The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-03

y amends for the past slaughter of y
= American bison.
1T has been one of the greatest =
= motives in my work, said Buffalo =
= Jones at the Kenyon hotel this =
y week, this desire TO make what =
> amends l could for my merciless =
= slaughter Of American buffalo. .
y often at the end Of a days shoot =
= ing when | had killed hundreds for =
so cents each, / resolved to break =
y my rifles before / would ever bring =
another down. I am not Boosting ,
y when I say that Buffalo Bill =
himself has sad that / killed far y
more buffalo than he had. =
1t is not pleasant 10 think of =
the extinction Of a great animal. =
but / have the satisfaction of =
= knowing ! have done more than =
= any man 10 make up for the past. =
With the blood of the wild buffalo y
and the domestic Galloway I have =
= produced an animal far superior TO .
either"
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The idea of a bear. a big. live grizzly
Weighing nearly as much as a horse
being spanked"
Kind of staggering, isn't il?
II does seem rather preposterOus at
first, something TO be treated as a huge
Joke the mention of which would be
the preface OF a funny story.
In all the wild animals he has seen,
Seton Thompson, or Thompson Seton,
probably never saw a grizzly bear. that
Is a slizZiy bear underlying a severe
castigation.
Not one, but many bears have been
licked by {. J. Jones, formerly Gus
todian Of Yellowstone park, now head
of the Buffalo Jones CatalO company
of Topeka. Kan. which is managing
big hybridiZing farm in Arizona, under
q concession from the United States
government.
And, as IN the case Of children. 'Buf-
falO' Jones bears were spanked for be-
ing contrary, ranging from naughti-
ness to downright cussedness. And it
wasn't any brand Of twentieth Cen-
tury taps that the bad bears received
but the old school wallOp that made the
bear skin Jingle and the animal pas
sions rise
Mr.. Jones left Salt Lake last even
, ing. after having spent the latter part
of the week as a guest at the Kenyon.
Now, bear spanking as an occupation
or diversion, hasn't been introduced to
the American people in general. FitZ
has had his lion as a wrestling part
ner ana other fighters have had their
goats and dogs, but bear spanking is
something new.
To Be Seen in Pictures.
Consequently. it has been embodied in
series of moving pictures which Mr..
Jones viii use in illustrating a lecture
10 be given in different parts OF the
country next year. The bear scene will
not occupy the whole OF the stage. for
there will be deadly combat between
two bisons which viii last fifteen min
utes, as in actual life, and which Will
make even as exciting an event as the
Britt-NelSon scrap look like the proven
Dial thirty pfennigs. Then there will
be a peep at a mountain lion i'm his ma
tive haunts and the spectators viii see
him poked from a tree by Mr.. Jones
cautious prCdd ng with a stick. Hun
dreds of mountain goats and elk. as
they appear IN Naturs's domain, win
be thrown on the lecturers screen, Iffe-
size. their every ante reproduced with
the accuracy OF a rapid-tire moving
picture camera.
Last, but not least, there will be pic
lures of CatalO. tho cross between buf-
falo and cattle. which Mr.. Jones has
evolved after years of toll, and which
are now 10 be raised under the encour-
agement if not actual aid of the gov
eminent.
Mr.. Jones has enough stories OF ami
volume. To get down 10 things more
substantial than mere stories. Mr..
Jones brought with him on this visit to
Salt Lake a catalo robe for which he
has refused $1,000.
Imagine robe having all the iustre
Of Russian sable, long thick hair, Won
derfully fine underneath a fur robe
having all the beauty of the rarest, the
4. service of the buffalo robe. greater in
size and much longer. Thirty-eight
words of description give but a feeble
idea of what the robe is really like and
IT is the animals which furnish this fur
that Buffalo" Jones is raising.
Huh, said Don Porter. proprietor
of the Kenyon, u have a bears skin
which / thought was pretty fine, but
this beats it,"
What Roosevelt Said.
And Buffalo" Jones. TO show that
Mr. POrter's Judgment was not aWry,
told what President Roosevelt thought
of It,
"Oniy set a fur which will be rs good
as that of the buffalo and I'll be salts
ned vas President ROOseVelt's reply
when first Buffalo Jones pointed out
the wonderful possibility in hybrids.
only do that much and YOU will
have accomplished q great deal said
the president, and he often repeated
this remark when in conversation with
Jones.
And, in his characteristic manner.
when he beheld the magnificent fur
which Jones exhibited IN this city, he
exclaimed:
Jones. you're a wonder; the buffalo
isn't in it,"
The chief executives first glimpse Of
the fur was two weeks ago when Mr..
Jones visited Washington. His ex-
clamatiOn OF wonder was echoSd by
Secretary Of Agriculture James Wilson.
who, like the president. was an ardent
supporter of the proposition TO have
the federal government appropriate
money for an experiment hybrid farm.
Art Of Bear castigation.
But to return to the subject of bear
spanking.
You don't mean that you actually
whipped theme' was asked of Mr..
Jones.
''Why. certainly. The bear which
was the subject of the moving pictures
slapped tourist visiting the park and
broke a couple of the mans ribs That
was last August. / caught the bear.
slipped a moose around his hind leg
and then strung him up With block and
tackle.
by the time bears arc strung M
with their fOrereet barely touching the
ground they arc pretty mad. This one
Was regular Cuss. Well I got the
whip, a long, tough one and dressed the
bear down good
There was a warm time. thought
he'd get me once or twice. He would
get the rope sW .nging by means Of his
paws and he grabbed mighty close.
Yes, they make a pretty bad fuss, but
it wouldn't DO to let them go unpun-