The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-03-11
A NORTHERN VISITOR.
The Impressions He Left Behind Him
 in Texas #

ILe Impressions lie Deft Behind Him In Texas. .-- @f .,.. Austin, Tex, Jan. 2S.-The people of Texas are preparing to extend to Pres ident Roosevelt a royal welcome when ! he visits this state next April. There will be picturesque time in San Anto- | nio during the Rough Riders reunion. I and a4( movement has been started | among the cowboys to welcome the President.s He is admired by the peo-
 pie of the Texas ranches, and they
 1 want to show how much they think of l him by giving him typical frontier re- ception.f ss9s %s. " ... 3s, George Waite, a cowpuncher on the Wilderness Lake ranch, situated south of Uvalde, is interesting himself in the cowboy reception movement. He was MT. Roosevelt's hunting companion when he visited the Seven D'' ranch near & Uvalde in 1892 and slaughtered javalines or wild hogs, There were interesting incidents in that trip which are not contained in MT. Roosevelt s description of it in 'The Wilderness Hunter" 1; " When he made the trip MT. Roosevelt was a civil service commissioner, One morning in the early part of April, 1892, when W. w., Collier, a banker of Uvalde, arrived at his place of busi- ness he found man dressed in, the garb of a hunter sitting on the step of the bank building Tipping rocks at something in the street. The stranger introduced himself as Theodore Roose- welt and handed MT. Collier letter of introduction, .:... d.. c... E T have killed almost every kind of game in this country except javaline, and thought I would take a run down here and try my hand at that sport, " he said to MT. Golfer. . .,,z4sa.. .... . .- -, MT. Collier says now that if he had ever thought the stranger would some day be President of the United States he would have accompanied him on the hunt, but it was busy time at the bank and he sent him down to the "77'' ranch on the Nueces river. That was the last MT. Collier saw of him. Here N. T. Wilson, manager of the "77'' ranch takes up the story. "I was very busy when the stranger arrived, at my ranch" MT. Wilson said. T was making a big delivery of cattle and had a number of herds on the road. I was so busy I couldn't have stopped to entertain the President himself. had been up the road with one of the herds of cattle When I re- I turned to my ranch found there 8 ! rough and ready sort of chap who in- | troduced himself to me as Theodore ! Roosevelt. I, had learned that he had been over on the Tapota ranch, near Seguin, Tex, having been invited | there to hunt javalines., The hunt had
 been without success. had wanted very much to join in the hunt, but that was out of the question. It was easy | to see then that Roosevelt was no orci. nary man. .-'
 q turned him over to George Waite
 1 cowboy who knew the hog country l and then sent them over to the Seven D ranch, telling them to go ahead and hunt as long as they pleased. My re- collection is that they killed about hali
 a dozen javalines, some deer and four or five wild turkeys.
 After the hunt MT. Roosevelt pre- scented to Waite the magnificent rifle he had used on the trip, saying:
 Here, take this rifle and keep it; all the use I had for it was to kill these hogs; I'm don with it now Y saw very little of MT. Roosevlt all that time. and I never saw him after ward until the organization of the Rough Riders in San Antonio. One night, while the regiment was at San Antonio, one of my horses was stolen. I traced it up and found that it had been sold to the government for use as cavalry horse in the Rough Riders regiment. I determined to recover the animal if I could I went to where the regiment was camped and was taken to Lieut.-Col. Roosevelt's tent. As we met I said:
 I suppose you don't recognize me?' His answer was quick as a flash:
 Oh, yes I do; hunted hogs on your ranch near Uvalde.'
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