Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-08-16
Mr.. Sylvanus Ferris.

legs, and there is. a. good deal Of
chained lightning inside Of a horse.
hide sometimes. He took a lot of sat
5isfaction in breaking horses in sbron-5
5cho busting, as the story writer's call
itt--and he could tame down a tricky
and vicious beast as well as anybody.
He never did it for show, but from a.
desire to conquer. He knew that he
was superior to those brutes, and when
ne saw an unruly horse he felt an in
clination to demonstrat that superior
ity. He always broke the horses for.
his own ranches. Sometimes he got
thrown. Once he broke a rib. An
other time he was laid up for several
weeks with a lame shoulder, and he
had several other narrow escapes, but
he was no quitter. When he under
took a job he generally finished it--by
Godfrey, Sylvane, that was tough
one, he used to say. think more of
Theodore Roosevelt than any man 1
ever met. Sst
No, he has nothing here now ex-
cept four old horses on the retired list
the horses he used to ride hunting
and on the range When he sold his
stock he told me to reserve them. He
may have intende to take them east,
but never did, and they are now out
on the range, pensioners, as you might
say.
Roosevelt was interested in two
ranches" I" continued Mr.. Ferris. He
was a partner Of mine in the Maltese
Gross ranch, and had one Of his own
with about !, 900 cattle. !
a'He is tough, too,' interrupted Joe
Ferris. He don't get tired. He has
as much endurance as any man ever
hunted with. remember the first
time we went buffalo hunting. He and
| | went together. got him as easy a
horse as could find and reckoned that
I'd better be little easy with him on
the start, as he was just out from the
lcity, but, by Jimmy! he tired me all
out, and toward night begun to feel
like asking him to be a little easy on
me. We got lost that night and had
to sleep out. We couldn't find the
trail anywhere, but we unsaddled and
lay down in the brush and made our
supper off some biscuits we had in our
pockets. During the night our horses
broke away and stampeded. We
heard EN- go, and the only thing to do
was to follow them up, because there
was no telling how far away they
might get before morning, as luck
would have it, we stumbled on to them
after a short tramp, and brought them
back, made them secure and then
rolled UP in our blankets and slept like
babies. In the morning we break
tasted on the rest Of those biscuits and
toward night we found the camping
outfit and got q good square meal .s
hat took the boys mostly with
Roosevelt was the easy way he had
with getting in with them. There is
always a sort of opposition or resist
ance or coolness. whatever you call it,
|samong ali kinds Of men when a
stranger comes among them, and cat
tlemen are about ais sensitive to intrud-
lers as anybody else but somehow or
|.other Roosevelt could adapt himself
to all kinds of circumstances. and
made himself one Of them without any
fuss or friction and without asking or
getting any Instructions. He just did
it naturally. He just naturally fitted
in with everybody, no matter what
was going on, whether it was a round
up or a dance. He was always well
come and he always had a good time.
No, Mr.. Roosevelt never killed his
man; that is: a mistake, a newspaper
yarn, like one 1 read the other day
about the cowboys fooling him by
shifting his saddle with the pommel to
! the tail Of the pony. Nobody ever
fooled Theodore Roosevelt about d
horse. He arrested some thieves here
once. He followed them down the
river and camped for three Or four
days before he caught them. and then
he marched through the snow for
three or four days more until he landed
them in the jail at Dickinson, and he
may have drawn his gun when it was
necessary, but he never shot any one.
A drunken tough once fired at him in a
barroom here, but Roosevelt took no
Notice Of II, ant acred as If the shot
Twas meant for somebody else. He
had q good deal of tact III getting along
with such critters.
IOWA DEMOCRATS.
+ Cedar Rapids, Ia, Aug. The
democratic state convention began
this morning with six hundred dele