The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-04-21
is IN COLORADO.
President Roosevelt Received Great
Ovation at Colorado Springs
Wants Square Deal.

Colorado Springs, Colo. April It.
Fully 10000 people assembled at the
Santa Fee station to welcome President
Roosevelt. Grang Army veterans We're
lined up on the platform and a band
entertained the crowd during the wait.
Promptly at $50 o'clock the presi-
Dental special train pulled into the
station. Wild cheering greeted the
president as he stepped out upon he
platform of the car. The president
responded to calls for speech, saying,
in part;
Let me say one word of special
greeting TO the veterans of the Grand
Army. TO YOU, my comrades, | wish to
say that l have just come up from
Texas. and it would have done youN
hearts good, YOU men who Wore the
blue in the great war, to see how, side'
by side with your comrades who Wore
the blue, stood the men who wore the
gray, united with them now forever
and ever with one flag and one countryt
Delighted though l WAS With every
feature of my reception in Texas. l.
think that the feature that pleased me
most was that of which l have just
Spoken-to see the eN-union ana eX-
confederate veterans standing togeth-'
er under the old flag.
Now l am going to make a request
Of the people of Colorado | am off on a
hunt. One thing you cannot do on a
hunt. and that is to carry a brass band
You cannot combine hunting bears with
Fourth of July celebration. Serious,
~. l am going to beg the people of
Colorado TO treat me on this hunt just
as We'll as the people OF Oklahoma,
treated me on the wolf hunt. Ii a lot
Of newspaper men start TO come in
after me | will have to come home,
that is all there is to it. The thing.
they can do that will please me best is,
TO let me so on the hunt alone and pay,
no earthly attention TO me or any OF nv
party While l am off in the mountains,
| want TO ask of the newspaper nlen. :,
and especially the newspaper men OF.
this great state of yours. :, fair show
and not lry to follow me up. If they,
do it probably will mean that / shall
have TO give up the hunt. Ii they won /
do it l will agree that II anything OF,
any earthly interest happens l vii!
have the news sent out"
Al the conclusion OF the address III ?,
president WAS taken in an automobile
10 the home of p. e. Stewart Theys>
he received a delegation from thai
chamber of commerce of Denver ana
accepted an invitation to visit that CITY.
on returning from his hunt an hour
was spent in making preparations for
his departure for Glenwood Springs
and then the president returned 10 hie
special train.
Promptly at $50 O'Clock ;ha trail..
pulled out Of the station. the PRESIDENT
standing bareheaded on the rear plat
form, waving his handkerchief 10 the
crowd. The train is due TO arrive al
New Castle this morning At O'clock
Trinidad. Colo. April I7.-Presi6ent
Roosevelt crossed the Colorado New.
Mexico boundary line at 1850. Gov
ernor Mcdonald. of Colorado, ana marty
met the president At Emory Gap. n
NJ. After greetings Governor Aicpon-
aid presented 10 the President q speci :.
ally engroSSed hunting license giving
him permission 10 kill any same he
may want III Colorado, The presidents
I@ip throush New MEXICO WAS ! con
>inuous ovation.