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Show ' l - ' " "JIUITALOMOM-S. j ONE OF THE MOST UMQ'JE FICUBE8 ' IN THE WtaT. Oalne.1 a Xatlnnal ftapiitelloa a a lltif- Uanler-Prominent la rolltleal Mr. Flnl n Krpul'llran, Than a 4 a'apullai, (nr.r.lal Letter.) . . "nuTulo" Jonps la dead. The great est frlt-iul Hip dumb brut-s over had 1 has lift them mid In a few years tho n.itne of C. J. Jones will lie fort-otteri. ' Ho wa oue of tho roost utilipie charac- ' j tors In KiiiMt, the 'home of great ;;V nun hnd freaks." "Iluff.ilu" Jon'i "A' was known from one unci of the conn- J try tu t',n uthiT, mill u complete story ';; j- of lil life wouhl outrtviil any h-mk nf Action yet pulillMicd. Karly lu his y"th ho cultivated a benign feeling . 'or clunib brutes, anil Ilia sympathy . was not wit hunt lt reword, for h f animal frlcnde rrantil to understand fala affection fur th m anil eagerly re-apondi re-apondi ii to It. Ilu ilnnn stleat.-d number of liurrilo, using them fur ng-"cultural ng-"cultural purposes anil demonstrating .. that they hail utility oilier than that found In their pelts. Ilia appeals for ' "" the ilunili race, however, wero In vain, - ' nd h lived to aeo the great family I pass away under hla very cyea. A linlqae Careen C. J. Jiined waa boro In Tnt-wcll county, III., and was 71 yeara old. He i received a flrst-clasa edticstlon In the tlllnola Bute Normal school and for a time waa a atudent In Wealryan iinl-vendty. iinl-vendty. After leaving school ht went to Kansaa, settling In Troy, at that time one of the oldest communities In the atate. Ho lived quietly hero for a time, then became restleaa and with a crowd of speculators started for western west-ern Kansas. They located at Carden City, and In one night a town of 2.000 Inhabitants sprung up. Jones was chief boomer. Ha built a business 'ock and waa the first man to tsct i ' the mining of crops In the desert by J means of Irrigation. J The prefix "BufTalo' wss tncked to I Jones' name fifteen yeara ago. In the ! early part of 1SK8 he organized a buffalo buf-falo hunt at Garden City In which about fifteen citizens participated, f The bunt lasted Ave days and the j hunters killed all buffalo and captured ' -a . fourteen calvea. The young animals were taken to Jones' farm near Oar-den Oar-den City and he began the nropagntlon of the American buffalo. He could not C. J. "BUFFALO" JONES. ; wait until the small herd should mul tiply and Increase and secured eighty-five eighty-five more blsun, Thciie he got near I Manitoba, Canada, and while en route from there to hla farm In Gordon City be gave eihlhltlons In all the principal princi-pal cities, Iliirfnlo meat at that time waa selling for fifty cents a pound In Chicago, and Jones thought that by crossing the bison with native cattle ha would have fortune In a few years. But this enterprise proved a failure and a few years ago he sulci the last of his stock to Austin Corbln. National folllleal Cigars. Jones waa a delegate from Kansas to the National Republican convention of 1884, held at Chicago, and It waa ! there that be gained a promlnenco which spread from ocean to ocean. He waa an enthusiastic admirer of I James O. Blaine and upon hla arrival In Chicago bad a banner made. Around the margin were painted pictures pic-tures of sheaves of wheat, shocks of corn and other Illustrations setting ' I forth the agricultural possibilities of Kansaa. Within this border, In letters let-ters of gold that could be read a block away, were these words: "Kansas! Fifty thousand for the Nominee of the Convention. Seventy-five Thousand for Blaine. Wheat and Corn for the Nation. Fall In." Perched on the too of this banner was a big live roos ter, with a streamer tied to hla neck bearing these words: "Kansaa crows for bet loyal delegates." This was "the banner that booated lllaine and locked the Logun link." The duy on which the great convention met, lluf- falo Jones, with a howling nines of hu- inanity, following a band pluing Hall t Columbia, marched thruugh State I ' street, Wabash avenue and Dearborn street carrying this banner. At the . critical hour In the convention, when the third ballot Indicated that the next would nominate the man fioin Maine. , Jones, who had attached to his banner pictures of Ulstne and I-ogan, marched I down the aisle of the convention hull, i crcatlnf the wi dest eicltem nt and en- i thuslasni. This demonstration not only - made Blaine's nomination certain, but t It sealed the fate of a number of vice presidential candldatea and gave the ' honor to General Logan. I Five yeara ago "UulTalo" surprised , bis frlsnds by renouncing Republlcan- ' lam and Joining the I'opullst party. i 1 |
