The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-11-29

"pouI the yards and ranci,
buildings, often making ingenious and
convenient contrivances.
AT that time many watering places
We're drying up, and we had hard wort,
to keep the cattle near drink and feed
Sometimes Marsley and the -i,ers
would be away "a hours, and wer, sci.
dom at the ranch by daylight. Mean
time young Medby entered on a plan of
his own for bringing water to the build.
ings. Heretofore it had flowed away at
several hundred feet distance and was
otten muddied near the ranch by ami
mails rushing for drink. 1t came from
stream that fell from high plateau
back OF the ranch buildings and it
rushed down very swiftly.
Medby made use of some ready-made
pipe-the property of bankrupt and
vanished hydraulic mining company
which had been left at the rahch two
years before. BY getting little help
from the cook, the only other man in
camp, he extended these pipes up the
hill and led strong stream of clear
water to a watering trough near the
yards.
About rs feet of good rubber hose had
also belonged to the mining company.
Attaching this to the lower and smaller
end of his pipe, he could send stream
OF water a hundred feet from the end OF
the hose.
Finally, to the end of the hose he
fastened an old adjustable nozzle, with
which he could increase or diminish the
size of the stream, that flew, in any case,
with terrific force. The pressure would
soon have burst the hose had not Mcdby
wrapped it with strips of fresh, we'll
stretched rawhide, making it almost as
strong as the iron pipe, yet leaving it
flexible.
In the latter part of August. when
the "waterworks" had progressed thus
far, Marsley and 1 were riding together
about three miles from the ranch, s, men
we encountered Satan. The bull had
been rather quiet of late, though he still
held aloof from other cattle. Now he
was lying down. He glared sullen!y at
us, but did not rise. though we rode al
most beside him.
maybe he's hurt" said Marsley. and
dismounted to ascertain. Instantly
Satan jumped up and charged viciously.
Marsley was separated from his own
horse, but, fortunately, he could leap
up behind me, and SO escaped.
The bull did not return to the chlrgc.
Had he attacked anyone else so savage
iy. l think Marsley would have killed
him at once; but he disliked to let it APP
pear that lie was at all afraid-as he was
not. Moreover, the animal was valu-
able, and we hoped that he would be-
come docile with cool weather.
II would give months wages to any
one who would cure that brute without
injuring him." he said to me when he
had remounted his own horse. But I
am afraid that we cannot tolerate him
much longer"
We returned to the ranch at about
shutdown and found Satan shut up in
one of the yards, believing and paw ing.
He had attacked some of the boye as
they returned from the days ride.
They "roped" him, but he broke loose
and charged them again. In the tus-
sic one pony was badly famed and one
cowboy had narrow escape.
After supper it was too dark to exc
cute Satan, but Marsley determined to
have it done in the morning. TWAS not
safe to keep him about.
But in the morning Medby diverted
us by showing off the waterworks. He
sent a cracking stream of water high
nto the air, but in trying to shift it the
rose overpowered him and tossed him
pack against the corral fence. The
stream caught two of the cowboys
nearly knocked them off their saddles,
hen crashed through window,
lrenching the cook and making great
latter of tin dishes.
All but the drenched men laughed |
heartily at this. These laughed, too,
when Ike Storms and tried to capture
he whirling thing, which twisted
bout like an immense boa constructor,
nd tossed us aside drenched and be-
,pattered. Breakfast and good
auah made several of the men inter-
EIDE for Satan, and it was decided to
i've him respite, but keep him cor
allied. Medby was at work all the rest
{ that day weighing the hose, so that
le could easily control the nozzle.
The next day l came to the ranch
about the middle of the aft
rnoon. The air was sultry, and there
,as u peculiar haze in the sky. Satan
yas believing ominously. A bunch OF
resh saddle horses, brought in by
torn during the forenoon, were NOV
lg about uneasily in another yard.
torn. Medby, the cook and were the
nly men about the place.