Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-10-24
ROOSEVELT'S COURAGE.
'Ihat Is His Reputation with Wild
Beasts as Well as Men.

The papers are having a good deal
Of fun with Theodore Roosevelt re-
marked far northwestern senator.
They make q mistake, however.
Roosevelt should be taken seriously.
When one knows the new president
OF the New York police board there
IS very little chance for mirth. He
IS man of most tremendous energy.
added to great brain power He is
what some EngIiShman once called
a steam engine in breecheS.' For
myself, without having any intimate
acquaintance with him, l admire
Theodore Roosevelt immensely. His
force, his vigorous intelligence, and
Withal his honesty, have led me 70
like him. Besides that he is a man Of
daundeSS courage. We know a good
deal of Roosevelt out west. You viii
hear of him all through the cattle
ranges west Of the Dakotas. He has
fame there for absolute fearle SSnesS.
He has faced and killed more grizzly
bears, for one thing, than any two
men who ever lived, and man who
enters into personal controversy with
grizzly bear, however well organ
lied for the interview he may be,
must have his nerve with him.
''Then the .'ancheS out where ROoSa-
welt circulates have never been able
to produce a broncho which he dared
not ride. The wilder and more furi-
Gus the animal, the more smilingly
and ingeni0uSly ready was Roosevelt
to mount MIN. And On these br0nclo
as well as OF the bear occasions, it
was noticed that he showed those
white teeth Of his, just as lie does on
police occasions, and about which the
New York papers feel such won
Gr0uS glee.
aside from combatS with bears
and contests with brOnchos. ROoSe
welt has unhesitatingly made various
! battles with three or four hard char
acterS whose trails he crossed in his
western rambles. One character
/ who was regarded as desperate, anC
/ who did business under the nom dt
guerre of Long Ike, once helped him
self to a glass of whisky which Roose
| welt had poured out. Ike evidentl!
relied on his length, his SiX-ShOoter
and his evil fame to make good hi
inSolence. He expected Roosevelt
! would submit tamely or pass it off a.
a joke.
! He was mistaken. Roosevelt in Al
instant had hold of him like tiger
and before Ike had gotten the Whisk.
! or anything else that he might boas
Of he was thrown into the middle O
the street Even then he didn't have
peace, for Roosevelt was after hin
: like a landslide, and had thra she(
him lame and black and blue before
he was five minutes older. Our police
board president then returned to tn
saloon perfectly calm, his white teetl
making their usual exhibition.
1 Nor was Long Ikes scalp his onl.
trophy. Annals of the nOrthWeS
show others. To-day he is famou
through the whole upper Missouri
terly game, and you would not b.
able to find a character so reckless
! of bis own safety in that region Wht
would for slight cause pull on trou
! BILE with Theodore Roosevelt. In rh'
words of one who came in collision
with him: He's as clean strain gam
as a grizzly, and if there's any liv
thing on earth he's afraid of I'd Xix
to see it's brand and learn it's range
I'd want to keep away from it,
( Washington Star.