Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

dent will be accompanied only by Senator
Dietrich. Robert Taylor. s. d. Ross and n.
]. Palmer. The other members OF the party
will be entertained by drives In separate
groups, going In different directions from
the city.
For Monday the program includes a drive
through the city, starting at $50 in the
morning, with the high school as the desti-
nation, where a platform has been erected
from which the president will deliver an
address. The reception committee consists
Of Mayor James Cleary and c. F. Bentley,
@. G. Ryan, w. II. Thompson, Louis Viel
and T.. o. c. Harrison. There was naturally
considerable competition for places on the
committee and the problem was solved by
making II so nonpartisan that the same
number Of democrats and republicans we're
recognized. The question of escorting the
president and Secretary Loeb, Mayor Cleary
and ex-Judge Harrison, while the other
members OF the committee will be dis
tribute in the remaining nine carriages.
A mounted escort under Captain George
Roeder will precede.
The president will take all Of his meals
while in Grand Island on the train, except
a light repast at the Taylor ranch.
A big bunch OF mail from Washington
has arrived at the postofRce for delivery
when the presidential party arrives. Sem
ator Dietrich and Congressman Norris are
already here. Senator Willard and Governor
Mickey are expected tomorrow. v. r.
Horse Refuses TO Buck. b
ALLIANCE, Neb.. April 25.-(special Tel
egrsm.)-Today was a gala day in Alliance.
Fully 5000 people from all parts of Box
Butte and surrounding counties we're in
Alliance by 3 O'Clock, which the Alliance
nopuIafinn ouyaIIad 20 Q mn -, a nan III.
business houses and many residences were
beautifully decorated with flags and bunt-
ing and portraits Of the president. The
school children greeted the president in a
body. As the presidents train reached the
city limits every steam whistle and bell
and two cannon started a terrific noise,
and, in fact, everything that could be
utilized to make a noise was brought into
play.
When the train reached the depot a COM
mittee, consisting OF Captain Akers, ]. r.
Phelan, Fred Harris, f. M. Broome and
Bruce Wilcox. to the inspiring strains Of
Hail to the CHIEF by the Alliance band
Of fifty pieces, escorted the president to
the stand, which was arranged on the north
side Of the depot. He was at once pre-
sented by Captain Akers and commenced
his fifteen minute talk.
President Roosevelt completed a hard day
today with a ffteen-minute stop at Alli-
ance this evening.
Captain Seth Bullock, superintendent OF
the Black Hills Forest reserve, who Joined
the president at Gardiner yesterday, left
the tran here. The president has a
great admiration for him. and invited him
to accompany him on his trip to the coast,
but the captain was forced to decline the
invitation.
During tie day the president travelled in
three states and made a number of ad-
dresses, both from the rear platform 81
his car and from stands erected for the
purpose, but the demonstration that I'M
undoubtedly pleased him most was the
cowboy show at Edgemont, s.. D. The
program was arranged by the Society Of
Black Hills Pioneers and consisted of ex.
hibitions Of cowboy riding. Special trains
brought in a large crowd from the sur
rounding country, which assembled with
three bands OF music to greet the president
AS the train pulled in the cowboys raised
a yell, the bands played and a salute was
fred. The exhibition stand was but a short
distance from the depot, and after the pres
ident had delivered an address the boys
gave him an exhibition of broncho busting
The only disappointment of the day was
the fault of the prize bucking horse Of thai
section to perform This horse has q
record as a champion bucker, and but few
people can ride him.. Today, however, ht
was as gentle as a kitten and a %greenhorr
would not have had much trouble in keep
ing on his back. Why the bucking horse
did not buck will be a question in Edge;
mont for a long time to come. AT the
conclusion Of the exercises the cowboy:
formed an escort to the train, and after |
had started dashed alongside the presi
dents car. shaking hands with him through
the window.
Pays Pioneers Honor.
In his speech at Alliance the presiden
referred to the honor due the early pho
neers. saying:
I Honor to all good citizens, but homo
most of all to the men who took the lea
| in tanning the shaggy wilderness. to IN
a out that earliest Of highways. the spotte
> line, the blased trail, the men who mrs
! on horseback steered across the grea 2
e feed upon the ranges from which the but
falo had not yet vanished. To you fror
or at the time Immediately around tina
: date, have developed the wonderful mine
a of that region. have built up In what wa
= then, an Indian haunt cities like Dead
9 wood and Lead, 1t has fallen to your IL
to see one of the great epoch features {
| the century, you are dIlOHB Iud DOuy I
men who conquered a continent for a rae
8 who did your full share in making n
e nineteenth century the most wonderfl
[ upon which the sun has ever shone. =,
Thu pioneer days have gone, but tn
need of the old pioneer virtues remaiI
the same as ever. You won and you coul
IS only win because you had in you the stu
; out OF which strong men are made. Ava
in 1875 here in the Black Hills the ROOF
y for the weakling or the coward. was smal
and now the man who will do decent wor
here must be the man that has got n
stuff in him.
Promptly on time, he boarded his trai
and to the sound Of whistles, bells an
: firing of cannon, sweet strains OF music an
s 5000 yells, he was wished "Godspeed' o
: his Journey. The reception was an enthu
" siastic one and was participated in by al
> regardless of politics.
At Newcastle, Wyo., where a half hot
stop was made earlier In the day. the pres
dent was escorted to the speakers stan
along a pathway strewn with owe an
lined on one side by school children, VIII
waved miniature fags and seemed to on
Joy the presidents speech as much as the