The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-02-25
BUFFALO BUSTING.
COWBOYS STRENUOUS TIME IN
 BREAKING TIFO BULLS.

Wanted to Drive Them in Harness-A
 Mad Drive Over the Prairie-Suieide
 of One of the BumaIOes-JOe MiIler's
 Costly Experiment-WII He Succeed:
 Ranch 1O1 has a small herd of buffaloes, purchased at the Goodnight ranch, in the Texas Pan-Handle. Joe Miller, president of the ranch company, decided to break two young buffalo bulls for driving purposes. Miller be- gan his buffalo busting one Sunday not long ago says the Oklahoma cores pendent of the Kansas City Star, and nearly every cowboy on the ranch joined in the sport Two expert ropers saddled their ponies and started in pursuit of two young bulls that were grazing in a nearby pasture. Both bulls were wild, and galloped away at full speed when the cowboys appeared swinging their lariats. Over and among the low sand hills of the Salt Fork of the Arkansas they paced, the buffaloes turning and doging to escape their pursuers. The day was cold, but the high speed of the COW ponies told on the buffaloes, and their black tongues protruded further and further from their mouths. .-
 One of the bulls was roped around his neck. Being stronger than steer, he dragged the pony with him, though the pony furrowed the sand with his feet. Then, with eyes flaming like two coals and his tail erect he gave below, and charged the pony, which cleyerly lodged the onslaught Another. cow boy threw a lariat over the buffalo s horns and the horsemen were safe, as they could hold the buffalo between them. sgsI. as When the buffalo was drawn up in front of the cook shack there were shouts for Dutch, the cook, to ride him. The buffalo stood paving the earth and shaking his name. Dutch could not bear the jibes of the cowboys, who swore that he was afraid to tackle the buffalo bareback Dutch shed his long apron and crouched for spring upon | the buffalo's shaggy back. His first approach brought surprising demon stration of the kicking ability of a buff 1 falo, which launched one of it's hind feet seemingly az good ten feet, and , narrowly missed the rubicund face oi ! the cook, who retreated and began Adding for a safe opening. The longer he hesitated the less sanguine he be. came, and finally stood Jumping up aflt down in his uncertainty, while the COW boys shouted in derision.
 l White Buffalo, Sioux Indian the ! best and pluckiest horseman on the ranch, pushed Dutch" aside. sprans upon the buffalo, waving his hat ant dismounted almost before the buffalo i knew what had happened. This re stored the cooks confidence, and z moment later, with both hands in tn, 1 buffalo's mane, he was careening acros
 the prairie, with the frightened buffalo 1 running at full speed. Dutch coult
 not be shaken from his seat, to tn
 grief of the cowboys. who had hoped
 that he would be thrown.
 | The prediction was made that th, buffalo could not be tanned to drive 1 Buffalo" Jones, now a gamekeeper il 1 Yellowstone Park. in the early sos
 owned large herd near Garden City 1 Kan. and killed a number ir attempt Ito tame them. Jones declared tha when too greatly enraged buffal,
 seemed able to die of it's own volition It would stiffen it's limbs and in ; moment or so fall dead. Miller woult not listen to warning, and said that h
 would have a driving team if he uset
 up every buffalo on his ranch. -
 Another buffalo was roped, and tn
 two were fastened by their heads SC
 curely to a stout corral. There wa
 much believing and paving of dirt a
 the buffaloes were harnessed. Birdie
 were slipped over their heads and har
 ness thrown from a safe distance oye
 their backs. The tongue of a heav,
 freight wagon was showed , betweel
 them and fixed into the neck yoke
 The traces were fastened to the single
 trees with long hooked iron rod !
 lariat was fastened around the horn
 of each buffalo, and held by mounte ] cowboys, to prevent a general smashu in a stampede. a < itlz;.t Once securely harnessed, the tbuf
 faloes were turned lose. They broke
 mad and believing, for the open prairi the wagon filled with reckless cowboys : who fired their pistols to increase tn
 speed of the numbering team. The buf faloes tried repeatedly to turn upo
 each other and fight, but were hel
 apart by the mounted cowboys. As tn buffaloes grew wearied their speed d.
 creased, but their rage grew nior furious. Finally, they baked, an : trouble began in earnest. The large
 bull dropped to his kness, with his fore head in the dust Prodding did not moV him. Then he rolled over on his sid and glared with red eyes at his tormer tors. The other bull turned sideWis and tried to break loose from hi : harness. A cowboy attempted to III fasten the traces. The bull, charged Il cornering the cowboy between tine wa gon tongue and the wagon box Wit an ugly toss of the head the bull graze the cowboys ribs with a sharp horl and the cowboy fell backward acros
 the tongue and rolled over. the ,othe
 buffalo to the ground. An inch neal l CT, and the buffalo would have kille him. ""-f ..- :, Remembering the experience of Bui
 falo Jones, the prostrate buffalo wa uuhitchad ttailedn tn it's feet and ln