The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-12
BUFFALO BULL HUMBLED.
Lassoed. Thrown and Doctored at Zoo
in New York,

bdsSOeS, 1uIOWu anu boCUoTou do ZOO
in New York,
Eric the Red, bull buffalo at the New
York Geological park in the Bronx, chewcd
the cud OF wrath yesterday, md would not
look mt anybody, says tho Now York World.
He was mad all through. Eric had been tho
subject OF what DR.. Blair. the park surgeon,
pronounced very successful operation, But
that didn't do any particular good 10 Eric s
pride, Tho keepers wisely kept their dis
,ance from him.
Some weeks ago the big buffalo got a silver
in his foot. II caused swelling which in
his wild state upon the plains Eric would not
have minded. He would have let the night
dews heal II for him. But the park ofiloinls
had no faith in night dows, They allowed
that Eric must be operated on. week ago
he was lassoed and tied down. The wound
was dressed. Eric resisted patheticnlly, be-
cause he didn't understand
Saturday morning II was doomed time to
dress the wound. Tho big follow saw them
coming. Hc knew what the man in tho
white duck suit meant, and he prepared to
OF the yard, believing, weirdly, while the
keepers got around on the fences with ropes.
md the surgeon directed things from safo
distance.
Black Beauty from ncighboring yard
Just watch them. | wont do thing to
thar white suiti'' beloved Eric the Rcd,
The head keeper. who has had experience
ms cowboy and throws larint till It Kisses
through the air like q whip snake slipped
in a. the gate; lie had his little coil of
watched II.
MY foot siut so very bad" he NUT,
tered. II cullate | cnn step lively. BY
this an that, IN Just take a fall out of that
fellow
Tho lasso whistcd through the air. paused
above a,; the shaggy head, ard descended. But
charging straight for the fence. where the
surgeons white suit glistcned behind the
wire netting The netting stopped him, but
j, twas was sore test to its strength The head
Eric made rush at him. tore N the
ground where he had stood, and shot blind.
ly past into the open. The keeper stepped
mered snakc-lke, in the air, and this time
caught Eric by one short black horn The
bull started around the arena, dragging tho
prisingly nimble for an invalid member.
Three aids ran in and seized The end OF the
insso They took q swift ride around the
inclosure, toboggan-like, on the seats Of their
trousers: The arena is paved with crushed
stone. There Were sparks. Eric stopped,
tossed his head and tho rope fell away.
Like shaft OF light he turned and charged
the group of seated men. The rush they
made to the tall fence was something won
derful. Eric was in the middle OF tho ynrd
paving up macadam with his lnmo foot and
Now. when I get the lsriat over his head.
just let il drag till l throw another said
the cowboy.
The loop settled ovor the monsters neck
without his noticing it. A second larat
caught his left hind foot The head keeper
knew his business. Thon the crowd rushed
in under Eric's guard and seized the two
ropes and tugged opposite ways, Eric just
walked around that yard. tugginE the bunch
OF sweating men after him as dog carries
q tin can tied TO his tail piece. There wss
the sound of ripping cloth ns the men slid
over the rocks and hne cut bluestone More
men rushed in and weighted the ends of the
rope.
In moment OF hcsitancy on the part Of
the buffalo one end Of n lnriat was passed
around an iron post II held but the big
fellow still had twenty feet TO move around
IN. IL was twenty.thrce minutes before
inc other rope was tied &c post and Eric
began to see the end He turned this way
ana that, once ripping up the blouse Of a
done it,
AT last another rope wa stied around Eric's
front legs and he tripped and fell They
were upon him in trice. weighing him down
ana casting cords around his nail-like hind
legs When he WAS tied up like n cat in
a a Dag the surgeon came in. He found the
lame leg, washed IL tendcrly and put on
some some nmntiseptic mp Then they began untying
hr'c This was The most difficult part Who
should unite the last cord Certainly
tne me man who could get over the fence first.
When II was done the fellow made n dash
Tor IL, but Eric was too quick Only the
dust in his bloodshot eyes prevented him
helping the man OYER the fence
Il late that Darwin was right said
keeper The way that man went over
the fence was very like monkey
And now the men about the park nrc
hoping the lame foot will not need another
dressing.