The San Francisco call., 1905-04-03
President Roosevelt Plans to
Emulate Daniel Boone and
Dayy Crockett During His
Colorado Hunting Trip
LIKES EXCITEMENT
OF PERILOUS DUEL
Guides Say Their Distin-
guished Patron Slew Noun
tain Lions With Thrusts of
His Blade Two Years Ago
Special Dispatch to Tn. Call.

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo,
April president Roosevelt is plan
ming to eclipse his. previous reputation
for daring and will try to kill every
bear he gets in Colorado on his COM
ing trip with a hunting knife, instead
of a rife. He will fight the most
ferocious and vicious silvertip bears
at close quarters, instead of standing
off and permitting the dogs to be
slaughtered and disemboweled and
trusting to a quick shot with a dunn
dunn bullet
While the story has not been gem
orally credited, it is a fact that dur
ing President Roosevelt's trip, under
the guidance of John Golf, he stab
bed to death nearly every mountain
lion the pair got and he afterward
said the sport was the most exciting
he had ever had and the danger
we'll, the stock of his rifle showed
several deep gashes where the teeth
of a lion had snapped and that they
had not caught the Roosevelt leg was
due to a very slight margin.
FOOLHARDY PASTINfE.
Compared with fighting a mountain
lion with a bowie knife, the same tao
tics with an immense silyertip bear
seem foolhardy. The cat-like instinct
of the lion actually makes the danger
reasonably slight, for the lion will al
ways abandon the man for a dog and
Mr.. Roosevelt took advantage of this
to rush in. deliver the death blow and
jump back while the dogs were ha-
RAISING the lion. While the risk was
yery great, there was not much
chance that the big cat would de-
liberately ignore the dogs and set upon
the man.
I Despite the peril, President Roose-
welt has notified his guides that he
wants TO kill as many bears as pos
sible with the knife he used three or
four years ago on the lions, and
Guides Golf and Borah have promised
that he shall be given plenty of op-
portunity.
WILL BEGIN TRIP TO-DAY.
! WASHINGTON. April president
Roosevelt will leave Washington to-
morrow morning on a long trip to the
West and Southwest. He will be abb
sent from the capital nearly two
months. One of the chief objects of
the trip which the President has had
in mind is the reunion of his Rough
Rider Regiment of the Spanish
American war, which is 10 take place
at San Antonio, Tex, next Friday, and
for which an elaborate programme of
exercises has been arranged. There
will be a number of brief stops en-
route, where the President will make
addresses.
Leaving San Antonio. there will be a
brief stop and address at Fort Worth,
which will terminate the public part of
the trip, following which the President
is 10 go hunting in the Panhandle of
Texas and later in Colorado. All ar
rangements have been made whereby
the President will keep in touch with
public affairs, both during his railroad
ride and while hunting, SO that he will
be enabled to pass on all matters re-
quiring his attention.
KENTUCKY'S WELCOME.
LOUISVILLE, KY, April 2-Louis-
villes welcome to President Roosevelt
Tuesday will be civilian affair. The
local committee decided that, owing TO
the short time the executive will be In
the city, it would be better to make his
short stay not only a typical Kentucky
welcome. but reception representative
of both North and South in a State, bor-
dering. as it does, both sections of the
country Those who will entertain the
President during his three hours stay
in the city will be composed of repre-
sentative citizens of Louisville-men of
the North and men of the Southland
a few invited guests of the State at
large.
Before the President takes his depar-
tlre he will be presented with three
gifts intended as souvenirs of his visit.
one is a silver fagon filled with water
from the spring on the farm in Larue
County on which Abraham Lincoln was
born. Another is large silver vase.
The third gift is an inkstand made
from an oak tree which grew near the
spring on the old Lincoln homestead.
The inkholder is of silver sunk into the
wood.