Show AR EER OF BUFFALO JONES presidents guide not considered a oaring daring plainsman the telegrams recited the oth other erday day that president roosevelt had put himself under the guidance ot of buffalo jones on entering the yellowstone park every time buffalo jones Is mentioned the people on oa the western border ot of kansas are inclined to laugh As a daring plainsman jones Is a good deal ot of an impostor he went to western kansas as late as aa 1874 with the homesteaders he had been a nurseryman in donaphan Donl phan county Y his hl life was spent in pursuing the desperate apple tree grub and nd his exploits against the rabbits were many after reaching western kansas ho he got some little notoriety by going out and catching a few buffalo calves attracting attention only because the buffalo had become nearly extinct catching buffalo calves by the way was a sport among the plains children like gathering johnny jump ups Is among their eastern fellows kansas city journal |