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Show MATADORS TO MEET I WILD BUFFALO BULL II Splendid Specimen Shipped to 84ltair j to Test Mettle of Flghfors. All doubt that may have etitted In N be iiilnda of tho Saltalr management Hid others as to the nblllt of tbo slnnd Improvement company to fur tiifl. 'i biitrnlo bull to fight the Spanish Span-ish matadors nt tho arena at the resort re-sort tonight was dispelled yesterday cwnlng, when a cnttlo boat from An-tolope An-tolope Island nncboied off the rcscit with a buffalo bull on board. The utilmr.l had been easily captured. cap-tured. The threodny chase Is characterized charac-terized by John li Dooly, Jr., manager o' the ranch foices, as ono of the hardest Jobs' he ccr tackled. The en-d en-d u ran re of the buffalo Is, amazing, 'ibo men In pursuit worked with three clays of horses nnd ocn then might not have succeeded so readily but for the characteristic of tho buffalo that ho will travel many miles after tho chase has really Btoppcd befoic be will finally bo content In tho belief that ho Is bale fiom molestation. Al tlnioi, It Ih Mild, a buffalo will pu' Iwentj-flvo dr thirty miles between himself and his pursuers. tint with ficsh horses to take up the chase ns booh as the animal showed sign of desiring to feed, the' piiisulra finally persuaded him to ac-compan ac-compan another buffalo Into the cor-;al cor-;al After that It was comparatively easy.. Of the two bulls in the corral ono showed a disposition to "sulk" and the other to fight on tho slightest pictcNt. It wiib the more spirited animal ani-mal that was got Into a crate and tr loaded on to tho cattle1 boat. ' After a day's rest nt the uiena pen, he will bo toady, for tho battlo with the matadors tonight, and tho Salti Lako City public will have an oppor-tunlty oppor-tunlty of seeing somothlng sceh but' bcldop In theso days, n buffnlo bull nt bay. Kmployees of the Island 'Improve-1 ment company say they want to bo on hand to see the 'fight, and that It ought to be a good ono. They declare that a buffalo handles himself differ-1 ently on his feet from n bulbils, much milckor to spring to the chargo and iniuch moro likely to concentrate his entire attention on ono toreador rath , or than bo diverted from finishing his deadly work, if possible, by a rag flaunted In his fnco from another di-lection. di-lection. Tho buffalo, they say, advances ad-vances in tho final seconds of tho charge In stiff-legged leaps, rather than In n Bteady rush, and they think he will tear out tho shelters ,around tho arena In pursuit of an eliisfv bull fighter. Felix Robert, however, has confidence confi-dence in tho ability ot his toreadors to elude attack. He has participated In fights agalns't buffalo In Mexico. "Tho buffalo," he said laSt night, "Is a more powerful and moro re-lcntlebs re-lcntlebs too than .a bull. He has much greater endurance. At Culdad Juarez wo fought ono, and after tbonatador was through with him the buffalo was pitted against a bull. Ho destroyed the bull." Wednesday's Tribune. |