IN Just as immi-
nent peril. but it was when the BAN
derillo stuck the festooned arrows in the
bulls neck that the animal became thor
oughly enrageu.
Then Cheche, whose proper name is
Jose Morervo. armed with a sword, came
forward to do battle single-handed with
the bovine. The Spainard faced the bull
and dared him to battle.
The bull would lunge at the scarlet
mantle but Cheche was out of the way.
Finally by blow aimed for the heart
and the bull was badly but not fatally
wounded in the shoulder. The battle be-
tween man and beast waged hotly and it
was only when well-aimed stab on top
of the neck and between the ears of the
bull, that the spinal cord was reached
and the bull fell and with a few con-
vulsive groans died.
A second ull was introduced and the
fight was fairy under way when Sheriff
Bowers and his deputies arrived ana
placed Wolfe the chief promoter of the
whole affair. under arrest, with all parti-
cipants in the fight, on the charge OF
cruelty to animals. and the fight was
stopped. The parties arrested promptly
PAID the fine imposed and the same diff
Guilty will be encountered in the course of
tomorrow's sport, but it is the general
impression that the officers have been
bluffed out ana that the fights will 60 on
the following days.
Adjutant- General Moses. who has just
arrived, says the power OF the militia is
to be sumomned to stop the bull fights,
but it is not thought. .he state authorities
will be on hand in time to interfere with
the programme tomorrow, which will be
the biggest day ever known to the sport
ing world in the United States,