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Show ROOSEVELT IN CIirSSDOLE Rides Long Distance Across the Plains of Wyoming, hut Never Tires. ADMIRES PLUCK OF MEN WHO MADE WEST REN.0WNED Puncher Who Can Bulldog Steer With Broken Wrist Is Colonel's Idol. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Aup. 28. On tough wiry cow-ponies, Theodore Roosevelt Roose-velt rode thirty miles today across tho plains of Wyoming. He wanted to jiet back onco more anionc the cowboys in their own country and miugle with thorn as lie did iu tho old days, twenty-seven years ago, when tho liiro of tho west brought him out here, a young man, from tho east. He rodo far out into tho vast browif stretches of open county, leaving tho citv nnd its crowds far hohind. Ho viBitod tho sheep ranch of Senator Warren, and rolurncd to Cheyenne Chey-enne tonifht, moro euthusiastic than ever about tho wonders of tho west. Colonel Roosevelt bcean today by going go-ing to church. With Timothy F. Burke of Cbcyonno, United States district attorney, at-torney, ho attendod tho First Congregational Congre-gational church. After tho service was over tho people crowded around hint, and he shook hands with everybody. Then he hud lunch, and early tn the afternoon put on his riding suit and mounted his horse. Tlioro was a wido difforoncc of opinion opin-ion about town as to whether tho colonel would bo good for tho wholo ride and eomo bets wero mado that ho would not. Ho hud a relay of thrco horsos, and he rodo them like a cavalryman. When the rido was over ho said ho had enjoyed overy minute of it, and was not a bit stiff of sore. His mounts were spirited ones, which gavo him a littlo thouble, but ho kept a tight grip on tho reins and never lost control. Xdeutonaut Thompkius of Fort D. A. Russell, R. S. VanTasslo, who owns a ranch noar Cheyenne and Nat Baker, a runchman accompanied tho colonel. Talks With Companions. They cantored across tho plains, stop- fiiug now and then whilo tho colonel alked with soma, cow punchers, asking them how thim's are nowadays in the cattlo country. They rodo through solitudes soli-tudes with no human being in sight oxcopt ox-copt tho merabors of their party, and with the plains stretching out endlessly endless-ly on ovory side. As it began to grow dusk they5 camo to tho ranch of Senator Sena-tor Warren, whore tltoy stopped for supper. Senator Warren's ranch is sixteen mile3 from Cheyonne. Tho senator has 30,000 acres of semi-arid land, sottio of which ho dovotes to dry-fnrnnng. In the middle of the ranch there is a little lit-tle settlement of long, low buildings, of which the rauch house, where Senator Sen-ator Warren lives, part of tho time, is tho chiof ono. Thcro aro sheds under which tho cattlo aro driven in hard Weather; corrals, a blacksmith shop, the house of tho ma.iordomo and tho Bltacks in which tho cowboys nnd range riders sloop. Everybody in tho littlo villago turned out to welcome Colonel Jtooao-vclt Jtooao-vclt with a cowboy yell, and tho colonel shook hands nil nromtd. The cowboys and shoophcrdcrs woro dressed in their Sunday bost Thoy wore silk shirts of flaming colors with scarfs around their necks and chaps' of rod or green or yellow. yel-low. Colonel Roosevelt spent two hours there. Ho said that ho was well" able to rido back to Choyonno on horseback, but as it wo8 dark, ho docidod to make the roturn trip by automobile, "I jini really very much impressed by what I havo seen hero." Colonel Roosevelt said. "Tho froutier eclcbra- Continued on Pago Two. ROOSEVELT IN COWBOY SADDLE Continued from Pago One. Hon yesterday was remarkable. T want to call attention to tho fact that the majority of tho people who took part in the events yesterday are people from this section and not cow puno.hcrs who have been thirty-one years with shows. They aro the real thing. The exhibition yesterday was a great object lesson. I liko to see such courage and such ad-mirablo ad-mirablo qunlitios as wore displayed. "There was little Luella Irwin. Her face was covered with marks of the injuries in-juries which she received by hor two falls of just tho day before, nnd yet she rodo in the race yesterday and won it, too. Then there was Buffalo Yernon. 1 noticed that when he went out to bulldog tho steer lie wore a leather bandage around his wrist. I asked him why ho wore it, nnd Jio told mo ho had broken his wrist the day before. Now it is a pretty hard job for a man with every bone sound to bulldog a steer. Buffalo Vernon did it witli a broken wrist." The colonel also spoke of Lieutenant Tyndall of the Fourth field artillery, ctnfinnnl nf FriT-'f T?nccnll Tlira lioilfon- ant's horse foil during tho hurdle race yesterday, nnd rolled over him. "Tyndall got up in a second, jumped on his horse again, and went back iu the race," Colonel Roosevelt said. "That takes pek. "I am sorry that T did not see Joe La Force yesterday," tho colonel wont on. "When I was out horo scvon years ago I rodo from Laramie to Qhoyenuo, fifty-seven miles, on a relay of horsos. Marshall Hartsoll nnd Joe La Force rodo with me. "La Force is a man about five feet, four inches tall, smiling and pleasant, with a long nnd varied career of justifiable justi-fiable homicide. T like both Hartsoll and him. I saw Hartsoll yesterday and he told mo Joe was in town. I tried to find him, but could not. "Another old friend I saw yesterday is a man whom I know only as Ed. T was riding across the country twenty six years ago and crossed the Missouri river at Clear Ford, when T ran across Ed. He was driving a string of horsos and I helped him drive them for half a day, Yesterday ho came up to me and asked me if I remembered him." Colonel Roosevelt will leave Chej'-enne Chej'-enne at 7:35 o'clock tomorrow morning for Denver. Ho is to spend the day thero and speak to tho Spanish wilt veterans, the legislature and the livr stock associations. |
