Arizona republican., 1904-09-14
AN IsFuRIATED STEER
Only for a Faithful Dog He Would
 Have Killed Three Persons.

c. NJ. Moore. his ten months old babe and his nine-year-old daughter,
 Vera. early yesterday morning had most exciting experience, that for 7 few minutes promised to end in ths
 killing of all of them by an infuriated steer, and that did result in serious n | jury to Mir. Moore and the baby.
 MT. Moore lives with his family near the Murphy school house a half mile
 west and three fourths of a mile south | of the capitol building. and not great
 distance from the Hurley slaughter house. He is the rural free delivery mail carrier on route No. and about
 6: 30 o'clock yesterday morning he went
 out to his mail wagon with the baby in
 his arms. and his daughter Vera to
 survey things generally preparatory to
 hitching up. The wagon stood only a
 short distance from the house and they
 were not more than a couple of rods from the house when the incident re- lated below occurred.
 As soon as they got into the yard
 they noticed big steer coming down
 the lane toward the house. a steer they afterward learned, had, by jumping a corral fence, escaped from bunch that
 was being driven to the block in the slaughter pens. The little girl think
 ing that he, like most steers, would be easily frightened, ran out to the lane to turn him back. Instead of turning the maddened animal charged upon her. knocking her down. For
 tunately though. a horn went on either
 side and she was aIshurt except the jar of the fall. Before the big brute could gore her. the family dog fasten- ed it's teeth in the steers heels, and the steer turned his attention to the dog. Mir. Moore instantly started for the house with the baby but the steer at the same instant saw the move and lunged after him. thus giving Vera chance to escape to the house. The steer caught MT. Moore and the babe and tossed them about six feet in the air, one of the animals horns in the meantime making long, but fortun- ately not deep gash, across MT. Moore's abdomen. When MT. McSre struck the ground he managed to 6O so on one side. holding the baby at arms length. He immediately rolled over on his face and raising to his elbows drew the little one under him for rro- lection. The steer then gored hlS right leg. making flesh wound hail way round it, and in his frantic cir cling round his victims one foot step- ped on the baby's leg but slipped oil again. making an ugly flesh wound on the calf but not breaking the bone. While all this was in progress the fam fly dog had recovered himself and r.:- turned to the battle. He g~sbbed the steer by the nose and hung on t=na- ciously. The steer ran round his vic tins two or three times before he could shake the dog loose and when he fln- ally did so he charged the faithful canine who seemed to have plann-i that very move. knowing he could get away. When the steer Saargei the dog this time he ran into little red express wagon belonging 10 the chil~ dren and which diverted his atten- ton long enough for NIT. Moore to rush into the hO-se with the infant. But 1t was none too long for the four-foot- ed demon seeing his atterapt to get away again bore down upon him. MT. Moore was then through the screen door, which the bovine tore to kind ling, and was engaged in closing the big wooden door. He did not succeed in getting it latched bu- got it so near ly closed that by throwing his weight against 1t he kept the brute from tear ing into tie house. The dog continued to hareSs the animal un.l for want of a human enemy he turned in the dogs direction and allowed himself to be paced into an adjacent field of sorg- hum. Soon after some men on horse back came from the slaughter house with small herd of cattle and sue ceeded in so maneuvering it, that the crazy steer joined the rest of his kind.
 MT. Moore's injuries are very pain ful but the only serious feature is the possibility that the wound on the ab- domen may result in rupture. The baby's hurt is severe but is not thought to be dangerous.
 MT. Moore's dog though. has clearly established his right to a Carnegie medal for heroism. for without his as- Sistance in the battle the three mem oers of the family would undoubtedly have been killed. In fact the dog did most of the fighting and was the only one in the party that was in a position to make fight. Mir. Moore says, and he tells il almost with tears in his eyes. that short time ago they dis covered the dog was eating the eggs laid by their chickens. a council of war was held and it was decided to kill him, but for some reason the sentence had never been carried out. It never Will be now and he can have all the