St. Paul daily globe., 1886-05-09

Daily life is spiced, as it were. by con-
tact with characters who are
odd, little different from anybody else,
and III whose makeup Nature seems to
have experimental or perpetrated a little
joke at the expense of the human race
One OF these characters is j. w. Proctor,
who has just put in another appearance in
st. Paul. He is an adopted son of the wild.
wild West and wears its habilments in the
concentrated civilization of the metropolis,
as part OF his distinctive characteristics. He
is HooSier by birth, was soldier at 20,
and frontiersman little later. He knows
Dakota. Indians and all, like a book,
and is one of the best known characters in
that flourishing territory. He located at
Bismarck about the time the first shanty
was put up. and has made that point his
home most of the time ever since. The
Indian language is his delight. and he
knows most of the Indians in Dakota and
Montana personally, and has an intelligent
Chippewa woman for a wife. He is a long,
well-built man, six feet six inches in stat
ure, and many will remember his buck
skinned figure Oh the streets of st. Paul
last summer, in which he often appeared
astrlde OF a little Indian cayuse. He is a
man OF energy, Schemer and a general huSt-
Ter. During some of the Indian troubles he
was scout in the employ of the govern
ment. His especial delight is in hunting
and is never so we'll satisfied as when in
the mountains or river bottoms where he
can see bear tracks or stalk the wary deer
Very few guns shoot as straight as his and
II there is any game within ten miles of
him he will have some fresh meat before
the next night. His well-known skill as a
hunter and guide and his acquaintance with
the western country have put him at the
head of good many hunting parties and
he has probably killed more large game in
Dakota than any other man in the ter
ritOry.
He rolled into st. Paul last summer with
small menagerie he had collected himself
in the West, and \
in the fall went
to Montana to put iA \
in the winter in w \MN
the mountains. ~
During this time L IN 4
he has travelled "A u.
with his gun, ~ x M
camp outfit and .HII !,
pony. up the Big X ~ T& ]
Horn river to the~~R. r. II
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tains, and hunted (itS NH UFW
over most of the -N\kkXLV'kj
southern part of CvNT ~ !HI.
Montana east of\NN -NL,r%MrA r..
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the National w. X i
park, sleeping - n ),") n;
andrustling alone " = m! il VI
in the wildest,-..\ = NV i 4 II
part of the coun- - WI r Il ~
try. He reports =. NNd I! a. Al
having killed II MA 4 Y
three mountain ri lVl M-2-Ii.
lions, several bears and any number of
deer, mountain sheep and smaller game,
and has to show for it quantity of skins
heads, horns and curiosities. Two or three
years ago he took a prominent part in a
big, wild West show that stranded in Chi
cago, and for couple of summers has been
running one of his own part of the time
over the Northwest. He says, since his re-
turn, that he will organize one during the
present season, and has engaged the SER
vices OF several Indians and noted Western
characters, among them Liver eating J ohm
son, an old Indian fighter of Montana;
Charley Cummings, noted Iasso throw er,
and eArrapahOe Charley, whom he calls
''b'oncho buster.''. Unlike most frontier
characters, he seldom swears or drinks, is
popular, widely known and peaceable when
nobody is jumping OH him. He vibrateS
between civiliZatian and the wilderness, is
equally at home in both, and can entertain
the inhabitants of either with large-sized
stories about the other.