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Show CAREER OF "BUFFALO JONES." President's Guide Not Considered a Daring Plainsman. The telegrams recited the other day that President Roosovelt had put himself him-self under the guidance of "Buffalo Jones" on entering the Yellowstone park. Every time "Buffalo Jones" is mentioned the people on the western border of Kansas are inclined to laugh. As a daring plainsman Jones is a good deal of an impostor. He went to western Kansas as late as 1874 with the homesteaders. He had been a nurseryman in Doniphan county. coun-ty. His life was spent in pursuing the desperate apple tree grub, and his exploits against the rabbits were many. After reaching western Kansas Kan-sas he got some little notoriety by going out and catching a few buffalo ' calves, attracting attention onlv be: cause 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. |