Show 11 o CATTLEMEN LIKE nflEiR CATTLE I Docs the cattleman like his cattle i Well nome of them love the wife ij children first an1 + the cattle next il I the others love the cattle ilrst and wire und children next 3 0 answered Sam N Moses a biff kman from the South Dakota I ln t who mute to Chicago to attend International live stock show Mr css ranch Ic but 150 mlle north 1 I Cellc Fouche and Belle Fouche is 1 town at the northern end of the r k Hills Mr Moses who Is a Tex by birth and a true American Ys a widebrimmed levelcrowned + V felt hat as the only thhtg to show 4 t he is Vestern cattleowner and 1 u cowboy 1 er were a few of his kind l at the 4 tI show who have worn their cor dl suits fur corduroy has taken the tJ pl of leather loggings and buckskin ah on tho plains and a few more have worn their highheeled boots b se they cannot walk well In any oil kind Some have retained the hlfcrowned sombrero with four crs in It to bring the crown to a pot The garb la much toned down frot but 1t was a dozen years ago but > tll Ictuvesquc striking and unique enOl to attract attention in Chicago ThQccn oC the men with the health 2 uIing redbrown coloring and tho mikycs show more of the cowboy andittieman than the clothes 5XEEIC BUT CAN FIGHT SaMoses in common with most of the m who HVCB as he docs has a gent mnnner and appearance that mlgilead a stranger to suppose him n meek1 la possibly like Moses in his tnPcloSs Sam does not say so but othLlwho i know him have no hesl Wbcyl declaring that despite his mild I PPfnce and slender wiry body he 5s a i hty bad man In a rtcht and Is not add of a giant with a popgun or a tins with a amallalzcd cannon Tie knowCue Western prairies and the t wars the catUe from the southern part olexas to the Canadian bound I try I tag been the Sheriff of half a dozen outlen between those two lines Ho hasbcn deputy United States mar shil items been the regular detec tive of t > Western South Dakota Live StoclfQrowers association with duties o ti the nerve and courage of the ncvies and most courageous for I cattle thlevt do not like to be arrested when they re detected and will not hesitate to dot Sam Moses has been shot at anymrnber of times but he doesnt scorn o mind It much Moses saysle came to Chicago juat to see how tale look here and other things ao haould be gladder to get brick home DISADVANGES OF CHICAGO Why I coulnt live In a place like this he deciajd Theres so much noise it seems Cjot compared with the plains And YOt c all cooped up here so close togotlr you can hardly 1 breathe Now o > where I live that lo way up In Chote county between the Black Hllla and tc North Dakota line weve trot some rtm to move about in and plenty of gO frcoh air and sun shine to breathe sere 160 miles north of Belle Fourche nd forty miles from The nearest postofi0 which Is Bixby S D Mails donn brry us any and we get along very wel without the dally paper Did you know BIC Fourche is the greatest single tattshlpplng station In I the world Wellt Is and you can tell the readers of th paper that I say I ao You see theres stretch of level country well pretty stored and Coy ered with Jots of gooauay going north 2flO miles Into NortluOakota and cant 150 miles to the MI sori river and west 300 1 miles or more till m bump Into the Bockles Thtits all cUe and the cril tens get to the marks through Belle Fourche Why In thccprlng and fall after weve made oui roundups and I are ready to ship thet Isnt an3rthng but cattle along the Ekhorn railroad The trains go out ever half hour and the passengers arc runon the aiding when the cattle trains cme along Cat tle Is king there ureA f ure-A LIFE Til AT PAYS Do I like the life Tell T went up Into that country six yars ago worn than broke was three theisnnd In debt My wife and I mado aip ox minI wed p I l work hard and attend strictly to business busi-ness for a few years t and rest afterward after-ward We did It Now the debts are all paid the land we bought with paper pa-per is all outs and the cattle that were mortgaged so we could buy them arc I all clear I 1 Quit the life Well hardly As long as mans got hit health and is strong and can ride llfty or sixty miles a day without feeling It he dont like to turn hiM back on the fourfooted critters lies spent so much of his time with He sort of gets to loving them you see Moses paused and thought a moment and then continued That reminds me of a story thalu true as the gospel too Its a little old but then Itll dhow just how much a man can think of cattle and its good enough to be told again OLD DAYS IN IOWA You young fellows dont think much of the Iowa of now as once having cnn cn-n great stock country the paradise of the cattleman But it was before the farmers came In and spoiled the good ranges with wire fences and plowed fields That was when the cod houses were about four or five miles apart Well there was a cattleman named Jefferson Wheat and thats his real name too who lived south of where Fort Dodge Is now Fort Dodge then was Just a little village big enough for a ponlofflce and a saloon and a gam bling house or two and maybe a dance halL Wheat ate cattle thought cattle talked cattle and at last ho dreamt cattle He said hed rather be with a bunch of cattle than anywhere else he knew of This winter was pretty hard Along In March there came an oldfashioned driving blizzard from the north It blew for three days and the six inches of snow was turned Into crusty ice A few days after the storm stopped or a few nights Jefferson Wheat had a dream It was so clear he told his wife and children about it at tho breakfast table He dreamed he saw a bunch of cattle huddled together In a canobrakc starving to death because they didnt I have any feed and couldnt get through the Ice to the water He saw the place pretty well In his dream but had never been there when awake FOLLOWED HUNCH FROM DREAM The next night he dreamed the same thing over Just exactly as it was the first night only some of the cattle had dropped played out And the third night he dreamed it again He told his family that he was going out to hunt for those cattle and not to worry about him or expect him till they saw him So he loaded his big wagon with meal and hay hitched four horses to It and started out He went south toward the marshes and pretty soon the country commenced to get r familiar It was what he had seen In his dreams About thirty miles from home he dime to the canebrake and right In the middle of it he found a bunch of fifty cattle nearly dead Some of them were dead or lying on the Ice dying All of them were half dead The cane around them had been chewed oft but they hadnt the strength or the courage to leave the shelter of the brake to go out In the cold and hunt for something to cat or water Well sir Wheat began < < work at once He broke through the Ice over the water and carried the stuff to them In buckets They were too weak to take a dozen steps to get it Ho heated the moal and made a warm porrldse for them and fed it to them like they wan babies and the hay too He staid right by them nursing them Just like thY were hIs own children for two weeks When his meal and hay gave out hed trot home after more At the end of two weeks he had the critters so they could travel and he drove them back to his ranch Hed pulled thirty fie of em through Wheat found out some lime later l that the cattle belonged up in Minnesota Minne-sota a hundred miles away Theyd run before the blizzard and got In the canebrake to escape the cold r the first shelter they came toO to-O yes he got his reward The owner own-er cave him five head But then he said he didnt do It for rewardhe did it because he loved 1 the critters and didnt want to see em suffer Now thats a true story Taint 1 any of our fiction made up to fit the oc canlon Chicago Tribune l |