Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1882 — On the Back of a Wild Buck. [ARTICLE]

On the Back of a Wild Buck.

The crewjof the Explorer, as she was leaving Punta Rassa, Florida, Sunday, saw a fine buck just ahead, swimming for Sinnabel Island to the High Pines, distant about ten miles. No one on board had a gun, so the cook took his axe and with others, manned the small boat and set out in hot pursuit, but every time they would get nearly close enough to strike him the deer would dodge; at last G orge Richardson jumped upon his back, but the deer did not Lke such familiarity, and liked to have drowned him before the others could assist. Eve .t----ually he was killed, and was found to be a giant of his kind, weighing one hundred pounds.—Key West Democrat. In the attempted arrest of a Raton, New Mexico, gambler, three men were shot and killed, and two wounded. The gambler was lynched by the citizens.