The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-05-07
COLONEL j. ENNIS, 8. 3.
Thrilling Tale Of a Lonesome Broncho
Buster and a Wild Cayuse.

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Down along the Yellowstone, at this
season of the year, along with daisies
and yellow bells, and prickly pear, and
sage brush, the broncho buster begins
to sprout; and along about the time
when the green grass has brought the
green cayuse down to the lowest ebb
of physical and mental debility the
E. BIS, half breeds, whites, Missouri
ians and Livingston sufferers take the
kinks out of their lass ropes" scrape
the winters rust off their spurs, put
a fresh coat of oil on the chaps, put
new hind cinch on their saddles, snub
W tottering, but wild eyed pegasi to
snubbing posts, and with wild yell
and wilder flourish begin to treat the
astonished pilgrims aboard the west
bound Northern Pacific flyer to a
broncho busting scene la Buffalo Bill,
Charlie Russell and Teddy Roosevelt.
Sunday Livingston sufferer sat in
front of his livery barn in Kalispell
and as the warm sun beat down on the
compost heap that had escaped the
eye of the city marshal, the atmos-
phere, charged with threatenings Of
wind and weather, brought to the mind
Of the brawny but fair haired exile
thoughts of other May days when,
with what superiority of mind over mat
ter, he had choked down and strangled
and bridled, an hacamored and sad
died, and ridden and driven, the brOn-
chos of the Yellowstone and he sighed
for the days that had apparently be-
comes things of the past.
But 10! what vision of hope is this?
The tingling blood starts in his veins,
his brawny form untangles and his
fair mustachiOs take on a prouder curl
as he sees an insurance agent conf
ing down the street leading by means
of two-inch rope what at first appears
to be cross between a Jersey COW,
and Rocky mountain goat But no!
1t is one of the wild eyed pegasi whose
every mark and bearing betoken that
it might have first seen the light of
Il %1,o fnr al cfOu n
range.
Hi, there! You google eyed son
of telegraph operator, do you want
that boss broker
Cert" said the insurance agent,
who knew something about bronchos
h@lself, having passed through Liv.
ingston on the train several years pre-
viously.
In less time than it takes to tell
Colonel Ennis, B. b., had brought forth
a set Of harness. pushed out from I'M
der neighboring shed road wagon
and then began the struggle between
mind and matter for supremacy Vel
lowstone epithets on one hand, equine
sQueals on the other After a fierce
struggle of fifteen or twenty minutes
the brawny exile from Livingston man
aged to get the head of the monde
script pegasus between his knees ant
his headquarters backed between {
couple of empty tomato boxes. While
he had the animal thus foul the colone
managed to fasten collar, set O
names and breechings on the refrat
tory animal and then proudly backed
him between the thills of the roat
wagon.
Nov, here is where l shine" sait
the colonel. Il will get in and holt
the lines while you fasten the tugs
Jim Ford, who had once seen bron
cho busted over near Fort Benton, ur
dertook to make some suggestions a
this point, but he was imperiousl
waved away by the colonel.
Keep out of my way, you roomatil
besoaked, eX-bull whacker. I've buste
more bronchos than you ever saw i
your dreams. Why could pick tina
thing up and walk Off with it,
Crestfallen the sage of Saint Mary
retired to the opposite side walk an
the hitching process went merrily on.
Just as the trembling insuranc
agent had fastened the first tug som.
} thing happened. There was will
scream of defiance, pair of heel
twinkled for an instant above tn
dash board and then, hoop la! dow
the street went pegasus, road WACO
and Livingston sufferer. The end
of the colonels mustache snapped lik
the buckskin cracker ON the end {
a diamond r bull-whacker's whip, {
the silken tips of a stage drivers for
horse lash. His broad-brimmed h;
" lay in the middle of the street nea
=, tho starting nOint &c n sort of hoSta O