The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-24
HERE'S WHAT ROOSEVELT DID
OFT or PARK WITH 4 PEELED
~ NOSE AND DEEP TAN.


Surrounded BY Hell Roarins Bln Jones.
the Duke and Other C0wpsmchevs
5 - -(artridge Make q slight Wound
Under 0ne Eye When the President
Was Firing u . Tsrset--Almest q
FAN Down Precipice--Cougar Hounds
That Failed TO Deliver the Gesds-A
chase Over the Landscape With Face
Al Lather--"OoW john burroughs
and q Distinguished Statesman on
skis In Attitudes Defying Gra,ttation
CISSAsAR, Mon, April 23.-The Presi-
tenf officially returned 10 the world again
to-day There was q public reception
tos the ci.iDens Of Gardiner and Cinnabar
q thu Mammoth Springs Hotel, Besides
Mayor Mccartney of Gardiner and Jerry
Aohoy of ,he Gardiner Society for the
study Of t!iir;y-six numbers and zeros
Their. werr present Uncle John Yancey
u Yarcey's s,a.ion and He'll Roaring Bill
JoE. :. under whom the President s,rvcd
a. d .pu'y s,iariT In NJ dora Years ago.
Nor were The faoes of Bills comrade-
in-arns. Wager, DuS' OF Hell Roaring
Cr.k. ard or Jim Mcbride. who had ac-
ltri IftS'uvnt OIl NFiPs tHsOuku
tho para missing Ijkewisi the Presi-
den, wss grated by Charley Scott, another
cowpunchsr 81 the old Medora days. now
proprietor " SCOTS New Trouble sliop
a. Gardiner. '.-
There were aso more women in the hotel
thai, the Oldest resident repenbered to
have seen III ore spot in this country be.
fore the opening Of the tourist season.
IT, IL q ka l,xar nf hA
CjnI abar exilcs who met the President
to-day for the first time since they escorted
him 10 the park gate on April 8, were the
stories OF the two weeks adventures told.
Everybody who had Lcen with the President,
from John Burroughs. now officially desig-
mated as Dom John by tho President. and
Mai Pitcher to the humblest tcamster
as IN the highest good spirits and full
Of chuckles over the incidents Of the trip.
The aceouu; here given Is a compilation
Of the stories told by all Of them with the
dates aud places .fxed by the data Of Major
Pitcher's diary.
Buffalo" Jones, the chief game warden
Of the park. went with the President
TO the corral in which the lately imported
herd OF bison are kept. There Ore thirty
or more other buffalo in the park, but they
ere in such inaccessible places that the
President would have had to sacrifice al
most all the rest Of his trip to get near them.
The President requested that ex-Sherin
Hell Roaring Bill Jones Of the bad Lands
(who must not be confused with Wagner
or Mr.. Buffalo Jones) be found and brought
70 call on. him. Major Pitcher sent out
ecputs, Who discovered Mr., Jones, but
tA4v returned to the post without him.
stafins gravely that in ther judgment
NJ. Jones was too much elsted and re-
Diced over the President g presence In the
neixhborhood to make il advisable that he
cali. Tho Wait was. therefore. deferred
until the President q return from the park.
Two volunteer admirers OF Mr.. Jones
took him In hand two days ago and he
was only moderately enthusiastic when he
came to the Mammoth Springs to-day,
although he declared to tho President with
great frankness that hs meant to make up
for lost time as soon a. he could get back to
Jerry Melloye.
At . O'Clock Thursdsy morning the Presi-
dent. Major Pitcher, Sergt. Tlford. Guide
Billy Hofer. Scout Wagner. two orderlies
teamsters and packers made their start
for the first outpost on Blacktau Creek.
which was reached before noon.
The President rode a big white troop
horse Of B troop. which had been picked
I'D for him by Lieut.. Dorsey Cullen. on
whom fell the executive management OF
the game seeking excursion. Buffalo Jones
Joined with his famous pack OF twenty-five
doilsr-a.hesd cougar hounds, with which the
Interior Department il trying 10 eItermi-
nate the. wildcats which are fattening on
the park game. '...
The President announced that he would
not take q shot at anything that jumped.
Buffalo Jones IL authorized by the Secre-
tary tn kill cougars. and he was rather
anxious to show the President how the
thing was done.
On Saturday and for several days after
ward hs started out his hounds. They
made an excellent chorus, but tracked
no catsmounts. They were therefore ex-
e,Ised, ss was also Mr.. Jones. who had
time, however, to explain 70 the President
many political theories which he gathered
as leader OF Popufst thought in Kansas.
At the camp the party found Lieut.,
Cullen. He had found double bench over
the YeIlowstone's roaring current. On
the upper one we're pitched the President
tent and those OF the officers and Billy
Bofer The rest OF the outfit was on tho
bench below. The cavalry officers refused
tne ruSBVrtoh 'iiet VIC p'''S
be called Trout Camp and named IL Camp
Roosevelt. 1t will be used. they say. an
one OF the best sites for tourist campers
to be found anywhere in the park.
On Friday morning the party went up
the Yellowstone toward He'll Roaring Creek.
This is the district patrolled regularly by
Scout Wagner. who was once IN oficer
Of high rank in Austria and has lost none
Of his 6ne manners with tho assumption Of
q changed name and . civilian uniform.
The title of Duke Of He'll Roaring Creek
il therefore a delicate compliment paid
TO him by his American-born associates
Mr.. Roosevelt went as far a. Slough
Creek and saw many elk, deer and sorne
grouse. Tho Presidents estimate OF the
number Of elk seen during the day was
7,ooo. Il has been reported that all the
bull ek were dying out. but the President
took pleasure In counting many group
Of bulls separated from the COWS and calves.
The most intensely interesting experience
Of the trip was . battle between . bald
eagle and small band OF elk. The eagle
cut out q calf from the band With all the