The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-02-17

from the southern mesas and as pug7
nacious as a badger He gave Il toss,
OF his tail and charged. The bear stood
up on his hind legs and struck y few
wartling blows with his front paws
Again / regretted that he had lived in
captivity all his life. Any one that had
! been out on the range of a cod winter
morning ans sec a 2.pI- pourl sl"er With
his head crushed from the huS oi a
predatory grizzly knows what pOSshi sies
thele would be II such beast wer" 2ittpd
against the fiercest bun that ever Came
from Ardahisla But this time it was a
different story. Once the bear ripped Il
great chunk of flesh off the buM's neck
but 1t only made his doom the more
swift The sbun stood off. paved the
Garth IN rage and made on. more charg"
This time the bear Went down with 4
| smothcrel boot. and the sharp horns
soon Gorcd the life out of him.
Promised Real Sport.
The Mexicans had not been satisfied
| with Colonel Boonc'S exhibition up to
this time. He had advertised TO give
| them real sport, whereas each number
on the card had been tame from their
| standpoint. They complained that the
colonel had not lived Up to the letter of
| his advertisement. and In the land OF
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| is regarded as sacrcd as n contract.
| Colonel Boone told thrm to wait until
the lion got at a bull. Then There would
| he real sport
This appcased the grumblers, and
! thee was big crowr out to see the
last event The lion had recovered from
| his huggng by the bear. and he had
been put through a little training He
had been given calf To practice on two
! days before He showed himself an
adept in killing his own game. He made
| one spring at the poor calf and fastened
his teeth in the animals juguar vein,
When they prodded him away twenty
! minutes later there wasn't drop Of
| blood in that calf's body,
He found the bull n different propos-
| ton. This bull was as tine a specimen
| rs ever came from the south of Mexico
great. rangy. sharp horned fighter, as
vicious as ill-tempcred stallion. AS
soon as the lion had been prodd"d from
| his cage he made his rush. Then came
one of the nrettiest fights | ever saw.
What a Fighter Bull Is.
When the bull got within six feet of
him the lion lcaped and cleared his as
suilants body. AS ne sprang the bull
raised his head and tried TO catch hin,
with his horns: but he might as well
| have tried to imDa!c bird Then the
bul! wheeled for another rush. This time
the lion lodged. and with great paw
ripped a cash in one OF The bulls
launches. Then for tho first time | APP
prcciatcd what a fighter bun is. That
singing wound goaded him to blind fury
Such lungings and rushings l never saw.
| The lion had to clinch to save himself
He gave a spring and landed on the
bulls back He fastened his teeth in the
thick flesh and hung on. This was some
thing new to the bull, He stopped
plunging and tried to shake off his tor
mentor. This did not work. and he low
cred his head and began to paw and
tramp on the lions legs and they hung
down. This broke the lions hold, and the
combatauts separated. The bull was
simply covered with blood, but he was as
full of fight ever.
THE lion crouched at one side of thu
cage as the bull made his final rush
The avalanche was upon him, and ever
his feline activity did not avail to say,
him One spear-like horn caught hin
under the left shoulder. 1t brought
lconine roar, the swan song of the kini
of beastS--a royal message OF hate an,
terror that echoed above the shriek
and catcals of the mob Then the bul
raised his proud head and carried Iii
dying foe around the cage is If the 90
pounds were but a bundle of straw. Tn
bull gave final toss OF his head an,
the lion dropped limp and iifclcSS to tn
ground. Then the bulls the victor in tn
combat, was pronounced too badly injurc
to be able TO fight agG'n. end the attend
ants killed him.
But the spectators were not satisfied
They insisted that Colonel Boone ha
not given them their moneys worth II
was placed under arrest and taken befor
the governor. Boone was It diplomat. II
gave the governor the skin of the Ito
and was released. He told me afterwar
that he had cleared $S,o00-a pretty goo
price for a man-killing lion and a grizal
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