Arizona weekly citizen., 1896-02-08
UNNAMED BULLS.
From the Famous Wooded Ranch OF
Samalayuc to do Battle at the
Efstic Carnival.

FL PAso, Texas, January 90, 1896.
Tenor Jose de Moreno and his troup
OF Spanish bull fighters from Madrid,
Spain, will arrive in Jusrez on Tuesday.
Moreno comes to Mexico under the con-
tract 10 Senior A. N. Daguerra, the bull
fighting concesslouaire for the state OF
Chihuahua. His contract calls for five
days bull fighting at $1,000 per day, out
of which the Spanish premier has to pay
his five assistants. Despite the fact
that Mexico is border and country, and
that the bull-fghting sport has been Il
pastime here for two hundred years and
more there are very few Americans who
know anything Of the bloody engage
ments between man and brute. The
fights that are billed as part and parcel
of the fistic carnival will be brought eff
Just across the Rio Grande in the arena
at Juarez. Twenty wild bulls have been
captured for the fiesta, and half that
numbe will be added before the bugle
call on the initial day to be held as sub
stitutes. The bulls have been gotten
from the Ssmalsyuca bull rancho, vast
wooden estate near Ojo Caliente, Mex.
The methop of corrslling these beasts is
rather an interesting one. A herd of
fifteen or twenty tame cattle is driven
through some of the more remote
quarters of the rancho, guided by half
a dozen ranchmen. Off into the fsst-
mess of the reservation, generally 10 the
most thickly wooded portions, the tame
herd is driven. AS soon as a wild bull
is espied, the ranchmen round the animal
to, and drive him in among the tame
herd. Here the wild one will REMAIN,
following along without further etten-
ton from the men making the roundup.
The herd is then continued on, until
sufficient plumber has been secured.
Then with it's unt8med acquisitions, the
herd is driven to a corral, the wild
ones boxed up and shipped, and never
again turned loose until called into the
ring On the frontier four fights con-
stitute days sport. -Four bulls, in as
many cases. with sliding doors, are then
arranged alongside the apertures that
lead into the pit, and turned loose as
wanted. 1t generally takes from one
and one half to two hours for four fights
according to the gameness Of the bulls
IL bull ia fainthearned and refuses TO
De goaded on to battle, the time for the
struggle is considerably heightened. A
good, game bull, however, one that will
FIGHT, facilitates the action greatly, and
in doing so, OF course, curtRils bis own
existence. Senior Daguerre, who hos
the bull fighting privilege for all the
territory in the state OF chihuahua,
was recently severely reprimanded by |
order of President Disz for inadvertent- |
ly permitting cowardly bulls to engage |
in battle A recent order from the City |
of Mexico describes just what sort OF |
animals shall be used iu the fights.
The beasts must be obtained from |
stated quarters OF the republic, at dis
tances varying from 100 to 800 miles
from tame or domesticeted herds.
This is done to insure the proper
amount of viciousness. The patron of
bull fighting in Mexico insists that be
gets fight for his money; he will howl
and kick at any effort TO hoist off tame
bull on him. No art or science is essen
tisl in killing the latter, while the wild
species offer ample room for skill and
daring. The troup headed by fSe1or de
Moreno, is made up of five assistants
and female banderilla, Seiora, de
M LORENZO, a niece of the PRINCIPAL. The
are Capltaine Frailan Perez
,Chatillo), Antonio Soils (Salitosr Ra-
mon MARQUEE, Manuel Ramos (Ramitos)
and Ramon Canigneral (El Campenero.)
These are all considered the most ex
pert in Spain, and command big salaries.
The contract with the troup calls for
sll expenses from Madrid TO Mexico and
pack. The bull fights will begin at 3
o'clock on the afternoon OF the Maher
battle, which will be in the
forenoon and continue daily until the
asst man fight-between Jimmy Barry
and Johnny Murphy-is pulled off. In
brief, the order Of a bull fight is ss fol-
ows:
]-Entrance Of troup into ring and
of judges.
2-Assigment of position about the
ing by the captain.
3-EntraDce OF picadores.
4-Eutrance Of banderillas.
5-Entrance of bull.
6-Thrust of the sword by the captain
# the troup.
Sullivan Improving.
SPRINGFIELD, Ills, Jan. 3l-John l..
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