The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-01

and out came a stream of raging wild hogs. They didn't catch Jim, but they came close enough to spring at his heels as he sealed the fence, Then fully one hundred mad and snapping peecarles stood minute and looked around. In front, forty or fifty feet away, were three big bears and a Mexican lion Most people would think that such a sight would have scared the peccaries, but it did nothing of the sort. On the contrary, the bears and the lion began to display signs of uneasiuess. The bears quickly climbed to the top or the tree stumps to which they were chained, and the lion squatted and showed it's teeth.
 One of the peccaries caught grip on the hindquarters of one of the bears and hung on like grim death. The bears foothold was lost and he felt squarely into tn jaws of the snapping mob below. Then followed another battle on the ground, with the bear un- derneath, and the wild hogs, in yellow bank above, snapping and struggling to get at their enemy. The bear began to work his hind feet and bodies of wild hogs began to fly upward and 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 beat the peccaries away, knocking fully dozen into king dom come before the hogs succeeded in overcoming and despatching him.
 The last living bear was now at tackled with radoubled fury by an in creased force of peccarles. For fully five minutes the battle ragged, and the bear succeeded in wiping out at least half a dozen peccares. He had no chance of escape, however, and was in the end literally torn to shreds by the enraged peccaries.
 Meanwhile thirty or more of the pee carries not mixed up in the fight with the bears were either strung out over the field trying to get at the cowboys on the fence or attacking the Mex.can lion. The long, 1.-the body of the lion had thus far escaped serious injury, having received only few gashes from the tusks of his enemies, while four or five of the wild hogs were lying at the foot of the stump on which the pam ther very early in the fight found it ne- cessary to take refuge.
 But as the raging peccaries drew off from the dead bears they turned their attention to the lion, swarming about the stump four or five deep. The lion soon saw that with enemies jumping at him from all sides he could not much longer retain his position. Suddenly, with an earpiercing scream, he sprang out into the midst of the swarm of hogs, where, slashing right and left, he cut a swath, ripping open and killing a number before they recovered from their surprise. In a second the on was out of the mass and back on the stump. Twice was the same feat per- formed. Each tine the liol dashed downward knocking and slashing the life out of number, and then jumping over their backs out of reach, and it began to look as though 1t would end in his whipping the lot and getting away without great damage; but when he sprang down the third time his chain became entangled in the body of a dead peccary, and when he sprang up to regain the stump the weight of the pecsary checked his ieap and he fell in the very center of the yellow mass. The peccarles completely covered every inch of the lion in a second, and in less than half minute they had torn him into pieces.
 It had been a tremendous batt'e. The ground was strewn with bits of bears and lion, while dead and wounded peccaries to the number of at least sixty lay on the battlefield. The wild hogs that escaped fatal injury were still raging for battle. The cowboys, for once, at least, had seen as much fight as they cared for, but they didn't pro- pose to let the peccaries escape. They were dangerous customers. The boys opened fire with their six-shooters and didn't stop until the last peccary fell with it's vicious snout snapping between the rai's at the legs of the men Texas Letter to the Chicago Inter-Ocean.