The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-03-11
COWBOY STORIES
FROM CANADA.
frank Carpenter Writes About
the Cattle Country Of the
Great Northwest,
BILLY CocHRANE's BULL FIGHT
Second Sons of English Lords
and Their Antics-How Gold
brick Man Took in Calgary.
BY Frank g. Carpenter.


CALGARY, ALBERTA. March H. II
you want to SEQ a live frontier town;
come to Calgary 1t is the ranchinE
capital OF the Canadian cattle country,
and 1t has for years been sort a.
Keeley cure for the younger sons q.
English lords and dukes. Lying In west
ern Canada, hundred miles or so north
of the American boundary. It Is sort
OF q GROSS between Denver and Chey-
epne, peppercd with the spice Of Monte
Carlo and London. There Is no moro
sporty town on tho American continent.
It is business from tho word go" but
at the Same time cowboys gallop through
it's streets, and Hne-looking Englishmen
In riding trousers. leather leggins and
Norfolk Jackets play polo on the out
skirts
There are number of hotels, and
every hotel has well-patronized bar.
There are two clubs. ono known as 1.-THE
Ranchers'' and another as Tho Alberta. ;"
The Ranchers' Club is largely composed
OF tho sons Of rich English families.
1t - independent and awfully swell.
The Alberta Club IS mostly business
men, comprising the real estate dealers,
merchants. wholesale and retail, and
other prominent characters who want
to make Calgary great. AS for the
Ranchers' they do not care accent for
Calgary. and are moro interested In polo
than politics.
Remittance Men.
Among the characters OF Calgary arc
the remittance men. They are tho
younger sons OF wealthy or noble Eng
lish families, who are out here to make
their fortunes and grow up with the
country. Some have come because their
people did not want them at home, and
others because they liked tho wild life
of the prairtes. which until recently
has corresponded somewhat with Kip
lings description OF "the country east
of Suez:"
Where the best is like tho worst
Where there amt no Ten Commandments,
And you've got to raise thirst"
These remittance men get so much
money every month. or every quarter
and most of them spend 1t in drinking
md carousing. Many are meier do
wells" and they fall lower and lower.
relying entirely on their remttances TO
keep them going. know. for instance
enc son of an English lord whom you
may see almost any day here hanging
over the bar, and another who has
ducal blood In his veins. who will gladly
borrow a quarter OF you If ne strikes
lou In the lean days prior to the next
remittance.
Billy Cochrane's Bullfight.
Others of these men keep themselves
s;raght. They bring money with them
invest it and make 1t breed like Aus
iralian rabbits. but at the same time
they are full of sport and spend freely
One of these is son OF an admiral of
the British navy. His name Is Cochrane,
and he is said to have made fortune
of his own in ranching and other in
vestments. He has one big range near
Calgary on which he keeps 5000 OF the
widest OF Canadian cattle. Every year
or so he brings in new installment OF
bulls from Scotland. giving his agents
az home instructions to send him the
widest and fiercest animals that can be
secured. When he was recently asked
why he did this he replied:
You see. have to pay my cowboys
go mucn q month. and want to raise
stock that will make .nem earn their |
wages. Besides, Il adds to the life of
the ranch.
Il went out to SEQ Billy cochrane the
other day said Calgary banker to
me last night. When I arrived at the |
ranch I found him seated on the fence |
Of one OF his corrals watching fight
cetwssn TWO bulls. AS he saw mo he
.S4~ 44-e FAs~up ana nave look.
ciiEse6'fo the fence beside him, and |
IS watched the struggle going on be-
meath. said: Why. Billy, II you do
rot separate those bulls one will soon
Kill the other Let them KILL was the
reply. This Is the real thing. It is
better than any Spanish bull fight and
would give a bull any day to see it.
We'll. we watched the struggle for
an hour. Cochrane clapping his hands
and urging his bulls on to battle. Finally
one drove his horns into the side of the !
other. and killed It. Upon my express
Ing surprise at this wanton waste of
valuable live stock. Cochrane said: oh.
II don't matter at ALL We have got to
nave sorna sport. We must have some
thing 70 add to the life of the ranch.'"
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