The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-07

and a Mexican Hon. Most people would
think that such q sight would have
scared the peccartes. but II did nothing
| OF the sort. On the contrary. the bears
and the non began TO display signs OF
| uneasIness. The bears quickly climbed
TO the ton Of the tree stump 10 which
they were chained n the lion squatted
and showed its teeth.
Betting was about even. Broncos.
saddles. brides. Winchesters and cow
boy possessions OF All sorts went up
| covered with piles Of traps. The pee
| carries didn't wall. but with a general
squeak OF rage charged their adver-
saries. Squads of something like equal
numbers attacked each bear and lion.
and then followed q hight TO the death.
The bears stood with all four feet on
each stump. and as the peccaries
spranx at them, they struck right and
left. knocking the pugnacious brutes
wards away. Half a dozen peccaries
had received severe injuries from the
claws and blows. and II begin to look
like a win-out for the bears. when sud
denly two of the wild hogs sprang up
behind one OF the bears while his at
teution was attracted in front. and In
a second they had severely nipped him
In the rear. Turning too quickly the
bear slipped and fell from his pedestal.
In a second there was a mass of red
dish brown bristles and bear fur mixed
inextricably at the foot OF the stump,
rolling. tumbIing. grunting and squeak
ing with rage and pain. Bruin man.
aged 10 regain his fee, once. and en-
deayored to get back on the stump. but
the o~eccaries would have none of 1t.
They charged him In front. ripped him
In the sides and rear. and he fell back
into the writhing mass. A minute more
and one rear was a ~lifeless. shapeless
mass, with the yellow-brown fiends rip
ming his hide into ribbons and cracking
his bones like pieces of glass.
While this vas going on the remain
ing bears and the lion had their paws
and jaws full of business. The bears
still safely perched on their respective
stumps. but were kept busy knocking
of the peccaries which were doing their
level best to dislodge them. Half n
dozen were lying on their backs, dead.
while other were jumping o
wounded, yet mad and u~nconquerable
as ever: while the bears themselves
had not escaped scot free. A number
OF scarlet spots on their black hair
showed where the peccaries had left
imprints OF their scimetar-like tusks.
One of the peccaries caught a grip on
the headquarters Of one of the bears
and hung on like grim death. The
bears foothold was lost and he Tell
squarely into the jaws of the swapping
mob below. Then followed another bat
tie on the ground, with the bear under
meath and the wild hogs. in a yellow
bank above. swapping and struggling
to get at their enemy. The bear began
to work his him feet and bodies of Wild
hogs began to fly upward n outward.
ripped from end TO end by the claws
OF the bear. The bear at last got on
his feet and backed up against the
stump. He sat there and kept the pee
carries away, knocking fully a dozen
into Kingdom come before the hogs sue
ceeded in overcoming him.
The last living rear was now at
tackled by redoubled fury n an in
creased force of peccaries. For fully
five MINUTES the battle ragged, and the
bear succeeded in wiping out at least
half a dozen ~peccaries. He had nc
chance OF escape, however, and was In
the end literally torn to shreds by the
r enraged peccaries.
Meanwhile 30 or more of the ~peccaries
2 not mixed up I'm the fight with the
, bears were either strung out over tht
, field trying to get at the cowboys on
5 the fence or attacking the Mexican
! lion. The long. 1.-the body Of the for
had thus far escaped serious injury
having received only a few gashes from
the tusks OF his enemies. while four OF
FIVE of the wild hogs were lying at tn
! foot OF the stump on which the pan
Their very early in the fight found 4
necessary 10 TAX refuge. But as th'
, raging peccaries drew OFF from the deac
: bears they turned their attention e
. the lion, swarmlng about the stuml
, four or five deep. The lion soon saw
: that with enemies jumping at him from
all sides III could not much longer re
v tain his position. Suddenly, Will al
ear-piercing scream, he sprang out ant
, into the midst of the swarm OF hogs
: where, slashing right and left he Gu
1917 WfZnlnO nnnn aud Ei1lfnU
5 number before they recovered iron
> their surprise. In a second the Ito
: was out of the mass and back on tn
stump Twice was the same feat per
formed. Each time the lion dashe'
4 downward. knocking and slashing tn
life out OF n number, and then jump
ing over their backs out OF reach. an
a 1t began to look as though II woul
end in his whipping the lot n ge
: away without great damage: but whe
a he sprang down the third time. hi
chain became entangled in the body G
a dead peccary, N when he spran
/, up to regain the stump the weight G
the peccary checked his leap, and h
fell into the very center OF the yello'
!. mass. The peccaries completely COY
cred every inch of the lion in a secon'
and in half a minute they had him tor
= to pieces.
= IL had been a tremendous battle. Tt
: ground was strewn with bits of beai
:; and lion, while dead and wounded pc
u carries to the number of at least so la
> on the battlefield. The wild hogs tina
escaped fatal injury were still ragin
= for battle. The cowboys. for once. 4
s least. had seen as much fight as the
.s cared for. but they didn't propose
81 let the peccaries escape. They wei
z, dangerous customers. The boys opei
- ed fire with their six-shooters and d
re not stop until the last peccary fell wit
. it's vicious snout swapping between q
Al rails at the legs OF the men.-Spangll
Ranch. CTex) Correspondence Of Ne
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