The sun., 1900-09-17
ROOSEVELT'S DAY OF REST.
UNEvENTFUL TRIP FROM BISMARCK TO
MEDORA, MONTANA.
II Was sunday and the Governor Refused to
Make speeches, but at the various stations
He shook Hands With the People and Saw
Lot Of Men He Had known on the Ranges.

He shook Hands With the People and Saw
I Lot Of Men He Had Known on the Ranges
| GLESDIvE. Mon Sept le.It has been
! day Of friendly greeting and renewal oil refnl-
| nisceDce OF the border life for Gov. Roosevelt
| II has been most favorable break In the strain
| Of constant political talk and campaigning
| Senator HansbrOugh told Col. Roosevelt yester-
I day that the people OF this part Of the country
! lad looked for his coming ever since the Phila-
| delphia Convention aud would be grevouSy
! disappointed II he did not speak TO them. even
though II was Sunday The Governor said that
| he could not helplt lie realized that a certain
number Of stops must be made for railroad
reasons. On such occasions. II there were
I people at the stations he supposed that they
would feel rather hurt if he did not go out and
shake hands with them. and he was very glad
| To have the chance TO do So. It would be ever
| la-tingly unfriendy Of him to return oil the
| past kindneSses OF his old neighbors by staying
| shut hp IN the Minnesota" while his train was
| standing in their presence.
/ II was arranged that all haste should be made
| in reaching Medora the nearest station 10
| the ranches the Governor used 10 own on the
| Little Missouri There he had thoroughly
happy afternoon. His old friend sheriff foles.
had a horse waiting for him and he went on
| up into the platcaus of the Bad Lands and
| was alone much Of the afternoon.
| Al Dickinson, y. d.. where a stop was
made for water. folks had come In from
| the country for miles around TO see the train
| pass through They were headed by two
! Lutheran ministers from the German settle
ment In the back country aud the pastor of the
| Dickinson Congregational Church. The Gov
| ernor went down among the people and found
! among them lot of men lie had known on the
ranges There WAS a COMPANY OF the hrst
| North Dakota regiment campcd down near
| the station. They remained in company Tor
| nation until the Governor went over and
| asked them to shake hands with HIM There
| were eight or ten men In the crowd with whom
| the Governor had worked In the roundup
| and FIVE times as many with whom he had speak
| ing acquaintance. 4 large delegation Of Ger
mans was brought up 10 the Governor ana
he spoke with many Of them In German.
From Dickinson the train ran down into the
| Rad Lands on the top Of the rise that ends
at Fribnrg is a sign, with letters two feet high,
| inscribed with lis name and a sdetrack nothing
more There Is not house IN sight thouKh
the ground is high a62y" NE sqbrIguhalas b o,,ls
! country A mile beyond Is where Bad LANDS
Charley" stands guard over his domain, MS ne
| has stood gun in hand since tho waters washed
! the earth away from the petrihed roots that
make his form Almost before any one could
| realize II the train was whipping in ana out
OF tho buttes and the gulliGs where the hii!s
uut on paths Of hlue-grav sage brush,
Joe Ferris, who was one of the Governors
men on the Elkhorn Ranch. went with MIN on
| the VI innesota from Bismarck 20 Meaora They
| sat side by side In front ~ the WINDOWS, ana
| every twisted. craggy butte reminded ,Ia ,lem
| of their COW punching days. Joe wondered
| II the Goyernor remembered the Pike" who
| was the bad man Of Medora twelve years ago
| The Governor did remember how the IKE
| had come into town one dag and had offered
| 10 lick the town, one at time Ho ncked twol
but snyder got him down ana knet on his , o,'s9s
coffee cup OF course the Governor sara every
body thought that the Pike was gone i2r
pounded and pounded away AZ @ last ne ne yehme,dd hn,d
! most plaintivey: somebody conc ana holo
him while get OF; he's tirins me me out out, had
| become "f Hell roaring BIZ Jones who was
| Sherif when the Governor was deputy SheTili
lone and the lmatic The lunatio was put
| on a train because he shot man on Northern
Pacific train ju-t out Of Mandan, The conduc;
asked II there was peace oncer there, and,
as Bill Jones said at,erward he wa, & jH5t f9ol ,S
IunapIc and kept him in the jail. snyder could
! run considerable, and sometime. they used TO
| run him down, giving the lunatic forty and q
| hundred yards start Il the inhauo had
got away from Sn De, ,heE m.t t tbsN nsVe nsyea hsa
| did But Bill got awfuly tired OF keeping
! that hnatic. There was mean man named ii
! afterward who kept coming around the jail
! nights and whispering to the lunatic that he q
| let him Out, and the mnatc could skull Hell
| Roaring Bil and get away But Bill fixed
| Bixby He rgged a roEe around sle outside
of the jail and fixed II on the latch of the door
| SO that the next time BiNby came sneaking
! around the Shcrif pulled the string and the
unatic got out That Was the time when
| BiXby's nose was bitten on.
Al Niedora forty or more Of GOV. Roose-
vet's old friends we're gathered on the plat
! form TO meet him, There was the WIDOW
Roberts with 9t % OF heT daGs9Sers rJos Mh0 were
! ranges There was George Myers, who TOOK
| the Governor by the arm ana hustled nm
! down tho PLATFORM ana said TO him with me
ano YOU remember the time wewere out after
mountain sheep and made green biscuits
aIdo,a said the Governor. lido George. and
! remember the time you fried the beans with
George cacked for JOY and said: Well
| now, Governor, was thinking II would De
good idea TO get thar man Bryan up, here and
| see what that kind Of biscuit would DO Tor
Along came one Owens. known TO all the Little
Missouri country as a lifelong Democrat,
Democrats yesterday afternoon TO decide
/ got Kind Of fun. Bill. YOU remember my
| brother he got kind Of full, and when the old
iMe2T M over 'he m ecTea21 sgf S%' we was both asleep
and he couldn't wake, us up, and there was no
body to make notion and the d9Tned fasifms GiGn,
strong on De,noCracy this year somehow"
I'd Dietz an old hunting crony Of the Gov
ernor's, limped up I'd wasn't feeling good.
A recent difficulty with a buCking horse had
jammed him up some, and his feelings felt
worse than his ribs. There was still pending
difference OF opinion IA To whether he had been
thrown or whether the horse had lain down
on him and rolled him of, which no
man can well help Nearly every man |
In the gathering had some incident
| for the Governor and two-horse team
for the tanderfoot bunch. to wit. the Hon. John
Proctor Clarke Of the city OF New York and Col. |
| Curtis Guild Of the city ~ Boston. They went |
one way and the Governor went another. From
time 10 time afterward he was seen on the edge
OF one or another Of the buttes that tower over
| the little settlement. He came back In two !
hours With his face burned and his eyes spark |
| ling his right ann swinging free, cowboy |
fashion as he gallOped in.
! Ii yns good 10 hear what Foley and Folles |
and Dh,tz and FHrris and the rest had 70 say OF
Pettigrew's remark the other day that he didn't
believe Roosevelt could rope a steer II he tried
They did not say things about the Senator |
that could well be- repeated in THE Sun, but |
the general drift of their remarks was
that II ever they wanted help in a roundup |
or for any kind OF range work. Teddy Roose- |
welt was plenty good enough for them If he |
wanted lob Folles incidentally Is man |
who rides from 90 20 100 miles a day with |
cattle nearly every day Of his life. In the Bad
Lands his Judgment commands rcsDcct
One by one before the train left Medora the |