The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-09

Railroad men on the narrow gauge system of the Denver and RIO Grande, in the vicinity of La Veta Pass, have just got rid hss1e of es tSe Sacs tales that arc told-has caused more trouble, lald ou5 more trains, upset more schedules and delayed more mails than ai. .ns s nsr.h- auakes indigenous to that region me railroad men who suffered rom tne oep- relations of the black bull said ne was and more. They had a short sounding noun by which they denominated the black bull. and, on occa.tons or need, titles, tending to describe tbe black bulls ancestry and destination. Nobody now knows who owned the black bull. ana no the ths reconstructed s @ % engine that Killed him, and no higher badge Of honorapie sIAt- sgy was ever carried by anything m
 There are differences of opinien con corning what was the matter with the was color blind. When people are color tinguish between red and green. Both seems to be red. That was what was tne matter with the bull. It may De said at bull i % may have hay, be been gi' coiored by the ex- uberant fancy of the narrators. But the story will be presented as 1t Is told here ea Se decdeS bs eaeS rsssr Ter himse
 The early history of the bull Is un- known. It is asserted that he wore a brand; but that is g matter sd resting ;o0n on enough in the bulls vicinity to investi- gate either his brands or his carmnrks while he. was alive. and the locomouvs him so much that post mortem was
 While the early history of the bull re- mains a mystery, his first appearance on the Rio Grande Railroad is very well re membersd indeed, for his initial visit was contemporaneous with the hottest race oanfsins eyep tan oVff bersn uou with new red un dershirt and 1t ended in the section house at La Veta Pass.
 John . ana Sn Tss' Sss .1s sss ians. with all of their countrymen.s usual delight in bright colors. If their taste in pigments has undergone any change 1t can be isid at the door or tne
 Two days before the first appearance of the black bull 1t had been pay day on the money early, and visited the town of La Yeta. While John went to the postonlce. Tony drifted into tine dry goods store in ss ss psfcs of sta4sns s9d Sas Se SsDcs
 the friends working shirt appealed 90 strongly to John Romero's taste that he ss The ssSrs nent day rnd SSe SG the .
 to work-for. unlike most Of their com patriots, pay day was not the excuse for 2 two days drunk-eoth of them l, donnea
 at each others resplendency.
 A few rods down the track the two men pulled out their hand-car and pumped a place where some minor repairs had to be made. Section gangs are not large m
 Texas, and two-man gang IS the aver.
 tss their tU work, A ana sS if they saw the black bull at all they paid no more attention to him than to any of the other punches
 of cattle scattered red, oyer the pn,,nr pls,,n men He couldn't help 1t: On the dingy dun coiored background of Colorado land scape those two red shirts showed up like ruffie the already uncertain temper of a lonely black bull. The black bull locked at the shirts and calculated the probable
 them. One man was heavier than the other. he could see that. The black DUH decided that with a sadllful and neatly
 applied twist of his left horn. he co9ia s d big, cactus plant which seemed to have been placed there for the express purss pose. Tony, being the heavier; would a very little dexterity In the toss ought to plant him on his head in that ant mn, which, if the bull knew anything about red ants, ought to keep Tony busy untii his second turn arrived.
 It was the proverbiai How, hoarse bel loW'' that appraised Tony that something
 more than sunshine was coming coming, ms li,s way; aS; extensive, but he did know DUH when he saw 1t ,and he yelled with an exceed-
 ing. bitter yell It was lucky Ky TOT TOT, I3hny that a frivolous prairie dog had constructed n playground like the opening to the Hoosac tunnel right in the track Of the his foreleg in the hole with jar that
 went clear to his tail, and this momenta~ ry interruption was enough to give Jonn
 The men ran up the track because 1t
 was the only road to safety they knew of and with common accord made TOT
 the hand-car With the sklII oL Iong
 practice. that not even excitement could
 mar, they clapped the hand-car on the rails and got 1t fairly under way just as the black bull arrived. He didn't miss it by much, but it was a miss, neWertne- less, and 1t did not improve the black
 bulls temper to any marked extent. lie lowered his head and set to work to lun
 with which a greyhound runs down rabbit. .a harder than did those two Italian sec ton men in tryiSy to get away from the bull. Nominally. a hand-car ought 70 leave bull behind in the dust In the first hundred yards. but this was n Colo like an entelope Three times the bull
 nearly hoisted the hand-car and as many times a wild pump on the pdEt
 of the red-shirted section men saved tte
 fits the shirts" said John. desparingly. Let's take them of and throw them to him. I'll pump while you get yours on; Tony was willing enough to rid hlmselI of his dangerous garment. but the second he stopped pumping the bull LOOK aa- | vantage of the occasion to sprint snd so | nearly hooked the car of the rails that the men did not dare risk second at- tempt For two level miles the bull Kept I'D his pace and at no time was more than
 a scant ten yards behind the hand-car. m fact it. was not until the third mile post signs of fiagging. There, however, the
 pace told and he began to fall behind.
 John and Tony reached the section house at last, having covered the ground in the quickest time ever made py a handcar on any section of the road. Their glory, for both men were wet through and nearly dead from their exertions. They told their woes to a crowd that was inclined to be incredulous, although it was perfectly evident that something had scared the two section men half to volunteered to go down the track on the hand-car and get the dinner buckets and coats which John and Toney had left behind. None of the volunteers wore red | shirts. however.
 When they came back they reported l that they hs d seen big black bull near | the track, who had looked intcrestedly | demonstration. They added that he was | evidently not the animal who had at | tackled the Italians, because this bull was quite dry, whereas the one which ran | four miles must have been pretty wet | 1t was in vain that John and Tony in- | Az.u,a NN# nN NNn