, 1903-11-12

tOl. w. +. 1UuS, DUUhlD
Bill,") one of the most distin-
guished characters of two CONT
nents, paid his respects to the
citizens of Saratoga last Tuesday
and spent "A few hours in the city.
He was on his way back from a
visit, in company with Maj. Pow
ell, (''White Beaver,') to his cop
per mines, known as the Com
stock Mining Co. While he was
in the city he was entertained by
ex- Mayor, G. p. Clemmons. at his
! residence, who invited a few
friends to meet and enjoy the So
4 ciety of the distinguished gentle
man, among whom we're Capt. L
q. Davis, Judge Blood, DIR. Price.
c. NJ. Scribner, Mr.. and Mrs. \.
M. Startzell, Mr.. and Mrs. H. l..
IKuykendall and j. f. Crawford
"A A man of such varied expert
ence and one who has travelled so
extensively as the Colonel, could
not help being an interesting
talker, and the assembled compa-
ny enjoyed such a flow of wit,
| "reminiscences and STORYTELLING
as seldom falls to the lot of man
to listen to in a life time. The
Colonel is a keen observer and
WAS employing his eyes while with
us. Having such a thorough I'M
outstanding of the West, and its
needs, he was not slow to see that
the only thing that this valley
needed, to make it one of the gar
den spots of the earth, vas a rail-
road, and a Government reservoir
or two. He prophecied wonder
full things for us when We shall
receive those things.
He is deeply i'll love with Wyo-
ming and is almost counting the
days when he will freed from his
ardurous work in the show bust
ness. and can come back here
TO spend the rest of his days in
the grand old mountains, in the
state of his adoption. Col. Cody
said it was a standing complaint
among his newspaper staff, that
he would talk Wyoming when he
ought to have been taking "Buf-
falo Bills Wild West Show"
Many We're the stories told of his
experiences with men and places,
me or two of which are given be-
low:
THE Earl of Lonsdale came to
me one day said the Colonel,
"and said: We have had quite a
discussion down at my club, as to
whether your Indians and COW
boys could ride after hounds as
vol as they can over the prairies
of your American deserts. Could
you arrange il, so that | could get
an Indian and "A cowboy, to ride
H. hounds with a hunting party
that comes off at my place in Il
Few days | told him l thought
there would be no difficulty about
giving him both an Indian aud a
cowboy that would sustain the
reputation of the West in that
particular.
80 l picked out an Indian and
told him what to do; he was to
keep his eyes on the Master of the
Hounds and to never mind ditch
es, fences, telephone lines, or any
thing else, hut just to keep right
up with those hounds, and to get
that fox, no matter what happen
ed-to get that fox.
"The Earl gave both of the
boys splendid mounts, but they
had on those English padded sad
dies. The cowboy was used to
them, but the Indian looked at it
a minute, and then pulled it off
and climbed on bareback,
Well, that was a red letter day to
that crowd, you bet. That In-
dian! well he was right On the
heels of those hounds, and took
fences, bitches and everything
like the wind. He ran over two
or three of the dogs, rode right
onto that fox, jumped off his
horse, kicked the dogs out of the
u way. and grabbed the fox hy the