The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-11-02
BUFFALO JONES IS
GOING TO AFRICA
Lasso to Be Only Weapon that
The Old PIainsman
Will Carry.
HE CAN ROPE ANY BRUTE
JONES Is NOW CLOSING UP A
SUCCESSFUL LECTURING TOUR
IN 1OSTON-IS A GREAT FRIEND
OF ROOSEVELT.

Garden City, Kan, November "a
letter from C. J. Buffaloy Jones to the
Garden City Telegram, announces that
he expects to go to Africa on his de-
ferred hunting expedition in March.
1910, and will then carry out his idea
of roping the bests he wants.
Mr.. Jones is now lecturing in Bos-
ton and has made arrangements to re.
main there practically all of the time
until he leaves for Africa. The pio-
neer, frontiersman, and animal Bur-
bank" will probably come west on a
hurried trip in November, however,
and says he will stop here on his way
to New Mexico to look over his ranch
there.
Jones is now closing up a successful
and profitable engagement at the Star
theater in Boston, giving an illus
trated lecture.
A representative of a big concern
that is on the lookout for noted lectur-
ers approached Mr.. Jones and told him
he would contract with him every day
for one year, but on account of other
plans he had to decline.
No Trick at All to Rope Them.
Mr.. Jones does not write much about
his approaching trip to Africa, which
he outlined in the Telegram about a
year ago, but sends the Telegram a
clipping from Boston newspaper, pro-
fusely illustrated. in which is said
There is no four-footed animal I'M
der the sun that can not be captured
by the lasso of a cowboy, backed by
the intelligence of an American cattle
pony declares Charles J. Jones, better
known as Buffalo Jones, ex-warden of
the Yellowstone National park, per-
sonal friend of Colenel Roosevelt, and
breeder of catalo, the hybrid animal,
half cow and half bison, as well as of
the hybrid sheep, the goriasin.
''Mr. Jones is at present stopping in
this city, and he will remain in Bos-
ton until early in March next, when he
will sail for Africa and go into the big
game country now being hunted by
Roosevelt, to show his powers with the
rope.
Zone of the country's national char
acters, and one of the few surviving
plainsmen who made it possible forty
years ago for emigrants to find safe
homes among the redskins OF the far
west, Jones has a particularly warm
spot in his heart for Boston: for the
city is the birthplace of his parents,
and this is one of the reasons he came
here before embarking upon what he
considers one of the greatest undertake
| ings of his eventful life"
When He Caught Mountain Lions.
Concerning his Yellowstone expert
ences, Mr.. Jones is quoted:
| I'm Yellowstone park, where l went
at the request of President Roosevelt,
| met with a terrible condition among
| the animals there. They were being
slaughtered by the thousands, and the
mountain lion was the cause. roped
, over a hundred of these fellows while
was there. and sent them to zoos
and private animal collections"
| AS to his prospective plans for the
African trip, Jones says:
Now that l have my herds, both at
home and in the park, coming along in
good shape. l have come into the east
| to spend the winter. From here I
expect. if the unforeseen does not hap
pen. to go to Africa. at the request of
number of western sporting men,
who are fitting me out.
There l am to demonstrate for
these men that there is no animal, no
matter how large. which can not be
roped and subdued with the aid of the
lasso and good. intelligent COW
pony"