People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-04-23
A Thrilling Experience.

nate men IN His saction NJ tho state
arrived - np, oi,,. , dsv,r two aco
from the pau}a,dle If Texas This
man is Finest r. Walker. formerly of
Omaha N,lr..l,a Mr. Walker is a
mechanic If no mean ability and had
hepn in ,Ia T. . railroad comnanv's
emplov for = number # wears prior to
Juy ofig4 Az ,har time he was let
out of the comD9uv's service. having
expressed hi, ,,mrathv with the A.
r L. strikers q little TOO freely. and
was black 5.raa. Being Of an IDde-
pen lent d,>nosir;on. Mr.. Walker took
his wife aud bow with him to Carson
county, Tezs,. and started a new life.
farming. Last Saturday he lett his
wife and child with a neighbor family
and started on foot to seek employ-
ment, having been literally starved
out in his farming venture BEING
sixty miles or more from Panhandle
the nearest railroad pOint, he had to
walk, and it was while making this
trip that he met with a most thrilling
experience, We will tell Of it in hi.
own words:
II left home on the morning of the
18th of April for Panhandle. and as
the first house was twenty-five miles
away aimed to stay there over night
and make The balance of the distance
the following day. Unfortunately,
TOOK the wrong road, aud when night
came found myself alone in the great
Panhandle Of Texas, without provi-
sion and suffering for wafer. To add
to my discomfort the wind, which
had been blowing strong aud steady
from the south all day, became a
perfect gale and at about 10 O'Clock
the rain, which had been so long
threatening cane down 10 torrents,
drenching NE to the skin and chilling
me nearly To death. All night long l
wandered aimlesSly along, only trying
TO keep from chilling to death. and
when daylight at last came | headed
in an easterly direction. About noon
l came across bunch Of some two or
three hundred head Of cattle, and al
though | tried to 90 around them
without soaring them up they con-
tinued 10 drift on some 500 Yards in
advance of me, until finally coming
to the edge o. the burnt plains they
stopped, and after milling for a few
seconds one of them started toward
me on the trOt; then two or three
started, ard in less time than it,
takes TO tell it the whole bunch was
on the stampede right toward me.
"FOr a moment was almost par
alyzed by the danger in which | found
myself. 7 knew if was of M uSa IN
ran from them and nv first imnrlso
was TO lie down fiat nm the nlaip
r hoping that thew would either inmr|
or divide and mass me nv Suddenly
the Thought I needed the most came
and acting nromptlv 7 took nv hat
in one hand and stick in the other
and started toward them INITIATING
as near as I could a Sioux Indian
yocally, Randy we neared nach
other, and I was inst wondering
whether any one would find me hoforo
the COYOTES had me cleaned nm whom
7 noticed the leaders waver Givinr
two or three terrific wells kent ricbt
on. and as I came in throwing die.
lance. threw the stick as hard &c 7
could STRIKING ono of than, oono,,
the horns With . holIow bo o+onnod
brinoino tho whole hnnob 60 . stnn5
still and in dashed O+riI,inr r;.r.
and left with NV hot For tna ~
thraa seconds tbor stooa thi, .
mont. and then tGov wbooIna o ~ oa
and in another instant 7 hod tha,,s
the dead ctamnodo owon tno-, 'rUD, W
fornd r,rsoIr n,n,to. 80 81, ~ ., NV a"0
can honestly say That the minute
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