Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-03-20
LETTER FROM ONE ROOSEVELT PARTY Col. R. G. Atkinson Hears From Friend Who Was
 With Roosevelt
ALL KINDS OF GAME
TeMs of Killing Elephants, Buffalo, RhinOcerOs and Other Big
 Beasts of Forest.

Colonel R. G. Atkinson, of this city, has received letter from J. M. Parker, general manager of the Ar kansas, Louisiana and Gulf Railroad, in which he gives assurances of sue cess in his efforts to finally bring the Parker road" to this city from Hamburg, Arkansas.
 In the letter MT. Parker encloses a letter from Fred Stephenson, one of the owners of the Arkansas, Lou isiana and Gulf road, with whom MT. Atkinson and Mr. Parker and other prominent residents of this section of the country enjoyed hunt in Louisiana some months ago.
 MT. Stephenson was with the Roose- welt party in Africa and he writes most interestingly of their hunt in the African jungles. The letter was written aboard the Steamship Uni zumbi plying the Indian Ocean. It is dated February 9, 1910. The let ters follow:
 Hamburg, Ark, March 16, 1910. Colonel R. G. Atkinson, Pine Bluff,
 Ark,
 My Dear Col Bob: I am enclosing herewith, copy of letter just received from our good friend Fred Stephen son, who, you remember, was down here hunting with us at the time we were camped at the Steve Woods place. It seems that he has been having good time over in Africa. have just returned from New York, and expect to go back to Chicago in the next few days. Do not get dis couraged, for everything is coming out alright, the only difference from what 1 have always stated regarding our road being a through trunk line and giving Pine Bluff the best of ser vice, is that We are not going to get started as soon as I expected. all of which can be satisfactorily explained.
 Yours hastily,
 J. M. PARKER.
 Indian Ocean, S. s. Unizumbi,
 February 9, 1910.
 Dear Friend Parker: McCutcheon and I left Africa week ago yester- day, and expect to reach Bombay day after tomorrow.
 We certainly had wonderful trip I did not think it possible that a country could have so many varieties of game and so much of it. We found very good bird shooting. Many time wished for old Susie" She would have had great fun finding guinea fowl and grouse. In hunting in that country one almost always has a bunch of men along to carry guns and bring back the dead game, so very often had man carry my little 20 yard Parker. The birds added very much to our food supply, all the animals seem to be good to eat, but a bird is fine change. We ate meat from elephants, rhinoceros. buff falo zebra, wart hogs and the regu- lar ''57 varieties of small game. We were very fortunate in finding al- most all kinds of game. Some spend months there and do not get a lion. others dc not see an elephant, others do not get buffalo, others fail to get "rhino." Our party killed II lions, several elephants, rhinos, buff faloes and all that stuff.
 I apparently drew most of the ex- citement. Twice we had a cranky old COW elephant charge us and was present both times. My bullet. killed the first one, and helped turn the next. The only real charge we got from lion was from . big old Hon. ess. Akely and McCutcheon were on ono side of . creek and I was on the