The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-09-15

of which his ancestors for generations
have been members. He is connected
with various political, historical. literary.
social ana miscellaneous organizations
He has been twice married, first to Miss
Alice Lee. of Boston, who lived only two
years after his marriage, leaving
daughter; and second to Miss Edith Ca
row, of New York by whom he has six
children, four Of whom are sons Colonel
Roosevelt is singularly happy in his do
nestle life, and despite The demands of
public Office he never neglects those at
home, but is tenderly thoughtful of them
at all times. illustrating in this respect
the browning attribute of American man
hood and eadearing himself still closer TO
countless American firesides.
ROOSEVELT IN WEST.
Theodore Roosevelt has always taken
the west for just what it was Born in
the east, surrounded by infuences-sociaI
and political-little approaching the char
acter or purpose of that portion of the
nation lying between the Aneghenies and
the Rockies, by some good chance Of ma
ture OF fortune. he has never misunder-
stood the west. He has the respect, the
confidence. the faith OF every man of the
west who is not blinded by partisanship
or mistaken seetonaiism. He may blum
der in the higher official positions TO
which he is advancing. So far as the
west is concerned he has not blundered
yet. He stands for Americanism which
knows no sectionalism, and the spirit of
the west is with him on that platform. 1t
becomes Of interest then to know more of
Mr.. Roosevelt's life in the west and how
he became one of us. as simply and un-
obtrusiEely as thousands have before
him He was p wears old when he came
west-that is, fifteen years ago-and after
a buffalo hunt and some stalking of game
in the Rockies he engaged in cattle rails
ing in the Bad Lands of North Dakota.
Although he suffered some severe finan-
oial reversss from billiards. he was sue
cessful as a cattleman. Not only that.
but he made a good western citizen of
himself: he was popular with critical
cowboys, and as to Dustin a bronch."
he did that even at the expense of break
ing three of his ribs
one who knew him well in the old days
at Little Missouri or NIedora, has written
of his first appearance on the Bad Lands
scene. He penned:
when these lands were but a waste
and a cover for bad Indians. and worse
white. a slender, fair-haired young fellow
stepped off the train at the little, squalid
shack town of Little Missouri What the
population lacked in numbers they made
up in deviltry and it is safe to say that a /
tougher aggregation of great American /
niffva-e -,.ar-ov ,r,l,,rv,-r
who collected around the door OF Big
Mouth Bob's' canvass saloon and watched
the arrival Of the dude tenderfoot Mr 4
Roosevelt (for it was heb didn't care for I
the moral ASPECT of his surroundings. He 4
wanted buffalo. ard buffalo he got. He .
hired as a guide a Young fellow named .
Slyvane Ferris. who thought it great sport /
TO take a near-siehted dude hunting
buffalo in those appalling Bad Lands. He .
came back with profound respect for the +
four-eyea tenderfoot. He found ne could .
ride straight. shoot straight and take his
%eedicine like man. The hunting in
stincts Of the young New Yorker did not .
blind his keen business sagacity. The
Bad Lands fairly swarmed with ali man
1ers Of game Why should not a country
,hat supported them so bountifully sun
port cattie2 He came again the next
summer. and he came back loaded At the
sttie hunters shack At Chimney Butte.
The nucleus of the great herd was begun
Mr. Roosevelt became a member Of the
Dakota and Montana Live Stock associa-
ion
Many and loud we're the threats ut
Big Mouth Bob's' saloon down nj Little
Misery against the 'stuck-up tenderfoot f
ihassayiu' around drivin In critter and
irwin out game Turkey BIZ sarcas-
tcauy inquired ef these her Vanderhits
ana Coal on Johnnies had ciach or the
nooa7 They All conceded however. that
81 war plum handy with q gun fur
ritter with squiut.' The mutterinE vas
lot u.erely against him. but also against
he Marquis &c Nores. who had just come
uto IRE region for cattle raising. The
objections eliminated ln q right AZ
Graveyard Suite. az which the MARQUIS
,ued one 81 his opponents After that.
here was peace.
lad GOOD SADDLE HORSES.
Afr Roosevelt soon had one ~ the best
lands CT saddle horses on ghe Little MIS-
oari Ills favorite horse WAS Maaltou-
IL took an active part il sl the 7gork -
Pie ranch. save tha1 De kept his face
md Blanket clean. carried 8 razor and a
.tSle copy Of Burus, and did rst spend
IS srare momeuts playing church-a-l-lcS
nd mUnhly-paE. there was 10 asfeTe7ee
tween hlr ard p Ssl-a-me1th cowbey-
ie did hsS tt5cS IN nisht Elard. apd.
acked sy sun ard ssorrn asa eiEhteen
.ours 6ay ga yhe saddle deVeiofed into
eaunt t'l5n-as1 kssi Tgir'--sVss ~ c'7-raa g
leached with alk,lf sic proved h.usaif
g ee a good RIFE Shot Iu hes.ness rsafs-
etlons ~ was- alvrays fair Hlth neghief-
~ c5w1nen. tEe sssed 70 farors sEat 81
7cuid nas retlrn a iitt'a starv ra.e
ne who vas present sin shov rs wetlie
Scr IonE sire s1ser b. established Els