The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-10
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He announcement that Prcsi-
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IL 1E announcement t06t PrcSl-
dent Roosevelt Is again con-
templasing sojourn In the
wilds of the White River
country of Colorado has created. as
always heretofore. a buzz of comment
In the little Indiana city of Crawfords.
vile. For the Chief Executive of the
Nation never hunts in COLORADO, beat
ing mp or down ito mountain streams
or winding in and out along its tortu-
ous mountain paths. without the SER
vices Of John Golf as guide and COM
paniOn.
John Goff is resident Of Crawfords-
Vile. At least, when he speaks of
"home' in that fashion peculiar to the
men who have gone into the wilderness
of the West, he refers to the little cot
tage nestled away among the syca-
more trees that line lonesome. half
neglected byway Of the old Hoosier
town.
1t Is now nearly twenty years since
John Golf set his face toward the
West, and, with a determine ton to
repair the lost fortunes of the family.
made his way into the very heart of
the Rocky Mountains. Golf spent his
bOyhood days near Ladoga, a little
village scarcely half dozen miles
away from Charlottesville. Here there
are half a hundred people inhabiting
tue countryside VITO yet remember
the sturdy young man when he tished
in Indiana streams and beat through
Indiana woods in search of game. His
fof l,;s y Pot 1nv
pers before him, his uncles and his
greatuncles We're hunters, and his
mother had in her veins the restless
blood of the pioneers wife. In John
Goff the traits of the family centred.
That is one of the reasons he is Sc
lected annually to be the companion
and the guide of President Roosevelt.
for Theodore Roosevelt, hunter, like
the men of his kind, loves man after
his own heart.
Golf at the age OF fifteen had already
brought his name prominently before
the people of his own neighborhood.
He had on this occasion been sent by
his father to the home of friend. His
journey, however, was delayed until
darkness had begun to fall, and young
Goff. when finally he did put out. found
it necessary to make his way through
the woods, where already the dark
ness had grown dense.
In the course Of his trip Golf was set
upon by a catamount. The hardy
young hunter had only pocket knife
to use as a weapon of defense. Never.
theless, he whipped this from his
pocket, and prepared to fight for his
life. The beast, as Gof maneuvred to
avoid it if possible. suddenly leaped
at the hunter from its perch upon an
Overhanging limb, and striking square
~ upon the lads back buried it's claws
in his shoulders and fastened it's fangs
in his neck.
Golf, although hampered in all his
movements by the burly form of the
animal and sick with the pain caused
by the claws and teeth ripping through
his flesh, finally succeeded in sinking
the blade of the little weapon into the
cats necN This forced the beast to
loosen its held with its teeth and gave
Gof the chance to shake it from his
back. After a struggle continuing for
thirty minutes. the lad finished the cat
amount, and half dead from loss of
blood. he began his long journey to
lis home.
This Goff accomplished on his hands
and knees. Every inch of the trail was
covered with his blood, and upon ar
rival at his fathers door he sank from
exhaustion. and was not discovered
until an hour later, when he was found
where he had fallen in the dead faint.
The following Gay the body of the
catamount was brought into the town
A rough sign was tackled upon it, which
read: ''Killed by Goff." From that
time on the young hunter acquired the
nickname By" which has clung to
him through all the later years of his
lie.-St. LoAs lobe-Democrat.
In Vat.
A brewery is often Il dangerous place
IN more senses Shan one. The watts and
the machinery are but so many traps
for unwary workmen. A workman in
a brewery at Paterson n. j., Abraham
Shpiro by name, recently had an ad- !
tenure of a most extraordinary kind
In connection with the apparatus of the
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