The San Francisco call., 1896-02-09
Bros o37,o3o, o4Lo43 o45 Market st.
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I the buffalo must have been at least eleven
feet high and weighed not less than 5000

the buffalo must have been at least eleven
feet high and weighed not less than 5000
pounds.
On his return to Chicago Finerty was
sent into Old Mexico, where he remained
for some time writing his impressions of
the country. He returned north to join
another expedition against the Indians in
Arizona and New Mexico, sending graphic
accounts of the campaign to his paper. He
had many narrow escapes from death, but
ran the gauntlet safely and returned home
only to be dispatched to the front again.
He was present on the Canadian line in
1879 when Sitting Bull surrendered to
Major Woods of the Northwest Mounted
Police and participated in the closing
sklrmishes OF this great Indian war.
After peace had been established Finerty
joined geological party that explored the
Rocky Mountain regions, following the
course OF the Lewis and Clark expedition,
and following down the Columbia River to
the Pacific Ocean. An exhaustive descrip-
ton of the country through which he had
passed was afterward published in the
Chicago Times, which In the old days,
when Storey was at its head, was the great
est newspaper in the West. With StoIey's
death the paper lost its grip on the public
mind, and gradually sank, until two years
ago it was bought for song and became
hyphenated with the Chicago Herald.
After severing his connection with the
Times Colonel Finerty established the
Chicago Citizen and devoted his attention
TO the affairs of his native Erin. This
was at time when the Land League was
being established in the United States and
Flnerty threw his whole soul into the
work. He always held extreme views on
the great question, and is now more than
ever convinced that if Ireland ever gains
her liberty it will be won by the sword.
c q ~ ,s.A.<
Flnerty Is man of pronounced conviction.
He walks, talks and acts like man with
opinions OF his own. He is no halfway
patriot. AS an orator Colonel Finerty has
national reputation.
There are orators and orators" saws
writer In the Chicago Chronicle, speaking
OF Flnerty' oratorical attainments. zone
Will nave the light, humorous way of play
ing with facts and logic, like the late
Emery A. Storrs; another will spout musi-
cal prose and say nothing to any purpose,
otner than that of gathering in the dollars,
like Colonel 1ngersoll; still another will
brilliantly travesty history. like the late
iamented James G.. Blaine. Finertv is
not as any one of these. He is an orator
OF better note than any of them. He
does not trif1e in his speeches; he is free of
blank verse, musical mannerisms; he does
not draw forensic drafts on history, rewrit-
ten by himself to suit his occasions; he
never speaks in public but he has some
thing important TO say, and the style he
employs-a style natural to himself-is
napplly correspondent to his matter. It
is terse, telling and brilliant, attracting
ana convincing his hearers, and never
wearying them TO any undue length of his
utterances. And his written is no less ad-
miraoie than his spoken style. In days
agone, when he was writer daily on the
Chlcago press, his articles were ever recog-
nlzable by his friends and admirers, so
characteristic in the turn OF thought and
pnraslng were they of him and different
from the common"
Colonel Finerty served one term in the
ioWer house of Congress and has held i'm
poItant offices in the municipal govern
| ment of Chicago.
Regarding the reception TO Colonel Fin
erty, correspondent writes to THE CALI
| as follows:
HON. John F. Finerty is representa-
i've newspaper man. From reporter o1
tne Times to the editorship CT the Citizen
ne stlll represents that guild. 1t would be
! only proper to select few of our best Irish
journalists (and we have fewl, with J. j
y " brien. Hon. Robert Tobin, George R. B.
HIayes, Colonel Patrick Roland. DR.. @ Neill
IRVINE Graham, Daniel O'Connell, Thomas
E y; flynn, John K. Orr, Colonel j. @
| oConnor, William Cluff, Koger. Magee
e1-Judge J. F. Sullivan, Judge j. F. Coffey
ana such men, whose names are synony'
nous with respectability, ,non-sectarianisnl
ana the Celtic race, to meet him. Flnerty
Will speak on Robert Emmet. The grand