The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-14
SN0W2FEETD DEEP
Outlook for Hunting in Colorado
Is DiscOuraging.
The President May Be Compelled
to Delay His Trip.
CAPTURED Is WOLVES.
The Chase in the Big Pasture
Has Ended.
He Is Now on His Way to the
Mountains.
Is WOLVES.

snow two feet deep in every direction
from the camp and from three to five
feet in the hills, with the snow storm
still continuing it is possible that Presi-
dent Roosevelt will be compelled to de-
lay his hunting here or content him
self with small game.
P. B. Wells, a Meeker hunter, who is
one of the party said: The weather is
at least three weeks behind the normal.
There has been an. unusual amount of
snow this winter but not in ten years
have seen the conditions so bad as
this season.
VIII Give Him an Engine.
Colorado Springs. Col, April IA
For two hours this evening this city
Will be the executive headquarters. as
/ the president will arrive here at 1880
I p. m. and leave at $3.50 for the west.
He viii be escorted to the residence
4 of P. B. Stewart for the purpose of
selecting his hunting outfit.
A telegram from Secretary Loeb is
to the effect that the presidential spe-
cial Will arrive on time. Five minutes
/ before the departure of the special for
/ Newcastle a pilot train will be sent
over the route.
President Roosevelt is to become
/ the owner of the monster Colorado
Midland "Mogul' engine No. 1 5 which
! has been selected to haul his train to
pounds and is valued at $4,000 The
! presentation will be made by John
Hopkins on behalf of the Colorado
Midland and the train crew so that
/ when the president returns from his
hunting trips he viii be hauled from
E. Newcastle by his own engine
Trip to Colorado Begins.
Frederick, Okla, April 14-President
Roosevelt ended his hunt and broke
camp but did not leave the hunting
ground in the big pasture until nearly
1 o clock last night, staying inside to eat
supper with the wolf chasers. The spec
ial train was waiting here and the preSi-
dent and his party entered the cars and
started south to Texas over the St.
Louis and San Francisco road. Accord
( ing to schedule the train was transfer
red to Fort Worth and Denver railroad
( at Vernon. Texas, at $40 p. m. and the
/ journey to Colorado begun. No provis-
ion is made for stops or speeches, the
I public portion of the presidents tour
/ having ended.
Wolf Hides for White House.
! Oklahoma City, Okla, April IL
| It is reported from Frederick that the
/ hides of IS wolves captured during
the presidents hunt win be forwarded
to Washington and dressed. They viii
! be placed in some room of the White
! House as an ornament and a memorial
of the notable hunt.
The same precautions respecting the
safety of the presidents train back
/ into Texas is being taken as was so
/ closely observed on the day of his ar
rival Track walkers have been sta
! toned every mile and no trains have
1 been permitted to pass over the road
within the II hours previous to the
arrival of the special. The president s
camp was broken late Thursday even
ing and the troopers of the Eighth
cavalry have returned to Fort Sill.
Met by Colorado Governor.
Pueblo. Colo. April 1.-THE special
train bearing President Roosevelt and
party is running closely on schedule
time, passing Texline at 500 this
morning. The party should reach
Trinidad, the first stop in Colorado,
about noon.
The presidential train was met at
Emory Gap by Governor Mcdonald
and party who will accompany them
/ to Colorado Springs.
The president will deliver a short
address on his arrival at the union
station here at 5;45 .. m. Arrange
ments have been completed for a re
/ 10000 people will surround the sta
ton. The weather in southern Colo
rado is ideal.
viii Track With Dogs
Newcastle, Colo, April 14=It has
/ been practically decided to track the
game with dogs during the presidents
hunt and to follow with horses. This
/ is considered one of the most danger
GUS sports and the bad condition. of
the ground makes it doubly dangerous
now.
A full grown grizzly can easily race
away from a horse, and the dogs can
almost equal the speed.
Hunters here point out that to hunt
from horses at all a dead gallop must
be kept UP all of the time to close in
with the quarry, and that this speed
must be maintained over gullies,
through gulches, around rocks, over
/ broken logs, through thickets and
brush and up and down mountain
sides and they pessimistically add,
/ some one is sure to be hurt
Now that the reception to the presi-
dent and the parade is assured, the
women of Newcastle have decided to
/ do their share. AS soon as the presi-
| dent alights from the train commit
tee from the Women's Reading club
! will surround him and will escort him
to the club rooms, where on behalf Of
| the women of Garfield county he viii
be presented with a horsehair bride
for the use of Miss Alice Roosevelt.
The bride itself is work of art,
/ which took over a year to complete.
/ All of the straps, including the reins,
are made of pure white horsehair and
the buckles are OF solid silver.
Receives His License.
Trinidad, Col. April 14=President
! Roosevelt crossed the CoIorado-Ne1y
Mexico boundary line at 1850 a. M
and his train is scheduled to reach
Trinidad at 1920 p. m.
Governor Jesse F. Mcdonald of Col
orado and his party met the president
at Army Gap, n. N. After greetings
were exchanged Governor McDona7d
presented to the president a special
engrossed hunting license giving him
cart blanche permission to kin ap1
game he may want in Colorado. The
presidents trip through New Mexic0
] Continued On Pee sir1