Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1912 — HOG RESENTED BEING ROPED [ARTICLE]

HOG RESENTED BEING ROPED

Exemplar of Western Methods Happens to Speed With Porker, and He Is Reluctant. t . New York. —Herman Oechli, a farmer of Sandy Ground, a hamlet on the west end of Staten Island, called in three of his neighbors, John Foster, William Farley and Robert Brlnley, to help him kill his prize porker. “This is some hog.” commented Oechli. as he pointed proudly to a pen where grunted a 400-pound Berkshire. “We’ll get him outof the pen,” said Foster, who formerly was a cowboy in Wyoming. The hog was driven from the pen and Foster hurled a lasso about his neck. ; “That’s the way we did the trick in /Wyoming,” he laughed. The pig objected to the lariat and started off. Foster held back, winding the rope about his arms and body. Then the pig decided he was good for a distance. “Stop me!” yelled Foster. His three companions started in pursuit The porker broke through a gate, reached the road and made off in the direction of St. George “Can’t you stop me?” Foster continued to yell. - . So fast didnhe hog run that soon OeChli, Farley and Brlnley were distanced. Foster wanted to be distanced. but the rope would not permit A mile down the road Foster was still yelling, “Stop me!” and seemed really put out when persons be met stepped aside to give hlm &pd thg h< * B rldAr tT&CIL. ' . ■ When the bog at last stopped to get breath Foster was no winded he could r ~ TXT’ ~~ ~~ A. r-1? f .

not disentangle himself After his three friends released him he sputtered: “It’s my pleasure to kill that hog,” and he did.