The evening times., 1900-10-20
AUBURN's FIGHTING ROOSTER
yanguished All Corners Until Knock
ed Out by Bulldogs
(From the Lewiston Evening Journsi-)

(FTom the Lewiston Evening JournsI-)
Auburn is the proud possessor of a won.
derful rooster. Miss Nellie H., the little
daughter of Mrs. Bisbee of the auburn
waterworks, told the tale to the journal
this morning, and ii is worth repeating.
That lady has a friend in Warren who
has two little Children boy and a girl
One of the neighbors kept hens. and about
two years ago a setting Of chickens was
hatched. The old mother hen selected one
OF the chicks and fired it out of the brood
Under no circumstances whatever would
she recognize or own it. The outcast was
finally presented to the little daughter of
Mrs. Bisbea's friend, who nursed and cared
for it until it grew 10 be quite a chicken
Finally it became too large to keep in the
house and was put outdoors. AS the little
girl could no longer care for 1t as before,
she sold it to her brother for 5 cents. With
this change OF ownership the chicken be-
gan to develop new traits of character
The new owner plagued it and the chick
soon grew surly, and finally pugnacious
Well, the young birds disposition did
not improve, like wine with age It
steadily grew worse. One of the neighbors
had garden. but if any member of the
family attempted to gather any of the veg
etables the young rooster would fly at him
with such fury that he had to give up the
job and fly himself. The result was that
that rooster had the garden to himself.
and the relations between the two families
became strained A lady from RockIaud
came over one day and said that she would
not be afraid to go into the garden and
pick some string beans. The rooster lit
on her head, tore down her hair broke her
eyeglasses, and made mincemeat of most
of her fnery. That ended the battle.
The victorious bird finally began TO stop
people on the road and turn them back
u -,
a half mile distant. The neighDors com
plained that life in that section was becon
ing unbearable- Cats, dogs, and everything
else would hy at its approach Matters AT
last reached climax. The law was threat
ened unless the obnoxious bird should be
removed Finding it Impossible to restore
haFInOny IN any other way it was at last
decided to ship the rooster away
The lady of the house in this emergency
consulted her Auburn friend She was as
sured that Auburn had some good fighting
blood and could care for herself even with
this master of the art. The young son of
Alderman Ftckery was selected to take
charge of the bird and humble its proud
spirit
In due time the rooster reached the shoe
city and was Installed in its new quarters
in Minot Avenue For a few days the bird
remained quiet 1t was simply studying the
situation and taking its bearings Then i.
opened up again series of unbroken tri-
umphs followed in rapid succession Young
Vickery was placed hors de combat Mr.
Vickery declared that she would never be
driven by roosteT-so sailed forth to
meet her adversary. Alasi she met the
fate of all who had trodden the same path
and soon retired ingloriously from the field
The fty~father took up the cudgel and met
the same fate
One morning the rooster was among the
missing. The gFoeeryman soon came in and
said that he had witnessed 8 battle that
morning between the rooster and two big
bulldogs. For long time victory had
trembIed in the balance, but finally had
perehed upon the banner of the dogs The
bird was left for dead upon the field But
here was where all calculations failed
The supposed corpse was found and
brought back to the house Few tears
were shed and the family INDUCED in mu-
tuaI congratulations; but, alas, the
rooster was hot dead, but sleeping He
was simply knocked out The experiment
soon restored and brought him to a real
izing sense of his defeat. For the first
time he had been whipped, but his honor
was still intact. A few days rest ara he
was again ready for battle The neigh
bors in that section of the city are now
trembling between hope and fear. They
hope that the battle between the rooster
and the dogs may be renewed but fear
that the dogs may go under the next time
At present the fighting bird is in q strong
barred cage, and when fed the alderman
and his son come with big club and a
shotgun. The case is exciting much in
terest in Auburn, and scores OF people
visit and look at the bird with ingled
feelings of awe and admiration.