The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-03-01
REPUBLIC SPECIAL.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
Washington, Feb. 2S.-'Have you met
Seth Bullock yet?' asked President Roose-
welt of a caller the other day. IF you have
not met him, you ought to do SO. He comes
from Deadwood. but he is about as fine 4
type of real man as You viii find in the
Western country. I know him wed. because
| he used to be 4 Eeighbor of mine"
Scth Bullock of Deadwood mas been =
guest at the White House several times
during the last week at luncheOns, and once
or twice at dinner.
He has had a horseback ride or two with
the President, and only last Thursday he,
mounted on one OF the bss. horses in the
White House stables, a2d little Archie,
mounted on his spotted pony, took long
Mr.. Bullock, or Captain Bullock as he
is called, is the Supervisor Of the National
Forest Reserve in the Rack Hills which
long and fifty miles wide. He is the com
handing officer of twenty or thirty forest
SANS ard protect the trees against fire and
thieves, and the game against pot hunters
during the closed s-asop.
TYPICAL Tti1sEERNER. -
This friend of the President OF the United
States is as straight as one OK The pines in
his native State Of Michigan. He is six
feet tall and as spare Us a trained runner.
He has the eagls nose OF the tighter and the
eagle eye of The man who does not know
what II Is TO finch. He has a sandy mus
tache and a full head Of hair that has
| 1DltSU JIle stdlpiIlb hllllc IL uCZ-
en- times.
He was n born adveniurer. because when
II years old he followed his five older
brothers into the army and enlisted as a
drummer boy. lie is as tender as u woman,
as refined in his manner as a college grad
uate and possesses all the candor OF ex-
preston and breeze OF manner of Wister's
Wyoming cowboys
He also has a sense or humor and when
he talks about his exploits in the Western
country. whittier he went when the buff
flOS numerous he 1iiiiins:
to his own. acts of personal daring, al
though as Sheriff in The Deadwood, coun-
try he was the man who carried law
and order at the muzzle of an army Colt.
Il came East on business and pleasure
said Mr.. Bullock to-day to Republic cor
respondent. My business was with the IN
terior Department, where I had TO consult
regarding the affairs of the National Forest
Reserve My pleasure has been to meet the
President who does meftne honor to call
me his friend. and to renew acquaintance
with members Of Congress, whom / have
not seen since was East year ago.
PRESIDENT OUT WEST
II presume you have known the President
for Il good many years?'
Yes. l have. | knew him first when he
took up his ranch on the little Missouri. L
had n ranch that was a good many miles
away, but you cut In that country the
right sort of people feel they are near
neighbours although they may be separated
by seventy-:ive or one. hundred miles.
will tell you another thing, about that coun-
try. The good people and the square peo-
pie always get together very quickly, just
as the bad people and the crooked people
get together on the other side.
IL did not take the neighbors of Mr..
Roosevelt very long to find out that, al
though he was from the East and a bit
nearsiShted. he was Just as able to take
care OF himself as any OF US who had been
out there since fhe first stampede to the
Black Hills, and he was ready to do his
part, too.
When the cattle thieves came out of the
Black Hole he took his share of the work
Of bringing them to justice. And when he
had TO be made n Deputy Sheriff. and was
asked to go after a couple of desperadoes
down In the river bottom. he always went
and he always brought them back.
HE IS pretty much the same sort of man
now as he was then, this Theodore Roose-
Welt. He is President. but he hasn't changed
much. He can ride just as well as he ever
could, but he don't get out rs much as he
ought. He is kept tied down too much by
people who are always bothering him about
petty offices. They remind me of a lot of