The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-11-27
A PLAINSMAN OF RENOWN.

! of Blaine and Who Has Striven t
) Save the Buffaloes.
&c. j. Jones" Is the signature upo
, the hotel register. 1t stands for "Buf
, falo JONES' plainsman, scout, politi
/ clan and Arctic adventurer, preserve
of the buffalo, and intimate friend O
Colonel Henry Inman, the author, VIII
died in Topeka last Monday. Buffal
! Jones' is as full of anecdotes as the bool
) which Colonel Inman wrote about him
and he related the story of how he ant
the author became acquainted.
II was delegate to senatorial con
vention in Hays City, way back early il
the seventies, and Major Inman was
also one of the delegates. He was from
Ellsworth. In some way which I could
never very well explain / took fancy
to the man, and to show my apprecia-
ton 1 voted for him. The major was
very much surprised, and as soon as
the vote was announced he arose and
declared in his emphatic way that he
was not a candidate for office and he
didn't want anybody to vote for him.
He said he was surprised that his name
should have come up and he didn't I'M
derstand it at all. From that day to
the day of his death we We're friends.
The book which made him famous, The
Santa Fe Trail was written after he
began work on my own Forty Years of
Adventure and, in fact, 1t was sug-
+ ed t.1 u Ia oott nj
for the latter
Aside from his varied career as a
| plainsman, Buffalo Jones has a polit-
ical history which is worth telling. He
was one of the stanchest friends and
most valuable supporters of James G.
Blaine when the Maine statesman was
candidate for president In Chicago,
where the convention which nominated
Blaine was held, Jones became famous.
He arrived there from Kansas with
banner bearing the legend, kansas will
go $4,000 for the nominee--75000 for.
James G. Blaine" This banner was
laughed at in some quarters. but be-
fore the convention was over Jones had
become the hero of the OCCASION and
Blaine was nominated.
You see," said Mr.. Jones, "the diff
ficulty lay in the fact of Logans pop
ularity. The general was a candidate,
and he had many warm supporters who
were not willing to sacrifice him for
Blaine. / went to work then, and under
Blaine's picture on my banner / put
Logans, designating him for the vice.
presidency. When the banner was
again carried into the convention hall 1t
took like wildflre, and men yelled them
selves hoarse. He locked the Logan
link! and That's the ticket. that's the
ticket! they cried And 80 it turned
out The prediction on the banner
about Kansas came near being true, for
my state went seventy-two thousand
for Blaine"
Buffalo" Jones was the first man to
introduce bill In any legislature in the
country providing for the Australian
ballot system This was early in the
eighties. Unfortunately, the bill did |
not getsbeyond the committee to which
1t was referred, and Kansas did not get
the Australian ballot system until
years after. The bills introduced by
Jones during the three terms he served
were models Of elegance in diction and +
"SAS 5CtsSi uP Will SIGdl IGSdIu 10 I
technical legal points, much to the won
Ter OF some of Jones fellow legislat tors.
tones was always man of the people,
Who, though well educated, was al
ways considered more of plainsman
han scholar. A disclosure made by
tones explains this:
Colonel Inman drew up all of the
bills which I introduced in the Kansas
egislatufe,' he said
Buffalo Jones is best known for his
fforts to preserve the American bison.
While these efforts have ended in ,
Taught as far as the buffalo In his wild 8
tate Is concerned, the result otherwise
nay yet make \snug fortune for {
ones. He Is the breeder of what he
as named catalo, the cross between a
uffalo and shorthorn.
Il have on my ranch near Goodnight.
'exas," said Mr.. Jones, about three
undred catalo, and I firmly believe :
hey are the coming cattle of the world. ,
have sold a good many. and herds
re now being raised in Montana and !
ther states, as we'll as abroad, notably
Russia. The strongest point In ia
or of catalo is the fact that they will
Gather any storm. Stockmen consid-
that they are doing well If they lose
ot more than twenty-five per cent. of
leir herds during a hard winter. but y y
18th catalo there is no loss They have Il
le buffalo instinct, and, when a bliz-
'rd comes up, instead of turning tail
Re cattle, they face the storm A
lizard does not affect them In the
asst They root through the snow
Se hog into the ground, and get to
q grass in that way, where cattle
ould be helpless and require fodder. =
mother thing which makes them valu-
lie Is their hides They are better
an buffalo robe. I scld one hide re-
ntly for two hundred and eighty dol
RS. This looks like fabulous price,
It when it Is taken into consideration
at the fur is finer than sealskin and
ore serviceable, 1t is not so wonderful 3
ter all"-Kansas City (Mo) Journal.
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