The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1905-05-26
COWBOYS BRAVERY
MAY WIN him Wife
Rescues Pretty Schoolma'am
From lnturiated Bull at
Risk OF Own Lie.
HE is ALMOST KILLED
Woman Whom He Rescued Secures A.
sistance in Bare Time to Save
His Life in Turn, ano We'd
ding is in Prospect.

Earring. S. D.. May 1.-Jack Weston, n.
cowpuncher at the W-bar ranch is laid mp
with a broken collar bone and two ribs
broken as Il result of an encounter with an.
Infatuated bull in a successful effort to.
save the life of Miss Name Hilgers. II
school teacher from Nebraska. who is
holding a Claim near here and teaches
school in Medicine Creek.
She was returning to her cabin from the
W-bar ranch across the big winter pas
ture where a big, ugly tempered bun be-
longing TO Mr.. Wilkes, the owner of tho
ranch. was grazing.
The bull when he saw Miss Hilge.s. not
being accustomed to seeing people ON foot
and clad in long skirts, became enraHed.
and when she ran gave chase. He would
undoubtedly have caught her and gorod
her TO death. as she was nearly half a mile
from the fence. but for the timely appear
ance of Weston, who happened to be in
the pasture cutting out a calf from n
bunch of steers. Digging his spurs into
his pony's tanks he dashed between thc
girl and her pursuer. and by firing in front
of the bull ondeavored to turn him. But
The bull was stubborn with rage and held
his course Seeing that these attempts
We're futile and his gun now being empty
it l'tI'i nun MS Morse tItl stbou WaN-
ing his arms in front of the Infatuated
beast.
Mr.. Weston was wearing Il brilliant red
flannel shirt and the bull seeing this red
apparition with waving arms appear sud-
denly before him forgot the original object
of his rage and charged the young man
with redoubled fury. The cowboy tired to
leap to one side and drop his la:iat over
the bulls horns at the same time. but his
foot slipped and the rope fell harmlessly
across the bulls back. Before he could
recover the bull had turned and was upon
him. knocking him down and breaking TWO
|. ribs and his collar bone. Luckily. however,
retained consciousness and his presence OF
mind. AS the bull stood over him. its tail
waving high with fury and its jaws white
with foam, and Just as 1t lowered It's head
TO gore him he reached up With both hands
and grasped the bulls horns With almost
superhuman strength. The bull jerking
his head up To free himself oE this encurn-
brance lifted Weston to his feet. Then be-
gan a battle between the man and tho
bull. The bull would retreat a few PAGES
dragging the plnckv ~cowpuncher after
him.. :hen he would ilunge forward in an
attempt to bear down his hurnar antagon-
ist. who chung tenaciously to his horns
with a despairing grip.
Weston was being whipped about like a
rag on a clothcsline in a gale when a
friend of his who has a claim on Medicine
creek an! VINO had been warned OF me
cowboys danger by Miss Hilgers, came
riding up and dispatched the bull! with n
bullet in its brain.
Mr.. Weston says that as soon as he gets
well Che didn't know that his bones were
broken until it vas all over he will go 10
Mexico and enter the bull ring as a
toreador, hut it is rumorcd that his recov-
cry will he followed by his marriage with
the girl he rescued.
Weston is an ex-foot bail player from an
eastern college and since he cam. &c Ly-
man county he has become we'll known
ana liked. He took an active part in the
breaking up of the gang of ~rustlers who
terforlZed the cattle country a few years
ago. and was with the party that shot
ack Sully near Iona two years ago.