The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-10
ROOSEVELT ON THE TRAIL,
TO BE GONE FOR A WEEK IN
YELLOWSTONE PARK.
After His Old Enemies, the Mountain Liens,
and Big Gsme-A Pack Of wildcat
Hounds Ready TO His Hand-A News
paper Correspondent Corrected.

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paper Correspondent Corrected.
CINNABAR, Mon, April e.-The President
sailed out on the trail this morning at 8
o'clock. He will not return 10 the post at
Fort Yellowstone, it is expected, II all plans
carry right, for nearly week. There will
always be communication OF some sort,
however, between him and Secretary
Loeb, who In staying on the special train
here at Cnnabar.
1t has been with the deepest suspicion
that the people who know the President
and his hunger for a good hunt have
received the assurances that his trip
into the Yellowstone Park had no
element OF bloodthirstiness in it. They
have chung tenaciously to the belief that
the President would strike south across
the park and come out in the jackson Hole
vicinity, where the elk are 30 thick that
they are starving by hundreds because
the snow is late In melting on and there
Is not grass enough for them.
But the President has . plan that beats
the jackson Hole scheme all to nothing
The pests OF the park are the Presidents
old enemies. the mountain lions. They
regard the park as a beneficent institution
Of a paternal government to preserve game
for them. The army officers say that the
commonest sight and the worst in the park
is the bloody trail where a mountain lion
has dragged the carcass Of deer, antelope,
elk or sheep that 1t has killed. Hundreds
OF the cats have been killed by the military
authorities, but their number Is not visibly
decreased.
By a strange coincidence the Interior
Department sent a pack Of wildcat hounds
to the park about three weeks ago. Az q
patriotic citizen and as Commander in Chief
OF the Army, therefore, IL Is most becoming
that the President should 60 to the aid Of
the soldiers Of Fort Yellowstone In their
battle with his ancient foes. The army
officers hope freely that he will have at least
a hundred skins when he comes down, II he
deyotes himself to the sport.
the President viii spend so very much time
after the wildcats. His programme gives
him an opportunity for the study OF the big
game In the preserve at q time when few
men ever see il and when the animals are
less timid than at any other time Of the year.
The first newspaper correspondent to
learn the strength Of the Gordon which
the soldiers have made around the
President got his dose OF experience
yesterday. He. was quite confident
that he had letters Of introduction
enough and suavlty enough 10 render Of
no effect the plans the President had made
to remain In seousion. OF course, the
members Of the President travelling party
will do their utmost to avoid anything which
will mar his fun. But this man thought
posed by the Presidents hospitality was In
q way an advantage to him.
In blissful ignorance Of the rules and regu-
lations Of the party, he assailed Fort Yellow
stone yesterday with q horse and a dog
and was repulsed with loss of one killed,
post jauntily and walked up to one OF the
officers who, strangely enough, had a memo
randum In his pocket bearing the mans
name.
.sir . he ssid, my name i. Blank and 1
Sir said the officer, Il am very glad to
meet you because you are just the man I
am looking for. Moreover. you are under
arrest for violating the park regulations
by bringing . dog into the park, and II Is
the dog. Sergeant Of the guardl'
The man was not put into the guard
house. Instead, he was put under the
personal surveillance Of the officer who
arrested him, entertained at dinner at the
officers club and afterward taken down to
Gnnabar and turned loose with a polite
intimation that there was no use In his
staying even In Cinnabar.
The bereaved correspondent spent much
time in the telegraph Office this morning
evolving things out Of his own conscious
ness about the Presidents adventures.
Certainly he can have no other source OF
information.
He announced to the populace Of CHINA
bar, which In made up OF the employees
OF the Yellowstone Transportation Com
pany and q few store and railroad people,
that he was going to show the universe
that free American citizen was not TO be
blocked out Of the park.
1t Is understood that II he does make
any attempt TO 60 in the charge Of bringing
in the lately deceased dog, which 1t now
seems was borrowed dog anyway, will be
revived and he will be arrested and locked
up for two weeks while the authorities
consider his case and incidentally the
President has started out on his way TO tho
Pacific Coast.
As a matter OF fact, the best Yellowsto ne
guides could not pe ssibly get into the par X
to-day without running upon the soldiers
who are guarding the only trails which II
10 pe ssible for any human being TO travel
in the present condition OF the park.
Secretary Loeb and Assistant Secretary
Barnes spent most of the day fishing In the
Yellowstone River with one or two other
members of the party. Frank Hall, who
used to be the Roosevelt coschman at
Oyster Bay and IL now White House mes
senger. was the only one Of the party to
land any trout.