The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-11-20
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Tiger jacks Trasss story OF Marvel
Gus Escape,

Tiger Jacks irncst Story OF mArFei-
Gus Escape.
Speaking Of Liars. 4" said the western
Kansas man. as he knocked The ashes
out Of his pipe and looked at the real
estate agent out OF the corner " his
eye, according to the Kansas Cityl Jour
nal, Il think western Kansas car bhow
up some rs rare specimens as Ever
set eyes on. Now. there was old John
s. I'll not give his fun name. because
the old man still lives out somewhere
near Klowa. and u he was TO get In
print aa a noted liar he might get hot
When read an account Of Speaker
BIZ Streets speech up IN Jewell ooun-
~ al an old settlers picnic where he
said that he had stood on a knoll and
seen dense. moving herd OF buffalo
as far as the eye could reach, some
way Il brought old John TO mind.
when ! FIRST struck the short-grasf
country old John was there. lie got
me c)rnsred one day and was 90 tick
led to get fresh victim that he hardly
stopped even 10 take drink. until be
had stuffed me 80 full that ! was par
TALLY paralyzed for a month afterward.
lie gave me 70 understand that for
/ years before he came 10 Kansas he was
one OF the most dreaded deEpcradoes
and Indian killers that ever roamcd
through the Rocky mountains.
learned afterward that he wouldn't
fight a cat and actually trombled with
fear whenever his hatchet-faced wife
turned loose on him with her tongue.
but when ! FIRST met him his blood
thirsty talk fairly made By blood run
cold
lie informed me that he was known
far and vide through the mountaing
as Tiger Jack. the terror OF tho
Rockies But was going 10 speak Of
his buffalo story. asked him ono
day. Just 70 bring him out. II he ever
got into any tight place whea he was
hunting buffalo. oh. / We been In
places that ! suppose most follers
would call ;ickllsh.' be replied. 'bu,
never any place that ratified Tiger
Jack but once, and that time own ]
Z was a little worried
- was hunt!n buffalo down the
+ Medicine valley along In 20. Tho
. country was just alive with the crit.
, tiers and | was knockln' EN- right ant
! left. when all Al once somethln' start.
Z ed a stampede. and three or four mil
A. lion buffalo came rushln down the val
p ley. Just maxim the ground shake Al
{ they come ! seen az once that woult
! have to get out Of there or be run over
: but my pony was all tagged out and th'
d herd kept gaining on him at ever!
e jump. saw that them buffalo was 70
a In 10 run that pony down and tina
y something had 10 be done and don
2 quick. Well. sir seen that there wa
q just one thing 10 do waited TN N
4 head buffalo was right on my pony
e flank and then made a jump and land
IS ed right on that buiialo's hump.
n Then. sir, just went jumpln' fror
d one back Of one buffalo TO another an
p shootln' az Went-thought mayb,
IL you know. that could scatter the her
IL aud get chance 10 get down to N
d ground. Well. sir. when struck N
Ie rear end Of that stampede I was onl
d mile from home. went out N
10 next day and measured the distanS
n from where jumped from my pony /
m where hit the ground and found Ia
=. travelled on the backs Of buffalo Il
- six miles and a quarter, I'll tell 70
? honestly. mister, think Il was a lit
se the closest shave ! ever had"