The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-28
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Alecl1 Majors, the pioneer pony ex-
press manager, is in the city again
for a day or two, having come from
the coast to pay a visit to his old
friends in Salt Lake. Old Gentleman
Majors always has something new to
say about his early life out on the
plains, and this time it was on his
observations on the great American
buffalo.
Wen, SIR was his opening state
ment, ''it seems to me that Providen nee
did more for the buffalo than any wild
animal 1 ever came in contact with.
You know Of course that those chaps
lived on the plains. and in a hundred
ways too numerous to dwell on, they
were taken care Of through the long
cold winter
Did you ever notice that a buffalo
had a perfect chest protector? Great,
bushy hair covered the whole chest of
the animal, and the moment one of
those windy snow storms would come
up the old fellows would square
around and look it straight in the
face and no harm whatever would
come to them.
Buffalo grass on the plains is about
one inch and a half long. guess you
don't know why it was called buffalo
grass, so I'll tell you. The chin and
lower jaw of a buffalo slope directly
back, enabling the animal to reach
over, and eat this short grass with
the greatest ease, which if horses or
! cattle should try it they would immedi-
ately find their lower jaw in the Wa,y
and if there were nothing else around
would starve to death. Another thing,
the wind on the plains nearly always
blows the snow off so that the grass
is not covered and if this sharp wind
does not perform its function a warm
wind invariably comes uD in a day or
two and melts the snow away
Just tell this to the people and it
will put the minds of a host of phil
anthropists to rest, who have wonder
ed for several years what the poor
buffalo, like the flies, did in winter
Don Porter, the genial Templeton
proprietor, got home from his Califor-
MIA trip yesterday as happy as lark
and with a few pounds added to his
robust figure. Mr.. Porter went down
to attend the Hotel Mems Mutual Ben
eft association convention and saws
that they are having a royal time and
that all California is bowling down be-
fore them. Mr.. Porter attended both
banquets rendered to them. at Coro-
nado and in the Palace at San Francis
co, but could not remain for any more
of the fun, being obliged to get home on
business.
Judge Powers left the city yesterday
on quite lengthy business trip to New
York, Washington and other eastern
points, and during his absence Mrs.
Powers will have rooms at the Knuts-
ford.
Templeton arrivals of yesterday were
". H. Hopkins. Cincinnati; J. NJ. Alb
bolt and the Misses Stewart, San Fran
cisco; Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. NJ. Words
worth, Boston; j. S. Kuykendan
Springfield, Ill; R. W. Ferguson, Ill,
and ]. F. Burrows, Kewanee, Ill
AT the Knutsford yesterday were ].
F. Schlingnan, San Francisco; H
PRESS, Baltimore; D. E. Kautz and E.
T. Moneth, Chicago; Henry Klein, NJ
Taylor. Denver; H. Sprague and wife
Omaha, and B. w. Freer Cleveland.
f. II. Hobery and wife, Green Bay
Wis; George Ryan, Eureka; G. A. De-
win, Mercur, and ]. L. Atkinson
Evanston, were all Walker guests Of
yesterday.
/ Among those registering at the Gull
/ len yesterday were c. E. Hanpson
! Omaha: S. C. German, Portland; G.
/ D. Olsen. Fillmore. Mrs. c. F. Easton
/ Des Moines; E. G. Leaf. Pocatella; j
Higgins. Idaho; Dave Evans. Ogden
and J. B. Cinnamon and wife, Sho-
shone.
A. II. Pierson, an editor from New
ark. o., is a guest at the Templeton.