The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-07
RUSSIANS ARE BEATEN:
THEIR CENTER BREAKS
BULLOCK EXTOLS
ROOSEVELT BRAND
Chief of the CoW-Punchers Says
the Presidents Mark Is on
> the Country.
BY w. w. Jermane.

Washington, March Seth Bullock,
first sheriff of Deadwood, s. D., chief
of the Black Hills forest rangers, COM
mander of the cow boy brigade in the
inaugural procession last Saturday,
says: . ....
Looking at 1t from the top of cayuse,
this Inauguration appears mighty signih-
cant to me. President Roosevelt has al
ready put his mark on this country. At
the end Of another four years the Roose.
welt brand will be so clear 1t won't wear
off for many moons.
The crowds in Washington show the
Roosevelt spirit. The people are mostly
bright and energetic, typical Of the presi-
dent. It's just like 1t is on the range. If
the owner Of ranch is an active, honest,
Woodworking man, you can tell his cow
the vigorous way they work. If the owner
is dissolute, dishonest or lazy, the cow
boys are likely to be the same way.
Now. long before most Of US in Dakota
knew Roosevelt We. used to hear about
him. Cowboys riding down to our coun-
try from $50 miles away used to say:
THAT fellow Roosevelt up there on the
Little Missouri is dead square. He don't
maverick anybody else's calves. He don't
ask a man to ride any horse he don't
ride and he don't make any man stand
watch on the roundup that he amt
ready to stand himself
That Is the kind of reputation Roosevelt
had in the cattle country, where y the
things man does and not what he talks
weather sailor, and our boys out west
know it. That's the reason sixty boys
came down here with me. Nearly all of
them have ridden the range, and good
many of them used to know Theodore,
and they are all strong for. him. They
have paid their own expenses and will
have to sell their ponies to get back, all
because they wanted to see one Of their
| own people, or, rather, a man who had
| lived with them and is as much or more
westerner than fastener, inaugurate6
as president.
| Feature Of the Parade.
No organization in the inaugural pa
rade attracted more attention than the
cowboys. On Saturday morning they
dressed up in cowboy costume, consist:
ing Of broad brimmed hat, blue flannel
shirt, chaps, high-heeled boots with
Mexican spurs and blue handkerchief
knotted around the throat. Small boys
their dime novel hero, daredevil Dick
the Demon Destroyer Of Deadwood, Da
kota,' and conjured up visions of how
each and every one of the fifty or moro
quiet-voiced,, mild-mannered men before
Them, had led scores Of desperate
Icharges against Indians or other foes
and roped wild steers in a devil-may
care free-and-easy way. twas thrill
ing spectacle---for the boys-and an in
teresting one for all Washington, which
never before had seen a genuine wild
west crowd outside Of a circus or 6
MIDWEST" show.
With small boys galore as persona
guard Of honor, the cowboys left til;
hotel to join the parade near the CAPT
toll. It was then that the cow puncher,
made their ponies show their tricks
The evolutions were performed on TIL
way down Pennsylvania avenue betwee,
the capitol and treasury buildings
Marching up Fifteenth street, which il
comparatively narrow, the ponies wer
held in. check, but when the colum,
swung into the avenue again and tn
president in the reviewing stand cam
into view, the evolutions and cutting u
began again.
Nobody was more pleased than MI
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