The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-10-31
PRESENTS TO THE PRESIDENT,
washington Times.)

When the president got back to Wash
| ington last June from his long western
tour his special tram b UaTA 30 I"I re-
| ceiSed and accepted during his travels
| Some were valuable, while others We're
| mere tokens of the good VIII OIL lie west
| ern people for him. -
| The incident of the refusal OF the presi-
| dent to accept silk American nag mace ACE
| by a Boston girl and offered 10 MIN , e
j Gently recalls the fact that the me
| House wagon made three trips TO me
| Pennsylvania station here to take 70 tne
executive mansion the presents that took
| UP much space in the splendidiy furhlSIed
| train. The presidents retusa! 70 81 a.
| cept the Boston girls flag may therefore
| be regarded as an isolated case. H.
| The city of San Francisco presented t!ie
| president and he accepted a golc and Sill
| yer loving cup, worth much money, ana
| Sacramento gave him silver ana grass
| claret pitcher and handsome silver cigar
| case a,
| At Colfax, Cal. the president received
a box of gold and silver ore. Mounted
; deer heads. stuffed mountain sheep;
| pheaSantS, lizards and other birds ana
| beasts found in the west were presented
| to him, not all of them by municipalities
or bodies of citizens, but many of them
| by individuals.
Down at Sharon Springs. Kan. a little
| girl gave him Il live badger. This was
| when the train was on its way to the
west. The little girl asked that the
badger be named Josiah, in honor of her
brother.
The badger was taken all the way along
on the trip by the president, and at last
accounts is one of the pets of the ROOse-
welt children The president himself is
said to be fond of Josiah. When the an
imal was on the train going through the
west he was fed on potatoes and milk
Many brides and sa 1dIes were present
ed to the president at different points,
and the horse Wyoming, which the presi-
dent often t rides was present to Vim him
With the horse was given a complete
outfit for riding. including saddle, briGle,
etc. western cowboy brought the
horse to Washington and RENE med here
several weeks while getting tie animal
accustomed to street cars, automobiles
and other sights 20 which It was not ac-
customed on the plains of the west.
The heaviest and bUlkiest of the pres
ents was an immense chair made of eiks'
horns. y big elk in the park of Tacoma,
Wash, has annually shed his horns.
These have been saved from year to year
by the keeper of the park where the elk
lives. The chair was made from them.
Another present of the same sort was
a set of locked deer horns. They were
taken from two large deer that had en-
gagged in mortal combat and died with
their horns locked. At three or four
places live bears we're offered, but were
declined.
Indian pottery in profusion was given
to the president by Indians In Arizona and
New Mexico. The most valuable gifts
of this kind were from the Indians VINO
live near Albuquerque, y. NJ. These IN
diars also presented to the president the
finest Navajo blanket ever made in the
west.
At Tacoma the president received a
pair of totem poles. the combination
gravesto1es anG family trees OF the Alas
kan and far northwestern Indians.
Just before the president started on his
western trip he received several invita-
lions engraved on solid gold. some of
them very valuable. On March 10 a dele
gate from the Union League c.Jb of San
Francisco visited him at the w nite House
and presented an invitation to attend a
dinner of the club on May IA. The invi-
tation was engraved on a solid plate OF
gold of great value.
A few days before this the Dakota
members of congress, accompanied by
local delegation, waited upon the presi-
dent and presented him an invitation in
solid gold to attend the Black Hills Min
ing congress, which met at Deadwood in
the early part of this month. This in