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Show CAREER OF "BUFFALO JONES." President's Guide Not Considered a Daring Plainsman. Tho telegrams recited tho other day that President Roosevelt had put himself him-self under the guidance of "Buffalo Jones" on entering tho Yellowstono 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 ot an impostor. He went to western Kansas as late aa 1874 with the homesteaders. He bad been a nurseryman In Doniphan county. coun-ty. His life was spent In pursuing tho desperate apple tree grub, and his exploits against the rabbits were many. A(ter reaching western Kansas Kan-sas ho got some little notoriety by going out and catching a few buffalo calves, attracting attention only because 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. |