The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-01-28
WONDERFUL TENAC1TY OF Nc
KtNLEY's RUNNING MATE.
Captured "a Band " bad Men and
Watched them Through a Blizzard 10
JAIN.

\. y, Packard tells the following in
tcresting story in the Chicago Record
Of Teddy Roosevelts career as COW
puncher i'm the Bad Lands of the wild
and woolly west.
"Our county was not organized in
those days and our nearest court Of
Jurisdiction was in Bismarck 1876 miles
to the east. The only real attempts at
recognizing this jurisdiction ended in
Marquis de Mores' party shooting
man named Luffsey, and it then became
the fashion for the deputy sheriff from
Bismarck or Mandan to be stood up
under guard and put on the first train
east whenever an attempt at arrest was
made. The Montana strangers after
ward shot and hung twenty-eight al
legged rustlers' who had given the Bad
Lands the reputation of being the
toughest place on the frontier.
AT a mass-meeting in Medora, Mar
quis de Mores was elected chief of the
fire department and | was elected chief
of police. Not long afterward a man
named FinnCgan turned loose and an
nounced that it was his time to howl
A Mr.. Fisher was in my office shaving,
the mirror being propped up on the
feedbOard of Gordon press One of the
bullets from Finnegan's Winchester
went clear through the office and passed
between Fisher and the mirror, nicking
off q corner of the latter on the way.
When Fisher emerged from the door
wildly waving a towel in one hand and
razor in the other, with one side of
his face shorn and the other covered
with lather, ii seemed time to interrupt
the festivities So we locked Finnegan
up i'm an empty box car, the nearest ap-
proach to a Jail we had. That night
his partner helped him out and they
went down the river, stealing boat on
the way from Roosevelts Elkhorn
ranch.
"The next morning Roosevelt learned
of his loss and started in pursuit, ac-
companied to two of his cowboys named
Seawell and Dow. Finnegan had with
him breed Indian and an old Ger
man who had been deeply implicated in
the worst of frontier crimes, cattle-kill-
ing and horse stealing. Roosevelt found
the German alone in camp about eighty
miles down the Missouri river his two
companions being off hunting. They
made him safe and then sat down by
the bandits fire to wait for the others.
When they were within twenty yards or
so Roosevelt and Seawell covered them
with their rifles and shouted 30 them to
hold up their hands Finnegan hest
tated for a second but when he recog-
nized Roosevelt he dropped his rifle and
held his hands up beside his head. A
blizzard was blowing that night and it
was fiercely cold, so Roosevelt con-
cluded to lie up until the weather mode
rated. He took away the arms from his
prisoners, but he dare not tie them, be-
cause if he did their hands and feet
would in all probability be frozen, so he
concluded to keep guard over them and
take his chances. AS a precaution,
however, he made them take off their
boots, which were safely hidden away,
and let them lie around the camp fire.
1t would have been impossible for any
one to escape in his stocking feet in
that blizzard.
while two of his companions and the
captives slept Roosevelt took his sta
and watched for the first for hours,
then turned in and was relieved by one
of his companions. The next day he
started for Dickinson, the nearest town
After suffering severely from exposure,
the party reached a ranch house where
he hired a wagon and pair IF horses
from a rugged old plainsman, who could
not understand why he took so much
bother with the thieves inst aac of hang
ing them off-hand. Placing the cap
tives in the wagon Roosevelt marched
behind, through the snow for thirty
six hours without sleep Nr rest, until
he delivered his prisoners into the
hands of the sheriff. He afterward APP
peared in court as the prosecutor of
Finnegan and sent him to the peniten-
tiary for a term of years"