Show WILO WILD HORSES OUT WEST of a teri ten ible contest between IL a jack 1 abut two Stal stallions lioni some horsch horseson horse of carse are curably vicious and must bo conquered by main force one pleasing bruto brute on iny my ranch will at tunes times rush at a man open mou chett like a iC wolf and ii it H A a a regular trick of the range stallions i in a 11 ace great 16 nilar many indeed in most localities there a aro wild horses to be found which althou although 11 ii invariably variably ot of domestic descent being either cither themselves ways froni from some ranch or indian outfit i or else claiming such fo for r their sires and dams yet arg are quite as wild as ilia he ante lopo on whose don dodam iaan aliey have intruded i iRan dimen run in these wild horses u whenever ana and they are but little more difficult tb to break than the so called tame animals but tile the wild stallions fire are whenever possible shot because of then their propensity for driving off therance the ranch mares mare sand and because their incurable viciousness makes them always unsafe companions for other gonei still more than for men A wild stallion tears fears no beast except the grizzly grizzl yand and will not always alwaes t flinch from in an encounter with it ac set it is arcurious fact abata that a jack will almost always kill one in c r fair tight fight the particular of a fight of this sort were i elated tome to me by a cattle man who was engaged in bi ginging out blooded stock from tile lie east among the animals under his charge were two great stallions one gray and one black and a fine jackass not much over half the size of either of f tho the former tho the animals were kept in in sv separate parate pens but one day both horses got into the same inclosure next to the jack pen slid and began to fight as only enraged stallions can st striking like boxers with their foro fore feet and biting with their teeth the getting the best of it but while clinched with witalis his antagonist in one tussle they rolled against the jack pen breaking it in no sooner was the jack at liberty than with ears laid back and mouth wide own open lie made straight for the two horses who had for the moment separated the gray turned to meet him rearing on oil his hind le legs 3 and striking vt at him with his fore I 1 feet but the lack jack slipped in and in a minute grasped his antagonist by the throat with his wide open jaws end rid then held on lilze lile a bull do dog D all four feet planted stiffly in tile soil the bt stallion allion made tremendous efforts to shako him off lie would try to whirl round and kick him but for for that the jack was too short then he would rise up lifting tile jack off tile tho ground and strike at him with his fore feet but nil all that lie he gained by this ibis was to skin his foes front legs without making him loose his hold twice they fell and twice the i tallion rose lose by main main strength dragging tile jack with him lint but all in vain kealm hile the black horse attacked botch the combatants combatant with perfect impartiality triin inK and kicking them wit with th his hia hoofs while hig teeth as they sl slipped aped off the tough hides met with a duap like that of a blar bear trap undoubtedly the jack would have killed at least one of tho the borks had not tile men inen come up and with sio to small dini culty separated the maddened brutes theodora Theod orz roosevelt Hoo sevelt in the century |