The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-11-30

dent Roosevelt is again con
tcmplating sojourn in the
q wilds o. the White River
country OF Colorado has created, as
always heretofore. buzz OF comment
in the little Indiana city of Crawfords
vile. For the Chief Executive Of the
Nation never hunts in Colorado beat
ing up OF down its mountain streams
or winding in and out along its tortu,
ous mountain paths. without the ser
vices of John Goff as guide and com
panion.
John Goff is a resident Of Crawforls-
vile. at least when lie speaks o.
home in that fashion peculiar to tho
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 a lonesome. half
neglected byway Of the old Hoosier
town.
1t is now nearly twenty years since
John GOff set his face toward the
West, and, with a determination 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, n little
village scarcely half dozen miles
away from Charlottesville. Here there
are half hundred people !nhabiting
the countryside VITO yet remember
the sturdy young man when he ished
in Indiana streams and beat through
Indiana woods in search of game. His
father and his grandfather We're trap
pers before him. his uncles and his
great-uncles were 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 a man after
his own heart.
Gon at the age Of fifteen had already
brought his name prominently before
the people Of his own neighborhood.
He had on this occasion been scns by
his father 10 the home Of friend. His
journey, however was delayed until
darkness had begun to fall. and young
Goff, when finally he did put cut. found
it necessary to make his way through
the woods. where already the dark
ness had grown dense.
In the course Of his trip Cor 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 Coz maneuyred TO
avoid it If possible suddenly leapad
at Tie hunter from its perch upon an
overhanging limb and stAning square
" upon the lads back, buried its claws
in his shoulders and fastened its fangs
tn his neck
Golf, although hampered in all his
movements by the burly form Of the
animal, and sick with the pain caustl
by tie claws and teeth ripping through
his flesh, finally Suceeued in sinking
the blade of the little weapon into the
cats neck This forced the beast to
loosen it's hold with rs teeth and gave
Goff the chance TO shake it from his
back After a struggle continuing fer
thirty minutes. the lad finished the cat
amount. and half dead from loss OF
blood. he began his long journey 10
his home.
This Goff accomplished on his hands
and knees. Every inch Of tie trail was
covered with his blood, and upon ar
rival at his fathers door he sank frorl
exhaustion, and was not discovered
until an hour later, when he was found
where he had fallen in the dead faint.
The following day the body Of the
eatamount was brought into the town.
A rough sign was tackled upon it, which
read: KILLED by Golf. From that
time on the young hunter acquired the
nickname. by" which has chung Ia
him through all the later years Of his
life.-St. Louis Globe Democrat