Show I f Wll mf COfm II t4OO oo + G + + < O < I From accounts printed in the eastern press it would seem that Buffalo j Jones whose name is as familiar in Utah as it is in Kansas or elsewhere is lost somewhere along the Saskatchewan or Athabasca rivers up in the Northwest j Territory Buffalo wrote to friends last August stating that he was going up north and that he would communicate with them from somewhere near Prince Albert but from that time nothing has been hoard of him Jones had visited this region before when he brought back a herd of 85 bison but he did not have to go into the wildsr ness after themhe simply bought the bunqh and brought them into tho United States on the hoof It was in June of this year that Jones organized an expedition to go into the Northwest Territory and capture i possible pos-sible a few specimens of that rare animal the musk ox I is found only in the I frozen region and for the purpose of I assisting him four cowboys joined his happy band They were men who had I been with him before and Jones was happy because the men were not strangers i strang-ers They had plenty of provisions enough to last all winter if need be and were in good spirits when they left II t < Jones has a wonderful history He was born in Illinois but that state was too I tame for a man of his kidney and with I the education he had acquired at the I State Normal and Wesleyan Universities west to Kansas I at Bloomington he came settling across the river from 51 Joe Life I here was too slow so Jones traveled west to Garden City where tho crowd rushed during the boom A town of 2000 people was built in almost one night and Jones I was the high man among all He built a block of buildings which would have done credit to a large city and then turned his I attention to irrigation He built miles of ditches and was a financial whirlwind while he lasted I Jones earned his prefix Buffalo in 1S86 when he organized a buffalo hunt and with 1 calves captured on tho expedition j began the propagation of the bison with I more or less success His plan was to cross them with native cattle and make himself famous and rich I did not pan out as might have been expected I was in 18S4 that Jones attained a prominence which made hire kiown om ocean to ocean and from the Gulf to Manitoba Man-itoba He was a delegate from Kansas Ito I-to the Republican national convention and was a Elaine man from start to finish In Chicago he had a banner painted adorned Wgao sh r with shocks of wheat and corn and other agricultural products and then in letters I of gold the following S 50000 For the KANSAS Nominee of the Con 500 ventlon I 75000 For Elaine Wheat and Corn For the Nation I Fall In On top of this was a rooster vith the I i motto Kansas crows for her loyal delegates j dele-gates On the third ballot in the convention con-vention Jones came down the aisle with this banner and the convention went wild I He had pictures of Elaine and Logan on the same and everybody just rose up and screamed Dan Honin the Railway News Reporter man in Omaha was there Dan has a voice which rings like a clarion He wanted Elaine because he believed he could be beaten When Jones struck the floor with that banner Honin began shouting Elaine Elaine Blaine The famous woman in the gallery began waving her handkerchief and sending up her shrill voice in answer to Honins cries and there never was such a scene anywhere any-where Blaine got there Then Jones came farther west He landed here He started a buffalo farm beyond Garfield ahd the noble animal which was killed by A N McKay the Canadian Kit Carson on Antelope island last winter full details of which appeared I in The Herald at the time was one of the remnants of that band of bison which used to cavort and gambol around the park to the edification of visitors I Jones left the Republican party two years ago and joined the Populist party I of which he was a momber when he dls j appeared < 0 For several days there has been an advertisement I ad-vertisement running in an evening paper calling for bids for a sewer on Third East between South Temple and First South i The work I5 worth about J930 according to an estimate But yesterday when the I board of public works met there were no bids This seems very strange when it is bid considered that there are so many men I out 01 employment in this city The contractors I con-tractors say they do not bid because they do not get a square deal at the hands of the administration I |