The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-26
THINKS HIS BAND WILL
 CREATE BIG IMPRESSION
Important Democratic Meeting Is Be. Ing Held In Raleigh, N. c.--Sena- tor Tlllman Is Greatly
 Improved.
BY PATTERSON sTEALEY.

b1 WAL EnoON of EALE1s
 Washington, February 25.-(speeiaL)- Seth Bullock sheriff of Deadwood, idol of South Dakota, picturesque plainsman, who enjoys the personal friendship of President Roosevelt Is busy out in the hills of the northwest gathering together a band of genuine western cowboys, who he will bring to Washington arrayed in all their fantastic regalia to participate in the inaugural parade Seth is a con servative man but even he admits that when these sun-browned boys of the west prance up and down Pennsylvania avenue on their ponies that the multitude will be delighted and that the inaugural visitors will enjoy real cowboy treat.
 President Roosevelt has expressed a wish that the men who round up" the herd, "hogtie and "eut-out' big wild eyed steers, bust bronchos ridef f"cay- uses" and conquer outlaws" shall be rep resented in the inaugural parade and it is in obedience to this wish that Captain Bullock has undertaken the project which bids fair to add that final touch of pie turesqueness to the inaugural ceremonies. Cowpunchers have never before taken part in an inaugural parade, and with their chaps and lariats and "big horn saddles should prove feature of the pageant.
 Captain Bullock has addressed himself to the task of rounding up cowpunchers for their journey to Washington with characteristic energy and enthusiasm and promises to bring wiln him to the national capital the rarest bunch of "wild-and- woody" westerners that ever passed along a civilized boulevard.
 Well-known Characters.
 With the cowpunchers will come a number of we'll known characters who strictly speaking, are not to be elassed | as cowboys, but who are closely allied to them, and admiring the President are eager to join them in giving him a send l off, These westerners, these representa- tives of the great region and the wild free life that President Roosevelt knows and loves so well, are all for pleasing and gratifying the man whom they regard as | one of themselves, and will cut striking feature Tn the inaugural parade They are not only going to wear the conventional | cowboy dress, but they are going to ride their own "cayuses," (which the good people must know means ponies), in the parade. Captain Bullock ia 10 command | them, and the famous old frontiersman, | while giving them sufficient license and 1 liberty to insure their riding naturally will yet subject them to discipline and hold them strictly accountable for their department. He declares that he will tol- | crate no "foolishness" on their part and l they all understand taht he will see to | 1t that what he says "goes.
 Captain Bullock expects to bring with l him not less than fifty men and ponies. l He says he could easily take a hundred 1 and fifty or two hundred if 1t were prac- ticable to accommodate so many, for well nigh every cowpnncher in the Dead | wood region has sisnified his desire to go
 The men will gather at Belle Fourehe, In the heart of the cattle region of the | hills and start for the national capital | from there. Arrangements have been made with the railroad companies to transport the men in tourist sleepers and | the horses in stock cars. It is estimated that the trip will cost each man approxi- | mately $60. Most of the men say they will try to sell their ponies in Washing ton in order to cut down expenses but l 1t Is predicted by students of the cowboy that most of them will change their minds when the time comes to pay re- turn freight on the ponies rather than part with them. The average eowpuncher cherishes for his eayuse affection scarce ly less deep and warm and tender than that he cherishes for his human friends, and it is rare that one of them parts with his four-footed companion if he can help 1t.
 Among the well-known western char acters that will come along with the cow punehers Is '.Deadwood Diek' Clark, the once-famous scout bandit hunter and leader of the shotgun men," who guard ed the Wells Fargo express treasure coach from Deadwood ato civilization a quarter of a century or more ago.
 Will Delight Small Boys. The small boys whose hair has stood on end as they read of the escapades of Deadwoody Dick in the dime novels of l exciting literature will out from under the protecting arm of their fathers or big brothers jump to get glimpse of the wonderful man, who to them Is far greater than the President of the United | States.
 Tex" Burgess. the king of the cow boys on the big Hyannis range in Ne braska, is another. Captain Seth Bull lock Deadwood Dick and Tex Burgess constitute a trio that alone would be worth travelling 20o0 miles to see in an inaugural parade. The fame of Captain | Bullock and Deadwood Dick extends. or once extended, from ocean to ocean, and the deeds of valor and daring they did in the early days in the western hills would make tale stranger and more thrilling |
 As for Tex Burgess, his fame may not be so broad as that of the others but it Is as great as far as 1t goes. They all are men of types that in the advance of civilization are fast disappearing from the west and will soon have passed away altogether
 Famous DeadWood Dick.
 The once famous Deadwood Dick. the man who in pioneer days in South Dakota was the terror of all bad men" in the region, and performed wellnigh miracu- fous feats of daring. is now workman in plain blue overalls in the Northwest railway yards at Lead, five miles north of Deadwood. After the red border days he laid aside his rifle, his brace of pis- tols and his bucksin suit, and donning the garm of civilization engaged in rail- road work, and for a number of years now he has been yardman. He is . middle-ased man of 7 -dium height, with